Centro Paula Souza

The São Paulo State Technological Colleges are public institutions of higher education maintained by the State Center of Technological Education. FATECs are important Brazilian institutions of higher education, being pioneers in the graduation of technologists. They are located in several cities of the São Paulo state, with four campuses in the capital, and several other units in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, countryside and seashore. The 46 FATECs offer high degree careers in virtually all areas of knowledge. In most of the units, are offered courses of higher education in technology, focused in the training of technologists. The units of São Caetano do Sul, Ourinhos, Carapicuíba and Americana, however, offer the option of bachelorship and licentiate degree in the career of System Analysis and Information Technology, starting the tradition of FATECs to train, too, bachelors and licentiates. More than 28 thousand students are currently enrolled in FATECs. For the formation of this quota is annually invested more than R$1 billion.