Fees and scholarships
What a BE actually costs, from IOE’s own published tables.
How much does a four-year BE cost in Nepal?
A four-year BE costs about Rs 63,087 at an IOE constituent campus on a Regular seat, and about Rs 5,45,832 on a Full Fee seat at the same campus for the same degree — roughly nine times as much, with Rs 2,16,470 payable on the first day. Regular and Full Fee are separate seat pools with separate counts, and Regular seats are allocated on merit. Three different things get called a scholarship in Nepal: a subsidised Regular seat, rank-banded pricing at a private college, and discretionary support assessed case by case. Every TU-affiliated private college is required to admit 10% of its intake at a fee equivalent to IOE’s Regular rate. Cancelling costs money at every stage — 10% of the total or Rs 15,000 before classes start, whichever is less; 25% or Rs 35,000 within seven days of them starting; nothing at all refunded after that.
11 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 Where a document has been superseded, the newer one governs and the page says which.
Cost is the question families ask first and the one answered worst elsewhere, because three different arrangements all get called the same thing. A subsidised Regular seat at a constituent campus, a rank-banded price at a private college, and discretionary case-by-case support are not variations of one scheme — they are three separate mechanisms with different rules about who qualifies and what can be taken away. The answers here keep them apart.
Which answer you need
- If you want the headline four-year figure to compare againstHow much does a BE actually cost in Nepal?
- If you do not know what Regular and Full Fee meanWhat is the difference between an IOE Regular and Full Fee seat?
- If you are looking at a private college and want the subsidised routeDo private TU-affiliated engineering colleges have to offer subsidised seats?
- If someone has offered you a “scholarship” and you want to know which kindHow do engineering scholarships in Nepal actually work?
- If you are budgeting and want the costs no fee table includesWhat engineering costs are not covered by the published fee?
- If you are considering withdrawing after payingWhat happens to my fee if I cancel my IOE admission?
The gap that surprises people most is between the two seat pools at the same campus: roughly Rs 63,000 across four years on a Regular seat against roughly Rs 5,45,832 on a Full Fee seat for the identical degree, with a large share of the Full Fee amount due on the first day. The other thing worth reading before you pay rather than after is the refund clock, which tightens in stages and then stops entirely — after classes have been running a week, nothing is refunded at all.
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.