Architecture vanera confuse na hauuu just read thissss
If you're filling your IOE Architecture priority form, read this before you regret or be proud after 5 years.
(EDIT: One who is confused can cmt here)
Nobody warns you because by the time they realize it, they're already too deep.
When I filled my priority form, I thought the entrance exam was the hardest part. It wasn't. The real commitment begins after your name appears on the merit list.
5 years. 10 semesters. Around NPR 7 lakh in total IOE fee alone for many Full Fee students which isn't properly mention on fee structure or it's more like for B.E fee structure only. And admission fee is 2.18 lakh you can check properly in yt videos also.
And that's before the money starts disappearing on A1 prints, foam boards, MDF, acrylic sheets, model materials, site visits, hard and eventually a laptop that can survive AutoCAD, Revit, and rendering software. But our course is more paper or traditional based & almost 95% students can't compete with international student.
Do the math. That's not a course. That's a financial commitment.
Then comes studio.
You'll spend six hours fixing a drawing just to hear, "Start again."
You'll build a model until 3 AM.
You'll watch weeks of work get torn apart in a 10 min jury.
Not because your effort wasn't real.
Because that's how studio works.
Now ask the question nobody asks during admission.
What happens after graduation?
Nepal has expanded architecture education across multiple colleges. Every year, more graduates enter the market, but good jobs don't grow at the same speed. Many fresh architects still begin around NPR 20,000–35,000 per month, depending on their firm and skills & again I need to work for more 5 6 years to fit the market but international student are already ready for market after their college.
And don't hide behind campus names.
KU has brilliant students.
Thapathali has brilliant students.
Other colleges have brilliant students too.
Look at Asian Paints Kaleidoscope winners and finalists have come from different campuses. Employers don't frame your admission rank on their office wall. They ask for your portfolio.
So before you lock your priority form, calculate the deal honestly.
5 years.
Around 7 lakh in IOE campus fees.
More on studio expenses.
100 of sleepless nights.
No guaranteed high-paying job.
If you still choose Architecture after knowing all that, you're choosing the profession YOU are best fit for it.
If you didn't know any of this before today
that's exactly the problem( I can conform you also that may be you are choosing ARCHITECTURE because you are good at painting and sketching & are from physical group)
But Architecture is not just about art only its one pillar of it but mathematics is also needed & geometry knowledge also
Every architecture padhey vai baini haru confuse xan but now I'm fkdup why top student aren't joining architecture now. In my time also their is good competition not now why it's competition is being low quality.