2022To University of Vytautas the Great - 100 - First Day Cover

The beginning of the history of the University is 1922, when the University was established after the reorganization of the Higher Courses in Kaunas. In the second largest city in Lithuania, Kaunas, which in 1919–1939 was the temporary capital of Lithuania, the University was the only Lithuanian higher education institution at that time, which became a vital center of the country's culture, science, and modern, free intellectual thought. In 1930, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Duke Vytautas the Great, the University of Lithuania in Kaunas was awarded the title of Vytautas Magnus University. With the merger of Vytautas Magnus, Lithuanian Educational Sciences and Aleksandras Stulginskis Universities in 2019, establishing the Vytautas Magnus University Academies of Education and Agriculture, the university became the widest in Lithuania, with as many as 11 faculties. VMU falls between 3 percent. the best universities in the world.