The Ministry of Education renews MOU with General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), Sri Lanka on 31st March 2017 for the admission of Bhutanese students to study medicine. Annually KDU will admit between 5 to 15 Bhutanese students for MBBS and 5 to 10 students for other paramedical and engineering programmes at KDU. Welcoming the delegates to Bhutan, Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk expressed his appreciation and gratitude to KDU for the opportunity given to Bhutanese students to pursue medicine which is of critical need to Bhutan.   

Collaboration with KDU and Ministry of Education which began in 2012 with the visit by its former Vice Chancellor, Major General Milinda Peiris was formalized with the signing of MOU in 2014 in Sri Lanka. With 3 Bhutanese students enrolled in its first batch in 2012, today there are 43 students undergoing MBBS at KDU.