| Riga Technical University | |
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| Rīgas Tehniskā Universitāte | |
| Established | 1862 |
| Type | Public |
| Students | 15,735 |
| Location | Riga, Latvia |
| Affiliations | （BSRUN）、BALTECH |
| Website | http://www.rtu.lv/ |
Riga Technical University (RTU) (Latvian: Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte) (previously known as Riga Polytechnical Institute and Riga Polytechnicum) is located in Riga, Latvia.
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Riga Polytechnicum was first established in 1862 and was the first polytechnical institute in Imperial Russia. It offered degrees in agriculture, chemistry, engineering, mechanics, trade and architecture, with education in German language. In 1896, it was renamed Riga Polytechnical Institute and the language of instruction was changed to Russian.
When the World War I started in 1914, Riga Polytechnical Institute was evacuated to Moscow and worked there until 1918. After that, part of the faculty returned to Latvia and joined the newly established University of Latvia. Others stayed in Russia and taught at universities there.
Riga Polytechnical Institute was re-established in 1958 by splitting off the engineering departments from the State University of Latvia. In 1990, it was renamed to Riga Technical University. The university currently consists of 8 faculties:
As of 2003[update], it had 17,281 students.
'The Riga Business School management–education founded in 1991, in a close cooperation with the State University of New York at Buffalo, (USA) and the University of Ottawa, (Canada), it was as the first higher education institution in the Baltic states which offered Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs in English. The school currently has more than 800 MBA graduates, mostly middle- and upper-level level managers both in Latvia and abroad. The education standards and structure are adopted from the North-American style MBA, which contains case studies, working in groups, and active participation in classrooms.
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