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The University of Lisbon (UL; , ; ) was a
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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 ...
,
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
. It was founded in 1911 after the fall of the
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and was later integrated 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 ...
along with the former
Technical University of Lisbon The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL; , ) was a Portuguese public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon, as a confederation of preexisting schools, and comprised the faculties and institutes of veterinary medicine; agricultural scienc ...
.


History

The first Portuguese university school was founded in 1290 by King Dinis in Lisbon, and was called
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(''Estudo Geral''). In the following 247 years, this first university school was moved several times between Lisbon and
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. In 1537, during the reign of João III, the university moved definitively to Coimbra. The entire university institution, including the teaching staff and all the books from its library, were moved to
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where the
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was definitively installed. Lisbon became a university city again in 1911 when the current University of Lisbon was founded, through the union of newly created and older schools, like the 19th century Polytechnic School (''Escola Politécnica''), the Royal Medical School of Lisbon (''Real Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa'') and the Letters Higher Studies (''Curso Superior de Letras'').


Faculties


Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law (Portuguese: ''Faculdade de Direito'') was officially created by a Decree of 22 March 1911 as ''Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Políticas'', but was only installed in 1913, and was given its current designation later in 1918. It was originally located at the Valmor Building (''Edifício Valmor'') at the ''Campo dos Mártires da Pátria''. It was transferred to its current campus at the University City (''Cidade Universitária'') in 1957-1958. A new building, housing the Faculty's library, was built in the late 1990s. The only graduation given is
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, and the specialised post-graduate studies available include several branches of the same area. Among the many graduates from the faculty of law are the former Presidents of Portugal
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and
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, Prime Minister
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, the
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, Portuguese statesman, deputy, and professor
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and businessman and former
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. Current President
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was a full professor there for many years, before his election in 2016. First Republic political leader and several times Prime Minister
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was a teacher at the faculty and its founder and first dean. Television
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and geopolitics expert Nuno Rogeiro and the writer and university professor Jaime Nogueira Pinto also studied there.
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, former
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(1975–1979) and
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was also one of its students, as well as Francisca Van Dunem, currently the Portuguese Minister for Justice.
João Vale e Azevedo João António de Araújo Vale e Azevedo (born 17 May 1957) is a Portuguese former lawyer who was the 31st president of sports club S.L. Benfica. In relation to his three-year club presidency, he was convicted of embezzlement, document forge ...
, a lawyer and former chairman of SL Benfica, was also a student and an assistant lecturer at this faculty.


Faculty of Sciences

The Faculty of Sciences (Portuguese: ''Faculdade de Ciências'', usually abbreviated ''FCUL'') was created on 19 April 1911 by the transformation of the former Lisbon Polytechnic School (''Escola Politécnica de Lisboa''). The Polytechnic School itself had been created in 1837, by the transformation and merger of the previous Royal Marine Academy (1779) and Royal College of the Nobles (1761). From 1911 until 1985 (when it moved to its current site at
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), the Faculty of Sciences was located at the former Polytechnic School building, which currently hosts the National Museum of Natural History and Science. Its current grounds, over a built area of 75662 square meters, comprise eight buildings (labeled C1 through C8, where ''C'' stands for ''Ciências'' — Sciences) hosting classrooms, offices, cafeterias, libraries, a stationery shop, leisure areas and gardens. The faculty population, as of the 2009/2010 school year, consisted of (in parentheses, the numbers as of the 2008/2009 school year): * 3055 graduation students (2964); * 418 Joint degree (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) students (327) * 1008 M.Sc. students (1218); * 412 Ph.D. students (552); * 388 teachers, about 95.3% hold a Ph.D. (417, 96.6%); * 22 hired research staff (23) * 186 non-teaching workers (204).''Agenda FCUL 2010/2011'', 2010. The computer science department has been granted several honours, namely a finalist position in the
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and two
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Scientific Awards. The faculty's campus also comprises the ''Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica (IBEB)'', the ''Instituto de Oceanografia'' and the ''Instituto de Ciência Aplicada e Tecnologia (ICAT)''. There are 18 graduations available, in the following areas: *
Applied Mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematics, mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and Industrial sector, industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a ...
** ''Fundamental Applications'' branch ** ''Statistics and
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Biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...
** ''Environmental Biology'' branch ( Marine and Terrestrial profiles) ** ''
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Evolutionary Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certa ...
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'' branch ** '' Functional and Systems Biology'' branch ** ''
Molecular biology Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecule, molecular basis of biological activity in and between Cell (biology), cells, including biomolecule, biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactio ...
and
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Biochemistry Biochemistry, or biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology, a ...
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Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
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'' title requires an additional 2-year
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programme, on one of the following: ** ''Computer
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, Human-Computer Interaction,
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) ** '' Interaction and
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processing and interaction,
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Energy Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of Work (thermodynamics), work and in the form of heat and l ...
and Environment (partnership with '' Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação'') * Geographical Engineering *
Geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...
** ''Applied geology and Environment'' branch ** ''Geology and
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Health Sciences The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences: Health sciences – those sciences that focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter. Health sciences relate to multiple a ...
(partnership with '' Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon'', '' Faculty of Dentary Medicine of the University of Lisbon'', '' Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon'' and '' Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon'') *
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Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
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Computational Physics Computational physics is the study and implementation of numerical analysis to solve problems in physics. Historically, computational physics was the first application of modern computers in science, and is now a subset of computational science ...
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Meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agricultur ...
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Oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of to ...
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Microbiology Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...
(partnership with Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy) * Physics Engineering (
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) * Biomedical Engineering & Biophysics (
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) * Technological Chemistry
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, a notable Portuguese business tycoon, studied at this Faculty of Sciences but did not graduate.
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, a Portuguese cosmologist and professor, studied at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). Jorge Palma, singer-songwriter, studied for a while at the Faculty of Sciences before embracing a successful career in music. Nuno Crato, a Portuguese university professor, researcher, mathematician, economist, and writer who has been appointed president of both the Portuguese Mathematical Society and Taguspark, studied for a while at the ''Faculdade de Ciências'' before changing his mind and graduate at the ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão/
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, embracing a notable academic career.
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,
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, studied mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences, but did not graduate there. Branca Edmée Marques studied chemistry before moving to Paris to study radiology with
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. She would return to Lisbon to eventually become the first female professor of chemistry. Lidia Salgueiro taught physics and conducted research for over 30 years, becoming the first woman to be elected as a Corresponding Member of the
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, an organization founded in 1779.


Faculty of Medicine

The Faculty of Medicine is a leading medical school, having its origins in the 19th century when the ''Real Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa'' was founded in the city. Santa Maria's Hospital (Hospital de Santa Maria), one of the biggest Portuguese hospitals, is the teaching hospital of the faculty, and share the same installations. António Damásio and Alexandre Carlos Caldas studied at this faculty, and Egas Moniz (a
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winner) was a professor there. Other noted personalities who studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon include: * António Lobo Antunes, (born 1 September 1942), Portuguese novelist. * Joaquim Alberto Chissano, (born 22 October 1939), second President of Mozambique. ''(dropped out)'' * João Lobo Antunes, (born 4 June 1944), a prominent Portuguese Neurosurgeon. *
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, (1934–2002), a guerrilla, military leader and politician from Angola. ''(dropped out)'' * José Tomás de Sousa Martins, 19th century physician, noted for the esoteric cult-status achieved after his death. *
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, (1922–1979), served as the first President of Angola. * António Rendas (born 1949), medical academic and researcher * Maria Elisa, (born in 1950), journalist and television presenter. ''(dropped out)'' * Carlos Caldas, (born 1960), Chair of Cancer Medicine at the University of Cambridge.


Faculty of Letters

The Faculty of Letters (Portuguese: ''Faculdade de Letras''), FLUL, was created in 1911 by the transformation of the previous Superior Studies in Letters, from which all students and professors were transferred. The Superior Studies in Letters itself had been created in 1859 by King
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, from which all students and professors were transferred. The Faculty of Letters remained installed on the facilities of the Superior Studies, an annex to the Academy of Science, until 1957, when it changed to the current building, in the University City (''Cidade Universitária''). In 1975, a new pavilion was built to accommodate the large influx of students who arrived after the democratization of higher education in Portugal, a consequence of the
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. The pavilion, theoretically provisional, still stands today. In 2001, two new buildings were finished: one to accommodate new classrooms and the Computer Room, and the Library Building, which is now the second biggest library in Portugal. Although the faculty's graduation with most studies is modern languages and literatures (''Línguas e Literaturas Modernas'') (which has a number of variants, including studies in Portuguese,
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, English, French,
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and
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), it also offers
philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
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history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
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archeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeolo ...
),
African studies African studies is the study of Africa, especially the continent's cultures and societies (as opposed to its geology, geography, zoology, etc.). The field includes the study of Africa's History of Africa, history (pre-colonial, Colonisation of Af ...
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Asian studies Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian ...
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European studies European studies is a field of study offered by many academic colleges and universities that focuses on the History of Western civilization and the evolution of Western culture, as well as on current developments in European integration. Some ...
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cultural studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...
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classical studies Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages ...
(the degree itself is named classic languages and literatures). It is also the former home of the degree in
psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...
. In the mid-1980s a new Faculty of Psycholog

was created to accommodate it. Notable professors at the faculty include the second President of the Portuguese Republic,
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, and writers
Vitorino Nemésio Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva (19 December 1901 – 20 February 1978) was a Portuguese poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his novel ''Mau Tempo No Canal (literally, ''Bad Weather in the Channel'' bu ...
and
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, GCIH (December 6, 1923 – August 9, 2013) was a Portuguese professor of literature, a literary critic and a fiction writer, winner of many literary prizes. Life Urbano Tavares Rodrigues was born in Lisbon on Decembe ...
. The poet
Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (; ; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th c ...
was a former student, though only attended for less than a year.
Fialho Gouveia José Manuel Bastos Fialho Gouveia (30 April 1935 – 2 October 2004) was a Portuguese television entertainment pioneer and former radio host, having hosted Portugal's first television talk show. Born in Montijo, the son of a railroad company em ...
, a noted Portuguese television presenter, attended the Romance
Philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...
course at the ''Faculdade de Letras'' but dropped out in order to follow a successful career in radio and television. The writer Luiz Pacheco was a student at FLUL before dropping out. The actress Alexandra Lencastre and
Moonspell Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band formed in 1992. The group released their first EP, '' Under the Moonspell'', in 1994 and followed up with their debut album, '' Wolfheart'', a year later. They quickly became the most recognizable meta ...
frontman Fernando Ribeiro also attended the philosophy course but did not graduate. Famous musician and composer
Fernando Lopes-Graça Fernando Lopes-Graça (17 December 1906 – 27 November 1994) was a Portuguese composer, conductor and musicologist. Lopes-Graça was born in Tomar, and was influenced by Portuguese popular music, which he also studied, continuing the work of ...
also dropped out of FLUL. Football player and manager Artur Jorge graduated by FLUL after has been a student at the
University of Coimbra The University of Coimbra (UC; , ) is a Public university, public research university in Coimbra, Portugal. First established in Lisbon in 1290, it went through a number of relocations until moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537. The university ...
's FLUC.


Research

The Instituto de Medicina Molecular of the University of Lisbon, a research institute in molecular medicine, is one of the most noted biosciences research institutions in Portugal. The Instituto Geofisico do Infante Dom Luiz exists since 1853 and is a research and operational unit that maintains the longest meteorological series of Portugal. Research is organized and funded through CGUL, the leading Portuguese geophysical research unit, and Associated Laboratory (with LATTEX) of the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology. Researchers of LaSIGE, a research laboratory for large-scale information systems (integrated into the Department of Computer Science), have received several honors, namely an IBM Scientific Award, an Order of Engineers distinction and a place among the eight finalists of the
Descartes Prize The Descartes Prize was an annual award in science given by the European Union, named in honour of the French mathematician and philosopher, René Descartes. The prizes recognized Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievements Resulting f ...
.


Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Institute of Social Sciences)

The Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), an associated state laboratory, is a university institution devoted to research and advanced training in the social sciences. The ICS focuses its research on five main subject areas: the formation of the contemporary world; the study of citizenship and democratic institutions; the problems of sustainability, linking the environment, risk and space; social changes and individual action in the context of the family, lifestyles and schooling; and issues concerning identity, migration and religion. The main subjects represented at the institute are social and cultural anthropology, political science, economics, human geography, history, social psychology and sociology. The independent Social Science Research Group (GIS) was founded by Adérito Sedas Nunes in 1962. It became an autonomous institute of the University of Lisbon in 1982 and acquired the status of associated state laboratory in 2002. The central activities of the ICS include: publishing research in book form and in articles in Portuguese and international journals of reference; advanced education to the level of master's degrees and doctorates; maintaining a dialogue with the international scientific community; and spreading knowledge in the wider community—an increasingly important activity to ensure the necessary interaction between science and citizenship. Análise Social (Social Analysis), Portugal's oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed social science journal, together with the ICS's own publishing house, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais (Social Science Press) are the most visible manifestations of the institute's activities. The ICS is located at the University of Lisbon campus in a central area of the city next to the national library (Biblioteca Nacional). Its new offices, opened in 2003, were especially designed for the institute's research activities and postgraduate courses. The Library, which has 40,000 books and subscribes to 313 periodicals, is also home to the fast-growing Social History Archive (AHS). Currently (2008), the institute has about 70 researchers and 100 postgraduate students and is engaged in about 200 research projects. Nearly 70 per cent of its activities are financed from its own funds, which are obtained competitively.


See also

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List of universities in Portugal This list of universities and colleges in Portugal gives the Portuguese institutions providing higher education. Higher education in Portugal is organized into two systems: university and polytechnic. There are public and private higher educatio ...
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Higher education in Portugal Higher education in Portugal is divided into two main subsystems: university and polytechnic education. It is provided in autonomous public and private universities, university institutes, polytechnic institutes and higher education institutio ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lisbon, University Of * 1911 establishments in Portugal