NOVA University Lisbon , NOVA, is a Portuguese university whose rectorate is located in Campolide, Lisbon. Founded in 1973, it is the newest of the public universities in the Portuguese capital city, earning its name as the “New” (NOVA) University of Lisbon.
The institution has more than 20,000 students, 1,800 professors and staff members distributed through five faculties, three institutes and one school, providing a variety of courses in several fields of knowledge.
Academic units
NOVA is divided into nine academic units, which enjoy a great deal of autonomy. These are the following.
- Sciences and technology: FCT NOVA – NOVA School of Science and Technology
- Social Sciences and Humanities: NOVA FCSH – Faculty of Social and Human Sciences
- Economics and Management: Nova SBE – Nova School of Business and Economics
- Medical sciences: NMS|FCM – NOVA Medical School
- Law: NOVA Direito – Faculty of Law
- Statistics and information management: NOVA IMS – NOVA Information Management School
- Chemical and biological technology: ITQB NOVA – António Xavier Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology
- Hygiene and tropical medicine: IHMT – Institute of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine (Portuguese)
- Public health: ENSP-NOVA – National School of Public Health
Research units
NOVA University Lisbon hosts 42 Research and Development Units (R&D Units), 15 of which are research partnerships between NOVA and other national institutions. In 2013, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FC&T) evaluated 75% of NOVA R&D Units with “Exceptional”, “Excellent” or “Very Good”.
NOVA is responsible for approximately 10% of the national research papers indexed to the Web of Science. Since the launch of the European Research Council (ERC) grants programme in 2009, NOVA’s researchers were awarded a total of 10 grants, placing NOVA as one of the top national institutions in this field.
NOVA School of Business and Economics
The Lisbon MBA is a partnership between NOVA, Catholic University of Portugal and MIT Sloan School of Management. The partnership includes a full-time 1-year MBA and a Part Time MBA. The two Universities that offer this MBA program hold the triple crown accreditation namely AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB.
In 2019, the NOVA School of Business and Economics is ranked 30th among the best European Business Schools according to the Financial Times ranking.
NOVA is also actively involved in cooperation actions promoted by the Portuguese Government, in particular with North-American universities such as the University of Texas at Austin (UTA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), namely in master’s courses and doctoral and research programmes.