Universidade Aberta

Universidade Aberta (UAb) is Portugal's only public distance-learning university, founded in 1988. Its head office is located at Palace Ceia, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 147, Lisbon, with delegations in Porto and Coimbra and a network of local learning centres and overseas exam locations. UAb delivers all its programmes entirely at a distance through its e-learning platform, serving adult students in Portugal and across the Portuguese-speaking world including Africa (Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique), Asia (Macau, Timor) and the Americas. It offers 1st-cycle (bachelor), 2nd-cycle (master) and 3rd-cycle (doctoral) degrees, post-graduations and lifelong learning programmes in Portuguese. Institutional and programme accreditation is overseen by A3ES – Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior. UAb participates actively in Erasmus+, AULP, Almeida Garrett and other international mobility and cooperation frameworks. Its academic departments are: Department of Education and Distance Learning (DEED), Department of Humanities (DH), Department of Science and Technology (DCeT), Department of Social Sciences and Management (DCSG), and the Lifelong Learning Unit (UALV).