Enrolments, 2024
25,754
22,480 in person · 3,274 at a distance
Entrants
8,634
Graduates
4,298
Tuition
Fee-charging
no course is marked free
52 courses with students · 1,188 teaching staff · 70 enrolments of foreign nationals (0.3%).
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 & law13,028 · 50.6%
- Engineering, manufacturing & construction4,282 · 16.6%
- Social sciences, journalism & information3,584 · 13.9%
- Computing & ICT2,747 · 10.7%
- Education827 · 3.2%
- Health & welfare638 · 2.5%
- Arts & humanities369 · 1.4%
- Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics233 · 0.9%
- Services46 · 0.2%
- Bachelor's (bacharelado)22,218 · 86.3%
- Teaching degree (licenciatura)827 · 3.2%
- Technology degree (tecnológico)2,709 · 10.5%
Largest courses
- Direito6,617
- Administração3,137
- Psicologia2,166
- Arquitetura E Urbanismo2,071
- Comunicação Social - Publicidade E Propaganda1,603
- Ciências Econômicas1,120
- Ciência Da Computação916
- Análise E Desenvolvimento De Sistemas891
- Engenharia De Produção820
- Engenharia Civil675
- Sistemas De Informação602
- Marketing500
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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