The University of Santa Cruz do Sul (in Portuguese

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 Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul), also known as UNISC, is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian private university

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 located in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul

Santa Cruz do Sul

Santa Cruz do Sul is a city in central Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The city has approximately 130,000 inhabitants and sits about 150 km from the capital city of the state, Porto Alegre...

, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...

, with three other campus

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es in Capão da Canoa

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, Sobradinho

Sobradinho

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, and Venâncio Aires

Venâncio Aires

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. The institution had its first college

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 founded in 1964, but it was only in 1993 that it became an university

University

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. The University also has a preservation area, named RPPN da Unisc, which has an area of 221,39 hectares and had its creation in the year of 2009, through Ordinance nº 16, of March 18, 2009.