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Brazil · Rio Grande do Sul

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)

University · Private, non-profit · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

Enrolments, 2024

13,994

11,969 in person · 2,025 at a distance

Entrants

5,918

Graduates

1,811

Tuition

Fee-charging

no course is marked free

65 courses with students · 855 teaching staff · 6 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.0%).

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 & law4,290 · 30.7%
  • Computing & ICT2,394 · 17.1%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information2,278 · 16.3%
  • Health & welfare2,049 · 14.6%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction1,307 · 9.3%
  • Education587 · 4.2%
  • Arts & humanities534 · 3.8%
  • Services251 · 1.8%
  • Common entry programmes (field chosen later)167 · 1.2%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics137 · 1.0%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)10,918 · 78.0%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)587 · 4.2%
  • Technology degree (tecnológico)2,322 · 16.6%

Largest courses

  1. Direito1,965
  2. Psicologia1,524
  3. Medicina763
  4. Administração740
  5. Engenharia De Software646
  6. Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas644
  7. Ciência Da Computação555
  8. Publicidade E Propaganda330
  9. Marketing324
  10. Ciências Econômicas319
  11. Arquitetura E Urbanismo313
  12. Odontologia307

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 Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis, Centro Universitário Fadergs, Fundação Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul

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.