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What actually drives the cost of a college website in BD
Most college principals in Bangladesh open a call with the same question: koto taka? It is a fair question, so here is the honest breakdown. The 50,000 BDT starter suits a small intermediate college. It needs eight to ten pages, a notice section your office can update, a basic admission enquiry form and a tidy bilingual front end.
Most degree colleges sit at 90,000 BDT. That adds a proper admissions section with programme pages for BBA, BSS and BA Honours. It also adds a results archive, a teacher directory and a faster, more polished design. The 1,50,000 BDT tier is for an honours and masters college. It brings department pages, an online application with bKash and Nagad payment steps, a dynamic exam routine and result system, and an alumni section.
Anything beyond that starts at 3,00,000 BDT and is truly custom work. That covers full online admission with automatic merit lists, a student portal, and exam form fill-up with a bank gateway. Two things push the price up that no proposal in BD talks about honestly. The first is how often your notices and results need to go out.
If your office posts two notices a week, you need a real CMS. A static site I edit free for three months and then start charging for will not do. The second is photos of the governing body and committee. If you lack clean photos of the principal, vice principal and governing body, you will need a photo session, and that adds time and cost. I tell you both on the first call, before the invoice. Surprises after the advance is paid are how trust dies in this industry.