Enrolments, 2024
62,539
8,127 in person · 54,412 at a distance
Entrants
36,169
Graduates
9,013
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
159 courses with students · 377 teaching staff · 94 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.2%).
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
- Education17,002 · 27.2%
- Business, administration & law13,669 · 21.9%
- Health & welfare11,128 · 17.8%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction6,333 · 10.1%
- Computing & ICT3,693 · 5.9%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)2,672 · 4.3%
- Services2,151 · 3.4%
- Social sciences, journalism & information1,879 · 3.0%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary1,555 · 2.5%
- Arts & humanities1,501 · 2.4%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics956 · 1.5%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)30,864 · 49.4%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)16,677 · 26.7%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)12,326 · 19.7%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia12,140
- Administração4,092
- Abi - Educação Física2,672
- Ciências Contábeis2,367
- Educação Física2,209
- Engenharia De Produção1,626
- Nutrição1,565
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas1,404
- Farmácia1,323
- Gestão De Recursos Humanos1,236
- Biomedicina1,032
- Engenharia Civil933
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.
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.