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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

University · Federal (public) · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Enrolments, 2024

30,420

28,965 in person · 1,455 at a distance

Entrants

7,756

Graduates

4,130

Tuition

All courses free

as marked in the census

120 courses with students · 2,562 teaching staff · 77 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.3%).

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

  • Education6,943 · 22.8%
  • Health & welfare5,268 · 17.3%
  • Business, administration & law5,012 · 16.5%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics3,770 · 12.4%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction3,695 · 12.1%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information2,448 · 8.0%
  • Computing & ICT1,835 · 6.0%
  • Arts & humanities527 · 1.7%
  • Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary492 · 1.6%
  • Services430 · 1.4%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)23,050 · 75.8%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)6,943 · 22.8%
  • Technology degree (tecnológico)427 · 1.4%

Largest courses

  1. Interdisciplinar Em Ciência E Tecnologia2,453
  2. Pedagogia1,465
  3. Direito1,417
  4. Tecnologia Da Informação1,310
  5. Administração1,124
  6. Ciências Contábeis1,024
  7. Medicina973
  8. Farmácia938
  9. História829
  10. Ciências Biológicas770
  11. Geografia763
  12. Enfermagem710

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 Natal: Universidade Potiguar, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau de Natal, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte, Centro Universitário do Rio Grande do Norte

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.