Status Today
In modern times, the university still offers studies with an internationally recognized content.
As of January 1, 2007, there were 23,255 students studying at Vilnius University.
The current rector is Professor Benediktas Juodka of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
The university, specifically the courtyard, was featured in the American TV series the Amazing Race.
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Famous quotes containing the words status and/or today:
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)
“Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will in fifty years’ time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.”
—Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)