IAG is one of the major Earth and Universe Sciences research centers in Brazil, organized into three departments hosted at USP main campus. In addition, IAG also keeps the Meteorological Station, located at the Ipiranga Springs State Park, and the Abrahão de Moraes Observatory, in the town of Valinhos. The three IAG Graduate Programs have trained more than 650 Masters and 380 PhDs since the 1970s. Every year, IAG receives around 75 new undergraduate students in its three courses.

IME is a leading research and teaching institution in the areas of Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics and Mathematics. It provides services to the community through the "Centro de Ensino de Computação" (CEC), by offering courses in the computing area; the "Centro de Aperfeiçoamento do Ensino da Matemática" (CAEM), by training mathematics professors of public schools; the "Centro de Estatística Aplicada" (CEA), by supporting projects and statistics consulting for researchers; the "Centro de Matemática e Computação Aplicadas" (CEMCAP), by working with companies and institutions interested in applied mathematics and computing; and the "Centro de Competência em Software Livre" (CCSL) by fostering the development of free and open source software, inside and outside the University.

IF is the greater and older institution of research and education of Physics in Brazil, consisting of more than 225 researchers, including 159 professors, 400 postgraduated and 1200 graduated students. The IF has 26 buildings to shelter 17 classrooms, 5 auditorium, and many didactic and research laboratories and administration offices. It houses laboratories of experimental Physics in nuclear Physics, detectors and instrumentation, solid state physics and low temperatures, plasm, crystallography, optics, epitaxy of molecular beams, electronic microscopy, air pollution, analysis of material by ionic beams, and more. The activity in theoretical and mathematical Physics is also intense. The Institute covers almost all areas of the Physics and can be considered the most complete Brazilian institution in the field.

The FM-USP's mission concerns to the graduate and post-graduate teaching, research and cultural and extramural activities of services to the community related to Medicine, Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy, among the highest ethical and moral precepts. To graduate physicians, physiotherapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists with solid general formation, deep basic education, training in the three levels of health care (primary, secondary and tertiary), high ethical and humanistic teaching and able to practice their profession. The developed activities and the assistance provided by FM-USP are committed to the ethic’s principles, the respect for the individual, humanization, honesty, pioneerism and excellence.