Lithuania suspends free education for students from Ukraine at Kyiv’s request
16 July 2024 09:21
Starting from September this year, Lithuania will no longer cover the cost of education for Ukrainian students. This decision was made at the request of Ukraine. This was stated by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education in a commentary to the local media outlet LRT.
At the same time, students from Ukraine who have already entered the university will be able to graduate without paying tuition fees, but from September this opportunity will become unavailable to new students.
The Lithuanian ministry stressed that it provides all assistance to Ukrainians in accordance with Ukraine’s needs and does not want to encourage a “brain drain” from the country.
“This is the desire of the Ukrainian side. There are higher education institutions in Ukraine, and at the moment there is no need to transfer education to other places,”
– the ministry explained.
The media specified that starting from this year, Ukrainians who received secondary education and passed their final exams in Lithuania will be subject to the same general rules as Lithuanian citizens.
Despite this decision, some higher education institutions have decided to continue to fully or partially fund the education of Ukrainian students.
These are:
- Vilnius College;
- Vilnius Gediminas Technical University;
- Vytautas Magnus University.
Ukrainian students are currently studying in 17 Lithuanian higher education institutions, the most popular of which are Vilnius University, VDU, Vilnius Technical University, Kaunas University of Technology and Vilnius College.
About 1,100 Ukrainians study at these institutions, including about 500 at Vilnius University. The most popular majors among Ukrainian students are business administration, information technology, artificial intelligence systems, architecture, engineering, and communications.
Since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the Lithuanian government has been offering monthly grants of €300 and covers 60 per cent of the tuition fees for undergraduate programmes, with the rest covered by universities or colleges.
For postgraduate students, the government covers the full cost of education. The country’s Ministry of Education has allocated more than €11 million to support Ukrainian students in 2022-2024.
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“How to calculate your competitive score for admission: instructions from the Ministry of Education”.
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