The Federal University of ABC was created and founded in 2005, established by Law No. 11145/2005. Operations began the next year, with the first group of students starting in September, 2006 in the city of Santo André. Currently, the University has two campuses, both located in the region known as “Grande ABC”, in the cities of Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo, approximately 30 minutes from the center of São Paulo.
The first interdisciplinary program at UFABC was the Bachelor of Science and Technology (BC&T), followed by the Bachelor of Science and Humanities (BCH), whose first group of students began their academic trajectories in 2012. More recently, in 2020, two interdisciplinary teaching degrees were created: Human Sciences Teaching (LCH), and Natural and Exact Sciences Teaching (LCNE). The expansion of UFABC’s academic scope was accompanied by the enlargement of the university’s buildings. Between 2006 and 2011, much of the structure of the Santo André campus was consolidated, including the main blocks (A and B) and the university restaurant. The São Bernardo do Campo campus was inaugurated in 2013, with classrooms, laboratories, a cafeteria, administrative areas, and social spaces. Both campuses have been through several expansions after their inauguration, and some of the infrastructure improvements are still underway.
The University’s Academic Project considers the changes in the field of science, proposing an interdisciplinary matrix characterized by the intersection of several areas of scientific and technological knowledge, and emphasizes the importance of an integral formation, which includes the historical vision of our civilization and privileges the capacity of social insertion in the broad sense. In addition, the project aims to create an academic environment favorable to social development, contributing to the search for solutions to regional and national problems, based on cooperation with other national and international teaching and research institutions, with representatives of the industrial sector and with other Brazilian public institutions.
São Bernardo do Campo Campus
Santo André Campus
