The University of Évora

Institution Info

The University of Évora was founded in 1559 and for two centuries it distinguished itself for its role in the education of the elites and the missionaries of the Kingdom. Restored as a public University in 1973, it has aimed at meeting the new requirements of society. It is specially oriented toward the education of human resources who want to achieve a higher position by merit and good service to the community. The University of Évora has established itself through the high quality of its teaching, associated with perennial values such as mutual respect, desire for knowledge, intellectual honesty and freedom of thought.

In the 2010/2011- 36 1st cycle degrees, 85 2nd cycle master’s courses, 3 of which Erasmus Mundus, and 33 doctoral programs will be offered in almost all areas of knowledge, all in compliance with the Bologna Process and registered in the Direcção-Geral do Ensino Superior. We credit the education received in the 4th and 5th years of the pre-Bologna courses for the purpose of continuing studies in master’s degrees. The diversified offer of lifelong education courses, credited for the pursuit of other degrees of studies, guarantees the updating of knowledge in a world in constant change. The University is recognized internationally, being regularly evaluated by the European University Association (EUA). It has also been accepted as a member of the Magna Charta Universitatum.

Our students come from all over Portugal and from foreign countries. In the University of Évora they find a rare and precious combination of high quality teaching, advanced research and a favourable business/industrial context. All this together with a good human and affective environment, where it is easy to make friends and enjoy an intense cultural life, where study is joined by pleasure, where teachers are easily reached and helpful in answering questions and coaching all training pathways. Due to all these aspects, fundamental to any integrated education, today the University of Évora strengthens its position, more than ever, as a genuine academic community. Frequently, those who leave after graduating miss the academic environment and many of them come back to continue their studies in a more advanced level. With approximately eight thousand students of the various degrees of education, we are a University with the right dimension, which does not want to establish itself by its size but by an authentic academic spirit.

If you want to share it with us and help build the basis for a future with quality, welcome to our community that coined its motto from Camões “Honest study mixed with long experience”.