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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).
Public universities usually run courses all-day, while private for-profit universities offer a mix of all-day long and night-only courses. The latter is increasingly popular for working adults to complete Higher Education degrees in Brazil. Recently, some public universities have introduced some night-only courses in combination with day-courses.
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.
UFRGS is among the largest and highest-rated universities in Brazil, [4] [5] [6] having one of the largest number of scientific publications. From 2012 to 2019, the university was elected as the best federal university of Brazil. [7] UFRGS has over 31,000 undergraduate students, over 12,000 graduate students, and more than 2,600 faculty members ...
On July 15, 1968, as an effort of the Brazilian government to improve college education in Brazil with education reform, the major universities in Brazil were reorganized in Schools and Departments and acquired a new education structure, more resembling the American and English methodology.
Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (English: United Metropolitan Colleges) is a Brazilian institution of higher education located in the city of São Paulo. The university is better known by the acronym FMU, which is maintained for the sake of tradition, since it has been popularly called FMU since its founding.
The school also admits international undergraduate students from partner universities through a separate admission process. These students can apply either for open exchanges or a double degree, in which case they receive a degree from University of São Paulo as well. A separate process exists for master and doctoral courses.
The Federal University of Amazonas [3] (Portuguese: Universidade Federal do Amazonas, UFAM) is a public university located in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. It is the oldest university in Brazil and one of the largest universities in the northern region of Brazil. It offers a wide array of degrees, with 645 research groups and 65 graduate courses.