Kabi Nazrul Government College

Kabi Nazrul Government College was originally established at dhaka by a grant from the mohsin fund in 1874 as Mohasania Madrasah in the model of Calcutta Alia Madrasah. Later, it came to be known as Dhaka Madrasah. It was the first government educational establishment for Muslims in East Bengal. The madrasah was established on a piece of land bought with a fund provided by khwaja abdul ghani.
It was converted into Dhaka High Madrasah in 1915. In the following year, its Anglo-Persian department got separated and became the Dhaka Government Muslim High School. With the establishment of the university of dhaka in 1921, the school was upgraded into a college and got a new name, the Islamic Intermediate College. It offered courses to prepare entrants in the Islamic Studies Department of the university. It continued to operate as a school-cum-college till 1968, when the college section got separated to form a new institution named Government Islamia College Dhaka. Following the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the college was renamed as Kabi Nazrul Government College in 1972, and in the same year, it was upgraded to a Degree College.
The college introduced Degree level education programmes in Humanities, Science and Business sections in 1979. Since 1994, the college offers Masters' level courses in a number of subjects including Arabic, Islamic Studies, Management and Accounting. The college has a BNCC contingent since 1982. It has a library with about 20,000 books. In 2000, the college had 4,000 students in 17 departments, and a total of 80 teachers, of whom 39 were women. The list of alumni of the college (school/madrasah) includes personalities such as poet kaikobad, abul fazal (Ex-Vice Chancellor of Chittagong University), SM Taifur (historian), Dr sayed moazzem hossain (Ex-Vice Chancellor, Dhaka University), Dr Syed Sajjad Hossain (Ex-Vice Chancellor, Dhaka University), and many others who earned name and fame through their contribution to education, research, state governance, and social work.