‘University of Vavuniya’
The newly established ‘University of Vavuniya’ is set to be declared open today (11) under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
This is considered as the 17th state university of Sri Lanka.
An extraordinary gazette was issued on June 08, 2021, to elevate the Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna to a separate state university and be established as the “University of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka” with effect from the 1st of August 2021.