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Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias | |
| Motto | Humani nihil alienum |
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| Type | Private University |
| Established | 1987 |
| Rector | José Bragança de Miranda |
| Students | 9.195 - 2017/18 |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.ulusofona.pt |
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Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies) is the largest privateuniversity inPortugal.[1] It is also the main institution of Grupo Lusófona, which administers other universities and colleges inPortugal,Brazil,Cape Verde,Angola,Guinea-Bissau andMozambique. Promotion of the Portuguese language is seen as a major objective of the institution; students from former Portuguese African colonies pay substantially reduced fees.[2]
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The Universidade Lusofona started in 1987 in Lisbon and is the property of Grupo Lusófona a Portuguese private investor group geared at developing higher education institutions in Lusophone countries. Since then, Universidade Lusófona has opened semi-autonomous offshoots in Porto, Luanda, Mindelo (2007). The Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes (ISMAT), is a private higher education establishment that belongs to the Lusófona Group, located in Portimão, Portugal, and founded as such in 2004 from older private higher education institutions previously operating in the city.[3]
In 2024, UL had more than 16,900 students and 1,671 teaching staff; UL offered 65 Bachelor programmes, 84 Masters courses and 13 PhD programmes.[1]
In 2024, courses are accredited by A3ES.[2]
In 2024, its highest ranking faculties were Veterinary, Arts & Humanities and Psychology.[4]
The Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes (ISMAT), is a private higher education establishment that belongs to the Lusófona Group, located inPortimão,Algarve region, Portugal, resulting from the merger between ISMAG and ISHT of Portimão in 2004. The main mission of the institute is to widen the offer of higher education in thewestern Algarve region. ISMAT's strategic objectives are to provide university courses and to develop research in the most different areas of specialization, with particular emphasis on scientific and technical fields that can contribute to the development of the Algarve region, that can respond to regional needs in terms of human resources training, and that can meet the most pressing regional development needs. The teaching institution was established in 2004 and is named afterManuel Teixeira Gomes, a Portuguese politician, diplomat and writer from Portimão who served as President of Portugal between 1923 and 1925. As of 2021, ISMAT awards degrees in fields such asarchitecture,[5]data science,[5]computer engineering,[5]law,[5]psychology[5] andsports science.[6] Besides research and teaching endeavors, the institution dynamizes the city's society through workshops and expositions it organizes.[7] Among its teaching staff, ISMAT has counted with some notable individualities of the Algarve such asCândida Ventura and Carlos Lopez Cano Vieira.[8]
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