Tribhuvan University, #1 university in Nepal

Founded in 1959, Tribhuvan University (TU) is a public university located in kirtipur, kathmandu  Nepal. It is the first national institution of higher education in Nepal. The Central Administrative Office and the Central Campus of the university are located on the north eastern facade of Kirtipur, which is located five kilometers away from capital city Kathmandu . There are 40 central departments and 4 research centres in TU, and out of them 31 departments and 3 research centres are located at Kirtipur. The university at Kirtipur is spread over an area of 154.77 hectares.

  

The university offers  undergraduate and graduate education. More than 4,400 courses are offered, of which 500 are for intermediate-level courses (equivalent to higher secondary school), 2,079 are for undergraduate and 2,000 are for postgraduate programs. The university has 60 constituent campuses[5] and 1053 affiliated colleges throughout the country. Since it is government financed, it is less expensive than private universities like Kathmandu University, and Purwanchal University.

T U ran its programmes only through its constituent campuses before 1980. With the increasing number of students wanting higher education, it was not possible to accommodate all the students in the constituent campuses. This situation led to the establishment of colleges in the private sector because the constituent campuses alone could not meet the demand. From 1979–80, TU started providing affiliation to private colleges to conduct programmes. Across the country, 826 private colleges have received TU affiliations.

In the 2014–2015 academic session 4,05,341 students were enrolled in TU academic programmes. 1,48,141 (36.55%) students study in its 60 constituent campuses including 38 central departments, while 2,57,200 (63.45%) students study in 1053 affiliated colleges. Now it

has 7841 teaching faculty and 7413 non-teaching staff including the support staff in its constituent campuses. The number of total employees is 15254

Faculties and associated departments:
 Faculty of Management 

• Central Department of Public Administration
•  Central Department of Management

Faculty of Education 

• Central Department of Education
• Faculty of Awareness

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Central Department of Buddhist Studies
• Central Department of Chemistry, TU
• Central Department of Culture
• Central Department of Economics
• Central Department of English]
• Central Department of Biotechnology
• Central Department of Fine Arts
• Central Department of Geography
• Central Department Of Hydrology & Meteorology
• Central Department of Geology
• Central Department of Hindi
• Central Department of History
• Central Department of Home Science
• Central Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Central Department of Library Science
• Central Department of Linguistics
• Central Department of Maithili
• Central Department of Nepali
• Central Department of Nepal Bhasha
• Central Department of Physics
• Central Department of Political Science
• Central Department of Population Studies
• Central Department of Psychology
• Central Department of Rural Development
• Central Department of Sanskrit
• Central Department of Sociology
• Central Department of Anthropology

Website: http://tribhuvan-university.edu.np/

on Sunday, July 3, 2016