Bachelor of Civil and Rural Engineering

• Four-and-a-half-year engineering program integrating civil-engineering fundamentals with rural development, infrastructure planning, and resource-management competencies.

• Addresses rural poverty, infrastructure gaps, agricultural linkages, and community-level engineering needs.
• Combines civil-engineering disciplines—structures, hydraulics, transportation, geotech—with rural-focused planning, socio-economic understanding, and technology deployment.
• Trains engineers capable of designing, implementing, and evaluating rural development projects with technical rigor.

Features
• Duration: 4 years 6 months
• Integrates engineering, agriculture-related infrastructure, and rural development concepts
• Balanced theoretical, laboratory, and field-based learning
• Eligibility for NEC engineer registration after graduation
• Designed to supply technical manpower for rural development systems

Fee
• Tentative: NPR 623,000

Admission process
• Grade 12 Science with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (minimum 45% or GPA 2.0)
• Minimum grade C (or A-level D) in PCM
• Mathematics (100 marks) required in Grade 11 or 12
• Pokhara University entrance exam mandatory
• Merit-based selection at participating colleges

Job prospects
• Government agencies engaged in rural infrastructure and community development
• Development organizations working in rural engineering, livelihood enhancement, and resource management
• Agro-industry projects requiring infrastructure planning and engineering support
• Rural credit institutions and programs involving technical evaluation of projects
• Conventional civil-engineering sectors: roads, bridges, water supply, irrigation, construction, geo-technical works