Higher education in Sri Lanka

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Higher education in Sri Lanka is an optional final stage of formal learning following secondary education. Higher education, also referred to as tertiary education occurs most commonly universities or degree-granting institutions. These may be public universities, public and private degree-granting institutions which award their own degrees or degrees from foreign universities.^[1] High visibility issues include limited capacity of public universities to cater for the demand and opposition to private universities from certain segments.^[2]