UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA

UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA

VISION OF THE UNIVERSITY:

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

MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY:

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

HISTORY

The origin of university kelaniya , in 1875 founded as a Vidyalanka Pirivena center of learning buddhist monks.and became a national center of tradional learning. in 1940 & 1950 s srilanka has established new modern universities in srilanka. and Vidyalanka pirivena became a Vidyalanka university in 1959.later in 1972 known as a vidyalanka campus university of ceylon. and finally in 1978 became a UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA . 

In 1966 , first female student entered in university. and specially in 1967 faculty of science was started

after 1975 vidyalanka moved to dalugama from peliyagoda. and in 1996 university has banned raging.Today, the University of Kelaniya is one of the popular national University.earlier univeersity has a two major campuses and seven locations , six faculties and four institutions. after splendeid development of university took new higher educations.one of the first university started lecturing science in sinhala.

n kelaniya university tradional arts faculty restructure into three main faculties of Humanities, social science , commerceand management.and not only these but also there are some unique department in this university such as ,faculty of computer studies, botany, chemistry,indusrial management, mathematics, microbiology,physical,statistic, zoology, software engineering and department of english tesching unit too.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.

Kelaniya university include other resources to their students,such as sports ,ict center ,mass library section,and medical center for medical purposes,

Sports are well prepared and organized by the university ; cricket, football,batminton, elle ,rugby , karate, chess, carom, volleball , etc

there many lanquage studies here, a strong base in modern languages, including the teaching of Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, Tamil, and Modern Linguistics.

part from the education and sports there are some programmes too.such as career quide unit,student council,and physiacal education.The Department of Physical Education provides a wide range of Sports and Recreation programmes for the benefit of internal students of the University. These activities are supported by some of the best sport facilities in the University System in Sri Lanka.

vice chancellor; mr D.M. semasinghe

Duputy vice chancellor;

                    Mrlakshman senavirathna

science faculty dean;

                      Mrs. bimali jayawardhana

               SERVICES

• Career Guidance Unit
• Centre for Heritage Studies
• Center for Chinese Studies
• Centre of Excellence for Strategic Brand Identity Development (CESBID)
• Centre for Gender Studies
• Centre for Japanese Studies
• Centre for Korean Studies
• Center for Sustainability Solutions (CSS)
  
  
• Confucius Institute
• EDCON
• Extracurricular Unit
• ICCMS
• ICT Centre
• Media Unit
• Quality Assurance Centre
• Research Council
• Staff Development Centre
• Statistics & Data Monitoring Unit
• Technology and Innovation Support Centre
• Arts Council
• The Samkathana Research Centre

OTHER FACILITIES

• Peoples’ Bank is located very close to the university. It gives students with banking facilities and Mahapola scholarships. A  post office is located in the university premises to provide postal services of students.
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  Medical Centre, a newly opened Open Air Theatre and an herbal and fruit garden with rare herbals.
  
  
   In kelaniya university there are good facilities among the all classrooms . and well chemistry labs ,ict center

more than three canteens with healthy foods in low cost of ammount for students.

LIBRARY

Hostel facilities;

hostel facilities are only for limited number of students who lives in long distance apart from universities.hostel with wifi facility good contional bedroom,bathroom too

students who doesn't obtain hostel they may have other facility like season ticket , or other helps that will give by university.The entrance fee to the hostel is Rs.100.00.In addition to that, hostel fee for an academic year is Rs.500.00.In case of first year students they have to pay additional Rs. 500.00 as refundable deposit.At the beginning of every academic year, hostel committee is appointed under the leadership of the warden. Reporting of welfare of the students and forwarding recommendations to the warden are the responsibilities of such committees. The wardens and full time sub wardens of the student hostels are given below. 

Kiriwaththuduwe Sri Pangnasara Hostel (For Clergy)
Warden:
Rev. L. Piyarathna Thero
Full Time Sub Warden:
Mr. S.P. Indika Pushpa Kumara


Dr. C.W.W. Kannangara Hostel (Boys’ Hostel)
Warden:
Prof. R.L. Piyadasa
Mr. Manoj Jinadasa
Full Time Sub Warden:
Mr. I.R.P. Wijewardena

Yakkaduwe Pangnasara Hostel (Boys’ Hostel)
Warden:
Dr. U.P.K. Epa
Dr. S. M.G.K. Samakoon
Full Time Sub Warden:
Mr. Senarath Ranasinghe

Medical center

The University medical center

Is organized to help the students of the University to lead an active life free from disease. all service are perfectly organized and  All registered students are welcometo free consultations, free medicinal drugs and laboratory service. The Health Service is set up mainly for students, but staff both academic and non-academic can make use of the service.