Universidade do Porto

University of Porto (UPORTO) is Portugal’s second largest university and one of the most prestigious teaching and research institutions in the country with over 30.000 students and around 4.000 staff. As the biggest producer of science in Portugal, with 14 faculties and one business school, UPORTO provides an exceptional variety of courses (over 630 training programmes per year) covering the whole range of study areas and all levels of higher education, from degrees to lifelong education courses. UPORTO’s commitment is built upon different guidelines ranging from quality control to multidisciplinary cooperation, internationalisation, integral development, openness, rationalisation, efficiency and sustainability. This pledge is directed to the development of UPORTO’s activity in three strategic areas - education and training, research and third mission. The overall objective is to cement UPORTO’s position as a leading institution at a national and international level.