  the university of aveiro (universidade de aveiro) is a portuguese public university, headquartered in aveiro since its 1973 creation. it also provides polytechnic education. administratively, the teaching and research activities are distributed by departments and autonomous sections, both with specialized faculties. the university has more than 12,500 students distributed across 58 graduate courses, over 40 msc courses and 25 phd programs. its main campus is near the centre of aveiro, including a nearby administration and accounting institute. the university also has external regional campuses in Ãgueda, higher education technological and management school of Ãgueda, and oliveira de azemÃ©is higher education school of north aveiro. it is an r&d university, having a research units developing programmes in fundamental and applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, telecommunications, robotics, bioinformatics, sea sciences, materials, design, business administration and industrial engineering. thumb|300px|aveiro university, central area of the campus with colonnades and department buildings.  ==ranking== thumb|rectory building in 2012-13 it was ranking 351-400 in the times higher education world university rankings http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking/region/europe it serves as a pole for the inter-university doctoral program, along with the universities of porto and minho. its integrated masters in electronics and telecommunications engineering was the first portuguese it oriented european accredited engineering masters (eur-ace) by the european ne
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