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Brazil · Rio Grande do Sul

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)

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

Enrolments, 2024

7,724

7,387 in person · 337 at a distance

Entrants

2,781

Graduates

877

Tuition

All courses free

as marked in the census

70 courses with students · 981 teaching staff · 13 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 & construction1,953 · 25.3%
  • Education1,777 · 23.0%
  • Business, administration & law1,345 · 17.4%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information777 · 10.1%
  • Health & welfare743 · 9.6%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics514 · 6.7%
  • Arts & humanities287 · 3.7%
  • Computing & ICT154 · 2.0%
  • Services101 · 1.3%
  • Common entry programmes (field chosen later)37 · 0.5%
  • Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary36 · 0.5%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)5,706 · 73.9%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)1,777 · 23.0%
  • Technology degree (tecnológico)204 · 2.6%

Largest courses

  1. Direito489
  2. Pedagogia486
  3. Administração444
  4. Medicina438
  5. Enfermagem288
  6. Ciências Contábeis251
  7. Ciências Biológicas246
  8. Ciências Econômicas243
  9. Engenharia De Computação226
  10. Engenharia Civil217
  11. Engenharia Civil Empresarial217
  12. Engenharia Mecânica216

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.

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.