It gives me immense pleasure to offer a message of goodwill, prosperity and welcome to all those students who have selected ASAUB as the seat of their learning and to the members of the society for their continuing support to ASAUB.

ASA University Bangladesh started its maiden journey in the academic arena in May, 2007 (Summer Semester), following the permission granted by the Government of Bangladesh in October, 2006, to set up the university. We have enrolled about 800 students in the academic programs in the 1st Semester, 2007. I am proud of being the founder Vice-Chancellor of ASAUB, the challenge of which is to develop the university not only as an institute of academic excellence but also as a centre of socio-economic research. It also aims at inculcating social and moral values in our students who will be the leaders of tomorrow.

ASAUB is established with a great hope and zeal by ASA, the leading NGO, which believes that its long term mission of eradicating poverty of the teeming millions of the underprivileged and downtrodden people in our society can better be taken care of by providing the society with affordable and quality higher education.

We hope that the inspiring students, under the guidance of dedicated teachers and top administration, would lead this university to a coveted and recognized position in the galaxy of higher education in Bangladesh.

I would like to wish the students, the teachers, the administration and the founders of the university a bright future and assure the society as well as the 7.3 million members of ASA of providing quality higher education at an affordable cost in Bangladesh.

Long live Bangladesh. Long live ASAUB.

The moment of writing this message for website of ASA University Bangladesh (ASAUB) is, indeed, a matter of great pleasure and satisfaction to me. I struggled for more than three decades to raise AS A, the NGO, to this level of the leading Micro-Finance Institution (MFI) in the world, and imbued with the success story of ASA, proposed to the Government of Bangladesh to establish a university that opens opportunities of education and research to the relatively lower income and lower middle income groups of students in our country. ASA serves the deprived and disadvantaged in one way, and obviously, ASAUB will serve the people in another way. One success leads us to initiate another institution that will contribute to the development of our country.

I am delighted to see that the members of the society have responded enthusiastically to ASAUB and have sent their wards with confidence on our management and with high hope that the students will be properly and seriously taught and prepared for their career. It is heartening to see that some students from the Republic of Turkey have come to ASAUB to study English Language courses.

The Board of Governors, the Vice-Chancellor, the Deans, the Registrar, the Chairmen, the teachers, the administration of ASAUB and myself are well aware of the burden of responsibility that the society has put on us and I am confident that no one at stage of running the university and teaching the students will ever dishonor this trust. We hope the graduates of this university in turn contribute to the development of skilled manpower in a cyclical way ameliorating the socio-economic and moral condition of the people of our country.

We are encouraged to see that the natives and the foreigners who interact with me over microfinance appreciate that ASAUB is functioning in a commendable way and shows the promise of being one of the few prestigious private universities in Bangladesh.

We work with all our experiences and skills of innovation to further expand ASAUB for which we request cooperation of all concerned.