page_title: Mechi Multiple Campus
section_title: Academics
hierarchical_section_title: Mechi Multiple Campus / Academics
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of mechi multiple campus
context_page_description: Mechi Multiple Campus is a constituent campus of Tribhuvan University in Bhadrapur municipality of Jhapa district. Founded in 1964, it is the only constituent campus of Tribhuvan University in the district. As of August 2017, 126 academic and 54 administrative staffs were employed at the college. The college administration is headed by Jeevan Pokharel, who replaced Kamal Guragain as the Campus Chief on 7 April 2020.
  To begin with, the college offered an Intermediate of Arts program in humanities, which was soon followed by undergraduate programs. At present, the college runs undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The intermediate programs were fully scrapped in 2010, following Tribhuvan University's decision to phase out Proficiency Certificate Level programs from its colleges. This termination of PCL programs brought about a sharp decline in the number of students at the college. In its heyday, the college had about 5,000 students. Today the number is around 1,800. The college gained institutional autonomy on 19 May 2017. The college received the Quality Assurance and Accreditation certification from the University Grants Commission on 6 March 2019.
context_section_description: The college offers the following undergraduate and postgraduate programs:
  Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics | Mathematics | Statistics | Chemistry | Zoology | Botany | Environmental Science | Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT)
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mathematics | Economics | Anthropology | Culture | English | Nepali | History | Political Science
  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
  Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)
  Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)
  Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS)
  Master of Arts (MA) in Nepali | Economics | English | Anthropology
  Master of Business Studies (MBS)
  Between 2068 and 2074 BS, Mechi Multiple Campus offered a unique program called Bachelor of Science in Tea Technology and Management (BScTTM), being the only college in the country to offer an undergraduate tea course. A large part of Nepal’s tea industry is based in eastern Nepal, particularly in Jhapa and Ilam districts, and the program was offered with the aim of availing the requirement of qualified and skilled human resource in the tea sector. Despite the enormous potential, the tea management course failed to attract students, with the enrollment dropping drastically from 23 students in the first batch to just 6 in the third batch. The decrease in the number of students was attributed partly to the ineffective publicity of the academic course and partly to the uncertainties looming over its prospects. The program was eventually dropped in 2074 BS.
  On 29 December 2016, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) raided six colleges in Jhapa, including Mechi Multiple Campus, as per the complaints lodged at the anti-graft body that some of the professors of public colleges were teaching in private colleges alongside. Umanath Oli – the then-chief at Mechi Multiple Campus – was reported to have admitted that some professors had invested in private colleges and took classes there. He claimed that they had been doing so before the provision of requiring approval from the university monitoring commission came into effect.
caption: Science block of Mechi Multiple Campus (2015)
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