The software industry's own training institute at Karwan Bazar: IT courses from 14-hour certificates to 144-hour post-graduate diplomas.
BASIS, the association of Bangladesh's software and IT companies, began training people in 2007 to close the skills gap its members kept running into, and in 2012 set up BITM with World Bank support to do it properly. It counts more than 60,000 graduates and can train over 5,000 people a year.
Courses span graphics and multimedia, web and software development, digital marketing, 3D animation, data science, network and server administration, cyber security and cloud, IoT, robotics, and business and management — from 14-hour NSDA Level 3 certificates up to 144-hour post-graduate diplomas in data science and digital marketing.
New batches start every few days. Most courses are taught in class at Karwan Bazar, and some run online.
The government ICT training institute in the ICT Tower at Agargaon: evening courses in programming, data science and cyber security from ৳5,000.
Agargaon, Dhaka
Classes: Mostly evenings; afternoons for the junior robotics course
From ৳3,000
DetailsEvening courses on stocks, valuation and trading beside the Secretariat metro station — 36-hour certificate courses for ৳6,000.
Secretariat, Dhaka
Certificate courses: Usually Sunday, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
৳6,000
DetailsThe government management-training institute on Mirpur Road: one-year post-graduate diplomas, six-month diplomas and monthly short courses.
Mirpur Road, Dhaka
Post-graduate diplomas: One year
Fees are in each course's brochure on BIM's site
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