"This positive trend confirms the assumption that more and more families are choosing to make a long-term investment in European higher education, which guarantees security and a promising future for young people in Belarus and the surrounding countries," it said in a press release.
Some 800 applications were received during the main intake and 446 new students were admitted, with another 64 taken in during the additional intake.
A further 131 students entered a Bachelor's degree program ain Computer Science, launched by the university in cooperation with the EPAM School of Digital Engineering.
This brings the total number of students admitted to EHU this year to over six hundred.
According to EHU, 450 of the first-year students are from Belarus, 56 are from Russia and 45 are from Ukraine. There are also students from Lithuania, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Georgia.
The university's new academic year started on October 1.
EHU is a private university that was founded in Minsk back in 1992, but was later closed down by Belarus' authorities. The university reopened in Vilnius at the Lithuanian government's invitation 18 years ago.
In 2019, the Lithuanian government granted EHU a special status, recognizing it as a higher education institution operating in exile for political reasons.