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The Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (Portuguese: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, PUC-Campinas; Portuguese pronunciation: [põtʃiˈfisjɐ univeʁsiˈdadʒi kaˈtɔlikɐ dʒi kɐ̃ˈpinɐs]) is a private and non-profit Catholic university, located in Campinas, the second largest city in the State of São Paulo.
Some of the persons who started working at PUC are Florestan Fernandes, Octavio Ianni, Bento Prado Jr., José Arthur Gianotti. [6] In 1977, PUC hosted the 29th meeting of the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC, Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science), which had been forbidden by the government in public universities.
On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, by request of the Marist Brothers and Archbishop Dom Vicente Scherer, granted the title of Pontifical to the university, signaling the Brothers' submission to the Holy See.
In 2024, PUC-Rio was considered the best private institution in the country, and the 5th best overall (among public and private) by the QS World University Rankings. [6] PUC-Rio has highly accredited faculties in law, engineering, computer science, psychology, economics, business, and international relations. [7]
The headquarters of the UC Inside Casa Central The "Siamese Towers", a workshop building at the School of Architecture, and winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.. The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile; Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is a traditional private university based in Santiago, Chile.
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic church , being the oldest private institution of higher learning in the country.
Campus in Coração Eucarístico district. The Catholic University is a higher education institution in Minas Gerais, where it owns more than 100 buildings to host labs, libraries, a museum, a TV channel, a long-distance teaching center, multimedia rooms, theaters, auditoriums, a veterinary hospital, a clinic for psychotherapy, dental and psychological treatment and others.
PUC Goiás has five campuses, four of them in Goiânia, the state capital, and another in the municipality of Ipameri. The university also has a library with over 213,000 books, a school of foreign languages, a local television network (PUC-TV), four research institutes, over 400 laboratories, two school-clinics and two museums.