The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in higher education and transformed digital tools from supplementary resources into important mechanisms for educational continuity. This study examines the post-COVID prospects of ICT adoption among students sampled from across Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was used with responses from 54 students selected from different educational settings in the Valley through a random-selection approach. The analysis focuses on perceived benefits, ICT tools used during the pandemic, expected continuity of ICT use, the preferred role of technology in post-COVID education, the reported level of ICT integration, and anticipated future directions. Increased flexibility was the most frequently reported benefit (20 of 54; 37.0%), followed by enhanced access to educational resources (12; 22.2%). Video-conferencing platforms were the dominant tools used during the pandemic (44; 81.5%). A substantial majority of respondents (40; 74.1%) believed that increased ICT use would become the new normal, while more than half (28; 51.9%) identified hybrid learning as the most important future role of ICT. Reported adoption remained transitional: 50.0% indicated only some integration, compared with 28.8% reporting extensive integration and 11.5% reporting full integration. Future expectations were distributed across online/blended learning, virtual and augmented reality, and deeper classroom integration. The findings indicate that post-COVID ICT use among students in Kathmandu Valley has moved beyond emergency remote learning toward a sustained but uneven model of digital and hybrid education.