Are you a graduate looking to further your education? Are you already in the job market and want to improve your professional skills? At the University of Algarve you have the opportunity to achieve your goals by applying for Masters and Doctorate Courses, the first phase of which runs from 12th August to 2nd September 2025.
Applications for Masters and Doctorates
Access and Admission
The application procedures (vacancies, access conditions, selection criteria, required documentation) are established by each of the Faculties and Schools and are available on each of the course pages.
Online Application Submission
1st Phase: 07 to 24 January 2025 (closed)
2nd Phase: 11th March to 4th April 2025 (closed)
3rd Phase: 27th May to 4th July 2025 (closed)
4th Phase: 12th August to 2nd September 2025
Some doctoral courses are permanently open for applications.
Note: International Students who have obtained the necessary qualification for access, in the last three academic years, in the European Higher Education Area will pay the same tuition fee as the national candidate.
Why Choose UAlg?
The University of Algarve is a public university, with a student population of 10,000 and over 700 academics.
UAlg has strong partnerships with business and with public and private organisations, encouraging the transfer of knowledge and contributing to sustainable development with a positive impact across the community.
Teaching and Research
UAlg has multiplied and consolidated its educational offer, offering master's degrees, doctorates and postgraduate courses, distributed over its main educational areas: Arts, Communication and Heritage; Social Sciences and Education; Science and Health Technologies; Exact and Natural Sciences; Economics, Management and Tourism; Engineering and Technology. With classrooms and study rooms, amphitheatres and laboratories for teaching and research activities, libraries with online access, Wi-Fi on all campuses, catering services, medical services, cultural and sporting activities, the University of Algarve and the region offer ideal conditions for study, research, enterprise and personal enrichment.
Scientific research has been a fundamental factor in the University's development, setting it on a path of national and international recognition. The excellence that underpins its research and development activities is reflected in the dense network of partnerships established with universities and R&D institutions around the world in a wide variety of fields.
Internationalization
The University of Algarve (UAlg) is located in Faro, the capital of the Algarve, in the south of Portugal, in a region with a Mediterranean climate, popular with thousands of tourists. Its privileged location next to Faro International Airport and the many new air routes linking it to the main Portuguese cities (Oporto and Lisbon), Europe and the world, as well as the excellent conditions it offers, together with the region, mean that this university is increasingly acquiring a central and international status, visible on the streets of the city of Faro, which welcomes around 2,000 international students from more than 101 nationalities every year.
More recently, it has become part of the European University of the Seas (SEA-EU), a 'super campus' that aims to create a distinctly international, multiethnic, multilingual and interdisciplinary European university, made up of nine universities: Cadiz (Spain), Bretagne (France), Kiel (Germany), Gdansk (Poland), Split (Croatia), Malta (Malta), Naples Parthenope (Italy), Algarve (Portugal) and Nord (Norway).
World university rankings
Founded in 1979, UAlg appears for the seventh time in the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings, which analyses the performance of higher education institutions founded 50 years ago or less, once again leading the indicator that assesses the international projection of Portuguese higher education institutions.
In the Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023, it is included in the list of the best in the world, once again standing out in the Hospitality & Tourism Management field, in places 76-100.
It was also included for the fifth time in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which assesses the performance and contribution of universities to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a global level, ranking 301-400 out of 1963 higher education institutions (HEIs) from 125 countries.
