Development of management education is fairly new phenomenon in Nepal. Within a life of
about six decades it has witnessed many important developmental phases. As of 2009/10 a total
of 568 institutions are providing higher education in management and the number is expected to
increase further as Nepal has adopted multi-university policy and invited private sectors and
communities to invest in education development. With the increasing global competitiveness
because of globalization and technological advancement, management education in Nepal is
struggling meet the standard. This paper analyzes status and spatial distribution of management
institutions and gender diversity of management students in Nepal. The results conclude that
management institutions are confined in the central region, dominated by private sectors in
numbers of institutions while public institutions hold more than 80 percent students and gender
disparity is decreasing but still males are dominating