NMS is an academic unit of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and it currently has 1.770 students in the Integrated Master Degree in Medicine, 102 in the Bachelor´s Degree in Nutrition and 497 postgraduate students. It has a total of 858 professors and researchers.

The strategy of gradual integration of foreign teachers and researchers, combined with the number of international postgraduate students (12%) and mobility students (12%) reveals not only the opening of the Faculty abroad, but also the international projection it has been acquiring and which it intends to strengthen in the future.

In 2022 NMS reached, for the seventh consecutive year, the 1st position in the ranking of admissions to Higher Education, in Medicine, in the Lisbon Area