The Graduate Program at the Institute of Economics of Unicamp aims to offer to the students a solid and excellent level of education, offering a wide variety of compulsory and elective disciplines, stimulating the contact with outstanding Brazilian and foreigners researchers in the numerous events held in the Institute and the dedicated work of orientation of master's and doctoral thesis.
The Program is characterized by a theoretical and methodological openness that finds expression in the study of diverse approaches or schools of thought. In this way the following characteristics of the program can be highlighted:
• Emphasis on a broad, plural and rigorous graduate education in various areas of Economics.
The courses provide this training through the diversity of disciplines in the framework of the Master's and PhD in Economics. The student of the Institute of Economics has the opportunity to study economic theory as well as applied economics and quantitative methods in their compulsory and elective courses.
• Greater relative weight of alternative approaches
Alternative approaches to mainstream economics have a greater weight in the Economics Program of Unicamp than in several other post-graduate programs in Brazil or abroad. In this particular, the approaches of the Political Economy, the Evolutionary Theory, the Post-Keynesian School - including the Kaleckian line - and of the Institutionalist approach stand out.
• Consideration of different approaches or schools of thought
Even considering the weight of heterodox approaches, the Economics Program is characterized by a theoretical and methodological opening that finds expression in the consideration of diverse approaches or schools of thought.

It is intended, therefore, to prepare researchers and professors with a comprehensive theoretical training so that they can contribute in a relevant way to the advancement of knowledge, teaching and practice of the economy in Brazil.
Recently there has been an increase in exchanges with research groups in the country itself and the formation of new research networks with institutions in Latin America, the United States and Europe, as well as with the BRICS countries, increasing the internationalization strategy of the Program.