University of Colombo

The University of Colombo (informally Colombo University or UoC, Sinhala: කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය, Tamil: கொழும்புப் பல்கலைக்கழகம்) is a public research university in Colombo, Sri Lanka, founded in 1921 as University College Colombo and tracing its roots to a medical school opened in 1870科伦坡大学（University of Colombo，简称 Colombo University 或 UoC）是位于斯里兰卡科伦坡的一所公立研究型大学，1921 年以科伦坡大学学院之名创办，其历史可追溯至 1870 年开办的医学院。

• It is the oldest institution of modern higher education in Sri Lanka, is organised into ten faculties with 77 academic departments, six institutes, a satellite campus and a school of computing, and sits in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and first place among Sri Lankan universities in that table.该校是斯里兰卡最古老的高等教育机构，下设十个学院、77 个学术系、六个研究所、一处卫星校区与一所计算机学院，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1001-1200 区间，并在该榜上位列斯里兰卡第一。

History

• The institution traces its origin to the Ceylon Medical School, opened in June 1870 as the second European medical school in South Asia, which was raised to college status in 1880 as the Ceylon Medical College and was recognised by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom in 1889, allowing its licentiates to practise in Great Britain.该校的历史源头是 1870 年 6 月开办的锡兰医学院，它是南亚第二所欧洲人创办的医学院，1880 年升格为锡兰医学院，1889 年获得英国医学总会认可，其执照持有人由此可在英国执业。
• The Ceylon University Association, formed in 1906 by western-educated leaders including Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sir James Peiris and Sir Marcus Fernando, pressed the colonial government, which in 1913 agreed to establish a university college, although disputes over the site's location and the First World War delayed the project.锡兰大学协会于 1906 年由一批受过西式教育的领袖人物发起，成员包括唐·蓬纳姆巴兰爵士、詹姆斯·佩里斯爵士与马库斯·费尔南多爵士，他们持续向殖民政府施压，政府于 1913 年同意设立一所大学学院，但校址争议与第一次世界大战使计划一再推迟。
• A committee of the Legislative Council under the chairmanship of Governor Henry McCallum reported in 1912 that a university college should centralise the country's fragmented higher education, and its proposals, drawn up by the Macleod Committee, proposed a residential college open to women and affiliated preferably to the University of Oxford.1911 年总督亨利·麦卡勒姆任命立法会议十人委员会考察锡兰教育，该委员会（麦卡勒姆委员会）于 1912 年提出应设立大学学院以整合全国分散的高等教育，并建议创办一所面向女性开放、附属于牛津大学的住宿制学院。
• The government bought the private mansion Regina Walawwa in 1920 on the recommendation of Sir Edward Denham, a house belonging to Arthur de Soysa, grandson of the philanthropist Sir Charles Henry de Soysa, and the college opened on 24 January 1921 with Edwin Evans as acting principal.政府在爱德华·登纳姆爵士建议下于 1920 年买下私人宅邸「丽吉纳·瓦拉瓦」，该宅属于慈善家查尔斯·亨利·德·索萨爵士之孙阿瑟·德·索萨；1921 年 1 月 24 日科伦坡大学学院正式开学，由代理教育署署长埃德温·埃文斯出任首任院长。
• The college enrolled 115 students in its first academic year, of whom eight sat the University of London final examinations and seven passed, two at First Division, and science teaching moved into purpose-built laboratories opened by Governor William Manning on 1 October 1921.该学院首届招收 115 名学生，其中八人参加伦敦大学终结考试、七人通过，两人获甲等荣誉；1921 年 10 月 1 日总督威廉·曼宁主持启用了专门建造的实验室，理科教学自此从政府技术学校迁入。
• The old Royal College buildings were taken over in 1923 and the library moved from College House to the Villa Venezia observatory, while land on Buller's Road was declared a university site in March 1924 and a draft university ordinance was prepared in June 1925.皇家学院旧楼于 1923 年移交大学学院，图书馆也从学院楼迁至「威尼斯别墅」天文台；1924 年 3 月，布勒路地块被宣布为大学校址，1925 年 6 月拟就大学条例草案。
• A committee under Walter Buchanan Riddell reported on university establishment in 1928, and a governor's committee in February 1927 had already recommended the Uyanwatte site in the Dumbara valley near Kandy for a unitary university, a debate over whether the university should stay in Colombo or move inland that ran for decades.1928 年由沃尔特·布坎南·里德尔主持的委员会就设立大学出具报告；1927 年 2 月，总督委员会已建议在康提附近邓布拉河谷的乌亚万瓦泰选址建设「单一型」大学；此后关于大学应留在科伦坡还是内迁的争论延续数十年。
• Robert Marrs led the college from 1921 until his retirement in July 1939 after nearly eighteen years, and Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam, a founder of the movement, died two months before the Legislative Council accepted the principle of a university in February 1924.罗伯特·马斯自 1921 年起领导该学院，至 1939 年 7 月退休，任职近十八年；锡兰大学协会发起人之一唐·蓬纳姆巴兰爵士于 1924 年 2 月立法会议原则上接受设立大学前两个月去世。
• Affiliated to the University of London rather than the Oxford originally proposed, the college prepared students for London external degrees that were jointly examined and issued from 1923, and it opened with two departments, Arts and Science, while its principal drafted a university ordinance by 1925 and a constitution by 1930.该学院最终附属于伦敦大学而非最初设想的牛津大学，负责培养学生参加由双方共同考核的伦敦大学外部学位考试，自 1923 年起颁发学位；开办时设有艺术与科学两个系，其院长早在 1925 年就拟就大学条例草案、1930 年拟就章程草案。
• The University of Ceylon was established on 1 July 1942 by the Ceylon University Ordinance No. 20 of 1942, passed amid the Second World War and the threat of a Japanese invasion, combining the Ceylon Medical College and the University College into an institution that could award its own degrees.锡兰大学于 1942 年 7 月 1 日依《1942 年锡兰大学条例》第 20 号设立，该法在第二次世界大战与日军入侵威胁之中通过，把锡兰医学院与大学学院合并为一所可自行授位的大学。
• Sir Ivor Jennings, who had come to Ceylon in 1940 as principal, became the first vice-chancellor, raised the flag at College House on 1 July 1942 and drafted the founding ordinance, later recalling that he enacted more legislation in that month than the State Council did in a year.1940 年以院长身份来岛的艾沃尔·詹宁斯爵士出任首任校长，他于 1942 年 7 月 1 日在学院楼升起校旗并起草了奠基条例，后来回忆称那个月他制定的法规比国务委员会一整年还多。
• The new university upgraded the Arts and Science departments to faculties, made the Medical College the Faculty of Medicine and created a Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cruden House, with the library housed at Villa Venezia on Queens Road and halls of residence including Jayatilleke, Arunachalam and Queens Hall.新大学把艺术系与科学系升格为学院，把医学院设为医学院，并在克鲁登楼设立东方研究学院，图书馆设于皇后路的「威尼斯别墅」，学生宿舍包括贾亚蒂莱克楼、阿卢纳查勒姆楼与皇后楼。
• As buildings at Peradeniya were completed, Law and Agriculture moved there in 1949, the Faculty of Engineering was founded in 1950 and transferred to Peradeniya in 1965, and Arts and Oriental Studies followed in 1952, taking parts of the administration, the library and two halls of residence with them.随着佩拉德尼亚的新楼建成，法学与农学于 1949 年迁往该地，工程学院创办于 1950 年并于 1965 年迁至佩拉德尼亚，艺术与东方研究两学院于 1952 年迁出，同时带走了部分管理机构、图书馆与两座学生宿舍。
• The announcement of a separate university in Colombo was made in the Throne Speech of 1967, and on the advice of Frank Thistlethwaite, brought from the University of East Anglia by the National Council of Higher Education, the Colombo branch was raised to full university status.在 1967 年的国会开幕演说中，设立科伦坡独立大学的消息宣布；在高等教育全国委员会自东英吉利大学请来的弗兰克·蒂斯尔塞怀特建议下，科伦坡分校被提升为完全大学地位。
• The new institution, which came into existence on 1 October 1967 with the Colombo Campus as its nucleus, had a student population of nearly 5,000 reading for degrees in arts, law, the sciences and medicine, and a teaching staff of nearly 300.该新机构以科伦坡校区为核心于 1967 年 10 月 1 日成立，拥有近 5,000 名学生，攻读艺术、法律、科学与医学学位，教师近 300 人。
• The University of Ceylon Act No. 1 of 1972 folded the universities and the Katubedda College of Technology into a single University of Sri Lanka with its Senate House headquarters in Colombo, run by one vice-chancellor and five campus presidents, an arrangement that ended with the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978.《1972 年锡兰大学法》第 1 号把各所大学与卡图贝达理工学院合并为单一的斯里兰卡大学，总部参议院楼设在科伦坡，由一位校长与五位校区主任管理；这一体制随着《1978 年大学法》第 16 号的颁布而终结。
• Under that 1978 Act the University of Sri Lanka was divided into six autonomous universities, and the Colombo campus was renamed the University of Colombo, restoring senates, councils and courts in the Ceylon University Ordinance tradition while a University Grants Commission was created to coordinate higher education nationally.依据该法，斯里兰卡大学被拆分为六所自治大学，科伦坡校区改名为科伦坡大学，同时恢复了 1942 年锡兰大学条例中的参议院、评议会与法庭等制度，并成立大学拨款委员会统筹全国高等教育。
• A second Faculty of Science was started at the beginning of the 1961-62 session while a section of the faculty stayed in Colombo, and a second Faculty of Arts was established in Colombo in 1963, reversing the earlier movement inland.1961/62 学年开学时第二个理学院开始招生，同时理学院的一部分留在科伦坡；1963 年科伦坡又设立第二个文学院，逆转了此前向内迁的方向。
• Expansion since 1978 came through new faculties and schools: the Faculty of Graduate Studies in 1987, the Sri Palee Campus at Wewala in 1996, the University of Colombo School of Computing in 2002, the Faculties of Nursing and Technology in 2017, and the Faculty of Engineering inaugurated in 2021.1978 年之后的扩张体现为新学院与学校的设立：1987 年设研究生学院，1996 年设立位于韦瓦拉的斯里佩利校区，2002 年成立科伦坡大学计算机学院，2017 年设立护理学院与技术学院，2021 年工程学院正式揭牌。
• The Institute of Computer Technology was created by ordinance in September 1987 and merged with the Department of Computer Science in 2002 to form the School of Computing, Sri Lanka's first centre of higher education in computing, and the Institute of Indigenous Medicine was added as a faculty in 2023.计算机技术研究所于 1987 年 9 月依条例设立，2002 年与计算机科学系合并组成为计算机学院，成为斯里兰卡第一个计算机高等教育中心；本土医学研究所于 2023 年升格为一个学院。
• By 1950 the University of Ceylon had a reputation as an important centre of excellence in the Commonwealth, and the university marked the 150th anniversary of its Faculty of Medicine in 2020, counting from the 1870 medical school.到 1950 年，锡兰大学已在英联邦中享有重要卓越中心的声誉；2020 年，该校医学院迎来建院 150 周年，起点即 1870 年的医学院。
• The university's Annual Research Symposium, started in 2008, publishes each year's abstracts as proceedings and channels the bulk of the university's research output, and the Colombo Campus works to the standards of Sri Lanka's national quality assurance framework.该校始于 2008 年的年度研究研讨会每年将其摘要结集出版，是全校研究成果的主要交流渠道；科伦坡校区各项工作按斯里兰卡国家质量保证框架执行。

Academics

• The university is organised into ten faculties, namely Arts, Education, Graduate Studies, Indigenous Medicine, Law, Management and Finance, Medicine, Nursing, Science and Technology, together with 77 academic departments, six institutes, the Sri Palee Campus and the School of Computing.学校由十个学院组成，即艺术、教育、研究生、本土医学、法律、管理与财务、医学、护理、科学与技术学院，另有 77 个学术系、六个研究所、斯里佩利校区与计算机学院。
• Its largest faculties are Medicine, Science and Arts, the Faculty of Law being the only stand-alone law faculty in Sri Lanka's state university system and the Faculty of Education likewise the only one devoted to teacher education in that system.规模最大的学院为医学、科学与艺术学院；法学院是斯里兰卡国立大学系统中唯一的独立建制法学院，教育学院同样是该体系中唯一的专门教师教育学院。
• The Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology is the Sri Lankan node of the European Molecular Biology Network and a designated resource centre for the molecular life sciences under the University of Uppsala's international programme.生物化学、分子生物学与生物技术研究所是欧洲分子生物学网络在斯里兰卡的节点机构，并被乌普萨拉大学的国际项目指定为分子生命科学资源中心。
• The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, established in 1976 and reorganised under the 1980 Act, is the only institution in Sri Lanka providing specialist training for medical doctors, and six postgraduate institutions are affiliated to the university, three of them on the main campus.研究生医学院于 1976 年设立、1980 年依法重组，是全国唯一提供医师专科培训的机构；另有六个研究生机构附属于该大学，其中三个位于主校区。
• Published enrolment figures for the university give 37,636 students, of whom 19,216 are undergraduates and 10,678 postgraduates, while around 10,000 students attend classes on campus and the rest take external or distance-learning programmes run by the Cyber Campus.该校公布的注册学生数为 37,636 人，其中本科 19,216 人、研究生 10,678 人，而在主校区面授课程者约 1 万人，其余学生就读由「网络校区」举办的校外或远程课程。
• Academic staff number 843 against 88 administrative employees, and the university runs an Annual Research Symposium whose abstracts are published as proceedings each year.该校拥有 843 名学术人员与 88 名行政人员，并举办年度研究研讨会，每年将其摘要结集出版。
• Its largest single institutional asset is a donation-funded endowment reported at 1.461 billion Sri Lankan rupees, which supports chairs, scholarships and research in a system where undergraduate education is free.该校最大的一笔机构性资产是约 14.61 亿斯里兰卡卢比的捐赠基金，用以支持讲座席、奖学金与研究，而其本科教育在现行体制下免费。
• The university's library network comprises the central library plus faculty libraries, including the Faculty of Medicine library on Kynsey Road and the Faculty of Science library on Thurstan Road, and holds more than 400,000 items, making it among the largest in the country.该校的图书馆网络由总馆与各院系图书馆构成，包括金赛路边的医学院图书馆与瑟斯坦路上的理学院图书馆，藏书 40 万余件，是全国规模最大的图书馆之一。
• Its Ceylon Collection and Rare Collection include a large body of palm-leaf manuscripts, and the oldest academic library in Sri Lanka traces its own origin to the Colombo Medical College library of 1870.其锡兰特藏与珍本收藏包含大量贝叶写本，而斯里兰卡最古老的学术图书馆可上溯至 1870 年的锡兰医学院图书馆。
• The university publishes the University of Colombo Review, a double-blind peer-reviewed journal open to all disciplines and published twice a year in May and November, alongside The Ceylon Journal of Medical Science and the Sri Lanka Journal of International Law.学校出版《科伦坡大学评论》，这是一份覆盖全学科的双盲同行评议期刊，每年五月与十一月出版两次；此外还有《锡兰医学科学杂志》与《斯里兰卡国际法杂志》。
• An electronic repository, the University of Colombo e-Repository, holds faculty publications and master and doctoral theses, and the Centre for Open and Distance Learning runs external degrees for students who miss out on merit-based admission to state universities.科伦坡大学电子资源库收录教师出版物以及硕士与学位论文，开放与远程学习中心则为未能通过择优进入国立大学的学生提供校外学位课程。
• The university is a member of the Asian Universities Alliance, whose executive presidency it held for 2019-2020, as well as of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning and the International Association of Universities.该校是亚洲大学联盟成员并于 2019 至 2020 年担任该联盟执行主席，同时也是英联邦大学协会、东南亚高等教育机构协会与国际大学协会的成员。
• Partners named by the university include the University of London, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Uppsala, the University of Oslo, Monash University, the National University of Singapore and the Technical University of Darmstadt.学校列名的合作院校包括伦敦大学、宾夕法尼亚大学、乌普萨拉大学、奥斯陆大学、澳大利亚莫纳什大学、新加坡国立大学与达姆施塔特工业大学。
• A Confucius Institute, opened in December 2016, teaches Chinese language and culture and had registered more than 8,000 cumulative learners by the end of 2023, and the Centre for Contemporary Indian Studies promotes study of modern India.该校孔子学院于 2016 年 12 月成立，教授中文与中国文化，截至 2023 年底累计注册学员逾 8,000 人次；当代印度研究中心则推动对现代印度的研究。

Campus

• The main campus occupies a 50-acre estate in Cinnamon Gardens at the heart of Colombo, its urban setting letting students reach libraries, the theatre, the gymnasium and the commercial centre of the capital on foot.主校区位于科伦坡市中心的肉桂园，占地 50 英亩，都市型区位使学生可步行到达图书馆、剧场、体育馆与首都的商业中心。
• The administrative centre is College House, the former Regina Walawwa mansion bought in 1920, whose period architecture is a city landmark, and it stands on Kumarathunga Munidasa Mawatha between Queens Road and the India House.行政中心是 1920 年购入的旧宅「学院楼」，其古典建筑风格是这座城市的标志，它坐落在库马拉斯通加·穆尼达萨马哈塔路上，介于皇后路与印度大厦之间。
• The iconic Old Royal College Building was built in 1911 for Royal College Colombo and transferred to the University College a year after it opened, and it now houses the Department of Mathematics under a university tower.标志性的皇家学院旧楼 1911 年为皇家学院科伦坡而建，并于大学学院成立次年移交该校，如今它是数学系所在，楼上设有大学塔楼。
• King George Hall, built in the mid-1920s for the Ceylon University College, is among the oldest theatres in Sri Lanka and still serves as a lecture hall and university venue, alongside the New Arts Theatre.乔治王大礼堂建于 20 世纪 20 年代中期供锡兰大学学院使用，是斯里兰卡最古老的剧场之一，至今仍作大教室与校级活动场所使用，与之并列的还有新艺术剧场。
• Also on site are the Central Library in a five-storey building between the law and arts faculty complexes, the University Observatory, the Colombo Planetarium, the triangular university sports ground and the Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology building opposite College House.校内另有位于法学院与文学院建筑群之间的五层中央图书馆、大学天文台、科伦坡天象馆、三角形的大学运动场，以及与学院楼相对的生物化学、分子生物学与生物技术研究所大楼。
• Outside the Cinnamon Gardens core, the Faculty of Medicine stands on Kynsey Road opposite Colombo General Hospital, near the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine on Norris Canal Road, and the Faculty of Medicine campus carries the Koch Memorial Clock Tower.在肉桂园核心区之外，医学院坐落于金赛路、隔着街与科伦坡总医院相对，靠近诺里斯运河路的研究生医学院，医学院院内还矗立着科赫纪念钟楼。
• The Sri Palee Campus, founded as the Western Campus in 1996 and affiliated in September 1998, lies at Wewala, Horana on 32 acres and is administered by a Rector, with departments in mass media, performing arts, computer studies and languages.斯里佩利校区 1996 年以西部校区之名创办、1998 年 9 月正式附属于科伦坡大学，位于霍拉纳韦瓦拉，占地 32 英亩，由一位校区主任管理，下设大众传媒、表演艺术、计算机研究与语言等系。
• The Institute of Indigenous Medicine is in Nawala in the Colombo suburbs, and the affiliated Institute of Agro Technology and Rural Science stands in Hambantota in the Southern Province.本土医学研究所位于科伦坡近郊的纳瓦拉，附属于该大学的农业技术与乡村科学研究所则位于南部省的汉班托塔。
• Nine student hostels, four for men and five for women, accommodate 2,973 undergraduates a year under the Students' Centre, and some early halls that moved to Peradeniya in the 1950s now operate independently.九座学生宿舍（男生四座、女生五座）每年为 2,973 名本科新生提供住宿，由学生中心统一管理；1950 年代迁往佩拉德尼亚的早期宿舍楼如今独立运作。
• Accommodation for international students is arranged separately, and the university's location means most students live in Colombo rather than in a closed residential college system.国际学生的住宿另行安排，由于校址位于首都科伦坡，多数学生住在市区，而非封闭式的书院住宿体系之中。

Reputation

• The university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval, and ranks first among Sri Lankan universities in that table, having stood at 951-1000 in the 2026 edition.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间（并列），并位居该榜斯里兰卡高校之首，而 2026 版曾列于 951-1000 区间。
• It has held the 1001-1200 band in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings every year since 2022 and was first in Sri Lanka in the 2027 edition released on 30 September 2026.自 2022 年起，该校在泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中连续位列 1001-1200 区间，并在 2026 年 9 月 30 日发布的 2027 年榜单中位居斯里兰卡第一。
• In the QS Asia University Rankings 2026 it stood at 318 overall and 74 in Southern Asia, again first in Sri Lanka, and in the 2025 edition it had been placed at 275 in Asia.在 2026 年 QS 亚洲大学排名中，该校总榜并列第 318 位、南亚地区第 74 位，同样居斯里兰卡首位；2025 年版的亚洲排名为第 275 位。
• It was ranked 864th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 list, and it did not enter the main table of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.该校在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中位列第 864 位，且未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• Within Sri Lanka it has been first nationally in the THE, QS, Webometrics and UI GreenMetric tables in recent editions, though Webometrics places it 1,745th worldwide in its July 2026 edition在斯里兰卡国内，该校近年在泰晤士、QS、Webometrics 与 UI GreenMetric 各榜中均列本国第一，但 Webometrics 2026 年 7 月版给出的全球名次为第 1,745 位。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 15,245 works and 431,805 citations for the university, and it has ranked in the top two nationally in Webometrics, Scimago and UI GreenMetric through most of the 2010s and 2020s.OpenAlex 收录该校 15,245 篇研究成果与 431,805 次引用；2010 年代至 2020 年代，该校在 Webometrics、Scimago 与 UI GreenMetric 三榜中大多稳居全国前两位。
• Its strongest subject showing in the THE table is in medical and health sciences, ranked 501-600 in the 2026 edition and 301-400 in 2023, while life sciences were placed 801-1000 in 2025该校在泰晤士榜单中表现最强的学科是医学与健康科学，2026 版列第 501 至 600 区间，2023 版曾列第 301 至 400 区间，生命科学则在 2025 版列第 801 至 1000 区间。
• Among its domestic rankings the university has held first place in the country in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, and in the 2026 edition it was placed at 542 overall with 391 in environmental impact and 175 in environmental sustainability.在国内排名中，该校在 QS 可持续发展世界大学排名中一直位居全国第一，2026 版总榜为第 542 位，环境影响分项第 391 位、环境可持续性分项第 175 位。
• The university marked the 150th anniversary of its Faculty of Medicine in 2020 and hosts an Annual Research Symposium since 2008, through which its faculty disseminate the bulk of the university's research output each year.该校医学院于 2020 年迎来建院 150 周年，并自 2008 年起举办年度研究研讨会，各院系通过该研讨会发布当年全校的大部分研究成果。

Student life

• The university motto is Buddhih Sarvatra Bhrajate, a Sanskrit verse rendered as "Wisdom Enlightens", which expresses its stated aim of maintaining academic excellence in every field of study.该校校训为梵语「Buddhih Sarvatra Bhrajate」，意译为「智慧启迪」，体现其在所有研究领域保持学术卓越的宗旨。
• Students run more than 40 clubs and organisations, including cultural, religious, academic and common-interest groups, and each faculty has its own students' union whose committee is elected by the faculty's students.学生运营 40 多个社团与组织，涵盖文化、宗教、学术与共同兴趣类别，各学院均设有自己的学生会，委员会由本院学生选举产生。
• Among the named societies are the Arts Students' Union, the Medical Students' Union, the Science Students' Council, the Law Students' Union with its Moot Court and Debating Society, the Buddhist Students' Association, the Muslim Majlis, the Hindu Students' Union and the Rotaract Club.具名社团包括艺术学生会、医学生会、理学生会、法学会及其模拟法庭与辩论社、佛教学生协会、穆斯林青年会、印度教学生会与扶轮社。
• Sports are organised by the Department of Physical Education through the University Amalgamated Club, which brings together 29 captains and vice-captains for the university's major sports, and takes part in the Inter-University Championships and University Games.体育事务由体育教育系通过大学联合俱乐部组织，该俱乐部汇集校队 29 名队长与副队长，代表学校参加校际体育锦标赛与大学生运动会。
• The university is the overall champion of the Sri Lanka University Games, held every three years among the country's public universities, and has won 8 of the 10 championships contested since the event began in 1980该校是斯里兰卡大学生运动会的总冠军，该赛事每三年在国立大学间举行一次，自 1980 年创办以来共举行十届，该校赢得其中 8 届。
• Inside the university, inter-faculty tournaments and the University Championship are held and University Colours awarded, with facilities including a gymnasium and the university sports ground, and the swimming and rowing teams use the Royal College Colombo pool and the Colombo Rowing Club.校内举办院际锦标赛与大学锦标赛并颁发大学代表色奖牌，设施包括体育馆与大学运动场，游泳与赛艇队则借用皇家学院科伦坡的泳池与科伦坡划船俱乐部。
• Campus media include the FMF Media Unit of the Faculty of Management and Finance, the FOS Media unit of the Faculty of Science and Techno Media of the Faculty of Technology, and student writing ranges from the University of Colombo Review to faculty journals.校园媒体包括管理与金融学院的 FMF 媒体组、理学院的 FOS 媒体组与技术学院的 Techno 媒体组，学生写作则从《科伦坡大学评论》延伸到各院系刊物。
• Life on campus is shaped by the university's location in Cinnamon Gardens, a district that mixes colonial-era university buildings, the national museum precinct and residential streets, and the Colombo Planetarium on campus hosts public astronomy programmes.校园生活因学校位于肉桂园而成形，这一街区混合着殖民地时期的大学建筑、国家博物馆片区与住宅街道，校内的科伦坡天象馆还举办面向公众的天文项目。

Notable people

• Sir Ivor Jennings was the principal of University College Colombo from 1940 and the first vice-chancellor of the University of Ceylon from 1942 to 1954, a constitutional law expert who advised the government of D. S. Senanayake on drafting the independence constitution.艾沃尔·詹宁斯爵士自 1940 年起任科伦坡大学学院院长，1942 至 1954 年任锡兰大学首任校长，这位宪法学专家曾就独立宪法的起草向 D·S·塞纳那亚克政府提供咨询。
• Sir Nicholas Attygalle, a surgeon who became the first Ceylonese vice-chancellor, served in that post from 1954 to 1967 after presiding over the Senate of Ceylon and the Faculty of Medicine as professor of obstetrics and gynaecology.尼克拉斯·阿蒂加勒爵士是一位外科医生，也是首位锡兰籍大学校长，1954 至 1967 年任职，此前曾任锡兰参议院议长并以妇产科教授身份主持医学院。
• Vidya Jyothi Professor V. K. Samaranayake, appointed professor of mathematics in 1974, founded the Department of Statistics and Computer Science in 1985 and the School of Computing in 2002, and received the JICA President's Award for International Cooperation in 1996 and the national honour Vidya Jyothi in 1998.维迪亚·乔蒂教授 V·K·萨马拉纳亚克 1974 年获任数学教授，1985 年创办统计与计算机科学系、2002 年创办计算机学院，1996 年获日本国际协力机构国际合作总统奖，1998 年获国家级荣誉「维迪亚·乔蒂」。
• Ediriweera Sarachchandra, a professor at the university, was Sri Lanka's leading playwright and novelist, and Dharmasena Pathiraja, who taught on its staff, became one of the country's best known film directors and screenwriters.戏剧家与小说家、斯里兰卡最负盛名的剧作家埃迪里韦拉·萨拉钱德拉曾任该校教授，而在该校任教的达尔马塞纳·帕蒂拉贾则成为该国最知名的电影导演与编剧之一。
• J. R. Jayewardene, who studied law at the University of Ceylon, became the first executive president of Sri Lanka and served as chancellor of the university from 1978 to 1981, while Ranil Wickremesinghe and Gotabaya Rajapaksa also came from its law faculty.在锡兰大学攻读法律的 J·R·贾亚瓦德纳成为斯里兰卡首任执行总统，并于 1978 至 1981 年担任该校校监；拉尼尔·维克勒马辛哈与戈塔巴雅·拉贾帕克萨同样出自该校法学院。
• Christopher Weeramantry, a graduate of the law faculty, served as a judge of the International Court of Justice from 1997 to 2012 and wrote the separate opinion that secured the recognition of the right to a clean environment as a human right.法学院毕业克里斯托弗·维拉曼特里于 1997 至 2012 年任国际法院法官，并撰写了使「清洁环境权」被承认为人权的单独意见书。
• Shirley Amerasinghe, who studied at the university, served as president of the United Nations General Assembly in 1982, and Gamani Corea served as secretary-general of UNCTAD from 1974 to 1984.在该校求学的雪莉·阿梅拉辛格于 1982 年出任联合国大会主席，加马尼·科里亚则在 1974 至 1984 年任联合国贸易和发展会议秘书长。
• Kumar Sangakkara entered the Faculty of Law in 1996 and later completed a master's degree there, becoming captain of Sri Lanka's national cricket team, the ICC Hall of Fame inductee of 2021 and president of the Marylebone Cricket Club库马尔·桑加卡拉于 1996 年进入法学院就读并日后在该院取得硕士学位，他后来成为斯里兰卡国家板球队队长、2021 年入选国际板球理事会名人堂，并曾任玛丽勒本板球俱乐部主席。
• Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe headed the civil service as permanent secretary at the ministries of finance and health, and Sir Nicholas Attygalle's brother Sepala Attygalle commanded the Sri Lanka Army from 1967 to 1977 as its first four-star general.汉密尔顿·雪莉·阿梅拉辛格曾任财政部与卫生部常务秘书，尼克拉斯·阿蒂加勒爵士的弟弟塞帕拉·阿蒂加勒于 1967 至 1977 年任斯里兰卡陆军司令，是该国首位四星上将。
• Thomas Cooray, educated at the university, became the first Sri Lankan cardinal and served as Archbishop of Colombo, and Jehan Mubarak, Lasantha Fernando and Ajith C. S. Perera were cricketers who attended the university, the last being a former Test match panel umpire.在该校受教育的托马斯·库雷成为斯里兰卡首位红衣主教并任科伦坡大主教；让汉·穆罕默德、拉萨纳塔·费尔南多与阿吉思·C·S·佩雷拉也曾就读于此，其中佩雷拉曾任国际板球赛裁判组成员。
• Professor Indika Mahesh Karunathilake, the university's first professor of medical education and a graduate of both the university and the University of Dundee, became its twentieth vice-chancellor in May 2025, having received the President's Award for Scientific Publications.英迪卡·马赫什·卡鲁纳萨莱克教授是该校首任医学教育教授，兼具该校与邓迪大学学历，他曾获总统科学出版物奖，并于 2025 年 5 月出任该校第二十任校长。