Kaunas University of Technology

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is a public research university in Kaunas, Lithuania, tracing its origins to the University of Lithuania founded on 16 February 1922, and is the country's largest technological university, set in Lithuania's second-largest city.考纳斯理工大学（简称 KTU）是立陶宛考纳斯的一所公立研究型大学，其渊源可追溯至1922年2月16日创立的立陶宛大学，是立陶宛规模最大的理工科大学，坐落于该国第二大城市。

Renamed Vytautas Magnus University in 1930 and reorganised as the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in 1950, it took its present name in 1990 and is today organised into nine faculties, eight institutes and nine research centres.该校1930年更名为维陶塔斯·马格努斯大学，1950年改组为考纳斯理工学院，1990年改用现名，今设九个学院、八个研究所与九个科研中心。

With 7,938 students in 2025, including 1,429 international students, it was placed joint 696th in the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校2025年有7938名学生，其中1429名为留学生，在2027年QS世界大学排名中并列第696名。

History

• The university traces its origins to the University of Lithuania, established in Kaunas on 16 February 1922, whose technical faculties became the seed of the later technological university.该校渊源可追溯至1922年2月16日在考纳斯创立的立陶宛大学，其技术类院系是日后这所理工科大学的雏形。

• It was renamed Vytautas Magnus University on 8 June 1930 and then comprised seven faculties, including Theology and Philosophy, Evangelical Theology, Humanities, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Medicine, and Technology.该校于1930年6月8日更名为维陶塔斯·马格努斯大学，当时设七个学院，包括神学与哲学、福音派神学、人文、法学、数学与自然科学、医学以及技术学院。

• At the beginning of 1940 the university was reorganised, and the Faculties of Law and Humanities were transferred to the University of Vilnius, leaving the Kaunas institution centred on applied fields.1940年初，该校进行改组，法学与人文学院被移交维尔纽斯大学，留在考纳斯的机构转向应用类学科。

• On 21 August 1940, following the Soviet occupation, it was renamed the University of Kaunas, and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences moved to Vilnius in autumn 1940.1940年8月21日，在苏联占领之后，该校更名为考纳斯大学；数学与自然科学学院于1940年秋迁往维尔纽斯。

• After the German occupation in 1941 it was again renamed Vytautas Magnus University with five faculties, and the institution closed on 17 March 1943 during the German occupation.1941年德国占领后，该校再度改称维陶塔斯·马格努斯大学，设五个学院，并于1943年3月17日在德国占领期间关闭。

• The Soviet government reopened the university on 13 November 1944, and it operated as Kaunas National Vytautas Magnus University until 1946.苏联政府于1944年11月13日重新开办该校，至1946年间称考纳斯国立维陶塔斯·马格努斯大学。

• The Faculty of History and Theology closed in June 1949, and in 1950 the university was reorganised into the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute and the Kaunas Medical Institute, splitting one institution into two.历史与神学院于1949年6月停办，1950年该校改组为考纳斯理工学院与考纳斯医学院，一所学校由此一分为二。

• Throughout the Soviet era the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute resisted Russification, continued to teach in the Lithuanian language and built a reputation in ultrasound, vibrotechnics and textile research.在整个苏联时期，考纳斯理工学院抵制俄罗斯化，坚持以立陶宛语授课，并在超声、振动技术与纺织研究领域积累了声誉。

• Under the influence of Perestroika, Vytautas Magnus University was re-established as a separate university from the polytechnic in 1989, thereby reviving the name carried between 1930 and 1940.在改革浪潮影响下，维陶塔斯·马格努斯大学于1989年从理工学院中分出，重新成为独立大学，恢复了1930至1940年间使用的校名。

• The polytechnic took its present name, Kaunas University of Technology, in 1990 and began a rapid reform of its studies and research.该理工学院于1990年改用现名考纳斯理工大学，并开启教学与研究的快速改革。

• Following the restoration of independence, KTU adopted Western standards, introducing a two-level degree system and new procedures for research degrees and academic titles in 1992, aligning itself with Western European practice.恢复独立后，该校采用西方标准，1992年引入两级学位体系以及研究学位与学术称号的新程序，与西欧惯例接轨。

• In 1998 the university joined the Magna Charta of the European Universities and became a member of the European University Association and the International Association of Universities, the two bodies linking it to the wider European academic community.1998年，该校加入欧洲大学大宪章，并成为欧洲大学协会与国际大学协会成员，这两个组织把它与更广阔的欧洲学术共同体联系起来。

• The KTU Regional Business Incubator, the first technology business incubator in Lithuania, was established in 1998 to support new enterprises and to commercialise university research.考纳斯理工大学区域企业孵化器成立于1998年，是立陶宛首个技术型企业孵化器，为初创企业提供支持并推动大学科研成果商业化。

• In 2008 Rymantas Jonas Kažys received the National Award for Partnership Advancement for creating technologies of supersonic measurement and diagnostics and for advancing European research practice.2008年，里曼塔斯·约纳斯·卡日斯因开创超声测量与诊断技术并推动欧洲科研实践而获得国家伙伴关系推进奖。

• In 2010 Jurgis Kazimieras Staniškis, head of the Institute of Environmental Engineering, received the Baltic Sea Award 2010, the only Lithuanian scientist ever to have done so.2010年，环境工程研究所所长尤尔吉斯·卡齐米拉斯·斯塔尼什基斯获颁2010年波罗的海奖，是迄今唯一获此奖的立陶宛科学家。

• In 2010 an agreement on the Santaka Valley Integrated Science, Studies and Business Centre was signed, and KTU later became the founder of two such valleys, Santaka and Nemunas.2010年签署了桑塔卡谷科教研一体化中心协议，此后该校成为桑塔卡与内穆纳斯两个此类「谷」中心的创办方。

• On 13 October 2017 Klaus Schwab, the founder and head of the World Economic Forum, became the 45th honorary doctor of Kaunas University of Technology for spreading knowledge of the economy and innovation.2017年10月13日，世界经济论坛创始人兼主席克劳斯·施瓦布因传播经济与创新知识而成为考纳斯理工大学第45位名誉博士。

• On 8 December 2023 KTU suffered a cyber attack in which personal data including names, ID numbers, phone numbers, addresses and passport data were leaked on the dark web.2023年12月8日，该校遭遇网络攻击，姓名、身份证号、电话号码、住址与护照等个人数据被泄露至暗网。

• In 2022 the university joined the celebration of the centenary of the University of Lithuania, a year the Seimas declared the year of Lithuanian universities.2022年，该校参与庆祝立陶宛大学百年，立陶宛议会当年将其定为立陶宛大学年。

• Since 1922 the university has produced more than 157,000 graduates, and in 2025 it operated nine faculties, eight institutes and nine science centres.自1922年以来，该校已培养逾15.7万名毕业生；2025年其设有九个学院、八个研究所与九个科研中心。

• In 2025 the university also ran twelve dormitories, 23 student organisations, seven art groups and training in twenty sports, and it operates the Technologija publishing house.2025年，该校还设有十二座宿舍、23个学生组织、七个艺术团体与20个运动项目的训练，并运营 Technologija 出版社。

• KTU takes part in ECIU University, a European alliance built on challenge-based learning, and its strategy for 2026 to 2030 gives priority to internationalisation, sustainability and interdisciplinarity.该校参与以挑战式学习为基础的欧洲高校联盟 ECIU University，其2026至2030年战略以国际化、可持续与跨学科为优先方向。

Academics

• KTU's nine faculties cover chemical technology, civil engineering and architecture, electrical and electronics engineering, informatics, mathematics and natural sciences, and mechanical engineering and design.考纳斯理工大学的九个学院涵盖化学技术、土木工程与建筑、电气与电子工程、信息学、数学与自然科学，以及机械工程与设计等领域。

• They also include social sciences, arts and humanities, the School of Economics and Business, and the Panevėžys Faculty of Technologies and Business in northern Lithuania, giving KTU a footprint beyond Kaunas.此外还包括社会科学、艺术与人文学院，经济与商业学校，以及位于立陶宛北部的帕内韦日斯技术与商业学院，使该校的办学范围超出考纳斯。

• The university offers 42 bachelor's and integrated study programmes, 57 master's programmes, 21 doctoral programmes and 2 professional study programmes, taught by more than 1,000 qualified and visiting professors and industry experts.该校开设42个学士与一体化学习项目、57个硕士项目、21个博士项目与2个职业学习项目，由逾千名专任与客座教授及业界专家授课。

• Its fields span technology, engineering, informatics, mathematics, physical sciences, health, social sciences, humanities, arts, education, business and management.其学科领域涵盖技术、工程、信息学、数学、物理科学、健康、社会科学、人文、艺术、教育以及商业与管理。

• In 2025 the university enrolled 7,938 students, of whom 5,157 were first-cycle, 2,338 second-cycle and 338 third-cycle, with 1,429 international students among them.2025年，该校注册学生7938人，其中第一级学位阶段5157人、第二级2338人、第三级338人，其中有留学生1429人。

• In the same year KTU admitted 2,780 new students below doctoral level, 13.4 per cent more than in 2024, with the largest intakes in Informatics, Economics and Business, and Mechanical Engineering and Design.同年，该校录取非博士阶段新生2780人，较2024年增长13.4%，录取人数最多的是信息学、经济与商业、机械工程与设计三个学院。

• In 2025 KTU graduated 1,603 students, including 978 bachelor's and 564 master's graduates, together with 146 international students from 34 countries and 19 doctoral graduates.2025年该校毕业1603名学生，包括978名学士与564名硕士，另有来自34个国家的146名留学生与19名博士毕业生。

• More than half of its study programmes, 56 of 122, are taught in English covering both bachelor's and master's levels, with bachelor's options ranging from Chemical Technology and Engineering and Intelligent Robotics Systems to Artificial Intelligence, Materials Physics and Nanotechnologies, Aviation Engineering and Civil Engineering.其122个学习项目中有56个以英语授课，覆盖学士与硕士阶段；英文授课的本科方向包括化学技术与工程、智能机器人系统、人工智能、材料物理与纳米技术、航空工程以及土木工程。

• KTU's eight institutes include the Biomedical Engineering Institute, the Food Institute, the Institute of Architecture and Construction and the Institute of Environmental Engineering.该校八个研究所包括生物医学工程研究所、食品研究所、建筑与建造研究所以及环境工程研究所。

• Its research units also include the Institute of Materials Science, the Institute of Mechatronics, the Kazimieras Baršauskas Ultrasound Research Institute and the Health Telematics Science Institute.其研究机构还包括材料科学研究所、机电一体化研究所、卡齐米拉斯·巴尔绍斯卡斯超声研究所与健康远程信息科学研究所。

• The Santaka Valley centre, established within the student campus, focuses on sustainable chemistry, mechatronics, information and communication technology, and sustainable energy.设于学生校园内的桑塔卡谷中心聚焦可持续化学、机电一体化、信息通信技术与可持续能源。

• The National Innovations and Entrepreneurship Centre protects and commercialises the university's scientific output, while the Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centre coordinates its activities in artificial intelligence.该校国家创新与创业中心负责科研成果的保护与商业化，人工智能卓越中心则统筹其人工智能领域的工作。

• Research at KTU covers physical, technological and social sciences and experimental development, with research in biomedical sciences and the humanities also promoted.该校研究涵盖物理、技术与社会科学的实验发展，同时推动生物医学与人文研究。

• The university carries out both applied and fundamental research, participates in national and international projects, collaborates with organisations from the public and private sectors and hosts international conferences such as the Information and Software Technologies conference and Mechanika.该校开展应用与基础研究，参与国内与国际项目，与公共及私营机构合作，并主办信息与软件技术会议、Mechanika 等国际会议。

• KTU holds cooperation agreements with more than 350 higher education institutions in 50 countries, and its sustainable development strategy carries the European Union's QUESTE-SI accreditation.该校与50个国家的350余所高校签有合作协议，其可持续发展战略获得欧盟 QUESTE-SI 认证。

• The KTU Regional Business Incubator provides support to enterprises interested in starting new businesses, the first such technology incubator in Lithuania, where university research is turned into start-up companies.该校区域企业孵化器为有意创业的企业提供支持，是立陶宛首个此类技术孵化器，也是将大学科研成果转化为初创企业的平台。

• Twelve dormitories and nine science centres support teaching and research across the Kaunas student campus, while the KTU Museum documents the institution's history and the university's identity is rounded off by a soundtrack composed by the German group De-Phazz.十二座宿舍与九个科研中心为考纳斯学生校园内的教学与研究提供支撑，该校博物馆记录学校的历史，其整体形象还包括德国乐队 De-Phazz 为其创作的一段音轨。

• KTU offers training in twenty sports and runs seven art groups, and its students are organised in 23 student organisations.该校提供20个运动项目的训练与七个艺术团体，学生组建了23个学生组织。

Campus

• The main campus of KTU is located in Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers, a town that served as the country's provisional capital between the wars.该校主校区位于立陶宛第二大城市考纳斯，地处内穆纳斯河与内里斯河交汇处，这座城市曾于两次世界大战之间作为该国的临时首都。

• The Kaunas student campus brings together teaching buildings, dormitories and the Santaka Valley science and business centre in one area.考纳斯学生校园把教学楼群、宿舍群与桑塔卡谷科学与商业中心集中在一处。

• KTU operates twelve dormitories, providing accommodation for students across its campuses.该校运营12座宿舍，为各校区的学生提供住宿。

• The Faculty of Chemical Technology is based on Radvilėnų Road, while the Faculty of Informatics occupies Studentų Street in Kaunas, and the university's institutes are dispersed around the city, with Mechatronics on Studentų Street 56 and Architecture and Construction on Tunelio Street 60.化学工程学院位于拉德维莱努路，信息学院位于考纳斯的斯图登图街；该校各研究所分布于全城，机电一体化研究所在斯图登图街56号，建筑与建造研究所在图内廖街60号。

• The School of Economics and Business has its premises on Gedimino Street in the city, near the historic centre of Kaunas.经济与商业学校的校舍位于该市格迪米纳斯街，靠近考纳斯历史中心。

• The Panevėžys Faculty of Technologies and Business extends the university's presence to the city of Panevėžys in northern Lithuania.帕内韦日斯技术与商业学院把该校的影响延伸至立陶宛北部的帕内韦日斯市。

• The Santaka Valley science centre within the campus is a national open-access research and development facility.校园内的桑塔卡谷科研中心是国家级开放研发设施。

• The Technologija publishing house and KTU's research institutes are housed among the teaching buildings of the campus.Technologija 出版社与该校各研究所分布于校园的教学楼群之中。

• Located in a city known for its modernist architecture of the interwar period, the campus connects students to Kaunas's cultural and industrial life.该校所在的考纳斯以两次世界大战之间的现代主义建筑著称，校园把学生与这座城市的文化与工业生活相连。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Kaunas University of Technology is placed joint 696th in the world, the position given in the publisher's official table for that edition.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，考纳斯理工大学位列世界并列第696名，此为该发布方官方榜单所给名次。^[1]

• Times Higher Education places the university in the 1001-1200 band of its 2027 World University Rankings, while its 2025 edition described KTU as the leading technological university in the Baltic States.泰晤士高等教育将其列入2027年世界大学排名1001-1200档，其2025年版称该校为波罗的海国家领先的理工科大学。

• The U.S. News and World Report 2026-2027 Best Global Universities ranking places the university 1,829th in the world.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027年全球最佳大学排名将该校列为世界第1829名。

• The university is not listed in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.该校未进入软科发布的2026年世界大学学术排名。

• In machine-readable bibliographic data the university is credited with about 18,298 scholarly works and some 542,491 citations, figures recorded by the OpenAlex index that underpin its research profile.在机器可读的文献计量数据中，该校约有18298项学术成果与约542491次被引，这些来自 OpenAlex 索引的数据构成其科研画像的基础。

• Nationally KTU is the leading technological university in Lithuania and, according to Reitingai in 2023, ranked first among technical universities competing in the international study area, ahead of the country's other technical institutions.在国内，考纳斯理工大学是立陶宛领先的理工科大学；据2023年 Reitingai 排名，其在参与国际招生的技术类大学中位列第一，领先立陶宛其余技术类院校。

• Its recognition includes the National Award for Partnership Advancement won by Rymantas Jonas Kažys in 2008 and the Baltic Sea Award 2010 won by Jurgis Kazimieras Staniškis.其荣誉包括里曼塔斯·约纳斯·卡日斯2008年获得的国家伙伴关系推进奖，以及尤尔吉斯·卡齐米拉斯·斯塔尼什基斯获得的2010年波罗的海奖。

• Since 1922 the university has produced more than 157,000 graduates, and its alumni include a president and a prime minister of Lithuania.自1922年以来，该校已培养逾15.7万名毕业生，其校友包括立陶宛的总统与总理。

• The university is a member of the European University Association and the International Association of Universities and joined the Magna Charta of the European Universities in 1998.该校是欧洲大学协会与国际大学协会成员，并于1998年加入欧洲大学大宪章。

• In 2017 the World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab accepted an honorary doctorate from KTU, reflecting its links to innovation and entrepreneurship.2017年，世界经济论坛创始人克劳斯·施瓦布接受该校名誉博士学位，体现了其与创新和创业的紧密联系。

Student life

• The university's motto is Scientia, ingenium, virtus, which appears in Latin on its coat of arms and means Science, creativity, virtue.该校的校训为拉丁文「Scientia、ingenium、virtus」，镌刻于校徽之上，意为「科学、创造力、美德」。

• Students are organised in 23 student organisations, and the university also runs seven art groups and training in twenty sports, giving the community an active cultural and sporting life.学生组建了23个学生组织，该校还设有七个艺术团体与20个运动项目的训练，使校园社群的文化与体育生活十分活跃。

• KTU holds an annual Welcome Week for new students, with campus and city tours, concerts, lectures and cinema nights.该校每年为新同学举办迎新周，安排校园与城市参观、音乐会、讲座与电影之夜。

• The KTU Alumni Association organises the Motoride motorcycle event on the first September weekend, which by 2022 had been held for the second time.该校校友会在九月的第一个周末举办摩托车骑行活动，至2022年已举办第二届。

• The university marked the centenary of the University of Lithuania in 2022, a year the Seimas declared the year of Lithuanian universities.该校于2022年纪念立陶宛大学百年，立陶宛议会将该年定为立陶宛大学年。

• Twelve dormitories house students, and the student campus groups teaching, sport and research facilities together.该校以十二座宿舍安置学生，学生校园把教学、体育与研究设施集中在一起。

• Student life is set in Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, known for its interwar modernist architecture and its student population.学生生活置身于立陶宛第二大城市考纳斯，这里以两次世界大战之间的现代主义建筑与众多学生而著称。

• The Santaka Valley centre provides open-access laboratories and business space where students work with companies on applied projects and gain early experience of industrial research.桑塔卡谷中心提供开放实验室与商业空间，学生可在此与企业合作开展应用项目，及早接触产业研究。

• The university's campuses at Kaunas and Panevėžys connect students to Lithuania's industrial and technology sectors.该校在考纳斯与帕内韦日斯的校区，把学生与立陶宛的工业和技术部门相连。

Notable people

• Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006, graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in 1956.立陶宛1993至1998年的总统、2001至2006年的总理阿尔吉尔达斯·米科拉斯·布拉藻斯卡斯，于1956年毕业于考纳斯理工学院。

• Bronislovas Lubys, an industrialist who served as Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1992 and 1993, was an alumnus of the institution.曾于1992与1993年出任立陶宛总理的实业家布罗尼斯洛瓦斯·卢比斯，是该校校友。

• Petras Gražulis, a Lithuanian politician, former member of the Seimas and member of the European Parliament, studied at KTU.立陶宛政治家、前议会议员、现任欧洲议会议员佩特拉斯·格拉茹利斯曾就读于该校。

• Vladas Lašas, a Doctor of Science and entrepreneur, founded the UPS network company Skubios Siuntos and co-owns the industrial automation firm Elinta.理学博士、企业家弗拉达斯·拉沙斯创办了 UPS 网络企业 Skubios Siuntos，并共同拥有工业自动化公司 Elinta。

• Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, became the 45th honorary doctor of KTU on 13 October 2017.世界经济论坛创始人兼执行主席克劳斯·施瓦布，于2017年10月13日成为该校第45位名誉博士。

• Rymantas Jonas Kažys, a professor at the university, received the National Award for Partnership Advancement in 2008 for supersonic measurement and diagnostic technologies.该校教授里曼塔斯·约纳斯·卡日斯因超声测量与诊断技术，于2008年获得国家伙伴关系推进奖。

• Jurgis Kazimieras Staniškis, head of the Institute of Environmental Engineering, received the Baltic Sea Award 2010 and is the only Lithuanian scientist to have done so.环境工程研究所所长尤尔吉斯·卡齐米拉斯·斯塔尼什基斯获得2010年波罗的海奖，是迄今唯一获此奖的立陶宛科学家。

• Eugenijus Valatka, professor of the Faculty of Chemical Technology, is the rector of Kaunas University of Technology and has been re-elected to the post, working with Vice-Rector for Education Kristina Ukvalbergienė, Vice-Rector for Research Kęstutis Baltakys, Vice-Rector for Strategic Partnerships Edita Gimžauskienė and Vice-Rector for Community Affairs Evelina Meilienė.化学工程学院教授欧根尼尤斯·瓦拉特卡任考纳斯理工大学校长并已获连任，其副手包括分管教育的 Kristina Ukvalbergienė、分管科研的 Kęstutis Baltakys、分管战略合作的 Edita Gimžauskienė 与分管社群事务的 Evelina Meilienė。

• Tomas Masiulis, a former professional basketball player at Žalgiris Kaunas, became the club's head coach as a KTU alumnus.曾效力考纳斯绿林的职业篮球运动员托马斯·马修利斯，以该校校友身份成为球队主教练。

• Aloyzas Sakalas, a physicist, university professor and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, studied at the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute.物理学家、大学教授、1990年《立陶宛复国法案》签署人阿洛伊扎斯·萨卡拉斯，曾就读于考纳斯理工学院。