University of Kelaniya

                                           University of Kelaniya has a very proud history. It is situated at dalugama, kelaniya Sri Lanka.So many valuble characters are born to the world by this university. Now adays there are more than 16000 undergraduate students are studying at university of kelaniya.
                                           The University of Kelaniya has its origin in the historic Vidyalankara Pirivena, founded in 1875 by Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera as a centre of learning for Buddhist monks.With the establishment of modern universities in Sri Lanka in the 1940s and 1950s, the
Vidyalankara Pirivena became the Vidyalankara University in 1959, later the Vidyalankara Campus of the University of Ceylon in 1972, and, ultimately, the University of Kelaniya in 1978.
                                           The University of Kelaniya has pioneered a number of new developments in higher education. It was one of the first universities to begin teaching science in Sinhala and the first to restructure the traditional Arts Faculty into three faculties: Humanities, Social Sciences,
and Commerce and Management.
                                           It has several departments not generally found in the Sri Lankan University system and some Kelaniya innovations have been adopted
subsequently by other universities. These include the Departments of Industrial Management and Microbiology in the Faculty of Science;
                                           Departments of Linguistics, Fine Arts, Modern Languages and Hindi in the Faculty of Humanities; and Mass Communication and Library and
Information Sciences in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
                                           Now a days University of Kelaniya is in the 3rd place among the Universities in Sri Lanka and world rank is 2691.

Present days there are 7 faculties in University of kelaniya.

•  Commerce & Management
•  Computing and Technology
•  Graduate Studies
•  Humanities
•  Medicine
•  Science
•  Social Sciences  

                               

And there are 45 Departments in University of Kelaniya. Which are under those faculties

• Accountancy (DoA)
• Anatomy
• Archaelogy
• Bio-Chemistry & Clinical Chemistry
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Commerce and Financial Management (DCFM)
• Disability Studies
• Economics
• English
• Family Medicine
• Finance (DFin)
• Fine Arts
• Forensic Medicine
• Geography
• Hindi Studies
• History
• Human Resource Management (HRM)
• Industrial Management
• Library and Information Science
• Linguistics
• Marketing Management (DMM)
• Mass Communication
• Mathematics
• Medical Microbiology
• Medicine
• Microbiology
• Modern Languages
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Paediatrics
• Pali & Buddhist Studies
• Parasitology
• Pathology
• Pharmacology
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Physiology
• Public Health
• Sanskrit
• Sinhala
• Sociology
• Statistics & Computer Science
• Surgery
• Western Classical Culture & Christian Culture
• Zoology

                          The vision of university of kelaniya 

To become a centre of excellence in creation and dissemination of knowledge for sustainable development.

                         The mission of univeresity of  kelaniya 

To nurture intellectual citizens through creativity and innovation, who contribute to the national development.



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 is surrounded in very beautiful environment and it is very peaceful place for our
studies.It is my fortune to get a chance to study in this university for my higher education.