FACULTIES AND INSTITUTIONS

The university has eight academic faculties of study. These faculties contain 72 departments in total. In addition, the university has two postgraduate institutions and six affiliated centres. At the beginning, it had only three present day faculties, namely; the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science. Departments of Law and Oriental Studies also functioned separately. Since then, five other faculties have been added. The latest addition is the Faculty of Allied Health Science which was established in 2005.
The Post-graduate Institute of Science (PGIS) and Post-graduate Institute of Agriculture (PGIA) are the postgraduate institutions established in the university. PGIS is a national institute established by the Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka in 1996. PGIA was established in 1975 and offeres three postgraduate degrees. In addition to these institutions, Senerath Paranavitana Teaching and Research Museum functions affiliated to the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts.^[16] It was established in 1960.

  

Founding of the Faculties of the University of Peradeniya
Faculty	Year founded
Faculty of Arts	1942
Faculty of Medicine	1966
Faculty of Science	1961
Faculty of Dental Sciences	1943
Faculty of Agriculture	1947
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science	1947
Faculty of Engineering	1950
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences	2005