Alytaus kolegija is a state university of applied sciences established in 2000 with the adoption of the new Law on Higher Education which introduced a binary system of Higher education in Lithuania.
In the three faculties of Management, Technologies and ICT the students develop academic and professional competences in the study fields of Management and Business Administration, Informatics, Informatics Engineering, Transport Engineering and Civil Engineering. Alytaus kolegija is involved in the life of regional business society, through active participation in regional science application activities and research development, fostering the community skills of working under the conditions of rapid change of technologies.
Active involvement in educational EU programmes enables Alytaus kolegija to contribute to the implementation of integration into the development of European higher education. Alytaus kolegija co-operates with foreign institutions of higher education, business and education associations and businesses, it also works on science application in the study areas of social sciences, technological sciences, humanities and physical sciences fostering curriculum development, adult education and distance learning.
In terms of international relations Alytaus kolegija develops co-operation with its international networks and research and development programmes creating favourable conditions for innovations. Alytaus kolegija offers Professional Bachelor's degree programmes.

Vision

Alytaus kolegija is an institution of higher education supplying the demand for training business specialists in the changing global environment; applying the newest technologies in the process of studies; actively and successfully integrating into the international space as an institution of education; a centre of applied research; a centre of culture and science; an inseparable part of the positive image of Lithuania; open to the society, competitive and providing opportunity for self-expression of its each member.


Mission

To educate qualified specialists of business and technology fields acquiring higher professional education, who are able to work independently under conditions of competition market and supply social and economic needs of Alytus region and the country; to provide conditions for lifelong learning, improve the acquired qualification and retrain; raise educated, creative, respectable, enterprising and ethically responsible personalities, educate the society, form its social, technological and engineering culture, moral values, public spirit and civic self-consciousness.

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