University Of Kelaniya

Welcome to our university

The university of kelaniya is committed to provide high quality education and to conduct high impact research which will contribute significantly to enhancement of existing knowledge in various fields of humanities , medicine , science , social science , commerce and management and to the development of the country .

History of our university

It was established in 1959 as the Vidyalanakara University of Sri Lanka and was the successor of Vidyalankara Pirirwena , established in 1875 , which was one of the highly reputed tertiary education institutes committed to monastic education.

As such as the University of Kelaniya is one of the oldest institutes of higher education in Sri Lanka. Although only few subject areas such as languages , geography ,budhist studies , philosophy, and economics were taught at the beginning ,today the university of kelaniya teaches more than 60 subjects and consists of 6 faculties with 44 departments. It caters to about 8000 internal students and around 30000 external degree students. The stuff consists of about 600 academics and 650 non-academic staff members.

Some Faculties provide by University