Padma Kanya Campus

Padma Kanya Campus is a women’s college and was founded on 17^th September 1951. Located at Bagbazar, Kathmandu, the campus is the oldest institution of its kind in Nepal. The campus has a proud history of more than five decades and throughout the years, it has stood for providing quality education to females, enabling them to combat every plight and issues which they encounter in their every-day life within the Nepalese society as well as around the world. The qualified team of Padma Kanya  have dedicated themselves to produce skilled and efficient human resources by providing quality education in order to face the challenges that are regularly experienced by the nation.

“Quality Education for Women Empowerment” is the motto of the institution. Living up to this motto, PK Campus has been producing competitive and well qualified professional females throughout its history. Being the only Government Girls’ Campus in Nepal that undertakes the responsibility to empower the females, the college hosts a skilled, knowledgeable, and renowned faculty with enormous experience and offers job-specific professional degrees with practical implications on the real-time social environment. Moreover, the college also conducts seminars, workshops, field visits and other such research activities to build up quality leadership in women.

Padma Kanya Campus offers the courses in Management, Science, Humanitarian and Social fields for the Bachelor’s and Master’s level. Under Bachelors' level, BBA, BSc, BA Humanities and Social Sciences are taught and under masters' level Management , Humanities and Social Sciences are taught. There are also exclusive course which are taught in  padma kanya, They are Master Program for Women (Food and Nutrition, Child Development and Gender Sensitization) and Women Studies (One Year Postgraduate Program).

Why PK Campus ?

Padma Kanya  is the only government college in Nepal that enrolls only female students. It is clear that the college has taken the responsibility to empower the girl students of Nepal. PK college offers spacious playground, classroom, hostel, canteen, well-equipped laboratories and library. In order to provide high quality education, it has recruited experienced and professional teaching faculty that helps to reach the goals of the students. The academic facility is accompanied by seminars, field visits, workshops, and various women's leadership related programs.

Facilities

The college has more than 50 spacious class rooms with four big halls in Ratna Deep Bhawan and two halls (Sagarmatha hall and Danish hall) in Maitri Bhawan that facilitate seminars and workshop programs. Besides this, the college also has a separate new hostel that provides accommodation for 200 students who come from outside of Kathmandu Valley. All indispensable facilities are provided along with standard accommodation and hygienic food at an affordable price. The hostel students, however, must abide by strict rules that are regulated by the experienced female hostel warden.

Padma Kanya Campus also has computer labs with internet facility where the researches can be done, and a library with all the necessary books, and other materials for higher education. There is a canteen that serves healthy food at reasonable cost and various sports fields/halls for extra-curricular activities during breaks and refreshments as well. Moreover, PK Campus offers field studies and workshops along with internship programs for the graduates who wish to gain experience in their line of work. All these reasons make PK Campus one of the most esteemed institutions for higher education of women in the country.