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Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)

University · Federal (public) · Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul

Enrolments, 2024

18,517

16,956 in person · 1,561 at a distance

Entrants

5,798

Graduates

2,662

Tuition

All courses free

as marked in the census

129 courses with students · 2,108 teaching staff · 89 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.5%).

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

  • Education4,127 · 22.3%
  • Health & welfare3,400 · 18.4%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction3,352 · 18.1%
  • Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary2,045 · 11.0%
  • Business, administration & law2,039 · 11.0%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information1,338 · 7.2%
  • Computing & ICT847 · 4.6%
  • Arts & humanities784 · 4.2%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics424 · 2.3%
  • Services102 · 0.6%
  • Common entry programmes (field chosen later)59 · 0.3%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)13,294 · 71.8%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)4,127 · 22.3%
  • Technology degree (tecnológico)1,037 · 5.6%

Largest courses

  1. Pedagogia901
  2. Agronomia829
  3. Medicina813
  4. Administração727
  5. Educação Especial572
  6. Farmácia509
  7. Educação Física506
  8. Medicina Veterinária486
  9. Enfermagem441
  10. Direito424
  11. Arquitetura E Urbanismo415
  12. Zootecnia406

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 Santa Maria: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Farroupilha, Universidade Franciscana

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.