Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University is a government financed public university of Bangladesh. This is the Largest University of the North Bengal at Rangpur division. Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University was established as an Agricultural Extension Training Institute (AETI) to award a three years diploma in agriculture. The AETI was later upgraded to Hajee Mohammad Danesh Agricultural College in 1988 having an affiliation from the Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. Then the college was upgraded to the status of a university renaming it as Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University in 8 April 2002. Danesh, (Hajee) Mohammad (1900-1986) peasant leader and politician. He was born at village Sultanpur in Dinajpur district in 1900 AD. Having obtained his M.A in History from Aligarh Muslim University in 1931 and B.L degree in 1932 Haji Danesh joined the Dinajpur district bar. In 1938, Hajee Danesh made himself associated with the Krishak Samiti, a front organisation of the Bengal Provincial Communist Party, and began organising peasant movement in northern Bengal.