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Budhanilkantha School

Nepal, Kathmandu

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The school at a glance
Instructs in English
Fees Fees not listed
Ages 10 - 18 years
Pupil numbers 1100
Type Co-educational, Co-educational (boarding)
Bus Service No
Availability Not shared by this school
Academic offering
Curriculum British Curriculum, Cambridge International AS Levels
Taught languages English, Nepali
Strengths Languages, Academic Enrichment, Outdoor Education
Clubs Academic and Intellectual, Cultural and Language, Leadership and Professional
Stages Elementary, Middle School, High School
Introduction

Budhanilkantha School is a fully residential, co-educational institution located in Kathmandu, Nepal, situated on a 95-acre campus at the base of Shivapuri mountain. Established in 1972 with support from the British Government, the school accepts students from Grades 5 to 12. It follows the National Curriculum of Nepal for earlier grades and provides the Cambridge A-Level program for Grades 11 and 12. All students live on campus in specific residential houses, creating a closely-knit student community. The school grounds include extensive sports fields, modern science laboratories, and a swimming pool. A unique feature of the institution is its substantial scholarship program, which reserves approximately one-third of all places for students from disadvantaged communities across all 77 districts of Nepal, funding their education fully or partially. Students participate heavily in a structured co-curricular program encompassing debating, drama, community service, and various sports.

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Narayanthan - Baaghdwar Rd, Budhanilkantha 44622, Nepal

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The Essentials

Budhanilkantha School has 1,100 pupils, instruction in English.

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Fees
Application and entrance fees

- Application (admission form) charge for fee-paying or scholarship applicants: NPR 100 per form.
- Entrance / test payment for applicants (where required by a given admission round): historically the school has collected a non-refundable entrance-test charge (examples from recent admission notices show an entrance-test charge of NPR 1,000 for some rounds); the school administration later reduced the admission-form charge to NPR 100 and was directed to refund higher charges collected earlier. Parents should expect a small, non-refundable entrance/test charge when applying.

Tuition fees by year group (per term / per year)

- Budhanilkantha School operates scholarship places (government-supported) alongside a limited number of full fee–paying places for Grades 5–12. The school's standard published per-term or per-year tuition rates for full fee–paying students for the 2026/27 academic year are not publicly available in the school's admission notices or official circulars that are published online. The school does publish occasional admission notices specifying which grades have full fee–paying places, but a comprehensive, grade-by-grade tuition schedule (per term and per academic year) could not be located for 2026/27 or 2025/26.

Billing schedule and payment terms

- Application and entrance-test charges are due at the time the application form is submitted or when the entrance-test registration is completed. Historic notices show payment required at form submission and/or when registering for an entrance test.
- For admitted full-fee paying students, the school's billing cadence (for example: termly, half-yearly or annual invoicing) and due-dates for tuition instalments were not published in the public admission notices and circulars located. Expect that education institutions typically require payment at admission and/or at the start of each term, but a definitive Budhanilkantha billing calendar was not found in the public materials.

Boarding fees

- Budhanilkantha School is a boarding school and maintains residential houses for students. A specific published schedule of boarding charges or boarding-fee amounts (per term or per year) for full boarders for the 2026/27 or 2025/26 academic years was not publicly available in the admission notices or circulars reviewed. Parents should note that boarding places exist and that boarding will incur additional charges beyond tuition for full-fee paying students.

Other costs and typical additional charges

- Expect additional, common school-related charges that are frequently applied by secondary schools (these may or may not be levied by Budhanilkantha in any given year): uniform costs, stationery and book charges, internal exam/assessment charges, medical/insurance charges, transport (if available), co-curricular activity fees, and security or development levies for capital projects. No comprehensive, itemised list of these additional charges with amounts for 2026/27 or 2025/26 was located in the publicly posted admission notices.

Refund information

- For admission-form/entrance-test charges: following public complaints, the school reduced its admission-form charge to NPR 100 and the Ministry directed that amounts overcharged previously be returned to guardians who had paid the higher amount. This demonstrates that refunds for specific overcharged admission fees have been made in the past under direction from authorities. There was no published, general tuition-refund policy (for example in cases of withdrawal after admission or term-start) located in the admission notices and public circulars reviewed.

Fee payment options

- Documented payment channels used in recent admission rounds include electronic payment wallets and gateways such as eSewa, connectIPS and Khalti for entrance-test or application payments. Historically, some payments have also been accepted by bank deposit or bank transfer. Specific payment channels accepted for full tuition and boarding invoices (for example: credit card acceptance, international bank transfer, or on-campus cash/cheque) were not listed in a single, public fee schedule. Parents should be prepared to use local electronic payment systems or bank deposit methods when making application or entrance-test payments.
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