19 Sports, Wellness and Lifestyle Degree Programs in Lithuania

Sports Studies at VDU is a unique program in Lithuania, based on the principles of the American Sport Education Program and characterised by broad-based coach training. This study program is the only one in the country that prepares coaches for all sports.

The degree program Lifestyle Medicine aims at training mediators who bring together the best in traditional community-focused public health with the best in person-oriented health care. These specialists will be able to help people implement the needed lifestyle changes in diet, exercise, smoking, and stress management; evaluate the risk of harmful habits and addictions; identify and assess the environmental, lifestyle, psychological, and biological health risk factors and ground priority of health strategy and policies.

Objectives of this study program are to train demonstration of managerial knowledge and skills, management of resources and processes in the sports sector. As well as prepare sports managers to demonstrate entrepreneurship skills in the sports sector and collection, organization and analysis of targeted information also carrying out research.

The aim of the program is to provide students with a solid knowledge in management and business administration, to develop an ethically responsible personality with creative and entrepreneurial skills that enable the graduate to evaluate and predict national and international business environment, develop innovative activities in sports and leisure organizations, carry out applied research projects in tourism and sports sectors, and apply research findings in daily organizational activities and strategic decision making.

Would you like to be a stakeholder in the sports world? Would you like to enrich your knowledge? Would you like to change your career? Sports Business MBA by EB Institute equips students with advanced professional knowledge and skills in the field of sports business management.

Strength and conditioning; boxing; judo; basketball; swimming; sport dancing, handball, aerobic gymnastics, baseball, rugby, sports for the disabled, volleyball, modern pentathlon.

The Leisure Sports study programme is both relevant and unique: the study subjects are oriented towards the development of specific physical activities in the coastal area, utilizing the resources of the beach and the Baltic Sea. The study programme includes a Pedagogical Studies module of 60 study credits for obtaining a teacher's qualification. Students can choose a Basketball or Football specialization, both of which are prepared and implemented with Lithuanian and foreign social partners. This ensures the implementation of the latest educational technologies in the study process.

Enrolling in this study programme, students will learn how to integrate innovative interdisciplinary knowledge through systematic thinking, and to then creatively implement it in physical activity and sports practice. Completion will qualify graduates to become leaders and seek new career challenges in a global society. 

This is a unique university study program with the aim to train graduates in adapted physical activity (APA) who are capable to perform independent research, work as leaders and experts in the field of empowerment of persons with disabilities for pursuing independence, equal rights, and opportunities as well as advocacy in order to maintain an active, healthy lifestyle.

The study program is based on an intensive and applied study of a scientific methodology of specific discipline areas as well as on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of Sports Studies. The program is implemented using the mobility resources of the Erasmus scheme. Students will face the opportunity to perform the study program at three universities.

The aim of this program is to prepare public health practitioners, researchers, developers, and experts of health-enhancing physical activity programs and projects as well as specialists who are able to make and develop strategies and health promotion policies. The specialists will be able to manage and pursue their activities in educational, social, public and private sectors.

The goal of the joint study program of the second cycle Basketball Coaching and Management is to train a Master of Sport able to evaluate different basketball coaching and management systems, programs and their structures applied in various European countries, use advanced technologies in basketball coaching, creatively solve complex problems, make the right conclusions, relate practical experience with acknowledged professional competence training and learning models on the basis of international level achievements in fundamental and applied interdisciplinary science and technology.

Our next-generation degree program prepares a modern health coach who will be able to improve human health, not with the most effective strategies based on the latest world-class science, including the effects of sustainable exercise, nutrition, and stress management technologies.

Aesthetic cosmetology – is a possibility to work in a growing and constantly renewing industry of beauty services. The studies will grant a set of practical skills and it will help to cherish aesthetics and beauty and spread it to others.

The degree programme Physiotherapy is the movement therapy. The study programme prepares physiotherapists to be able to apply the latest scientific knowledge in examination and evaluation of patient’s functional state and physical capacity, in treating people recovering from injuries or illnesses with the help of movement and physical factors, maintaining their health and physical condition.