Brazil · Rio de Janeiro

Universidade Estácio de Sá (UNESA)

University · Private, for-profit · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Enrolments, 2024

431,249

73,502 in person · 357,747 at a distance

Entrants

268,500

Graduates

60,035

Tuition

Fee-charging

no course is marked free

542 courses with students · 1,439 teaching staff · 556 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

  • Business, administration & law147,293 · 34.2%
  • Health & welfare87,008 · 20.2%
  • Computing & ICT58,096 · 13.5%
  • Education51,212 · 11.9%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction29,043 · 6.7%
  • Services25,198 · 5.8%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information19,187 · 4.4%
  • Arts & humanities6,344 · 1.5%
  • Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary4,520 · 1.0%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics3,348 · 0.8%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)239,164 · 55.5%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)48,391 · 11.2%
  • Technology degree (tecnológico)143,694 · 33.3%

Largest courses

  1. Administração36,838
  2. Pedagogia27,774
  3. Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas25,314
  4. Ciências Contábeis17,580
  5. Gestão De Recursos Humanos17,212
  6. Direito16,573
  7. Biomedicina14,508
  8. Nutrição13,570
  9. Enfermagem12,210
  10. Farmácia11,694
  11. Educação Física11,530
  12. Psicologia11,440

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 Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Centro Universitário Augusto Motta, Centro Universitário Celso Lisboa, Centro Universitário Ibmr, Universidade Cândido Mendes, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Faculdade Unyleya, Centro Universitário Gama e Souza

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.