Admission is open to individuals, either Bangladeshi or foreign nationals, who have at least Bachelor Degree with Honors or its equivalent from any recognized university or at least a four year graduation degree with second class or 2.5 CGPA out of 4 from any recognized institution, such as medical college/university, engineering university/college, agricultural university/college, defense college, marine academic, armed forces medical college/University, law college, dental college etc. or master degree with pass course graduation. The applicants should have minimum second class or GPA 2.5 out of 5 in both SSC and HSC or its equivalent examinations. No individual with only pass course graduation degree, or having third division/class at any level is eligible to apply. Individuals in the field of environment, demography, public health, engineering, defense, disaster management and development areas with practical experiences and who are currently in service to the relevant fields are encouraged to apply. An applicant with minimum 75 percentile in GMAT/GRE may be exempted from the written assessment. However, they will be required to appear for an interview. Different Progammes of the Institution are supported by CDMP-II, IFRC and BDRC, Spain, Associated British Food, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Bangladesh, CIRDAP, DeSHARi, Oxford University, Beijing Normal University, Ethiopia and U.K. based University and other Voluntary Organizations through collaborative agreement.