University of Leiria and Oeste
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The University of Leiria and Oeste (ULO, Universidade de Leiria e Oeste) is a Portuguese public university based in Leiria, Portugal, established through the transformation of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL) in July 2026. Originally meant to serve the city as well as the district of Leiria as a whole, the university is nowadays present across the entirety of both the Leiria and Oeste regions through its campuses in Leiria, Caldas da Rainha and Peniche as well as its training centres, where it offers undergraduate, master's, doctoral, postgraduate and professional higher technical programmes in a wide range of fields, including arts and design, education, communication, engineering, technology, health sciences and tourism.
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