Campus and city
USP's main campus, the Cidade Universitária 'Armando de Salles Oliveira' in the Butantã district of São Paulo, is a vast green campus woven into the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere, with major museums, sports facilities, a famous athletics culture and a huge, overwhelmingly Brazilian student body across roughly 11 campuses statewide. Student life is large, energetic and intensely Brazilian — strong faculty traditions (especially Law's Largo de São Francisco and the medical and engineering schools), active student associations and a rich cultural scene. The trade-offs are scale and city: instruction is Portuguese-medium with very few international peers, and São Paulo's size means real attention to housing cost, long commutes and urban safety.