There are institutions provide entrance to professions such as the Sri Lanka Law College.
Vocational education and training is carried out for degree level at the Open University, Sri Lanka and the University of Vocational Technology, as well as at diploma level at 37 technical colleges, Institute of Engineering Technology, Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education[4] and the Sri Lanka School of Agriculture.
The college provided courses of study in art and humanities, science and medicine prepared undergraduates for examination at the University of London.
[8] Undergraduate education in state universities is free but entrance is extremely competitive, limited and standardized.
[11] Admission to the university system is based on the highly competitive GCE Advanced Level examination.
Government also provides grants for students through the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund.
Due to the limited intake into state universities, admissions are based on the student's rank order on average Z Scores obtained by candidates at the GCE Advanced Level to replicate a district basis representation.
As a result, many students who are not granted admission find other means of higher education.
Low economic growth, limited vacancies in public sector as well as unemployable skill set of graduates who have studied aesthetics subjects, while there is a major shortage of technical knowledge.
But with the emergence of JVP-backed student unions such as IUSF, ragging has served primarily to ensure the continuing domination of JVP political power within the universities, academics suggest with several student death associated to it.