According to the data of "2014-2015 QS World University Rankings", announced yesterday, four Lithuanian high schools - Vilnius University (VU), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) and Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), found themselves among the best world universities.

 

VU was on the top of the Lithuanian universities list – this year Vilnius University ranked between 551 and 600. As last year, three more Lithuanian universities – VGTU, VMU and KTU, ranked in the “701 +” category.

 

"For the second year already, the position of Lithuanian high schools remains stable: in the dynamic environment of world universities we gained the position among the best ones. It shows that we can compete internationally, attracting the best students and teachers, but it also obligates us to improve the quality of studies and research ", - the Rector of VGTU Alfonsas Daniūnas commented on the ratings.

 

"The QS World University Rankings", published for more than ten years in succession, rank high schools according to the university's reputation among academics (40 percent) and employers (10 percent), the relationship between students and teachers (20 percent), the citation index (20 percent), the share of foreign teachers (5 percent) and the number of international students (5 percent).

 

Rating compilers say that preference goes to the universities, promoting research and specializing in the field of technology. High schools, creating innovation and attracting both public and private sector funding for research, are also ranked higher.

 

There are no large changes on the top ranking list of “2014/2015 QS World University Rankings’'. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the best in the world for the third year in succession, the second place is shared between Cambridge University, which moved up from the third place and Imperial College London, with the fifth place last year, followed by the Harvard and Oxford universities and University College London.