The Methodist University of Piracicaba, also known as Unimep, is a Brazilian private higher education institution located in the state of São Paulo.
The university offers teaching, research, and outreach activities, in diverse knowledge areas.
Unimep was founded in 1964 as a set of individually accredited faculties, and was granted university status in 1975, becoming the first Methodist university in Latin America.
The institution is sponsored by Instituto Educacional Piracicabano (IEP) and has four campuses, two of them located in Piracicaba, one in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste and one in Lins.
In a 2016 report by Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira, a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization under the Ministry of Education responsible for the quality assessment of higher education institutions in Brazil, Unimep obtained a general degree-course index and was graded at level 3 as a result of the assessment of 40 degree courses.
In its 2016 assessment, Guia do Estudante, a Brazilian university guide, ranked Unimep as the second best private university of the interior of the state of Sao Paulo, and 14th on the global ranking of the state
