Enrolments, 2024
286,484
728 in person · 285,756 at a distance
Entrants
174,612
Graduates
42,694
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
154 courses with students · 560 teaching staff · 581 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
- Business, administration & law80,696 · 28.2%
- Education74,461 · 26.0%
- Health & welfare34,536 · 12.1%
- Computing & ICT24,079 · 8.4%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction23,199 · 8.1%
- Arts & humanities17,554 · 6.1%
- Social sciences, journalism & information12,868 · 4.5%
- Services8,787 · 3.1%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary5,337 · 1.9%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics4,967 · 1.7%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)110,366 · 38.5%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)72,465 · 25.3%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)103,653 · 36.2%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia31,497
- Administração18,205
- Educação Física15,833
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas12,894
- Ciências Contábeis9,557
- Gestão De Recursos Humanos6,661
- História6,191
- Psicanálise5,754
- Letras - Língua Portuguesa5,586
- Matemática5,267
- Engenharia Elétrica5,152
- Artes Visuais5,118
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 Curitiba: Universidade Positivo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Gran Centro Universitário, Centro Universitário Unidom - Bosco, Faculdade Unina, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Paraná, Centro Universitário Opet, Centro Universitário Autônomo do Brasil, Fae Centro Universitário
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.