Sao Paulo State University

Overview

Sao Paulo State University

São Paulo State University (Universidade Estadual Paulista ‘Júlio de Mesquita Filho’ or UNESP) is one of the six public universities of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It was founded in 1976 and is the only Brazilian member of the Compostela Group of Universities. UNESP is listed among the three largest and most important Brazilian universities worldwide.

Sao Paulo State University Key Statistics

The university provides education in 9 fields, namely, exact and earth sciences, health sciences, biological sciences, agriculture sciences, applied social sciences, humanities, engineering, multidisciplinary and science studies, and linguistics, literature, and arts. It offers 171 undergraduate courses and 118 postgraduate programs to its students.

UNESP has 47,917 enrolled in its courses, 35,284 of whom are undergraduates and 12,633 postgraduates. It employs 3,316 academic staff and 7,138 administrative staff. São Paulo State University has 24 campuses.

The UNESP library network is a large system composed of 34 libraries located in 24 cities in the state of São Paulo. Collectively, they house a collection of 1.4 million books, 27,422 periodical titles, 28,636 videos, CDs, and DVDs, 83,898 theses and dissertations, and 144,513 others. The university also owns museums, gardens, parks, botanical gardens, and five experimental farms.

Other Sao Paulo State University key statistics include its international exchange and cooperation agreements with 140 institutions of higher education in 52 countries, including Argentina, Canada, Russia, France, China, Spain, Germany, Portugal, the United States, and Scotland.

Sao Paulo State University Research

UNESP is one of Brazil’s leading research universities, with a research budget of R$2.6 billion in 2015.

The university's top three research fields are physics, medicine, and biology. Its researchers have published in publications like Physical Letters B, Journal of High Energy Particles, and Physical Review Letters. Its researchers get invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences, such as Web Science, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, and the Power and Energy Society General Meeting.

The most cited publication from Sao Paulo State University research is Chatrchyan et al.’s (2012) “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC,” published in Physics Letters B. It has received a total of 18,483 citations to date. The second most cited paper is Chatrchyan et al.’ (2008) “The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC,” published in the Journal of Instrumentation. It has received a total of 9,423 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Maniezzo et al.’s book “Ant colony optimization,” published in 2004. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 5,844 times so far.

The research centers and institutes of UNESP include the Institute for Advanced Sea Studies, the Institute of Public Policy and International Relations, the Center for the Study of Poisons and Poisonous Animals, the Center for Roots and Tropical Starches, the Bioenergy Research Institute, the Center for Environmental Studies, and the Institute of Theoretical Physics.