The Graduate Program in Business Administration (PPGA) includes courses in Master and Doctor. The PPGA is among the best national graduate programs in business admnistration, as stated by the top concept assigned by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Professionals of the Ministry of Education (CAPES).

The program aims to start training their students in research and teaching in management activities. It´s a course strictly academic and it´s free. It is also possible to obtain scholarships through the agencies that fund graduate: CAPES, CNPq and FAPESP. The course is biannual and the disciplines are offered only during the day. Each discipline lasts 15 weeks with 4 hours per week sessions. The student´s availability for the course must be full-time, at least three times a week to attend classes and the rest for research activities and extra-class.

To complete the credits is necessary to attend 8 disciplines (total 60 credits). Each discipline is equivalent to 8 credits, with the exception of the discipline Monitoring I and II, which is equivalent to 4 credits. The courses requires the development of a dissertation or thesis which is subject to a qualification examination. The deadline for completion of the course, with the dissertation or thesis defense, is 30 months for the Master and 48 months for the Doctor degree.

More information at (site do Programa): prpg.usp.br/ppg.afea