Time and place > The University of Aveiro

The University of Aveiro (UA) was founded in 1973 and paved the way in the creation of teaching offers in several knowledge fields. Today, UA is widely recognised as one of the most innovative universities in Portugal, the quality of its teaching and research and for its cooperation with regional and national business.

Its organisation and matrix structure, encompassing University and Polytechnic subsystems, stimulates knowledge exchange and cross-contamination between knowledge fields, promoting a useful proximity between teaching and research, which results in a very appealing message for national and international students.

With a modern and prestigious architecture, UA occupies top positions in the most important international rankings that assess Higher Education institutions.

In this page you can find relevant facts and figures of UA, ranging from its infrastructures to the number of students it receives.