Information and Communications Technology Facilities At the Tertiary Level Education in Some Urban Universities in Bangladesh

With the advent of digitalization, information and communications technology facilities have become an indispensable part of education especially at the universities. this study has been undertaken with dual purposes to find the existing scenario of information and communications technology facilities and to gauge the perception of the students onthe quality of those facilities at the universities in bangladesh. to that end, a survey was conducted on the undergraduate and graduate students of 9 private and public universities. to assess the quality of information and communications technology services, participants’ views on various aspects like the sufficiency of computers, availability of required software, maintenance and troubleshooting, internet and data sharing facilities, etc. were collected and analyzed. the study finds that although students are on the happier side with the information and communications technology installations and equipment, they are fairly unhappy about the maintenance services and internet facilities available at their universities. it gives some valuable insights about the information and communications technology facilities scenario at the universities that can be taken into consideration while planning future action plan and development of information and communications technology at the universities in bangladesh.