Enrolments, 2024
20,888
8,855 in person · 12,033 at a distance
Entrants
13,245
Graduates
4,076
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
75 courses with students · 580 teaching staff · 123 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.6%).
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
- Computing & ICT7,410 · 35.5%
- Business, administration & law6,659 · 31.9%
- Arts & humanities2,745 · 13.1%
- Education1,354 · 6.5%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction1,027 · 4.9%
- Services1,017 · 4.9%
- Health & welfare424 · 2.0%
- Common entry programmes (field chosen later)180 · 0.9%
- Social sciences, journalism & information72 · 0.3%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)5,585 · 26.7%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)1,354 · 6.5%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)13,769 · 65.9%
Largest courses
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas4,349
- Administração1,161
- Ciências Contábeis976
- Gastronomia768
- Gestão De Recursos Humanos710
- Pedagogia698
- Gestão Da Tecnologia Da Informação696
- Marketing606
- Gestão Financeira579
- Design De Moda565
- Gestão Comercial524
- Processos Gerenciais508
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 São Paulo: Universidade Paulista, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, Universidade Nove de Julho, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Fundação Universidade Virtual do Estado de São Paulo, Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade São Judas Tadeu, Centro Universitário das Américas, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Universidade Santo Amaro
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.
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