Frequently Asked Questions

The Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna is located in Karapitiya, Galle, Sri Lanka. It is situated opposite to the Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya.

Latitude : 6.068162, Longitude : 80.226436

By phone: +94 91 223 2321, +94 91 223 4730, +94 223 4731, +94 91 223 4801, +94 91 223 4803


By post: Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Karapitiya, Galle, Sri Lanka

The faculty is easily accessible via bus and train.


By bus – Use a bus to Karapitiya from the Galle bus stand which is about 6-kilometer distance. There are several routes heading to/from Galle to/ from Karapitiya.


By train – You can get down at the railway station at Galle and then take a bus to Karapitiya.


Once you get down at the bus stand in Karapitiya, you are only few meters of walking distance away from the faculty.

You can click the relevant section on the menu bar of this website on Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna and get the required details.

The faculty has hostels within the premises and you can apply for hostel facilities once you are enrolled in to the faculty as an undergraduate. You can download the application from the “Documents download” under the section “For Students” which is displayed at the menu bar.

The teaching and assessments are conducted in the English language.

The timetables and the academic calendars are available at the section “Time tables” under the section on “For students” which is shown at the main bar of the website.

You can click on the section “For students” from the menu bar of this website and then you can download the application forms from the section on “Documents download”.