Are students at ICA getting an affordable deal on degrees?
Education is an investment for future. But, college education degree in Nepal is often an important financial decision for most households. In Nepal, college education is usually financed through family funds and sometimes through personal savings of learners themselves. Financial pressures arising from the cost of education is linked with poor performance of students in studies, including lower grades and loss of interest in studies.
Degree vs Inflation in Nepal
Inflation in Nepal has a really incremental effect on the education sector that has sharply reflected over the prices of the education sector, especially in privately funded educational institutions. Furthermore, the lack of proper public financing in education such as scholarships, student loans, etc. still remains a distant affair in the Nepalese education diaspora.
Just to let you know there were 777 private campuses in Nepal in 2019 and the numbers are definitely growing. You definitely have to pay for tuition, admissions and other academic costs such as books and study aid. If you are a traveling student, there is yet another huge cost of living and board, plus both internal and outside transportation. Don’t forget the food you eat and the skyrocketing food and energy prices.
With rise of abroad education and financial benefit it attracts to students. Student tends to forget the cost multiplies exponentially. And aids in Inflation as well and labor shortage in small country like Nepal. If you want to study abroad, costs of travel, medical insurances, visa fees, social security among others are must when studying abroad.
Thankfully though institutions such as International Centre for Academics (ICA) are there to provide better options and alternatives to help you achieve your dream career and degrees and to relieve you from this worry.
Affordable Bachelor/master's degree in Nepal?
Well, what if you knew that you could choose to study your desired course for a really affordable amount and that just too without having to attend classes physically? Well, it is possible, and the answer is distance blended learning in Nepal. Where you can choose to study at your own pace and time. ICA is affiliated with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is one of the world’s largest universities offering distance learning courses globally. It would be a safe investment and the most cost-effective way to enroll in one of such courses today.
On an average an undergraduate/bachelor's level degree in Nepali private institution would cost you around 4 lakh rupees and a Bachelor/Master’s degree in Nepal would cost at least 7 lakh rupees but at the ICA, the same are offered for an average of 1 lakh 50 thousand and 2 lakh rupees respectively. If you look at it, ICA is at least 40% cheaper than degrees offered by other institutions in Nepal, depending upon your course of interest. Add to that the degrees of Indira Gandhi National Open University are recognized and accepted globally for career and academic purpose too.
Along with being affordable these courses are flexible and self-paced. At the same, distance learning is also gaining high popularity today because of the fact that courses can be accessed from anywhere, whether it be your office table or it be the comfort of your own homes, course materials are available both online and offline. This saves up a lot of financial resources for the learners.