IPMAIA Polytechnic Institute of Maia

IPMAIA is pleased to welcome you to its Institute and hopes you will enjoy your stay and studies in Maia. IPMAIA is always available and await your arrival with enthusiasm.

The Polytechnic Institute of Maia - IPMAIA is located in the city of Maia, 12 km from Porto, the second largest city in Portugal. The university campus occupies an area of 70,000 m2 and offers students excellent infrastructures, transport facilities and state-of-the-art technological equipment. For academic members' convenience, IPMAIA is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Starting 2016/17, a new state-of-the-art, on-campus Sports Complex will be available for all IPMAIA student. IPMAIA is a prestigious higher education institution that offers 4 Bachelor's degree programmes and 19 short-cycle programs, all of which have been accredited by the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and/or the Directorate-General of Higher Education (DGES).

All course programmes are taught by highly professional and qualified academic staff members, holders of a PhD to an extent that largely exceeds the national legal requirements.

With some exceptions, the programmes at IPMAIA are conducted in Portuguese. For international and/or Portuguese students interested in attending English-taught courses, some programmes might be available in English in 2016/17 (provided there is a minimum number of students required for the course to run). International students typically have special permission to sit exams and/or carry out project work in languages other than Portuguese (usually English, French or Spanish). Language support is provided through Portuguese language courses offered by the International Relations Office. The timetables of the classes are normally flexible, so as to suit students' needs.

Higher Technical Professional Courses are Accompanying Children and Young People, Accounting and Management, Administrative Human Resource Management, Comercial Management and Sales, Construction Works Management and Building Renovation, Design and Industrial Innovation, Digital Marketing, Enviromental Quality, Family and Community Service, Industrial Management, Industrial Maintenance, Legal Services, Leisure Sports, Multimedia Production and Digital Games, Network and IT Systems, Sports and Nature Tourism, Tecnologies and Information Systems Programming, Youth Sports Coaching.

Our Bachelor Degrees are Accounting, Information Technology, Web and Multimedia, Legal Studies, Maintenance and Safety Management, Sports Coaching Our Master Degrees are Legal Studies.

IPMAIA is divided into two Higher Schools: Higher School of Social Sciences, Education and Sports and Higher School of Technology and Management.

Academic and research activities rely on the support of both research and functional units. IPMAIA is in the process of creating its own institutional Research Unit, and many of its teachers are already integrated in other national Research Units.

Regarding Functional Units, IPMAIA provides the academic community with a(n): Multiplatform Studio (Centre for Communication Sciences), Advanced Laboratory of Telecommunications, Multimedia Centre and Laboratory, Photography Laboratory, Physical Condition Centre and Human Kinetics Laboratory, Laboratory of Forensic and Criminal Sciences, Occupational Safety Support Centre, Physics Laboratory, Chemistry Laboratory, Entrepreneurship Centre, Centre for Psychological Support Services.