Beauty of UoK

University of Kelaniya is one of best and oldest university in Sri Lanka with proud history. The university is consisting many facilities with good quality. But I believe there is a beauty beyond all the facilities and university standards. That beauty comes from every where in the country with different talents and skills. The beauty belongs to the students who come to the university.

History of the University

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.

Motto - පඤ්ඤාය පරිසුජ්ඣති [Wisdom by Cleansed]

As I remembered there were many glamorous evenings in Dharmaloka hall. I was lucky to went few of them and those were the one of best part in my Uni life. Because I believe that there is no such a university with multi-talented students. 

සත් සයුරු ගැඹ පුරා දිවෙන ජීවනාලියේ හුස්මට උර දෙන්නට....

නුඹ දරන මේ වෑයම තවත් නෙත් දහසක් පාදන්නට...

නුඹට දිරිය ලැබේවා සරසවි මවුනි මා දයාබර!!