UFSCar - Universidade Federal de São Carlos

The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) is a public institution, linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC) of Brazil. It was established in 1968 and started its activities two years later, when it enrolled the first 96 students for the courses offered in Materials Engineering and Science baccalaureate, which has been discontinued. Currently there are 20 thousand students (14.437 in undergraduate courses and 6.038 in post-graduate courses) The University offers 65 undergraduate courses and 75 graduate courses (26 in the Doctorate’s program and 49 in the Master’s degree program, besides many specialization courses). Since the very beginning of the institution´s activities, its teaching staff (1.179 professors), stands out on account of their high-level qualifications, with approximately 98,92% holding doctorates and masters degrees, the highest ratio among all other federal institutions in the country. Moreover, nearly 98,6% of faculty members work full-time.