ISAG Higher Institute of Administration and Management

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you ISAG. ISAG should be seen as a private School of Higher Education, dedicated to teaching, promoting and developing Management Sciences, Tourism and Hospitality, in the northern region of Portugal, and recognized as one of the most prestigious, qualified and enterprising in the country, and at a European level, with a strong and lasting relationship of trust with the scholastic and business communities and official entities, resulting from the high standards of satisfaction provided and by the social responsibility demonstrated.

In particular, ISAG should be seen as a reference point in terms of private Schools in the North of Portugal, offering a service of high value to the student. In this regard, it will offer its students integrated training services that will be of the highest value to them, in order to earn and keep their respect and loyalty.

ISAG Instituto Superior de Administracao e Gestao (Higher Education Institute of Administration and Management) is a private polytechnic institute of higher education, founded in October 1979 by ESE - Ensino Superior Empresarial, Lda., and recognized by the Ministry of Education (11th of December).

In order to reinforce its positioning within the framework of Portuguese's higher education institutions, it begun a merger process in November 2000 (the 1st stage of which included the merger of the founding entities ESE/ENFOC, in June 2005), that was completed in 2006 through the merger of ISAG - Instituto Superior de Administracao e Gestao and ISAI - Instituto Superior de Assistentes e Interpretes into a single institute of higher education, under the name of ISAG - Instituto Superior de Administracao e Gestao - (2nd Series), 13th March, of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology.

Our main objective is to provide technical and cultural education and training in Management Sciences, Tourism, Hospitality and Applied Languages in the northern region of Portugal, through a teaching philosophy and practice that prepares students to perform highly qualified professional activities. Bearing this in mind, we pay continuous attention to the needs of Portuguese society and economy, especially in what regards to European integration and market globalization.

For coordination and dynamics of the educational activity, the curricular units taught in ISAGs courses are grouped by scientific areas defined by the Technical and Scientific Council. The educational activities of each course will be coordinated and supervised by a Course Director, who will have a term of two years, with effective functions at the end of the academic year in question (August 31).

Accounting, Law, Economics, Translation Studies, Finance, Management, History, Hospitallity Informatics, Modern Languages, Marketing, Mathematics, Portuguese Language, Psycology, Tourism.

The Erasmus program is a subprogram of the Program of Lifelong Learning, which began on January 1, 2007 and ends on December 31, 2013. It aims to support the creation of a European Higher Education and strengthen the contribution of higher education and advanced vocational education in the innovation process at European level.