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A one year masters is why most Nepali students choose the UK. It is the shortest route to a foreign postgraduate degree anywhere, which makes it the cheapest in total even though the yearly figure looks high. The part that catches families out is not the tuition. It is that the Home Office asks you to prove you already hold a specific amount of money, in one account, untouched for twenty eight days, and it publishes that figure to the pound.
£1,171 per month for 9 months outside London (£10,539), or £1,529 in London (£13,761), + unpaid tuition for year one
The money must sit in the account for 28 consecutive days, ending no more than 31 days before you apply.
Source: UKVI maintenance requirement, 2025-26 academic year onwards. Check the current figure on the government's own site before you rely on it; it changes, and a page is not an authority.
These are ranges for planning, not a quote. Once you hold an offer letter, type your own tuition into the calculator and ignore the middle column.
| Lower | Typical | Higher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuition, masters, per year | £14,000NPR 24.9 lakh | £19,000NPR 33.8 lakh | £32,000NPR 57.0 lakh |
| Tuition, bachelors, per year | £12,000NPR 21.4 lakh | £17,000NPR 30.3 lakh | £26,000NPR 46.3 lakh |
| Tuition, diploma, per year | £9,000NPR 16.0 lakh | £12,000NPR 21.4 lakh | £16,000NPR 28.5 lakh |
| Living, per year | £9,500NPR 16.9 lakh | £12,500NPR 22.3 lakh | £18,000NPR 32.0 lakh |
| One offvisa fee, immigration health surcharge, flight | £524 visa · £776 a year · NPR 85,000 flight from Kathmandu | ||
Converted at £1 = NPR 178, set August 2026. Rates move; the calculator uses the same figures and shows the date it was last updated.
Put your own numbers inDated backwards from the intake, because that is the only fixed point. The step people leave too late is marked.
The maintenance money must sit in the account for 28 consecutive days, and the closing balance on your statement must be no more than 31 days old when you apply. A transfer that arrives on day 20 restarts the clock. So does the balance dipping below the required figure for one day. This is the single most common avoidable refusal on UK files from Nepal, and it is entirely a matter of planning the dates.
Most UK universities interview Nepali applicants before issuing a CAS, and UKVI may interview again. The questions are not hard: why this course, why this university, who is paying, what you intend to do afterwards. What fails is a student who cannot explain, in their own words, a statement somebody else wrote for them. If your personal statement uses vocabulary you would not use out loud, it is working against you.
Having the amount is not the same as evidencing it. A large deposit shortly before the 28 day window, from someone whose relationship and income are not documented, reads as borrowed for the application. Land sold, a loan sanctioned, a relative abroad: all of these are fine, and all of them need paperwork that traces the money back to something real.
A commerce graduate applying for a hospitality diploma is asked to explain the jump, and the explanation has to be about your career rather than about the fees. The UK looks harder at this than it used to, particularly where a masters is a step sideways from a bachelors in the same subject.