Police identified the victim as Fahim Rafi, 20, a second-year undergraduate student of economics at the private university.
His father Md Maniruzzaman, a resident of South Basabo, is a general manager of state-owned mobile phone operator Teletalk.
The doctor who attended to him declared him brought dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday night, Sub-Inspector Bachchu Mia at the hospital’s police camp said.