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Vilnius University

LithuaniaEurope

#446

QS World University Rankings 2026

34.8

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

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

QS 2026 indicators

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
University profile

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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