Kaunas - Education

Education

Kaunas is often referred to as a city of students; there are about 50,000 students enrolled in its universities. The first parochial school in Kaunas was mentioned in 1473. A four-form Jesuit school was opened in Kaunas in 1649. It was reorganized into a college in 1653. The oldest still functioning institution of higher education is Kaunas Priest Seminary, established in 1864. Other institutes of higher education are:

  • ISM University of Management and Economics - one of the few private institutions of higher education in Lithuania
  • Vytautas Magnus University founded in 1922 as the University of Lithuania and renamed Vytautas Magnus in 1930.
  • Kaunas Business College
  • Kaunas University of Applied Sciences (Kaunas College)
  • Kaunas University of Medicine
  • Kaunas University of Technology - the largest technical university in the Baltic States
  • Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education
  • Lithuanian University of Agriculture
  • Lithuanian Veterinary Academy
  • Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities
  • Mykolas Romeris University Faculty of Public Security
  • Kaunas Art Institute

Kaunas has also a large number of public and private basic and secondary schools, as well as kindergartens and nurseries. Kaunas also has numerous libraries. The most important is the Kaunas County Public Library. It was established as the Central Library of Lithuania in 1919. A part of its collection was transferred to Martynas MaÅžvydas National Library of Lithuania in 1963. Now the Kaunas County Public Library holds more than 2.2 million volumes in its collection and functions as a depository library of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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