Rangpur University is a government financed public university in Bangladesh. It is the fourth public university in Rajshahi Division. This university is renamed as Begum Rokeya University. The university will be located between Rangpur Cadet College and Carmichael College in Rangpur. The campus is under construction. Currently, the university is operating at Teachers Training College in Rangpur. Since 1947, a university in this region has been a long cherished dream. A popular demand for a kind of university which can reach out to a large number of students desiring higher education in this vast region has always been intensely felt but has never been fulfilled. In 2001, the then Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina laid the foundations of Rangpur University of Science and Technology. However, later on the establishment was cancelled. It was not until August 2007 when Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Advisor of the Caretaker Government, agreed in principle to establish a full fledged university in Rangpur. Finally, Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmad, in a historic cabinet meeting held in Rangpur on February 2, 2008, took the decision to establish a University in Rangpur.