International Business and Start-up Entrepreneurship

The tuition fee covers accommodation during international visits.

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Curriculum and format

Curriculum

The program's content is based on real economics and business. Over the course of six semesters students will progressively develop knowledge, skills and competencies in international business and start-up economics and management. Regarding how the programme's content is presented, equal attention is given to how knowledge is delivered and co-produced as well as to how courses are formatted. This includes activities outside classes and seminars in the real business and economic management environment and relating different courses to one another (for example how maths is used in business, or how to use communication skills to sell business ideas to investors).

Study format

Students will acquire the curriculum of the programme in a variety of study formats - activities outside classes and seminars in the real business and economic management environment, study visits abroad as well as to international companies in Latvia, business problem solving using simulations, practical semester projects and collaboration with the RSU Business Incubator to develop business ideas and learn how to pitch to investors, etc.

Syllabus

Course code	Study course title	Īstenotājs	Kursa vadītājs	Credit points/ETCS
SBUEK_167	Applied Enterpreneurship	Department of International Business and Economics	Kristaps Zaļais	4 / 6
SBUEK_179	Applied Macroeconomics and Statistics	Department of International Business and Economics	Tatjana Boikova	4 / 6
SBUEK_178	Applied Microeconomics and Mathematics in Business	Department of International Business and Economics	Irina Možajeva	4 / 6
SBUEK_196	Behavioural Economics	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
SBUEK_185	Business and Societal Governance / International Exposure I - Brussels Week	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	6 / 9
SBUEK_177	Business Communication and Ethics	Department of International Business and Economics	Jana Bunkus	4 / 6
VC_119	Business English and Concise Writing	Language Centre	Sniedze Vilde	8 / 12
VC_125	Business English and Concise Writing	Language Centre	Sniedze Vilde	6 / 9
SBUEK_176	Business Research Methodology	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
KPUMTK_012	Civil Defence and Environmental Protection	Department of Clinical Skills and Medical Technologies	Oļegs Sabeļņikovs	2 / 3
SBUEK_002	Development of Bachelor’s Thesis and Defence	Department of International Business and Economics	Inna Dovladbekova	18 / 27
SBUEK_194	Digital Health and MedTech Development	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
SBUEK_190	Environmental Economics and Finances	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
SBUEK_180	Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance	Department of International Business and Economics	Anželika Berķe-Berga	4 / 6
SBUEK_195	Health Care System Impact on Labour Market	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
SBUEK_171	Innovation Management and Creativity	Department of International Business and Economics	Vladimirs Rojenko	4 / 6
SBUEK_181	International Business and Marketing	Department of International Business and Economics	Laura Martinsone	4 / 6
VC_124	Latvian Language Course for Foreign Students	Language Centre	Inga Laizāne	2 / 3
SVUEK_122	Public Health	Department of Public Health and Epidemiology	Lauma Spriņģe	4 / 6
VC_121	Second Language (French) and Intercultural Relations	Language Centre	Aleksandrs Timofejevs	12 / 18
VC_120	Second Language (German) and Intercultural Relations	Language Centre	Dace Žibala	12 / 18
VC_123	Second Language (Russian) and Intercultural Relations	Language Centre	Ludmila Jermakoviča	12 / 18
VC_122	Second Language (Spanish) and Intercultural Relations	Language Centre	Aleksandrs Timofejevs	12 / 18
SBUEK_175	Semester project I - Orientation and Integration	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	2 / 3
SBUEK_192	Semester Project II - Knowledge Integration	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
SBUEK_187	Semester Project III - Leadership and Pitches at RSU Business Incubator	Department of International Business and Economics	Kristaps Zaļais	4 / 6
SBUEK_193	Semester Project IV - Practice Integration I	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
SBUEK_191	Semester Project V - Practice Integration II	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
SBUEK_184	Start-up Patents	Department of International Business and Economics	Kristaps Zaļais	4 / 6
SBUEK_172	Strategic and Change Management	Department of International Business and Economics	Romāns Putāns	4 / 6
LUSDK_232	Sustainable Social Entrepreneurship	Department of Welfare and Social Work	Ieva Kalve	4 / 6
SBUEK_188	Talent Management in International Business	Department of International Business and Economics	Olga Leontjeva	4 / 6
SBUEK_189	Venture Capital	Department of International Business and Economics	Līga Sileniece	4 / 6

Admissions requirements

Admissions requirements

Career opportunities after graduation

Graduates of the study programme can work as specialists in economics and international business and start-up management, as entrepreneurs, researchers, managers, experts, business consultants, project managers, business analysts or economists.

Graduates of this program will be confident in economic trends and able to make strategic, ambitious, bold and informed decisions .

Feedback

It is essential for any potential entrepreneur that the university not only provides a theoretical education, but also gives an introduction to the dynamic business environment, demonstrates how to create a successful start-up and assists in establishing the first contacts in Latvia and abroad. The new programme is designed to be very close to the industry, which benefits both students and the business environment.

Sergejs Jakimovs,
Co-Founder of start-ups Vortexoil and Koatum, Board Member and Strategist at Longenesis, RSU visiting lecturer

Business today has no borders on the map. I started developing my mobile app Drone Pilot in Riga, continued in Estonia, but am now working on it in London. RSU is the most international among Latvian universities – a quarter of students are from abroad, and these are ideal conditions to prepare for the international environment that awaits every start-up entrepreneur.

Kristers Jurševskis,
Co-Founder of start-up Drone Pilot, RSU graduate