page_title: Tejgaon College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tejgaon College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Islamia High School was established in 1874 as Dhaka Madrasa
context_page_description: Tejgaon College is a college in Dhaka city, Bangladesh which was founded in 1961. It has 30,000 students. Tejgaon College is 50 years old.
  Tejgaon College is located at Farmgate, at the Dhaka city centre. It had primarily started off as a night college in a school campus at Sadarghat. After successive moves to Tejgaon Industrial Area, Alia Madrasha, Polytechnic School and Al-Razee Hospital Building, it is now located at Indira Road, Farmgate, Dhaka.
  It is a university college since it now offers honours and master's courses on 25-27 subjects under the National University. Established on over 1-acre of land, there are six multi-storeyed buildings, five six-storied buildings and one one-storied building, in addition to various other buildings in the compound.
context_section_description: Tejgaon College was founded in 1996 on the campus of Islamia High School with the name Dhaka Night College. The founding president of the college was Shafiqul Islam, then Minister of Education. The school was shifted to the campus of Madrassah-e-Alia by then education minister Mafizuddin Ahmad. After a while the campus was shifted to Tejgaon Polytechnic High School. It has to shift is location to Crown Laundry in Tejgaon and then it shifted again by moving across the street to Al-Razi Hospital where Dhaka Night College was renamed to Tajgaon College. Tofail Ahmed Chowdhury was the founding principal of the college.
  On 13 April 2009, the Principal of Tejgaon College,  Abdur Rashid, was arrested for misappropriating 30 million taka and selling fake certificates from 2003 to 2008. On 8 July 2013, four students of the college were injured in clashes with students of the University of Dhaka.
caption: View of the campus
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