Kathmandu, Oct. 29 -- As many as 176 foreign students will sit Nepal's integrated entrance examination for medical education this year, as the country continues to struggle to attract international students despite reserving a third of its medical education seats for them.

According to the Medical Education Commission, students from India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, and other countries will take the examination, which begins Saturday. According to Arjun Dhakal, information officer at the commission, the examination will be held at 269 centres across 78 venues in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Bhaktapur.

For the 2027 academic session, a total of 9,691 seats have been allocated across 16 medical education programmes. A total of 77,359 students h...