Recently, quality of education is an important issue in all over the world. Private sector universities established in Bangladesh on 1992 to enhance higher education. At present there are 38 public and 90 above private universities are running their academic activities in Bangladesh. A large number of students are studying at the undergraduate and graduate levels in private universities of Bangladesh. These students are getting education in the fields of business, science and engineering, arts and social sciences respectively. Nowadays this is a burning issue that most of the private university of Bangladesh does not provide quality of education and produce quality graduates. There are some structural weaknesses or factors which influence quality of education of private universities. To identify the major influencing structural weaknesses or factors of private universities that are the main objectives of the study. The findings of the research may helps to the concern line ministry and agencies to develop such policy to enhance quality higher education in the country. Survey and interview research method were used in the study. Factor analysis was used to identify the factors that are highly affecting the quality of education of private sector universities. Multiple regression analysis were used to show that the relationship between identified factors and quality of education. Results show that there are four significant structural weaknesses or factors are immensely affecting quality of education of private universities in Bangladesh. The identified factors or structural weaknesses are answers script do not examine by second examiner, students class irregularities, incompleteness of credit hour and syllabus and questionnaire do not moderation by moderation committee. Multiple Regression Analysis shows that the identified factors are significantly related to the quality of education of private universities of Bangladesh. This study suggests that If there is a initiate in identified factors, there will be considerably improved quality of education of private universities of Bangladesh.

Index Terms: Bangladesh, Private University, Quality of Education, Structural Weaknesses.

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