University of Kelaniya has been globally ranked 743rd among world’s best universities in the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2020. Being locally ranked as 02 nd , University of Kelaniya has shown high progress in Scopus indexed publications.
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University of Colombo (742), University of Peradeniya (758), University of Ruhuna (775), University of Sri Jayawardenepura (778) and University of Moratuwa (838) have been ranked as other Sri Lankan institutions for the year 2020.