Enrolments, 2024
486,219
9,216 in person · 477,003 at a distance
Entrants
459,523
Graduates
47,540
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
154 courses with students · 666 teaching staff · 303 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
- Health & welfare146,086 · 30.0%
- Business, administration & law126,290 · 26.0%
- Education95,004 · 19.5%
- Computing & ICT32,080 · 6.6%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction29,982 · 6.2%
- Services28,471 · 5.9%
- Arts & humanities17,591 · 3.6%
- Social sciences, journalism & information7,700 · 1.6%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary2,959 · 0.6%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics56 · 0.0%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)236,242 · 48.6%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)86,914 · 17.9%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)163,063 · 33.5%
Largest courses
- Educação Física67,093
- Pedagogia47,713
- Administração34,214
- Enfermagem15,926
- Nutrição15,863
- Ciências Contábeis15,848
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas15,460
- Gestão De Recursos Humanos14,501
- Biomedicina13,268
- Farmácia10,252
- Estética E Cosmética10,195
- Logística8,611
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 Maringá: Centro Universitário Cidade Verde, Centro Universitário Ingá, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Centro Universitário Metropolitano de Maringá
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.