What scholarships does IOE give its own students?
Five separate provisions at constituent campuses, sized as percentages of each programme's regular student count: 25% on merit from TU, 20% free tuition, 15% and 10% funded from the full-fee side, and 25% of full-fee students.
These are continuing scholarships for students already enrolled at an IOE constituent campus, not admission discounts, and they are larger than the word "scholarship" usually implies here. The four provisions sized against the regular student count come to 25%, 20%, 15% and 10%, which is 70% between them; since the booklet also forbids holding two at once, up to seven in ten regular students in a programme can be carrying one. A fifth provision covers 25% of the full-fee students admitted. Awards run on the previous semester's results, and on your entrance score in first year. The booklet's own heading for this section is scholarships and medals, and the medal is real.
| Provision | Size | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| (a) | 25% of regular students | Tribhuvan University scholarship, awarded on excellent results |
| (b) | 20% of regular students | Free tuition, equal to the regular programme tuition fee |
| (c) | 15% of regular students | Scholarship funded from the full-fee side, at TU regular rate |
| (d) | 10% of regular students | Free tuition funded from the full-fee side, at TU regular rate |
| (e) | 25% of full-fee students admitted | Scholarship from the full-fee side, on the same basis as (c) |
Scroll the table sideways for What it is.
What is the difference between (a) and (b)?
The booklet uses two different words and they are not synonyms. Provisions (a), (c) and (e) are a scholarship, and (b) and (d) are a free studentship worth the tuition fee. In practice the second is a tuition waiver of a stated size, while the first is an award whose value the booklet does not put a number on. Ask your campus what a given provision is actually worth in rupees before treating it as a discount.
Who pays for them?
Two different sources, which is why the list is five rows rather than one. Provision (a) comes from Tribhuvan University. Provisions (c), (d) and (e) are explicitly funded from the full-fee side, so full-fee students at a constituent campus are partly subsidising regular students at the same campus, as well as receiving provision (e) themselves.
How are they awarded?
On the results of the immediately preceding semester examination. For first year first part, where there is no previous semester, the entrance examination score is the basis. So your entrance rank keeps paying after admission, not just at it.
Three rules that limit them
- A student enjoying one type of scholarship or facility is not given another type. They do not stack.
- None of them go to a student who fails the semester examination.
- All of them are awarded on the recommendation of the scholarship committee.
And two more that are easy to miss
Across all full-fee programmes, one student per admission cohort is given a scholarship to study at the TU regular-equivalent fee. And the section closes with a medal rather than money: the student with the highest marks in the bachelor-level Mechanical Engineering programme at Pulchowk Campus receives a gold medal from the department.
What none of these are
They are not the reserved quota, and the two get planned around together as though they were one benefit. A student admitted under any of IOE’s reservation quotas pays the whole of the fee a regular student pays; the booklet states it in terms. Reservation decides where you are allocated, and section 13 decides who is later awarded money against a semester result. A family can hold one, both or neither, and treating a quota seat as a discount is the single most expensive misreading available in this part of the document.
Do they exist at a private TU-affiliated college?
Not these ones. Section 13 sits in the part of the booklet written for constituent campuses, and the clause that extends the document to affiliated colleges, section 8.6, names only the document checklist, the dual-registration rule and the cancellation and refund provisions. So an affiliated college runs whatever scholarship arrangements it publishes itself, plus the separate obligation to admit a share of its intake at the Regular rate. If a private college describes an award in the language of section 13, ask which document it comes from, because it will not be this one.
Section 13 of the booklet, page 22, whose heading is "scholarships and medals". The 70% figure is the sum of the four regular-side percentages the booklet prints; the booklet does not state that sum itself, and section 13.3 is what makes it a ceiling on students rather than on awards. These are constituent-campus provisions. A TU-affiliated private college runs its own scholarship arrangements and the 10% Regular-rate obligation, which are different things.
Sources
- IOE B.E./B.Arch Booklet 2083published 7 August 2026 · read 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.
