| Uduvil Girl's College உடுவில் மகளிர் கல்லூரி |
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| Location | |
| Uduvil, Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka | |
| Information | |
| School type | Private 1AB |
| Founded | 1820 |
| Founder | Harriet Winslow |
| School district | Valikaamam Education Zone |
| School number | 1010033 |
| Grades | 1-13 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Age range | 5-18 |
| Language | Tamil, English |
| School roll | 1,067 |
Uduvil Girl's College (UGC) (Tamil: உடுவில் மகளிர் கல்லூரி) is a girls private school in Uduvil, Sri Lanka.[1] It was founded in 1820 by American missionaries.
In 1816 American missionaries founded the American Ceylon Mission in Jaffna. The ACM established missions in other parts of the Jaffna peninsula including one in Vaddukoddai. The ACM established numerous schools on the peninsula, the first school being the Common Free School (Union College) in Tellippalai. In 1820 the Uduvil Seminary was established in Uduvil. It was situated in an abandoned Fransiscan mission built by the Portuguese. Harriet Winslow (1796-1833), a missionary turned it into an all girl’s boarding school in 1824. It was called Missionary Seminary and Female Central School. It was Asia’s first all girls boarding school.