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Top Universities in Sri Lanka 2023-2024

THE Higher Education Ranking 2024 – four state and two private universities are listed

According to the Webometrics World University ranking of 2023 January these are the best Private Universities (Non-State higher education Institutes) in Sri Lanka. This post gives only the private universites that offer fee-levying courses; you can check the full list of top universities in Sri Lanka here.

Top Universities in Sri Lanka 2022-2023 (Public and Private Universities, the full list)

What are Private Universities?

As per our previous post, there are four types of Degree Awarding Higher Education Institutes in Sri Lanka:

1. Public National Universities
2. Private Institutes which offer Sri Lankan degrees recognized by University Grants Commission (UGC)
3. Private Institutes which offer Foreign Degrees in affiliation with Foreign Universities
4. Professional Institutes which offer Degree Equivalent Professional Qualifications

The following list includes all universities except Public National Universities (1) in Sri Lanka. However Private universities under the 3 and 4 categories may be included in the world ranking of the respective degree-holding foreign university.

What is webometrics ranking?

Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The ranking is based on several criteria, which are as follows:

1. Presence: The number of web pages of the university indexed by search engines.
2. Impact: The visibility of the university’s web pages outside its own web domain, measured by the number of external links to the institution’s web pages.
3. Openness: The number of files published in the institutional repository.
4. Excellence: The number of papers among the top 10% most cited in 26 disciplines.
5. Scholar: The number of papers in the top 10% most cited in 26 disciplines.

Best (Top) Ranked Private Universities in Webometrics 2023 January list

Sri Lanka ranking	World Rank	University	Impact Rank*	Openness Rank*	Excellence Rank*
13	6657	SLIIT – Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology	7298	6553	6365
14	7267	General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University KDU	9060	3142	7212
21	13253	Informatics Institute of Technology Sri Lanka – IIT	11398	6553	7212
22	13348	Sri Lanka Technological Campus	16102	5559	7212
23	13516	NSBM Green University	11751	6553	7212
24	14608	CINEC Campus	13096	6553	7212
25	14841	ESOFT Metro Campus	13402	6553	7212
26	15384	National Institute of Business Management NIBM	14033	6553	7212
28	15680	Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education	16150	6361	7212
29	16325	SLIIT Academy	15151	6553	7212
30	16804	Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology Sri Lanka	15704	6553	7212
31	17309	Horizon Campus	16308	6553	7212
32	17389	ANC Education	16404	6553	7212
33	17866	ACBT Australian College of Business and Technology	16944	6553	7212
38	19759	Sri Lanka Institute of Architects	19105	6553	7212
39	20233	Royal Institute of Colombo	19641	6553	7212
40	20581	American College of Higher Education	20021	6553	7212
42	20670	IDM University	20118	6553	7212
43	20853	BMS Business Management School	20332	6553	7212
44	21409	Sri Lanka Press Institute	20963	6553	7212
45	21581	Aquinas College of Higher Studies Colombo	21165	6553	7212
46	21680	Institute of Engineering Technology	21267	6553	7212
47	21989	IDM Nations Campus	21608	6553	7212
48	22404	Imperial Institute of Higher Education	22061	6553	7212
49	22855	KIU Kaatsu International University Sri Lanka	22554	6553	7212
50	22910	Nawaloka College of Higher Studies	22616	6553	7212
51	23507	National Institute of Social Development	23254	6553	7212
53	24503	Sri Lanka International Buddhist Academy SIBA	24309	6553	7212
54	24671	Saegis Campus	24485	6553	7212
55	25484	Northshore College	25340	6553	7212
56	27182	(1) Nagananda International Institute for Buddhist Studies	27102	6553	7212
58	29228	IESL College of Engineering	29193	6553	7212
59	29228	IUHS Campus	29193	6553	7212

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