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Top 25 Modern universities based in Portugal
RevenueBase identified 63 modern universities headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026 and tracks 27,268 professional contacts across them, including 6,943 with verified work emails. Lisboa is the largest hub.
This list covers modern universities headquartered in Portugal, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest modern universities based in Portugal
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,940 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Created in 1973, the University of Aveiro quickly became one of the most dynamic and innovative universities in Portugal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,967 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Coimbra (UC) is a Portuguese public higher education institution with more than 700 years of experience in education, training and research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,746 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1911, the University of Porto (U.Porto) is a benchmark institution for Higher Education and Scientific Research in Portugal and one of the top 200 European Universities…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,501 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa is a public university established in 1972.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,416 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “48 Bachelor's Degrees, 3 Integrated Masters, 49 Masters, 8 PhDs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,337 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Located in the south of Portugal, in a region of Mediterranean climate sought by thousands of tourists, the University of Algarve (UAlg) is headquartered in Faro, the capital of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The history of the Universidade de Lisboa, the large spectrum of offered programmes, the high quality of its teachers and researchers, the continuing innovation effort, as well as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), é uma instituição portuguesa de ensino superior em expansão, alcançando o estatuto de academia, que recebe alunos de todas as regiões do…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 924 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Polytechnic University of Leiria is a public portuguese institution of higher education, which began its activity in 1980.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 798 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB) é uma instituição pública de ensino superior que tem por missão a criação, transmissão e difusão do conhecimento técnico-científico e do…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 537 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) is a public higher education institution, located in Barcelos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 336 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, criada em 13 de Dezembro de 1985, é a mais antiga Universidade privada do país, com quase quatro décadas de experiência ao serviço da comunidade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 325 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Polytechnic of Tomar is a young institution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 324 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A UPT abre as portas para um percurso académico cheio de possibilidades e com um ensino de elevada qualidade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em Lisboa, em 28 de Junho de 1986, pela Cooperativa de Ensino Universidade Lusíada, crl, que, pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 117/2003, de 14 de Junho, se transformou na Fundação…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 279 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Politécnico do Porto é hoje a quarta maior Instituição de Ensino Superior em termos de procura e a quinta em termos de dimensão.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Localizada no centro histórico do Porto, a Universidade Lusófona do Porto é uma instituição jovem e dinâmica que oferece 20 cursos de licenciatura, 1 mestrado integrado, 7 cursos…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A ESCE é uma das escolas de Ensino Superior Público do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, tendo actualmente Licenciaturas, Mestrados, e Pós-Graduações na área das ciências…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Missão O Instituto Politécnico de Beja é uma instituição de ensino superior ao serviço da sociedade, destinada à produção e difusão do conhecimento, criação, transmissão e difusão…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Criado em 1979, o Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra é uma instituição de ensino superior pública e está localizada no Centro Litoral de Portugal, naquela que há séculos é conhecida…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão (ESTG) é uma unidade orgânica do IPVC, criada em 1985.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em Lisboa, em 28 de Junho de 1986, pela Cooperativa de Ensino Universidade Lusíada que, pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 117/2003, de 14 de Junho, se transformou na Fundação Minerva -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Constitui missão fundamental da ATLÂNTICO BUSINESS SCHOOL o seu posicionamento como agente dinamizador do conhecimento científico no âmbito das Ciências Empresariais, de acordo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “INP was founded in 1964 and began to work in areas that were very innovative in Portugal at that time: Advertising and Public Relations, Tourism and Executive Assistant & Office…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: modern universities. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names modern universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of modern universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name modern universities. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Modern universities based in Portugal at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Portugal, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Portugal, over 63 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among modern universities, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Portugal whose own description of what they do matches “modern universities”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names modern universities), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among modern universities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Portugal are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,943 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names modern universities, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many modern universities are there based in Portugal?
RevenueBase identified 63 modern universities headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Universidade DE Aveiro, headquartered in Aveiro, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most modern universities?
Lisboa leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Porto (10) and Coimbra (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,943 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 63 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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