Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas State University, short UNICAMP) is one of the three public universities of the Brazilian state of São Paulo, along both USP and UNESP. Its main campus is located in the Barão Geraldo district, 6 miles (10 km) away from downtown Campinas, with additional campuses in Limeira and Piracicaba. In the city of Campinas over 182 colleges are recognized by the MEC (Ministry of Education). Created in 1962 and physically installed in 1966, Unicamp's original goal was to promote science education in the industrial pole of São Paulo's interior region. As of 2006, the university had about 16,000 undergraduate and 15,000 graduate students, as well as 1,800 faculty members.