Nova School of Business and Economics

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The Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) is a higher education institution with internationally recognized research and quality teaching that ensures high levels of professional success to its students and provides essential services to the community, at both national and international levels.
Established in 1973, the University adopted a new model within the Portuguese system that stressed interdisciplinary approaches, technological developments while, at the same time, safeguarding offerings in traditional academic domains including medicine, sciences, and humanities.
Since its inception, NOVA has aimed to innovate higher education in Portugal and to contribute to the social and economic development of the country. Nova School of Business and Economics provides an excellent level of higher education and research.
We aim to produce graduates and postgraduates equipped for the marketplace. Our high-quality and innovative courses are geared to providing the knowledge and skills required and are regularly reviewed to aim at best practices. Our teaching is rigorous, and benefits from the stimulus of a wide range of electives, international recruitment, and exchange programs. Our intellectual environment will attract and stimulate both Faculty and students.
Serve the wider community and advance knowledge. We influence economic policy and improve business practice, through the provision of executive education, and consultancy services. We conduct pure and applied research, which is scholarly, relevant, and rated internationally.
Profit from our strengths. As a combined school of Economics, Finance, and Management, we benefit from the synergy between these disciplines. Our research underpins the quality of our teaching. By embracing international perspectives and harnessing the local experience, we create a positive environment for education and research.
The vision states how the School would like to see itself as an organization in a near future. “Our vision is to be among the best in Europe”
The School has strived since its beginning, almost 30 years ago, to serve the local market, benchmarking international standards and practices. This was also always regarded as the only way to fulfill our mission to prepare our students to compete with graduates from international schools, and to transfer scientific knowledge to our corporate and government clients.
More broadly, this was always regarded as the only way to overcome the predicaments of Portugal’s regional, cultural and economic confinement – located at the southwest tip of Europe, landlocked from continental Europe by a powerful and aggressive neighbor and relatively poor.
Presently, the School is in the process of moving from the “import model” of the past (“providing local students with the best methods and practices the world had to offer”) to an “export model”, where the key challenge is to compete in the market of “tradable” (internationally mobile national and international) students.
Overall quality is critical but a distinctive value proposition will certainly result from leveraging on assets that are unique to a Business and Economics school in Portugal: the Portuguese culture and language -dominant in countries with global importance such as Brazil and Angola.

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