Course General Description

The undergraduate Interior Design study programme by VAA is distinct and unique, as it is the only one among Lithuanian design field study programmes which provides both university level Bachelor of Design qualification degree and competences in space design without focusing on a narrow area. Based on employment data, competences of universal character acquired during studies are in demand on Lithuanian and foreign interior design market. The degree is focused on an interior designer who is professionally employed in architecture or space design industry, has created own style of distinctness and is capable, individually or as a team member, carry on practical activity, make judgments of market situation, to employ technological knowledge, use principles of coherent development and to mature professionally.

School General Description

Vilnius Academy of Arts is the largest and oldest art university in the Baltic States, established in 1793 as an Architecture department at the Chief school of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Vilnius. At the end of the 19th century it was closed together with Vilnius University by the tsarist government, and then reopened in 1919. After the World War II Academy was merged with Kaunas Art Institute and since then was called The State Art Institute of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. In 1990 the Academy regained its name of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 1990, almost 100 alumni of the Academy were awarded National Art Awards. Today Academy has over 1,800 students in four cities – Vilnius, Kaunas and Telšiai. Each faculty has its own unique study programmes, which offer Lithuanian students a possibility to find a specific art specialisation in different cities. Vilnius faculty has a wide collection of most popular art study programmes varying from Painting to Culture Management and Culture Politics. Kaunas faculty offers Glass Art study programme that is unique throughout the Baltic region.