ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon

ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, abbreviated ISCTE-IUL, is a Portuguese public university institute, located in the centre of Lisbon in the University City campus.

In the past, ISCTE-IUL was named Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa abbreviated ISCTE (in English Superior Institute of Business and Labour Sciences), but that name was dropped in 2009 when ISCTE-IUL was changed to a university institute of foundational nature (along with the University of Porto and the University of Aveiro).

ISCTE-IUL is made up of four schools:

ISCTE-IUL also has an institute dedicated to executive education:

ISCTE-IUL comprises about 9,000 students at both undergraduate and graduate levels and close to 350 professors. The ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa confers all levels of academic degrees in Anthropology, Sociology, History, Social Psychology, Political Science, Planning, Architecture, Economics, Finance, Business administration and Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Industrial Engineering, amongst many other post-graduate programs.