President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (11) declared the Vavuniya Campus, affiliated to the Jaffna University, as a National University named ‘Vavuniya University’.
Accordingly, the Vavuniya University will be added to the history as the 17th State University in the country.
The Faculty of Applied Sciences, the Faculty of Business and the English Language Unit affiliated to the University of Jaffna were established in 1997 as the Vavuniya Campus.
The students and the lecturers have been requesting for a long time to upgrade the Vavuniya Campus to a National University. Taking this into consideration, the Government developed the University of Vavuniya as a smart university with modern facilities including lecture halls, faculty buildings and playgrounds under the Higher Education Development Programme in line with the National Policy Framework ‘Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour’.