About us

More than a business school

Our history

Porto Business School is an institution with unique features, resulting from the way the school emerged, stemming from collaboration with large Portuguese companies.

We are the result of more than 35 years’ experience in providing training for executives as ISEE – Instituto Superior de Estudos Empresariais (College of Business Studies) (1988-2000), EGP – Escola de Gestão do Porto (Porto Management School) (2000-2008), and EGP-UPBS. 

Our aim is to empower people to think critically and to come up with their own solutions, to identify future challenges, to create different scenarios and to rethink strategies. That is, to make change happen. It has been that way from the outset, in 1988.

1988

1st Class of ISEE's full-time MBA programme Foundation of ISEE

1989

1st Edition of the General Management Programme

1994

Creation of ISFEP by FEP, as an interface institution for studies and applied research projects

1998

Creation of the José Valente Award

1999

ISEE becomes EGP-Escola de Gestão do Porto

2001

1st Edition of EGP's Executive MBA (in partnership with ESADE)

2003

Launch of the 1st Executive Education Portfolio

2008

Formation of EGP-UPBS, following the merger of training activities for executives of EGP and ISFEP

2009

EGP-UPBS programmes are internationally accredited by AMBA. EGP-UPBS becomes a member of EFMD.

2011

The School’s Executive Education programmes are now present on the Financial Times ranking. The MBA programmes receives EPAS accreditation (EFMD), the 2nd international accreditation.

2012

EGP-UPBS becomes Porto Business School. The Financial Times ranks Porto Business School as one of the best schools in europe.

2013

Inauguration of the new Porto Business School Campus

2014

Marta Cunha, EMBA student, receives the "Student of the Year" AMBA Award

2017

Branduplift. The School's new website is internationally recognised.

2018

Porto Business School celebrates its 30th anniversary and is honored by the President of the Republic of Portugal with the Order of Merit.

2020

Creation of the University of Porto Business & Economics (UPBE), a partnership between the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and Porto Business School.

2021

The Porto Business School has been declared a public utility.

2022

A Porto Business School is internationally accredited by AACSB.

2023

Porto Business School celebrates its 35th anniversary.
Experience

Experience

The ties between companies and U.Porto, ensure that we are in line with organisations’ present and future needs. Find below our partners.

Associates

Statutes
Statutes

Statutes of the Porto Business School (PBS) - U.Porto Association

Governing Bodies

Code of Ethics
Code of Ethics and Conduct

Listed within this Code are the values and principles that guide Porto Business School. The institution and all those who collaborate with it regard these not only as intrinsically their own.