Registration fee is stipulated by all higher education institutions,
its amount depends on the institution and varies from 5 to 20 lats(LVL) (extra payment is required if a person submits documents for several programmes).
In
Latvia, higher education may be acquired for state budget resources or
for individual payment. The number of places in study programmes
subsidized by the state is decided every year at central level by the
Ministry of Education and Science. In the last years, in accordance
with the demands of labour market and priorities defined in the
long-term strategy of economy of Latvia, the number of places
subsidized by the state has augmented in areas of natural sciences,
mathematics and engineering. Institutions are free to set tuition fees
for the other places. The size of tuition fees varies quite
considerably from one institution or study programme to other. However,
in accordance with the Regulations on Compulsory Provisions to be
Included in the Study Agreement the fee for the programme in total
shall be specified in the agreement thus preventing the possible
augmentation of the fee during studies.
Payment is made to the corresponding higher education institution.
The
system of financing higher education in Latvia has been widely debated
in the last few years. The main reason for debates is the situation
when with the massive increase in the number of study applicants the
ability of state budget to accordingly increase budgetary allocations
is on the whole rather limited. As a result, approximately one fourth
of the total number of students is financed from the state budget; the
remaining part of students is forced to pay their tuition fees
themselves.
Recently, higher education institutions have started
to implement the so-called rotation principle. Rotation is a
possibility to transfer from a pay place to a study place financed from
the state budget, and is held as annual competition. Usually students
with higher marks get the right to study in a state-financed place.
Each institution develops its own regulations concerning rotation.
It is expected that tuition fees for 2008/2009 will increase due to growing costs of study places.
Institutions:
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia Vaļņu iela 2, Rīga, LV-1050, Latvia Tel.:(+371) 67226209 Fax:(+371) 67223905 Website: http://www.izm.gov.lv
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