List of universities in Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka, university education is strictly controlled by the government. Therefore all the "degree-granting-universities", and most "degree-granting-institutes" in Sri Lanka are government owned or funded. However autonomous in theory, only a very few institutes are truly autonomous.

Most of the state universities depend on funds given by the University Grants Commission (UGC), as it is their primary and sometimes only source of funding. Therefore the UGC has a great influence over these universities and administer the undergraduate intake. There are 16 such universities. The UGC itself comes under the Ministry of Higher Education.

A few other institutes exists which are owned by the government but function interdependently, the prominent of these is the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), coming under the Ministry of Science & Technology. [http://www.most.gov.lk/aboutus.php Institutions that come within the purview of the Science and Technology Ministry] ] The General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy was a similar institute but has since been classed as a State University.

State Universities

;University Grants Commission
*University of Ceylon (dissolved in the 1978 to establish the University of Colombo and the University of Peradeniya.)
*University of Colombo [http://www.cmb.ac.lk/]
*University of Peradeniya
*University of Sri Jayewardenepura [http://www.sjp.ac.lk]
*University of Kelaniya [http://www.kln.ac.lk]
*University of Moratuwa [http://www.mrt.ac.lk]
*University of Jaffna
*University of Ruhuna
*Open University, Sri Lanka [http://www.ou.ac.lk]
*Eastern University of Sri Lanka
*Rajarata University of Sri Lanka [http://www.rjt.slt.lk]
*Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka [http://www.sab.ac.lk]
*Uva Wellassa University [http://www.uwu.ac.lk]
*Wayamba University of Sri Lanka [http://www.wyb.ac.lk]
*South Eastern University of Sri Lanka [http://www.seu.ac.lk]
*University of the Visual & Performing Arts

;Ministry of Education
*Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka
*Buddhasravaka Bhiksu University

;Ministry of Defense
*General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University

Other Degree Granting Institutions

;Graduate & Undergraduate Degrees
*Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology [http://www.sliit.lk]

;Only Undergraduate Degrees
*Institute of Technological Studies
*Institute of Surveying and Mapping
*Aquinas College of Higher Studies [http://www.ugc.ac.lk/about_us/Annual%20reports/AR%202005%20English/003_Report.pdf "University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka, Annual Report 2005, Page 26"] ]
*National Institute of Social Development

Public/Autonomous Postgraduate Institutes

*Postgraduate Institute of Management, Colombo [http://www.pim.lk]
*Postgraduate Institute of Archeology, Colombo
*Postgraduate Institute of English, Colombo

References

ee also

*Education in Sri Lanka
*List of colleges and universities by country
*List of colleges and universities