LatviaLVVerified ProgramsUniversity of Latvia runs one English-taught health program in Riga, in medicine. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €11,850 a year.
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LatviaThe University of Latvia publishes the actual arithmetic of its admission: chemistry 40%, biology 40%, English 20%, with a 60% floor in each subject. Very few schools in this catalog tell you the weighting before you apply. Medicine costs €11,850 a year for every citizenship group, which is €1,650 less than the other medical school in the same city.
Selection weights chemistry at 40%, biology at 40%, and English at 20%, or natural sciences at 80% where chemistry and biology were not studied separately. Each subject needs at least 60%, or 6 out of 10, and English needs a 6 or a recognized B2 certificate. An online interview forms part of the process.
That level of disclosure is unusual and it is genuinely useful. Most of this catalog describes selection as 'file review under the annual call' or 'academic documentation', which tells an applicant nothing about whether a weak chemistry grade is fatal. Here you can compute your own position before spending an application fee: chemistry and biology are worth four times English between them, and a subject below the 60% floor ends the application regardless of the rest.
€11,850 a year, confirmed for 2026/27 and charged identically to all citizenship groups. Riga has two medical schools in this catalog, and the other one — Rīga Stradiņš University — charges €13,500 for medicine. Same city, same living costs, €1,650 a year apart, which is close to €10,000 across a six-year degree.
Against Europe, twenty-five of the 118 medicine programs with a confirmed 2026-2027 fee cost less, so this sits in the cheaper quarter without being a bottom-of-the-market price. The official source also publishes the seat count: 35 tuition-paying places for 2026/27. A published seat number is worth reading carefully — it tells you the competition is bounded in a way an open-ended intake is not.
Applications open on 1 January 2026 and then close on three different dates. Applicants from countries requiring additional assessment close on 1 May 2026. Visa-requiring non-EU and non-EEA applicants close on 21 June 2026. EU, EEA, Swiss and visa-free non-EU applicants have until 1 July 2026.
The gap between the earliest and the latest is two months, and which one binds you is decided by your nationality rather than by anything you control. Work out which group you are in before you plan anything else, because the 1 May date arrives while most of Central Europe is still months from closing.
Latvian is normally required for patient contact, as it is across English-taught medicine in Europe. The degree runs six years and awards a Medical Doctor qualification from the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences.
Applicants with strong chemistry and biology who want to know the selection maths before they apply, who would rather save €10,000 across a degree than pay for the better-known name in the same city, and who can identify which of the three nationality-based deadlines is theirs.
The University of Latvia is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0000675. The ECFMG Sponsor Note was present with the graduation-year field including Current on the audit date, and the Canada sponsor note was present with a pass at school level for the MCC check, verified on 2026-06-11. Confirm the exact issued diploma title against the ECFMG Reference Guide for Medical Education Credentials before enrolment. This records what the school-level evidence showed; it does not guarantee certification, residency, registration, or licensure.
Written from the verified catalog and the official sources linked on this page. Sources last checked 2026-06-11; profile updated 2026-08-11. Approver: EuroMedGuide AI editorial pipeline. Figures quoted here are gated against the catalog by npm run validate:guide-stats.
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