Universidade de São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo | |
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motto | Scientia Vinces |
founding | January 25, 1934 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | São Paulo , Brazil |
Rector | Vahan Agopyan |
Students | 91,019 (2012) |
Professors | 5,940 (2012) |
Networks | TIME |
Website | www.usp.br |
The University of São Paulo ( Portuguese Universidade de São Paulo ; USP) is one of the largest universities in Brazil and Latin America . The university facilities are spread over seven locations in the state of São Paulo : two in the city of São Paulo itself, the others in the cities of Bauru , Lorena , Piracicaba , Pirassununga , Ribeirão Preto and São Carlos . The university's motto is: "Scientia Vinces".
University profile
The USP is active in the areas of teaching, research and university development in all areas of knowledge. In rankings such as the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2012, the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) in 2012, the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2012 ( University Ranking of World Universities 2012) and The Times Higher Education Supplement 2011 to 2012, the University of São Paulo recognized as the best academic university in Ibero America . In addition, the USP ranked as the best Latin American university in the QS World University Rankings 2012. In addition, USP was ranked first in the southern hemisphere and is the 43rd best university in the world Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (2011).
Law Faculty
After the declaration of independence in 1822, the establishment of a legal training center was demanded in Brazil. In that time, had anyone Law wanted to study, his studies in Portugal at the University of Coimbra lead. On August 11, 1827, Emperor Peter I founded two law faculties in Olinda and São Paulo by decree .
The law school became the most important scientific and political center in Brazil. Every year 12,000 applicants try to be admitted to the course, but only the 460 best placed are allowed to enroll.
In 2007 , a second law faculty of the University of São Paulo was established on the Ribeirão Preto campus.
Other faculties
The Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH) currently offers five bachelor's programs, history, geography, social sciences, philosophy and language / literature (letras). Around 400 lecturers teach around 9,000 bachelor students and around 2,900 postgraduates.
Rankings
For years, US and UK universities in particular have topped global university rankings. For the past five years, the USP has consistently been one of the best universities in the world. In the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2012, the USP was the best Ibero-American university and was ranked 11th worldwide. In other rankings such as the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) - 2012 the USP is the 28th best university in the world. In 2012, the USP reached 70th place in the reputation ranking of The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE) ( Top Universities by Reputation 2012 ( Memento from September 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )) In 2011, the Mines ParisTech won 19th place University of São Paulo.
In the Shanghai ranking , the USP ranks in the following group of the best universities in the world:
year | group | Among the Latin American universities |
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2015 | 101-150. | 1. |
2014 | 101-150. | 1. |
2013 | 101-150. | 1. |
2012 | 101-150. | 1. |
2011 | 102-150. | 1. |
2010 | 101-150. | 1. |
2009 | 101-151. | 1. |
2008 | 101-151. | 1. |
The Times also compares universities every year and puts the Higher Education Supplement in the form of a ranking . The USP proved:
year | Rank / group | Among the Latin American universities |
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2015 | 251-300. | 1. |
2014 | 201-225. | 1. |
2013 | 226-250. | 1. |
2012 | 158. | 1. |
2011 | 178. | 1. |
2008 | 196. | 2. |
2007 | 175. | 1. |
Other rankings:
- According to the European Graduate Institute (2006 edition), the USP is the 58th best university in the world.
- According to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (July 2007), the USP is considered the 45th most productive university in the world. This makes the USP the second most productive university in the BRIC countries (estimated population: 2.8 billion) and Latin America.
- The USP is the 33rd most popular university in the world among 8,000 colleges in 200 countries.
- In the university ranking of the "Higher Education Evaluation & A. Council of Taiwan" of universities around the world, the USP ranks 94th.
- The USP came in 35th in the “Professional Ranking of World Universities”.
Museums
- Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (Museum of Contemporary Art)
- Museu Paulista (Historical Museum of São Paulo)
- Museu de Zoologia (Museum of Zoology)
- MAE-USP - Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (Museum of Archeology and Etnology)
Notable alumni
Brazilian President
- Prudente de Morais (1894–1898)
- Campos Sales (1898-1902)
- Rodrigues Alves (1902-1906)
- Afonso Pena (1906-1909)
- Nilo Peçanha (1909-1910)
- Venceslau Brás (1914-1918)
- Delfim Moreira (1918-1919)
- Washington Luís (1926–1930)
- Nereu Ramos (1955-1956)
- Jânio Quadros (1961)
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2003)
Governors of the State of São Paulo
- José Alves de Cerqueira César (1889-1892)
- Américo Brasiliense de Almeida Melo (1891)
- Bernardino José de Campos Júnior (1896–1902)
- Campos Sales (1896-1897)
- Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (1912-1916)
- Altino Arantes Marques (1916-1920)
- Washington Luís (1920–1924)
- Carlos de Campos (1924-1927)
- Júlio Prestes (1927-1930)
- Armando de Sales Oliveira (1935-1936)
- José Joaquim Cardoso de Melo Neto (1937-1938)
- Lucas Nogueira Garcez (1951–1955)
- Jânio Quadros (1955–1959)
- Carvalho Pinto (1959–1963)
- Abreu Sodré (1967–1971)
- Paulo Maluf (1979-1982)
- André Franco Montoro (1983–1987)
- Mário Covas (1995-2001)
- Cláudio Lembo (2005)
- José Serra (2006-2010)
- Alberto Goldman (2010-2011)
Politician
- Gilberto Kassab - Mayor of São Paulo and Minister (engineering and economics degree)
- Guido Mantega - Minister of Finance (Degree in Economics)
- Fernando Haddad - Minister of Culture (Degree in Law)
- Aloizio Mercadante - Senator (Economics Degree)
- Antonio Palocci - Minister of Finance (Degree in Medicine)
Authors (writers and poets)
- Augusto de Campos
- Álvares de Azevedo
- Antônio de Alcântara Machado
- Bernardo Guimarães
- Castro Alves
- Haroldo de Campos
- José de Alencar
- José de Mesquita
- Manuel Bandeira
- Monteiro Lobato
- Olavo Bilac
- Oswald de Andrade
- Raduan Nassar
Scientists and Medicines
- Mário Schenberg - physicist
- César Lattes - physicist, co-discoverer of the pi-meson .
- Oscar Sala - Italian nuclear physicist
- Ennio Candotti - physicist
- José Leite Lopes - physicist for theoretical physics
- Jayme Tiomno - Physicist for Experimental and Theoretical Nuclear Physics
- Roberto Salmeron - electrical engineer and physicist for experimental nuclear physics
- José Goldemberg - scientist
- José E. Moreira - system software architect of the Blue Gene / L, the fastest supercomputer in the world
- Adib Domingos Jatene - physicist
- Drauzio Varella - Medic
- Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini physicians, he has the first - heart transplant in Latin America made
- Miguel Nicolelis - medical doctor and scientist in the field of neurobiology
- Mayana Zatz - molecular biologist and geneticist
- Warwick Estevam Kerr - geneticist, recognized for his discoveries in the field of genetics and genotyping of bees
- Sérgio Henrique Ferreira - physician and pharmacologist, discovered the principle of action of a new drug for high blood pressure
- Alessandro Hirata - lawyer
Others
- Amyr Klink - Sailor and Researcher (Degree in Economics)
- Giselda Leirner - Painter, Designer and Writer (Degree in Philosophy)
- Fernando Meirelles - film director, his cinematic works include City of God and The Constant Gardener (degree in architecture)
- Henrique Meirelles - former President of the Brazilian Central Bank, Minister of Finance (engineering degree)
- Sebastião Salgado - Photographer and Photojournalist (Degree in Economics)
- Chico Buarque - musician, composer, singer and writer (an incomplete degree in architecture - 2 years)
Professors
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- César Lattes
- Fernand Braudel
- David Bohm
- Jean Dieudonné
- Anatol Rosenfeld
- François Châtelet
- Julius Frank (1834-1841)
- Emilio Willems
- Walter Narchi
- Gérard Lebrun
- Jean Maugüe
- Jean-Pierre Vernant
- Paul Hugon
- Larry Thompson (chemist)
- Egon damage
- Robert Henri Aubreton
- Henrique Fleming
- Gilles Gaston Granger
- Heinrich Rheinboldt
- Warwick Kerr
- João Cruz Costa
- Paulo C. Chagas
- Herch Moysés Nussenzveig
- Bernardo Kucinski
- Roger Bastide
- Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
- Ada Pellegrini Grinover
- Antonio Candido
- Felix Hegg
- Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher)
- István Jancsó
- Emir Sader
- Ernesto Giesbrecht
- Giorgio Eugenio Oscare Giacaglia
- Martial Guéroult
- Heinrich Hauptman
- Poor mamigonian
- Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger
- Heinz Dieter Heidemann
- Giuseppe Ungaretti
- Giuseppe Occhialini
- Pierre Monbeig
- Gleb Wataghin
- Alessandro Donati
- Lambert Meyer
- Iacov Hillel
- Jaime Pinsky
- Newton da Costa
- Milton Santos
- Vahan Agopyan
- Luigi Fantappiè
- Mario Schenberg
- Kokei Uehara
- Claus Leon Warschauer
- Aziz Ab'Sáber
- Paul Arbousse-Bastide
- Telemaco de Macedo van Langendonck
- Valdemar Setzer
- Felix Rawitscher
- Ernst Ludwig Breslau
- Heinrich Rheinboldt
More than every tenth Brazilian president has completed training at the USP.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ You will win through science
- ↑ http://www.leginf.usp.br/?historica=decreto-no-6-283-de-25-de-janeiro-de-1934
- ↑ https://www5.usp.br/reitoria/reitor/
- ↑ a b UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO em Números 2012. (PDF; 26 kB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 19, 2012 (Portuguese). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ You will win through science
- ↑ a b Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2012. Accessed on August 19, 2012 (English).
- ↑ a b The Times Higher Education Supplement 2011-2012. Retrieved August 11, 2012 .
- ^ A b The Times Higher Education Supplement - Top South American Universities 2012-2013. Retrieved August 11, 2012 .
- ↑ http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/latin-american-university-rankings/2012
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, accessed December 1, 2008 .
- ↑ Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2015. Accessed on October 20, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2014. Accessed on October 20, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2013. Accessed June 1, 2014 (English).
- ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2011. Accessed on August 11, 2012 .
- ^ The Times Higher Education Supplement - Top South American Universities 2015-2016. Retrieved October 20, 2015 .
- ^ The Times Higher Education Supplement - Top South American Universities 2014-2015. Retrieved October 20, 2015 .
- ^ The Times Higher Education Supplement - Top South American Universities 2013-2014. Accessed June 1, 2014 .
- ^ The Times Higher Education Supplement 2008. Accessed December 1, 2008 .
- ^ The Times Higher Education Supplement 2007. Retrieved December 1, 2008 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Webometrics Ranking of World Universities: World ranking regarding productivity ( Memento of August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.4icu.org/
- ↑ http://www.heeact.edu.tw/ranking/EngTop100.htm
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
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