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The Master's in Education and Society is a unique course in Portugal. It trains education specialists able to develop answers to current problems in education with a strategic vision that integrates research and intervention practice. The programme provides expertise in planning, implementing and evaluating activities of an educational character.
Our collective future depends to a large extent on education. We are a highly qualified team of teachers with a strong link to research and intervention. The students have very diverse formative and professional origins and reveal a great mobilization to make a difference.
The curricular internship ensures the contact with the potential labour market. The International Cycle of Conferences integrates specialists with research and/or field work in order to ensure contact with the different educational modalities (school and non-school) present in contemporary societies.
2026/2027
The first year comprises eight compulsory modules and two optional modules, which students are free to choose. The programme offers recommended modules.
In the second year, students undertake a dissertation or project and take two modules of their own choosing. One of these must be selected from those belonging to the academic area of Research Methods and Techniques:
1st semester (1st year)
Contemporary Social Inequalities
Lifelong Learning
Sociology of Educational Achievement
Planning and Evaluation of Education and Training
2nd semester (1st year)
Childhood and Youth: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Comparative Education Systems
Learning Society
Research Design
Recommended elective
1st semester
Descendents of Immigrants and Education
Intervention in Non-Formal Educational Contexts: Principles and Methods
Education Policy
Internship in Education and Society (2nd year)
2nd semester
Evaluation of School Organisations
Families and Education
| Unidades curriculares | Semester | ECTS |
|---|---|---|
| Contemporary Social Inequalities | 1 | 6.0 |
| Life Long Learning | 1 | 6.0 |
| Planning and Evaluation of Education and Training | 1 | 6.0 |
| Research Methods in Social Sciences Parte Escolar > Optional Courses > Free Or Supplementary > 1st Year - 1st Semester | 1 | 6.0 |
| Sociological Theory Parte Escolar > Optional Courses > Free Or Supplementary > 1st Year - 1st Semester | 1 | 6.0 |
| Sociology of Educational Achievement | 1 | 6.0 |
| Childhood and Youth: Transdisciplinary Perspectives | 2 | 6.0 |
| Comparative Education Systems | 2 | 6.0 |
| Learning Society | 2 | 6.0 |
| Research Design | 2 | 6.0 |
Recommended elective
1st semester
Descendents of Immigrants and Education
Intervention in Non-Formal Educational Contexts: Principles and Methods
Education Policy
Internship in Education and Society (2nd year)
2nd semester
Evaluation of School Organisations
Families and Education
| Unidades curriculares | Semester | ECTS |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd Cycle Internship Parte Escolar > Optional Courses > Free > 2nd Year - 1st Semester | 1 | 6.0 |
| Master Dissertation in Education and Society Final Work | 1 | 48.0 |
| Master Project in Education and Society Final Work | 1 | 48.0 |
Recommended elective
1st semester
Descendents of Immigrants and Education
Intervention in Non-Formal Educational Contexts: Principles and Methods
Education Policy
Internship in Education and Society (2nd year)
2nd semester
Evaluation of School Organisations
Families and Education
(i) To provide theoretical and practical training that enables students to enhance their ability to analyse educational contexts, whether formal or non-formal, and to examine the social issues that affect them;
(ii) To develop skills for the planning, implementation and evaluation of educational activities and of national, sectoral, local and organisational education policies;
(iii) To deepen knowledge of research procedures in education.
2025/2026
| Round | Start Date | End Date | Vacancies | Application fee | Reservation fee | Reservation fee outside EU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st round | Mestrado/Master | 2025-12-15 09:30 | 2026-01-14 17:00 | 3 | 70.00 € | 350.00 € | 500.00 € |
| 2nd round | Mestrado/Master | 2026-01-15 09:30 | 2026-02-25 17:00 | 5 | 70.00 € | 350.00 € | 500.00 € |
| 3rd round | Mestrado/Master | 2026-02-26 09:30 | 2026-04-06 17:00 | 12 | 70.00 € | 350.00 € | 500.00 € |
| 4th round | Mestrado/Master | 2026-04-07 09:30 | 2026-05-13 17:00 | 12 | 70.00 € | 350.00 € | 500.00 € |
| 5th round | Mestrado/Master | 2026-05-14 09:30 | 2026-06-24 17:00 | 3 | 70.00 € | 350.00 € | 500.00 € |
| 6th round | Mestrado/Master | 2026-06-25 09:30 | 2026-08-26 17:00 | 70.00 € | 350.00 € | 500.00 € |
The following may apply for this Master’s degree:
See the admission and ranking criteria 2026/2027