ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa is a Portuguese public tertiary education institution. It is located in the city centre of Lisbon, in Cidade Universitária, adjoining the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) and Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) of the University of Lisbon. ISCTE was formerly called Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (in English, Higher Institute of Business and Labour Sciences), but its full name was dropped in 2009 when it became a university institute of foundational nature.

As of today, ISCTE is widely considered a fully-fledged public research university despite its traditional designation, as reflected in national news coverage of the performance of Portuguese universities internationally and open, external assessments by international organisations. ISCTE Business School holds institutional accreditations from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and Association of MBAs (AMBA).

Schools

ISCTE is made up of four schools:

• ISCTE Business School (IBS)
• School of Social and Human Sciences (ECSH)
• School of Sociology and Public Policy (ESPP)
• School of Technology and Architecture (ISTA)

ISCTE also has an institute dedicated to executive education, namely INDEG-ISCTE Executive Education.

Degree programmes

ISCTE confers Bachelor’s, Master’s, Integrated Master’s and PhD degrees and Habilitation in scientific areas such as Anthropology, Sociology, African Studies, History, Social Psychology, Political Science, Planning, Architecture, Economics, Finance, Business administration and Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, or Industrial Engineering.