ISCTE is located in the centre of Lisbon, Europe´s west coast Capital and the closest gateway to Africa and Americas.
It is also known as the white city, for its unique luminosity. The light, the atmosphere and the climate, Atlantic, blended with Mediterranean influences, with warm sunny winters and cool summers offers a unique experience for each visitor. Facing the Atlantic Ocean there are, nearby, some of the best beaches of Europe and some tourist and historical hallmarks such as Estoril and Sintra.
As leading Portuguese business school with a growing international reputation, our goal is to impact in the advance of management by offering high quality learning, sustained by a faculty recognized for their dedication to teaching and actively contributing to the progress of management, having a regular presence in the more important international scientific journals and delivering cutting edge knowledge into the class room.
| No. of students: | 7,500* |
| Funding type: | Public |
ISCTE is strategically located in the centre of Lisbon. It is directly served by a subway station and a number of convenient city buses that provide fast and easy access to almost everywhere in the city. There are a number of hotels within walking distance as well as restaurants, shops and one of Lisbon's largest sports and recreational facilities. The airport is a ten-minute drive away.
Though located in the heart of Portugal's capital, the ISCTE campus offers a peaceful atmosphere with plenty of fresh air and open space. The facilities include four buildings (45,000 m2), one of which is the "Edifício II", which was inaugurated in 2003 and awarded the Valmor Prize, Portugal's foremost award for architectural excellence.
ISCTE Business School (IBS) has a dedicated building for graduate education where the classes take place. Ultra-modern and fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology, this centre has several study rooms, computer labs, recreational areas, a restaurant, a permanent art gallery, and a modern documentation centre. Our documentation centre can boast of more than 3,000 monographic titles, 170 scientific magazines and generic databases such as Proquest, Web of Knowledge, JSTOR - and financial-oriented databases - Bloomberg, Reuters, Datastream, Worldscope, Compustat, CRSP, to which all students have free access. ISCTE has also recently subscribed to Wharton's Research Data Services (WRDS), a comprehensive, breakthrough, web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to retrieve information easily from a wide variety of financial, economic and marketing data sources without actually having to be within the physical space of the Library or the Documentation Centre. Our School is one of the few in Europe to have WRDS. The documentation centre provides the following services: assisted research, local reading, home borrowing and use of laptops.
The main library is a state-of-the-art facility that offers every service imaginable in a full-service bibliographic facility. In addition, PhD students have access to dedicated areas that include individual workstations and meeting rooms.
Furthermore, each student has free access to all areas of the campus, and can feel free to take advantage of all the study, recreational and catering facilities available. One of Lisbon's largest sports centres, with several sports pavillions, football and rugby fields, jogging tracks, swimming pools, and other sports and fitness facilities is within two minutes walking distance.
Students also benefit from:
* Access to the ISCTE Library, situated in "Edifício II". Our library specializes in Management and the Social and Technological Sciences. There are approximately 40 thousand titles and 2,200 journals in paper or in digital format.
* Access to the Financial Lab, with its vast array of financially-oriented databases - Bloomberg, Reuters Xtra/ Knowledge, Datastream, Worldscope, Compustat (North America), Eventus, CRSP, Thomson One Banker and WRDS.
* Remote access to excellent research systems such as B-On (more than 16,000 scientific magazines available), ABI/Inform Global, Proquest, Web of Knowledge and JSTOR.
Each student also has free access to all areas of the campus and can take advantage of all the study, recreational and catering facilities that are available. One of Lisbon's largest sports centres, with several sports pavillions, football and rugby fields, jogging tracks, swimming pools, and other sports and fitness facilities is within two minutes walking distance.
The ISCTE’s Students Association «Associação de Estudantes do ISCTE – AEISCTE» is an autonomous organization held by the students of ISCTE. It’s mission is to socially and culturally complement the students academic life while they are with the ISCTE.
In the Association headquarters, located in the ISCTE main building, you will be able to find information about events held not only in Lisbon, but also in other cities of Portugal. There, you can also find leaflets about concerts, performing arts and movie festivals that take place in Lisbon, and much more…
There is a students’ counselling office which could provide some help for any individual problem, not only concerning the student life but also the private life too.
To be a member of AEISCTE, all you have to do it is apply for. Afterwards you will receive the Membership Card. The enrolment costs 5 euro, and you need to hand over 2 pictures of yours.
With this Membership Card you have access to many discounts, like:
* Medical clinics – about 10%-20% of discount,
* Language Schools – depends on the school discount is 10%-50%,
* Renting a Car,
* Gyms – 50% of discount in inscription and 10% of discount of monthly payment,
* Danka – Discount in the copy canter at ISCTE University,
* Dancing classes,
* All event that takes part at ISCTE, like parties
Executive MBA of ISCTE Business School is the only EMBA in Portugal with the most prestigious accreditation of MBAs: AMBA - Association of MBAs