University of Lisbon
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The University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa) is a leading university in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded in 1911 after the fall of the Portuguese Monarchy regime, but the history of a university in Lisbon backs to the 13th century.
Their motto is ad lucem ("to the light").
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History
The first Portuguese university school was founded in 1290 by King Dinis in Lisbon, and was called Estudos Gerais (General Studies). In the following years, this first university school was moved several times between Lisbon and Coimbra. In 1537, during the reign of João III, the university moved definitively to Coimbra. The entire university institution, including the teaching staff and all the books from its library, were moved to Coimbra where the University of Coimbra was definitively installed. Lisbon became an university city again in 1911 when the current University of Lisbon was founded.
Faculties
Faculty of Sciences
The Faculty of Sciences (Portuguese: Faculdade de Ciências) [1] (http://www.fc.ul.pt/) was created on April 19, 1911. From that date until 1985 (when it moved to its current grounds, at Campo Grande) it was established on the former Politechnical School (Escola Politécnica) building. Those former installations are now used as museum, now and then. Its current grounds comprise a built area of 75662 square meters, corresponding to 8 buildings (labeled C1 through C8, where C stands for Ciências --- Science) which host the classrooms, offices, cafeterias, libraries, book shop and leisure areas. The faculty population, as of mid-2004, consisted, aproximately, of:
- 4500 graduation students
- 600 M.Sc. students
- 700 Ph.D. students
- 470 teachers (about 80% with a Ph.D.)
- 229 workers
There are 21 graduations available, in the following areas:
- Biology
- Biochemistry
- Physics
- Maths
- Statistics and Operational Investigation
- Geology
- Computer Science
- Chemistry
See also
External Links
- University of Lisbon (http://www.ul.pt/) Home PageTemplate:Edu-stub