 Three of them are located in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal (four considering also the Lisbon University Institute ISCTE, a large public university institute).Public universities have full autonomy in the creation and delivery of degree programmes, which are to be registered at DGES - "Direcção-Geral do Ensino Superior" (State Agency for Higher Education).Universities are regulated by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, and are represented as a whole by the "CRUP - Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas".