The Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) is one of the best universities in the country, teaching (undergraduate and graduate) and research. At the international level, the institution is among the world’s top 1000 and the 14th best in the country, according to The Word University Ranckings 2018.

The UFPE also excels in national assessments that take into account, for undergraduate, student performance indices in the National Student Performance Examination (Enade), the structure of institutions and the investment in teachers and courses, now General Index of Courses (IGC), and the titling and scientific production of post-graduate teachers – by the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), these two evaluations of the MEC.

In recent years, as part of programs to expand the teaching of the Federal Government, the University expanded its operations and today has three campuses, located in Recife, in Vitória de Santo Antão and in Caruaru

Between 2005 and 2016, more than 2,500 places were created in undergraduate courses. During this period, more than 30 courses were implemented, among them Cinema, Archeology, Museology, Dance, Information Systems, Materials Engineering, Energy Engineering and Naval Engineering. The growth is mainly due to two programs of the Ministry of Education: the Interiorization of Higher Education and the Support to Restructuring and Expansion Plans of the Federal Universities (Reuni).

Rector
Rector – Anísio Brasileiro de Freitas Dourado
Vice-Dean – Florisbela de Arruda Câmara and Siqueira Campos

Mission
Promote an adequate environment for the development of people and the construction of knowledge and skills that contribute to the sustainability of society, through teaching, research, extension and management.

Infrastructure
The UFPE brings together more than 40 thousand people, including professors, technical-administrative staff and undergraduate and graduate students, distributed in three campuses: Recife, Caruaru and Vitória de Santo Antão.

In Campus Recife, there are more than 40 buildings, including the Rectory, nine Academic Centers, eight Supplementary Organs, Convention Center, Acoustic Shell, University Club, Nursery, Student Houses for Men and Women and the University Restaurant.

Off campus, in Recife, there are the Legal Sciences Center, the Television and University Radios Nucleus, the Benfica Cultural Center, the Medicine Memorial and the Nucleus of Continuing Education. In the Interior, there are the Agreste Academic Center in Caruaru, and the Academic Center of Vitória de Santo Antão, located in the Zona Norte Mata.

Mission
Produce and disseminate knowledge in the various fields of knowledge, contributing to the full exercise of citizenship, through humanistic, critical and reflexive training, preparing competent and up-to-date professionals for the world of work and for improving the living conditions of society.

Vision
To be recognized as a reference in the production and dissemination of scientific, technological, artistic and cultural knowledge, committed to the transformations of society and to organizational transparency.

General principles
Ethical conduct;
Humanism;
Democracy and participation;
Theoretical-methodological pluralism;
Universality of knowledge;
Interdisciplinarity of knowledge;
Excellence;
Indissociability between teaching, research and extension;
Public nature;
Free graduation education.

General objectives
Produce, disseminate and preserve knowledge in all fields of knowledge;
To form citizens with a humanist conscience, critical and reflexive, committed to society and its transformation, qualified for the professional exercise;
To foster and stimulate the development of basic and applied research, especially those linked to stricto sensu postgraduate programs;
To extend to society the benefits of the cultural, artistic, scientific and technological creation generated in the Institution;
Maintain interchange with public and private entities, organizations and social movements.

The Federal University of Bahia – created by the Royal Charter of the Medical-Surgical College of Bahia, signed by Prince Regent D. João, on February 18, 1808; established by Decree-Law no. 9,155, April 8, 1946; restructured by Decree no. 62,241, of February 8, 1968 – is an autarchy with didactic-scientific, administrative, patrimonial and financial autonomy, in accordance with the law and this Statute.

The institutional objectives of the University are:
I – to educate for social and environmental responsibility, contributing to human development with ethics, sustainability and justice;
II – to generate and propagate knowledge, knowledge and practices in the sciences, arts, cultures and technologies;
III – provide training, continuing education and qualification in the different areas of knowledge and performance, aiming at the exercise of professional activities and participation in the development of society;
IV – to exercise academic excellence through the development of the sciences, arts and humanities, fostering critical-reflexive thinking in the various fields of knowledge and practice; V – to promote university extension, aiming at the diffusion of advances, achievements and benefits resulting from the cultural and artistic creation and the scientific and technological research generated in the Institution;
VI – contribute to the process of local, regional, national and global development, carrying out a systematic study of their problems and forming scientific, artistic and technical frameworks according to their needs.
VII – promote equity in society, combating all forms of intolerance and discrimination arising from social, racial, ethnic, religious, gender and sexual orientation differences;
VIII – promote peace, solidarity and rapprochement between nations, peoples and cultures, through international cooperation and scientific, artistic and technological exchange, with a special focus on Portuguese-speaking countries and Latin American countries;
IX – to keep the University open to the participation of the population, promoting a wide and diversified exchange with institutions, organizations and movements of society;
X – implement and cultivate ethical principles in the formulation and implementation of policies, plans, programs and initiatives that realize their end-activities

Located in the Southeastern Region, the most industrialized in Brazil, UFMG, a free public higher education institution, is the oldest university in the state of Minas Gerais. Its foundation occurred on September 7, 1927 under the name University of Minas Gerais (UMG). Almost a century after, the institution is regional and national leadership in teaching, extension, culture, scientific research and generation of patents, in several areas of knowledge.

Its community gathers about 72 thousand people in the cities of Belo Horizonte, Montes Claros, Diamantina and Tiradentes, which are organized around 77 undergraduate courses, 80 postgraduate programs, and more than 750 research centers. In 2016, UFMG reached 1076 patent registrations, which gives it a leading position among the country’s higher education institutions.

Since the creation of UFMG, its graduates have exerted a great influence in cultural, political and economic life, acting as trainers of the intelligentsia, arts, science, and having a seat in the management of companies, different entities, state and from the country.