Enrolments, 2024
13,363
12,803 in person · 560 at a distance
Entrants
3,562
Graduates
1,780
Tuition
All courses free
as marked in the census
71 courses with students · 1,356 teaching staff · 51 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.4%).
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
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction3,691 · 27.6%
- Education3,451 · 25.8%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics1,473 · 11.0%
- Social sciences, journalism & information1,084 · 8.1%
- Health & welfare1,059 · 7.9%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary825 · 6.2%
- Computing & ICT587 · 4.4%
- Arts & humanities505 · 3.8%
- Business, administration & law416 · 3.1%
- Services145 · 1.1%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)127 · 1.0%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)9,785 · 73.2%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)3,451 · 25.8%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia1,239
- Ciências Biológicas1,115
- Engenharia De Produção862
- Química602
- Ciência Da Computação587
- Engenharia Agronômica516
- Engenharia Química435
- Engenharia De Materiais430
- Engenharia Civil428
- Administração416
- Ciências Sociais373
- Física369
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 Carlos: Centro Universitário Central Paulista
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.