In 2000 a full-fledged Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering was founded at Gono Bishwabidyalay, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh with M.Sc course of international standard. From 2005, B.Sc (Hons) course in Medical Physics and in Biomedical Engineering was launched.

Medical Physics is the application of physics to medicine. It generally concerns physics as applied to medical imaging and radiotherapy, although a medical physicist may work in many other areas of healthcare. Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary field of advanced knowledge of engineering and science to solve medical and healthcare related problems.