Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) is a higher education public institution with a defined mission in creating, transmitting and diffusing technical-scientific and professional knowledge through the articulation of study, teaching, oriented investigation and experimental development.

IPB belongs to the European Network for Universities of Applied Sciences (UASNET), which main objectives include the transferability of professional skills and the integration of applied research in their professional and technological education mission.

Founded in 1983, IPB is divided into five schools: School of Agriculture (Escola Superior Agrária ESA); School of Public Management, Communication and Tourism (Escola Superior de Comunicação, Administração e Turismo EsACT); School of Education (Escola Superior de Educação ESE); School of Health (Escola Superior de Saúde ESSa); School of Technology and Management (Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão ESTiG).

Its activity embraces a wide area of knowledge and technology, namely arts, communication and multimedia, business sciences and law, education and teachers training, agriculture sciences and natural resources, health and civil protection, tourism, sports and leisure, and technologies. Nowadays, IPB offers more than one hundred study programs, including high professional technical courses (CTeSP), undergraduate degree programs (first cycle), and master programs (second cycle).