ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Population Science at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Bangladesh, started functioning in 2017 under the Faculty of Social Science. It began with three faculty members and an initial enrollment of sixty-three students in the B.S.S. (Honours) program for the 2016–17 academic year. In subsequent years, student enrollment was standardized at fifty students per academic session. The M.S.S. program was launched in 2020–21. The department offers its curriculum in English and provides thirty-two courses at the B.S.S. (Honours) level and eleven courses, including thesis/monograph, at the M.S.S. level, covering areas such as Demography, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Applications, Population Health, and Environmental Studies.