The Federal University of Ceará
( pt, Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC) is a federal
university
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with
campuses in the cities of
Fortaleza,
Sobral,
Barbalha
Barbalha is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil. Barbalha covers , and has a population of 61,228 with a population density of 100 inhabitants per square kilometer. It is located at the south of the state, from ...
,
Russas,
Quixadá
Quixadá is a municipality in the state of Ceará, in Brazil.
It is known for its unusual rock formations, known locally as monoliths.
Location
Quixadá is located at around .
It was founded in 1870 and had a population of 80,605 residents in 2 ...
and
Crateús, in the state of
Ceará,
Brazil
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. UFC is a public and
tuition
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-free university, with several academic programs in most areas of knowledge.
In Fortaleza, the university has three main campuses: "Campus do Pici", with the most of the programs in
science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
and
technology
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areas, "Campus do Benfica", which harbors the university's administration and the programs in
humanities
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,
business, and the
law school, and the "Campus do Porangabussu", with the
medical school. The campus of Sobral is new and has a
Medical School,
Computer Engineering,
Electrical Engineering,
Finance,
Economy
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,
Dentistry,
Psychology
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and Teaching
Music
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.
History
UFC was created by the Brazilian federal government in 1955 and is under the Ministry of Education. The University was created as the result of great public debate, which had begun in 1949. The main character of this movement was
Antônio Martins Filho, an intellectual who became the first director of the recently created "Universidade do Ceará" ('University of Ceará'). The University itself was created by Law #2.373, ratified in December 1954 and began to function on June 25, 1955. Its implementation was owed to the union of the several
higher education
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institutes then present in the city of Fortaleza: the School of
Agronomy, the Law College of Ceara, the
Medicine
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College and the
Pharmacy &
Odontology
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College. Today, the University consists of four centers of basic science and education and five professional
college
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s, and is one of the most respected universities of Brazil.
See also
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Brazil University Rankings
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National Rankings
Ranking Universitário Folha
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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 o ...
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References
External links
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Ceara
Educational institutions established in 1955
Buildings and structures in Fortaleza
Education in Ceará
1955 establishments in Brazil