Moderna University (''Universidade Moderna'') was a
Portuguese
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private university
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headquartered in
Lisbon
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, with departments in
Setúbal
Setúbal (, , ; cel-x-proto, Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area.
In the ti ...
,
Porto
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and
Beja. The institution was authorized by the Portuguese Ministry of Education to provide university higher education services in 1994 (Decree law: ''DL 313/94 de 23 de Setembro''). It was shut down by the Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education on 30 July 2008.
2007 investigations
In 2007, the university was on the brink of being closed by the Portuguese ministry responsible for higher education in Portugal, after reports of several irregularities arise during a state-managed investigation on private higher education in the country. It was closed in the summer of 2008 by lack of economic and financial capacity.
See also
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Higher education in Portugal
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Independente University
Independente University (in Portuguese ''Universidade Independente'' or UnI for short) was a private university, headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 1993 by Luís Arouca, Rui Verde and Amadeu Lima Carvalho; it was owned by SIDES (''Socie ...
References
External links
Official site
Defunct universities and colleges in Portugal
Crime in Portugal
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