Pró-Reitoria de Graduação USP

What Pró-Reitoria de Graduação USP does

Pró-Reitoria de Graduação (PRG) is the undergraduate dean's office of the University of São Paulo (USP), a public Brazilian university. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in São Paulo, PRG coordinates undergraduate education policy across USP's multiple campuses, including São Paulo, São Carlos, Ribeirão Preto, and Pirassununga. It operates with a small staff of approximately 25 people and reports within USP's centralized administration. Its core mandate is to standardize academic calendars, manage student enrollment, oversee scholarship programs, and ensure pedagogical consistency across USP's largely autonomous faculties.

PRG's operational backbone is the Jupiterweb academic management system, which handles student registration, discipline enrollment, grades, and academic records for the entire undergraduate population. The office also operates the E-disciplinas/Moodle learning management system and supports a portfolio of multidisciplinary, prerequisite-free courses (PRG-prefix disciplines) covering AI, NLP, entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability. Its program portfolio includes the Programa Unificado de Bolsas (PUB) scholarship program, the Programa de Apoio à Permanência (PAP) supporting approximately 16,000 students, the PEEG teaching incentive program, the PDPD faculty development program, and the annual Congresso de Graduação, which has reached its 10th edition since 2015. PRG also participates in the PEC-G international exchange convênio and partners with Agência USP de Inovação on entrepreneurship disciplines.

PRG does not operate as a commercial enterprise. As an administrative office of a public university, it is funded by Brazilian federal and state government budget allocations; undergraduate education at USP is provided free of tuition. Its revenue is not disclosed, and the office has no corporate ownership, no subsidiaries, and no commercial product lines. The audience is the USP undergraduate student body, with secondary stakeholders including faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and participating international students.

Name

Pró-Reitoria de Graduação USP

Legal name

Pró-Reitoria de Graduação – Universidade de São Paulo

Website

https://prg.usp.br

Company type

Public

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pró-Reitoria de Graduação (PRG) is the undergraduate dean's office of the University of São Paulo, coordinating academic policy, scholarships, and multidisciplinary courses for USP undergraduate students across multiple São Paulo campuses via the Jupiterweb system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Administration

NAICS

Administration of Education Programs (92311)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Education (EDADALAD)

Keywords

• Undergraduate education management
• Academic administration services
• Student scholarship programs
• Multidisciplinary university courses
• Higher education coordination

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

PRG is the undergraduate dean's office of the University of São Paulo, coordinating undergraduate education policies, multidisciplinary elective courses (PRG-prefix), scholarship and student permanence programs (PUB, PAP, PEEG), faculty development (PDPD), and international exchange (PEC-G). It operates the Jupiterweb academic management system and organizes the annual Congresso de Graduação, serving approximately 16,000 undergraduate students across USP's multiple São Paulo state campuses.

Product overview

Pró-Reitoria de Graduação USP operates as the undergraduate dean's office of the University of São Paulo, offering a portfolio of multidisciplinary undergraduate courses (PRG prefix courses) without prerequisites across all disciplines, with flagship offerings including AI (PRG0010, PRG0048), natural language processing (PRG0018), entrepreneurship (PRG0016, PRG0017), and innovation labs (PRG0020). The office coordinates institutional programs including the annual Congresso de Graduação (undergraduate congress), the unified scholarship program (PUB), the student persistence support program (PAP), and professional development for faculty (PDPD). The academic infrastructure includes Sistema Júpiter for academic management and E-disciplinas/Moodle for course delivery. These offerings collectively support approximately 16,000 undergraduate students across all USP campuses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PRG0004 – Inovação e Empreendedorismo

Quantifiable outcome

• 16,000 students benefited by permanence support programs

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Convênio PEC-G (Programa de Estudantes Convênio de Graduação)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational cooperation agreement for undergraduate student exchanges, allowing students from partner countries to study at USP through the Pró-Reitoria de Graduação.
• Agência USP de InovaçãocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership supporting entrepreneurship disciplines like PRG0017 - Como Criar uma Startup, providing mentorship from market specialists including angel investors and business executives.
• Pró-Reitoria de Pós-GraduaçãocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the PAE (Programa de Aperfeiçoamento de Ensino) workshop, involving graduate students in teaching development activities.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior): Brazilian federal agency that funds and evaluates graduate and undergraduate education programs. Adjacent to PRG as a government actor shaping the funding and policy environment for Brazilian undergraduate education.
• CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico): Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology agency that funds scholarships and research programs. Adjacent to PRG as a public-sector entity that supports undergraduate/graduate scholarship programs in Brazil.

Broad incumbents

• Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Education: Harvard's undergraduate academic affairs office at a top global private university. Comparable in coordinating curriculum, advising, and academic policy for a large undergraduate population, though operating under a private-institution model.
• MIT Office of the Provost (Undergraduate Education): MIT's central academic administration that oversees undergraduate education, curriculum, and academic policy. Comparable scale and function for managing undergraduate programs at a leading research university.
• Stanford Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education: Stanford's office responsible for undergraduate curriculum, academic programs, and student learning support. Functionally analogous to PRG within a US private-research-university context.

Direct peers

• Pró-Reitoria de Graduação UnB: Undergraduate dean office at the University of Brasília. Directly comparable in administering undergraduate programs, student support, and academic policy at a major Brazilian public federal university.
• Pró-Reitoria de Graduação UFMG: Undergraduate dean office at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Provides the same undergraduate administration, scholarship, and pedagogical support services as PRG USP within Brazil's federal public university system.
• Pró-Reitoria de Graduação UFRJ: Undergraduate dean office at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Comparable mandate managing undergraduate education, scholarships, and academic policy at a major Brazilian public federal university.
• Pró-Reitoria de Graduação UNICAMP: Undergraduate dean office at the State University of Campinas, one of Brazil's leading public research universities. Directly comparable in function, scale, and Brazilian public-university administrative structure to PRG USP.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/prgusp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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