How does the Purbanchal University scholarship work for an engineering student?

Ten per cent of the approved seats in every section, split five per cent on merit and five per cent reserved, awarded by the university rather than by the college. If you are applying to engineering you do not fill a second form or pay a second fee: your entrance application is your scholarship application. A reserved award is scored out of 100, and 65 of those marks come from things other than the entrance paper.

Purbanchal University reserves ten per cent of the approved student places in every section for scholarship students, and splits that ten per cent into two halves that work differently. Five per cent is the jehendar or merit scholarship, awarded to the highest scorers in the scholarship entrance examination. Five per cent is the reserved scholarship, competed for within named groups. Both are awarded by the faculty rather than by the college, and the university's Unified Procedure 2082 is where the whole mechanism is written down.

The first thing to know is procedural and saves engineering applicants a step everyone else at this university has to take. Under dafa 3.1.6, a student who has filled the entrance form for the Faculty of Engineering does not fill a separate form or pay an extra fee to be considered for the scholarship. Applicants to the Management, and Arts, Law and Education faculties do have to pay the scholarship fee separately. So for engineering, one application does both jobs, and the only extra step is ticking the reserved group you are claiming, which the application notice says is compulsory and your own responsibility to get right.

How many scholarships a section actually carries

The ten per cent is not applied as a percentage but as a published table, keyed to the approved intake of a section. The bachelor-level rows are the two that matter for a BE.

Approved seats per section	Merit scholarships	Reserved scholarships	Total
48 (bachelor)	2	3	5
60 (bachelor)	3	3	6
30 (bachelor and master)	1	2	3
20 (master)	1	1	2
33 (master)	1	2	3
50 (master)	2	3	5

Scroll the table sideways for Reserved scholarships and Total.

A floor sits under that table and it protects students at colleges that under-recruit. Where the approved number per section is 48 or 50 but thirty or fewer students actually enrol, three scholarships are still awarded, one merit and two reserved. Where the approved number is 60 but forty or fewer enrol, a minimum of four are still awarded, two merit and two reserved. Above a full section the rule runs the other way: from the second section onward the college awards a further ten per cent of the additional students admitted, five per cent merit and five per cent reserved, on a banded table that adds one scholarship roughly every ten extra students.

The fifteen reserved groups

Applicants for the reserved scholarship must be Nepali citizens, and dafa 10.2 names the groups that may compete: Dalit, Janajati, residents of a backward remote area, disabled people, women, the deprived class, those injured in the People's Movement and the Madhesh Movement, Madheshi, Muslim, the conflict-affected and displaced, former Kamaiya and Haliya, single women, Adibasi, disappeared persons, and the families of martyrs.

One of those has a closed definition rather than an open one, and it is unusually specific. A "backward remote area" candidate is a permanent resident of one of nine named districts: Achham, Kalikot, Jajarkot, Jumla, Dolpa, Bajhang, Bajura, Mugu and Humla. The procedure adds that to claim the district benefit you must have passed the SEE or an equivalent examination from that same district and hold citizenship from it.

How a reserved award is scored

This is the part that surprises people, because the entrance paper is a minority of it. The reserved scholarship at bachelor level is evaluated out of 100 marks, and the entrance result carries 25 of them.

What is scored	Weight
Marks obtained in the scholarship entrance examination	25% of them
SEE or class 10 or equivalent marks	5% of them
+2, A Level or class 12 or equivalent marks	10% of them
Sat SEE or class 10 at a government or community school	5 marks
Sat +2 or class 12 at a government or community college	5 marks
Women	10 marks
Dalit, Adibasi, Janajati, Madheshi or Muslim	10 marks
Resident of a backward remote area	10 marks
Family of the disappeared or of a martyr, disabled, injured in the movements or their family, conflict-affected, displaced, single woman	10 marks
Former Kamaiya, Haliya or deprived class	10 marks
Total	100 marks

Two hard limits sit on top of that scoring. A candidate who scores below 35 per cent in the entrance or scholarship entrance examination is not eligible for any kind of scholarship at bachelor level, whatever the other columns add up to. And an employee of any government or semi-government body is not given the reserved scholarship in any faculty or programme of the university.

Where a certificate states a CGPA rather than a percentage, the university converts it with its own published table. That table is not a single multiplication: CGPA 2.00 converts to 40 per cent and CGPA 3.00 to 60 per cent, so each 0.01 below 3.00 is worth 0.20 percentage points, while above 3.00 each 0.01 is worth 0.40 and CGPA 4.00 reaches 100 per cent. A CGPA of 3.60 is 84 per cent on this table. The common shortcut of multiplying a GPA by 25 does not reproduce it at any point.

What the scholarship costs you if you move

A scholarship at this university is attached to a college as well as to a student. A merit-scholarship holder may choose the college they want to study at, and the dean's office tells that college through its website. After that, transferring colleges ends the scholarship: the procedure says a transferring student may move as an ordinary fee-paying student if the new college has a vacant approved seat, and the vacated scholarship passes to the alternate candidate of the same group from the previously published merit list, provided that candidate is already studying at that college. A reserved-scholarship holder who continues study keeps the award to the final semester.

While you hold one, the college's billing is constrained. A reserved-scholarship student may be charged only the registration fee, the per-semester examination fee and the refundable security deposit taken by the university's examination office. A merit-scholarship student may be charged only what the university takes by rule. In both cases a college may charge extra for activities outside the curriculum, such as educational or industrial tours, and needs the dean's prior approval before running them.

If you think a published scholarship list is wrong, dafa 18.4 gives seven days from publication to apply to the faculty dean's office. After that the published list is final. Seven days is the longest complaint window of any system in this library.

All rules and figures are from the university's Unified Procedure on the Entrance Examination, Scholarship Arrangements and Scholarship Entrance Examination 2082, approved by its Executive Council on 2082-05-06, dafa 3, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 18 and annex 6. It is a 23-page scan with no text layer and every figure was read off the rendered page. The two scoring tables were checked by summing their own columns, and both reconcile to 100. The five and five per cent split is also stated in English on the faculty's Reservation Category page and in the 2083 application notice.