The Dhaka University, the country's highest echelon of academic excellence, has lately increased its place in different global university ranking for its strong emphasis on research.
The institution is placed 560th out of 2,250 universities from more than 100 countries in the US News and World Report ranking for 2024–25.
It also secured 146th position among the best universities in Asia with a score of 52.3.
Prior to this, DU was placed 554th in the first week of June's Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings:2025.
It made a significant jump from its 2024 ranking of 691-700 to 554th in 2025.
The university's previous highest ranking was 601+ in 2012.
It was ranked 701+ from 2014 to 2017 and 701-750 in 2018.
DU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr ASM Maksud Kama said Dhaka University has been improving in such ranking as the ranking is being conducted and evaluated mostly on research activities and there is no requirement for internal income or teacher-student ratio.
The university will see more progress in world ranking within two years for its plans introduced already, he added.
In the recently published US News and World Report ranking, Harvard University holds the first position with a perfect score of 100 out of 100 followed by Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, University of Oxford and University of California Berkeley at top five.
Seven of the top 10 universities are from the US, while three are from the UK.
Some 422 Chinese universities are listed in the rankings, with 37 of them being in the top 300. There were 140 institutions from India's neighbouring states listed; all of them were ranked higher than 600. There are 32 universities in Pakistan that are ranked, four of which are in the top 600.
