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The University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) has entered the Global Top 100 Innovative Universities in the World's Universities with Real Impact (WURI) Ranking 2021.
ULAB obtained 39th position out of the top 50 universities under the Ethical Value category, said a press release.
The top five universities in this category are: (1) Ecole 42 (France); (2) University of Pennsylvania (USA), (3) Harvard University (USA); (4) Florida State University (USA); and (5) Franklin University (Switzerland).
ULAB’s entered the mentioned category through the Center for Enterprise and Society’s (CES’s) Building Resilient Universities Project (BRUP).
CES is one of Bangladesh’s leading university-based research centres.
The project created a curriculum to promote diversity, tolerance and pluralism among university students.
CES has been implementing this project since 2016. It has trained over 3000 students and over 100 faculty members to address topics of diversity, tolerance and pluralism, and
The focus area of CES is business and entrepreneurship-related research and advocacy, and it regularly engages the private and corporate sectors for its research, seminars, and other programming. CES also conducts social research projects and advocacy around such projects, particularly in areas of promotion of diversity, tolerance and pluralism.