Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) is a public university in Chattogram, with its main campus in the Khulshi area. It became a university in 2006.

In Ulkaa Edu Rank 2027 it sits in the 31-40 band, computed from the published methodology. QS Asia University Rankings 2026 place it in the 1101-1200 band. THE World University Rankings 2027 list it as a Reporter, meaning a reporting institution that is not ranked. Ulkaa's research data for 2026 gives it an h-index of 93.

Official website: http://www.cvasu.ac.bd

Ulkaa's ranking compares institutions inside Bangladesh. The 31-40 band means the institution sits in that group of ten, and no exact order within the band is published. Read it next to the QS band where one exists, because QS compares universities across Asia with a different method.

CVASU started as the Chittagong Government Veterinary College in 1995-1996 and was upgraded to a university in 2006. Wikipedia describes it as the only specialised veterinary university in Bangladesh.

The same source credits it with several firsts for the country, including an animal blood bank, an anatomy museum and a pet hospital. Besides the Khulshi campus, it has satellite campuses at Cox's Bazar and Hathazari, and a pet hospital facility in Dhaka.

Wikipedia puts enrolment above 1,200 students, with more than 1,000 undergraduates and more than 150 postgraduates. Ulkaa's own 2023 count is 1,394 students, and the two figures come from different years and sources.

CVASU does not run a stand-alone test for first-year entry. According to Wikipedia, admission uses a cluster system, a shared examination across seven agricultural universities in Bangladesh.

Applicants should follow the cluster admission notice and the CVASU page on the official website for dates, eligibility and seat numbers. Those details change every year.

The university teaches through four faculties: Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Technology, Fisheries, and Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering. Ulkaa's programme list for CVASU is empty at the moment, so this page does not name individual degrees beyond the faculties.

Specialised units include a Poultry Research and Training Center and an Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition. Both fit the university's focus on animal health, food safety and aquatic resources.

CVASU is small. Ulkaa's data records 1,394 students in 2023 and 245 new admissions that year, so classes are far smaller than at general universities. Teaching mixes classroom work with practice at the pet hospital and other facilities.

Research is concentrated in animal and food science. Ulkaa's figures show 336 works in 2025 and 1,315 works over the five years to 2025, with 11,219 citations over that window, or about 8.5 citations per work.

Citations per work in the five-year window were 13.5 in 2023, 11.5 in 2024 and 8.5 in 2025, while works in the 2024 and 2025 data were 259 and 336. About 45% of its 2025 research had an international co-author, and mean citedness over two years was 2.13 in 2026.