RSU expands its study offer in English

Applications for the next intake at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will be accepted by 1 July this year. Starting with the spring semester of the current academic year, the range of study programmes offered to international students has been supplemented by the Bachelor study programme Nursing and the Master's study programme Public Health with students from seven countries already studying in this course. RSU currently offers six undergraduate and five postgraduate study programmes in English. 

“Given that internationalisation is among the key directions of the RSU long-term development strategy, we are constantly working on expanding the study options offered in English not only in healthcare but also in social sciences”, RSU Rector Aigars Petersons illustrates the university’s internationalisation path. “The study programmes Nursing and Public Health that we launched this semester are highly competitive with other European universities which commonly offer these study programmes free of charge.”  

“International students choose our university because of the quality of our studies, the contemporary study process and course content, innovative infrastructure and facilities at RSU Medical Education Technology Centre, the Anatomical Theatre and other study bases and the qualification of our academics,” the rector emphasised. 

For several years now RSU has taken the lead among Latvia’s universities in attracting international students and this year we will celebrate the 28th anniversary of teaching international students. Currently there are 2139 international students at RSU comprising approximately 25% of the total number of RSU students, the majority of them from Germany, Sweden, Finland and Norway.

RSU offers the following study programmes to international students – undergraduate study programmes: Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy and postgraduate study programmes: Public Health, Health Management, Social Work with Children and Youth, Rehabilitation, International Governance and Diplomacy.