Kaunas University of Technology
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is the largest technical university in the three Baltic States. KTU is famous throughout the world for its breakthroughs in ultrasound, organic chemistry, mechatronics, system diagnostics, environmental engineering and in many other fields of science. The University successfully implements European education programmes and closely collaborates with Lithuanian and foreign industry. University scientists carry out 70 per cent of country’s higher education researche for business.
KTU offers six main fields of study: technological, physical and social sciences, arts, humanities and biomedicine. Academic staff consists of 1266 employees: 811 with doctoral degree (732 PhDs, 79 Habilitated doctors), 472 with academic degree (354 Associate professors, 118 Professors). There are almost 17 000 students studying in the university: almost 13 000 undergraduate students, almost 3 000 graduate students and almost 400 doctoral students.