Louis Kahn's Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban — the National Parliament House of Bangladesh, rising from an artificial lake in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar — is one of the twentieth century's greatest buildings. Commissioned in 1962 as the assembly of Pakistan's second capital and completed only in 1982, it remains the seat of Bangladesh's parliament and a national symbol.
Founded under a 1990 act and teaching since 1991, Khulna University is the south-west's public university — and the only one in Bangladesh with no student politics and no session jams. From its 106-acre Gollamari campus beside the Moyur River, its 29 disciplines run from computer science to Sundarbans forestry research.
Read MoreShahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), founded in Sylhet in 1986 as Bangladesh's first science and technology university, grew from 205 students in three departments to a research university of 8,900 students. From its 320-acre Kumargaon campus it pioneered the semester system, text-message admissions and the combined admission test — and still runs its own entrance examination.
Read MoreFounded in 1974 and headquartered at Segunbagicha in Dhaka, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy is the country's national academy of fine and performing arts — home to the National Theatre and National Art Gallery, organiser of the Asian Art Biennale, and, through branches in all 64 districts, the largest public patron of Bangladeshi culture.
Read MoreBangladesh National Museum in Dhaka: from the Dhaka Museum of 1913 and curator Bhattasali to 44 galleries, the Liberation War halls and 93,000+ objects.
Read MoreUniversity of Rajshahi, founded in 1953, is Bangladesh's second-oldest university — its Motihar campus, Dr Shamsuzzoha's sacrifice, faculties and student life.
Read MoreBangla Academy, founded in 1955 at Dhaka's Burdwan House, is Bangladesh's national language authority — its dictionaries, literary award and Ekushey Book Fair.
Read MoreFounded in 1966 on a vast hill campus at Hathazari, the University of Chittagong is famed for its shuttle trains, pioneer institutes and Liberation War role.
Read MoreGrameen Bank lends small, collateral-free loans to 10.8 million members — 96.7 percent of them women — who together own 90 percent of the bank itself.
Read MoreFounded as a SEATO cholera laboratory in Dhaka in 1960, icddr,b proved oral rehydration therapy and became a world leader in global public health research.
Read MoreFrom an 1876 colonial survey school at Nalgola to Bangladesh's top engineering university — BUET's history, research role and the Abrar Fahad reckoning.
Read MoreBorn in 1921 as compensation for a lost province, the University of Dhaka — the 'Oxford of the East' — shaped a language movement and midwifed a nation.
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