Swamy Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies

State higher-education institute · Batticaloa

Undergraduates, 2024

1,327

Courses with a 2025/26 cut-off

Undergraduates, 2022 → 2024

+266

Undergraduates on the UGC's own count, excluding students carried over from earlier years (the backlog). The Open University of Sri Lanka is counted separately and isn't included.

Z-score cut-offs, 2025/26

State universities admit on the A-level Z-score, which places a candidate against everyone who sat the same subjects that year. Each course has a cut-off for every one of Sri Lanka's 25 districts, because places are shared out between districts — so the same course can need a very different score in Colombo and in a rural district. Shown: the lowest and highest district cut-off, and Colombo's. Z-scores compare courses within a year and a subject stream, not across them.

Course	Lowest district	Highest district	Colombo	No qualified candidate
Music	-0.3180	1.0697	1.0697	9 of 25
Visual & Technological Arts	-0.6710	0.9662	—	7 of 25
Drama & Theatre	-0.6544	0.9167	0.7413	10 of 25
Dance	-0.8505	0.1695	-0.2511	13 of 25

Undergraduates by field, 2024

Arts1,327

Undergraduates by year

2022

1,061

2023

1,288

2024

1,327

Undergraduate study at Sri Lanka's state universities is free for students admitted through the UGC. Compare every state university.

Sources: University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka — “Sri Lanka University Statistics 2024” (Table 3.2) and the 2025/26 minimum Z-score cut-offs; Ministry of Higher Education — list of degree-awarding institutes. Figures re-keyed and summarised by CollegeMatcher.

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