The University of Latvia (UL) with its 25,000 students, 13 faculties and more than 20 research institutes is the largest comprehensive university in the Baltics. The University offers more than 150 state-accredited academic and professional study programmes.

Each year, approximately 300 students of the UL study abroad with the help of international exchange
programmes, thus perfecting their skills and abilities; in turn, the University of Latvia welcomes approx. 250 international students.

The University of Latvia pays great attention to the development of international collaboration in order to promote international identification and to strengthen good reputation. It has been always active in international collaboration. Nowadays the objective is to focus on the content and quality of international cooperation in order to make internationalization a balanced element of education and research.

The internationalization processes take place in the following areas:

* bilateral cooperation agreements (with 76 universities in 29 countries);
* membership in the international university organizations and networks;
* participation in international educational and research programmes and projects;
* exchanges of students and teachers;
* international cooperation on the faculty, institute, department and individual levels.

Source: www.lu.lv, as accessed on February 12, 2009.