Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University is a government financed public university of Bangladesh. It is located at Nama para Battala, 1.5 kilometers from Trishal Upazila, some 22 kilometers from Mymensingh district and 100 kilometers from Dhaka. This is the first and only public university established in memory of great national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bangladesh. It is situated in a place popularly known as Battala (shade of banyan tree) at Trishal Upazilla headquarters in the district of Mymensingh. The name of the place Battala derives from the legendary banyan tree under which the poet passed his childhood times playing flute and developing a poetic mind amidst the benign nature around during his one-year stay at Trishal. The campus of the university still holds on that beauty of nature having an effect of inculcating among its dwellers imaginative-innovative mindsets. The university was established by the Government of Bangladesh on 01 March 2005, though the initiative was taken some years before firstly by a non-official group of socio-cultural local elites - Greater Mymensingh Cultural Forum.