Kaunas University of Technology

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), based in Lithuania, was established in 1920, and originally known as Higher Courses. As it grew – both in terms of staff and students – it eventually became the first independent higher education institution in Lithuania in 1922.Notable alumni include Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, who was the first President of a newly independent post-Soviet Lithuania between 1993 and 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006, Marcelijus Martinaitis, a poet and translator who is well known in Lithuania as a public figure, and Edvardas Gudavičius who is one of the most notable historians in modern Lithuania.