Centro Universitário Nossa Senhora do Patrocínio (CEUNSP) is located in Sao Paulo around the cities of Itu and Salto.
Founded in Itu in 1958, it expanded to provide Salto with its first higher education 40 years later. Initially located in a former winery, the Salto campus now occupies the former Brasital textile plant.
The university has faculties of arts, design and fashion; communications; law and international relations; education; engineering and technology; gastronomy and hospitality; management and business, and health.
The university provides local services such as Tax Duty days when accountancy students help the community their with tax returns, and dental clinics for the public.