UVA Wellassa University

UVA Wellassa University is the first Entrepreneurial University, providing education to the students focusing on employers’ needs and entrepreneurship. The new course driven structure of education facilitates interdisciplinarity, generates the knowledge base for education and practically enlightens their path. Value addition to national resource base caters for sustainable development of the nation. Our theme provides the necessary emphasis that should pervade the system within to pursue a vision clearly giving us a direction on Value Addition to the National Resource Base. It is also the only Entrepreneurial University in Sri Lanka. As such all our degree programs deliver knowledge and skills required by the employers in industry and commerce for value addition. The programs cover resource areas of Aquatic, Export, Tea, Palm, Latex, Minerals, Tourism, Hospitality & Events Management, IT, Entrepreneurship, Management, Science and Technology. The net result of this strategic theme effectively produces graduates readily employable both in the state and the private sector.

• To effectively deliver new broad-based programs with outstanding combinations of subjects of relevance to economic development and value addition
• To create and maintain an environment conducive for the pursuit of academic excellence
• To produce well rounded students matching the demands of society
• To fulfill all expectations of the government in the final assessment of the university's performance as a national higher education centre.

Research focused on the value addition to the national resource base is an imperative in generating new knowledge, products, services, and processes which are vital for the economic development. Most of the challenges which need to be met locally and nationally have global relevance. UWU has innovated a course driven academic process combined with an operations driven administrative process to respond proactively to the ever changing market needs and thereby to create readily employable entrepreneurial graduates who could take leadership roles in economic development of the country. Having understood the dire need of value addition to the national resource base for economic development of the country, UWU offers eleven market oriented degree programs directly fitting into the theme of value addition toward knowledge economy.

Student services commit to provide student focused services. Accommodation, Sport and Well-being and Career Destinations are some of the services provided to the undergraduates since their first step to the university. The university supports student athletes both on and off the pitch, court, field, and track. As a part of the other activities of the undergraduates, UWU introduced “Glamouro”, a high profile event for first year students.

Uva Wellassa University is the first fully-fledged entrepreneurial University established in the national university system of Sri Lanka focusing on value addition to the national resource base. It operates under the UGC umbrella as a teaching and research centre with emphasis on interdisciplinary to meet the social, scientific and technical needs of the country. The University will further strengthen its research culture and advance its research links with the hitherto neglected service sectors of Tea, Rubber, Palm (e.g. coconut), Agricultural Exports, Minerals, Fisheries, Animal Production, ICT applications, Entrepreneurship and Management, Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management and Energy industries. New knowledge generated will be transferred to the students and the industry for the benefit of the country. Setting up of this University is an outcome of the government’s efforts to promote demand driven education, focused on capacity building for national development. The University recognizes its role as a strategic partner in development of Uva province, and aspires to contribute to the region's economic growth, social development and environmental sustainability. This University will serve undergraduate, postgraduate, specialty, corporate as well as continuing education market segments. It will provide opportunities for adult education and distance education in addition to traditional higher education.

All academic staff members are bound to deliver below indicated three pillars of service, based on which their performance is evaluated.