In the category of the universities of the Central and Eastern Europe, only two Lithuanian universities entered the top seventy: VU reached the twenty-fifth and VGTU – the sixty-fourth position. Further, VDU reached one-hundred-sixteenth position; Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) reached one- hundred-fifty-first position, followed by Klaipeda University (KU) in the one-hundred-fifty-eighth position.
According to VGTU rector Prof. Dr. Alfonsas Daniunas, such good results are reflecting the university's desire to be active and visible in the world: "every university should ensure the accessibility of the information about their activities and scientific knowledge as well as scientists innovations, for a much wider audience. The fact that for the third time the same universities are the leaders shows the continuous efforts, rather than one-off success of the universities", VGTU said in a report.
The ranking system provides rating for almost twelve thousand universities worldwide. The leading three universities of the United States of America – Harvard University in the first position, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the second position and Stanford University in the third position – are retaining their leading rankings in the category of the world universities, according to the data from Webometrics. Among all rated universities, VU is 670th, VGTU is 1313rd, VDU is 1938th, MRU is 2365th, and KU is 2460th.
