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Brazil · Rio Grande do Sul

Universidade Franciscana (UFN)

University · Private, non-profit · Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul

Enrolments, 2024

3,475

3,453 in person · 22 at a distance

Entrants

1,133

Graduates

538

Tuition

Fee-charging

no course is marked free

36 courses with students · 400 teaching staff · 26 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.7%).

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 & welfare1,612 · 46.4%
  • Business, administration & law760 · 21.9%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information345 · 9.9%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction232 · 6.7%
  • Education206 · 5.9%
  • Computing & ICT190 · 5.5%
  • Arts & humanities123 · 3.5%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics7 · 0.2%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)3,127 · 90.0%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)206 · 5.9%
  • Technology degree (tecnológico)142 · 4.1%

Largest courses

  1. Medicina660
  2. Direito538
  3. Psicologia303
  4. Odontologia289
  5. Fisioterapia209
  6. Arquitetura E Urbanismo173
  7. Biomedicina162
  8. Enfermagem126
  9. Nutrição96
  10. Administração92
  11. Ciência Da Computação91
  12. Design De Moda65

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 Santa Maria: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Farroupilha

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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