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Universities and higher education in Brazil. Brazil adopts a mixed system of public and privately funded universities. Public universities can be federally funded or financed by State governments (such as USP, Unicamp and Unesp in the State of São Paulo). Private schools can be for-profit or, in the case of Catholic universities, not-for-profit.
Brazil's largest newspaper Folha de S. Paulo organizes, since 2012, a national ranking of universities [1] with criteria akin to those used by the better known worldwide rankings: research, teaching, internationalization, innovation and market value.
This is a list of universities in Brazil, divided by states. Across the country there are more than 2,368 Brazilian universities and colleges (public and private) recognized by the MEC (Ministry of Education).
Yellow and White. Mascot. Minerva. Website. ufrj.br. The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), [a] alternatively known as University of Brazil, [b] is a public research university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest federal university in the country and is one of the Brazilian centers of excellence in teaching and research. [6]
The Federal University of Minas Gerais (Portuguese: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG) is a federal [4] research university located in the state of Minas Gerais. Its main and biggest campus is located in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is one of Brazil's five largest and highest-ranked universities.
The University of Brasília (Portuguese: Universidade de Brasília, UnB) is a federal public university in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. It was founded in 1960 and has since consistently been named among the top five Brazilian universities and the top fifteen universities in South America by Times Higher Education (THE).
São Paulo State University (Unesp, Portuguese: Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho") is a public university run by the state government of São Paulo, Brazil. Unesp has a combined student body of over 45,000 spread among its 23 campuses. The first of them is the Araraquara Pharmacy and Odontology Faculty, founded in 1923 ...
The following is a partial list of public universities in Brazil. Supported by the federal government. Supported by state governments. Supported by municipal ...