The Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra (IPC - Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra) is a public

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institute of

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Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of . The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto, and Braga, it is the largest cit ...

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. It was created by decree of 1979, but its effective start up was only in 1988 through the creation and union of new and former schools. With an enrollment of 10,197 (2008) students, it is the third biggest polytechnic institute of Portugal.

History

The ''

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra The Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra (IPC - Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra) is a public polytechnic institute of higher education in Coimbra, Portugal. It was created by decree of 1979, but its effective start up was only in 1988 through the cr ...

'' has been in operation since 1988, although some of its current schools were providing degrees independently since the 1970s, and even before some were technical or vocational schools. The agriculture school whose origins can be dated back to the 19th century, and the current engineering institute, formerly an industrial school in operation between 1965 and 1974, were technical schools of intermediate education before upgraded to higher education polytechnic institutions. Today, it comprises several autonomous schools in engineering, education, accountancy, and agriculture.

Schools and Institutes

*School of Agriculture - Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra (ESAC) *School of Education - Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra (ESEC) * School of Technology and Management of Oliveira do Hospital (located in

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) - Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Oliveira do Hospital (ESTGOH) *School of Health Technologies - Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Coimbra (ESTSC) *Institute of Accounting and Administration - Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Coimbra (ISCAC) *Institute of Engineering - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (ISEC)

Students' unions and sports

The Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra has an independent students' union for each school or institute. The Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra (agriculture school) has a notable

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department.

Noted alumni

José Sócrates José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH (born 6 September 1957), commonly known as José Sócrates (), is a Portuguese politician who was the prime minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011. For the second half of 2007, he ...

, politician and former Prime-Minister of Portugal. He earned a ''bacharelato'' degree from ISEC before its 1988 integration into the Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra. *

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, magician. *

André Sardet André Miraldo Sardet Pires is a Portuguese singer and musician, born in the city of Coimbra on 8 January 1976. ''Acústico'' (2006), his most successful work, sold over 120,000 copies and was recorded live at Associação Académica de Coimbr ...

, musician and singer. ''(dropped out)''

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