Dhaka University admission applications open on 11 November, with tests for five units from 5 to 26 December

Online applications for admission to Dhaka University's (DU) undergraduate programme for the 2026-27 academic session will open at 12 noon on 11 November. Applications can be submitted until 11:59pm on 25 November. The admission tests will begin on 5 December and continue until 26 December.

The information was announced on Thursday (5 November) in a press release from the university's public relations office. Earlier, on 2 August, the admission test schedule and other decisions were taken at a meeting of the general admission committee chaired by Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr A B M Obaidul Islam.

This year the admission tests will be held under five units. The units are: Arts, Law and Social Sciences; Science; Business Studies; Fine Arts; and IBA.

According to the schedule, the IBA unit test will be held on 5 December, the Science unit on 12 December, the Arts, Law and Social Sciences unit on 19 December, the Fine Arts unit on 22 December and the Business Studies unit on 26 December.

The IBA unit test will run from 10am to 12 noon. The tests of the other four units will run from 11am to 12:30pm.

Except for the Fine Arts and IBA units, the tests of the other three units will be held, alongside Dhaka, at eight divisional universities. The centres are Rajshahi, Chattogram, Barishal, Khulna, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Begum Rokeya University and Dhaka University.

Students will be assessed on a total of 120 marks in the admission process. Of these, 100 marks will come from the admission test and 20 marks from the results of the secondary and higher secondary examinations.

In the Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Science and Business Studies units there will be a 60-mark multiple-choice test and a 40-mark written test. In the Fine Arts unit there will be a 40-mark multiple-choice test and a 60-mark drawing test. In the IBA unit there will be a 70-mark multiple-choice test and a 30-mark descriptive test.

To be eligible to apply, candidates must have passed the secondary or equivalent examination between 2021 and 2024 and the higher secondary or equivalent examination in 2026.

For the Science unit, science-stream students must have a combined GPA of at least 8 in the secondary and higher secondary examinations, with at least 3.5 in each. For the Arts, Law and Social Sciences and Business Studies units, students of the respective streams must have a combined GPA of at least 7.5, with at least 3 in each. For the Fine Arts unit, the combined GPA must be at least 6.5, with at least 3 in each. Separate GPA and total GPA conditions apply to those applying after changing streams.

In addition, separate question papers will be prepared for English-medium students in the Science unit according to their own curriculum. Under the university's decision, classes for the 2026-27 undergraduate programme will begin on 28 March next year.