The Department of Finance and the Finance Students' ...
A ceremony to honour the retired members ...
New Year Festival of the University - 2013 ...WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA
The University of Kelaniya is committed to provide high quality education and to conduct high impact research which will contribute significantly to the enhancement of existing knowledge in various fields of Humanities, Medicine, Science, Social Sciences, Commerce & Management and to the development of the country.
It was established in 1959 as the Vidyalankara University of Sri Lanka and was the successor of Vidyalankara Pirivena, established in 1875, which was one of the highly reputed tertiary education institutes committed to monastic education.
As such, 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, Buddhist 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 academic departments. It caters to about 8,000 internal students and around 30,000 external degree students. The staff consists of about 600 academics and 650 non-academic staff members.
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH
The University of Kelaniya recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka to collaborate in the area of information technology. Under this MoU, the Department of Industrial Management, University of Kelaniya will engage its academics and students to address information technology related needs
2nd International Conference on Social Sciences
The Conference will be hosted by the Research Centre for Social Sciences (RCSS) of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Kelaniya on 22-23rd November, 2013 at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Social Sciences being a meeting place for a wide variety of disciplines, the Conference will provide a forum for academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners and other interested people to ...
In The Spotlight
Palm Leaf Manuscript Study and Research Library is a digital library project of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Library preserves palm leaf manuscripts found in Sri Lanka through digitization.
