The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies is a tertiary level education institution specializing in offering an array of courses in the discipline of International Relations and its sub disciplines.

The institution’s unique academic posture has enabled the BCIS to be a key policy think tank in affecting the creation, facilitation and dissemination of knowledge

The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies was inaugurated modestly on 9th December 1974 in a section of the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall complex, where the historic Fifth Conference of Heads of States and Governments of the Non-Aligned Nations was held in August 1976. The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) was the brainchild of late Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world’s first female Prime Minister who became the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for the first time in 1960.