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Tribhuvan University colleges

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  • September 2026 last updated
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Which colleges hold the affiliation, how many places each has, and how to compare them.

Which colleges award a Tribhuvan University engineering degree?

Fifteen institutions teach a Tribhuvan University BE, and they divide into two kinds the university treats identically on paper. Five are constituent campuses run by the Institute of Engineering itself — Pulchowk in Lalitpur, Thapathali in Kathmandu, Purwanchal in Dharan, Paschimanchal in Pokhara and Chitwan Engineering Campus at Rampur — targeting 2,040 places for 2083. Ten are private colleges holding IOE affiliation, targeting 2,304 places between them, six of them in Lalitpur, two in Bhaktapur and two in Kathmandu. All fifteen admit from one entrance examination and one central merit list, teach one syllabus, sit one set of papers and award one degree. What differs between them is teaching, laboratories, cost and location, and only the constituent fee is published centrally: every private figure has to be read off that college’s own material, dated and in writing. Each affiliated college must also admit ten per cent of its intake at a fee equivalent to IOE’s Regular rate.

4 answers in this section. Every figure is cited to the official document it came from, with the date it was read. Where a document has been superseded, the newer one governs and the page says which.

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These four answers cover the shape of the Tribhuvan system rather than its rules. Two of them are lists — the ten affiliated colleges and the five constituent campuses — with what the Institute of Engineering itself publishes about each. One explains the difference between the two kinds, which is the distinction most comparison articles get wrong. And one is a method for comparing two colleges without a ranking, which is the question the lists are usually opened to answer. All four are built from two documents and no others: IOE’s own 2083 B.E./B.Arch admission booklet, which names the colleges, their districts and their intake targets, and Tribhuvan University’s own “IOE at a glance” page, which gives street addresses and the structure of the institute. Where those two disagree, the pages say so instead of choosing quietly. They disagree about one college: the booklet places Advanced College of Engineering and Management in Kathmandu and the university’s own page gives its address as Kupondol in Lalitpur, so the booklet governs the district count and the disagreement is printed inside the list rather than resolved.

The thing worth carrying away is that a Tribhuvan University degree is one degree. The curriculum, the examinations and the certificate belong to the university rather than to the college, so no college in this list awards a better one than another. That makes the comparison narrow and checkable — what the teaching is like, what the laboratories hold, what it costs and how you would get there each morning — rather than the open-ended judgement a ranking implies. Every college in this record has its own page here with those figures on it, each carrying the document it came from and the date that document was read. Two figures are worth holding while you read the lists. Of the 2,040 places at the five constituent campuses, 630 are Regular seats and 1,410 are Full Fee seats, which are separate pools with separate counts at the same campus for the same degree. And of the 2,304 places at the ten affiliated colleges, 230 are the sum of the ten per-college ten per cent figures — the seats each private college is required to admit at a fee equivalent to IOE’s Regular rate. Those 230 are the cheapest private seats in the system and the least advertised, because no college has a reason to lead with them.

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  • Two bars on one scale: 2,040 constituent places, 630 of them Regular, against 2,304 at the ten affiliated colleges.
  • IOE structure page: five constituent campuses, two proposed campuses at Ghorahi and Doti, then the ten affiliated colleges.

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Last reviewed by Ram Raj Thapa, Admissions Officer, Imperial College of Engineering. Every figure on this page is cited to the document it came from.