About Kaunas University of Technology

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) established in 1922 is the largest technological university and the second largest institution of higher education in Lithuania. Ranked among the top 500 world universities by employer reputation criteria (QS World University Rankings 2019) KTU provides studies and research in all areas answering the demands of today’s ever changing world.
Sustaining extensive links with business and industry, KTU is one of the most open and flexible universities engaging in joint projects with largest local companies, international corporations, and state and cultural institutions. The synergy of the physical, social, and technological sciences and the humanities and arts creates an open, exciting, and fertile environment for the development of competences that are of crucial importance today.

• The largest technological university in Lithuania, established in 1922
• Frontier and applied research in all areas: from humanities to technological sciences
• Innovations for business and industry at national and international level
• Campus priorities – interdisciplinarity, internationality, and applicability of technologies – are integrated into all aspects of university life
• Founder of two integrated sciences, studies and business centres-valleys – Santaka and Nemunas, which state-of-the art facilities are available for science, studies and commercial purposes
• Founder of the first academic startup community in Lithuania – 75 successful startup companies established since 2012
• International students comprise 9 percent, and the numbers of international faculty is constantly increasing. Studies abroad are facilitated by >500 Erasmus+ and bilateral agreements with the universities across the globe