 Taking into consideration the job opportunities that exist for ICT graduates in Sri Lanka & overseas, the UCSC took the initiative to launch the three year External Degree program leading to the award of Degree of Bachelor of Information Technology (External) in 2000.External candidates can learn for BIT online with optional assistance from private training institutions.University of Colombo School of Computing offers postgraduate and research degrees across disciplines in Computer Science, Information Technology and Information Security enabling candidates to uncover new knowledge either by the discovery of new facts, the formulation of theories or the innovative reinterpretation of known data and established ideas.