Enrolments, 2024
20,095
16,642 in person · 3,453 at a distance
Entrants
5,798
Graduates
2,748
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
51 courses with students · 965 teaching staff · 5 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 & law7,695 · 38.3%
- Health & welfare3,821 · 19.0%
- Computing & ICT2,603 · 13.0%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction2,268 · 11.3%
- Social sciences, journalism & information2,150 · 10.7%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary662 · 3.3%
- Arts & humanities599 · 3.0%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)146 · 0.7%
- Services138 · 0.7%
- Education13 · 0.1%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)16,494 · 82.1%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)13 · 0.1%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)3,442 · 17.1%
Largest courses
- Direito3,189
- Psicologia1,743
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas1,524
- Administração1,486
- Medicina1,261
- Ciência Da Computação1,018
- Odontologia849
- Ciências Contábeis694
- Medicina Veterinária662
- Arquitetura E Urbanismo642
- Marketing Digital538
- Nutrição516
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 Fortaleza: Universidade Federal do Ceará, Centro Universitário da Grande Fortaleza, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Centro Universitário Estácio do Ceará, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau de Fortaleza, Centro Universitário Ateneu, Centro Universitário Fanor Wyden, Centro Universitário Fametro, Centro Universitário Christus
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.