Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Iscte – Lisbon University Institute is a public university education institution, created in 1972, with campuses in Lisbon and Sintra.

In 2010 a new organizational structure was implemented that resulted in the composition of decentralized organic units: four Schools, 16 Departments, eight Research Units.

In 2021 a new unit was launched, Iscte-Sintra, with the purpose of being “the first university school of reference in the field of Digital Technologies in Portugal”. The Iscte Sintra Digital Technologies, Economy and Society started teaching in the 2022-2023 academic year, with the offer of eight undergraduate courses that combine disciplinary areas of digital technologies with disciplinary areas of social sciences, economics and humanities.

Today, Iscte’s teaching and research areas are organized into five schools: School of Social Sciences and Humanities (ECSH); School of Sociology and Public Policies (ESPP); School of Management (IBS); School of Technology and Architecture (ISTA) and the most recent School of Digital Technologies, Economy and Society, located in Sintra.

With more than 13,000 students in undergraduate (41%) and graduate (59%) programs, 316 career faculty members, 454 R&D researchers, and 280 non-teaching staff, Iscte is proud to be one of the most dynamic and innovative universities in the country.