Brazil · Bahia

Universidade Católica do Salvador (UCSAL)

University · Private, non-profit · Salvador, Bahia

Enrolments, 2024

6,065

5,372 in person · 693 at a distance

Entrants

4,298

Graduates

753

Tuition

Fee-charging

no course is marked free

46 courses with students · 216 teaching staff · 3 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 & law2,343 · 38.6%
  • Computing & ICT1,243 · 20.5%
  • Health & welfare639 · 10.5%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction567 · 9.3%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information485 · 8.0%
  • Education478 · 7.9%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics172 · 2.8%
  • Arts & humanities133 · 2.2%
  • Services5 · 0.1%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)4,902 · 80.8%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)478 · 7.9%
  • Technology degree (tecnológico)685 · 11.3%

Largest courses

  1. Direito1,722
  2. Engenharia De Software758
  3. Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas464
  4. Psicologia411
  5. Engenharia Civil224
  6. Administração186
  7. Arquitetura E Urbanismo186
  8. Ciências Biológicas172
  9. Pedagogia162
  10. Biomedicina147
  11. Enfermagem130
  12. Fisioterapia130

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 Salvador: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Universidade Salvador, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Centro Universitário Jorge Amado, Centro Universitário Uniftc, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia, Faculdade Anhanguera Unime de Salvador, Centro Universitário Estácio da Bahia, Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Centro Universitário Dom Pedro Ii, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau de Salvador, Centro Universitário Ruy Barbosa Wyden

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.