Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE) is a business school located in Portugal that offers a wide range of academic programs including Bachelor's, Master's, Ph.D., MBA, Executive Education programs.

The school has approximately 3,000 students from over 70 different countries. Its programs have received recognition from various academic rankings, such as the Financial Times Ranking, The Economist, Eduniversal, Times Higher Education and QS World Rankings.

The current Dean is Professor Pedro Oliveira (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

The new campus in Carcavelos (Municipality of Cascais) was inaugurated on September 29, 2018. The funding for the Carcavelos Campus project was made possible by corporate and individual donations. From its founding year in 1978 until 1988, Nova SBE campus was located in Campo Grande. Subsequently, until its relocation to Carcavelos in September 2018, the school was based in the 19th-century building of the former Jesuit College of Campolide.

Programs 
Bachelor's degree
 Economics
 Management
 Portuguese and Business

Master's degree
 Economics
 Finance
 Management
 CEMS Master in International Management
 Law and Management
 Impact Entrepreneurship and Innovation
 International Development and Public Policy
 Business Analytics

Ph.D.
 Economics and Finance
 Management

MBA
 The Lisbon MBA

Knowledge at Nova SBE: Faculty, Knowledge Centers, Hubs & Labs 
Ranked Excellent in Research by Portugal's Science and Technology Foundation.

Research at Nova SBE is combined in the Nova SBE research unit, Knowledge Centers, Hubs & Labs. The research unit integrates the three basic disciplinary areas – Economics, Finance, and Management – and all its researchers into a single unit.

The eight Knowledge Centers at Nova SBE are conducting research with a dedicated focus on individual subjects and a cross-disciplinary orientation.

Labs:
 Nova SBE Innovation & Design Lab
 Social Sciences Data Lab
 Nova SBE Behavioral Lab

Hubs:
 Nova SBE Sustainability Hub

Student organizations 
Nova SBE has more than 35 different clubs, each with a defined purpose, drive, and passion. Ranging from professional clubs like Nova Women in Business or the Portfolio Management Club, to social clubs like the Nova Surf Club or Tuna Fortuna. More than 100 students volunteer in 60 non-profit organizations.The Nova SBE Student's Union was founded in 1986, with the mission to represent all Nova SBE students.

Roughly 160 events are organized by student clubs each year.

The Carcavelos Campus 
Facing the sea next to the Carcavelos beach, with an area of more than 75,061 m2, with low buildings and open spaces open to the community.

The Fundraising Campaign 
With the objective of financially supporting the construction of the new campus and the development of the school, a private fundraising campaign was launched in 2014 with the goal of raising 50 million euros, led by the Alfredo de Sousa Foundation. The foundation was created by four founders: the Cascais Municipality, Santander Totta Bank, Jerónimo Martins, the Soares dos Santos family, and is named after the founder of Nova SBE — in order to honor the vision and ambition he instilled in the school.

The campaign was supported by over 50 companies and around 2000 individual donors some of whom gave their name to spaces of the campus, namely the:
 Cascais Academic Hall
 Teresa e Alexandre Soares dos Santos Library
 Santander Academic Hall
 Jerónimo Martins Grand Auditorium
 Ming C. Shu Executive Hall
 Fidelidade Seguros Plaza
 EDP Plaza
 Hovione Atrium
 CTT Student Hall
 Sagres Beach Way
 SUMOL+COMPAL Orchard
 Via Verde Parking
 Navigator Company Park
 Outsystems Square
 Westmont Hospitality Hall

There are other spaces, such as auditoriums, connection zones, classrooms, garden benches, among others, named after all of those who decided to contribute to the Nova SBE campus.

Nova SBE is involved in research projects, executive training programs, placement of students, and programs of innovation, and digital transformation with all of the companies that contributed.

Notable faculty
 Jorge Braga de Macedo, Minister of Finance in the XII Constitutional Government.
 Maria do Carmo Seabra, Minister of Education in the XVI Constitutional Government.
 Luís Campos e Cunha, Minister of Finance in the XVII Constitutional Government.
 José Manuel Neves Adelino, non-executive director at SONAE SGPS.
 Pedro Oliveira, Dean and founder of Patient Innovation.

References

Universities and colleges established in 1978
NOVA University Lisbon
Business schools in Europe
1978 establishments in Portugal