In our aim to create a truly authentic university, we have always given the utmost importance to the international aspect of teaching, not only through the active involvement of foreign visiting professors teaching in the university, but also in the preparation we offer our students. By now, over a hundred recent graduates have gone on to Ph. D studies or extended work-study programs in American and European universities.

Incorporated in the oldest non state university the Porto Regional Centre began its activity, in the city of Porto in 1978, with the Undergraduate Law Course.

Currently, this Centre takes in about 4200 pupils enrolled and distributed by more than fifteen Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Masters Courses taught in two campuses in the city: The Foz and the Asprela Campus.

Following the principles of the Portuguese Catholic University, the Porto Regional Centre essential objectives are to promote research and university studies, cultural development on an intellectual, artistic, moral, and spiritual level, to prepare professionals for society and continuing education, to create an authentic university community consolidated in the principles of truth and respect for all human beings.
 
Personalized Teaching; Social Support; Merit Awards and Early Linkage to the Job Market are some of the actual deeds of the Porto Regional Centre to meet these principles and objectives.

All this is accomplished in an interdisciplinary environment, keeping in mind, at all time, the Academic Culture.

The Foz Campus encompasses the School of Arts, the School of Economics and Management, the Bioethical and Education Institutes and the extensions of the following basic units: College of Law and College of Theology.

The Asprela Campus includes the School of Biotechnology which has its own extension in Caldas da Rainha.

Our concept of an university goes beyond the meeting of persons and ideas and the process of pursuing an education, beyond the research which is aimed at dignifying a profession and, above all, aspires to value the whole man in his never-ending search of Truth, which, as St. Augustine stated, ?we must constantly strive for, even after we think we have encountered it?.

Our focus on culture and our proposal to promote the development of our region and our country, allows us the belief that we can make a valuable contribution to the progress of Europe, which we have always intended to serve just as we have done for many centuries.

"We hope that others say that we try to serve Man"