Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET) is one of the leading public universities of Bangladesh. It is situated alongside the Chittagong-Kaptai road, 25km away from the city of Chittagong, the grand sea port and the second largest city of Bangladesh. The university is taking shape on 163 acres of land in a magnificent natural setting comprising pristine hills, plane lands and lakes with numerous species of plants. It plays a pioneering role for higher education, research and development in the field of engineering and applied sciences since its inception as Engineering College, Chittagong in the year 1968. To meet the increasing demand of professional engineers for the national development, the National Economic Council of the then Government of Pakistan on August 28, 1962 decided to establish the Engineering College, Chittagong and the college started functioning on December 28, 1968 by admitting 120 students in its first academic session under the faculty of Engineering, University of Chittagong. The Engineering College, later on July 1, 1986, was declared as a self-degree awarding Institution and was renamed 'Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Chittagong' under the BIT Ordinance 1986. On September 1, 2003, the Institute was converted into a university named as 'Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology' under the CUET Act, 2003.

The country's lone hydroelectric power station, oil refinery and many other heavy industries are situated in Chittagong. The brisk industrialization of Chittagong, congruent with geographical advantage of the country's premier sea-port has given CUET a locational advantage and opportunity for analyzing urban and industrial problems, exploring new areas of research in automation, coastal engineering and other applied fields of activities. CUET sets its guiding principles to foster the best professional competence by coupling pedagogy and research with relevance to the real-world problems. Thus the students of this university are enjoying unique and inimitable environment of learning. CUET has successfully organized various international and national conferences such as ICMERE 2015, ICPSDT 2015, NCEED 2015, ICACE 2014 etc. In 2014, CUET has organized one of the prestigions conference IFOST 2014, held in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Approximately 150 foreign participants attended this conference.