Enrolments, 2024
35,169
34,714 in person · 455 at a distance
Entrants
7,173
Graduates
5,851
Tuition
All courses free
as marked in the census
211 courses with students · 3,145 teaching staff · 278 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.8%).
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
- Education7,923 · 22.5%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction6,971 · 19.8%
- Health & welfare4,438 · 12.6%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary4,011 · 11.4%
- Social sciences, journalism & information3,407 · 9.7%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics2,733 · 7.8%
- Business, administration & law1,714 · 4.9%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)1,574 · 4.5%
- Arts & humanities1,434 · 4.1%
- Computing & ICT910 · 2.6%
- Services54 · 0.2%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)25,672 · 73.0%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)7,923 · 22.5%
Largest courses
- Ciências Biológicas2,420
- Pedagogia1,960
- Engenharia Agronômica1,793
- Odontologia1,475
- Engenharia Mecânica1,239
- Engenharia Elétrica923
- Geografia919
- Medicina Veterinária887
- Engenharia Civil887
- Zootecnia883
- Ciências Sociais870
- Educação Física805
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 Paulo: Universidade Paulista, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, Universidade Nove de Julho, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Fundação Universidade Virtual do Estado de São Paulo, Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade São Judas Tadeu, Centro Universitário das Américas, Universidade Santo Amaro, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
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.