THE MAIN HISTORICAL FACTS

FACULTIES

• Faculty of Agricultural Engineering• Faculty of Agronomy• Faculty of Economics and Management• Faculty of Forestry and Ecology• Faculty of Water and Land Management

NUMBERS OF STUDENTS:

3600 BSc students940 MSc students80 PhD students

ACADEMIC STAFF: • 53 professors• 135 associated

professors• 105 lecturers• 48 assistants• 50 research staff

ASU ACTIVE CONNECTIONS

FIRST CYCLE (BACHELOUR DEGREE) STUDY PROGRAMMES 1

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

• Agricultural Technologies and Management• Agronomy• Applied Ecology• Forestry• Landscape Architecture• Plant Biology and Breeding• Quality and Safety of Food Raw Materials• Urban and Recreational Forestry

FIRST CYCLE (BACHELOUR DEGREE) STUDY PROGRAMMES 2

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Accounting and Finance• Administration of Rural Development• Agricultural Business Management• Agricultural Economics• Logistics and Commerce• Management of Rural Development

FIRST CYCLE (BACHELOUR DEGREE) STUDY PROGRAMMES 3

TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES

• Agricultural Engineering and Management• Agricultural Mechanical Engineering• Engineering of Agroenergetics• Renewable Energy Engineering• Hydraulic Engineering• Land Management• Real Property Cadaster• Transport Engineering• Water Protection Engineering and

Management

SECOND CYCLE (MASTER DEGREE) STUDY PROGRAMMES

• Biomedical sciences – 7 programmes• Social Sciences – 5 programmes• Technological sciences – 7 programmes

ASU EXPERIENCE IN EVALUATION OF STUDY PROGRAMMES

• University is taking part in the internal and external evaluation of study programmes according to the official procedure since 1999.

• Each year some University programmes are evaluated externally.

• Some University professors are included in the international study programmes evaluation expert groups (evaluation of study programmes in other Lithuanian or other European institutions of higher education).

ASU EXPERIENCE IN INSTITUTIONAL EVALUATION

• ASU twice participated in the institutional evaluation:   In 2008. Pilot project of institutional evaluation was

carried to test the developed institutional assessment methodology; In 2012. A formal institutional evaluation was carried out by the international expert team. All areas of University activities have been successfully evaluated and ASU was accredited for 6 years;

• ASU professors - experts are involved in the institutional evaluation of colleges in Lithuania.

UNIVERSITY STUDY QUALITY ASSUARANCE SAYSTEM

• More systematic development of it started in 2005 activelly involving academic community in the matters of the study quality.

• The current system is based on:    - Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area;    - Main provisions of European Foundation for Quality Management Excellence Model.

THE MAIN UNIVERSITY DOCUMENTS REGULATING THE INTERNAL STUDY QUALITY

ASSUARANCE SYSTEM

• Description of internal quality assurance policy of University management;

• Description of University internal study quality assurance system;

• Quality guide of University activities

STRATEGIC DOCUMENTS DESCRIBING GOALS, TASKS AND MEASURES OF STUDY

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

• ASU strategy 2020;• Plan 2012 – 2014 of implementation of

ASU strategy.

ASU POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT

• Participation in development of documents• Shearing experience in study quality

assurance• Participation in evaluation of study

programmes

(According to the project activities)

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Successful collaboration in project development in

implementation !