Private Non-profit Institutions
Operating as non-profit institutions, these award their own degrees with consent of the UGC.
- Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (2 campuses and 3 centres)
- Aquinas University College, Colombo (Registered with the Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission of Sri Lanka in 1954)
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