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Universidade de São Paulo

207= 158   Arts & Humanities130  Natural Sciences
128  Engineering & IT170  Social Sciences
World Rankings92  Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Source: QS World University Rankings™ Copyright © 2009 QS Intelligence Unit
196 122   Arts & Humanities93  Natural Sciences
105  Engineering & IT153  Social Sciences
World Rankings114  Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Source: Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings Copyright © 2009 QS Intelligence Unit
175= 185  Arts & Humanities128  Natural Sciences
118  Engineering & IT187  Social Sciences
World Rankings141  Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Source: Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings Copyright © 2009 QS Intelligence Unit
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Source: Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings Copyright © 2009 QS Intelligence Unit

The University of Sao Paulo is the largest higher education and research institution in Brazil. It has outstanding projection around the world, especially in Latin America, and develops a large number of Brazilian masters and doctors who work in higher education and research institutes. It is a public and free university, with open access for students selected by the 'vestibular' (Brazilian entrance exam for universities). Many of these students, after graduation, hold strategic and leading functions in different segments of public and private industries.


USP is composed of seven campi, 40 learning and research units, five hospitals, five museums, five specialized institutes, besides multiple experimental laboratories and centers of scientific and cultural diffusion. It comprises all areas of the human activity and offers approximately 700 regular courses. There are 230 undergraduate courses (including different habilitations), with more than 3,400 disciplines, and an average of 5,500 students graduate annually. Graduate studies at USP, with more than 500 fields of concentration areas (MAs and PhDs), are an international point of reference in Science and Technology.

In order to maintain a good standard of communication with both the internal and external public, all of USP’s media are integrated into the Social Communication Coordination (CCS). The CCS includes: Radio USP, TV USP, USP's News Agency, USP Magazine, USP's Newspaper, USP's Internet Portal and 'Open Space' Magazine. CCS also maintains services that provide assistance to the public or otherwise reinforce its integration: Visitors' Center, Documentation Argus, Division of Graphic Arts and Division of Public Relations, Marketing and Publicity.

USP has an administrative infrastructure that includes a president, vice-presidents, a general university counsel, local administrations for each of the university campi. Outsourced services, such as bank agencies, post offices, stationary shops, snack bars, collective transportation, gas station and others are also present, to attend to the needs of USP’s community.

Faculty

Number of Faculty Staff Headcount: 5,632 FTE: 5,244

Total number of academic faculty staff who are responsible for planning, directing and undertaking teaching only, research only or both teaching and research. Please include: vice-chancellors, deputy vice-chancellors, principals, professors, heads of school, associate professors, principal lecturers, tutors or postdoctoral researchers. Please exclude research assistants*, PhD students who contribute to teaching, hospital residents and exchange scholars or visiting faculty staff who are members of another university. * The important distinction for us is that staff counted as 'research only' should be academically involved in that research and should be likely to publish research outputs. A research assistant, in our understanding, is any individual who is not doing own research and is therefore not likely to publish own research outputs. Said individual is (only) involved in research in terms of operation execution , such as lab technician or equipment operator.

Number of International Faculty Staff Headcount: 407 FTE: 407

Number of academic faculty staff who are of foreign nationality. The term 'international' is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even if from another EU state. In Hong Kong, this includes professors from Mainland China. Inclusion and exclusion mirrors those for academic faculty staff. In case of dual citizenship, the 'deciding' criteria should be 'citizenship obtained through birth', basically first passport obtained.

Undergraduate Information

Number of Undergraduate Students Headcount: 53,551 FTE: 47,125

Number of students pursuing a Bachelor’s level or equivalent degree. This excludes certificates/diplomas and associate’s degrees.

Number of International Undergraduate Students Headcount: 564 FTE: 496

Number of undergraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term 'international' is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China. In case of dual citizenship, the 'deciding' criteria should be 'citizenship obtained through birth', basically first passport obtained. Please exclude all exchange students. As for language students, if the language students take up a particular language course that is outlined as 'undergraduate degree program' they should be included under 'international undergraduate students' . Language students who take part in a course not contributing to a degree qualification should be counted under 'Total International Students'.

Graduate / Postgraduate Information

Number of Graduate / Postgraduate Students Headcount: 22,111 FTE: 18,794

Students pursuing a higher-level degree (Master and Doctorate), including both taught and research postgraduates (e.g. PhD students)
Number of International Graduate/Postgraduate Students Headcount: 1,682 FTE: 1,682

Number of graduate / postgraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term 'international' is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China. In case of dual citizenship, the 'deciding' criteria should be 'citizenship obtained through birth', basically first passport obtained. Please exclude all exchange students. As for language students, if they take up a particular language course that is outlined as 'postgraduate degree program', they should be included under 'international postgraduate students'. Language students who take part in a course not contributing to a degree qualification should be counted under 'Total International Students'.

Students

Total Students Headcount: 75,662

Total number of students. This includes ALL students, not only undergraduate and graduate/postgraduate students.
Total International Students Headcount: 2,241

Number of students who are foreign nationals. The term 'international' is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China. In case of dual citizenship, the 'deciding' criteria should be 'citizenship obtained through birth', basically first passport obtained.

Graduate Output

Proportion of Graduates Employed Headcount: 70 %

Proportion of graduates (excluding those opting to pursue further study) in permanent employment within 6 months of graduation

Internationalisation

Number of University Collaborations or Partnership Agreements Headcount: 435

Number of universities your institution has collaborations or partnership agreements with. These partnership agreements may include student and teaching exchanges, as well as collaborative research projects, exchange of academic materials and other information, and jointly offered executive development programmes. This includes collaborations at either a university or faculty level. Please also state the names of these institutions in the Submission Notes box. Click here to see a list of universities in top 500 over last 3 years
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