University of Moratuwa
State university · Moratuwa · uom.lk
Undergraduates, 2024
9,232
Courses with a 2025/26 cut-off
16
Undergraduates, 2022 → 2024
+1,075
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence | 1.1199 | 2.4677 | 2.4074 | — |
| Business Science | 1.0598 | 2.2306 | 2.2306 | — |
| Engineering | 2.0291 | 2.1689 | 2.0363 | 2 of 25 |
| Medicine | 1.9279 | 1.9819 | 1.9290 | 7 of 25 |
| Architecture | -0.4582 | 1.9291 | 0.9680 | 3 of 25 |
| Transport Management & Logistics Engineering (TMLE) | 0.7340 | 1.7487 | 1.7415 | — |
| Information Technology & Management | 1.0430 | 1.7401 | 1.7401 | — |
| Information Technology (IT) | 1.2123 | 1.7024 | 1.6293 | — |
| Engineering (TM) | 0.6966 | 1.6643 | 1.6643 | — |
| Engineering (EM) | 0.7500 | 1.6602 | 1.6602 | — |
| Facilities Management | 0.9535 | 1.5995 | 1.5828 | — |
| Quantity Surveying | 1.0061 | 1.5675 | 1.5466 | — |
| Fashion Design & Product Development | -0.3476 | 1.4464 | 1.0140 | 7 of 25 |
| Urban Informatics and Planning | 0.8059 | 1.3374 | 1.3245 | — |
| Design | -0.0627 | 1.2718 | 0.7374 | 7 of 25 |
| Landscape Architecture | -0.3265 | 0.7278 | -0.1033 | 10 of 25 |
Undergraduates by field, 2024
- Engineering4,357
- Architecture & Quantity Surveying2,215
- Computer Science1,638
- Management & Commerce615
- Medicine407
Undergraduates by year
2022
8,157
2023
8,748
2024
9,232
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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