Private University Fees in Sri Lanka — Degree Cost Comparison

Institute fee pages are hard to compare because they do not publish the same shape of number. One quotes a fee per year, another a fee per semester, a third a single figure for the whole degree, and the registration and library fees sit on a separate page from all of them. This tool reduces each programme to the one number a family has to find, and then to the number they actually budget with — the monthly equivalent.

Every rupee here is transcribed from NSBM Green University's own programme pages on 2026-09-24. Nothing is estimated, indexed or averaged. Each row in the table links to the page it came from, so you can check any figure in one click. The arithmetic is all of the following and nothing else:

1. Tuition total— the institute's own published total for the programme. It also publishes a year-by-year schedule, and for 42 of the 43 programmes those year rows add up to the published total exactly. The tool re-derives the sum independently and names the 1 that does not (see below) rather than quietly picking one of the two.
2. One-off fees — registration plus library, charged once at first enrolment. Counted once across the foundation year and the degree, because enrolment happens once at the same institute.
3. Foundation year— added when your qualification is below the programme's published direct entry. For 42 of the 43 priced programmes that direct entry is three passes at G.C.E. A/L in one sitting, or an equivalent foreign qualification; BA (Hons) in Interior Design asks for two principal passes. Below it, the one-year Foundation Programme for Bachelor's Degree costs Rs 800,000.
4. Grand total = tuition + one-off + foundation.
5. Per year and per month = grand total ÷ total years, and ÷ (total years × 12), where total years includes the foundation year when one is counted. Both are shown rounded to the rupee.

There is no interest, no discount rate and no inflation in any of this. A payment plan's financing cost is a different calculation and belongs to the loan EMI calculator, which is linked rather than duplicated. Scholarships, hostel fees, transport, laptops and living costs are also out — the institute does not publish them as a rule anyone can apply, and a guess there would misstate the number a family has to find.

The ranking defaults to the lowest grand total. Switching it to the lowest per-month figure usually changes the order, because a four-year degree spreads a bigger total across 48 months while a three-year degree concentrates a smaller one into 36. Neither answer is wrong; they answer different questions, which is why both are on screen at once.

Verified two ways. The 11worked-example checks below run against the live functions on every render, and all of them pass. Each programme's tuition is also re-derived from its published year rows, ignoring the institute's own total: 42 of 43 reconcile to the rupee.

Direct entry, no foundation year, one-off fees included. Figures as published on 2026-09-24.

Source: NSBM Green Universityprogramme pages. Law shows no figure because all five of its bachelor's programmes publish a per-semester fee without saying how many semesters there are.

A fee comparison is only as honest as its coverage. On 2026-09-24 the programme pages of every other large non-state institute were read directly from this server. Here is what each one publishes:

An institute joins the comparison when its own figures become readable — not when a plausible figure turns up on someone's blog. If you have a fee schedule published by an institute itself, send it and it goes in.

Programmes at NSBM with no complete published fee

These 16bachelor's programmes quote only a per-semester figure, without publishing how many semesters the degree runs, or ask you to call. Two semesters a year is the obvious guess, and it is still a guess, so they are named here rather than multiplied out.

• Bachelor of Laws (Honours)— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• LLB (Hons) Law — University of Plymouth— publishes no figure; the page says to contact the institute
• BM (Hons) in Law and Business Studies— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BM (Hons) in Law and E-Commerce— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BM (Hons) in Law and International Trade— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BM (Hons) in Accounting and Finance— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BM (Honours) in Business Analytics— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BSc in Business Management (Industrial Management) (Special)— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BSc in Business Management (Logistics Management) (Special)— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BSc in Management Information Systems (Special)— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Technology— publishes a semester fee of Rs 400,000, with no published number of semesters
• BSc in Business Administration (BSBA) — American University, USA— publishes no figure; the page says to contact the institute
• BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence — University of Plymouth— publishes no figure; the page says to contact the institute
• BEng (Hons) Electronic and Computer Engineering— publishes no figure; the page says to contact the institute
• BEng (Hons) in Automotive Engineering— publishes no figure; the page says to contact the institute
• BEng (Hons) Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering— publishes no figure; the page says to contact the institute

Where the institute contradicts itself

• Bachelor of Information Technology (Major in Cyber Security) — the published total is Rs 2,300,000 but the year rows add to Rs 2,200,000, a gap of Rs 100,000. The instalment figures on the same page support the published total, so this tool uses the total and flags the row.

A state university place won on A/L district merit carries no tuition fee, and two other state routes charge a fraction of a private degree. Exhaust them before committing to a seven-figure total:

• University cut-off finder — whether your Z-score reaches a state place in your district.
• External degree finder — state-university degrees you can register for part time, with the published fee schedule line by line.
• Open University course finder — OUSL programmes and what they charge per level.
• UGC-approved degree checker — whether a specific award is recognised, which is a separate question from what it costs.

• NSBM Green University — BSc (Hons) Computer Science, course fee panel
• NSBM Green University — Foundation Programme for Bachelor's Degree, fee and entry qualifications
• University Grants Commission — degree-awarding status and recognised degrees
• Ministry of Higher Education — other recognised institutes and degrees
• NSBM Green University — official site

Every fee on this page was read from the institute's own programme page on 2026-09-24; each row in the table links to the page it came from. The dataset is due a re-check by 2027-03-31, before the next intake prices. If a figure here no longer matches the institute's page, the institute's page wins.