Lately, FEA-RP has not been offering openings for special students for lack of physical space. Eventually, after new rooms have been thoroughly built, FEA-RP will attend to these students again; however, there is no knowing when this will happen.

Nowadays, to be nation-wide valid, the graduate diploma must be revalidated by a Brazilian public university that offers a government-recognized equal or similar program.

Information referring to Brazilian legislation concerning recognition of foreign diplomas can be found in this site of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Brazil 

The University of São Paulo (USP) is empowered to revalidate foreign diplomas. For further information, please, click here.

The general aim of the Graduate Program in Economics of FEA-RP/USP is to qualify human resources for working in applied economics. Such general objective is unfolded in the following specific goals:

1. Provide the conceptual base in economics for professionals who want to perform in universities, enterprises, and organisms of public and private administration, and who can benefit from the use of applied economics tooling.
2. Prepare the student for research practices and economic analyses, particularly within the boundaries of knowledge in Social Economics and Economic Development.
3. Promote exchange programs of students, professors, and ideas with other teaching and research institutions in Brazil and abroad as well as with productive sector entities.

Started in 2004, the program grants scholarships with the support of fostering agencies such as CAPES (High-Education Personnel Improvement Coordination) and CNPq (National Council for Scientific andTechnological Development). The team of professors follows two research lines:

• Social Economics

Investigators are involved in issues like income inequality, poverty, and public policies of redistributive and/or compensatory features such as Education, Health, and Social Security, aiming to diagnose the major Brazilian social issues, identify their determinants, and evaluate the public policies designed for upgrading the social picture.

• Economic development

This line searches for understanding the international, national, and regional development paths, which motivates the formulation of public policies so as to accelerate development. It considers the role of technological innovation, efficiency, and human capital, as well as their determinants: institutions, commercial relations between countries and regions, financing tools, natural resources, climatic changes, and some.

For further information on how to be a Post-Graduate student at FEA-RP, please visit: http://www.fearp.usp.br/en/index.php/study-at-fea-rp/seeking-degree-student/graduate

General View of the Program

The program is committed to promote professors, researchers, and highly-qualified professionals so as to meet the academic and scientific demands of public and private organizations. Therefore, our Master’s and Doctoral programs are designed for Research Projects, which are joint research initiatives of professors and students to reply to certain social issues in an economically relevant manner. From the beginning, the students shall count on his/her advisor’s support and cooperation, seeking the structuration and objectives of his/her research.

Master’s

Officially, Master’s starts in February or March with an estimate 24-month length period till conclusion. During this period, the students will attend 5 to 7 subjects, including Financing Accounting, Controlling, Finances, Theory of Accounting and Controlling, Quantitative Methodology and Methods; however, part of these subjects can be replaced by articles published in magazines or congresses. In general, in the middle of the program, between the 10^th and 12^th months, the student will undergo a qualification exam, during which he will have to present and debate his on-going research project. To apply for this exam, the students must accomplish a minimum number of credits; have his preliminary project approved in the “Seminários de Dissertações” (Seminars of Theses, formerly called “Fórum de Projetos de Pesquisa”, or Forum of Research Projects); and be approved in the Specific-Content Exam (about the compulsory subjects attended); furthermore, a proven English reading capacity is required.

At the end of the program, the research carried out will be presented in a publishing-potential article format, and a duplicate in a thesis-format version.

In-depth information can be viewed in the “Manual do Ingressante Mestrado 2012” (The Incoming-Student’s Guide Master’s 2012).

Please, refer to the rules for Master’s in: Specific Rules Program of Accounting FEA-RP.

Doctorate Studies

Doctorate Studies start in August, with an estimate 48-month length period till completion. The “sandwich” doctorate is strongly encouraged, in which the student will attend three general compulsory subjects and one compulsory research-line subject; moreover, should the student’s Doctorate not be in Accounting, he/she should attend optional subjects together with the Master’s in the first semester of the program. Still, the student will be able to choose Optional Subjects offered by the Research Groups of the program to be developed within the theme of his/her research, and he must go through a qualification exam showing specific knowledge about the project.

To apply for this exam the student must accomplish a minimum number of credits; have his/her preliminary project approved in the “Seminars of Theses”; and be approved in the Specific Content Exam (about the compulsory subjects attended). If the student should be approved for the “sandwich” program, then, he/she can request exemption of the Specific Content Exam; furthermore, a proven English reading capacity is required, and a proven English reading and writing capacity is desired.

When the program is completed, it is expected that the research, carried out and presented in a publishing-potential article format and a duplicate in a thesis-format version, should demonstrate research capacity, and leadership and idea-exposure abilities.

For further information on how to be a Post-Graduate student at FEA-RP, please visit: http://www.fearp.usp.br/en/index.php/study-at-fea-rp/seeking-degree-student/graduate

The Graduate Program in Business Administration, on Master’s and Doctoral levels, has the purpose of promoting the education of professors, researchers, and high-level professionals to meet the academic and high-education demands within the area of Business Administration. It stimulates free-thinking and all the access manners towards revitalizing this knowledge area, thus, the intent of which lies on the contribution to the scientific and technological evolution of Business Administration.

Presentation

In April 1992, FEA/USP was installed in at Ribeirão Preto as a branch of this school. Ten years later, on May 14, 2001, the University Council of the University of São Paulo (Co-USP) approved the emancipation proposal of the Ribeirão Preto School. For quite some time the school had met conditions to become a new Teaching and Research School of USP. Totally integrated into Ribeirão Preto Campus, and engaged into teaching, research, and extension activities, FEA-RP has been more and more broadening its performance and excellence.

In the beginning of the second semester of 1999, the Graduate Committee of FEA/USP at São Paulo approved the offering of graduate courses in Ribeirão Preto, which would be the embryo for creating stricto sensu graduate programs. In February 2002, the first Master’s and Doctoral classes of the FEA/USP Graduate Programs in Business Administration were started at Ribeirão Preto Campus.

Along 2003, FEA-RP Graduate Program in Business Administration was approved by the competent bodies of USP and CAPES (High-Education Personnel Improvement Coordination), whereas in the early 2004 the Master’s degree program in Business Administration was started.

The program in Ribeirão Preto started in February 2004 with 16 students, and in 2005 two selection processes were carried out, the first entrance in February with 11 students, and the second in May, with 10 students, therefore, amounting to 21 students in 2005. In 2006, 30 students enrolled in March, keeping this average in 2007 with 29 incoming students.

In the first two years the number of students was low, since the program was starting, and it was necessary an initial experience with a number of students smaller than the advisory capacity. In 2006, there was an adequacy of the incoming students, and the tendency has now been to maintain the number of newcomers to a 35-student baseline annually, whereas in 2007 the number of students enrolled was 30.

For further information on how to be a Post-Graduate student at FEA-RP, please visit: http://www.fearp.usp.br/en/index.php/study-at-fea-rp/seeking-degree-student/graduate

FEA-RP offers graduate studies Stricto Sensu in Economics (Applied Economics Area), Business Administration and Accounting.

Graduate Lato Sensu programs are offered at FEA-RP and some of them in partnership with Fundace – Foundation for Research and Development of Administration, Accounting and Economics, a nonprofit organization formed by FEA-RP´s professors. Those programs are:

• Management of Public Network
• MBA Business Administration
• MBA Accounting: Governance and Control
• MBA Finance and Accounting
• MBA Management of Information Technology
• MBA Management of Organizations
• MBA Management of Innovation Projects
• MBA Management in Cooperatives
• MBA Management in Sales
• MBA Strategic Management
• MBA Strategic Management of Human Resources and Sustainable Organizations
• MBA Public Management
• MBA Marketing

Lato Sensu

Stricto Sensu

SPECIAL STUDENT

Lately, FEA-RP has not been offering openings for special students for lack of physical space. Eventually, after new rooms have been thoroughly built, FEA-RP will attend to these students again; however, there is no knowing when this will happen.

EQUIVALENCE

The regular undergraduate student can only request equivalence of subjects attended in high-education institutions other than USP in two occasions: when enrolling after having been approved through FUVEST (university entrance exam) on a date fixed into the Applicant’s Guide; or when enrolling after having entered through the External Transfer Process. Except for these two occasions, the applicant is not allowed to request equivalence of subjects attended in high-education institutions other than USP.

DESCRIPTION

The program aims to train professionals capable of detecting, diagnosing and proposing solutions to problems of economic and financial order, both private and public organizations. In particular, the program aims to develop skills for the solution of economic, financial problems and skills to use information that contribute to the development of organizations.

It is structured in two stages: Common Core Training and Specializations. During the first three years, students meet all subjects of Common Core Training in which the bases are founded in Economic Theory, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics and Finance. Then the future graduated proceeds to a choice in his career, completing his training in Economics or Accounting.

The ones who choose Specialization in Economics will complete their training in Economic History and Economic Theory, strengthening the application of economic concepts in practice. Who chooses Specialization in Accounting will structure fully the essential content for training in Accounting, consolidating knowledge applied in corporate and management accounting. For each Specialization, the student can choose one of three emphases - Finance, International Business and Public Policy.

Double-professional education:

• Accounting
• Economics
• Day-program, innovating, unprecedented in Brazil
• Multidisciplinary
• Started at FEA-RP/USP, in 2006.
• Turned to the market demands by extensively-trained, business-in-sighted professors.
• Academic inspiration: global curriculum by UNO
• 70 annual openings (FUVEST - Foundation for University Entrance Exams)
• Minimum education period:      a) four years for the first professional qualification;

• Three Emphatic Areas:

1. Finances
2. International Businesses
3. Public Policies

• Provides multidisciplinary theoretical and practical knowledge different to the current Accounting and Economics programs

The program provides the students with ample possibilities of developing skill and competences in both professional formation areas: Accounting and Economics.

• Accounting: focused on controlling public, private, profit, or nonprofit institutions.
• Economics: strong theoretical concept for acknowledging how the business world works in Brazil and abroad.

The program is pervaded by related-area subjects so as to support the student’s education, which are: sociology, ethics, applied law, research methodology, among others.

Mastering quantitative methods is today fundamental for a professional to analyze data and estimate future scenarios.

The bigger the professional’s ability to read and extract complex information data is, the bigger the possibility of understanding the different economic, financial, and social realities.

CAREER

The bachelor student from this program can pursue two careers: Accounting and/or Economics.

MARKET

LIKELY PERFORMANCE AREAS (EXAMPLES) 

• Private companies: limited liability corporations, limited businesses: industry, commerce, services;
• Financing Institutions: commercial, investment, fund, and holder banks;
• Governmental Agencies/Public Organs: Central Bank of Brazil, Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM), Ministry of Development, Ministry of Finance, Comptroller General (CGU), Federal Revenue Service, CADE (Administrative Council for Economic Defense);
• NON-Governmental Organizations (NGO), third-sector institutions;
• Consulting and/or Auditing firms;
• High-Education Institutions.

According to the existing programs available today, the professional should necessarily have to take more than one undergraduate study in order to achieve a completer education which would meet the current work market needs, thus, overloading the student or retarding his/her entering the professional market.

The new program is designed for the following topics related to the development of the professional’s abilities and competences to make all the difference in his/her curriculum:

• Ability to critically assimilate new technologies and scientific concepts, promote technological innovations, and view applications;
• Ability to perform within an interdisciplinary and multi-professional teamwork;
• Ability to understand, make decisions, and resolve organizational-and-public-related issues, based on ethical principles and parameters relevant to the social (national and/or international), political, economic, cultural, and professional realities;
• Be aware of how important continued education is, its role as a transformation agent of the social reality, and its responsibility towards environment;
• Understand professional ethical aspects, professional and environmental interaction, and the ability to develop social perspectives;
• Develop abilities to understand the inter-relations of the multi-disciplinary knowledge acquired from his/her academic and/or professional responsibility;
• Develop the capacity to analyze and figure out data and information with decision-making purposes;
• Emphasize the characteristics of learning and understanding the environments that interact with the entity, from the internal aspects of the entity up to local and international aspects;
• Emphasize the understanding of how relevant the economic and accounting information is, either within the capital market context or within the informational asymmetric reduction context between principal (environment) and agent (entity);
• Generalist-humanistic, theoretical-practical, and technical-scientific education;
• Lesser emphasis on the mechanical part involved in the preparation of accounting demonstrations, as well as in the memorization of specific national and international accounting rules;
• Ethical behavior;
• Provide for possibilities to experience in practice all knowledge acquired in the classroom;
• Social responsibility;
• Global and updated, critical view of the national and international economic and financial scenario;
• Understanding the basic concepts of economic rationality and its application onto business management;
• Develop the analytic capacity over economic issues;
• Elaborate diagnoses about the economic-financial situation of the companies;
• Develop consistent strategic reasoning;

For further information on how to be an Undergraduate student at FEA-RP, please visit: http://www.fearp.usp.br/en/index.php/study-at-fea-rp/seeking-degree-student/undergraduate