Department of English at Islamic University is a center of academic excellence run by an enriched body of as many as twenty eight brilliant academics.  Since its beginning in 1990, the Department has been serving as an erudite body of scholarship engaged in creating scholarly knowledge in language & literature studies and disseminating knowledge among its students.

Department of English runs five academic programs: Bachelor of Arts with honors in English, Master of Arts (MA) in English, Master of Arts (MA) in English (Evening), MPhil and PhD. Curriculum of each program is designed with both core and multidisciplinary courses with a view to developing the learners’ working knowledge and skills in all areas related to arts, humanities and social sciences. Committed to equipping the graduates with state-of-the-art knowledge and education, the department regularly updates its curricula incorporating newer courses emerged recently in the arena of language, Asian literature, English literature, European literature, American literature, cultural studies, Theories and so on.   

The Department enjoys a reputation of having over two thousand alumni many of whom are holding significant positions in both the government and non-government institutions and in the national and international contexts. Ambassadors of the Department, its alumni and current students are what the Department calls “IU English Family” and feels proud of.