Which are the IOE constituent campuses?
Five: Pulchowk in Lalitpur, Thapathali in Kathmandu, Purwanchal in Dharan, Paschimanchal in Pokhara, and Chitwan Engineering Campus at Rampur. Two more are listed as proposed. Together the five target 2,040 places, of which 630 are Regular.
The Institute of Engineering runs five campuses of its own, alongside the ten TU-affiliated private colleges: Pulchowk Campus in Lalitpur, Thapathali Campus in Kathmandu, Purwanchal Campus at Dharan in Sunsari, Paschimanchal Campus at Lamachaur in Pokhara, Kaski, and Chitwan Engineering Campus at Rampur in Chitwan. These five are where the subsidised Regular seats exist. All five admit in two separate categories, Regular and Full Fee, with separate seat counts and a fee difference of several lakh across four years, and no affiliated college has that arrangement. For 2083 the five target 2,040 places between them, only 630 of which are Regular. Two of the five are also listed under different English names on IOE’s own website, which catches people searching: Purwanchal is "Eastern Region Campus" there and Paschimanchal is "Western Region Campus". The same page lists two further campuses as proposed rather than operating.
The five, and how each one splits its 2083 intake
The booklet publishes each campus’s intake target split between the two categories. This is the table worth having in front of you when you set a priority order, because it is what makes a Regular seat scarce: three of the five campuses put more than three quarters of their places on the Full Fee side.
| Campus | Location | Regular | Full Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulchowk Campus | Pulchowk, Lalitpur | 276 | 348 |
| Purwanchal Campus | Dharan, Sunsari | 132 | 396 |
| Paschimanchal Campus | Lamachaur, Pokhara, Kaski | 108 | 324 |
| Thapathali Campus | Thapathali, Kathmandu | 108 | 324 |
| Chitwan Engineering Campus | Rampur, Bharatpur, Chitwan | 6 | 18 |
Scroll the table sideways for Regular and Full Fee.
The five columns sum to 630 Regular and 1,410 Full Fee, and the booklet prints the combined total as 2,040. Pulchowk is the only campus where Regular places approach parity with Full Fee. Chitwan is the smallest by a wide margin at 24 places in total, because it currently teaches only Architecture at bachelor level.
Some programmes exist at one campus only
Civil, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical and Computer run at several campuses, but five programmes in the system are effectively single-campus choices. Aerospace and Chemical Engineering run only at Pulchowk. Agriculture Engineering runs only at Purwanchal. Industrial Engineering runs only at Thapathali. Geomatics runs only at Paschimanchal. Automobile Engineering runs at Paschimanchal and Thapathali and nowhere else. If one of those is the reason you are sitting the entrance, your priority order has far fewer real options in it than the list of five suggests.
All five admit in two categories
Regular and Full Fee. Regular students pay the minimum tuition, and the remaining applicants may be admitted under the full-fee programme. The two are separate seat pools with separate counts and a fee difference of several lakh across four years. This arrangement exists only at these five campuses; an affiliated private college has one fee plus a 10% obligation at the IOE Regular rate, which is a different and smaller thing.
What happens when a campus cannot fill a programme
Two published rules cover the case. If too few applicants give a programme first priority on the Full Fee side, the campus admission committee may identify that programme and re-fix its capacity at 24 places (6 Regular and 18 Full Fee) or 48 (12 and 36), folding the prescribed reservation quota into the Regular side, and carry on. And if, across all three central merit lists, the Full Fee and sponsored quota for a programme is still under 60% filled, the campus may suspend that programme for the year — in which case the admission fee has to be refunded in full.
The two campuses that do not exist yet
IOE’s own structure page carries a third list, headed "Proposed Constituent Campus of IOE": IOE Ghorahi Campus at Ghorahi in Dang, and IOE Khaptad Campus in Doti. They are not in the 2083 admission booklet, they have no intake target published against them, and you cannot put either on a priority order this year. They are listed here because a search will find them and it is better to know what the word "proposed" is doing than to plan around a campus that is not admitting.
Which matters for the Regular seat question
If a subsidised seat is what you need, these five are the only places it exists in the IOE system, and there are 630 of them against 4,344 places system-wide. A private affiliated college has a 10% Regular-rate obligation but that is a different and smaller thing.
Campus names, locations and histories from sections 2.1 to 2.5 and 2.8 of the IOE B.E./B.Arch Booklet 2083, pages 6 to 11. Intake targets from the constituent-campus table on page 10, verified against a rendered image of that page; the five Regular and five Full Fee columns each reconcile with their printed totals and the two sum to the printed 2,040. The capacity re-fix and the 60% suspension rule are the two dṛṣṭavya notes printed under those tables on pages 10 and 11. The English campus names, the two proposed campuses and the addresses are from IOE at a glance on ioe.tu.edu.np, read 31 August 2026. Programme availability changes; check the current booklet for which campus teaches what.
Sources
- IOE B.E./B.Arch Booklet 2083published 7 August 2026 · read 31 August 2026
- IOE at a glance, Tribhuvan Universityread 31 August 2026
Last reviewed by Ram Raj Thapa, Admissions Officer, Imperial College of Engineering. Every figure on this page is cited to the document it came from.
