Alumni include academics, government officials, politicians, and recipients of the Ekushey Padak.

[10] Architect Paul Rudolph was commissioned in 1965 to design a master plan that would remake the former college campus for the university.

[13] Police and troops from the East Pakistan Rifles entered the campus on 29 January, searching the residential quarters for "miscreants".

[12] In the face of unrelenting countrywide disturbances, on 21 February, President Ayub Khan announced that he would not seek reelection.

The next day, the government dropped all charges against opposition leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the others accused in the Agartala Conspiracy Case.

[16] Faculty, staff, and students of the university fought for independence during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

[20] During the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement, students rallied, marched, and repeatedly blockaded the Dhaka-Mymensingh railway tracks for hours at a time.

[21][22][23] BAU's 1,200-acre (490 ha) campus is in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southeast of the city center.

[24] The master campus plan and key buildings were designed by modernist architect Paul Rudolph.

[25] A palm-lined east–west avenue divides the main academic and administrative buildings to its north from mostly residential and recreational facilities to its south.

At its east end is BAU's Shaheed Minar, memorializing those killed during the 1952 Bengali language movement.

[20][29] The Fish Museum & Biodiversity Centre was founded in 2009 by Stirling University in a building donated by BAU.

Since 1969, the central library has been housed in a purpose-built modernist building designed by architect Richard J. Neutra.

Originally two-storied, in 2001 it underwent an expansion that added a third story, bringing its size to 66,000 square feet (6,100 m2).

[33] Three of these are named after fighters for independence who were killed during the Bangladesh Liberation War and are termed shaheed (martyrs).

[33] The two newest were previously named in honour of then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina[34] and her late sister-in-law, Rosy Jamal.

[35] As of 2025, the former is shown on BAU's website as July 36 Hall,[33] a reference to 5 August 2024, the day the Student–People's uprising forced Sheikh Hasina to resign.

[63][64] Admission requires a Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) or foreign equivalent and an entrance exam.

[18] Starting in 2019, all public agricultural universities adopted a cluster system for undergraduate admissions.

[65] Under the system, an annual integrated entry exam takes place simultaneously at multiple locations around the country.

[66][67] After the exam, BAU's academic council decided to pull the university out of the cluster admissions system.

[65] At the request of the Ministry of Education, the university agreed to continue with the cluster system for the 2024–2025 academic year to avoid confusion and disruption.