Enrolments, 2024
102,865
3,701 in person · 99,164 at a distance
Entrants
78,160
Graduates
12,998
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
117 courses with students · 364 teaching staff · 154 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.1%).
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
- Business, administration & law38,137 · 37.1%
- Computing & ICT16,842 · 16.4%
- Education15,175 · 14.8%
- Health & welfare14,947 · 14.5%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction6,623 · 6.4%
- Services6,175 · 6.0%
- Social sciences, journalism & information2,559 · 2.5%
- Arts & humanities1,273 · 1.2%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics918 · 0.9%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary216 · 0.2%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)45,471 · 44.2%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)14,413 · 14.0%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)42,981 · 41.8%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia8,962
- Administração8,710
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas7,726
- Gestão De Recursos Humanos5,097
- Ciências Contábeis4,532
- Biomedicina3,276
- Logística3,258
- Farmácia2,303
- Ciência Da Computação2,073
- Gestão Financeira2,055
- Gestão Comercial1,999
- Nutrição1,963
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 Ribeirão Preto: Universidade de Ribeirão Preto, Faculdade Metropolitana do Estado de São Paulo, Centro Universitário Barão de Mauá
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.