F. A. Q.
WHAT THE UNIVERSITY OFFERS
The university's virtual private network:
The VPN service can only be used if you have installed the appropriate VPN software on your computer. Instructions on how to do this can be found here.
You will also need to install a two-factor authentication program to use this service. For information on how to do this, please see here.
You will need to use a VPN service to access these online resources:
- VILNIUS TECH library subscription databases;
- e-books from VILNIUS TECH Publishing House;
- VILNIUS TECH document management systems;
- VILNIUS TECH intranet information;
- Licensed software portal used in the studies;
- Activating university licences for Microsoft applications;
The University Library (Saulėtekio al. 14) is open 24/7, but you need to have an activated LSIC with you to access the library when it is not staffed. To activate LSIC for access to the library, you can do so at the VILNIUS TECH University Laboratory Building (Saulėtekio al. 11, SRL - I, III floor).
The library serves users by:
Monday - Friday 9.00 - 21.00
The library provides the following services:
After receiving the login details, those wishing to get a room in the VILNIUS TECH student dormitories should fill in their applications in the VILNIUS TECH information system mano.vilniustech.lt.
Kairiajame informacinės sistemos meniu pasirinkite skiltį „Gyvenimas VILNIUS TECH”. Tuomet spauskite „Bendrabučiai”. Pasirinkite skiltį „Teikti prašymą” ir užpildykite reikiamus laukelius.
Applications must be completed with your home address and the addresses and contact details of both or one parent/guardian.
Documents to be submitted (uploaded into the system) by students requesting a place in a dormitory (for additional/competition points):
- your parents' earnings and any other income received by the family in the last 3 months (pensions, allowances, miscellaneous benefits, etc.)
- the student's declared place of residence;
- the size of the family (only minor children and children under 25 who are studying or in education) from the Population Registry Office, the municipality or the municipality;
- copies of the parents' death records (if an orphan);
- a copy of the court order granting guardianship/care (if the student lived in an orphanage before the study period)
- copies of the pensioner's document (if parents are pensioners);
- about your status as a socially disadvantaged person from the Social Assistance Centre.
You can check the information about your place in the VILNIUS TECH dormitories in the information system mano.vilniustech.lt at the email address (firstname.lastname@stud.vilniustech.lt) and in the SUBMISSIONS section.
Each future resident will have an individual time to arrive and sign the accommodation contract.
Students who have not been allocated a dormitory at the start of the school year are placed on a waiting list. As vacancies arise, students on the waiting list will be informed and, if necessary, accommodated in VILNIUS TECH dormitories.
More information:
Email: bendrabuciai@vilniustech.lt
Phone: (8 5) 274 4959, (8 5) 274 5081
Psychological support:
Students of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University can seek psychological help when they are experiencing emotional difficulties, learning difficulties, anxiety, sadness, lack of motivation, disagreements with people around them, difficulty making decisions, or depressing thoughts.
Study support:
Psychological counselling is available not only for personal issues and issues related to psychological health, but also for issues related to studies, such as career planning, effective learning, lack of motivation and public speaking.
We invite students to register for confidential, free psychological counselling and to share this information with those who may be interested.
For a consultation, you can email: ginte.gudzeviciute@vilniustech.lt, migle.rudyte@vilniustech.lt to arrange a convenient time for a consultation.
Psychological counselling is available in SRK-I 103 and SRK-I 312. Saulėteko al. 11.
Seminars for VILNIUS TECH students:
- Time management and reducing procrastination
- Stress management
For seminars, please contact by email ginte.gudzeviciute@vilniustech.lt
Information on where to go for help in an emergency: You are
Emotional support by phone:
Youth line: 8 800 28888
Hope line: 116 123
For students with individual needs:
Coordinator for students with special needs:
Miglė Rudytė
Career and psychological counselling group
Telefonas +370 688 64007
Email: migle.rudyte@vilniustech.lt
For more information see here
VILNIUS TECH Enhanced Study Groups are groups of undergraduate (Bachelor's) study programmes that offer a package of complementary university activities and services during the course of a student's studies in order to develop the student's academic, scientific, entrepreneurial, creative and other competences.
To find out which study programmes have an Enhanced Study Group, click here
TESTS PROCEDURES
Students who do not reach the threshold level of achievement (>5) in the interim credits, or who for important reasons (sickness, death of relatives, etc.) are not able to report in time for the interim credits, must be given the opportunity to re-report:
- at least once before the start of the examination session;
- once per examination session during the period allowed for the preparation of the final examination in that subject;
- once before the final re-examination;
Academic debt is the failure to reach the threshold level of achievement in a subject/module at the end of the final reporting period to the Board.
Students who have not reached the threshold level of achievement at the end of the examination session may re-submit their final re-submissions within the timeframe stipulated in the VILNIUS TECH timetable of studies.
A student may choose only one re-examination date and must register in the University's information system no later than one working day before the re-examination date.
The Department schedules final examinations with the Board for each subject/module, on two different dates. The timetable shall be published in the University's information system no later than the end of the re-examination period.
Students wishing to make final examinations before the Board must write a request to the Dean and pay the fee set by the Senate for each examination for each subject/module. Once the student has paid the fee, the Dean's Office shall draw up a dean's regulation on the final settlement in the Board.
A student may choose only one date for the final examination by the Board and must register in the University's information system at least one working day before the date of the final examination.
The grade shall be entered in the transcript by the lecturer who delivered the lectures in the subject/module no later than one working day after the final assessment by the Board.
In exceptional cases, an additional final examination may be organised if the threshold level of achievement has not been reached in the board examination and with the permission of the Vice-Rector of Studies or Rector.
The final settlement is carried out by the lecturer who gave the lectures. He/she may be assisted by the lecturer of the practical sessions. Only one academic group may be in final examination at a time, except in cases where the number of students is limited to 30 when the groups are combined.
The final examination assignments are completed by the students in writing or on a computer in the case of assignments submitted electronically. The practice report (A), the course project (CP), the complex project (KS), the research project (TD) and the first parts of the final thesis/project (BD) are defended orally. Otherwise, the examinations may be organised only with the permission of the Dean of the Faculty.
In the final examinations, students do not account for the theoretical part of the course that was accounted for in the mid-term examinations.
Students must bring a valid student ID card or identity document to the final examination, the tools provided by the teacher and be prepared to work for up to 2.5 hours continuously.
After the final examination, the lecturer may revise the student's performance in a follow-up interview in order to change the student's final examination grade, within a maximum of five working days to correct the final examination grades.
The student has the right to discuss his/her work with the professor, but the work is not corrected during the discussion.
There is an opportunity to appeal after the assessment.
An appeal can be filed on the following grounds:
- An appeal against an achievement grade;
- an appeal against irregularities in knowledge assessment procedures;
Before submitting an appeal against an achievement grade, the student must, within 3 working days of the date of publication of the grade, contact the lecturer/committee that assessed him/her to give him/her an opportunity to review and discuss his/her written work.
The appeal or complaint must contain:
- the name of the appellant (student, representative of a group of students), the main programme of study, the appellant's telephone number and the University's email address for the appellant (firstname.lastname@stud.vilniustech.lt)
- the subject of the appeal (subject of study, entrance test, assessment, assessor, form of assessment, form of assessment, and in the case of a complaint, the administrative action complained of)
- Date of publication of the achievement assessment in the mano.vilniustech.lt system
- the grounds for disagreement with the assessment of the appellant(s) or applicant(s) and/or specific irregularities in the assessment procedures, illegality of the action complained of
- Appellant's request
- Appellant's signature
Appeals and complaints can be submitted to vilniustech@vilniustech.lt
An appeal never diminishes the appellant's grade. It may stay the same or go up, depending on the Board's decision.
For more information on appeals and how to appeal, see here.
ACADEMIC LEAVE, INTERRUPTION AND TERMINATION OF STUDIES
Students may take academic leave on their own request without losing their student status or their right to continue their studies at a state-funded place of study after the academic leave, if they were studying at the place of study when they took the academic leave.
Academic leave is available only for the following reasons:
- due to illness or on the recommendation of a doctor advisory committee
- for pregnancy and childbirth
- for childcare
- for personal reasons
- for being called up for military service
Duration of academic leave:
- for pregnancy and childbirth and sickness, academic leave shall be granted for one year and may be extended on the recommendation of a doctor or a medical advisory board
- for parental leave up to 3 years
- for personal reasons, academic leave shall be granted once during the study period, for a maximum of one academic year
- for a period of up to one year for military service
Students who apply for academic leave receive it for a fixed period of time, during which time they retain their student status and can resume their studies at a state funded place of study on their return, if they have been studying there before.
Students with no academic debts may apply for a voluntary interruption of their studies for up to one year before the start of the session. Interruptions may not be made in the first semester of the first year of study. The date of continuation of studies must coincide with the beginning of the semester. In this case, students are not withdrawn from the student list, but they lose their state-funded place.
You may interrupt your studies no more than twice during the entire study period.
A student may resume his/her studies before the end of the interruption period upon written request.
Students with academic debts can interrupt their studies to repeat a course. Repeating a course is the repeated study of one or more courses (modules) in the same semester. To repeat a course, a student applies for and pays the prescribed fee only for those subjects/modules in which he/she has had negative grades. Students repeating a course shall continue their studies in a place not funded by the State.
A student wishing to discontinue his/her studies must write a request to the Rector to discontinue his/her studies (the request can be found at: mano.vilniustech.lt -> my documents -> requests -> student's requests to the Rector), and to settle the accounts with the University in accordance with the procedures set by the University.
Individuals do not have to pay back all or part of the tuition fees:
- the person has voluntarily withdrawn from studies during the first semester of the first year of undergraduate studies or the first semester of the first year of continuous studies;
- the student has completed bachelor's, master's and integral study semester within the time limit set by the research and study institution, has no academic debts, and has notified the university in writing of the termination of the study no later than by the beginning of the new study semester, or the person has fulfilled the requirements of the study programme, including submission of a thesis to the university, but has failed to defend the thesis (has not defended it).
- a doctoral student admitted to the university after 1 January 2017 has completed the study year within the time limit set by the university, has no academic debts (has settled the activities provided for in the doctoral student's work plan), and has notified the university in writing of the termination of his/her studies at the latest before the start of the new study year, or has completed his/her doctoral student's work plan, including submitting his/her thesis to the university, but has failed to defend the thesis or to submit it for a thesis.
- the person has been deprived of state funding because he/she did not meet the criteria for good academic performance set out in the Law on Science and Studies of the Republic of Lithuania (persons admitted to a science and studies institution before 31 December 2016 have completed the semester of studies within the time limit set by the university, do not have any academic debts, and have notified the university in writing of the termination of their studies no later than within 10 working days of the date of the publication of the comparison of study results
- the person has been granted an extension and has completed the semester within the time limit set by the University, has no academic debts, and has notified the University in writing of the termination of his/her studies no later than 10 working days after the expiry of the period of the extended session
- the person has been on a partial study abroad, has no academic debts and has notified the university in writing of the termination of his/her studies no later than 10 working days after the end of the semester of study at the foreign higher education institution
- the person has been placed on academic leave on the grounds of illness, on the recommendation of a doctor or a medical advisory board, or on maternity or parental leave, and has notified the university in writing of the cessation of his/her studies prior to the expiry of the period of academic leave
- recognised as disabled under the law
- When a person dies, the obligation to repay is not transferred to the deceased's heirs.
SCHOLARSHIPS, TUITION FEES, STUDENT LOANS
The following types of scholarships exist at our university:
- Incentive scholarships:
- One-off scholarships;
- Allowances/benefits.
Incentive scholarships are awarded twice a year: for the spring semester results, during fall (September-December period and January month), and for the autumn semester results, during spring (February-June period).
Incentive scholarships are available in three types:
- 6 Basic Social Benefit (BSB) LDK Gediminas Scholarship
- 2,5 BSB
- 1,5 BSB
They are awarded to the best-performing undergraduate, postgraduate and integrated studies students on the basis of the results obtained by the end of the exam session.
LDK Gediminas Scholarship is awarded to students from the third semester of their studies if the weighted average of the last two semesters of their studies is 10 points and the overall grades for the whole period of studies are ≥ 9.5 points.
One-off scholarships are awarded to undergraduate, postgraduate, and integrated studies students
- those who have achieved good results in sports, art, social and other activities, promoting the name of the University
- for participation in international and/or national scientific conferences, seminars, Olympiads, projects, international and/or national sports, art, social organization competitions, congresses or other events and social initiatives, representing the University.
The one-off scholarships referred to in point 1 above are awarded twice per calendar year, in November and May
Persons applying for the one-off scholarship referred to in point 1 above must submit evidence of the University's distinguished activities by 15 November in the autumn semester and by 15 May in the spring semester.
Persons applying for the one-time scholarship referred to in point 2 above must submit documents proving their participation in activities promoting the name of the University to the Dean of the University within 10 days after participation in the activities.
The maximum amount of the one-off scholarship is 6 BSI per semester.
*1 BSB = 49 Eur
Read more about the scholarships SCHOLARSHIPS MEMO
A student who has applied for a tuition fee loan may defer payment of the tuition fee until the loan has been received, but not later than 1 December (in the autumn semester) and 1 May (in the spring semester).
Payment of the tuition fee may be payed in up to three instalments, but each instalment may not be less than 30 % of the amount due and must be paid no later than the last day of the first month of the current semester.
If the tuition fee is deferred or paid in instalments, the student must pay the tuition fee in full to VILNIUS TECH by 1 December (autumn semester) or 1 May (spring semester)
Loans for tuition fees or living costs are provided by the National Study Fund.
The amount of the state-supported loan for tuition fees cannot exceed the current semester's tuition fee, and the loan for living expenses cannot exceed €1,960.
Students can borrow up to €2,940 for part-time study under international agreements.
For up-to-date information on how to apply for a loan, see here.
