Enrolments, 2024
15,071
14,015 in person · 1,056 at a distance
Entrants
3,290
Graduates
2,112
Tuition
All courses free
as marked in the census
66 courses with students · 1,357 teaching staff · 4 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
- Education5,623 · 37.3%
- Health & welfare3,687 · 24.5%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction2,714 · 18.0%
- Business, administration & law1,933 · 12.8%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)489 · 3.2%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics305 · 2.0%
- Social sciences, journalism & information196 · 1.3%
- Computing & ICT124 · 0.8%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)8,869 · 58.8%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)5,623 · 37.3%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)90 · 0.6%
Largest courses
- Medicina1,433
- Ciências Biológicas1,252
- Pedagogia1,124
- Administração De Empresas1,002
- Engenharia Civil974
- História769
- Educação Física677
- Enfermagem653
- Matemática614
- Odontologia586
- Letras - Português E Inglês585
- Geografia512
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 Recife: Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro Universitário Brasileiro, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau Derby, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Centro Universitário Fbv Wyden, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco, Centro Universitário Estácio do Recife, Centro Universitário Frassinetti do Recife, Faculdade Pernambucana de Saúde, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas Esuda
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.