RISEBA University of Applied Sciences 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 10 largest higher education institutions in Latvia (both public and private) with almost 3000 students, including 200 international students, who attend 20 study programmes of different levels and directions, and more than 9000 alumni.
RISEBA provides programmes which are either unique in the market or were first introduced to the market by RISEBA. It is one of the few institutions that offers full degree programmes in three languages – Latvian and English.
RISEBA is spread across five sites: three buildings of RISEBA main campus are located in Riga (the capital city), one regional branch is based in Daugavpils (the second largest city in Latvia).
Guided by its vision RISEBA comprises three major academic components or schools:
RISEBA is an inter-disciplinary, multicultural university providing the global labour market with intelligent, creative and independently thinking individuals. RISEBA stands for excellent education, internationally recognised degrees, high quality of graduates, excellent research base and highly qualified staff.
RISEBA life long education center also participiates in different kind of projects in national and EU level. During year 2020 there already are more than 2000 adults trained in various educational programs. RISEBA delivers higher education in study fields as business and administration, communications, audio-visual media arts and architecture. To implement RISEBA vision – “the place where business meets arts” RISEBA has created Creative Business Incubator to inspire, educate, mentor students and graduates from different sectors to speed up the growth and success of their business ideas, start-up and early stage companies, to support students in the business idea and project development process and acceleration process of the new start-up companies. The main directions for RISEBA Creative Industries are areas are Creative Industries, Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. One of RISEBA study programs is E-Business which teaches new professionals who can work as project managers in e-commerce, as website designers, managers in e commerce departments in public institutions and private businesses. Also they can work in e-health, e-government, e-education and e-business and welfare fields.
Our previous experience with the cooperation projects advance our core disciplinary knowledge and address key issues for the society such as creative methods in business and learning to innovation, strategic management and technology. We ensure
programmes at RISEBA meet the expectations of the university sector by offering creative study programmes in the various fields: Business, Psychology, Communications, Audio visual media arts and Architecture.
Within business and economics, art, communication and architecture sciences, research is carried out in a number of different fields, like: