The Academic Master’s Program at the Nursing Graduate Program in Fundamental Nursing of the EERP/USP was created in 1979 and the Doctoral Program in 1991. The goal of the Graduate Program is to qualify nurses and health professionals and professionals in related fields for scientific research, teaching, and to occupy leadership positions in health institutions.

The thematic axis is health care delivered to adults and elderly individuals in the dimensions of care, education, research and management at the levels of prevention, promotion and rehabilitation. It has nine lines of research that include different thematic fields:Fundamental Nursing, Clinical Nursing, Perioperative Nursing, Communication in Nursing, Health Education, Occupational Health, Elderly Health, and Management of Health and Nursing Services.

The professors are leaders or researchers in 17 research groups registered in the CNPq. In the courses, there are topics relevant to health and directed to the pedagogical and methodological education. It is qualified and consolidated program for the training of human resources, production of scientific knowledge, mobility and integration of national and foreign researchers.

In this sense, it is recognized as a Program of Excellence and obtained the highest score in the last evaluation of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel National Agency.