University of Barisal Grading System 2026: GPA & CGPA Guide

If you study at the University of Barisal, your grades run on the UGC 4.00 scale: A+ is 4.00 for 80% and above, A is 3.75, A- is 3.50, and it steps down to D at 2.00 for 40% to less than 45%. Anything below 40% is an F worth 0.00. Your year GPA is the credit-weighted average of your course grade points, and your CGPA is the same calculation stretched across every year of your degree. But the table alone does not tell you how Barisal actually works, and that is where most students get tripped up. Since the 2017-18 session, BU has run a year-based system, not a semester system. Your final exam is worth 60% of each course and continuous assessment is worth 40%. You need a CGPA of 2.00 to move from first year to second year, and 2.25 after that. And if you score below a B in a theory course, you are allowed to improve it. This guide works through all of it with real numbers, using the university’s own published syllabus as the source.

A quick note on the name before we start. The university’s own website, bu.ac.bd, currently calls the institution the “University of Barishal”. Its published syllabus documents carry the header “University of Barisal”. They are the same university – Barisal is the older and still widely used spelling, Barishal is the spelling the university itself uses on its homepage in 2026. This guide uses “University of Barisal” because that is the name students search for, and it uses BU as the short form throughout.

Check Your Barisal GPA With the Calculator

The fastest way to check your own numbers is to run them through a calculator that already uses the UGC 4.00 scale, which is the same scale Barisal follows. Open the CGPA calculator, add one row per course, pick the letter grade you received in each course, and enter its credit hours. The calculator multiplies each grade point by its credits, adds the totals up, and divides by your total credits. That is exactly the calculation this guide teaches you to do by hand below, so use the calculator to check your hand calculation – if the two disagree, you have made an arithmetic slip somewhere, and it is worth finding it before you trust either number.

One thing to watch: the calculator uses the UGC 4.00 grade scale (A+ 4.00, A 3.75, A- 3.50, B+ 3.25, B 3.00, B- 2.75, C+ 2.50, C 2.25, D 2.00, F 0.00). That matches Barisal’s published table exactly, so the grades it offers line up with your result sheet. What the calculator cannot know is Barisal’s own promotion rules and improvement rules, which is why the rest of this guide matters. A calculator gives you a number. The rules decide what that number means for your next year.

University of Barisal, Barishal, or Global University Bangladesh?

Three different universities sit in Barisal, and students mix them up constantly. Getting the wrong one means reading the wrong grading rules.

• University of Barisal (BU), bu.ac.bd – the public university, established in 2011, the country’s 33rd public university. Its campus is at Karnakathi, on the eastern bank of the Kirtankhola river beside the Dhaka-Patuakhali highway, about 2 kilometres from Barisal city centre. Around 10,000 students, 25 departments under six faculties. This is the university this guide is about.
• Global University Bangladesh (GUB) – a private university at BN Tower, Natullahbad, Barisal. UGC approved it in 2013 and it was established in 2015. It was the first private university in Barisal Division. It is a completely separate institution with its own rules.
• University of Global Village (UGV) – another private university, at 874/322 C and B Road, Barisal Sadar, UGC approved in 2016. Again, a separate institution.

The test is simple. If your website is bu.ac.bd and your campus is at Karnakathi, you are at the public University of Barisal and this guide applies to you. If you are at GUB or UGV, your grading rules come from your own university’s handbook, not from this page. Our Global University Bangladesh grading guide covers GUB separately.

The Official Barisal Grading Table

Barisal publishes its grading table inside its departmental syllabuses, and the table is the UGC uniform scale that almost every public university in Bangladesh uses. The version below comes from the Department of Physics syllabus for session 2017-18 and onward, hosted on the university’s own domain, and it matches the UGC’s published uniform grading system exactly.

Three things about this table catch students out. First, the bands are “to less than” – 75% is an A, not an A-, and 79.9% is still an A. The boundary belongs to the higher grade. Second, D is a pass. It is a poor pass worth only 2.00, and it drags your GPA down, but it earns the credit. Only F fails. Third, this is a different scale from the one you used at college. Your HSC GPA ran on a 5.00 scale where A+ was 5.00. At university the ceiling is 4.00, and an 80% that would have been an easy A+ at college is still an A+ here – but a 79% that felt like a near miss at college is an A worth 3.75, not a 4.00. Do not carry your HSC instincts into your university calculation.

The table above is the Physics department’s published version. Other departments publish the same UGC table in their own syllabuses, but credit totals differ by department – Physics runs 140 credits over four years, and your department’s total may not be the same. Check your own department’s syllabus for its credit total, and treat 140 as the Physics figure, not a university-wide promise.

How Your Marks Become a Letter Grade: the 60/40 Split

Before any letter grade appears, your marks in each course are built from two parts. The year-final examination carries 60% of the total marks, and continuous assessment carries 40%. Continuous assessment covers your mid-term examinations, attendance, presentations, class tests, class performance, assignments, and quiz tests. Every theory course has at least two mid-term examinations.

That split matters more than students realise. A student who treats the final exam as the whole course is ignoring 40% of every grade. Here is how it works in practice, with a course marked out of 100:

Example A – an A+ built on both parts. A student scores 48 out of 60 in the final exam and 32 out of 40 in continuous assessment. Total: 48 + 32 = 80 out of 100, which is exactly 80%, so the letter grade is A+ and the grade point is 4.00. Notice that the student did not need a perfect final – 48 out of 60 is 80% on the final, and solid continuous assessment carried the rest.

Example B – a B built the same way. Another student scores 36 out of 60 in the final and 28 out of 40 in continuous assessment. Total: 36 + 28 = 64 out of 100, which is 64%, so the letter grade is B and the grade point is 3.00. This student actually did better on the final in percentage terms than the raw numbers suggest, but weak continuous assessment kept the total down. If either student had skipped the mid-terms, the 40% would have collapsed and no final-exam performance could have rescued the grade.

Attendance has a hard edge of its own. To sit the final examination as a regular student, your attendance must not be below 60%. The arithmetic is unforgiving: attend 42 out of 70 classes and you are at exactly 60.0%, so you can sit the exam. Attend 41 out of 70 and you are at 58.57%, below the line. The syllabus does allow the department chairman to recommend students in the 50% to less than 60% band after they pay a fee set by the university, but that is a recommendation, not a right. Below 50%, there is no route in. If you are tracking your attendance at all, track it against 60%, not against zero.

Exam durations follow the credit weight: a 4-credit theory course gets a 3-hour final with 8 questions of which you answer 5, while a 2-credit course gets a 2-hour final with 5 questions of which you answer 3.

How to Calculate Your GPA, Step by Step

Barisal’s system is year-based, so the natural unit is the year GPA: one number for each academic year. The method is the same one every UGC-scale university uses, and it has four steps.

Step 1: Turn each course’s marks into a letter grade. Take your total marks out of 100 for the course (final exam plus continuous assessment) and read the grade point off the table above. A course at 76% is an A worth 3.75. A course at 58% is a B- worth 2.75.

Step 2: Multiply each grade point by the course’s credits. This gives the course’s quality points. A 4-credit course at A (3.75) gives 4 x 3.75 = 15.00 quality points. A 3-credit course at the same grade gives 3 x 3.75 = 11.25. Credits are the weight – a heavy course moves your GPA much further than a light one.

Step 3: Add up all the quality points, and add up all the credits. Both totals matter. Keep them separate until the last step.

Step 4: Divide total quality points by total credits. That is your year GPA. Round it to two decimal places, rounding halves up. Do the same across all years for your CGPA, using every course from every year.

The single most common error is step 4 done wrong: students add the grade points together and divide by the number of courses, ignoring credits entirely. That is an unweighted average, and it is not your GPA. A 4-credit A and a 2-credit D do not cancel each other out – the A weighs twice as much. The worked examples below show the difference in plain numbers.

The Formula

Written out, the two formulas are:

Year GPA = (sum of grade point x credits for each course) / (total credits in the year)

CGPA = (sum of grade point x credits for every course in every year) / (total credits in all years)

There is a second way to reach the same CGPA: weight each year’s GPA by that year’s credits and divide by total credits. Both routes give the same answer, because a year’s GPA is already its quality points divided by its credits. If the two routes disagree, you have an arithmetic error somewhere – go back and re-add. One more thing worth knowing: your transcript shows letter grades and grade points, not your percentage marks, so the grade point is the number that actually follows you. Keep your percentage-to-grade conversion honest, because a single wrong band changes everything downstream.

Worked Example 1: A First-Year GPA

Take a first-year Physics student with the standard first-year load of 30 credits, spread across eight courses. These are realistic marks for a decent but uneven first year.

Add the credits: 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 = 30 credits. Add the quality points: 16.00 + 15.00 + 14.00 + 13.00 + 9.75 + 8.25 + 10.00 + 8.00 = 94.00. Divide: 94.00 / 30 = 3.1333, which rounds to 3.13.

That 3.13 clears the first-year promotion bar of 2.00 comfortably. But look at what is hiding inside it. The D in Computer Fundamentals cost this student real ground: that 4-credit course contributed only 8.00 quality points, while an A in the same slot would have contributed 15.00. And because the grade is below B, it is eligible for improvement – the student can choose to reappear at the next year-final exam and try to lift it. We come back to that rule below.

Worked Example 2: CGPA After Two Years

Now take the same student into second year, carrying 32 credits. The second-year marks are a little stronger.

Add the credits: 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 2 = 32 credits. Add the quality points: 15.00 + 14.00 + 13.00 + 16.00 + 10.50 + 9.00 + 11.00 + 9.00 + 7.00 = 104.50. Divide: 104.50 / 32 = 3.265625, which rounds to a second-year GPA of 3.27.

Now the CGPA after two years. Combine both years: total quality points 94.00 + 104.50 = 198.50, total credits 30 + 32 = 62. Divide: 198.50 / 62 = 3.2016, which rounds to a CGPA of 3.20. Check it the other way: (3.13 x 30 + 3.27 x 32) / 62 gives the same result once you use the unrounded year GPAs. The student’s CGPA sits just above 3.00, which is the usual first-class line, and comfortably above the 2.25 needed for promotion to third year.

Worked Example 3: The F-Denominator Trap

This is the mistake that costs Barisal students the most confusion, and it is worth seeing in full. Take a year with five 3-credit courses – 15 credits in total – where the student fails one course.

The correct way – F counted. Total quality points: 11.25 + 9.75 + 9.00 + 7.50 + 0.00 = 37.50. Total credits: 15, including the failed course. GPA = 37.50 / 15 = 2.50.

The wrong way – F deleted. If you drop the failed course from the calculation entirely, you divide the same 37.50 by 12 credits instead of 15. That gives 37.50 / 12 = 3.125, which rounds to 3.13.

The difference is 0.63 – more than half a grade point, conjured out of nothing by deleting a course from the denominator. An F is worth 0.00 grade points, but its credits still count. That is the whole point of a credit-weighted average: the failed course pulls the average down precisely because you spent 3 credits on it and earned nothing for them. Any calculator, spreadsheet, or back-of-envelope sum that gives you 3.13 for this year is wrong, and if you plan your next year around 3.13 instead of 2.50, every target you set will be wrong too. The F stays in the calculation until you clear it under the improvement rules, and clearing it means reappearing with the next available batches – not deleting it from your own maths.

Worked Example 4: Is Your CGPA Target Reachable?

Targets feel motivating until you test them against the arithmetic. Take the student from Examples 1 and 2: after two years they hold a CGPA of 3.20 over 62 credits, with 198.50 quality points banked. Years 3 and 4 carry 38 + 40 = 78 credits, for a degree total of 140. The question is what average they need across those remaining 78 credits to finish at a chosen CGPA.

The formula for the required average is: (target CGPA x total degree credits – quality points already earned) / credits remaining.

Target: finish at 3.50. Required total quality points: 3.50 x 140 = 490.00. Points still needed: 490.00 – 198.50 = 291.50. Required average over the remaining 78 credits: 291.50 / 78 = 3.7371, which rounds to 3.74. That is reachable – it is below the 4.00 maximum – but it means averaging between A- (3.50) and A (3.75) across two full years, with almost no weak course. Ambitious, not impossible.

Target: finish at 3.75. Required total: 3.75 x 140 = 525.00. Points still needed: 525.00 – 198.50 = 326.50. Required average: 326.50 / 78 = 4.1858, which rounds to 4.19. That is above 4.00, the highest grade point that exists. Even a perfect 4.00 in every remaining course cannot get there. The target is mathematically impossible from this starting point, and no amount of hard work changes that – the points simply are not available. The honest ceiling for this student, with a perfect 4.00 in all 78 remaining credits, is (198.50 + 4.00 x 78) / 140 = 510.50 / 140 = 3.6464, or a final CGPA of 3.65.

A second starting point: from 2.60 to 3.00. Suppose another student finishes two years at a CGPA of 2.60 over the same 62 credits – that is 2.60 x 62 = 161.20 quality points banked. To finish at 3.00 they need 3.00 x 140 = 420.00 points in total, so 420.00 – 161.20 = 258.80 more, over 78 credits: 258.80 / 78 = 3.3179, which rounds to a required average of 3.32. That means averaging a little above B+ for two years. Hard, but doable – and now the student knows the exact number instead of guessing.

Run this test before you set any target. If the required average is above 4.00, the target is impossible and you should reset it. If it is between 3.50 and 4.00, it demands near-perfect consistency. If it is between 3.00 and 3.50, it is a serious but realistic goal. The earlier you run the test, the more room you have: the same recovery attempted in year 1 needs a far lower average than the same recovery attempted in year 3, because fewer credits are already locked in.

GPA vs CGPA: What Each Number Is For

Students use GPA and CGPA as if they were interchangeable. They are not, and at Barisal the distinction matters because promotion is judged year by year.

GPA is the average for one period – at BU, one academic year. It tells you how that year went and nothing else. It is the number that decides your promotion: 2.00 after year 1, 2.25 after years 2 and 3.

CGPA is the cumulative average across every year so far. It is the number on your final transcript, the number employers and scholarship committees ask for, and the number that moves slowly once you have banked a lot of credits. A strong third year cannot erase a weak first year; it can only dilute it, because the first year’s credits stay in the denominator.

A practical consequence: a single bad year hurts your CGPA for the rest of your degree, but it hurts your promotion immediately. A student with a year GPA of 1.90 in year 1 is not promoted even if their overall record looks recoverable – the rule is applied year by year. Conversely, a student who improves steadily will see their year GPA rise fast while their CGPA climbs slowly, and that slow climb is normal, not a sign that something is wrong with the calculation.

Promotion, Improvement, and F Grades: The Rules That Decide Your Next Year

The grade table tells you what your marks are worth. These rules, all taken from the university’s own published syllabus, decide what happens next.

Promotion is yearly, and the bar rises. You need a minimum CGPA of 2.00 to be promoted from 1st year to 2nd year, and a minimum CGPA of 2.25 to be promoted from 2nd year to 3rd year and from 3rd year to 4th year. If you miss the required CGPA, you may seek readmission into the first year of the respective year with the subsequent available batch – in plain terms, you repeat the year with the next batch. There is no partial promotion and no carrying a shortfall forward.

An F must be cleared, and quickly. If you earn an F in any theory or practical course in any year, you are required to improve it with the next available two consecutive batches. That is a deadline, not an option: two batches, then the chance is gone. For fourth-year students who have already been readmitted once or twice, the six-year completion limit may be relaxed by two more academic years so they can clear fourth-year F grades. Missing an F deadline is the fastest way to run out of time in your degree, so an F should be the first thing you deal with after results come out.

Grades below B can be improved – if you choose to. If you earn a letter grade below B (a grade point below 3.00) in any theory course, you may choose to improve it by appearing at the year-final examination with the next available batch. Note the wording: “may choose”. Improvement of a C or D is voluntary, unlike clearing an F, which is required. For fourth-year courses, the six-year completion limit may be relaxed by one more academic year for improvement. Practical courses are not covered by this improvement option in the syllabus text – it specifies theory courses – so check with your department before assuming a lab grade can be improved the same way.

The degree has a time limit. The four-year programme must be completed within six academic years. The relaxations above – two extra years for clearing fourth-year Fs after readmission, one extra year for fourth-year improvement – are the only extensions the syllabus mentions. Plan backwards from that limit, not forwards from your admission date.

What the syllabus does not say. Honesty matters here, so here is what we could not verify from Barisal’s own published documents. The syllabus gives promotion thresholds but no explicit minimum CGPA required to graduate. It contains no Dean’s List or merit-list rule. It says a student “may choose to improve” a below-B grade but does not state whether the improved grade replaces the old one in the CGPA or whether both attempts are counted – so this guide does not claim either. And it does not state whether CGPA is printed to two or three decimal places on the transcript, so the worked examples here round to two decimals and say so. If any of these points decides something important for you, ask your department chairman or the Controller of Examinations directly – do not rely on a rule you read on a calculator website, including this one.

Common Mistakes Barisal Students Make

1. Averaging grade points without credits. Adding 4.00 + 3.75 + 3.50 + 3.00 and dividing by 4 gives 3.56. If those grades sit on courses worth 4, 4, 2, and 2 credits, the real GPA is (16.00 + 15.00 + 7.00 + 6.00) / 12 = 44.00 / 12 = 3.67. Same grades, different answer. Credits are the weight; leaving them out is not a rounding error, it is a different calculation.

2. Deleting the F from the calculation. Covered in full in Worked Example 3 above: dropping the failed course inflates the GPA by 0.63 in the example shown. The F stays in the denominator until you clear it.

3. Using the HSC 5.00 scale at university. At college, 80% was an A+ worth 5.00. At university, 80% is an A+ worth 4.00, and there is no 5.00 anywhere in the system. Students who carry the 5.00 scale into their university maths overstate every result.

4. Reading the band boundaries backwards. 75% is an A, not an A-. 65% is a B+, not a B. The boundary mark belongs to the higher grade, because each band runs “to less than” the next one up. A single percentage point at a boundary is worth 0.25 grade points, which is why checking your exact total matters.

5. Ignoring the 40% continuous assessment. Mid-terms, attendance, presentations, class tests, and assignments are 40% of every course. A student who only studies for the final is competing for 60% of the marks and wondering why the grade never matches the final-exam performance.

6. Assuming the semester system. Older students and older advice still talk about semesters, because Barisal’s 2014 syllabus was semester-based. Since the 2017-18 session the system is year-based, with year-final exams and yearly promotion. If someone tells you about “semester GPA” at Barisal, they are either from an older session or from a different university. The same caution applies to rules borrowed from other universities: probation after ten F courses, a 2.50 graduation floor, and a 10/20/70 marks split belong to other institutions’ ordinances, not to Barisal’s published syllabus. Our Comilla University grading guide and Islamic University Kushtia grading guide show how the same UGC table sits inside different university rules – the table is shared, the rules are not.

7. Confusing the promotion bar with the graduation bar. The syllabus states promotion thresholds (2.00, then 2.25). It does not state a graduation CGPA floor in the documents we found. Do not assume the promotion number is also the graduation number – confirm it with your department.

Tips to Raise Your CGPA at Barisal

Protect the 40% first. Continuous assessment is the most controllable part of every course. Attend, sit both mid-terms, hand in the assignments. A student who banks 32 out of 40 before the final needs only 48 out of 60 in the final to reach 80% overall. A student who banks 20 out of 40 needs a near-perfect final to reach the same total. The mid-term is not a rehearsal; it is nearly half the grade.

Put your effort where the credits are. A 4-credit course moves your GPA twice as far as a 2-credit course for the same grade improvement. When revision time is short, spend it on the heavy courses first. Lifting a 4-credit C+ (2.50) to a B+ (3.25) adds 3.00 quality points; lifting a 2-credit course by the same step adds 1.50.

Use the improvement rule deliberately. Any theory-course grade below B can be improved at the next year-final exam. That makes a C or D in a heavy course the highest-value retake on your record – if you choose to use it. But remember the time limit: improvement happens with the next available batch, and your degree must finish within six academic years. Do not stack improvements you cannot sit for.

Clear every F in the next two batches. This is not advice, it is the rule. An F left uncleared does not fade; it sits in your denominator at 0.00 and it eats your promotion chances. Deal with it the moment results are published.

Guard your attendance from week one. At 60% you sit the final. At 58.57% you are asking the chairman for a recommendation and paying a fee. Attendance is the cheapest grade insurance in the whole system – it costs nothing but showing up, and it protects both the continuous-assessment marks and your right to sit the exam at all.

Set targets with the formula, not with hope. Before deciding you will “finish at 3.50”, run the required-average calculation from Worked Example 4 with your real credits and your real CGPA. If the number comes back above 4.00, pick a target that exists. If it comes back at 3.74, you know exactly what two years of A and A- work looks like, and you can decide honestly whether that is the plan. Students at other public universities face the same maths – the Begum Rokeya University grading guide and the Jagannath University grading guide work through the same UGC table with their own universities’ rules, and the target-planning method is identical.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the grading system at the University of Barisal?

Barisal follows the UGC uniform 4.00 scale: A+ 4.00 for 80% and above, A 3.75 for 75% to less than 80%, A- 3.50 for 70% to less than 75%, B+ 3.25 for 65% to less than 70%, B 3.00 for 60% to less than 65%, B- 2.75 for 55% to less than 60%, C+ 2.50 for 50% to less than 55%, C 2.25 for 45% to less than 50%, D 2.00 for 40% to less than 45%, and F 0.00 for anything below 40%. The table is published in the university’s own departmental syllabuses and matches the UGC uniform grading system.

Is Barisal University semester-based or year-based?

Year-based, since the 2017-18 session. Each year ends with a year-final examination, and promotion is judged yearly. The older 2014-15 syllabus was semester-based with 8 semesters, which is why older students and older web pages still talk about semesters. If you joined in 2017-18 or later, your system is year-based and your GPA is a year GPA.

What CGPA do I need to get promoted to the next year?

A minimum CGPA of 2.00 to move from 1st year to 2nd year, and a minimum CGPA of 2.25 to move from 2nd year to 3rd year and from 3rd year to 4th year. If you miss the threshold, you may seek readmission into that year with the next available batch. The thresholds come from the university’s published syllabus.

Can I improve a C or B- grade at Barisal?

Yes. If you earn a letter grade below B (a grade point below 3.00) in a theory course, you may choose to improve it by appearing at the year-final examination with the next available batch. This is voluntary – unlike an F, which you are required to clear. The syllabus states the option for theory courses; for practical courses, confirm with your department. One honest gap: the syllabus does not say whether the improved grade replaces the old grade in your CGPA, so do not assume either way until your department confirms it.

What happens if I get an F in a course?

Three things. First, the F is worth 0.00 grade points but its credits still count in your GPA denominator, so it pulls your average down – see Worked Example 3, where one F in five courses drops the year GPA from 3.13 to 2.50. Second, you must improve the F with the next available two consecutive batches. Third, if you are a fourth-year student who has already been readmitted once or twice, the six-year completion limit may be relaxed by two more academic years to clear fourth-year Fs. Do not leave an F to sort itself out; it will not.

How much of my grade comes from the final exam?

60%. Continuous assessment – mid-terms, attendance, presentations, class tests, class performance, assignments, and quiz tests – carries the other 40%. Every theory course has at least two mid-term examinations. And remember the attendance bar: below 60% attendance you cannot sit the final as a regular student, though the department chairman may recommend students in the 50% to less than 60% band after a fee is paid.

Is the University of Barisal the same as Barishal University?

Yes – same university, same campus at Karnakathi, same bu.ac.bd website. “Barishal” is the spelling the university uses on its own homepage in 2026; “Barisal” is the older spelling that still appears in its syllabus documents and in everyday use. Neither is a different institution. The genuinely different institutions are Global University Bangladesh and the University of Global Village, both private universities in Barisal city with their own rules.

Conclusion

Barisal’s grading system is straightforward once you separate the three layers: the UGC table that converts your marks into grade points, the credit weighting that turns grade points into a GPA, and Barisal’s own rules – year-based promotion at 2.00 then 2.25, the 60/40 marks split, the 60% attendance bar, improvement for any theory grade below B, and mandatory F clearance within two batches – that decide what your GPA means. Work your own numbers through the four steps in this guide, check them against the calculator, and run the target test before you set your next goal. If a rule in this guide does not match what your department tells you, trust your department: syllabuses change, and the current handbook for your session is the final word.

Sources

• University of Barisal, Department of Physics, Syllabus for B.Sc. (Honors) in Physics, Session 2017-18 and onward – grading table, 60/40 marks split, 60% attendance rule, promotion thresholds (2.00 / 2.25), F-improvement and below-B improvement rules, 140-credit programme, six-year completion limit.
• University of Barisal, Department of Physics, Syllabus for B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics, Sessions 2014-15 and 2015-16 – the older semester-based system (8 semesters, 146 credits) with the same grade table and promotion rules.
• University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, Uniform Recommended Grading System (effective from session 2006-2007) – the national 4.00 scale Barisal follows.
• University of Barishal, official website (bu.ac.bd) – current institutional name, Vice-Chancellor, and syllabus repository.
• University of Barishal, Wikipedia – establishment (2011), first classes (24 January 2012), 25 departments under six faculties, Karnakathi campus, student numbers.