The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL; , ) was a Portuguese

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. It was created in 1930 in

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

, as a confederation of preexisting schools, and comprised the

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and institutes of veterinary medicine; agricultural sciences; economics and business administration; engineering, social and political sciences; architecture; and human kinetics. On July 25, 2013, it merged with the older

University of Lisbon (1911–2013) The University of Lisbon (UL; , ; ) was a public university in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded in 1911 after the fall of the Portuguese monarchy and was later integrated in the new University of Lisbon along with the former Technical Universit ...

and was incorporated in the new

University of Lisbon The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; ) is a public university, public research university in Lisbon, and Portugal's largest university. It was founded in 1911, but the university's present structure dates to the 2013 merger of the former Universit ...

Faculties

* Veterinary Medicine: FMV - Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária * Agricultural Sciences: ISA - Instituto Superior de Agronomia * Economics and Business Management: ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão * Engineering, Science and Technology: IST - Instituto Superior Técnico * Social and Political Sciences: ISCSP - Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas * Human Kinetics: FMH - Faculdade de Motricidade Humana * Architecture: FA - Faculdade de Arquitectura The faculties offer all levels of

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s in a wide range of fields, ranging from veterinary medicine to agricultural sciences to engineering to political science to sporting management.

Notable alumni

People who have been awarded a degree by the Technical University of Lisbon or otherwise have attended this university, include: * Dom Duarte Pio de Bragança, 24th Duke of Braganza, claimant to the throne of Portugal, agronomist. * Alberto Romão Dias, Researcher, university professor. * António Borges (economist), Vice President of Goldman Sachs International *

Amílcar Cabral Amílcar Lopes Cabral (; – ) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist ...

, Bissau-Guinean independence fighter, guerrilla, agronomist. * António Câmara, Entrepreneur, university professor, civil engineer. *

Bento de Jesus Caraça Bento de Jesus Caraça, GCSE, GOL (18 April 1901 – 25 June 1948) was an influential Portuguese mathematician, economist and statistician. Caraça was also a member of the Portuguese Communist Party, and participated in the formation of the Por ...

, Antifascist resistance, mathematician and economist. * Carlos Carvalhas, Communist leader, politician, economist. *

Aníbal Cavaco Silva Aníbal António Cavaco Silva (; born 15 July 1939) is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the 19th president of Portugal, from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 6 November 1985 to 25 October ...

, former President of Republic and Prime Minister, university professor, economist. * Maria Amélia Chaves, first female

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to graduate from the Instituto Superior Técnico at UTL, and the first Portuguese female engineer to work in the field. *

Vítor Constâncio Vítor Manuel Ribeiro Constâncio (born 12 October 1943) is a Portuguese economist and academic who most recently served as Vice President of the European Central Bank, from 2010 to 2018. He previously served as Minister of Finance in 1978 an ...

, former governor

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, politician, economist. * Nuno Crato, university professor, researcher, writer, mathematician and economist. * Mariano Gago, minister, politician, university professor, scientist, electrical engineer. * Carla Gomes, computer scientist, computational sustainability researcher, university professor. *

António Guterres António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth and current secretary-general of the United Nations since 2017. A member of the Socialist Party (Portugal), ...

, former Prime Minister, politician, electrical engineer. * Susana Feitor, racewalker. * Bagão Félix, Minister, politician, economist. * Jesualdo Ferreira, football manager, physical educator. *

Manuela Ferreira Leite Maria Manuela Dias Ferreira Leite (; born 3 December 1940) is a Portuguese economist, pundit and retired politician. Ferreira Leite served as Minister of Education in Aníbal Cavaco Silva's third government, from 1993 to 1995, and as Minister ...

Former leader PSD, minister, politician, economist. *

Francisco Louçã Francisco Anacleto Louçã (; born 12 November 1956) is a Portuguese economist and politician. Biography He is the second son of António Seixas Louçã, a Portuguese Navy Officer, and his wife Noémia da Rocha Neves Anacleto, lawyer, grandda ...

, Left Bloc leader, politician, university professor, economist. *

José Mourinho José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix (; born 26 January 1963) is a Portuguese professional Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former player, who is currently the head coach of Süper Lig club Fenerba ...

, football manager, physical educator. * Arlindo Oliveira, Scientist, electrical engineer. * Manuel Pinho, politician and economist *

Jaime Nogueira Pinto Jaime Alexandre Nogueira Pinto (born 4 February 1946 in Porto, Santo Ildefonso) is a Portuguese writer and university professor, son of Jaime da Cunha Guimarães by Alda Branca Nogueira Pinto, who died in 2007. A right-wing political thinker, he ...

, writer and university professor. * Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo, Prime Minister, politician, chemical engineer. *

Carlos Queiroz Carlos Manuel Brito Leal de Queiroz (; born 1 March 1953) is a Portuguese football manager. He has served as the manager of his native Portugal's national team, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Iran, Colombia, Egypt and Qatar, leading ...

, football manager, physical educator. *

Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues (born 3 November 1949) is a Portuguese politician and economist who had been President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2015 until 29 March 2022, in the 13th (2015–2019) and 14th Legislatures (201 ...

, Socialist leader, politician, economist. *

Ricardo Espírito Santo Ricardo Ribeiro do Espírito Santo Silva (1900–1955) was a Portuguese banker, economist, patron of the arts, and international athlete. A good friend of the Portuguese dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, he turned the Banco Espírito Santo ...

, banker and art collector. * Tim, musician, vocalist of

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, agronomist. * Fernando Ulrich, Banker, banking administrator (did not graduate). *

Álvaro Siza Vieira Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira (born 25 June 1933) is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza () and in Portugal as Siza Vieira (). Early life and education Siza was born in Matosi ...

, Architect, university professor, Pritzker Prize winner 1992. * Fernando Vasco Costa, civil engineer. *

Nelo Vingada Eduardo Manuel "Nelo" Martinho Bragança de Vingada (born 30 March 1953) is a Portuguese football manager and former footballer. Managerial career Early years Vingada was born in Serpa. His first steps as a professional football manager were ...

, football manager, physical educator.

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Faculties

Notable alumni

See also

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