Estácio Participações S.A. operates as a post-secondary education company in Brazil. The company offers undergraduate on-campus and distance-learning courses in exact sciences, biological sciences, and humanities; and sensu lato and sensu stricto graduate, masters, and doctoral programs, as well as extension courses. It operates through 1 university, 9 university centers, 49 colleges, and 394 distance-learning centers in Brazilian states, as well as in the Federal District. Estácio Participações S.A. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.