ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Tribhuvan University offers a wide range of academic programmes including 300 courses at Certificate level, 1079 courses at Bachelor's level and more than 1000 courses at Master's level. Currently, the total courses offered by the University number more than 2400. These courses are offered under five technical institutes and four non-technical or general faculties of the University.

Tribhuvan University provides Proficiency Certificate, Graduate, Postgraduate and Doctorate level programmes. In the institutes, the Certificate programme is generally of two years and the Graduate and Postgraduate programmes are of three to six years, depending upon the course offered. In the faculties, the Certificate programme is of two years, the Graduate programme of three and four years, the Postgraduate programme of three years, and the Ph. D. programme of three years.

There are altogether 1,32,777 students housed on 60 TU campuses spread throughout the country with over 5970 teachers, excluding those on contract, and about 6977 administrative personnel. The total budget for TU for the year 2062/063 is estimated about Rs. 2,37,00,00,000.

• Technical Institutes
• Faculties

ACADEMIC AGENCIES AND TEACHING DEPARTMENTS

Each Technical Institute as well as Faculty has a number of Subject Committees under it. A Subject Committee is basically a body of senior teachers and the specialists of the concerned subject in the Institute or the Faculty. Its major functions are to develop, revise and improve the curricula as required. The curriculum devised by the Subject Committee is subject to scrutiny and review by the concerned Faculty Board. The Faculty Board, on its part, recommends the curriculum to the Academic Council. It is on the approval of the Academic Council that a particular curriculum becomes mandatory. Thus, the curriculum building process at Tribhuvan University is a three-tier process with the Subject Committee at the bottom, the Faculty Board in the middle and the Academic Council at the top of the hierarchy.

Every campus has a number of subject-specific teaching departments, each responsible for the successful implementation of the concerned curriculum within the time planned for the purpose. Each teaching department is placed under a professor or senior teacher as head of department. Each campus department is, in a sense, an extension of the Central Department at Tribhuvan University.