Search for what a Nepali consultancy charges and the results collapse into company-registration content — the cost of registering a consultancy, not the cost of using one. That gap is why we treat a published fee as a ranking factor on this directory.
A range of roughly NPR 15,000 to 45,000 circulates for consultancy service fees. We hold that figure loosely: it rests on a single secondary source, and it is not a market benchmark. Treat it as a rough sense of scale rather than a number to negotiate against.
We are collecting primary fee data by asking consultancies directly and publishing it per listing. Where a consultancy has not disclosed a fee, we record that plainly rather than leaving the field blank.
Three costs are not the consultancy’s to charge. The No Objection Certificate is a government fee of NPR 2,000. The English test fee is paid to British Council, IDP or Pearson directly. The institution’s own application fee, where one exists, belongs to the institution. A consultancy may help you pay any of these, but bundling them into an undifferentiated total makes comparison impossible, which is usually the point.
The Educational Consultancy, Language and Preparation Classes Regulations 2026 require all transactions to run through the banking system and prohibit cash-only operation. In practice that means you should receive a receipt for every payment. A consultancy that wants cash without paperwork is breaching the rules, and you have no record if the relationship goes wrong.
Ask for a written quotation that separates the service fee from government and third-party costs, and ask what happens to the fee if your application is refused. Consultancies are now liable to compensate students left stranded or placed with fraudulent institutions, so a refund policy is a reasonable thing to ask about before you sign.
A reported range of roughly NPR 15,000 to 45,000 circulates, though that rests on a single secondary source and should be treated as indicative only. Fee data in this market is poor, which is why publishing a fee improves a consultancy’s position on this directory.
No. The No Objection Certificate costs NPR 2,000 and is paid to the Ministry of Education. A consultancy should not mark it up or bundle it invisibly.
No. The 2026 regulations require transactions through the banking system and prohibit cash-only operation. Always get a receipt.