Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

UNISINOS is a private Jesuit University was founded in 1969. The main campus of UNISINOS University is located in S?o Leopoldo, which is about eighteen miles distance from the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. On its campuses, UNISINOS welcomes approximately thirty thousand students in its 71 undergraduate courses, 19 academic masters, 7 professional masters, and 14 doctorates, in which are developed more than 400 research projects, all in their six Schools – Polytechnic, Business, Law, Health, Creative, Humanity. Our vision to 2025 is to be a global research University with the strategic trails of Academic Excellence; Social Responsibility; Research, Technology and Innovation; Growth and Sustainability and Internationalization. UNISINOS has been developing strategic partnerships with companies and universities in Brazil and in the worldwide landscape. These relations have been strengthening research and scientific cooperation between students and professors. Through the technological institutes, UNISINOS also shows the leadership in expanding knowledge to be applied to several industrial sectors. Being one of the top tree private universities of Brazil, according to the Ministry of Education, UNISINOS is recognized by the ability of being innovative and, at the same, of preserving its original values. Currently, with the Jesuit values, it performs a technological inflection that puts into perspective the promotion of an economic matrix conversion of the reg

Promote education of the individual and its training for the vocation, encouraging the production of knowledge, the continuous learning and the solidary performance for the development of society.

Foundation year:1969
Short name:Unisinos
Type:Private
Students:14410
Faculty:690
Faculty/Students Ratio:21:1
Region:Latin America
Location:Sao Leopoldo