Established in 1959, Nepal's leading and oldest public institution for higher education, Tribhuvan University (TU) offers graduate (Master, MPhil, and PhD) and undergraduate (Bachelor) programs in four faculties and five institutes with 7,966 professors and 7,230 support staff, in records of 2021/22. Through teaching, research and scholarship, the world's largest university in terms of number of students, with 4,60,632 students in total, has been preparing the top-level experts and specialists, technocrats and bureaucrats, teachers and professors, leaders and politicians, and ultimately ideal citizens with a high level civic sense and cultural awareness.