Do private TU-affiliated engineering colleges have to offer subsidised seats?
Yes. IOE requires each affiliated college to admit 10% of its total intake at a fee equivalent to IOE’s Regular rate, without raising its admission target.
Every TU-affiliated private engineering college carries an obligation almost no student is told about. The booklet requires each of them to admit 10% of total intake at a fee equivalent to IOE’s own Regular rate, inside the existing admission target rather than as extra seats on top.
What that is worth
IOE’s Regular rate is about Rs 63,087 for the full four years, so a seat under this provision is worth roughly the difference between that figure and whatever the college charges everyone else — the single largest discount available at a private college, and the one least advertised.
How many seats that is at each college
The booklet publishes an intake target for every affiliated college, which makes the 10% arithmetic concrete rather than abstract. These are those targets and ten per cent of each. The booklet does not say how the figure is rounded where it lands on a fraction, so the right-hand column is the arithmetic, not a quota the college has confirmed.
| College | Intake target | 10% of intake |
|---|---|---|
| Kathmandu Engineering College | 384 | 38 |
| Advanced College of Engineering and Management | 336 | 34 |
| Kantipur Engineering College | 288 | 29 |
| Himalaya College of Engineering | 240 | 24 |
| National College of Engineering | 240 | 24 |
| Kathford International College of Engineering and Management | 192 | 19 |
| Janakpur Engineering College (now Imperial College of Engineering) | 192 | 19 |
| Khwopa College of Engineering | 192 | 19 |
| Sagarmatha Engineering College | 144 | 14 |
| Lalitpur Engineering College | 96 | 10 |
| All ten colleges | 2,304 | 230 |
Scroll the table sideways for 10% of intake.
So across the whole affiliated sector the provision covers roughly 230 seats a year. That is a meaningful number — comparable to a mid-sized college’s entire intake — and it is spread across ten institutions rather than concentrated anywhere, which is part of why it is easy to miss.
What the booklet does not say
It does not state how those seats are allocated, whether on entrance rank alone, or what the exact rupee figure is at a given college in a given year. So this is a question to put to each college directly rather than an entitlement you can assert.
Four questions to ask, in writing
How many seats do you admit under this provision this year?
What is the total four-year figure for one of them?
How is a student selected for one?
Which seat am I being offered?
Section 2.6 of the booklet, page 9. Intake targets read from the affiliated-college intake table on page 10 of the same booklet, verified against a rendered image of the page rather than extracted text, because the booklet sets its figures in legacy Nepali fonts that do not survive copying. Each column total reconciles with its own cells and the ten columns sum to the printed grand total of 2,304, which is the check that the reading is right. The provision applies to all ten TU-affiliated private colleges, so it differentiates none of them; it is a floor, not an offer.
Sources
- IOE B.E./B.Arch Booklet 2083 · published 7 August 2026 · read 18 August 2026
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.