Enrolments, 2024
8,258
all in person
Entrants
2,657
Graduates
1,222
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
25 courses with students · 239 teaching staff · 5 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
- Health & welfare3,956 · 47.9%
- Business, administration & law2,675 · 32.4%
- Social sciences, journalism & information1,199 · 14.5%
- Agriculture, forestry, fisheries & veterinary337 · 4.1%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction86 · 1.0%
- Arts & humanities5 · 0.1%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)8,237 · 99.7%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)21 · 0.3%
Largest courses
- Direito1,367
- Psicologia1,053
- Enfermagem817
- Administração737
- Odontologia662
- Fisioterapia650
- Farmácia600
- Biomedicina455
- Nutrição388
- Educação Física383
- Medicina Veterinária337
- Ciências Contábeis305
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 Salvador: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Universidade Salvador, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Centro Universitário Jorge Amado, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia, Universidade Católica do Salvador, Faculdade Anhanguera Unime de Salvador, Centro Universitário Estácio da Bahia, Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Centro Universitário Dom Pedro Ii, Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau de Salvador, Centro Universitário Ruy Barbosa Wyden
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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Picked by type, place and size, from the same data as this page — not a judgement of quality.
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