Enrolments, 2024
15,460
11,559 in person · 3,901 at a distance
Entrants
8,327
Graduates
2,003
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
120 courses with students · 503 teaching staff · 25 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.2%).
Figures are enrolments (matrículas) in undergraduate courses on the 2024 census, not people: a student on two courses is counted twice. Postgraduate study is not in this census.
What students study
- Health & welfare5,539 · 35.8%
- Business, administration & law2,923 · 18.9%
- Computing & ICT2,580 · 16.7%
- Social sciences, journalism & information939 · 6.1%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary915 · 5.9%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction753 · 4.9%
- Education559 · 3.6%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)509 · 3.3%
- Arts & humanities390 · 2.5%
- Services335 · 2.2%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics18 · 0.1%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)11,684 · 75.6%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)515 · 3.3%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)2,752 · 17.8%
Largest courses
- Direito1,445
- Ciência Da Computação1,190
- Medicina1,113
- Medicina Veterinária892
- Psicologia876
- Enfermagem801
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas792
- Fisioterapia785
- Odontologia733
- Farmácia627
- Abi - Educação Física509
- Biomedicina488
Course names as the census records them. “Abi” is a common entry programme whose students choose a degree later.
Fees and admission
Federal and state institutions charge no tuition for undergraduate courses — that is in Brazil's constitution — and the census marks each course as free or not. Private institutions set their own fees, which the census does not record. Admission to public universities is mostly through the national ENEM exam and SISU; cut-off scores are not in the census, but the ministry's Sisu cut-offs for the participating public institutions are in the matcher.
Also in João Pessoa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, Faculdade Três Marias, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau de João Pessoa, Faculdade Internacional da Paraíba
Source: Inep/MEC — Microdados do Censo da Educação Superior 2024, listed on dados.gov.br under Creative Commons Attribution. Changes: course records summed per institution, names converted from capitals, and categories translated by CollegeMatcher. Course names are Inep's, in Portuguese.