The Federal University of Pelotas ( pt, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, UFPEL) is a Brazilian public higher education institution, maintained by the Federal Government with administrative headquarters in the city of
Pelotas
Pelotas () is a Brazilian city and municipality (''município''), the third most populous in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located 270 km (168 mi) from Porto Alegre, the state's capital city, and 130 km (80.8&nb ...
, in the state of
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...
. It also has a campus in the city of
Capão do Leão.
It currently offers 94 undergraduate courses, 45 masters courses and 23 doctorate courses distributed in 22 academic units (6 Academic Centers, 4 Basic Institutes, 11 Colleges and 1 Higher School of Physical Education). Currently, it has master's and / or doctorate courses. in all areas of knowledge: Exact and Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Agrarian Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Human Sciences, Law, Letters and Arts, also counting on courses with Multidisciplinary performance.
In 2017, UFPel was included in the
QS World University Rankings
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...
. In 2020, it ranks 79rd among universities in
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
and among the 170 best universities in the
BRICS
BRICS is an acronym for five leading emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The first four were initially grouped as "BRIC" (or "the BRICs") in 2001 by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill, who coined the ter ...
economic block.
Academic Departments
* Center for Arts (CA)
* Center for Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Food Sciences (CCQFA)
* Center for Technological Development (CDTEC)
* Center for Open and Distance Education (CEAD)
* Center for Engineering (CENG)
* Center for Mercosul Integration (CIM)
* Center for Languages and Communication (CLC)
* Conservatory of Music (CM)
* Higher School of Physical Education (ESEF)
* Faculty of Business Administration and Tourism (FAT)
* Eliseu Maciel Faculty of Agronomy (FAEM)
* Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAURB)
* Faculty of Law (FD)
* Faculty of Education (FAE)
* Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery (FEO)
* Faculty of Medicine (FM)
* Faculty of Meteorology (FMET)
* Faculty of Nutrition (FN)
* Faculty of Dentistry (FO)
* Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FVET)
* Institute of Biology (IB)
* Institute of Human Sciences (ICH)
* Institute of Physics and Mathematics (IFM)
* Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Politics (IFISP)
Distinguished faculty members
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Czesław Bieżanko (College of Agronomy "Eliseu Maciel")
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Lotar Siewerdt (College of Agronomy "Eliseu Maciel")
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Odir Dellagostin ( Technology Development Center)
*
Gilda Maciel Correa Russomano (College of Law "Bruno de Mendonça Lima")
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Carlos Alberto Gomes Chiarelli (College of Law "Bruno de Mendonça Lima")
See also
*
Brazil University Rankings
Universities in Brazil are ranked in a number of ways, including both national and international ranks.
National Rankings
Ranking Universitário Folha
Brazil's largest newspaper Folha de S. Paulo organizes, since 2012, a national ranking of unive ...
*
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 o ...
References
External links
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Instituto de Filosofia, Sociologia e Política (IFISP-UFPEL)
1969 establishments in Brazil
Educational institutions established in 1969
Universities and colleges in Rio Grande do Sul
Federal universities of Brazil
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