The Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (Unesp) is a public university of São Paulo state, Brazil. It was created officially on 30 January 1976 by unifying isolated higher-education institutes across the state, and its rectorate is in the city of São Paulo. An article published by Jornal da Unesp in February 2026 describes 34 units in 24 cities, about 3,000 lecturers, 5,000 staff and more than 53,000 students.
Maysa Furlan took office as Rector in January 2025, the first woman to hold the post, for the 2025 to 2028 term, with Cesar Martins as Vice-Rector.
Agricultural teaching and research are based at units including the Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV) on the Jaboticabal campus and the Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA) on the Botucatu campus, which lists the Fazenda Experimental Lageado in its address. In January 2026 the Rector and Vice-Rector wrote that the university’s network of units and research centres extends across 24 municipalities in the state.