Instituto Superior Técnico

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Institutional Assessment
    Carried out every six years, years, at the end of each regular cycle of assessment/accreditation of all study programmes in operation
  • Accredition of study programmes in operation
    The usual period of validity of the accreditation is 6 years. In case of a lighter touch approach, only a desk analysis is carried out.
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Portugal

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

No results found.

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Ciências da Comunicação (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Communication Sciences
  • Qualification/award
    • Doutoramento
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Ciências da População (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Population Sciences
  • Qualification/award
    • Doutoramento
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Ciências do Desporto (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Ciências do Mar (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Marine Sciences
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Ciências do Mar (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Marine Sciences
  • Qualification/award
    • Doutoramento
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Ciências Equinas (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Equine Science
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Ciências Geofísicas e da Geoinformação (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Geophysical Sciences and Geoinformation
  • Qualification/award
    • Doutoramento
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Contabilidade, Fiscalidade e Finanças Empresariais (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Cosmetologia Avançada (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Advanced Cosmetology
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Crítica e Curadoria de Arte (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Art Curation and Criticism
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Crítica Textual (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Textual Criticism
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Crítica Textual (third cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Textual Criticism
  • Qualification/award
    • Doutoramento
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Cuidados Paliativos (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Palliative Care
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Cultura e Comunicação (second cycle degree)
  • Other names
    • Culture and Communication
  • Qualification/award
    • Mestrado
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Desenho (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Desenho (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Design de Comunicação (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Design de Comunicação e Novos Media (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Design de Equipamento (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Design de Equipamento (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.