Riga Aeronautical Institute (RAI) is one of the oldest educational institutions of Latvia with rich experience and traditions of training of specialists in the aviation and transport sphere.
RAI, founded in 1942 as a school of training of aviation specialists, from 1989 is an institution of higher education with many years’ successful experience of work on the international market of educational service.

  RAI today is:
- A termless accredited institution of higher education Promising and in-demans transportation and economic professions
- Modern methods of teaching
- Qualified academic staff
- Cooperation with field-specific educational institutions and training centres
- Collective training of cadets of Nacionāla Aizsardzības Akadēmija
- Branches in Latgale: Daugavpils, Rezekne
- Network of regional advisory units
- Possibility to obtain a state diploma of the Republic of Latvia recognized by the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation
- Highly developed teaching and methodical and material and technical base
- Full of variety campus life

We are sure – we go one way I.Kuznetzov   RAI President

  So the history ordered that in the course of 70 years the Institute has changed its name several times and since 1992 it has been called Riga Aeronautical Institute, becoming a legal successor of earlier well-known educational institutions: RAUSS GVF, RAUSS GA, RLTU GA, RBAU GA.
The only one thing has remained unchanged – a high level of training of specialists.
Particular pride of the Institute is its graduates.
In the course of 70 years there have been trained:
• radio technicians - 17000
• air traffic controllers - 21000
• economists – transport managers - 8000

But ... The pride lies not in the quantity, but in the contribution of every graduate to the development of the sector where they work