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Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1996, and in 2001 acquired a state university's status. In 2002, it was accredited for an indefinite period. ViA offers high-quality and flexible study programs that successfully balance theory and practice. These are adapted to the current needs of society and changes in the labor market. The quality of the studies is ensured by experienced and professional teaching staff, advanced study methods, and students who know what they want to achieve and how to succeed. The university is a platform for fulfilling dreams and achieving goals. Individually and collectively. It serves those who want to acquire new knowledge an…
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Ventspils University College (VUC) was founded in 1997 as a self-governing state university college and scientific institution. Its essential activity is to carry out scientific research and to implement academic and professional study programs. VUC offers to acquire knowledge in our faculties of Economics and Management, Translation Studies, and Information Technologies, offering 13 Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. study programs. There are approximately 900 full-time students (including international students from countries like Spain, France, Germany, Lithuania, Turkey, etc.), 80% of which are funded from the state budget. Click here for more information! VUC has 129 empl…
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Looking back at the history of the University of Latvia, we find ourselves more distant than the founding of the University on September 28, 1919. The creation of the University of Latvia is not a coincidence brought about by external historical circumstances – it is the result of Latvian intellectual maturity accumulated over many decades. The idea about creating a higher educational institution on the national level was put forward in the second half of the XIX century by social and cultural activists calling upon the Latvian people to strive for knowledge and aspire to qualitative education. Their calls were heard and fulfilled at the beginning of the 20 century. The…
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Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TTI)is the largest university-type accredited non-state technical higher educational and scientific establishment in Riga, Latvia's capital. It was established in 1999, although it incorporated the core of a technical and aviation school that dated back to 1919.[1] Main directions of academic activities: electronics and telecommunications, information technology and computer science, economics, management and business administration, transport, and logistics. Transport and telecommunication institute (lat. Transporta un sakaru institūts – TSI) – is a modern university with an almost centennial history. TSI – is the university-s…
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The University College of Economics and Culture was founded on July 23, 1998. The UEC offers a modern study environment – real and virtual lecture rooms, a modern library where you can find many books and periodicals, audio materials, video materials, an electronic data basis, and informative Internet resources in Russian, English, German and other languages. According to the Lisbon Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, a Diploma issued by the UEC is recognized in all the EU countries and other countries. The academic staff includes both local and foreign lecturers. On February 8, 2001, the UEC received the Accreditation Sheet of…
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The Art Academy of Latvia (from now on the Academy) was founded in 1919 by one of the first Latvian professional painters and the Academy Vilhelms Purvītis (1872-1945). He favored the development of Latvian art. A modernized tradition of academic education, openness to topical art processes and activities, the pedagogues' contribution to preparing young artists, and high-level performance of the students have ensured and preserved the Academy's authority. During World War II's dramatic events, despite the hardships and repressions of occupations, the academic staff of the Academy continued to teach and hand over their knowledge to students. During the Soviet period (194…
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The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) was founded in 1994 by the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) with the Swedish government's support and the Latvian Ministry of Education on behalf of Latvia. The mission of SSE Riga has been, since its inception in 1994, to provide a state-of-the-art education in business and economics that contributes to the economic and social development of the region, in particular Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Riga provides state-of-the-art education in economics and business that contributes to the region's economic and social development, particularly the Baltic countries. The mission also includes research, and SSE Riga …
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Established in 1991 in cooperation with the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, and the University of Ottawa, Canada, Riga Business School (RBS) is a management – education institution within Riga Technical University (RTU). RBS was the first higher education institution in the Baltics to offer MBA programs in English, granting its graduates an internationally recognized Masters of Business Administration degree. Since 2012, Riga Business School has been offering a Bachelor of Management in International Business program in collaboration with BI Norwegian Business School and University at Buffalo, USA. The school has a solid reputation and more than 1015 MBA g…
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Riga Technical University is the largest science-based university in the Baltic States, established in 1862. We are in the heart of Riga, the capital city of Latvia. Latvia borders the Baltic Sea along with Germany, Sweden, and other countries. RTU has over 150 years of history as a center of scientific excellence and has Nobel Prize winners, Presidents, and Prime Ministers as former professors and students. We provide an extensive range of engineering, business study, and architecture related courses. Local and visiting professors deliver study programs to local and overseas students in English. Latvia has long been recognized as a country of high educational standar…
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The RMI was established based on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Latvia, the direct successor of the pre-war Faculty of Medicine at the University of Latvia. The Stradiņš' name is not a coincidence. Members of the Stradiņš family have had a significant influence on Latvia's public and academic life over the past century. The timely and highly professional activity of Pauls Stradiņš – one of the two professors of medicine remaining in Latvia after World War II, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Latvia – ensured continuity of the values, standards, and quality of medical education and built a bridge between the pre-war and post-war educatio…
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"RISEBA" University of Business, Arts and Technology is a university type private higher educational institution fully accredited by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia. Being one of the first private higher education institutions in Latvia, today RISEBA is among ten largest higher education institutions in Latvia (both public and private) with almost 3000 students, including 200 international students, who attend 20 study programs of different levels and directions, and more than 9000 alumni. Over the last two decades, RISEBA has gone through a substantial transformation from a small ambitious business school to the university that p…
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Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) was founded in 1998. Today, it is a top tier law school offering Bachelor, Masters, and Doctoral interdisciplinary studies in law, business, finance, policy, international relations, and diplomacy. RGSL offers legal education in English to students from all over the world. Studying at RGSL offers a unique blend of the global and the local. The quality of teaching is at the top international level, while the attention and care given to students are local and individual. Located in the heart of Riga's Art Nouveau District, at the center of the Baltic region, RGSL aims to provide a robust academic education within the context of an ever-cha…
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Riga Aeronautical Institute (RAI) is a higher educational institution with rich experience and traditions in preparing specialists in transport spheres like air, sea, and road transport. Students have enormous possibilities of exploring enterprise economics in corresponding fields, managing the enterprise, and exploring air transport and receiving pilot skills. About 1500 students study in RAI, including branches of the institute in Rezekne and Daugavpils. Except for Latvian students, students from Lithuania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, and Armenia study in RAI. During the period of its existence, RAI has prepared more than 35000 specialists of diffe…
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Rezekne Academy of Technologies (RTA) is a state founded higher education institution with unlimited international accreditation. Its roots go back to 1925. Record sheets starting from 1 August 1925. RTA aims to provide academic and professional higher education in compliance with the science development level and cultural traditions of Latvia being competitive in the European education space, developing studies and research in 14 study fields. The mission of RTA is to provide an opportunity to achieve academic and professional higher education, do fundamental and applied research in educational science, humanities, and arts, social science, information and communicat…
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Liepaja University, founded in 1954, is an accredited state higher educational establishment, which implements study programs at all three study levels: necessary studies, Master and Doctorate studies. The number of students is around 2000 divided over around 30 study directions. Liepaja University offers five full degree study programs taught in English: Computer science, Physics, Information Technology, and Information Technology, New Media Arts. Liepaja University is an accredited state higher educational establishment, which implements study programs at all three study levels: necessary studies, Master and Doctorate studies. For long years the educational establis…
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Latvian Maritime Academy (LMA) is the first and only Institute in Latvia to provide higher maritime vocational education and training for the maritime industry regularly. The roots of maritime education in Latvia may be traced back more than 200 years. The first Maritime School in Riga was started in 1789. Latvian Maritime Academy enrolled the first students as part of the Kaliningrad Institute of Fishing Industries on 1 October 1989; therefore, this year is considered the foundation year of LMA. On 25 July 1990, LMA became one of the faculties of Riga Technical University. It was in January 1993 when Latvian Maritime Academy became a fully independent educ…
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Latvian Christian Academy has developed one of the most excellent and successful institutions providing theological education in Latvia. Latvian university is a strategic partner to many European universities and institutions of social research and academic centers. Respective EC organizations have recognized the unique value of our study programs regarding both content and methodology. The basis for the success story of Latvian Christian Academy is rooted in THE INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTIVE COMMITTEE – both academic and socially political entity, gathering representatives from the USA, Israel, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, France. Rector of Latvian Christian academy…
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The Latvian Academy of Sport Education is the only education institution of a specialized university type in Latvia that trains sports specialists. The Academy was founded on September 6, 1921, as the Latvian Institute of Physical Education, but in 8. In November 1991, it was renamed the Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE). LASE is an accredited (14.07.1998) state higher education institution; the studies are held in the Latvian language. The Constitution of the Academy was affirmed on July 8, 1998, by the Cabinet of Ministers, the Republic of Latvia Nr 352. The Latvian Academy of Sport Education is a state higher education institution that realizes accredited stu…
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The Latvian Academy of Culture is the higher education institution founded by the Council of Ministers' resolution on December 29, 1990. The Latvian Academy of Culture realizes accredited higher education study programs at Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels. The Research Centre and the Creative Activity Centre of the Latvian Academy of Culture and the students and the lecturers of the Academy take part in the realization of the scientific research and artistic creation. The Academy's primary goal is to administer studies at the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels in the Arts and Social Sciences, Theatre Studies, Audiovisual Arts, and Contemporary Dance and …
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Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies is a higher education and science establishment of the Republic of Latvia, where scientific research and academic and professional study programs are carried out. The University's primary goal is to create the intellectual potential to provide sustainable development of Latvia and its countryside while becoming an up-to-date, internationally recognized, and prestigious University, which actively integrates into the united European space of higher education science. The history of the University dates back to 1863 when the Department of Agriculture was established in the Riga Polytechnic. In 1919 the University of Latvia …
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Latvian Conservatory of Music was founded in 1919 by the Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols, who also became the first director of the Latvian National Opera. He remained director until 1944, excepting 1935-1937, when the director was his choral assistant Pauls Jozuus. There were junior and senior courses that covered around 9 to 10 academic years. Beginning in 1940, the structure of the conservatory changed: the lower junior courses were transferred in the secondary education system and later became a base for Jāzeps Mediņš's and Emīls Dārziņš's secondary schools of music. And there formed up courses of higher school in the conservatory. Beginning 1 October 1951, the LPSR In…
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ISMA University is one of the leading higher educational institutions in Latvia. ISMA has rich traditions and a clear future vision within the common area of European higher education In 1994, based on Riga Aviation University, several private higher education institutions were founded, including the Information Systems Management Institute. Three directions of studies were accredited almost at once. These were Business Administration, Information Technologies, and Tourism. By the beginning of the new century, ISMA becomes one of the most popular and demanded higher education institutions in Latvia. The number of students is more than 3000, and the number of full-time…
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The Higher School was founded in 1988 and had an accreditation without a time-limit. Training of translators and practical psychologists based on bachelor's and master's degree programs. Translator – a communication specialist, using some foreign languages in oral and written forms as a work tool. Psychologist – a specialist who creates conditions for studying and developing the human internal world and his/her relationship with other people. Graduating student gets a Bachelor's degree and qualification of a specialist in the appropriate sphere. In the Higher School, many organizations support and supplement education: Art gallery, Consulting cent…
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Daugavpils University was founded in 1921 and today is the most prominent regional state university and the only university in Eastern Latvia. DU offers to achieve knowledge in 5 faculties and 53 study programs. DU scientists' main research disciplines are Literary Science, Linguistics, History, Biology, Environmental Sciences, Physics, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Education, and Art. Knowledge-based society forms a socioeconomic environment of Latvia and Daugavpils, and the university must be a core promoter of the development. Both academic personnel and students should be keen on new knowledge, work hard for research, and discover and actively pass on society's …
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The Baltic International Academy (up to 2006 it was called Baltic Russian Institute) is the largest non-government higher education establishment in the Baltic States and Eastern European countries (it was established in 1992) amounting 4,500 students, including 450 international students from 22 countries worldwide, that makes a multicultural environment in Academy, where teach 200 lecturers, of which 100 are doctors of Science and professors. Reorganization occurs during the process of education in Baltic International Academy, which provides academic and professional higher education following the European Union requirements in Latvian economy fields. BIA acquired…
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