…, adding that the SSE Riga “brand” outshines even prestigious international business schools on the Baltic regional market. “Coming from SSE Riga you have passed the bar of a good education and have the network, especially if you want to make a career in the Baltic area. Those who studied abroad have few or no connections, while the SSE Riga graduate does,” Gediminas says. Remembering the teaching process, he recalls that, often, the entire class of around 120 students sat in the same lectures…

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…offering a Western-style business and economics education in English, so that applicants and students were “ultra-motivated”. “20 years ago, motivation was fantastic, but in a sad way – either you made it at SSE Riga or you flunked completely in your career. It is nicer that there are other options besides SSE Riga,” he says. To be sure, “easily accessible” in 1997 meant that it was much harder, before Latvia joined the European Union (EU), to apply to and study at universities with equally high admission…

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