What does a BE cost at Pokhara University, and how many seats are there?

Pokhara University’s School of Engineering publishes a total four-year fee per programme: Rs 6,23,000 for Civil and for Civil and Rural, Rs 5,87,200 for Electrical and Electronics, Computer, Software, Information Technology and Mechanical. Beside each it prints an intake — 115 for Civil, 39 for each of the other five. A refundable security deposit of Rs 20,000 applies to every programme.

Pokhara University’s School of Engineering does something almost no engineering provider in Nepal does: it publishes what a whole four-year BE costs, and prints the number of seats next to it. Two figures cover the seven programmes. Civil Engineering and Civil and Rural Engineering are Rs 6,23,000 for the four years. Electrical and Electronics, Computer, Software, Information Technology and Mechanical Engineering are Rs 5,87,200. Beside them the same page gives an intake capacity: 115 for Civil and 39 for each of the five cheaper programmes, which is 310 published seats in total; the intake for Civil and Rural is printed as a dash and is therefore not published at all. Three multipliers sit under the table. A sponsored student pays 1.5 times the listed fee, a student from a SAARC country 2 times, and a student from outside SAARC 3 times. A refundable security deposit of Rs 20,000 applies to every programme.

Scroll the table sideways for Intake.

What the published figure does and does not settle

The page has one weakness worth knowing before you budget from it: it carries no effective date and no revision number. Kathmandu University dates its fee structure to an executive committee decision and an academic year, and IOE’s figures come out of a booklet with a year on the cover. This table simply sits on the site. It was read on 2 September 2026 and states what it stated then, which is why the read date is printed on this page rather than a claim that the fee is current.

The table also covers only the university’s own School of Engineering at Pokhara. The fifteen private colleges affiliated to Pokhara University set their own fees, and none of those was published on any university or regulator page at the time of reading. A fee you are quoted by one of those colleges is not covered by anything above.

How that compares with the other two systems

Set against the routes this library already documents, Pokhara’s School of Engineering sits between them. A four-year BE at an IOE constituent campus on a Regular seat is far cheaper and on a Full Fee seat is roughly comparable; Kathmandu University prices every four-year BE at a single published figure that is higher than either Pokhara band. The three numbers are not directly interchangeable, because what each includes differs and only IOE separates its seats into two priced pools. The comparison is worth making with the source pages open, which is what the links below are for.

Fees, intakes and durations are from the School of Engineering’s own Fee Structure page; programme names from its Undergraduate Program page. Both were read on 2 September 2026. The Fee Structure page carries no effective date, revision number or approving decision, unlike Kathmandu University’s fee structure and IOE’s booklet.

Last reviewed 2 September 2026 by Ram Raj Thapa, Admissions Officer, Imperial College of Engineering. Every figure on this page is cited to the document it came from.

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Related answers

• How does the Pokhara University scholarship work for an engineering student?

  Pokhara University reserves 10 per cent of the approved seats in its affiliated colleges and 20 per cent in its constituent schools for scholarship students, and fills them through one university-wide selection examination rather than through the colleges. In the 2083 cycle it awarded 474 engineering-side scholarships across nine programmes and sixteen colleges, and the first round of choices went only to candidates who studied classes 6 to 10 in a government or community school.

• How much does a BE actually cost in Nepal?

  At an IOE constituent campus, about Rs 63,087 for four years on a Regular seat and about Rs 5,45,832 on a Full Fee seat, with Rs 2,16,470 payable on the first day of a Full Fee admission.

• How much does a BE at Kathmandu University cost in 2082/83?

  Rs 9,60,000 across four years for every BE programme, and Rs 10,97,000 across five for Architecture, on KU’s own 2082/83 fee structure. Rs 2,21,000 was payable on admission day in August 2026, and the fee has risen from Rs 8,50,000 for the 2022 batch.

• Which colleges run Pokhara University engineering degrees?

  The Nepal Engineering Council registers sixteen: the university’s own School of Engineering at Pokhara and fifteen private colleges, across eleven districts from Dhangadhi to Urlabari. Pokhara University’s own Faculty of Science and Technology publishes seventeen, and the two lists do not agree with each other on three separate points.