| Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology | |
|---|---|
| SLIIT | |
| Established | 1999 |
| Type | Public autonomous |
| Chancellor | Prof S. Karunaratne |
| President | Prof Lalith Gamage |
| Academic staff | 100 |
| Admin. staff | 100 |
| Students | 4,000 |
| Undergraduates | 3,600 |
| Postgraduates | 200 |
| Other students | 200 |
| Location | Malabe, Sri Lanka |
| Campus | Main Campus 25 acres (Suburban) - Malabe , Metropolitan Campus (Urban) - Colombo |
| Colors | Blue, white, orange |
| Athletics | Seven sports teams |
| Affiliations | University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka, Association of Commonwealth Universities |
| Website | www.sliit.lk/ |
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), is a public technological university in Sri Lanka mainly focused on information technology established by the Government of Sri Lanka.The main campus is located in Malabe, 16 km from Colombo. It also has a metropolitan campus in Colombo, the island's largest city. SLIIT offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in information technology and related fields. SLIIT is a leading, internationally accredited university in the fields of IT, electronics and management as well as a research university.[1]
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The Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology was established in 1999 by an Act of Parliament in Sri Lanka, with ability to award degrees following amendments to the Universities Act the same year, thus gaining recognition from the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka. It is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). SLIIT was established primarily to educate and train information technology professionals required in Sri Lanka. It became the first government own fee levying IT university in Sri Lanka[2]
SLIIT is a governmental institution with initial funding from the government. It is a statutory board and a company by guarantee.[3] SLIIT currently comes under the Ministry of Higher Education.[4] Unlike other state universities it does not depend on government funding and therefore has a great deal of autonomy. In 2007 SLIIT began expanding into fields of study out side that of IT and computing. These include electronic engineering and business management in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University.[5]
Since its conception it has become the leading degree-granting institute in Sri Lanka for information technology, producing 600 graduates annually.[6] SLIIT has expanded its IT education from Colombo and its suburbs to various other parts of the Sri Lanka, including Kandy and Matara, making the SLIIT accessible in five locations throughout Sri Lanka.
SLIIT operates two campuses and two centres viz. the Malabe Campus at Malabe and the Metropolitan Campus at Kollupitiya, Colombo, the Kandy Centre at Kandy and the Matara Centre at Matara. In 2009 it was announced that SLIIT plans on establishing a campus in Jaffna.[7] This has been followed by planned expansion into Bangladesh. By the middle of 2011 there were rumours that the name of SLIIT is going to be changed as U.I.T.(University Of Information Technology) .[8]
SLIIT has built partnerships with Australian Universities including Curtin University of Technology, Australia.[9] This partnership with Curtin allows students to study for Curtin degrees at SLIIT. The partnership with Sheffield Hallam University in United Kingdom enables SLIIT to offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and degree transfer programs.[10] The University of British Columbia allows students to study for postgraduate degree from SLIIT.[11] Similar partnerships with other universities allow students to complete several semesters of study at SLIIT and to finish the degree work at the other universities.
SLIIT has affiliations with Uppsala University in Sweden and CIMA in UK. Recently SLIIT signed agreements with RMIT and Swinburne University in Australia as well as three others.
SLIIT conducts IT and computer related research in Sri Lanka and is a partner of ConceptNursery.com, Sri Lanka's Technology Incubator. The SLIIT Research Symposium, which is held annually, showcases and helps advance research in the IT field in Sri Lanka.[12]
The four departments of the Institute are:
SLIIT Degrees
Curtin University of Technology Degrees
Sheffield Hallam University Degrees
SLIIT Masters Degrees
Sheffield Hallam University Masters Degree
University of British Columbia Masters Degree
Postgraduate-SLIIT
Undergraduate-SLIIT
Undergraduate-Edexcel
SLIIT conducts the Cisco Network Academy courses (CCNA, CCNP and CCSP) under the only regional Cisco Network Academy in Sri Lanka. SLIIT is the only Microsoft Academy in Sri Lanka offering Certification Courses.[13]
The Student's Interactive Society (SIS) is the main student body at SLIIT, the Society organizes student activities which includes the annual Freshers Night Dance, the Sports day and the Colours Night. Apart from the SIS there are the HEDRA which is the SLIIT programming community; the FOSS Community, the IT Students' Community (ITSC) which is the students' community of the Department of Information Technology, the CSNSC which is the student community of the CSN Department and the Drama & Arts Society and BIMS which is the student community of Business and Information management department student who follows Information Systems Degree and Business Management Degree.
The Institute holds formal links with institutions from around the world to share teaching and research and facilitate staff and student exchanges.