Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) is a large public university in Kaunas, Lithuania, founded in 1922, closed under Soviet rule in 1950 and re-established in 1989 as the country's first autonomous higher-education institution.
€4,400
4 years
English
September
Kaunas, Lithuania
Public
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) is a large public university in Kaunas, Lithuania, founded in 1922, closed under Soviet rule in 1950 and re-established in 1989 as the country's first autonomous higher-education institution. Built on a liberal-arts model, VMU spans faculties from Informatics and Economics and Management to its own Agriculture Academy, and offers genuine English-medium bachelor's and master's tracks in computing and business alongside its broader Lithuanian-medium catalogue.
VMU operates from two main locations: its historic city-centre campus around K. Donelaičio g. 58 in Kaunas, housing the Faculty of Informatics, Faculty of Economics and Management and most humanities/social science faculties, and the separate Agriculture Academy campus roughly 15 km away in Akademija, Kaunas District (Studentų g. 11), home to the Faculty of Bioeconomy Development, Faculty of Agronomy, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Ecology and Faculty of Engineering after VMU's 2019 merger with Aleksandras Stulginskis University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. VMU is Lithuania's second-largest university by total student count and third by international student count, with roughly 8,800 students including master's and PhD candidates and over 1,000 international students from more than 50 countries. The university also maintains a dormitory in Vilnius (No. 6, A. Vivulskio g. 36), reflecting programme delivery beyond Kaunas alone. VMU is a member of the European university alliance Transform4Europe and follows a modern, Harvard-influenced liberal-education model that emphasises broad general education alongside specialisation.
Multimedia and Internet Technologies
Informatics Systems (specialisations: Software Systems, Artificial Intelligence Systems, Business Informatics)
Applied Informatics (Master's Degree in Computing)
Day-to-day life for Indian students pursuing this program at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas, the country. This covers accommodation, food, campus environment, safety, and the student support systems available to you during your this program years.
Campus environment
VMU operates from two main locations: its historic city-centre campus around K. Donelaičio g. 58 in Kaunas, housing the Faculty of Informatics, Faculty of Economics and Management and most humanities/social science faculties, and the separate Agriculture Academy campus roughly 15 km away in Akademija, Kaunas District (Studentų g. 11), home to the Faculty of Bioeconomy Development, Faculty of Agronomy, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Ecology and Faculty of Engineering after VMU's 2019 merger with Aleksandras Stulginskis University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. VMU is Lithuania's second-largest university by total student count and third by international student count, with roughly 8,800 students including master's and PhD candidates and over 1,000 international students from more than 50 countries. The university also maintains a dormitory in Vilnius (No. 6, A. Vivulskio g. 36), reflecting programme delivery beyond Kaunas alone. VMU is a member of the European university alliance Transform4Europe and follows a modern, Harvard-influenced liberal-education model that emphasises broad general education alongside specialisation.
Accommodation
VMU operates its own dormitories rather than routing students only to the private market: Dormitory No. 2 ('Baltija', Vytauto pr. 71) in central Kaunas prices a long-term single-bed room from about EUR 6/day (about EUR 180/month) and a two-bed room from about EUR 4.5/day (about EUR 135/month); Dormitory No. 5 at the Akademija campus (Universiteto g. 8) prices a renovated single-bed room from about EUR 7/day (about EUR 210/month); and Dormitory No. 6 in Vilnius (A. Vivulskio g. 36) follows a similar EUR 6-7/day structure for students on Vilnius-linked coursework. Short-term guest-room rates run higher, from about EUR 10-22 per person per night depending on room type and building. As an independent benchmark, Numbeo's 2026 Kaunas data show private one-bedroom apartments averaging about EUR 574.89/month in the city centre and about EUR 404/month outside it, so university dormitory accommodation is materially cheaper than private renting for most students. Accommodation is allocated first-come-first-served and is not guaranteed once demand is high, so early application is worthwhile.
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Multimedia and Internet Technologies
Medium: English
Informatics Systems (specialisations: Software Systems, Artificial Intelligence Systems, Business Informatics)
Medium: English
Daily living support
VMU's own pages do not publish a dedicated Indian, South Asian or halal food partnership near its campuses. Numbeo's 2026 Kaunas data show an inexpensive restaurant meal averaging about EUR 10.99 and a domestic 0.5L beer at about EUR 2.50, giving a general sense of everyday food costs. Kaunas has a growing multicultural food scene reflecting its international-student population across several universities, and self-catering is straightforward given supermarket availability near both the city-centre and Akademija campuses, but students with specific dietary needs (halal, vegetarian, Indian) should independently confirm current options near their assigned faculty, since VMU does not publish dedicated guidance on this topic.
Safety and support
Numbeo's 2026 Kaunas data show a Crime Index of 36.75 (Low) against a Safety Index of 63.25 (Moderate-to-High), a broadly reassuring profile compared with many other popular study destinations. Lithuania's unified emergency number is 112 (covering police, fire and ambulance), with English-speaking dispatch support available in most cases given Lithuania's EU/Schengen integration. VMU's International Cooperation Department is the named point of contact for incoming international students on arrival, registration and general welfare matters, and the university's Department of International Relations coordinates visa and residence-permit guidance alongside the standard Lithuanian Migration Department (Migracijos departamentas) process that all non-EU/EFTA students must complete after arrival. International applicants and students work primarily through VMU's online DreamApply application platform (vytautasmagnus.dreamapply.com) for admissions, and through the International Cooperation Department for arrival, registration, dormitory allocation and general international-student support once enrolled. VMU runs a peer Mentors Programme pairing new international students with current VMU students, publishes a dedicated 'Chat with our students' contact channel for prospective applicants, and provides a Spotahome-partnered housing platform for students who prefer private accommodation over a university dormitory. VMU's own FAQ page recommends contacting studies@vdu.lt directly for any application, migration or scholarship question not answered on the website, and the university has partnered with Flywire so non-EU applicants can pay application and tuition fees in their home currency through local payment methods rather than an international bank transfer.
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