Pará State University (, UEPA) is the only
public university
A public university, state university, or public college is a university or college that is State ownership, owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government. Whether a national university is considered public varies from o ...
maintained by the
state government
A state government is the government that controls a subdivision of a country in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government. A state government may have some level of political autonom ...
of
Pará
Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...
, Brazil. The university has over 14,000 students enrolled in its 57 courses, from which 23 are undergraduate and 34 are graduate programs. Those programs are offered across UEPA's 20 campuses in the cities of
Belém
Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the north of B ...
(five campuses),
Paragominas,
Conceição do Araguaia,
Marabá,
Altamira,
Igarapé-Açu
Igarapé-Açu is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by a ...
,
São Miguel do Guamá,
Santarém,
Tucuruí,
Moju,
Redenção,
Barcarena,
Vigia de Nazaré,
Cametá
Cametá is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pará
Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocant ...
,
Salvaterra Salvaterra is a common toponym in the Galician and Portuguese languages. It may refer to:
* Salvaterra, Pará, a municipality in Pará, Brazil
* Monfortinho e Salvaterra do Extremo, a civil parish in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
* Salvaterra de Magos ...
, and
Castanhal.
See also
*
List of state universities in Brazil
References
Relatório Anual de Gestão da UEPA - Exercício 2019
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4095582
External links
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Universities and colleges in Pará
Universities and colleges established in 1993
1993 establishments in Brazil
State universities in Brazil
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