The Council is the chief executive body and the governing authority of the University. The Council of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka comprises the Vice- Chancellor (ex-officio chairman), the Deans: the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, the Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Dean of the Faculty of Technology, two elected representatives of the Senate and ten members of distinction in educational, professional, commercial,
industrial, scientific, and administrative sphere. 

Members of the Council of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka are as follows.