Kaunas University of Technology
The third famous university in Top 5 Best Universities in Lithuania that Toplist would like to introduce to you is Kaunas University of Technology. Kaunas University of Technology (acronym KTU) is a public research university in Kaunas, Lithuania. KTU has its beginnings in the University of Lithuania, which was founded on 16 February 1922. The university was renamed Vytautas Magnus University on 8 June 1930. At that time, the university was divided into seven faculties: the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, the Faculty of Evangelical Theology, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Faculty of Technology. In the early 1940s, Vytautas Magnus University was reorganized, with the faculties of law and humanities being transferred to the University of Vilnius.
Kaunas University of Technology offers 122 study programs, including 48 bachelor's degrees, 54 master's degrees, 19 doctoral degrees, and one non-degree student program. Sixty-six of them are taught entirely in English. The university enrolls around 9,000 students, including over 6,600 Bachelor's degree holders, 2,000 Master's degree holders, and 320 Doctoral degree holders. 6.5 percent are foreign-born. All of this falls into KTU's nine faculties.
Faculties:
- Faculty of Chemical Technology
- School of Economics and Business
- Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Faculty of Informatics
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design
- Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
- Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture
- Panevėžys Faculty of Technologies and Business
KTU promotes research in the physical, technological, and social sciences, as well as experimental development, as well as research in the biological sciences and humanities. All of this fits under KTU's eight research institutes.
Website: ktu.edu
