Admissions
The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina undergraduate admission process is almost similar to all others in Brazil, using written tests called vestibular. In late years this process of admission has been criticized and altered. In the 2007 the institution approved the quota system proposed by the Ministry of Education in early Luis Inácio Lula da Silva government, which makes 10% of places for incoming students available to racial minorities and 20% for students coming from public schools.
In the last three years the highest admission grades were to the following courses:
- Mechanical engineering: 88.87 of 96 points possibles
- Medicine: 88.47 of 96
- Law 84.12 of 96
- Control engineering: 83.76 of 96
The admission process for grad school is more complex and usually involves a test and a recommendation from the previous college. People interested in graduate courses at UFSC should contact the department of the intended course directly. The Brazilian Ministry of Education, through CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal do Nível Superior, Superior Level Personnel Enhancement Coordination) evaluates graduate programs in Brazil every three years, ranking them from 1 (worst) to 7, being 6 excellence and 7 the international excellence level.
The following graduate courses at UFSC have received grades 6 or 7, as per the last CAPES evaluation:
- Chemistry
- Mechanical engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Pharmacology
- Law
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