About

We work to to make higher education more affordable, accessible & applicable

About us

Tensor is a faculty-founded startup college in Bangladesh with an exciting mission.​

We celebrate the value of high quality higher education, particularly in the foundation offered by broad-based curricula for lifelong learning. But we've seen that the best higher education is not always affordable or accessible. Our mission became to change that and offer high quality liberal arts education to many more students in Bangladesh. ​
At Tensor, we utilize blended learning and a decentralized architecture to deliver carefully designed academic programs that are integrated with industry.​

Mission

At Tensor, our mission is to offer high quality higher education that is affordable, accessible and applicable. We do this by leveraging faculty-talent, technology, and a transformative liberal arts curriculum.

Vision

At Tensor, we envision a world where higher education as a human right is available for all.

Advisory Board

Rezwana Choudhury Bannya is an award-winning Bangladeshi singer. An exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, Dr. Bannya is also Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Dance at the University of Dhaka

James Forrest is Professor at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Forrest’s research is focused on the behavior of soft materials at the nanoscale. Dr. Forrest is also Director of Academic Partnerships at the prestigious Perimeter Institute.

Shohini Ghose is a Professor and past President of the Canadian Association of Physicists. Dr. Ghose is also the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, and Director of Centre for Women in Science at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Sazzad Nasir is a scientist based in the United States. He was on faculty at Northwestern University, and continues his affiliation as a research scientist with Haskins Laboratories at Yale. Originally from Bangladesh, Dr. Nasir was a Kali Narayan scholar of Dhaka University.

Gabrielle McIntire is a highly published author, and Professor of English at Queen’s University. She received her PhD and MA from Cornell University, in addition to an MA from McGill University, all in English Language and Literature. Her BA was from the University of Toronto, with a double major in English Literature and Religious Studies and a double minor in History and Italian.

Tanvir Haider Chaudhury is CEO of Kazi Food Industries in Bangladesh, a former banker, a graduate of Institute of Business Administration, and a columnist for the Dhaka Tribune.