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Far Western University (FWU) was established in 2010 by an Act of the Parliament of Nepal, is a government-funded national university to serve as a prime academic institution in the country, focusing on academic excellence, research-based education, community engagement, and partnerships. The Prime Minister of Nepal is its Chancellor.
The central office ofthe university is in Bhimdatta Municipality, Kanchanpur District, within the Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. The strategic location of the university central campus and its constituent campuses at the Far West province gives access to local people to higher education and provides an opportunity for the overall development of the region.
FWU has been fulfilling its responsibility of making higher education accessible to the people of this region through its constituent campuses in the nine districts of Far West Province. In addition to its constituent campuses FWU has granted affiliation to 31 private college across Nepal. Adopting the principle of the "right toeducation and accessibility of higher education to deserving students, "Far Western University has been delivering diverse educational programs, both in undergraduate and graduate level, through nine faculties including Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Management, Science and Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Law, Natural resource management, Health science. Theuniversity follows a semester academic calendar. The undergraduate courses and graduate courses of the university are of four-year duration and two-year duration respectively. The university has started MPhil and PhD research degrees since February 2021.
Far Western University is engaged in introducing new curricula, revisiting pedagogy, strengthening the existing academic programs, diversifying bachelor’s degree programs and introducing course-based MPhil and PhD degrees. To move forward in achieving academic excellence and becoming one of the best institutions in the nation, acomprehensive strategic document has been prepared to support the mission andvision of the university.
Currently, Far WesternUniversity has a total of 667 staff (466 teaching and 201 non- teaching) from different academic backgrounds and diverse geographical locations. About 18299 students from different academic and socio-economic backgrounds and especially from the diverse geography of nine districts of the Far Western region are studying in the various faculties at the Far Western University. It has also signed MoU with different national and international academic institutions, Universities, local and provincial governmental organizations and international research and development organizations like IIT Roorkee (India),Jeonbuk National University (Korea) and others.