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Brazil · Rio de Janeiro

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

University · Federal (public) · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Enrolments, 2024

50,105

47,077 in person · 3,028 at a distance

Entrants

11,159

Graduates

6,249

Tuition

All courses free

as marked in the census

180 courses with students · 4,501 teaching staff · 102 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

  • Health & welfare9,902 · 19.8%
  • Education9,523 · 19.0%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction8,728 · 17.4%
  • Business, administration & law6,835 · 13.6%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information5,545 · 11.1%
  • Arts & humanities4,164 · 8.3%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics4,089 · 8.2%
  • Computing & ICT745 · 1.5%
  • Services298 · 0.6%
  • Common entry programmes (field chosen later)276 · 0.6%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)40,306 · 80.4%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)9,523 · 19.0%

Largest courses

  1. Direito2,701
  2. Farmácia2,372
  3. Ciências Contábeis2,362
  4. Ciências Biológicas2,315
  5. Educação Física1,805
  6. Medicina1,689
  7. Arquitetura E Urbanismo1,603
  8. Letras - Português E Literaturas De Língua Portuguesa1,153
  9. Engenharia Química1,126
  10. Ciências Econômicas1,114
  11. Psicologia1,059
  12. Enfermagem1,033

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 Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Estácio de Sá, Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Centro Universitário Augusto Motta, Centro Universitário Celso Lisboa, Centro Universitário Ibmr, Universidade Cândido Mendes, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Faculdade Unyleya, Centro Universitário Gama e Souza

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.