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The State University of Maring¨¢ is a public institution in the south of Brazil. A non-profit university founded in 1969, SUM consistently ranks well among similar institutions in the country, and has previously made the top 15 in Brazil¡¯s Science Citation Index.

A relatively small institution in the prosperous southern state of Paran¨¢, it is located in Maring¨¢, a medium-sized city in the north-west of the state which is an agricultural centre that has been home to a prominent Japanese community for much of its history since it was founded in 1947.

Crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn, Maring¨¢ is 300km north west of Paraguay, and slightly further from the border with Argentina.

SUM has seven campuses in total, though most academic activity takes place in the Maring¨¢ Campus. The campus in Cianorte, 80km west of Maring¨¢, runs accounting sciences, design, fashion and pedagogy courses.

Students at the Umuarama campus, 125km east of the border with Paraguay, can learn civil engineering, environmental engineering, food engineering, food technology, civil construction technology, environmental technology, agronomy and veterinary medicine.

Ivaipor?¡¯s, 225km south east of Maring¨¢, covers history and physical education. The Goioer¨º Campus, just over 150km south east of Maringa, runs production engineering, physics and textile engineering courses. The Arenito Campus in Cidade Ga¨²cha, 125km west, teaches agricultural engineering. The other campus is in Diamante de Norte, 150km north west and just shy of the River Paranapanema, which acts as the border between Paran¨¢ and the state of S?o Paulo.

The university also now offers a range of distance learning courses as part of the Open University System of Brazil.