PhD in Entomology (24 months)

The Graduate Program in Entomology, Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences, and Literature, and Sciences of Ribeirão Preto – University of São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP) was founded in 1980, initially offering a Masters’ degree. From its dawn, the program has had an interinstitutional character. In 1993, the Doctoral degree began to be offered as well, attracting professionals with various backgrounds, such as biology, agronomy, and zootechnics. Since 2012, the Entomology Program is ranked level 6, in a scale from 1-7, by the Graduate Program Evaluation Committee of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), in recognition of its excellence, according to the national rank of Programs in the field of Biodiversity.

The program has attracted students from various universities across the country and from abroad (e.g., Germany, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, and Venezuela). Students graduated in the program have specifically worked in basic research questions as well as applied entomology, such as monitoring of environmental impacts and the development of more rational methods and more environmentally favorable agricultural pest control.