After the restoration of Lithuania's independence in 1990, Mykolas Romeris University also opened the first page of its history - a higher school was established a month after the declaration of independence, which started its activities on September 1990, 1. Therefore, on September 1 of this year, Mykolas Romeris University celebrated not only the Day of Science and Knowledge, but also the honorable anniversary of the university.
The university is closely related to the history of modern Lithuania. A number of university professors and honorary doctors are signatories of the Act of Independence, who also made a significant contribution to the preparation of the Act of Independence itself, the Constitution of Lithuania and other significant legal acts.
The origins of the university are the establishment of the Lithuanian Police Academy. The fact that the formation process of the Lithuanian Police Academy proceeded very quickly, and the newly established Lithuanian Police Academy began its activities in 1990, confirms that such a higher education institution was very much needed by the young state. on September 1.
Since its inception, the academy has sought to creatively transfer the best training solutions for law enforcement officers from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, and the Netherlands into the study and science system. The academy at that time represented and shaped a new approach to the relationship between the police and society: that police must ensure and protect the rights and freedoms of all citizens, and defend their unrestricted use.
During the reform of the legal system in the country, there was a severe shortage of qualified public management and law specialists, so the Government of Lithuania adopted a resolution in 1997 instructing the Lithuanian Police Academy to start preparing law and law and management study programs. After expanding the functions of the Lithuanian Police Academy, in the same year the university was given a new name - the Lithuanian Academy of Law. From the very first steps, the democratic legal doctrine was developed in the Lithuanian Law Academy, and the constitutional, administrative, civil, international, and business law disciplines became the basis of law study programs.
Today it is the largest specialized university of social sciences in Lithuania.
The university started its activity as a higher education school training public security and legal specialists, gradually grew, becoming the largest specialized university of social sciences in Lithuania. In 2004, he was awarded the title of Patriarch of Lithuanian Constitutional Law, Professor, Rector of the University of Lithuania Mykolas Romeris. Today, MRU trains specialists in public administration, management, economics, political science, psychology, social work, pedagogy, and other social sciences. Rector of MRU prof. Dr. Inga Žalėnienė is happy that the university is celebrating its 30th anniversary having refined its strengths, having a clear identity, a rich history, its place not only on the map of higher education in Lithuania, but also in the world: "We are the largest and the only specialized university of social sciences in Lithuania," says I Žalėnienė. - Although social sciences are developed by both broad-based and technologically oriented high schools, our university stands out among them with strong and unique study and research directions, interdisciplinary study programs and research that is internationally recognized. And the mission of the university does not change - to actively contribute to the legal and management systems of the state, to strengthening security, to the prosperity of a sustainable, open, transparent, free state and the well-being of all citizens".
Today, the university actively develops international academic and research partnerships, especially with Asian universities, focuses on international study and research quality standards, implements innovative management and organizational management solutions. MRU is actively involved in international research and study professional subject networks and consortia, is a member of dozens of international organizations, has bilateral cooperation agreements with almost half a dozen universities in the world, is the only law field among the Baltic countries to be among the 250 best universities in the world in the subject QS ranking, represents Lithuanian higher education in the Association of World Universities.
