Vilnius University
#446
QS World University Rankings 2026
34.8
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#446
QS World University Rankings 2026
#439
QS World University Rankings 2025
34.8
QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.
Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 26.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #467
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 28
- QS 2026 rank
- #496
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 73.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #210
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 6.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 28.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #601
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 28.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #609
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 34.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #557
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 80.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #351
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 91.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #93
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 70.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #313
About Vilnius University
Vilnius University links a long institutional history to a current science route
Vilnius University, commonly called VU, dates its foundation to 1579 and describes itself as Lithuania's first and largest university. Its public material makes the history visible alongside current routes for science, innovation, study, and cooperation. That combination is helpful for orientation, but history alone does not identify a research setting for a particular question. A contemporary inquiry can be located in life sciences, artificial intelligence, social inquiry, culture, or another subject area only after the object and relevant evidence are made clear. The stronger public trail is a unit, project, researcher, or research-output page that speaks directly about that object.
VU also identifies branches in Kaunas and Šiauliai, international academic partnerships, and a strategic-plan route. These pages show a distributed institutional setting and an outward-facing public structure. They do not show that a named topic is active in every location or that all collaborations involve the same research practice. A central overview helps a reader understand the university's scale and direction. It should be paired with a closer record before any statement is made about a defined research connection.
Life sciences and AI are public entry points, not complete descriptions
The Vilnius University home page presents science and innovation through examples ranging from life sciences to artificial intelligence. These are useful entry points because they name areas that the university itself makes public. They are not complete descriptions of research methods, facilities, or current projects. A life-science question could involve molecular material, cells, organisms, clinical context, images, or environmental observations. An AI question can involve a dataset, model, software system, human use, policy issue, or evaluation method. The subject label becomes meaningful only when a local record identifies the actual object and form of evidence.
The public site also connects science and innovation with cooperation in research, innovation, and business. This gives a reader one route to explore how the university presents knowledge exchange. It does not prove that a specific organisation, researcher, or project is working on a particular problem. Use an overview page to find language and routes, then locate the closest research record. A publication, centre, laboratory, unit, or researcher page can make a much stronger connection by naming the material, question, or activity that is actually visible.
At VU, local research evidence matters more than a broad institutional claim
To investigate VU, frame the research object before selecting a faculty or centre. It could concern a biological process, a health-related question, an algorithmic system, a public institution, a historical source, a cultural practice, an environmental condition, or an organisational problem. Next, list the material that could support inquiry: samples, measurements, images, datasets, source code, records, texts, documents, interviews, surveys, or field observations. This makes the university's central science route more than a general introduction. It provides a test for whether a local unit or output actually addresses the same research object.
Keep the conclusion tied to the nearest available evidence. VU's public pages establish a long institutional history, visible science and innovation routes, and a broad context for cooperation. They cannot verify a future research arrangement, a particular person's availability, or use of a specified resource. A documented link becomes stronger when an individual unit page places the object in a research setting. If that connection is not visible, treat the topic as a starting point rather than a confirmed match. This gives the profile practical value while respecting the limits of public information.
Institution record
- Country
- Lithuania
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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