Department of Gender Studies: Tribhuvan University

The Department of Gender Studies, formerly known as the Central Department of Gender Studies, is an academic division of Tribhuvan University's (TU) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Post Graduate Diploma in Women's Studies, which had been offered since 1996, gave rise to the Master of Gender Studies in July 2009. In 2024, the department received an upgrading to Central Department status.

Gender, feminism, gender and development, human rights, social justice, and multidisciplinary research are the department's main areas of interest. In order to prepare graduates for careers in research, policy development, gender advocacy, development organisations, government agencies, and academia, it currently offers M.A. and PhD programs in gender studies.