Sri Lanka Qualifications Framework (SLQF) for Higher Education

There are various types of courses available, BSc, Postgraduate Diploma, BA, MSc, MA, MBA, MDA, MPhil, PhD etc. Many of us don't know how these courses are ordered and unaware that there is a framework for these qualifications. 

In 2013, the Ministry of Higer Education with the funding from Worldbank defined the SLQF for higher education in Sri Lanka. In 2015 this was updated with the world standards, 

The following is the SLQF in summary. 

As you can see this shows the clear organization of different qualification. 

Each qualification has minimum requirements as shown in the following table. 

If you are holding any qualifications, verify whether you have achieved necessary requirements as many institutes find ways to bypass. If they have done that bypass, ultimately, you will be in trouble not them.

Importantly, you do not need to go step-by-step as there are defined pathways as shown below. 

If you want to read the details of this report you can go to the following link.

https://www.ugc.ac.lk/attachments/1156_SLQF_2016_en.pdf