Tribhuvan University is the largest and the oldest university of Nepal. It is situated in Kirtipur. The university was established in 1959 as the first university of the country. It is the largest university in Nepal, with more than 150,000 students and faculty; this is the major university of Nepal.

There are institutes of medicine, engineering, science and technology, forestry and faculties of social sciences and humanities, management, education and law. The university has 65 integral colleges and more than 200 affiliated colleges throughout the country.

Established:                1959

Type:                         Public

 Chancellor:                Prime Minister of Nepal

Vice-Chancellor:         Madhav Prasad Sharma

 Students:                   150,000

 Location:                   Kirtipur, Nepal

 Website:                    tribhuvan-university.edu.np

OBJECTIVES OF TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY:

To produce skilled manpower essential for the overall development of Nepal;

To preserve and develop historical and cultural heritage of the nation;

To accumulate, advance and disseminate knowledge; and

To encourage and promote research in arts, science, technology as well as in the vocational fields.

 After the recent people's movement 2, Prime Minister of Nepal has become the Chancellor of the Tribhuvan University and the Minister of Education and Sports is the Pro-Chancellor.

 The Vice-Chancellor is the principal executive of the University. He is assisted by the Rector in academic programs and by the Registrar in management and administration.

Tribhuvan University has five decision-making bodies:

 University Council is the supreme body that makes decisions on policies, budget, and rules and regulations, and the formation of special committees and commissions.
Executive Council implements operational decisions while the decisions of the University Council accept donations to the university. It makes decisions on grants, affiliation to private campuses, and appointments of university officials.
Academic Council makes decisions on policies and practices regarding curriculum, teaching, examinations and research.
Research Coordination Council makes policies on TU research activities, approves guidelines for researchers and coordinates the functions of university level research organizations.
Planning Council has an advisory role of preparing plans (long and short-term), developing annual programs and evaluating programs implementation.
Tribhuvan University is an autonomous institution. It is financed mainly by Government of Nepal.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS:

Along with its 48 years long journey, the state-owned university has expanded its programs in different disciplines. There are five technical institutes and four non-technical faculties, which offer 300 courses in certificate, 1079 courses in bachelor and 1000 courses in master level. Currently, the total courses offered by the university number more than 2400.

Both technical and non-technical offer Ph.D. programs in different disciplines. TU always has been trying to offer varieties of courses as demand by the nation. Recently TU has decided to offer Biotechnology, Dietician, eMBA, Distance Learning Courses at Master Level and MA in Conflict Peace and Development. M.Phil courses have been started in faculty of Management, Humanities and Education.

Before 1980, TU had offered the courses through its constituent campuses only. With the increasing number of students interested to join in the Tribhuvan University, there was a necessity of establishing the colleges in the private sector because the constituent campuses of university alone could not cater to the demand of the market. So from 1980, TU started giving affiliation to private colleges to conduct various programs in different levels. In that year 24 colleges had got affiliation to offer the certificate programs. So far 416 colleges have got affiliation, which are located throughout the nation.

There are altogether 272746 students in TU who have been studying at various levels. The majority of the students (61.27%-167114) are in its 60 constituent campuses spread throughout the country and the remaining (38.73%-105632) in the 416 affiliated colleges. It shows that numbers of students in constituent campuses are very high. This is because the cheap education fee and easy access.

Tribhuvan University has 6160 teaching faculty members and 6952 non teaching staff including support staff in its constituent campuses.