University of Porto

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Universidade do Porto
logo
motto Virtus Unita Fortius Agit
founding March 22, 1911
Sponsorship state
place Porto , Portugal
Rector Antonio Sousa Pereira
Students 30,898 (2018)
Employee 1,920 (2018)
Networks CESAER , IAU
Website www.up.pt

The University of Porto ( port. : Universidade do Porto ; lat .: Universitas Portugalensis ) (UP) is one of the largest public universities in Portugal , located in the city of Porto .

history

The university was founded on March 22, 1911 through the merger of the Porto Polytechnic Academy ( Academia Politécnica de Porto ) and the Porto Surgical School ( Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Porto ) in the same year as the University of Lisbon . The first faculties of the University of Porto were the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine.

Faculties

Today the university runs 14 faculties ( Faculdades da Universidade do Porto ):

  • University of Porto Rectorate (built: 1911 )

  • Traditional student parade Queima das Fitas

  • Engineering Faculty FEUP

  • Pharmaceutical Faculty FFUP

  • Abel Salazar Institute for Biomedicine ICBAS

  • Faculty of Architecture designed by architect Álvaro Siza Vieira

  • Faculty of Literature FLUP (May 2008).

See also

Partner universities

Web links

Commons : University of Porto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Porto: Equipa Reitoral 2018-2022. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 13, 2019 .
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state universities

Open University  • University of the Azores  • University of the Algarve  • University of Aveiro  • University of Beira Interior  • University of Coimbra  • University of Évora  • University of Lisbon  • New University of Lisbon  • University of Madeira  • University of Minho  • University of Porto  • University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro  • ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa  • Academia da Força Aérea  • Academia Militar  • Escola Naval  • Instituto de Estudos Superiores Militares  • Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna

private universities

Universidade Atlântica  • Autonomous University of Lisbon  • Catholic University of Portugal  • Universidade Europeia  • University Fernando Pessoa  • Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa  • Universidade Lusíada do Porto  • Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão  • Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias  • Universidade Lusófona do Porto  • Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique  • ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida  • Instituto de Arte, Design e Empresa - Universitário  • Escola Superior Artística do Porto  • Escola Superior Gallaecia  • Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra  • Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama  • Instituto Superior Bissaya Barreto  • Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz  • Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde  • Instituto Superior D. Afonso III  • Instituto Superior de Educação e Trabalho  • Instituto Superior de Estudos Interculturais e Transdisciplinares - Almada  • Instituto Superior de Estudis Interc ulturais e Transdisciplinares - Mirandela  • Instituto Superior de Estudos Interculturais e Transdisciplinares - Viseu  • Instituto Superior de Gestão  • Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração de Leiria  • Instituto Universitário da Maia  • Instituto Manuel Teixeira Gomes  • Instituto Superior Miguel Torga  • Instituto Superior Social do postage