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The second university to be founded was Mahendra Sanskrit University. The inception of this university was soon followed by Kathmandu University in 1990, and Purbanchal and Pokhara Universities in 1995 and 1996, respectively. Many schools and colleges are run privately but none of the universities in Nepal are private.
Established on 25 June 1959 (or 11 Ashar 2016 BS), [6] Tribhuvan University is the oldest and largest university in Nepal. [7] The university was named after the late King Tribhuvan . In its early years, all the postgraduate classes were held at Tripureshwor Campus, where the administrative office was also located.
Kathmandu University became the first university to host the university-level TEDx event in Nepal. The first iteration of this event/conference was conducted on December 23, 2019, under the tagline ‘Connecting Dots,’ in the central campus premises at Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok.
St. Xavier's College is one of the most prestigious college in Nepal and admission is extremely competitive, especially in the +2 program. Each year more than 13,000 students from all across Nepal apply and 504 students are enrolled for the +2 program (entailing an average acceptance rate under 3.8%). [10]
[citation needed] In around 1952/54 Nepal had 10,000 students in 300 schools and an adult literacy rate of five percent. [ citation needed ] There were 49,000 schools in 2010. [ citation needed ] In 2001, the literacy rate was 48.6% (62.7% for males and 32.9% for females) [ 5 ] which jumped to 71.2% (81% for males and 63.3% for females) in 2021.
Itahari International College (IIC) is an information technology and business college in Sundar Haraicha, Nepal, established in 2017. [2] The college directly partners with London Metropolitan University (London Met) [3] of United Kingdom offering the honorary undergraduate degrees in BA (Hons) in Business Administration and B.Sc. (Hons) in Computing.
The university strength consists of around 1883 undergraduate students, 367 postgraduate students and around 45 PhD scholars in disciplines of agriculture and forestry. The Rampur academic complex extends in an area of 280 hectares (690 acres) and the Hetauda Campus has an area of 95 hectares (230 acres).
Xi'an Jiaotong University consistently features in the top 300 global universities as ranked by the QS World University Rankings, the U.S. News & World Report, the Center for World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities. [29] [30] [31] [32]