The Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra (IPC - Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra) is a public

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institute of

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Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of . The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...

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. It was created by decree of 1979, but its effective start up was only in 1988 through the creation and union of new and former schools. With an enrollment of 10,197 (2008) students, it is the third biggest polytechnic institute of Portugal.

History

The '' Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra'' has been in operation since 1988, although some of its current schools were providing degrees independently since the 1970s, and even before some were technical or vocational schools. The agriculture school whose origins can be dated back to the 19th century, and the current engineering institute, formerly an industrial school in operation between 1965 and 1974, were technical schools of intermediate education before had been upgraded to higher education polytechnic institutions. Today, it comprises several autonomous schools in engineering, education, accountancy, and agriculture.

Schools and Institutes

*School of Agriculture -

Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra The Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra (ESAC), in English the Agrarian School of Coimbra, is a state-run polytechnic higher education school of agriculture, based in Coimbra, Portugal. The oldest of the Coimbra Polytechnical Institute's (IPC) ...

(ESAC) *School of Education - Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra (ESEC) * School of Technology and Management of Oliveira do Hospital (located in

Oliveira do Hospital Oliveira do Hospital () is a municipality in the district of Coimbra, in the central part of continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 20,855, in an area of 234.52 km². History Inhabited by ancient civilizations, Oliveira do Hospita ...

) - Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Oliveira do Hospital (ESTGOH) *Coimbra Health School - Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Coimbra (ESTSC) *Institute of Accounting and Administration - Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Coimbra (ISCAC) *Institute of Engineering -

Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra The Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (ISEC) is a higher education polytechnic institution of engineering, based in Coimbra, Portugal. It belongs to the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, although with a great level of administrative, fi ...

(ISEC)

Students' unions and sports

The Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra has an independent students' union for each school or institute. The

(agriculture school) has a notable

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department.

Noted alumni

José Sócrates José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa (born 6 September 1957), commonly known as José Sócrates (), is a Portuguese politician who was the prime minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011. For the second half of 2007, he acted ...

, politician and former Prime-Minister of Portugal. He earned a ''bacharelato'' degree from ISEC before its 1988 integration into the Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra. *

Luis de Matos Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

, magician. *

André Sardet André Miraldo Sardet Pires is a Portugal, Portuguese singer and musician, born in the city of Coimbra on 8 January 1976. ''Acústico'' (2006), his most successful work, sold over 120,000 copies and was recorded live at Associação Académica ...

, musician and singer. ''(dropped out)''

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