Today, the FCSH is the second largest unit of NOVA, both in student numbers, and in financial budget. It has more than 300 faculty members, almost all of them holding a
PhD degree or with recognized prestige in their scientific area. It also has about 100 staff members. During the academic year 2015/16, the Faculty admitted a total of 4725 students, 2587 undergraduate, 1488 masters and 650 students for doctoral programs. The FCSH teaching programme for the academic year 2016/2017 includes 14 undergraduate degrees, 46 masters programs and 28 PhD's, the latter two being exclusively developed during a night schedule. The study cycle cover the traditional
Social Sciences and
Humanities fields, but also several thematic and interdisciplinary courses. In addition to a Summer School, the FCSH/NOVA also offers specialization degrees, free courses and, since 1997, a programme on Portuguese Language and Culture. This program is structured according to the six proficiency levels of the
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. It can be intensive (30 hours - 5 times per week), a semester (64 hours two times per week) or taught individually. Annually, more than 400 students participate in the Mobility Programmes, of which the
Erasmus Programme is the best known example. This is one of the examples of the FCSH/NOVA's internationalization strategy. The BMSC is also a deposit for private donations given by inheritors of former teachers of FCSH: The Leonor Buescu Library (BLB) - 3000 volumes of broad scope, with greater relevance to the area of
Linguistics and
English Literature; the
Luis Krus Library (BLK) - 2200 volumes on
Portuguese and European Medieval History,
Anthropology and
Sociology; the António G. Mattoso Library (BM) - 8500 books of broader scope, with particular importance to the field of History, and the
Mário Sottomayor Cardia Library (BMSC) – 70,000 volumes, still not fully treated, that deal with issues of a general nature, with a particular emphasis on
Philosophy and
Political Science. The BMSC also includes the bibliographic collection of the American Ladies Club (ALC) - 1000 volumes dedicated to Literature, as well as some personal libraries, as in the case of the Dragomir Knapic Library (BK) - 250 works on
Geography; the Rodrigues Michaels Library (BRM) - 1400 works dedicated to the History of Literature and the António Rita Ferreira Library (BRF) - 850 books related to
Anthropology, African Colonization, Ethno history of Africa and the John Catarino Library (BJC), containing 700 works on
Archaeology. The BMSC has integrated the properties of the departmental libraries of Anthropology, Art History and Musicology thus increasing its collection by an additional 10,000 books and acquiring the bibliographic collection of musicologist Macario Santiago Kastner. ==Undergraduate programmes==