ISCTE – IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) is a Portuguese public tertiary education institution.

As of today, Iscte is widely considered a fully-fledged public research university despite its traditional designation, as reflected in national news coverage of the performance of Portuguese universities internationally[3][4][5][6] and open, external assessments by international organisations.

[12][13] ISCTE confers bachelor's, master's, integrated master's and PhD degrees and habilitation in scientific areas such as anthropology, sociology, African studies, history, social psychology, political science, planning, architecture, economics, finance, business administration and management, human resources, marketing, computer science, telecommunications engineering, or industrial engineering.

[14] ISCTE was established in Lisbon in 1972 as Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa[15] using the faculty and facilities of the Instituto de Estudos Sociais (Institute of Social Studies, founded in 1963) as a first step towards a new and innovative public university in Lisbon.

[16] In 1972, the first year of operation, 296 students matriculated at ISCTE: 219 in Economics, 66 in Business Administration (in Portuguese: Organização e Gestão de Empresas) and 11 in Work Sciences (Ciências do Trabalho).