University of Peradeniya

The University of Peradeniya is the heir to a sixty year old University tradition which commenced with the inception of the University of Ceylon, the first institution of its kind established in Colombo on 1 July 1942. It moved to the banks of Mahaweli River, the longest in the Country, in 1952. However the history of its evolution as the oldest and the largest University in the country pass through the following stages. 1942 to 1952 University of Ceylon 1952 to 1972 University of Ceylon Peradeniya 1972 to 1978 Peradeniya Campus, University of Sri Lanka Since 1978 University of Peradeniya Sir Ivor Jennings the first Vice-Chancellor, on his first visit to the campus site in 1944 with the site plan of the architect Sir Patrick Abercrombies, has written, No University in the world would have such a setting. The University is located in Peradeniya in the Central Province, which bares lush greenery vegetation and mist-clad mountains, approximately 6 km from the City of Kandy, th...