Klaipėda University
Klaipėda University (Lithuanian: Klaipėdos Universitetas or KU) is a university in the Lithuanian seaport Klaipėda.
Overview
The University was formally founded on January 1, 1991 by a decree of Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament). The new university incorporated existing institutions of higher education in the city.[2] At its inception, it comprised 3,000 students and three faculties (Humanities and natural sciences, Marine Engineering, and Pedagogy).[2] It has since grown to seven faculties and eight institutes: faculties of Natural Science and Mathematics, Humanities, Marine Engineering, Art, Pedagogy, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences; Maritime Institute, Seascape Institute, Institute of Continuing Studies, Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Institute of Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology, Institute of Regional Policy and Planning, Mechatronics Institute, and Musicology Institute. Having 9,700 students and 600 persons in educational staff (in 2006), the University offers 67 undergraduate (bachelor degree), 4 specialized professional, 48 graduate (master's degree), and 3 postgraduate (doctoral) study programs.
Historic structures of University campus
Klaipėda University occupies a former cantonment. The territory of 23.6 hectares (58 acres) has 6 Neo-Gothic buildings that are declared monuments of architecture. In the first half of the 20th century these two–four storey red brick buildings, erected in 1904–1907, were a place of two residential blocks for servicemen, a chapel-canteen-club, HQ and a guardhouse, a residential block for officers and an accouterments storehouse. In different periods it was a place for German, French, Lithuanian and Russian troops. Historic researches of these structures was completed in 1994.
Students and studies
Klaipėda University offers a developed three-level study system: 67 bachelor, 4 specialized vocational, 48 master, 3 doctoral study programs. It also offers 7 international study programs for foreign students. Its location in a seaport determined that the university develops academic programs not found in other Lithuanian universities, including marine environment research and engineering of marine transport, hydrology and oceanography, port technologies and engineering, history and languages of Lithuania Minor and Baltic region, ecological engineering, landscape architecture, underwater archaeology.
Rectors
- Prof. Donatas Švitra (1991–1993)
- Prof. Stasys Vaitekūnas (1993–2001)
- Prof. Vladas Žulkus (since 2002)
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