Our mission
To offer the valley a demanding collegiate education, examined honestly, and to refuse no deserving student on grounds of cost.
About us
Our story
Founded on Kupondole Heights in 1974 to offer demanding collegiate scholarship and character education in Lalitpur.
Who we are
Built on scholarship, discipline, and valley heritage
In 1974, dedicated valley educators and civic trustees founded Kanchenjunga Collegiate School on Kupondole Heights to create an institution devoted to intellectual rigor, moral character, and collegiate discipline.
The founding deed asks for three things: that no deserving student of the valley be turned away on grounds of cost, that examinations be sat in public in the assembly hall, and that the college maintain its integrity through work rather than advertisements. Those principles continue to guide us today.
1,060
Students
9,400
Alumni
What we stand for
Mission, vision and values
Our vision
A school whose leavers are known for finishing what they start — in the examination hall, at university and in service.
Our values
Sapientia et virtus. Scholarship before fashion, work handed in on time and marked in ink, and a place in a house for life.
Our Motto
“Sapientia et Virtus”
Wisdom and virtue
Message from management
Meet our leaders
Principal
“We are not interested in being modern. We are interested in being right.”
Principal since 2021 and a master of physics here since 2008. He has read the roll at every morning assembly he has been present for.
Prof. Hari Bahadur Rai
Principal
Vice Principal, Academic
“Marking is teaching. If it comes back without ink on it, nothing has happened.”
Oversees the two internal examination series and the tutorial system. Joined the English department in 2001.
Mrs Kamala Sherpa
Vice Principal, Academic
Our journey
The college year by year
- 1974
Foundation on Kupondole Heights
Sixty-three students, four masters and the historic red-brick collegiate hall overlooking the Bagmati.
- 1976
Girls admitted
The first twelve girls join Grade 6; the house system is redrawn around them.
- 1994
The science block
Three laboratories and the observatory, funded entirely by alumni subscription.
- 2011
The higher secondary
NEB Grades 11 and 12 open with Science and Management; Humanities follows in 2015.
Our team
The faculty and the office
Ninety-two masters and staff. The heads of each division, and the people who run the college.
Leadership
Prof. Hari Bahadur Rai
Principal
Mrs Kamala Sherpa
Vice Principal, Academic
Dhan Kumar Subba
College Registrar
Higher Secondary
Anil Gurung
Coordinator, Science stream
Pratibha Rai
Coordinator, Management stream
Senior School
Laxmi Prasad Dahal
Head of Mathematics
Bishnu Maya Tamang
Head of Science
Ram Kumar Limbu
Head of Nepali
Junior School
Sushila Shrestha
Head of Junior School
Alumni
Old Kanchenjungans
Nine thousand four hundred on the register. A few of the names the college is asked about most.
Dr Anjana Subba
Class of 2004
Consultant physicianTeaching hospital, Dharan
“What the college gave me was the habit of finishing things. I have not found a better thing to be given.”
Nabin Rai
SEE batch 1998
Hydropower engineerKoshi Province
“The Saturday tutorials taught me to argue with a problem until it gave in. I still work that way.”
Mingma Sherpa
Class of 2011
Conservation ArchitectPatan Heritage Trust, Lalitpur
“The drawing and geometry classes in the old quadrangle taught me to appreciate traditional Newar architecture.”
Sunita Limbu
Class of 2009
Lecturer in EnglishKathmandu
“Every essay came back covered in ink. I mark my own students the same way.”