Turiba University is one of the leading higher educational institutions in Latvia with a stable tradition and a clear vision of common European educational space. Founded in 1993, Turiba is proud of its 4826 students and 12'000 alumni in Academic Year 2012/2013.
The University has been admitted as member in the AACSB International, The Association to Advance Colegiate Schools of Business, which unites the leading higher educational institutions of business, in EURASHE - European Association of Institutions in Higher Education and E.L.F.A., European Law Faculties Association.
For the study programme Management of tourism and hospitality companies the accreditation of the UN/WTO – World Tourism Organisation – WTO TedQual certificate has been granted. Turiba has become the first higher education institution in the Baltic region and Scandinavian countries, which has received the accreditation by the World Tourism Organisation and the high evaluation by internationally recognised experts.
Vision:
Internationally acknowledged and recognisable higher educational institution of business administration.
Mission:
To give opportunity to everybody to acquire business-oriented education appropriate to one’s professional sphere and develop oneself as a creative leader.
To implement the national and internationally accredited educational programmes and carry out scientific-practical researches in order to develop the business competencies in the society and facilitate the development of regions.
The institution has four major faculties:
Faculty of Business Administration
Faculty of Law
Faculty of International Tourism
Faculty of Public Relations
Professionalism, dynamics and being up-to-date – the main characteristic features of the brand Turiba.
The University has four branches – in Liepāja, Cēsis, Talsi and Jēkabpils.
Main study directions – business administration, law, management of tourism and hospitality companies, public relations.
Values:
LIBERTY
Are you living the life of your own or are you just a screw in a mechanism created by others? Perhaps it is simpler to be one of the grey mass, but a true life starts only when you are free to make your own decisions and choices. Free to hear and follow your calling.
ENTERPRISE
Have you done everything to achieve your goal? Are you aware that the quality and welfare of your life firstly is dependent on your own will, courage and daring? Act now because then each step will bring you new opportunities and ideas, will teach and strengthen you.
COMPETENCE
Are you searching for and accumulating knowledge, which is necessary so that other could call you an intelligent person? A really intelligent person is he/she who is always ready to admit his/her foolishness and continues to wonder about the world during all the life. Diploma of the School will be the evidence that you have been in a serious mind-training camp and will be able to apply it self-dependently in your future life paths.
The talisman of the Turiba University is its white cat Turītis.
A special home for Turītis has been designed in the Study Information Centre, however, Turītis loves to stroll through the rest of Turiba campus greeting students or simply purring while observing Turiba employees at work. Turītis feels at home in all the buildings on the Turiba campus – he can enter any building he wishes and stroll along wherever he wishes. Turītis of course thinks about studies too and often his rosy paws can be seen in the library or in the conference halls on the second floor listening to intelligent discussions between students and teachers.
