Enrolments, 2024
36,068
34,312 in person · 1,756 at a distance
Entrants
7,459
Graduates
4,477
Tuition
All courses free
as marked in the census
157 courses with students · 2,803 teaching staff · 72 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
- Education15,981 · 44.3%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction5,533 · 15.3%
- Health & welfare4,719 · 13.1%
- Business, administration & law2,785 · 7.7%
- Social sciences, journalism & information2,223 · 6.2%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics1,554 · 4.3%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary1,177 · 3.3%
- Computing & ICT806 · 2.2%
- Arts & humanities682 · 1.9%
- Services397 · 1.1%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)211 · 0.6%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)19,473 · 54.0%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)15,981 · 44.3%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)403 · 1.1%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia3,043
- Matemática1,697
- Letras - Português1,671
- Medicina1,480
- Ciências Biológicas1,339
- Direito1,293
- Engenharia Civil1,062
- História1,014
- Física867
- Geografia825
- Administração825
- Serviço Social799
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 Belém: Universidade da Amazônia, Universidade do Estado do Pará, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará, Faculdade Estácio de Belém - Estácio Belém, Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará, Centro Universitário da Amazônia Belém, Centro Universitário Metropolitano da Amazônia, Centro Universitário Fibra, Centro Universitário da Amazônia, Faculdade Estácio do Pará - Estácio Fap
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.