Students Enrollment Status of Tribhuvan University
Fiscal Year | Student Detail (Numbers) |
2009/10 | 3,698,80 |
2010/11 | 3,89,460 |
2011/12 | 3,73,846 |
2012/13 | 6,04,437 |
2013/14 | 4,05,341 |
2014/15 | 2,91,325 |
2015/16 | 2,51,657 |
2016/17 | 2,43,746 |
2017/18 | 2,89,796 |
2018/19 | 3,04,831 |
2019/20 | 3,22,540 |
The aforementioned table offers important details on the total number of students enrolled at Tribhuvan University during a period of ten fiscal years.
The number student at Tribhuvan University has declined in fiscal year 2013/14 and 2014/15 as compared to that of 2012/13 and 2013/14 fiscal year.
The students enrolled at Tribhuvan University stood at 604,437 in FY 2012/13 which dropped by almost 33 percent to 405,341 in its preceding year. This total includes 148,141 students from constituent campuses and 247,200 from affiliated campuses/ colleges.
From 2014/15 to 2019/20, The number of students slightly increases from 2,91,325 in 2014/15 to 3,22,540 in 2019/20.
Tribhuvan University (T.U.) is the pioneer university in the country, where, in 1961 only 5143 students were enrolled where as in 2002/03; the number has increased to about 213412 students. It alone has about 170700 students (T.U, 2006/07) in its 60 constituent campuses and about 86457 in the 413 affiliated private campuses.
Set up in 1959, Tribhuvan University (TU), a pioneering institution of higher education in Nepal. It is situated in Kirtipur, a small ancient town located five kilometers away from downtown Kathmandu. Following the recent second democratic movement, Prime Minister of Nepal is the Chancellor of the University while Minister of Education is the Pro-Chancellor. The Vice Chancellor is the principal executive of the university. He is assisted by Rector in academic programs and Registrar in financial management and general administration.
Tribhuvan University has 7950 teaching faculty members and 7122 non-teaching staff including support staff in its constituent campuses. The number of total staff is 15072.
The university was established with the following objectives:
There are five councils constituted as major decision-making bodies of the university.