Ranking News

The University of Colombo has reaffirmed its excellence by securing the leading position among Sri Lankan universities in the 1st edition of the Webometrics Ranking 2024. Remarkably, the university has achieved the 1426th spot globally. This ranking recognizes the university's exceptional performance across several criteria, including the influence of its online content, citations in prominent [...]

QS Quacquarelli Symonds, the global higher education analyst, released the sophomore edition of the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2024 on 5th December 2023. This has featured 1397 institutions across 95 countries and territories and the University of Toronto, Canada was crowned the world’s most sustainable university this year. The ranking also included two universities [...]

The University of Colombo has achieved an unprecedented milestone by securing the top position in Times Higher Education World Rankings, QS World Rankings, and Webometrics Rankings, establishing itself as the premier academic institution in Sri Lanka. In an extraordinary achievement, the University of Colombo has become the first university in Sri Lanka to secure the […]

The Times Higher Education (THE) released its 2024 World University Rankings on September 27, 2023. This year, the overall ranking includes 1,904 institutes from around the world, and the University of Colombo is ranked 1001 – 1200th. Among the five Sri Lankan universities and one institute that were considered for the 2024 World University Rankings […]

The University of Colombo has once again proven its excellence by securing the top position among Sri Lankan universities in the second edition of the Webometrics Ranking 2023. The university has achieved an impressive 46th rank in South Asia and 1487th rank worldwide. The 20th anniversary edition of the Webometrics Ranking, spanning from 2004 to [...]

QS Rankings announced its QS World University Rankings 2024, the 20th anniversary edition, on June 27th, 2023. The QS World University Rankings evaluates universities based on various factors, including institutional research and discovery, employability and outcomes, learning experience, global engagement, and sustainability. Notably, the University of Colombo has made a significant leap in its ranking, [...]

The Times Higher Education recently released its Asia University Rankings for 2023, which incorporates 13 performance indicators similar to those used in the THE World University Rankings. The Asia University Rankings assesses universities based on their core missions, which encompass teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. The University of Colombo has demonstrated remarkable advancement [...]

The Times Higher Education (THE) released the fifth edition of THE Impact Rankings on the 1 of June 2023. This year, the overall ranking includes 1591 universities from 112 countries/regions. THE Impact Rankings serves as a global benchmark for universities, evaluating their performance in alignment with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through calibrated [...]

University of Colombo is proud to announce that it has once again retained its position as the top university in Sri Lanka in the first edition of the 2023 Webometrics Ranking. This is the 20th Anniversary Edition (2004-2023) of the Webometrics Ranking, which evaluates the impact of a university's web content, citations in top Google [...]

The University of Colombo has been Ranked 601 – 800th place among 1799 universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 while improving from its rank in the previous year which was 801 – 1000th. The results are based on the data provided for the year 2020 as per the requirements of [...]

The University of Colombo is pleased to announce that we have retained the top position among Sri Lankan Universities in the Second edition - July 2022 (version 14.0) of Webometrics Ranking 2022. Webometrics classifies the university's visibility, transparency and indicators of excellence, which illustrates the teaching commitment, research results, perceived international prestige and links with [...]

The University of Colombo is pleased to announce that it has retained its top position among Sri Lankan Universities in the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) 2022. This is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs, and societal […]

The University of Colombo is pleased to announce that we have retained the top position among Sri Lankan Universities in the 1st edition of Webometrics Ranking 2022. This classifies university visibility, transparency and indicators of excellence, which illustrates the teaching commitment, research results, the perceived international prestige and links with the community, industrial and economic [...]