About State University of Campinas – UNICAMP: The State University of Campinas was established in 1966 as a public university funded by the State of São Paulo. If the history of the Brazilian university is recent, that of UNICAMP is even more so. UNICAMP had its campus officially inaugurated on October 5th 1966, but only a few years later it was already recognized as one of the leading Brazilian and Latin American institutions of higher education, conducting advanced research and tackling important social issues. Today, UNICAMP can be considered a fully consolidated university. The University receives undergraduate and graduate students from all over Brazil and also from abroad. The University concentrates 15% of the total scientific production in Brazil and approximately 10% of the graduate courses. The result is its capability to maintain areas of scientific and technological compatibility with the main research centers in the world, through numerous international cooperation agreements. Students do not pay tuition since the University is financed by state funds.

For more information, see http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/about_unicamp/about_introduction.html

About Campinas:
Altitude approximately 730 m. It is a city of about one million inhabitants, located 100 km west from the city of São Paulo. Campinas is the center of a metropolitan region of 19 counties with a total of 2.3 million inhabitants. Campinas has an area of 800 km⊃2;, with 98% of its population living in urban areas. Per capita income is one of the highest in Latin America (US$ 10,000). The region is responsible for 9% of Brazil's Gross Industrial Product, with just over 3% of the country's population. Of the 500 largest companies listed by Fortune magazine, 50 are already established in the Campinas region. Campinas' main economic activities are agriculture (mainly coffee sugarcane, and cotton), industry (textiles, machinery, agricultural equipment, chemical and petrochemical, pharmaceutics, paper and cellulose, telecommunications, computers and electronics, etc.), commerce and services. Campinas has two strong services sectors: education and health care, therefore being an attraction hub for students and patients from all over Latin America. Besides one state university, UNICAMP, Campinas boasts of a student population of over 60,000, with many private universities building campuses in the city, and many other smaller isolated schools.

For more information, see
http://www.anoca.org/state/region/campinas.html