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Brazil · Ceará

Universidade Regional do Cariri (URCA)

University · State (public) · Crato, Ceará

Enrolments, 2024

9,659

all in person

Entrants

1,544

Graduates

1,159

Tuition

All courses free

as marked in the census

35 courses with students · 703 teaching staff.

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

  • Education5,675 · 58.8%
  • Business, administration & law1,403 · 14.5%
  • Social sciences, journalism & information883 · 9.1%
  • Health & welfare811 · 8.4%
  • Engineering, manufacturing & construction487 · 5.0%
  • Natural sciences, mathematics & statistics275 · 2.8%
  • Common entry programmes (field chosen later)125 · 1.3%
  • Bachelor's (bacharelado)3,675 · 38.0%
  • Teaching degree (licenciatura)5,675 · 58.8%
  • Technology degree (tecnológico)184 · 1.9%

Largest courses

  1. Direito1,403
  2. Pedagogia1,062
  3. Ciências Biológicas1,056
  4. Ciências Econômicas845
  5. Letras - Língua Portuguesa745
  6. Enfermagem741
  7. Educação Física735
  8. História656
  9. Geografia402
  10. Matemática379
  11. Letras - Inglês306
  12. Ciências Sociais220

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.

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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