{"id":9,"date":"2017-09-25T05:02:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:21:13","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class='full-width-dropdown' id='dropdown-title'><div class='full-width-dropdown-header clearfix'><h2 class='dropdown-title pull-left'>Main facts<\/h2><div class='dropdown-btn pull-right'><i id='dropdown-btn' class='fa fa-angle-double-up closedTabBtn'aria-hidden='true'><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class='full-width-dropdown-body  closedTab '><p>[vc_column_text]Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution is a multi-profile state higher education institution training specialists in technology, informatics, engineering, medicine, humanities, social, art, education, business and public management, law, and agricultural sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The institution is guided by a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, and graduates get a professional bachelor\u2019s degree with the acquired qualification.<\/p>\n<p>The study programmes are designed in a way that the students acquire strong theoretical knowledge and develop practical skills during the study period. Practical training makes up at least one-third of the study programme.<\/p>\n<p>Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution focuses on the goal of modern studies, therefore the provisions of active learning are followed. Lecturers use interactive knowledge transfer methods in their lectures in order to convey knowledge as comprehensively as possible and to take into account the changing learning habits and technological achievements of students.<\/p>\n<p>For several years, Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution has implemented and developed a quality management system that links internal quality analysis with the conclusions of external experts on the quality of teaching, the modernity of the study programmes learning bases, and feedback from graduates and employers.[\/vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class='table-wrap'>\n<div class='table-header-row clearfix'>\n<div class='table-title pull-left'>Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution in Numbers (spring, 2025)<\/div>\n<div class='table-title pull-right'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-body-rows' >\n<div class='table-row clearfix bolded-text'>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Studies and students<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Study programmes<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>62<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>All students<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>5133<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>First-year students<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>1531<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Students (male) \/ students (female)<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>1742 \/ 3397<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>State-funded \/ not funded students<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>3112 \/ 2028<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix bolded-text'>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Staff<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Number of lecturers<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>552<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Number of employees<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>845<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix bolded-text'>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Quality<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Institution accreditation period (years)<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>7 (maximum)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix bolded-text'>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Infrastructure<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Number of academic buildings<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>17<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Workshops, laboratories<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>70<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Number of publications in the library (titles)<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>93 968<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='table-row clearfix '>\n<div class='pull-left table-left-header'>Number of dormitories<\/div>\n<div class='pull-right table-right-header'>5<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class='full-width-dropdown' id='dropdown-title'><div class='full-width-dropdown-header clearfix'><h2 class='dropdown-title pull-left'>History<\/h2><div class='dropdown-btn pull-right'><i id='dropdown-btn' class='fa fa-angle-double-up closedTabBtn'aria-hidden='true'><\/i><\/div><\/div><div class='full-width-dropdown-body  closedTab '><p>[vc_column_text]Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution was established on 1 September 2000 after the binary higher education system consisting of two types of higher education provided by colleges and universities was introduced in Lithuania.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2005 \u2013 Institutional accreditation of Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution completed with excellent evaluation by international expert panel.<\/li>\n<li>2008 \u2013 Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution became the winner of Quality Competition held by Education Exchanges Support Foundation. The first prize was received for Erasmus student and academic staff exchange programme.<\/li>\n<li>2010 \u2013 Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution started international studies.<\/li>\n<li>2012 \u2013 The groundbreaking for the new academic building\u00a0 symbolizing the beginning of university campus.<\/li>\n<li>2014 \u2013 New academic building and modern sports ground open for our community and society.<\/li>\n<li>2020 &#8211; Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution celebrated 20th anniversary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Past<\/h2>\n<p>The history of Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution dates back to the schools of interwar period and post-war technical schools. The present Faculty of Technologies grew from the Pulp and Paper Industry School established in Kaunas in 1945. Similarly, the Faculty of Economics and Law developed from the Technical School of Statistics established in Kaunas in 1954. The history of the other faculties of Kauno kolegija Higher Education\u00a0Institution dates back to even earlier times. The Faculty of Health Care has grown from short-term courses for midwives started by professor Pranas Ma\u017eylis in 1920 and two-year courses for the Sisters of Mercy run by the Lithuanian Red Cross. In 1941 these courses became Kaunas School of Nursing. Justinas Vieno\u017einskis Faculty of Arts has also grown from the drawing courses when the first Art School in Lithuania was opened at the initiative of the painter Justinas Vieno\u017einskis in 1922. In 1939 the school became a higher education institution. The Faculty of Landscaping has a more diverse history. A Horticulture School opened in Auk\u0161toji Freda in 1920, was transferred to the Faculty of Nature and Mathematics of Kaunas University in 1923 and in 1924 the operation of the school was taken over by the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1925 the school was renamed to Freda Horticulture School of Further Education. K\u0117dainiai Jonu\u0161as Radvila Faculty counts the years since 1993, when Jonu\u0161as Radvila College was established in K\u0117dainiai by the order of the Minister for Culture and Education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution has united the efforts of students, academic staff, alumni, and social partners, joined the variety and potential of different fields of activity and has formed a strong and distinctive organizational culture based on democratic personal and organizational values that have become the landmarks for the present and future activities.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2348,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9349,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/9349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaunokolegija.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}