Enrolments, 2024
17,471
16,418 in person · 1,053 at a distance
Entrants
4,054
Graduates
2,754
Tuition
All courses free
as marked in the census
136 courses with students · 1,681 teaching staff · 11 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
- Education8,830 · 50.5%
- Business, administration & law4,645 · 26.6%
- Health & welfare1,619 · 9.3%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary732 · 4.2%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction538 · 3.1%
- Social sciences, journalism & information512 · 2.9%
- Computing & ICT238 · 1.4%
- Arts & humanities187 · 1.1%
- Services151 · 0.9%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics19 · 0.1%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)8,641 · 49.5%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)8,830 · 50.5%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia3,142
- Direito2,008
- Letras - Língua Portuguesa E Literaturas De Língua Portuguesa1,401
- Administração1,284
- Ciências Contábeis1,033
- História1,031
- Ciências Biológicas571
- Matemática553
- Geografia552
- Letras - Língua Inglesa E Respectivas Literaturas514
- Engenharia Agronômica482
- Educação Física479
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, Centro Universitário Jorge Amado, Centro Universitário Uniftc, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia, Universidade Católica do Salvador, 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.