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 The University of São Paulo School of Economics, Administration and Accountancy (FEA-USP) is a public teaching and research institution, well-known in Brazil and abroad for the excellence of its courses, the quality of its academic production and the countless services it renders to the community.
On the cutting edge of economic, business and accounting education institutions in Brazil, the activities of FEA-USP are guided by the University of São Paulo’s high standards, combining knowledge about the Brazilian reality with the theoretical and methodological reference framework of the most advanced international knowledge centers. Graduating the highest quantity of masters and doctoral degrees in the country, FEA’s Economics Department is part of that restricted group of top-level institutions in this professional field. Likewise, the Administration Department is one of the best business education centers in Brazil, at undergraduate as well as graduate level, while the Accountancy Department is an absolute leader in its area in undergraduate, masters and doctoral education. The quality of FEA’s courses has been demonstrated by its alumni’s active contribution to Brazil’s social and economic advances in the private and public sectors. Many of them have achieved a national and international reputation, yet another indicator of their higher education institution’s relevant role in the development of their competencies and abilities.
Main challengesFEA permanently faces the challenge to improve teaching, increase exchanges with other national and international higher education centers and expand the relation with society. Inspired by these goals, the Faculty’s management concentrates on four main action areas:
Advance in the search for excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching through curricular changes, aimed at guaranteeing the students’ integral formation, preparing them for their profession as well as critical reflection. This effort includes the creation of a learning lab for the development and dissemination of new teaching methodologies, the recycling of its faculty and the registration and preservation of didactical experiences.
Intensify FEA’s internationalization project, establishing the institution as a partner for large international teaching and research centers, in order to strengthen the qualification and experience of exchange students, to stimulate joint research production and allow for the double certification of FEA courses.
Expand the relation with civil society, placing the knowledge and competencies that exist within the school and its foundations in the service of professional formation, reform projects in public, private and service organizations, and a wide range of activities for social segments in need, to be developed by faculty members and student groups.
Consolidate internal and external communication. Attaching great value to transparency, FEA is willing to cooperate with social communication means with a view to disseminating information about its activities, study and research results, and clarifying issues within its specialty area.
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