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World Ranking of Top Sri Lankan Universities – 2015 July

Webometrics (www.webometrics.info) issued latest 2015 July World Ranking of Universities. According to this 2015 July rankings University of Colombo, Peradeniya, Moratuwa, Kelaniya and Sri Jayewardenepura became the best five Universities in Sri Lanka.

It is interesting to note that none of the Sri Lankan Universities are among the top 2000 universities in the world, highest ranked University in Sri Lanka is Colombo and it became the 2039 th University in the world.

Latest 2015 July Ranking from webometrics.info website:

Ranking	World Rank	University	Presence Rank*	Impact Rank*	Openness Rank*	Excellence Rank*
1	2039	University of Colombo	2526	3748	2141	2257
2	2230	University of Peradeniya	1633	5937	2100	1939
3	2407	University of Moratuwa	3106	2023	1830	3655
4	3129	University of Kelaniya	5140	7250	1863	2816
5	4282	University of Sri Jayewardenepura	2476	7930	5018	3838
6	4525	University of Ruhuna	778	7551	4890	4317
7	5051	Wayamba University of Sri Lanka	2420	3718	10604	5489
8	5570	Open University of Sri Lanka	714	9058	2223	4897
9	6561	University of Jaffna	5286	9864	5164	4568
10	9707	Rajarata University	6478	13023	6281	4897
11	10029	South Eastern University of Sri Lanka	1359	12971	5417	5489
12	10836	Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology	5317	11573	11983	5489
13	11002	Sabaragamuwa University	14306	12548	8833	4897
14	11258	General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University	5473	14372	2776	5489
15	11265	Eastern University of Sri Lanka	12145	12715	11786	4897
16	12837	National Institute of Education Sri Lanka	19508	10124	16286	5489
17	13998	Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration Colombo	9429	14746	13132	5489
18	14065	University of the Visual & Performing Arts	2730	16067	14845	5489
19	14677	Postgraduate Institute of Management	16464	15676	6793	5489
20	14949	National Institute of Business Management	14015	15283	12694	5489
21	15304	Institute of Fundamental Studies Sri Lanka	16353	15322	12921	5489
22	15492	Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology Sri Lanka	10806	16934	11366	5489
23	15714	Uva Wellassa University	15880	14998	16794	5489
24	15759	Postgraduate Institute of Sciences	18941	15794	11386	5489
25	16201	Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture	21628	16169	8600	5489
26	16299	Industrial Technology Institute	10530	14944	20547	5489
27	16341	Colombo International Nautical and Engineering College	17191	16081	15094	5489
28	16490	Arthur C Clarke Institute of Modern Technologies	20417	15360	15940	5489
29	16659	Sri Lanka Institute of Architects	17408	16676	14306	5489
30	17148	South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine Malabe	19243	17363	12249	5489
31	17377	Buddhist and Pali University	19447	17080	14937	5489
32	17513	Informatics Institute of Technology Sri Lanka	17006	16476	18795	5489
33	18082	BMS Business Management School	18912	19015	10046	5489
34	19048	University of Vocational Technology Ratmalana	22650	17820	17276	5489
35	19150	Aquinas University College Colombo	16134	19307	17633	5489
36	19528	Australian College of Business and Technology	21517	17579	20547	5489
37	19528	ANC Education	19594	18970	18550	5489
38	19899	Institute of Engineering Technology	18110	20068	17335	5489
39	20254	Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education	11483	21778	10729	5489
40	20597	American College of Higher Education	20599	19490	20547	5489
41	20747	National Institute of Social Development	14859	20524	20547	5489
42	21116	Royal Institute of Colombo	21431	21070	17549	5489
43	21427	Imperial Institute of Higher Education	22076	20545	20547	5489
44	21444	Ocean University of Sri Lanka	22533	21454	15986	5489
45	21756	Sri Lanka Press Institute	22800	20879	20547	5489
46	21839	Victoria Higher Education Campus	18985	22150	16545	5489
47	23079	Hardy University College Ampara	19447	22892	20547	5489
48	23249	Buddhasravaka Bhiksu University	22276	23040	17470	5489

Methodology

Following Four Criteria are used in Ranking of Universities

PRESENCE.	Total number of web pages, according to Google, excluding pdf files.	10%
IMPACT (VISIBILITY).	Average number of inlinks according to two inlinks providers (ahrefs & Majestic.	50%
OPENNESS.	Total number of pdf files according to Google.	10%
EXCELLENCE.	Research papers published, according to Scimago data (top 10% most cited papers by discipline) for the five year period 2009-2013.	30%