The University of the State of Santa Catarina (Udesc), a university known for its excellence in higher education in teaching, research, and extension, completed its fiftieth anniversary in 2015, with a multicampus structure, with 12 units distributed in nine cities in the State. Santa Catarina, in Brazil's southern region, has 32 on-site support centers for distance learning. There are 15,000 students in 59 undergraduate courses and 51 masters and doctoral degrees. All are offered free of charge. More than 95% of effective teachers are masters and doctors. Admission to the university can be made via entrance exams (summer and winter), Unified Selection System (Sisu), and transfer notices. There are more than three thousand student spots yearly, 20% reserved for public high school students and 10% for blacks. Udesc maintains 220 groups certified by the National Council for Development and Technology (CNPq), divided into eight major areas: Agricultural Sciences; biological; health; Exact and Earth; human; Applied Social; Engineering; and Linguistics, Letters, and Arts. Udesc professors and students carry out more than 700 extension actions per year in several areas to take the knowledge obtained in teaching and research to the external public. The free actions benefit more than six hundred thousand people annually. Udesc offers a complete structure such as libraries and laboratories in all its units. The institution also has other differentials, such as the Veterinary Hospital, the DNA Laboratory, the Clinical School of Physiotherapy, the School Museum of Santa Catarina, the Universities Publishing Company, the Copyright Office, and three FM radio stations.

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