1) AACSB - only 5% of business schools in the world have this accreditation;

2) ISEG is a School of the University of Lisbon, a leading university according to the selective Shanghai ranking (ARWU);

3) ISEG is located in the heart of Lisbon, a vibrant, multi-cultural, cosmopolitan, and sunny European city;

4) ISEG belongs to UNITE! - University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering - a network that aims to foster the cooperation between higher education institutions in Europe;

5) ISEG has a large and diversified Alumni network;

6) ISEG students have high Employability;

7) ISEG's Masters' students and faculty win prizes for best case studies, best dissertation and research output, and for applied projects and competitions;

8) ISEG students benefit from a Collegiate and Open-minded atmosphere with many opportunities to interact with their peers and with professors;

9) ISEG is committed to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals SDGs for 2030;

10) ISEG has High Quality Research Centers.

PhD Programme in Economic and Social History

The PhD in Economic and Social History was created by Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 1991, and was subsequently adapted to European higher education in 2009. It is a 3rd cycle degree that aims to teach and produce original research in the eld of Economic History.

The degree aims to train specialists who have a high capacity of interpretation and response to the economic and social transformations over time and in the interaction between the chronological, geographical and social aspects of these transformations.