Faculties

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, International Undergraduate Programs in Business Administration and  Economics & Finance, PhD Programs, 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 Dental Medicine (FMD) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, created in 2019, develops activities around three pillars: Teaching, Scientific Research and Social Responsibility. 

In the field of Teaching, the Integrated Master's Degree in Dental Medicine and the Undergraduate Degree in Biomedical Sciences.

In the field of Scientific Research, the FMD's mission is research with and for the community, combining state-of-the-art laboratory and clinical methodologies with the latest digital technologies. 

Regarding Social Responsibility, through the University Dental Clinic, it provides medical-dental consultations and contributes to the improvement of the health of the most vulnerable populations.

Supported by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), the FMD promotes biomedical, clinical and translational research.

In 2023, the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing was created as the successor unit to the ICS.

With extensive educational experience, we teach courses that set a benchmark in Portugal for the scientific, technical and human preparation of students, through an innovative programme for obtaining the professional title of Nurse and/or Specialist Nurse.

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, 9 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 Higher Institute of Canon Law, belonging to the network of ecclesiastic universities and faculties - in Europe there are more than one hundred and fifty higher education institutions - and to the community of forty-two university institutions for teaching Canon Law, was canonically erected by the Holy See in 2004 as an institute ad instar facultatis, succeeding the center of canonical studies founded in 1986 at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

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 Institute of Bioethics (IB) was created by the Superior Council of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in July 2002, with the commitment to extend and adapt the research work in Bioethics to new developments in science and technology.

The mission of the Institute of Management and Health Organizations (IGOS) of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) is to provide excellent learning-teaching supported by innovative research, meeting the needs of the region in which it operates and contributing to its development, promoting training of competent graduates, in an integral way, with broad perspectives of personal fulfilment, based on ethical principles and values, which characterize and distinguish UCP.

Providing skills and training in the area of Management since 1985, IGOS is a place of production, valorization and transfer of scientific knowledge, with quality and rigor, based on an ethical posture and an organizational culture of proximity.

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).