FCT NOVA is structured in 14 Departments and 16 Research Centers, offering 94 study cycles (7 Bachelor's, 11 Integrated Master's, 28 Master's and 38 PhDs).

Its scientific production, resulting from the publication of a large number of articles in international scientific journals of great demand and quality, gives it wide international recognition (the value of the scientific production index - SciVal Citation Impact - is 1.35, FCT NOVA is 35% above the world average). This performance allows the Faculty to integrate the main technological university networks, such as the CESAER network, and to participate in consortiums with European and US universities, namely MIT, CMU and the University of Texas.

The participation in 9 COLABs and the 8 ERC scholarships obtained by FCT NOVA researchers (the largest concentration of these laboratories and scholarships in Portuguese Universities), demonstrates how NOVA School of Science and Technology is oriented towards the future and based on vanguard international research.