Padma Kanya Multiple Campus

Padma Kanya Multiple Campus (PKMC) was founded in 1951 as Nepal's first women's campus (Aswin 2008 BS). Initially, its academic activities were carried out at the current location of Kanya School in Dillibazar. Its academic curriculum began in eight humanities subjects at the time of its founding.

ABOUT

Padma Kanya Multiple Campus (popularly known as PK Campus) is situated in Bagbazar. The campus currently offers higher education degrees in Humanities and Social Sciences, Management, and Science. As a constituent campus of Tribhuvan University, PKMC has educated women from Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Korea, and a variety of other nations. Students come from a variety of geographical and socio-cultural backgrounds. PKMC owns 4.6 acres of property. Within the campus grounds, a variety of buildings have been created for classrooms, libraries, labs, and dormitories, as well as play-grounds. The slogan of this Campus is "Quality Education for Women's Empowerment."

PK Campus has a proud history of more than five decades. Ever since its inception, it has stood for quality education particularly to the girls’ students enabling them to combat every plight and issue they have to encounter in their regular life in society and across the world.

The Campus has five buildings that meet its infrastructural requirements moderately—two for conducting classes and accommodating administrative facilities, one for the computer laboratory, physical and e-library, one for girls' dormitory with a capacity of 200 students, and an old-hostel building that is planned to be used for Bachelor of Hotel Management (BHM) program after renovation.

Mission

To run the campus autonomously in order to impart quality education for women to prepare and empower them with knowledge and skills for their life, work, and occupations in a distinctive and inclusive learning environment.

Vision

To transform the campus into a Women’s University with autonomous operation, refinement in educational quality, availability of resources, innovation in teaching and research, and national and global outreach.

Objectives/Goals

The objectives/goals of the institution are:

To strengthen academic expertise of the campus by upgrading the faculties with curriculum, research, and development of IT-friendly infrastructure;
To provide quality education for women empowerment to face the multifarious challenges in practical life in an ever-increasingly complex and competitive world.
To provide a congenial learning environment that can fully flourish their potentiality with the scope for the overall development of the student’s personality.

Salient Features

Class Rooms

Padma Kanya Campus has more than 50 spacious classrooms with four big halls in Ratna Deep Bhawan and two halls (Sagarmatha hall and Danish hall) in Maitri Bhawan that facilitate seminars, workshop programs.

Hostel

PK Campus has a separate new hostel that provides accommodation for 200 students who came from out of Kathmandu valley. It provides all indispensable facilities to its students with standard accommodation and hygienic food at an affordable price. It has strict rules and regulations that must need to followed by the hostel students. The Campus has arranged a well-experienced lady hostel warden.

Labs

There are different separate labs for each subject in Science Stream; they are well-maintained, spacious, and well-equipped. In the faculty of humanities, there are seven different labs with well-equipped – Biochemistry, Dress-Designing, Food and Nutrition, Psychology, Geography, Dance, and Music labs.

Library

Padma Kanya Campus has a separate building for the library with a large collection of textbooks, reference books, research and project reports, magazines, and daily newspapers. In addition to the main library, DRC of Women Studies and mini-library of Food and Nutrition and Rural Development are also available to the students for updating information related to the subject matter. The campus has the special provision of an e-library with the aim to serve easy access to online resources.

Canteen

PK Campus has recently built a new cafeteria that provides varieties of seasonal, hygienic, and healthy foods and snacks at a reasonable price.

Admission Guidelines

For Bachelor in Public Service and Governance (BPSG) Program

Students must have completed +2 or Equivalent Degree with at least 2.0 GPA (Any Discipline).

For BA/ BEd/ BBS Programs

Students should have secured at least D+ in all subjects in Grade 11 and Grade 12.

For BBA/ BBM Program

Students who have passed 10+2 or equivalent examinations from the recognized academic institutes with second division (securing 45% and above) or 1.8 CGPA are eligible to enroll in this program.

For BSc CSIT Program

Should have secured a minimum of the second division in their +2 or equivalent OR should have secured at least C in all subjects in Grade 11 and Grade 12 by taking Physics and Mathematics of 100 marks.

For MA in English, Rural Development, Population Studies, Nepali, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics Programs

Any candidates having at least a bachelor's degree or above from any discipline from Tribhuvan University or any recognized University majoring with a related degree will be eligible to participate in the entrance system. The candidates able to secure their position in the entrance system based upon merit system will be eligible for admission.

For Post Graduate Diploma in Women's Studies

Passing Bachelor's Degree in Arts or any equivalent examination with an aggregate of 50% marks and above from a recognized university.

For Master of Business Studies (MBS)

The student applying for admission to the MBS course must have successfully completed the BBS program or a bachelor's degree in any discipline from Tribhuvan University or from any other university recognized by Tribhuvan University.

For BCA program

Students who have passed PCL or + 2 or equivalent examinations with a minimum of 40% marks or 2 CGPA (not less than D+ in a Single Subject) are eligible for admission in the BCA program of Tribhuvan University.

For BSc in Microbiology or Environmental Science

The candidate must have completed 10+2 or equivalent examinations (with Biological Stream) with a Minimum 'C' grade in all subjects.

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION

PK Campus has a policy to offer scholarships and awards to the talented and deserving students. In addition, students from unprivileged section of the society are also considered for freeship. Buddhist Studies- three years bachelor program provides special scholarship to the students on merit basis.