Enrolments, 2024
27,958
27,376 in person · 582 at a distance
Entrants
6,547
Graduates
3,086
Tuition
All courses free
as marked in the census
119 courses with students · 2,725 teaching staff · 59 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.2%).
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
- Education7,686 · 27.5%
- Business, administration & law4,697 · 16.8%
- Health & welfare4,049 · 14.5%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction3,756 · 13.4%
- Social sciences, journalism & information2,593 · 9.3%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics1,429 · 5.1%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary1,185 · 4.2%
- Arts & humanities1,041 · 3.7%
- Computing & ICT932 · 3.3%
- Services590 · 2.1%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)20,320 · 72.7%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)7,339 · 26.3%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)299 · 1.1%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia1,706
- Direito1,645
- Ciências Contábeis1,224
- Administração1,096
- Letras - Língua Portuguesa938
- Medicina830
- Ciências Biológicas789
- Ciência Da Computação788
- Matemática692
- Psicologia535
- Educação Física513
- Medicina Veterinária460
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 João Pessoa: Centro Universitário de João Pessoa, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, Faculdade Três Marias, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau de João Pessoa, Faculdade Internacional da Paraíba
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.