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18 How to INVEST in São Paulo STATES 19 QUALIFICATION OF HUMAN RESOURCES The State of São Paulo administers three large centers of higher learning, research and public outreach: University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo State University (Unesp) and University of Campinas (Unicamp). These universities are recognized as the most important in all of Latin America. In addition to these institutions, São Paulo also administers, by means of the Paula Souza Center, an extensive network of Technical Schools (Etecs) and Technical Colleges (Fatecs), both of which provide professionals with skills for the state's industries. The campuses of the state universities and of the technical colleges (Fatecs) are distributed statewide. Paula Souza Center | Vocational Education In São Paulo, the largest expansion of vocational education in Latin America is currently underway. This is happening by means of the Paula Souza Center, which administers the technical schools (Etecs) and the technical colleges (Fatecs). There are more than 245 thousand students enrolled in secondary, technical and college level technical schools. At the technical level, for the industrial, agricultural and service areas, there are more than 150 thousand students in 91 facilities. The Fatecs have 47 thousand students in 51 college level technological courses. To learn more, please visit their website at www.ceeteps.br FATEC-S Students researching in a computer room at Fatec, one of the main institutions of vocational education in São Paulo State. Unesp | São Paulo State University Unesp offers 169 courses for undergraduates and 115 different postgraduate programs. The university has one of the highest levels of scientific production of any institution in Brazil, contributing to research and development of new technologies in the more than 1.9 thousand laboratories that it maintains statewide. Unesp is the most successful model of a multicampus university in Brazil. Such unique characteristic allows intense and diversified activities in São Paulo. Its influence can be recognized by the level of regional development where its campuses are located: one in the State capital and 22 others strategically distributed throughout the State. The university has approximately 35 thousand undergraduate and 12 thousand graduate students. There are nearly 3.3 thousand faculty members, 93% with a Ph.D. To learn more, please visit their website at www.unesp.br Unicamp | University of Campinas Unicamp offers 58 different undergraduate courses and 141 postgraduate programs and contributes with 15% of all university research carried out in Brazil. The university has approximately 17 thousand undergraduate and 20 thousand graduate students. There are nearly 1.8 thousand faculty members, 98% with a Ph.D. Unicamp has three campuses in Campinas, Piracicaba and Limeira which are home to 22 teaching and research centers. It also has a vast hospital complex (two large hospitals in Campinas, and one in each of the neighboring towns of Sumaré and Hortolândia); 23 interdisciplinary centers; two technical high schools; and a series of support units within a universe of about 50 thousand people in which thousands of research projects are carried out. To learn more, please visit their website at www.unicamp.br USP | University of São Paulo The University of Sao Paulo (USP) 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. Many of 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 3,4 thousand disciplines, and an average of 5,5 thousand students graduate annually. The university has approximately 57 thousand undergraduate and 26 thousand graduate students. 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, producing 28% of Brazil's scientific research. To learn more, please visit their website at www.usp.br The Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture is one of the most important institutions of the USP.

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