Study in the Baltic States

The Baltics are where affordability, safety and genuine technical ambition meet. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania run a growing catalogue of fully English-taught degrees at a fraction of Western European tuition, in compact cities you can live in comfortably on a student budget. This is also home ground for us: our consultant is based in Tallinn and has walked students through these applications from first shortlist to residence permit.

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Why Baltic States, in five numbers

The figures that matter when you are weighing the Baltic States against everywhere else.

26,000+International students enrolled International student opportunities Around 26,000 international students are enrolled for degrees across the three countries (roughly 11,500 in Lithuania, 10,400 in Latvia and 4,300 in Estonia), most commonly in business and social sciences, health, ICT and engineering. Eurostat 2024
€1,500–€9,000Typical tuition per year Affordability Annual tuition for a bachelor’s or master’s runs from about €1,500 to €9,000 depending on country and subject: computing and engineering degrees in Latvia start under €2,000, while medicine and dentistry are the outlier at €8,000–€15,000. Doctoral study is not fee-paying at all: a PhD place here is a salaried research post. Study in Estonia / Latvia / Lithuania
56%Estonian students who have done an internship Internships & employment More than half of students in Estonia have completed at least one internship since entering higher education, against a European average of about 40%, one of the highest rates measured anywhere in the survey. EUROSTUDENT 8, 2022
1.3Homicides per 100,000 people (Estonia) Safety Estonia’s intentional homicide rate was 1.3 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023, below the EU average; Latvia and Lithuania have both fallen steeply over the past decade. Violent crime is not what students here tend to worry about. Eurostat 2023
100%Estonian state services online Technology & innovation Estonia runs every one of its state services online (the last gap closed in January 2025) and places second worldwide in the UN E-Government Survey. Lithuania has 1,500+ startups in Vilnius, and Latvia’s tech sector keeps growing at around 20% a year. e-Estonia

QS and THE, side by side

Where the flagships rank

QS World University Rankings 2027 Times Higher Education 2026

University Better #1#200#400#600#800#1,000 Sources

University of Tartu Estonia #=367QS #301–350THE QS THE
Vilnius University Lithuania #=465QS #801–1000THE QS THE
University of Latvia Latvia #781–790QS Outside the top 1,000 on THE: #1001–1200. QS THE

Rankings change every year. September 2026 edition, read off each university's own listing; treat their admissions page as the source of record.

The flagships

Where our students apply and get in

Leading options in the Baltic States, with the English-taught strengths and tuition you should plan around.

A PhD in Europe is usually paid work, not a tuition bill. Most universities in Europe treat a PhD as employment rather than study: doctoral candidates are not charged tuition and are paid a salary, where the position carries teaching and research duties. The particular stipend or salary is set by the university and the doctoral program, and is communicated to you once you have chosen the program you are applying to.

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Estonia

University of Tartu

Tartu · Estonia’s top-ranked university

Bachelor’sMaster’sPhD

€4,000–€6,000per year, program dependent · bachelor’s and master’s

PhD: No tuitionsalaried doctoral post

Tartu · Estonia

University of Tartu

Estonia’s top university and one of the strongest in the Baltics and Europe overall, with a deep bench of English-taught undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Tuition: €4,000–€6,000 per year, program dependent · bachelor’s and master’s
PhD: No tuition salaried doctoral post
Subjects: Business Administration · Computer Science · Data Science · Digital Humanities

A PhD here is employment rather than fee-paying study: no tuition, a salary against teaching and research duties, with the figure confirmed once the program is chosen.

Three English-taught bachelor’s; the choice widens a lot at master’s.

Admissions Language of instruction

Lithuania

Vilnius University

Vilnius · Lithuania’s best, and among the Baltics’ oldest

Bachelor’sMaster’sPhD

€3,000–€7,000per year, program dependent · bachelor’s and master’s

PhD: No tuitionsalaried doctoral post

Vilnius · Lithuania

Vilnius University

The top university in Lithuania and one of the oldest in the Baltic region, with a broad English-taught offer across business, law and computing.

Tuition: €3,000–€7,000 per year, program dependent · bachelor’s and master’s
PhD: No tuition salaried doctoral post
Subjects: BA Business Administration · BA Information Systems · MA Strategic Management · MSc Data Science · LLM Law · International Relations

A PhD here is employment rather than fee-paying study: no tuition, a salary against teaching and research duties, with the figure confirmed once the program is chosen.

Admissions Language of instruction

Latvia

University of Latvia

Riga · Top in Latvia for business and computing

Bachelor’sMaster’sPhD

€3,000–€6,000per year, program dependent · bachelor’s and master’s

PhD: No tuitionsalaried doctoral post

Riga · Latvia

University of Latvia

Latvia’s top university, particularly strong in business administration, international relations, computer science, law and economics.

Tuition: €3,000–€6,000 per year, program dependent · bachelor’s and master’s
PhD: No tuition salaried doctoral post
Subjects: BA Business Administration · BSc Information Technology · MSc Data Science · MA Economics · LLM Law

A PhD here is employment rather than fee-paying study: no tuition, a salary against teaching and research duties, with the figure confirmed once the program is chosen.

Doctoral study runs in English or Latvian.

Admissions Language of instruction

Beyond the flagships