Jayantha Karunarathna
Staff Assistant at University of Colombo School of Computing - Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka • 320 EmployeesHigher Education
In September 2002, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) was established by merging The Institute of Computer Technology and The Department of Computer Science both of the University of Colombo, as the first centre of higher learning of computing in Sri Lanka. The number of students admitted to these programmes may be increased in the coming years. Three M.Sc programmes in Computer Science, Information Technology and Advanced Computing, which admitted a total of 200 students, were started in the year 2002. M.Phil and Ph.D programmes were introduced by the UCSC in the year 2002. Computer Science course modules are also conducted for first, second, third and fourth year students of the Physical and Bio Science streams of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo. The vision of the UCSC is to be a centre of international repute in training in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).