Instituto Superior Técnico
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| Established | 1911 |
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| Type | Public school |
| President | Carlos Matos Ferreira |
| Faculty | more than 700 |
| Undergraduates | about 8500 |
| Postgraduates | about 1500 |
| Location | Lisbon and Oeiras, Portugal |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.ist.utl.pt |
The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is a renowned Portuguese Faculty of Engineering, belonging to the UTL - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Lisbon Technical University). It is a public institution of university higher education with great scientific and financial autonomy, founded in 1911.
This school belongs to the CLUSTER (Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research), which is a network of leading European Universities of Technology; their fundamental missions are advanced research and higher education of engineers, scientists and architects. See Cluster
IST is comprised of two campi:
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[edit] History
The Instituto Superior Técnico has its origins in the Instituto Industrial e Comercial de Lisboa, created in the second half of the 19th century (founded in 1852 as Instituto Industrial de Lisboa, renamed in 1869), an important school of vocational education converted to a higher education school of engineering opened between 1896 and 1910, which led to the creation of IST in the following year.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Alberto Romão Dias, former State Secretary for Higher Education
- Mariano Gago, Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education
- António Guterres, former Prime Minister of Portugal; president of the Socialist International and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
