Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas

Established	1956
Type	Public
Rector	Prof Dr Habil Romualdas Ginevičius
Staff	1736
Students	~13,500
Location	Vilnius, Lithuania (EU)
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.vgtu.lt/

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuanian: Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas or VGTU) is one of the two technical universities in Lithuania.

[edit] History

September 1, 1956 is considered to be the date of founding a higher technical school in Vilnius, when the Vilnius Evening division of the Evening faculty of Kaunas Politechnical Institute (KPI) was established.

06 July, 1961 the KPI Vilnius Evening Faculty was restructured into KPI Vilnius Branch, with 2 divisions: the day-time and evening studies. The number of students continuously increased, new specialities appeared.

Aug 1, 1969. KPI Vilnius Branch was restructured into the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute (VISI). Thus an independent higher technical school has appeared in Vilnius.

In 1990 the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute became Vilnius Technical University, which on August 22, 1996 was awarded the name of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.

[edit] Present

At present the University includes 8 faculties (Architecture, Business Management, Civil Engineering, Electronics, Environmental Engineering, Fundamental Sciences, Mechanics, Transport Engineering), Aviation Institute named after A.Gustaitis, International Studies Centre, Centre for Continuous Education, 10 research institutes and 19 laboratories.

On Sept 1, 2004 over 13 554 students came to the University's classrooms, with 8465 of them being first-year students. The university has 1736 staff members (1449 of them working full-time). Teaching staff numbers 904, including 49 Research fellows. There are also 117 Doctors Habil and Professors, 472 Doctors or Associate Professors, 67 Lectors and 238 Assistants.

The University trains Bachelors, Engineers and Masters of sciences according to 88 programmes of studies, including Humanities sciences, Physical sciences, Social sciences, Technological sciences. The university also organises Doctoral studies in 15 areas (ie Technological, Humanities, Social, and Physical sciences, etc)

All the faculties have the right for Habilitation.This certifies that the University's scope of education and research is rather versatile and of high academic level. The aim of the University is to do what is mostly helpful for the State.