The widespread growth of private universities in the country has generated some confusion in the minds of the conscious people as to whether these universities can conform to the fundamental principles of imparting realistic education of a standard university. In contrary,Metropolitan University has been established as a unique institution for those who want to have quality university education of the modern age at an affordable cost.

With the approval of the Ministry of Education, under the Private University Act of 1992 and its amendment in 1998, the Metropolitan University came into being on 3rd May 2003. Dr. Toufique Rahman Chowdhury, a promising educationist, and an enterpreneur of the country engineered the idea of floating the Metropolitan University with the direct participation and assistance of a few of his close friends, acquaintances, and associates with the main objective of promoting modern education, particularly, higher and advance education in the various spheres of learning in order to help build up an educated nation of our own along with such nations all over the world - fully realizing that such an enterprise might add only a mite to the vast field of higher education.

This is a social commitment of Metropolitan University to the nations for promoting better education to meet the changing needs of the globe in the 21st century. The University will serve the citizens of the country and of other countries through its instructional, research and outreach programs and prepare them to respond to the challenges of a global economy successfully. In the delivery of educational programs on campus and beyond, the university will draw heavily upon the new instructional and outreach technologies available in the emerging information age.