University of Peradeniya

 

Established in 1942, University of Peradeniya is a non-profit public higher-education institution located in the urban setting of the large town of Peradeniya (population range of 10,000-49,999 inhabitants), Central Province. This institution also has a branch campus in Mahailluppallama and Dodangolla. Officially recognized by the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka. During the last 75 years of its existence at Peradeniya, the University has developed into the largest and most comprehensive university in Sri Lanka. However, its developmental trajectory has traversed a rugged terrain at times. While the challenge of planning, building and moving into a new university in the formative years was met with categorical success, its results could not be achieved fully, mainly due to developments that transpired over the years. The University of Peradeniya has currently emerged as a leading global centre of excellence in education, training, research and outreach. The challenge ahead is to tap this great source of creativity and energy associated with entrepreneurial activity, but in a way that preserves our fundamental mission and values. We need to encourage our tradition of natural evolution, but to do so with greater strategic intent. Instead of continuing to evolve as an unconstrained transactional entrepreneurial culture, we need to guide this process in such a way as to preserve our core missions, characteristics, and values.

The University of Peradeniya hosts nine faculties (including the newly added Management faculty), three postgraduate institutes, 10 centres, 73 departments, and teaches about 12,000 students in the fields of Medicine, Agriculture, Arts, Science, Engineering, Dental Sciences, Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Management and Allied Health Science. It claims to have the largest government endowment by a higher education. These are the faculties in University of Peradeniya:

• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Dental Science
• Faculty of Agriculture
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
• Faculty of Management

 institution in Sri Lanka, based on its large staff and faculties/departmen

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