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|motto = Paññāya Narānaṅ Ratanaṅ (Pali)
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|chancellor = Venerable Rajakeeya Pandith Aththudawe Sri Rahula Annunayake Thero
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The '''University of Ruhuna''' is a university located in Matara, Sri_Lanka. It was founded in 1978 and is organized in 7 Faculties.
==History==
The University of Ruhuna was constituted by a Special Presidential Decree on September 1, 1978 as Ruhuna University College fulfilling a long cherished desire of the people of the South to have a University in the region. It was housed in the Technical College buildings at Meddawatte, Matara with only about 40 academics, 50 non-academics and 275 students. A new building complex for the university was designed by the world-renowned architect Geoffry Bawa and was constructed at Wellamadama with a unique architectural landscape. The RUC was shifted to the new premises in 1984 which it was elevated to full university status.
During the past twenty five years, it has witnessed considerable progress and development in the academic, research and out-reach spheres with substantial improvement in intellectual and infrastructure resources, and has now emerged as a leader of higher education in Sri Lanka.
To date, it has produced about 10,000 graduates and over 75 postgraduates and currently around 100 postgraduate students are pursuing masters and doctoral programmes at the university in various disciplines that are of particular relevance to the development of the region in particular and the country in general.
Presently, it has seven faculties, namely Agriculture, 'Humanities and Social Sciences', Medicine, Science, Engineering, 'Management and Finance' and 'Fisheries and Marine Science and Technolgy'. The University has responded to the needs of the country and has been able to establish two new faculties, namely Faculty of 'Management and Finance' and the Faculty of 'Fisheries and Marine Science and Technolgy' - the first of its kind in Sri Lanka. Thus the University that has seven faculties, which is equal to the number of faculties at the University of Peradeniya - the largest university in Sri Lanka.
==Organization==
These are the 7 faculties in which the university is divided into:
*Faculty of Humanities and Social_Sciences
*Faculty of Medicine
*Faculty of Science
*Faculty of Agriculture
*Faculty of Engineering visit
*Faculty of Management and Finance
*Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science and Technology
==External link==
*University of Rahuna Website {{en icon}}
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Category:Universities_and_colleges_in_Sri_Lanka