VMU is a comprehensive university devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, research, arts and innovation, and fostering critical thinking, imaginative response as well as the desire and capacity for lifelong learning of our students who will have an impact on the world, locally and globally. VMU has a reputation as a university with a globally oriented, free-spirited, liberal mindset. What distinguishes Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) from others in the region is our artes-liberales study model as well as high level of internationalization. The history of Vytautas Magnus University is traced back to 1922.