Enrolments, 2024
19,340
12,675 in person · 6,665 at a distance
Entrants
5,798
Graduates
2,807
Tuition
All courses free
as marked in the census
121 courses with students · 917 teaching staff.
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
- Education7,920 · 41.0%
- Business, administration & law6,382 · 33.0%
- Computing & ICT1,656 · 8.6%
- Health & welfare1,133 · 5.9%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary704 · 3.6%
- Social sciences, journalism & information618 · 3.2%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction544 · 2.8%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)175 · 0.9%
- Services113 · 0.6%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics95 · 0.5%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)9,616 · 49.7%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)7,920 · 41.0%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)1,629 · 8.4%
Largest courses
- Administração4,119
- Pedagogia1,720
- Direito1,673
- História1,405
- Letras - Português1,339
- Sistemas Para Internet1,290
- Letras - Inglês619
- Ciências Contábeis590
- Ciências Biológicas586
- Matemática573
- Geografia494
- Enfermagem455
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 Teresina: Universidade Federal do Piauí, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí, Centro Universitário Uninovafapi, Faculdade Malta, Centro Universitário Facid Wyden, Centro Universitário Santo Agostinho, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau de Teresina, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau Teresina Sul, Faculdade Estácio de Teresina
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.