INTERNATIONAL STUDY PROGRAMMS

REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA (LT)

Government type: Parliamentary democracy

President of the Republic: Ms. Dalia Grybauskaitė

Capital: Vilnius

Money: 3.4528 Litas = 1 Euro

Language: Lithuanian

LT Membership in International Organisation

Republic of Lithuania is member of EU - European Union (2004)

Republic of Lithuania belongs to The NATO - North

Atlantic Treaty Organization (2004)

Connection with Siauliai City

Šiauliai city

Riga Airport (Latvia)

Vilnius Airport (Lithuania)

Kaunas Airport (Lithuania)

Šiauliai City Šiauliai city is the forth largest city of Lithuania, and has a huge impact on the

development of Northern Lithuania

Šiauliai was founded in 1236, after the Battle of the Sun, 775 years old

It is the centre of Northern Lithuania with 127 059 inhabitants

Šiauliai City – the centre of culture and science: 1 University, 3 Colleges, Šiauliai Vocational Education and Training Centre, Over 70 institutions of education (schools, kindergartens), Music Conservatoire, 2 Theatres, Museums, Art Galleries

Šiauliai University Founded in 1997

Type: Classical type University

The Aim – to become a modern, society-open university, capable to compete in local and international markets of the XXI century.

Governance: The Senate is the supreme decision making body and it is represented by 32 researchers and 4 students

Students: over 7000

Staff: about 500: Professors – 10 %, Assoc. professors – 35 %, Doctors, habil. doctors – 39 %, Others – 16 %

Research

The university operates the following research centres: Biomedical Engineering, Biological Research, Educational Research, Energy and Environmentally Clean Technologies, Technological Experiments, Social Research, Special Education, Modelling of Physical Processes, Natural Science Education, Art, Public Health, and Gender Studies. There is European Studies Institute at the University as well.

International Cooperation

Šiauliai University cooperates with over 140 foreign higher education institutions, 40 different countries

International partners HEI at Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Canada, Cyprus, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Greece, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Korea, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA.

International Projects: LLP: LEONARDO DA VINCI, ERASMUS, COMENIUS, GRUNDTVIG and others, EUREKA, EQUAL, INTERREG, FP6, FP7, Minerva, Transversal Key 3, Cross-border Cooperation, LatLit, EU Structural funds and other EC projects.

Studies

I level – 4 yearsBachelor’s Degree studies or Professional Studies

II level – 2 yearsMaster’s degree studies or Special Professional Studies

III level – 4 yearsDoctoral Studies

Study Credit System: 1 full academic year = 60 ECTS credits.

Faculties: Arts, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Informatics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Social Welfare and Disability Studies, Technology, Continuing Studies Institute

International Study Programmes in English and Russian

Bachelor‘s Degree Study Programmes (4 and 3,5 years):

Informatics Engineering Economics Business Administration Business Economics (3,5 years) English Philology and other foreign language (Spanish,

French, German)

International Study Programmes in English and Russian

Master's Degree Study Programmes (2 years): Signal Processing Intercultural Education and Mediation Electrical Power Informatics Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Mathematics Arts (Design, Graphics, Painting, Textile) Studies of Culture Literary Criticism Career Education Music Pedagogy Management (Specializations: Tourism Management, Public Administration) Economics (Specializations: Economics Analysis and Planning; Finances and

Banking)

Informatics Engineering

Degree Bachelor’s degree in Informatics Engineering

Duration 4 years

Annotation The holder of Bachelor’s degree in Informatics Engineering is able to create, project, and install computer systems and evaluate them; integrate computer systems while performing various counting tasks; effectively apply technical means and software for automatic constructing and documentation; qualitatively exploit technical systems and software; knows and understands basic principles of informatics engineering. Moreover, graduates are capable of using the latest information technologies, understand the basic factors of business environment - marketing, finances and evaluation of investment; have communicative, logical and systemic thinking, formalizing, working in a team and other transferable skills. Access to the second cycle studies. The qualification of Bachelor’s degree in Informatics Engineering is required for such positions as system projecting, exploiting and development specialist, as well as, for the work such as installing computer networks, administering and improving them.

Economics

Degree Bachelor’s Degree of Economics

Duration 4 years

Annotation The aim of this study programme is to prepare qualified economists for business enterprises and other organisations, which have professional competences to fixate, analyse, prognosticate and model economical activities. The Bachelor of Economics is capable of understanding main factors of the market economics, is able to make economically based decisions and to plan the ways of increasing the efficiency of activities, to evaluate the financial support and efficiency of different projects. Moreover, he has competences in communication, calculation, usage of informational technologies, projects˙ management, working in team and other.

Branches: Economical Analysis and Planning; Finances and Banking; International Economics

Business Adminstration

Degree Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration

Duration 4 years

Annotation BA Business Administration is designed to prepare socially liable specialists of business administration aware of business administration principles, well-versed in business planning possibilities, able to create and administrate business, to act in continuously changing business environment, to think creatively and to examine business processes. Undergraduates are free to choose one of the specializations provided meeting their personal needs. The holders of Bachelor’s degree of Business Administration establish their own business or work in Lithuania’s, foreign or international business companies as managers in spheres of personnel, marketing, finance, production or logistics. Some of them are free to work in departments of bank credits, retail banking and others.

Specializations:

• Marketing Management

• Personnel Management

Business Economics

Degree Bachelor of Business Economics

Duration 4 years

Annotation BA Business Economics is designed to prepare the specialists in business economics well-versed in business peculiarities, capable of analysing and evaluating economical activities of business subjects, to solve economical business issues. The students who choose the specialization of Business Finance Management will be capable of making economically based decisions, preparing financial accountings, implementing the planning and control of the money flow, evaluating the financial state of an enterprise, business risks and perspectives. The students, who choose the specialization of Manpower Planning Economy will comprehend the peculiarities of labour market, will be able to comprehend, analyse and evaluate the issues of manpower planning, organization, work payment, quality management issues, and to make economically based decisions. The students, who choose the specialization of Economics of Logistics will comprehend the principles and peculiarities of logistics, will be capable of performing economical analysis of the process of logistics, calculating and evaluating the main management indexes of supply network, preparing effective business development programmes in international markets.

English Philology and other foreign language (Spanish, French, German)

Degree Bachelor’s Degree of Philology

Duration 4 years

Annotation MA English Philology and other foreign language is designed to prepare qualified and universally educated specialists of a foreign language meeting the standards of informational society who would apply their knowledge, skills and competences in activities and spheres related to foreign languages. The continuation of studies is possible taking MA. The holders of Bachelor’s degree of Philology are may work in the institutions of culture, education, publishing, media and other spheres where the knowledge of English and other foreign language (Spanish, German) is required together with philological education. They may work as researches, translators/interpreters, referents, spokesman/spokeswoman, export/import representatives of foreign or Lithuanian companies, employees of international institutions, correctors, and if graduated from special didactic professional studies – teachers of English and other foreign language (Spanish, German).

Signal Processing

Degree Master’s degree of Robotics and Cybernetics

Duration 2 years

Annotation During these studies the students deepen their knowledge about digital electronics in the field of technologies, they analyse the ways of analysis of words, image and biomedical signal analysis and their archiving, multimodal correlation among human beings and computers. The programme is designed to qualify specialist capable of creating and installing digital mechanisms, to work in small business organizations creating intellectual products, and to professionally conduct scientific researches, and to prepare for PhD studies in the field of electrical engineering and the studies of electronics.

The postgraduates gain knowledge about signal registration, methods of signal processing and usage, they gain professional competence to create hardware and software of signal processing, to use the latest technologies, are capable of deepening their knowledge independently and apply it with no help in new conditions, to formulate scientific issues and to solve them.

Electrical Power

Degree Master’s degree of Electrical Power

Duration 2 years

Annotation The aim of the Master’s degree study programme in Electrical Power is to prepare highly qualified specialists of electrical industry, capable of working as energetics’ specialists at companies of electric power transmission and distribution as well as at industrial companies of different profile and as a projector of the electrical sector, as a lecturer at higher education institutions, as a scientific research worker as well as to continue studies in Doctoral studies. The postgraduates gain innovative knowledge about electrical power management, the strategy of its development, a rational usage of electrical power, renewable energy sources, the ability to use traditional informational resources analysing certain situations, to learn independently, to conduct a scientific research and to put it into practice.

Informatics Engineering

Degree Master’s degree of Informatics Engineering

Duration 2 years

Annotation MA Informatics Engineering study programme is designed to qualify a holder of Master’s degree of Informatics Engineering capable of analysing, applying and creating innovative methods of the study field of informatics engineering and modern informational technologies for creating various systems; capable of installing, exploiting and creating new technological decisions of informatics engineering improving the indexes of informational infrastructure; capable of conducting applied scientific and experimental researches for the solution analysis of the problems of informatics engineering and their implementation.

Mechanical Engineering

Degree Master’s degree of Mechanical Engineering

Duration 2 years

Annotation MA Mechanical Engineering is designed to prepare the holders of Master‘s degree in mechanical engineering – workers capable of mathematical modelling, analysis, projecting optimal mechanical systems, applying numeric methods of engineering and experimental mechanics. Acquiring the qualification of Master’s degree in Mechanics Engineering a graduate can work as an executive in various companies and organizations, perform scientific researches, or to be a lecturer at higher education institution. A holder of the Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering gains abilities of problems' solving and using different skills of information technologies' management, which can be applied at different circumstances. Moreover, he/she learns to formulate scientific problems and to solve them. He has capabilities of deepening and applying the knowledge independently, can take personal responsibility in a field of a career.

Computer Science

Degree Master’s degree of Informatics

Duration 2 years

Annotation A holder of Master’s degree in Computer Science is able to carry out analytical applied research and to use their results in the development and extension of software systems, able to apply new theories of computer science, systems modelling, design methods and technologies, to manage projects in software extension and development field, compete in European and other countries' labour markets. A holder of Master’s degree in Computer Science has theoretical and practical skills of system analysis and synthesis; moreover, he/she understands modern computers and their nets’ architecture, is able to operate the latest programming technologies, means of data modelling, data output and analysis. Furthermore, he/she is capable of designing multimedia and network systems, ensuring their safety. The acquired qualification enables to install complex systems, manage the projects, provides a possibility for scientific as well as for the highly qualified career. The acquired Master’s qualification of Computer Science gives a possibility to work in establishments of scientific research, institutions of higher education, information technologies’ departments of firms, banks and companies, Lithuanian and foreign firms of information technologies.

Management (Specialisation: Tourism Management, Public Administration)

Degree Master’s degree of Management

Duration 2 years

Annotation The entrants of MA Management are supposed to possess a Bachelor‘s degree (or a corresponding) and to have acquired fundamental subjects of Management field of study: microeconomics, macroeconomics, management, marketing. Additional studies are required if these subjects have not been acquired. The study programme is designed to prepare researchers, counsellors, and high qualification managers of business enterprises, organizations or their departments. MA Management students will gain competences needed for effective decision-making in business strategy, finance management, business environment prognosis, and other spheres. The postgraduates are free to study following basic study programme or to choose a specialization. The masters of Management with specialization are able to work in public sector as managers of business enterprises or their departments, they serve as important persons in governmental institutions, establish their business, work as specialists of finance management. The students are taught to conduct applied researches, to get ready for professional work or to continue their studies in the third cycle – PhD studies.

Intercultural Education and Mediation

Degree Master’s Degree of Education

Duration 2 years

Annotation The Master’s degree study program of Intercultural Education and Mediation is designed for educating the intercultural competences in different educational contexts: in educational institutions for children, youth and adults, in institutions for the leisure time, in spheres of the socialization for the adults. These competences can be used while performing the methodological work, administering the educational programs, developing educational policies of the city, district, county as well as Lithuania, representing intercultural problems in the press, public discussions, preparing international projects, integrating schools to the general system of the EU, as well as educating abilities of students and children to participate in international exchange programs for children and students.

Economics

Degree Master’s Degree of Education

Duration 2 years

Annotation MA Economics is designed to prepare high qualification economists of business, education and public administration institutions, possessing fundamental knowledge on economics, finances and management, capable of resolving economical problems effectively, modelling and foreseeing economical processes within organizations. During theoretical classes of economics the postgraduates gain skills of independent scientific research work. The masters of Economics successfully work in business enterprises, insurance agencies, tax authorities, banks, and other financial and government institutions as analysts and experts of economics and finance, they are in charge of planning and prognostication of strategic planning of economical processes. The holders of Master’s degree in Economics are able to continue their studies in PhD in the sphere of social sciences, the field of Economics.

Tuition Fee – Bachelor’s Degree

! The fees may change.

Bachelor‘s Degree Study Programmes

Price per year (EUR)

Informatics Engineering 2700

Economics 2200

Business Economics

Business Administration

English Philology

Tuition Fee – Master’s Degree

Master’s Degree Study Programmes Price per year (EUR)

Signal Processing 3600

Electrical Power 3600

Informatics Engineering 3600

Mechanical Engineering 3600

Computer Science 3600

Mathematics 3600

Arts (Design, Graphics, Painting, Leather)

3600

Intercultural Education and Mediation 3000

Studies of Culture 3000

Literary Criticism 3000

Career Education 3000

Music Pedagogy 3000

Management (Specialisations: Tourism Management; Public Administration)

3000

Economics (Specialisations: Economics Analysis and Planning; Finances and Banking)

3000

Additional Courses

Preparatory Courses for foreign applicants in order to prepare them for International studies at Siauliai University:

Duration One semester. Organised only in Spring semester. They are organised only for those students who are planning to study full Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme from autumn semester.

Fee 1000 EUR

The course include four subjects:

1. Intensive English language course (96 academic hours)

2. Intensive Lithuanian language course (96 academic hours)

3. Information Technologies and Information Management (32 academic hours)

4. Introductory module of the Study Programme (32-48 academic hours)

! The fees may change.

Duration of Semesters: Autumn: 1 September - 31 JanuarySpring: 1 February - 30 June

To start studies in September the non-European applicants must submit all documents until June 1.

Academic Calendar

Legalisation of Educational Documents

Educational documents should be legalised by:

The Ministry of the Foreign Affairs or the diplomatic mission or consular post of the country where education was received

The Lithuanian diplomatic mission or consular post in the country where education was received or in the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania. More information you can find on www.urm.lt

Recognision at Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (CQAHE). More info: www.skvc.lt

Other Fees Application fee: EUR 95 non-

refundable application fee. The fee must accompany the application. The fee can be paid with a Bank draft (international cheque) to Siauliai University.

Refund policy for International Students Fees: If a student's visa application is refused, a full refund of fees will be made (except 95 EUR application fee). Evidence of refusal is required.

Immigration Regulations Temporary Residence Permit (TRP) of the Republic of Lithuania will be issued for

one academic year. International Relations Office provides all necessary documents.

The student has to apply to the nearest Embassy/Consulate of the Republic of Lithuania for TRP.

The person is provided with a short-term visa by the above-mentioned institution as soon as the Migration Department in Lithuania confirms his/her application for TRP (the revision of the documents may take more than 2 months).

The TRP card can be obtained only upon arrival in the host country within 7 days.

The TRP allows up to one-year stay in Lithuania, and have to be renewed before 2 months student's visa expires. The procedure of the temporary residence permit includes a compulsory medical health insurance (min. 20 000 Lt, aprox. 6000 EUR).

Costs:Application for VISA: 60 EUR TRP documents administration fee: 87 EURTRP card: 6 EUR

Migration Department:http://www.migracija.lt/index.php?-484440258

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania: http://www.urm.lt/index.php?1362855356

Living and Studying

Accommodation:- Šiauliai University has students dormitory- Rooms: single and double- The price for 1 person per 1 month: 70 EUR- Internet access in the room: 30 EUR per semester

Medical service:Šiauliai University students can use medical service, offered by the University Medical Center as well as private providers.

! The fees may change.

Living and Studying

Šiauliai University students have many sources of learning, entertainment, cultural and leisure activities. Moreover, they successfully compete in basketball, handball, soccer, rugby and other competitions. The University has its own Gallery, Botanical Garden, Educational Theatre, TV and Radio.

Students Organisations:

Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is one of the biggest interdisciplinary student associations in Europe, founded in 1990 for supporting and developing student exchange.

The Aim of ESN:

1. more mobile and flexible education environment

2. supporting and developing the student exchange

3. "internationalisation at home"

ESN works both in the interest of exchange students and also homecoming students.

Therefore ESN offers help in academic, social and practical integration process.

Visit and register in ESN SUSA website: http://su.esnlithuania.org/

Students Organisations:

AIESEC is the world’s largest student-run organization with more than 50000 members present in over 107 countries and territories.

AIESEC provides its members with an integrated development experience comprised of leadership opportunities, international internships, and participation in a global learning environment.

http://www.aiesec.lt/

The details about programmes and courses, list of optional subjects, application form

and information about accommodation are available (in EN): www.su.lt/en(in RU):

http://su.lt/ru

Department of International Programmes and Relations88 Vilniaus St., LT-76285 Siauliai, Lithuania

tel.: 370 41 595742fax: 370 41 595743

e-mail: urs2@cr.su.lt, Intern.projects@cr.su.lt

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