How do you actually take a seat at Pokhara University’s School of Engineering?

In person, on the day, in your rank band. The School of Engineering fills its BE seats by merit-based spot admission at Block B, Pokhara-26, Bijayapur, calling merit ranks in blocks with a clock time against each, with a bank at the venue to take the fee. In 2083 it ran on 13 and 14 August 2026 and the seats were gone before the third session.

Once the School of Engineering publishes its BE entrance merit list, there is no portal, no priority-order form and no waiting for a second list. Seats are filled by merit-based spot admission: the school names a date, calls merit ranks in blocks with a clock time against each block, and admits whoever turns up in their slot until the approved quota is full. The notice calling the 2083 candidates says a bank will be available at the admission venue so the fee can be paid there and then. The venue was School of Engineering Block B, Pokhara-26, Bijayapur. This is the practical difference between this system and the IOE one that costs people most: a rank on a Pokhara list is only worth something if you are physically at the venue during your own time band, and the seat you wanted can be gone by the time the next band opens.

The 2083 rank bands, as the notice printed them

By 13 August 2026 the school had admitted from the top of its list and still had seats in BE Civil, BE Mechanical, BE Electrical and Electronics and BE Information Technology. It published a notice that day calling merit ranks 501 to 900 to spot admission on 14 August, in four bands.

The next day the school published a second notice saying the admission process for the 2083 fee-paying intake was complete. It had run on 13 and 14 August across six programmes — BE Civil, BE Mechanical, BE Electrical and Electronics, BE Information Technology, BE Computer and BE Software — and had filled the approved quota. The same notice cancelled the further admission session that had been scheduled for 17 August.

What that tells you about the odds

The merit list carried 1,246 names and the school stopped calling at rank 900, so roughly the bottom quarter of the list was never reached in this cycle. It is also worth reading the direction of travel: the school was still calling ranks 501 to 900 for four programmes on the second-to-last day, which means seats in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics and Information Technology were available well down the list, and then went in a single day. Neither notice publishes how many seats each programme had left when it was written, so how far down any one programme reached is not knowable from what is published.

From the School of Engineering’s two fee-paying admission notices of 13 and 14 August 2026, both scanned images read off the rendered page, with their Bikram Sambat dates converted using the repository’s own converter. The merit-list total is a count of the rows in the published list. Neither notice states a per-programme seat count, and none is published elsewhere; the intake figures on the school’s fee page are for the programme as a whole rather than for what remained on the day.

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 BE entrance exam work?

  There is no single Pokhara University BE entrance. The university’s own admission procedure puts the entrance on the college: it invites applications by public notice, checks them, and tells eligible candidates when its exam is. The university’s own School of Engineering at Pokhara runs one of these, and in 2083 it sat 1,246 candidates onto a fee-paying merit list.

• 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.

• How is a Pokhara University BE different from the Tribhuvan University IOE route?

  At almost every step. IOE runs one entrance for the whole system and admits through a central portal on three scheduled merit lists. Pokhara University runs no university-wide BE entrance at all: each college examines its own applicants, and the university’s School of Engineering fills its seats by spot admission on the day. The degree, the fee structure and the scholarship mechanism differ too.

• Is my seat real once the college says I am admitted?

  Not until your name is recorded on the IOE central admission portal at admission.ioe.edu.np. Take the portal’s Confirmation Page from the college, then verify the entry yourself. A campus that fails to record you leaves you not admitted, and the procedure puts that on the campus.