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Brazil · Rio Grande do Sul

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

University · Federal (public) · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

Enrolments, 2024

27,917

27,642 in person · 275 at a distance

Entrants

6,143

Graduates

2,968

Tuition

All courses free

as marked in the census

96 courses with students · 2,856 teaching staff · 140 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.5%).

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

  • Business, administration & law5,149 · 18.4%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction5,100 · 18.3%
  • Health & welfare4,218 · 15.1%
  • Education3,974 · 14.2%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information3,054 · 10.9%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics2,058 · 7.4%
  • Arts & humanities2,043 · 7.3%
  • Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary1,277 · 4.6%
  • Computing & ICT700 · 2.5%
  • Common entry programmes (field chosen later)344 · 1.2%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)23,599 · 84.5%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)3,974 · 14.2%

Largest courses

  1. Ciências Jurídicas E Sociais1,918
  2. Administração1,575
  3. Letras1,032
  4. Medicina885
  5. Engenharia Civil836
  6. Ciências Econômicas811
  7. Ciências Biológicas762
  8. Ciências Contábeis748
  9. Ciência Da Computação700
  10. Arquitetura E Urbanismo676
  11. Odontologia656
  12. Medicina Veterinária641

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 Porto Alegre: Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Centro Universitário Fadergs, Fundação Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul

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.