The University of Porto (Universidade do Porto) is a Portuguese public university located in Porto, and founded on 22 March 1911. It is the second largest Portuguese university by number of enrolled students, after the University of Lisbon, and has one of the most noted research outputs in Portugal.
Organization
Today, about 28,000 students (11,000 postgraduate) attend the programmes and courses provided by the U.Porto’s fifteen schools (13 faculties, a biomedical sciences institute and a business school, each one with a considerable degree of autonomy).
- Faculty of Architecture, FAUP
- Faculty of Dental Medicine, FMDUP
- Faculty of Economics, FEP
- Faculty of Engineering, FEUP
- Faculty of Fine Arts, FBAUP
- Faculty of Law, FDUP
- Faculty of Letters, FLUP
- Faculty of Medicine, FMUP
- Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, FCNAUP
- Faculty of Pharmacy, FFUP
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, FPCEUP
- Faculty of Sciences, FCUP [1]
- Faculty of Sport, FADEUP [2]
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, ICBAS
- Porto Business School, PBS – UP
Globally, the U. Porto offers 63 graduate degree courses, over 160 master courses, and several doctoral degree courses and other specialization courses, supported by 2300 lecturers and a technical and administrative staff of over 1600 people.