The objective of  Bangladesh Student Association(BSA) at Texas Tech University is to promote the culture of Bangladesh in Lubbock and Texas Tech and to assist new students from Bangladesh to adapt at Texas Tech University. Bangladesh is a South Asian country with a rich cultural heritage. It has a rich historical and cultural past, the product of the repeated influx of varied peoples, bringing with them the Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Mughul, Arab, Persian, Turkic, and European cultures.

Bangladesh is the home of 'Royal Bengal Tigers'- one of the rare and endangered species of the world. It came into existence in the world map in 1971 after a 9 month long Independence War.

After the partition of 1947, when the Indian subcontinent was divided into two countries- India and Pakistan, most of the Bengal fell under Pakistan and known as 'East Pakistan'. The Pakistani rulers underestimated the values of the Bengalis. They declared 'Urdu' as the state language and it was the first time the Bengalis felt the need to have their own country. On 21st February 1952, a language movement in Dhaka earned the rights for the Bengalis to speak in their own language and the Pakistani government had to accept 'Bangla' as the state language. It was unique in the world history, as there had been no such movement before where people sacrificed their lives for their language. In 2001, United Nations honored the martyrs of the language movement by declaring 21st February as the "International Mother Language Day". On March 25, 1971 pakistani army all of a sudden started genocide. On March 26, Bangladesh declared Independence as a sovereign nation. After 9 months of liberation war on 16 December, 1971 Bangladesh got the victory. For details of Bangladesh history, please visit the history page.