It is often referred to as Karatia College It was established in July 1926. The college is located at Karatia, a place by the side of the Dhaka-Tangail highway and about 7 kilometres from the Tangail district. Sadat college is the first college in Bangladesh established by a Muslim zamindar. It was founded by Wazed Ali Khan Panni, a zamindar and educationalist of Tangail. He named it after the nam
e of his grandfather Saadat Ali Khan Panni. The founder member of Saadat college was Principal Ibrahim Khan. He was the first chief executive of the college. He worked in college till 1947. The college was upgraded as a degree college in 1938. In Saadat college, the Honours course was commenced in 1966 and the Masters course was commenced in 1974. The Government of Bangladesh promulgated the Saadat college as a national university college on July 7, 1979. It has Honours programme in 18 subjects and Masters programme in 10 subjects. The college is recognised as a postgraduate college. The main building of this college is surrounded within 27 acres (110,000 m2) of area. Inside the campus area there are one college auditorium, two students common room, one central library, one sports office, one B.N.CC office room, one Rover scouts office, one Mosque and one canteen available for students. There are 5 laboratories available for science faculty - (I) Physics (ii) Chemistry (iii) Math (iv) Zoology and (v) Botany. The college also has 16 seminar rooms. The college library has 200 rare medieval manuscripts, including some other manuscripts written by Shahnama. Since its inception, the college has been providing lodging facilities for its students. There are 6 residential halls to provide housing for Saadat college students. 4 for males and 2 for females. The halls for male students are:
Wazed Ali Khan Panni Hall
Ebrahim Khan Hall
Somman Hall
Uttara Hall
And the halls for female students are:
Fazilatunnesa Hall
Chhatrinibas Hall
Faculties and departments
Saadat college comprises four faculties:
Faculty of Arts (B.A)
Department of English
Department of Bangla
Department of History
Department of Philosophy
Department of Islamic history and culture
Department of Islamic study
Faculty of Science (B.SC)
Department of Physics
Department of Chemistry
Department of Math
Department of Zoology
Department of Botany
Faculty of Social Science (B.S.S)
Department of Economics
Department of Social welfare
Department of Political science
Faculty of Commerce (B.B.A.) Department of Accounting
Department of Management
Department of Finance
Department of Marketing
The college only offers Master degree in English. This is a partial list of notable alumni of Government Saadat College. Entries on this list should either have an accompanying existing article link which verifies they are an alumnus, or reliable sources as footnotes against the name. Bonde Ali Miah (Poet)
Mofakkharul Islam (Poet)
Dr. Ashraf Siddique (Poet and Educationalist)
Mr. Abdul Mannan (Politician)
Major General Mahmudul Hasan (Politician)
Shajahan Siraj (Politician)
Bongo Bir Abdul Kader Siddique (Politician)
P. Sorcar (Magician)
Dr. M. Huda (Educationalist and Economist)
Dr. Malik Khosru Chowdhury (Educationalist and Economist)
Dr. K. Hossain (Educationalist and Economist)
Rafik Azad (Poet)
Selim-Al-Din (Playwright)
Prof. Dr. Mahbub Sadik (Educationalist and Poet)
Prof. Kamruzzaman (Educationalist, Scientist and Journalist)
