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At the beginning it had only the departments of Botany, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Zoology. Admission of the students to the first batch took place in the 1961/62 academic year. Prior to that, the faculty was located in Colombo. Faculty offers general and special Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degrees and several postgraduate degrees.
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) [1] is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. [ 2 ] The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of London in 1860. [ 3 ]
K. Indrapala, senior lecturer in history at the Peradeniya Campus of the University of Sri Lanka, was appointed the first Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. [14] The faculty had four departments: Hindu Civilization, History, Sinhala and Tamil. [29] The faculty was renamed as the Faculty of Arts in 1975. [14]
The science faculty was the first among the Sri Lankan universities to initiate the changeover from the traditional three subject (General) degree with end of year examinations to a more flexible course unit system, i.e., a modularized credit-based system in a two-semester academic year with the end of semester examinations.
Any Sri Lankan citizen above 18 years Of age can apply for the university and there are no upper age limit. The university as " The peoples university" provide opportunity to climb up certificate level to PhD level and multiple entry and multiple outing options at various study levels. Level 06 - Honours degree. Level 05 - General degree.
The Faculty offers a full-time Undergraduate Course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering [B.Sc.Eng.(Hon's).The duration of the degree is 4 years. First year is common to all students. The rest is devoted to specialisation in one of the branches of engineering. Now it has 6 fields of study.
The University of Moratuwa is an independent state university in Katubedda, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka overlooking Bolgoda Lake. It was established as the University of Moratuwa (UoM), Sri Lanka on 22 December 1978 under the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978 and operates under the general direction of the University Grants Commission.
The university practices a semester-based system and conducts most of its study programmes in the English medium. Although a bilingual medium (English/Sinhala or English/Tamil) instruction is available in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages, the proportion of students who follow study programmes in the Sinhala medium is on the decline.