Enrolments, 2024
28,197
27,626 in person · 571 at a distance
Entrants
7,317
Graduates
3,565
Tuition
99.1% on free courses
151 courses with students · 2,611 teaching staff · 50 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
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction5,371 · 19.0%
- Health & welfare5,028 · 17.8%
- Education4,001 · 14.2%
- Business, administration & law3,648 · 12.9%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary2,777 · 9.8%
- Social sciences, journalism & information1,985 · 7.0%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics1,432 · 5.1%
- Arts & humanities1,427 · 5.1%
- Computing & ICT1,180 · 4.2%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)1,138 · 4.0%
- Services210 · 0.7%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)21,596 · 76.6%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)4,001 · 14.2%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)1,462 · 5.2%
Largest courses
- Medicina1,895
- Pedagogia1,150
- Agronomia1,113
- Engenharia Mecânica1,112
- Engenharia Civil1,076
- Administração1,061
- Direito1,028
- Medicina Veterinária874
- Ciências Econômicas865
- Engenharia Elétrica748
- Farmácia621
- Educação Física597
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 Curitiba: Centro Universitário Internacional, Universidade Positivo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Gran Centro Universitário, Centro Universitário Unidom - Bosco, Faculdade Unina, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Paraná, Centro Universitário Opet, Centro Universitário Autônomo do Brasil, Fae Centro Universitário
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.