It opened graduate and post-graduate programmes in 1975 and was approved as a full public university in 2005.

[4] In 2022, Jagannath University opened its first residential hall, for female residents only.

[5] The university is in the southern part of Dhaka city near the River Buriganga and a new campus of approximately 81 ha (200 acres) is being built at Keraniganj.

Dinanath Sen, Prabhaticharan Roy, Anathbandhu Mallik, and Brajasundar Kaitra founded Dhaka Brahma School in 1858, and the university's history began there.

With the establishment of the University of Dhaka in 1921, it stopped admission to degree courses and was renamed Jagannath Intermediate College.

[9] (All information is updated in July 2022 edition) Jagannath University has 36 departments under seven faculties and two Institutes.