Enrolments, 2024
18,909
14,580 in person · 4,329 at a distance
Entrants
4,103
Graduates
1,895
Tuition
All courses free
as marked in the census
163 courses with students · 1,364 teaching staff · 3 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
- Education9,661 · 51.1%
- Business, administration & law3,750 · 19.8%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction1,802 · 9.5%
- Health & welfare1,345 · 7.1%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary1,051 · 5.6%
- Services581 · 3.1%
- Social sciences, journalism & information378 · 2.0%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics239 · 1.3%
- Computing & ICT82 · 0.4%
- Arts & humanities20 · 0.1%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)7,697 · 40.7%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)9,661 · 51.1%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)1,551 · 8.2%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia2,662
- Administração1,273
- Enfermagem1,132
- Geografia1,024
- Ciências Biológicas926
- Gestão Comercial847
- Direito771
- Letras - Português762
- Matemática574
- Letras - Língua Portuguesa573
- História507
- Administração Pública506
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 São Luís: Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Universidade Ceuma, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Maranhão, Faculdade Anhanguera do Maranhão, Centro Universitário Santa Terezinha, Centro Universitário Unidade de Ensino Superior Dom Bosco, Centro Universitário Estácio de São Luís, Faculdade do Maranhão, Instituto Florence de Ensino Superior, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau de São Luís, Faculdade Laboro
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.