BA School of Business and Finances

Description: BA School of Business and Finance (BASBF) is a state-funded higher education institution in Latvia. It is implementing 18 accredited professional higher education study programmes in two study directions, “Economics” and “Management, administration and real estate” offering 3 cycle study programmes to approximately 1500 students. 

Strategic specialisation of BASBF includes the provision of modern, high quality business and financial management education based on the future labour market needs, being in line with interdisciplinary directions and the growth priorities of the Latvian Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3).

Academic staff of 4 faculties (Finance, Management, Foreign Languages, Entrepreneurship and IT), 3 research laboratories (Sustainability and efficiency lab, Financial intermediation and compliance expertise lab, Cyber security research lab) and Business incubator will contribute to the project implementation.

BASBF has obtained “Investors in Excellence” Quality Management Certificate issued by British Quality Foundation. In 2013 Scottish Qualifications Authority approved BASBF as the Centre to have the right to deliver internationally approved qualification in Financial Management. BASBF is the holder of DS and ECTS labels which are strong quality indicators.

From 2015 till 2017, BASBF implemented Erasmus+ KA2 project (2015-1-LV01-KA203-013436) “Partnership to Ensure Risk Management in practice”, which was flagged by EU as a good practice example and one of the best success stories.

Country: Latvia

Venue: Riga, K. Valdemara street 161

Website: https://www.ba.lv/

Contact: Janis.Hermanis@ba.lv