Enrolments, 2024
18,663
3,520 in person · 15,143 at a distance
Entrants
10,524
Graduates
1,413
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
59 courses with students · 159 teaching staff · 13 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.1%).
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 & law7,304 · 39.1%
- Health & welfare3,819 · 20.5%
- Education3,477 · 18.6%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction1,350 · 7.2%
- Computing & ICT1,331 · 7.1%
- Social sciences, journalism & information993 · 5.3%
- Services338 · 1.8%
- Arts & humanities51 · 0.3%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)9,666 · 51.8%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)3,477 · 18.6%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)5,520 · 29.6%
Largest courses
- Pedagogia2,528
- Administração1,992
- Gestão De Recursos Humanos988
- Psicologia913
- Ciências Contábeis867
- Nutrição731
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas680
- Direito637
- Biomedicina632
- Fisioterapia612
- Educação Física573
- Enfermagem550
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 Curitiba: Centro Universitário Internacional, Universidade Positivo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Gran Centro Universitário, Faculdade Unina, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Paraná, Centro Universitário Opet, Centro Universitário Autônomo do Brasil, Fae Centro Universitário
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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