The diverse interests covered by societies open to students comprise a major attraction of life in a residential university. These societies are either university-based or faculty-based. The larger societies in the Faculty of Engineering are departmental groups, which have been in existence long enough to develop their own conventions and traditions. They are the Society of Chemical and Process Engineering Students (SCaPES), the Civil Engineering Society (CES) Association of Computer Engineering Students (ACES), the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society (EEES), the Mechanical Engineering Society (MES), and the Manufacturing Engineering Association (MEA). Students interested in music, drama,
literature, politics, religion etc. join in the activities of the appropriate university societies or faculty societies based on extramural and, sometimes, esoteric interests
Futher details of the societies can be accessed through below links.
| Student Society | Department | link |
| Chemical and Process Engineering Students (SCaPES) | Department of Chemical and Process Engineering | https://eng.pdn.ac.lk/chemical/?page_id=756 |