Health Promotion in Sri Lanka: Careers, Curriculum & Future Outlook

📘 Overview

Health Promotion is the science and practice of keeping people and communities healthy — preventing disease and improving wellbeing rather than treating illness. Offered by Rajarata University at Mihintale, it is the first degree of its kind in South Asia. It suits people-focused, community-minded students who care about public health, behaviour change and social wellbeing, and want a hands-on career working directly with communities.

It earns a future-proof score of 7.0 because preventive and community health is a durable, people-centred field that is growing with rising non-communicable disease and wellbeing concerns, even though the formal local job market is concentrated in the public health and development sectors.

📚 What You'll Study

About a third of the programme is field practical — students work with an identified community over two years — alongside core and multidisciplinary coursework.

• Principles of health promotion and public health
• Community health and development
• Health behaviour and behaviour change
• Health education and communication
• Social determinants of health and health equity
• Non-communicable disease prevention
• Research methods and a long-term community field project
• Multidisciplinary health and social sciences

⏳ Duration

This is a four-year B.Sc. degree in Health Promotion, with a strong, multi-year field-practical component.

✅ Entry Requirements

This is a Biological Science stream degree. To be eligible you must obtain at least Simple (S) passes in Biology, Chemistry and a third subject chosen from Agricultural Science, Higher Mathematics, Mathematics, Combined Mathematics or Physics at the G.C.E. (Advanced Level) Examination.

• Biology — minimum grade S
• Chemistry — minimum grade S
• Agricultural Science — minimum grade S
• Higher Mathematics — minimum grade S
• Mathematics — minimum grade S
• Physics — minimum grade S

Final selection also depends on your Z-score, which varies by university and district every year — check your eligibility with the free tool on findmydegree.lk.

🏛️ Where It's Offered

• Rajarata University of Sri Lanka — 103 seats

ℹ️ Entry requirements, seats and universities are sourced from official UGC data (2024/2025 A/L). Career and curriculum details are general guidance — confirm specifics with each university.