Does an engineering college in Nepal provide daily transport?
IOE’s own booklet states that arranging daily transport to and from campus is the student’s own responsibility. Anything a college provides is above that baseline.
Section 16.3 of the BE/B.Arch Booklet 2083 states plainly that arranging daily transport to and from campus is the student’s own responsibility. No provider in the IOE system is obliged to move you, and no fee table includes it.
Which should change how you compare colleges
Four years of daily travel in the Kathmandu valley is a real cost that appears in nobody’s advertised fee, and it is paid in hours as well as rupees.
Take the actual route on a working day, at the hour you would travel. Not on a Saturday, and not by asking someone else.
Multiply the daily fare by roughly 200 teaching days, then by four years.
Add the time. Three hours a day is around 600 hours a year your classmates spend on something else.
Then compare that total against the hostel option at each college, and against the fee difference you were originally weighing.
The hostel is not automatically the answer either
At constituent campuses the fee table lists hostel maintenance as "as per campus decision", so a place is neither free nor guaranteed. Ask each college three things: is a place available to me, what does it cost across four years, and is that in writing.
At Imperial College of Engineering
For what it is worth on our own side of this: the hostel is free for enrolled students for all four years, and the daily college bus from Koteshwor to the Tathali campus is free. Food in the mess you pay for. Ask the office for the current pickup time and stops rather than taking them from a web page.
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.