1. To offer a student centered, thoroughly modern, academically challenging, and internationally focused program of studies 2. To provide foreign students with the opportunity to continue their education in Portugal in a sequential, comfortable fashion; 3. To offer students of Portuguese parents, who have attended schools in other countries, a proper process of school reintegration; 4. To offer Portuguese students the opportunity to acquire an international education that will prepare them for attendance at foreign universities, for careers in the world corporate arena, and for