Instituto Superior de Agronomia



Instituto Superior de Agronomía (ISA), School of Agronomy – University of Lisbon, is a faculty for graduate and post-graduate studies in Agronomy, Forestry, Food Science, Landscape Architecture, Environment, Animal Production, Plant Protection, Economy and Rural Sociology and Botany and Biological Engineering.

The student population is over 1500 in three levels of studying, including post-doctoral research studies. The teaching staff consists of 145 teachers and 6 researchers, mainly PhDs and post-docs and is organized in 10 departments.

The school’s location is in the heart of Lisbon, it spreads over a green wooded area of 100 ha with various agronomic and forestry experimentations sites. This vast protected area, classified as of “Public Interest”, plays an important role in the city’s environmental balance and is a fundamental recreational landscape for Lisbon’s population.

It also includes a small conference centre with a 300-delegate capacity, an Exhibition Pavilion with a Victorian (iron/Eiffel-like) architecture, several gardens, rugby and football fields and other facilities all of which can also be used by the city community.

Main graduation areas (1st cycle) - 180 ECTS
Engineering Sciences of
 * Biology
 * Agronomy
 * Animal husbandry
 * Environment
 * Food
 * Forestry

Science Master degrees (2nd cycle) - 120 ECTS

 * Agricultural Engineering
 * Applied Mathematics in Biological Sciences
 * Environmental Engineering
 * Food Engineering
 * Forestry Engineering and Natural Resources
 * Functional Biology
 * Natural Resources Management and Conservation
 * Animal Science

1st+2nd cycles - 300 ECTS

 * Landscape Architecture

PhDs (3rd cycle)

 * Agronomy
 * Food Science and Engineering
 * Biology
 * Environment Engineering
 * Forestry
 * Landscape Architecture
 * Mathematics and Statistics
 * Rural Engineering
 * Bio-systems Engineering
 * Animal Husbandry Engineering

Notable alumni
People who have been awarded a degree by ISA or otherwise have attended it, include:
 * Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan independentist, guerrilla, agronomist.
 * Dom Duarte, 24th Duke of Braganza, claimant to the throne of Portugal, agronomist.
 * Tim, musician, vocalist of Xutos & Pontapés, agronomist.