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Pashchimanchal Campus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7988222 ↗
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Pashchimanchal Campus (Nepali: पश्चिमाञ्चल क्याम्पस) previously known as Western Regional Campus (WRC) is the third and one of the five constituent engineering campuses under Institute of Engineering of Tribhuvan University. Paschimanchal campus is specialized for geomatics engineering in the context of Nepal and is the only TU campus to have this program at the bachelor's and master's level.

Located in Pokhara, the capital of Gandaki Province the campus was established in 1981 A.D. to develop middle level manpower in the field in different fields engineering which upgraded its programs to bachelor and master level along the course of time.

Location

Pashchimanchal Campus is in Lamachaur, Pokhara the capital city of Gandaki Province.

History

Established in 1981 AD, Pashchimanchal Campus became operational in 1987 AD under the assistance of World Bank and ILO/UNDP. While diploma courses ran till 2011, it was discontinued as TU phased out such courses and currently only bachelor and masters programs are operational.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pashchimanchal Campus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.