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Lithuania

A vocational college that publishes its prices — which is rarer than it should be.

5/5
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Tuition
~$3.1–10.3k/yr
Living
57% of US prices
A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.
Field reputation
Domestic and Baltic
Industry access
The graduate permit reaches professional degrees
Safety
1.62 · 24th of 163
Twenty-fourth globally, and the safest of the three Baltic states after Estonia on this edition

More is being checked.

Where these figures came from

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Tuition~$3.1–10.3k/yr

Vilniaus Kolegija's own 2026 fee page: €2,900 a year for international business, tourism management, banking and business economics; €3,800 for software engineering, information systems and cybersecurity, and civil engineering; €9,500 for popular music. It states the same rates for EU and non-EU students. Recorded at the median of the three, €3,800 a year.

Confidence
printed in the source
Last checked
2026-09
Living57% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 0.5265 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 0.9239 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.57, is the price level against the United States, whose own ratio is 1 by construction. Both figures are theirs; the division is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Field reputationDomestic and Baltic

Pathoff education rubric (the Pathoff method, section 9-2), special band "Locally useful only": The professional colleges train well for Lithuanian and Baltic employers, and the laser and fintech sectors give some of that training regional standing. No institution here is a name the wider industry knows.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Industry accessThe graduate permit reaches professional degrees

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-3), special outcome band "A route that needs an employer": Judged on its own. The professional colleges award higher education qualifications, so their graduates fall inside the twelve-month graduate permit rather than outside it as in the Netherlands or Czechia — which is why this sits at the top of the band. It stops short of the band above because the qualification confers no right to work in the trade by itself.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
Safety1.62 · 24th of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.62, ranked 24 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

Twenty-fourth globally, and the safest of the three Baltic states after Estonia on this edition

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Vilniaus Kolegija publishes a full fee schedule and charges EU and non-EU students the same rate, which almost no vocational institution on this site does. Programmes run €2,900 to €9,500 a year, the training is tied to Lithuanian industry, and the twelve-month graduate permit reaches professional higher education. What it is not is internationally famous.

How the process works

1

Confirm the college awards a professional degree

It decides whether the twelve-month graduate permit applies afterwards.

Timing not confirmed
2

Pay the year up front

The college requires the full annual fee within ten working days of acceptance.

⏱ 2 weeks

Where the training is

Vilnius
The professional colleges and the employers that recruit from them

Open any ingredient above to see where its figure came from, how far we trust it and when we last checked. Nothing here is a substitute for the official source. Last reviewed 2026-09-04.

Photograph of Lithuania by Andrej Kuźniečyk, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.