Enrolments, 2024
85,951
22,047 in person · 63,904 at a distance
Entrants
36,022
Graduates
17,061
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
239 courses with students · 659 teaching staff · 324 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.4%).
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 & law28,946 · 33.7%
- Computing & ICT12,156 · 14.1%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction11,391 · 13.3%
- Health & welfare9,802 · 11.4%
- Education7,165 · 8.3%
- Arts & humanities5,810 · 6.8%
- Social sciences, journalism & information5,084 · 5.9%
- Services2,775 · 3.2%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary2,313 · 2.7%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics509 · 0.6%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)48,475 · 56.4%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)7,165 · 8.3%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)30,311 · 35.3%
Largest courses
- Administração6,398
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas4,661
- Pedagogia4,645
- Medicina2,970
- Ciências Contábeis2,858
- Marketing2,847
- Engenharia Civil2,818
- Ciência Da Computação2,581
- Gestão De Recursos Humanos2,571
- Medicina Veterinária2,313
- Biomedicina2,086
- Engenharia Mecânica2,033
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 São Paulo: Universidade Paulista, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, Universidade Nove de Julho, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Fundação Universidade Virtual do Estado de São Paulo, Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade São Judas Tadeu, Centro Universitário das Américas, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Universidade Santo Amaro, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
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.