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Professional master’s degrees – 60 ECTS credits – last one academic year (30 ECTS credits/semester) and have a professional orientation. This course is characterized and differentiated by the involvement of employers and business and socio-professional associations in carrying out project work and professional internships, by the focus on developing/deepening technical skills relevant to the job market and by promoting lifelong learning. At UPB, the professional master’s degrees are organized in a modular way and with a flexible timetable adapted to the availability of microcredentials. Applicants for professional master’s degrees must have at least five years’ professional experience.

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The study cycle leading to the master’s degree has 90 to 120 ECTS credits and a normal duration of 3 to 4 semesters. In specific cases – Professional Masters – it can have 60 ECTS credits and a duration of 2 semesters. Its structure includes a set of curricular units – the teaching component – and the completion of a dissertation/project work/internship – the non-teaching component. The diploma of the master’s degree is awarded to those who, by passing all the curricular units that make up the study plan of the specialization course and by passing the public defense of the dissertation, project work or internship report, have obtained the set number of credits. The master’s degree corresponds to level 7 of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).

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Area CNAEF 090 – Personal Development: Area CNAEF 21 – Arts: Area CNAEF 34 – Business Sciences: Area CNAEF 48 – Informatics: Area CNAEF 582 – Construction and Civil Engineering: Area CNAEF 620 – Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: Area CNAEF 72 – Health:

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Food

The UPB has a canteen, snack bar and alternative room on the Santa Apolónia campus in Bragança, and a canteen on the Cruzeiro campus in Mirandela.
In each of the schools there is a bar, the operation of which is under concession.
The maximum price of the meal subsidized under the higher education welfare system is set at 0.63 % of the Social Support Index in force at the beginning of each academic year.

Canteen meal tickets can be purchased online at online.ipb.pt.

For more information see the sas.ipb.pt page.