Riga Technical University
#761
QS World University Rankings 2026
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QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
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QS World University Rankings 2026
#721
QS World University Rankings 2025
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QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
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Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 12.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 31.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #449
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 31.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #606
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 6
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 22.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #686
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 84.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #195
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 86.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #165
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 38.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 40.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #432
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 47.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #770
About Riga Technical University
Riga Technical University covers engineering, computing, energy, business, and design
Riga Technical University presents faculties and institutes for civil and mechanical engineering, natural sciences and technology, computer science, information technology and energy, engineering economics and management, architecture and design, business, and maritime studies. The civil and mechanical faculty includes construction, mechatronics, transport technology, medical engineering, physics, nanoengineering, geodesy, cartography, and water technology. This map supports technical projects that move from a physical system to software, a city, an organisation, or a market.
The Faculty of Computer Science, Information Technology and Energy can support code, data, networks, electronics, power systems, and digital infrastructure. Architecture and design address spatial planning, restoration, interiors, landscapes, and users. Engineering economics and management cover business, logistics, finance, quality, marketing, construction management, and regional economics. The Latvian Maritime Academy adds vessels, marine systems, navigation, safety, and ports.
RTU research follows materials, machines, cities, energy systems, and the Baltic setting
A mechanical or civil project may examine a structure, machine, mechanism, vehicle, building, material, or performance measure. Natural-science work needs samples, equations, instruments, or environmental observations. Energy research requires a power system, heat process, network, storage method, or efficiency measure. Computer science needs software, signals, sensors, databases, or users. Architecture and planning can use maps, heritage buildings, public space, urban systems, or landscape records.
Riga and the wider Baltic region can be part of a transport, maritime, environmental, energy, or urban study. They can also be the location of the research team rather than the evidence itself. A project should state which role the place plays and what will be collected there. Business and management work may use firms, logistics chains, markets, public institutions, or workplace decisions. Each route needs a named department and a clear result.
How to assess a Riga Technical University route
Define the technical object before choosing an academic unit. Engineering needs a device, structure, mechanism, process, vessel, or test condition. Computing and electronics require code, data, circuits, signals, networks, or a system. Energy work needs a source, flow, grid, material, or measured performance. Natural science needs a specimen, physical model, map, or repeatable observation. Business and economics need an organisation, market, service, or decision. Architecture requires a site, building, material, user, or spatial practice.
At RTU, start with the faculty or school that owns the system. Add its institute, research question, working approach, language, planned output, and a current lab or researcher page. State whether the route is experimental, computational, structural, maritime, field-based, design-led, organisational, or urban. Name the workshop, sensor, vessel, building, dataset, port, company, or public space that provides the evidence. Riga may be the site, a comparison city, or the institutional base. This detail helps a student move from a broad interest in engineering or technology to one department and one feasible research action.
A practical RTU research question
A strong Riga Technical University question joins a system with a test. It might measure a building, model a power network, inspect a material, analyse maritime data, evaluate a software method, or study a logistics decision. Name the object and performance measure, then identify the faculty and laboratory that can interpret the result. The Baltic context may add coastal, transport, or energy evidence, but it should be tied to a defined measure for comparison.
Institution record
- Country
- Latvia
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- M
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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