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São Paulo State University

Logo: Giro720 Original design by Israel Pedrosa., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Public university in São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo State University (Unesp, Portuguese: Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho") is a public university run by the state government of São Paulo, Brazil. Unesp has a combined student body of over 45,000 spread among its 23 campuses. The first of them is the Araraquara Pharmacy and Odontology Faculty, founded in 1923 and incorporated by the state of São Paulo in 1956.2 It employed 8,506 people in 2023.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jan 30, 1976Founded1

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Unesp Reitoria 2026
Photo: Universidade Estadual Paulista, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

São Paulo State University (Unesp, Portuguese: Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho") is a public university run by the state government of São Paulo, Brazil.2

Corporate structure

São Paulo State University sits at the top of its group. 76 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • São Paulo State University São Paulo, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu Subsidiary
      • Graduate Program in Anesthesiology (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Graduate Program in Collective Health (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Graduate Program in Nursing (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Graduate Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Graduate Program in Pathology (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Graduate Program in Pathophysiology in Internal Medicine (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Graduate Program in Surgery and Translational Medicine (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Graduate Program in Tropical Diseases (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Professional Graduate Program in Clinical Research (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Professional Graduate Program in Nursing (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Professional Graduate Program in Research and Development – Medical Biotechnology (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
      • Professional Master's Program in Medicine (FMB/Unesp) Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
    • Fundação Editora da Unesp Subsidiary · São Paulo, Brazil
    • Alumni Unesp Subsidiary · Brazil
    • Aquaculture Center of São Paulo State University Subsidiary · Jaboticabal, Brazil
    • Araraquara campus of São Paulo State University Subsidiary · Araraquara, Brazil
    • Araçatuba campus of São Paulo State University Subsidiary · Araçatuba, Brazil
    • Assis campus of São Paulo State University Subsidiary · Assis, Brazil
    • Bauru campus of São Paulo State University Subsidiary · Bauru, Brazil
    • botanical garden of Botucatu Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
    • Botucatu campus of São Paulo State University Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
    • Centro de Documentação e Memória da Unesp Subsidiary · São Paulo, Brazil
    • Centro de Rádio e Televisão Cultural e Educativa Subsidiary · Bauru, Brazil
    • Dracena campus of São Paulo State University Subsidiary · Dracena, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes, Comunicação e Design de Bauru Subsidiary · Bauru, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas de Botucatu Subsidiary · Botucatu, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Tecnológicas de Dracena Subsidiary · Dracena, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias de Jaboticabal Subsidiary · Jaboticabal, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Ciências de Bauru Subsidiary · Bauru, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis Subsidiary · Assis, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia de Presidente Prudente Subsidiary · Presidente Prudente, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais de Franca Subsidiary · Franca, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Engenharia de Bauru Subsidiary · Bauru, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Engenharia de Ilha Solteira Subsidiary · Ilha Solteira, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Engenharia de São João da Boa Vista Subsidiary · São João da Boa Vista, Brazil
    • Faculdade de Engenharia e Ciências de Guaratinguetá Subsidiary · Guaratinguetá, Brazil
    • and 39 more

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What São Paulo State University reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Universities in Brazil are a recent phenomenon, compared to other Latin American countries. The first one was created in 1808 (Rio de Janeiro Medicine Faculty). Before the 20th century, there were no universities in the country. Existing institutions in higher education were either public or church-run independent institutes. Rio de Janeiro Federal University was the first one, containing every faculty inside Rio de Janeiro city in 1926.

São Paulo's first university was USP, founded in 1933. By the 1950s, countryside people had to move toward capitals for undergraduate study. There were few higher education institutes outside Brazilian metropolises then. São Paulo state government created many colleges outside the capital in the 1950s and 1960s. Prominent cities in the state received these isolated institutes, known as “Faculdade de Filosofia”. In the 1970s, discussions were made within state government on how to coordinate the separate institutes. One Suggestions was to join the 14 institutes in a federation or a single university, which was enacted on subsequently.

Inspired by the University of California multi-campus system, Unesp was founded in 1976. The original campuses were in Araçatuba, Araraquara, Assis, Botucatu, Franca, Guaratinguetá, Ilha Solteira, Jaboticabal, Marília, Presidente Prudente, Rio Claro, São José dos Campos, São José do Rio Preto and São Paulo. Bauru campus was incorporated in 1988.

The name "Universidade Estadual Paulista" was suggested by the first rector of Unesp, Professor Luiz Ferreira Martins. The homage to Júlio de Mesquita Filho (a journalist) was suggested by Prof. Dr. Moacyr Expedito Marret Vaz Guimarães, then President of the State Council of Education (EEC).

Unesp is one of the six public higher education institutions in the state of São Paulo. The others are USP, UNICAMP, UNIFESP, UFABC, UFSCar and FATEC).

From Wikipedia’s article on São Paulo State University, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

Facilities

UNESP has a total of 1,900 laboratories and 30 libraries, which together have around 900,000 books available.

In addition the facilities encompass museums, gardens, parks, botanical gardens and five experimental farms, totaling an area of 62.8 million m2, of which 745,400 m2 are developed area.

The university also owns the Hospital de Clínicas de Botucatu and manages the State Hospital of Bauru, which together have around 800 beds, as well as veterinary hospitals and dentistry, psychology, speech therapy and physiotherapy clinics.

Campuses

São Paulo State University has 23 campuses and 33 institutes:

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Araçatuba Campus

Faculdade de Odontologia de Araçatuba (FOA) (Araçatuba Dental School)

Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (FMV) (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine)

Araraquara Campus

Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas (FCF) (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL) (Faculty of Science and Letters)

Faculdade de Odontologia (FO) (Dental School)

Instituto de Química (IQ) (Institute of Chemistry)

Assis Campus

Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL) (Faculty of Science and Letters)

Bauru Campus

Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC) (Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Communication)

Faculdade de Ciências (FC) (Faculty of Sciences)

Faculdade de Engenharia de Bauru (FEB) (Bauru School of Engineering)

Botucatu Campus

Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA) (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences)

Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Medical School)

Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ) (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science)

Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu (IBB) (Institute of Biosciences of Botucatu)

Campus Experimental de Dracena (Experimental Campus of Dracena)

Franca Campus

Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS) (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Guaratinguetá Campus

Faculdade de Engenharia de Guaratinguetá (FEG) (Guaratinguetá School of Engineering)

Ilha Solteira Campus

Faculdade de Engenharia de Ilha Solteira (FEIS) (Ilha Solteira School of Engineering)

Campus Experimental de Itapeva (Experimental Campus of Itapeva)

Jaboticabal Campus

Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV) (Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences)

Marília Campus

Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC) (School of Philosophy and Sciences)

Campus Experimental de Ourinhos (Experimental Campus of Ourinhos)

Presidente Prudente, São Paulo|Presidente Prudente Campus

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT) (Faculty of Science and Technology)

Campus Experimental de Registro (Experimental Campus of Registro)

Rio Claro Campus

Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institute of Biosciences)

Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE) (Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences)

Campus Experimental de Rosana (Experimental Campus of Rosana)

São João da Boa Vista Campus

São José do Rio Preto Campus

Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE) (Institute of Biosciences, Arts and Exact Sciences)

São José dos Campos Campus

Faculdade de Odontologia de São José dos Campos (FOSJC) (São José dos Campos Dental School)

São Paulo Campus

Instituto de Artes (IA) (Institute of Arts)

Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) (Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Núcleo de Educação a Distância (NEaD) (Center for Distance Education)

Campus do Litoral Paulista (São Vicente) (Campus of São Paulo Coast)

Instituto de Biociências (Institute of Biosciences)

Sorocaba Campus

Campus Experimental de Tupã (Experimental Campus of Tupã)

Complementary units

Unesp, Jaboticabal

Centro de Aquicultura da UNESP (CAUNESP) (UNESP's Centre for Aquiculture)

Unesp, São Paulo

Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) (Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Unesp, São Vicente

Instituto de Estudos Avançados do Mar (IEAMar) (Institute of Advanced Sea Studies)

Research

Research an Unesp is centrally organized by the Research Vice-President's office (PROPe). The university currently has its main research focus in the areas of Bioenergy, Biotechnology, Climate Change, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, Pre-Clinical and Clinical development, Public Policy, Sea Sciences and Stem Cell research.

In 2010, UNESCO, an agency of the United Nations (UN), named Unesp as the 2nd university in Brazil in numbers of scientific articles of international level, being responsible for 8% of the national scientific production, alongside UNICAMP and second to USP.

From Wikipedia’s article on São Paulo State University, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

  • Alumni Unesp
  • Aquaculture Center of São Paulo State University
  • Araraquara campus of São Paulo State University
  • Araçatuba campus of São Paulo State University
  • Assis campus of São Paulo State University
  • Bauru campus of São Paulo State University
  • Botucatu campus of São Paulo State University
  • Centro de Documentação e Memória da Unesp
  • Centro de Rádio e Televisão Cultural e Educativa
  • Dracena campus of São Paulo State University
  • Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes, Comunicação e Design de Bauru
  • Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas de Botucatu
  • Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Tecnológicas de Dracena
  • Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias de Jaboticabal
  • Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais de Franca
  • Faculdade de Ciências de Bauru
  • Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis
  • Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia de Presidente Prudente
  • Faculdade de Engenharia de Bauru
  • Faculdade de Engenharia de Ilha Solteira
  • Faculdade de Engenharia de São João da Boa Vista
  • Faculdade de Engenharia e Ciências de Guaratinguetá
  • Faculdade de Engenharia e Ciências de Rosana
  • Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia de Botucatu
All 62 subsidiaries
  • Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
  • Franca campus of São Paulo State University
  • Fundação Editora da Unesp
  • Fundação Vunesp
  • Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da UNESP
  • Guaratinguetá campus of São Paulo State University
  • Herbário Irina Delanova Gemtchújnicov
  • Herbário Rioclarense
  • Ilha Solteira campus of São Paulo State University
  • Instituto de Artes de São Paulo
  • Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu
  • Instituto de Biociências de Rio Claro
  • Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas de São José do Rio Preto
  • Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia de Sorocaba
  • Instituto de Ciências e Engenharia de Itapeva
  • Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas de Rio Claro
  • Instituto de Química de Araraquara
  • Itapeva campus of São Paulo State University
  • Jaboticabal campus of São Paulo State University
  • Litoral Paulista campus of São Paulo State University
  • Marília campus of São Paulo State University
  • Museu de Anatomia
  • Ourinhos campus of São Paulo State University
  • Presidente Prudente campus of São Paulo State University
  • Professional Master's Program in Physical Education – National Network (ProEF)
  • Professional Master's Program in Water Resources Management and Regulation – National Network (ProfÁgua)
  • Registro campus of São Paulo State University
  • Rio Claro campus of São Paulo State University
  • Rosana campus of São Paulo State University
  • Sorocaba campus of São Paulo State University
  • São José do Rio Preto campus of São Paulo State University
  • São José dos Campos campus of São Paulo State University
  • São João da Boa Vista campus of São Paulo State University
  • São Paulo campus of São Paulo State University
  • Tupã campus of São Paulo State University
  • UNESP Institutional Repository
  • botanical garden of Botucatu
  • Instituto de Física Teórica since Jun 1987

Also owns

  • Rádio Unesp FM
  • TV Unesp

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Jun 1987Acquired Instituto de Física Teórica1

Employees over time

São Paulo State University employees by year18.5K in 2023−22% since 2014
05.0K10.0K15.0K2014: 11.0K11.0K20142015: 10.6K10.6K2015−3%2016: 10.1K10.1K2016−5%2017: 9.4K9.4K2017−7%2018: 8.9K8.9K2018−5%2019: 8.3K8.3K2019−7%2020: 8.1K8.1K2020−2%2021: 8.0K8.0K2021−1%2022: 3.2K3.2K2022−60%2023: 8.5K8.5K2023+167%
  • 20238,5061
  • 20223,1821
  • 20218,0441
  • 20208,1361
  • 20198,2871
  • 20188,8971
  • 20179,3751
  • 201610,0801

Timeline

  1. Jan 30, 1976Founded Founded1

Sources

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