University of São Paulo

WORLD RANK

2012-13
158

São Paulo, Brazil

Region: South America

  • Overall score
    50.5
  • Teaching
    63.0
  • International outlook
    24.5
  • Industry income
    40.0
  • Research
    65.7
  • Citations
    30.2

Serving a city of more than 20 million people, USP has many of the attributes of a city itself: four hospitals, four museums - with half a million visitors a year - a drama theatre and an orchestra. It has 86,000 students (47 per cent of them women) and more than 15,200 staff.