Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another.
This is a list of universities in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, university education is strictly controlled by the government. Therefore all the degree-granting-universities, and most degree-granting-institutes in Sri Lanka are government owned or funded. However autonomous in theory, only a very few institutes are truly autonomous.
Most of the state universities depend on funds given by the University Grants Commission (UGC), as it is their primary and sometimes only source of funding. Therefore the UGC has a great influence over these universities and administer the undergraduate intake. There are 16 such universities. The UGC itself comes under the Ministry of Higher Education.
A few other institutes exists which are owned by the government but function interdependently, the prominent of these is the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), coming under the Ministry of Science & Technology. The General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy was a similar institute but has since been classed as a State University.
Detailed information on these institutions is available in the International Handbook of Universities and the World Higher Education Database CD-ROM (WHED), both published annually, the first one in August, the other one in January.
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