Programmes
CATÓLICA-LISBON is currently an institution of reference in Portugal, with a reputation for excellence in its various levels of education: Bachelors in Economics, Bachelors in Management, Masters, MBA and Programs for Executives.
Católica Medical School is the most recent academic unit of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, created in 2018. It will contribute to the innovation of medicine in Portugal, through three basic pillars: teaching, research and clinical. Católica Medical School aims to train professionals of excellence, with a high ethical sense and social responsibility, capable of contributing to the continuous improvement of health care, inspired by the mission of working for the common good.
The Faculty of Human Sciences is organized in five scientific areas - Communication Sciences, Culture Studies, Philosophy, Social Sciences and Psychology - offering a total of 6 degrees, 10 master's degrees (with a total of 16 variants or annual specializations) and 7 PhDs. Moreover there is a Graduate School and an Advanced Training (EPGFA), with a dozen courses of variable format and length, 2 institutes and 3 Study Centers.
The Faculty of Theology has the mission to cultivate and promote, through scientific research and higher teaching, theological and related sciences; to study Catholic doctrine, haurida of Divine Revelation, and to expose it orderly, seeking, in the light of the same Revelation, solutions to human problems.
Plurilocalised teaching in Lisbon, Braga and Porto.
The Institute for Political Studies intends to be a strategic project of long reach and long duration. In an era in when knowledge tends to be the key to development, this Institute naturally assumes itself as a project for the future which seeks to be useful to Portugal and to the Portuguese-speaking world.
The mission of the Institute of Management and Health Organisations is to prepare professionals of excellence giving them skills to work in organisations (businesses, public institutions or third sector) and to promote research and the consequent scientific development, as well as collaborating with other units of the University.
The Institute offers the undergraduate degree in Management, Master's degree in Management and Social Work, Master's degree in Education Sciences (in collaboration with the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Porto) and several postgraduate courses in Management and Social Sciences and also advanced training courses.
In 2006, the Escola Superior Politécnica de Saúde (Polytechnic School of Health) was created within the Institute of Health Sciences (ICS) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
On 30 September 2015, the University's Board of Governors approved changing the name of the Escola Superior Politécnica de Saúde to Escola de Enfermagem (Lisboa).