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The move to Universidade de São Paulo by User:Darkcore was manually undone for consistency with most other University pages (in the English Wikipedia, they are usually listed under the English name).Jorge Stolfi 17:39, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC) (proud to be a USP alumnus)

Well, if you're going to keep the article at an English name, it should have a fully English title. The English name for São Paulo is "Sao Paulo" (without the tilde on the a), so the article should be at University of Sao Paulo, not University of São Paulo. Also, titles for university articles are not necessarily in English (see Université du Québec à Montréal). The title for an article about a university should reflect the most commonly used name of that university. Darkcore 04:05, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

"University of Sao Paulo" (without tilde) should certainly exist as a redirect, but many of the best English-language newspapers and magazines do write "São Paulo" with tilde. Anyway, the question is what are the *Wikipedia* standards. Based on an informal survey, the convention seems to be that place names use the local spelling when it can be written in ISO-8859-1 (Besançon), except of course when there is a well-established English name (Moscow). On the other hand "University (of)" is generally translated into English, e.g. University of Helsinki, University of Prague, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Curiously Quebec and Université du Québec à Montréal follow just the opposite pattern. Go figure...Jorge Stolfi 13:02, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

By the way, it may help to note that USP is "one of the three public universities supported by the State of São Paulo". I suppose that the confusion is likely especially with regard to UNESP: the subtle difference in the names may go unnoticed by non-Paulista readers.Jorge Stolfi 13:02, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Schools and Institutes 2 Largest in Latin America? 3 Controversy over Establishment Date 4 THES (London Times) Ranking of Top Universities in Biomedicine/Life Sciences 5 Alumni 6 Requested move 6.1 Survey 6.1.1 Survey - in support of the move 6.1.2 Survey - in opposition to the move 6.2 Discussion

[edit] Schools and Institutes

Does it bother anyone else that the article is just full of phone numbers and adresses, which really don't express too much information about anything? I mean, I just took a look at the article for the Harvard University, and I really think this article really needs some serious improvement. PHF 04:02, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Largest in Latin America?

I was surprised to see that USP is the largest institution of higher education in Latin America. I thought UNAM had approx 280,000 students?

Buenos Aires University had 350,000 students.

Um, ok, for one, you didn't sign, for two, I think you might have some info that isn't exactly correct. 350,000 students sounds a bit much, considering the University of Texas only has 50,000 undergrads and it is Gigantic, one of the biggest in the states.

Charlesblack 04:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy over Establishment Date

The Wikipedia article on Harvard University claims that the university was established in 1636, even though the designation "Harvard University" properly was not officially used until probably the mid-19th century. 1636 is actually the year when Harvard College (now a constituent unit of Harvard University) was founded, not the year the university per se as we know it today was established. Apparently,the same criterion is applied to all so-called "historical" U.S universities (Yale, Princeton, Columbia, etc.), i.e. the establishment date as mentioned by the Wikipedia is always the year when the oldest constituent unit or predecessor to the university was founded and not the year when the university properly began to be referred to by its current name. If we were to apply the same criterion in the case of the University of São Paulo, then the establishment date should not be 1934, but rather 1827, when the oldest predecessor to USP, the São Francisco Law School, was created. The Wikipedia article should at least include a reference to the fact that most of the schools that were federated in 1934 to form the new University of São Paulo already existed before as degree-granting institutions (in addition to the Law School, the Polytechnic School for example was established in 1893, i.e. over 40 years before the creation of USP). 161.24.19.82 14:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] THES (London Times) Ranking of Top Universities in Biomedicine/Life Sciences

I believe USP has been ranked for 3 years in a row among the top 100 world universities in medicine/life sciences according to the London Times THES ranking. Could anyone provide a link for that ? 161.24.19.82 12:45, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alumni

Newton da Costa was not a student of the University; he was indeed a lecturer there. He has graduated in the Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Jonas Mur 16:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move