The Postgraduate Program in Operations Research (acronym PPG-PO in portuguese) is a joint program by the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA in portuguese) and the Institute for Science and Technology of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP in portuguese), Top-5 in Latin America according to Times Higher Education, to offer groundbreaking master’s and doctoral education in fields related to decision sciences.
The target audience of the program includes students graduating from Engineering or related fields (such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Natural Science and Technology, among others) that have an excellent quantitative background.
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Located between Rio (276km or 171mi) and São Paulo (89km or 55mi), the two biggest cities of Brazil; and less than 90-minutes travel from the São Paulo International Airport, São José dos Campos or SJC is one of the most vibrant, modern, and international town in Brazil.
This town is the home of some of the most prominent industries and manufacturers in Brazil, such as Embraer, the world’s third-largest commercial aircraft manufacturer solely after Boeing and Airbus.
According to the Financial Times, SJC is a sophisticated environment for doing business in this country (see here), and one of the top-3 places in the world for business in the aerospace sector (see here).