44 Creative Arts and Design Degree Programs in Portugal

The Master in Sound and Image – Specialization New Media Art promotes creative innovation across various artistic practices.

The Master in Design of the University of Aveiro, now renewed (2nd cycle of training), aims to provide students with critical awareness and creative capacity, leading to a competent professional practice of Design.

The 3rd cycle of studies leading to a PhD in Design is a PhD Program in Association between the University of Aveiro (Department of Communication and Art) and the University of Porto (Faculty of Fine Arts), with the collaboration of teachers in the area of Design of these institutions, as well as researchers from ID+ Institute of Research in Design, Media and Culture.

This Master Course intends to provide the adequate competences required to product optimization and innovation, by following a rather integrating approach in what concerns people, industry, society and environment. It is therefore intended to ensure specific formation in what concerns development and conception of models and products capable of providing adequate answers to demands related to market flexibility, fastness and assertiveness. Moreover, to achieve such objectives, the Course is planned to provide insight and knowledge on two core scientific areas, namely Design and Mechanical Engineering. It should also be mentioned that the latter is completed with a transversal core competence related to Project, where it is intended to consolidate the knowledge acquired within the two mentioned scientific areas, by exploring the synergies among the two thematic areas.

Master in Integrated Design in Building Construction, is a postgraduate course with a duration of 2 Years/4 semesters (120 ECTS), essentially directed at students already graduated - and, even, professional activity - in the areas of Civil Engineering and Architecture, which aims to recreate, within the framework of a specialized academic training, the most efficient model of multidisciplinary development of building projects, referred as IPD Integrated Project Delivery.

The program aims to provide students with the conceptual and practical skills of a high professional level in specific areas of graphic design and communication for multiple platforms.

The Doctoral Program in Artistic Creation (PDCA) is a doctoral Program of the University of Aveiro (UA) in association with the Polytechnic Institutes of Leiria and Porto. This Doctoral Program (PD) promotes a transdisciplinary strategy for the development of experimental creative thinking, welcoming candidates with an interest in creative practices, namely in the areas of Visual Arts, Sound Arts, Visual Arts, Dance, Theatre and Music.

It is the Engineering area that develops the activities of conception, design, implementation, and utilization of devices and systems that involve electrical energy in their operation and also that resort to computers to serve a very wide range of applications. Electrical and Computer Engineers are responsible for the enormous technological revolution that we have witnessed in the last decades in fields as varied as mobile communications, renewable energies, electrical mobility, or the increasing automation of our industries.

This Master program aims to provide an integrated set of dynamic skills, strongly based on a technical and scientific knowledge.

The Master in Cinema of the School of Arts is advanced training in contemporary cinema, allowing students to develop their creative and technical skills based on individual projects. Students will be able to choose a specific focus of work (whether in “classic” cinema, in an installation project, or in any other form of research). The student will be challenged while being immersed in contemporary artistic thought, challenged to understand different forms of moving images and how cinema can enable reflection and awareness of our constantly evolving world.

This course, in partnership with the Technological Center for Ceramics and Glass (CTCV), is intended to be a training offer for senior management of companies in the Ceramic Industry in Portugal with basic training in other areas of knowledge. The materials for the integration of staff in the companies, despite adequate training with their ceramic processes and processes, are the only necessary and necessary that run through the entire production cycle of the ceramic product.

The Master in Communication and Web Technologies (MCTW) arises to meet the training needs of professionals qualified in the conceptualization, development, and evaluation of communication solutions supported by Web technologies, promoting the ability to investigate and propose future solutions, both in current and emerging technologies.

Data Science is a combination of science, engineering, and art skills to extract useful knowledge from data. It involves different areas of knowledge, from statistics to databases and computer science, from artificial intelligence to machine learning and deep learning. It is used to solve important problems in our economy and society, from predicting the sales of products and recommending the best product for a customer, to supporting the diagnosis of patients and analyzing the spread of a virus.

The Master in Service Engineering adopts a T-shaped educational approach to conceive, develop, implement, and operate technology-enabled service systems, building upon the student's background (first degree) and adding cross-disciplinary competencies in-service engineering and management.

It is the area of ​​engineering that involves the conception, planning, design, construction and maintenance of the built environment. Through Civil Engineering we transform and adapt nature, we design and build cities/populations, transport networks, structures for energy production, water supply and sanitation networks, river and maritime protection structures, thus contributing to promoting the well-being of global society and its sustainable development.