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Federal University of Pernambuco (, UFPE) is a
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, established in 1946. UFPE has 70 undergraduate courses and 175 postgraduate courses. , UFPE had 35,000 students and 2,000 professors. The university has three campuses:
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Vitória de Santo Antão Vitória de Santo Antão is a city in Pernambuco State, Brazil, 46 kilometers west of Recife. Its territorial area is 335,942 km², 5,717 km² of which lies within the urban perimeter. In 2021, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and ...
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. Its main campus, Campus Reitor Joaquim Amazonas, is located in western
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, in the Cidade Universitária neighborhood. The Recife Law School, established in 1827, is located
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. UFPE ranks among the top Brazilian universities, placing ninth in the country in size and scientific production, and seventh among the federal public universities. UFPE's Center for Exact and Natural Sciences is consistently the strongest in research production in the university. UFPE has twice elected the best university in Northern and Northeastern Brazil by ''Guia do Estudante'' and Banco Real ( ABN AMRO). Each year over 6,000 seats are offered in its
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. The median and average competition rate is of about 10 applicants for each seat.


History

Olinda Law School can be considered UFPE's precursor. It was created by Pedro I and is, along with the
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Law School, founded on the same day, the oldest law school in the country. Afterwards, it was transferred to Recife. In 1895 the School of Engineering of Pernambuco also started to function. These two faculties/free schools, and those of Medicine (1927), Philosophy currently known as Faculdade Frassinetti do Recife - FAFIRE (1941) and Belas Artes (1932), became the base courses to UFPE's formation. On 11 August 1946, the University of Recife was created, one of the first university centers of the North and Northeast of Brazil. In 1948, the construction of the university's campus starts. The discussion about the construction's site started a year before that. Between the cogitated places were terrains in the neighborhoods of Joana Bezerra, Santo Amaro and Ibura, the Faculty of Law's area, in Recife's centre; and a lot in Várzea, the same place where the Engenho do Meio functioned before and where the university is located nowadays. This choice was made in function of a project to the construction of an avenue in the place. Climatic conditions and the topography of the terrain were also considered. The resources given in the acquisition and implantation of the university's campus were provenient of the state's government, that allocated 0,10% of sale taxes and consignations to the project's edification. The first buildings to be built on campus were the vivarium, a space dedicated to animal farming, that used to be located in the area which nowadays the Department of Nutrition and the Center of Health Sciences are located. The campus architectonic project's conception was made by a Venezian architect named Mário Russo. In 1965, the University of Recife became the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), authority tied to MEC.


University's ''Campi''


''Campus'' Reitor Joaquim Amazonas (Recife)

UFPE has an urban ''campus'' of research in Cidade Universitária (west zone of Recife) with an area of 149 hectares, officially named ''Campus Universitário Reitor Joaquim Amazonas''. The central administration is located in the ''campus'', along with nine of the ten academic centers headquartered in Recife, sixty seven departments, the Colégio de Aplicação, the Central Library, ten sectorial libraries, the Center of Information Technology, the University's Publisher, the Center of Physical Education and Sports, the Center of Hospitality and Tourism, Keizo Azami's Immunopathology Laboratory and the Hospital das Clínicas. It also holds the Centro de Convenções and Concha Acústica. Between UFPE's natural areas, the main one is the Cavouco stream. The Center of Juridic Sciences ( Faculdade de Direito do Recife), the Center of Juridic Practices, the Center of Continued Education, the Center of Radio and Television, the Pernambuco's Memorial of Medicine and Benfica's Cultural Center are all located in Recife's centre.


''Campus'' of Caruaru

Headquartering the Academic Center of Agreste, that in its first years functioned provisionally in the Commercial Polo of Caruaru, holds classrooms, a library, an informatics lab and courses' coordinations. In 2009, the Academic Center of Agreste had all of its activities transferred to the definitive ''campus''. Courses The Academic Center of Agreste offers 11 courses. * Business Administration and Management * Economic Sciences * Design * Social Communication * Civil Engineering * Production Engineering * Physics (licentiate) * Medicine * Chemistry (licentiate) * Pedagogy


''Campus'' of Vitória

The Academic Center of Vitória, headquartered in Vitória de Santo Antão, functions in installations donated by the Town Hall, an old building from 1927, that held a hospital and an agrotechnic school, divided in three blocks: an administrative block (Tabocas) and two blocks dedicated to education (Pirituba and Bela Vista). Courses * Biological Sciences (licentiate) * Physical Education (licentiate and bachelor's degree) * Nursing * Nutrition * Collective Health


Undergraduate and graduate programs

UFPE offers more than 90 undergraduate programs and 198 post-graduate programs, with about 40,000 students and 2,000 professors. UFPE's first post-graduate programs were created in 1967. Since then, there's been a quantitative and qualitative evolution. Of the four initial master's degrees (Mathematics, Biochemistry, Economy and Sociology), the university currently has 71, 45 doctorates and 64 specialization programs, in the areas of Human Sciences, Literature and Arts; Technology, Exact and Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences and Health Sciences.


Structure

UFPE is divided in centers, where the departments are located, counting with supplementary organs for administrative, cultural and academical support.


Centers


See also

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References

*http://acertodecontas.blog.br/educacao/burocracia-desorganizao-e-falta-de-respeito-o-dia-a-dia-na-ufpe/

*http://pe360graus.globo.com/educacao/educacao-e-carreiras/vestibular/2011/02/09/NWS,528864,35,337,EDUCACAO,885-ERRO-NOTA-IMPEDE-ESTUDANTES-FAZER-MATRICULA-UFPE.aspx


External links

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Center of Technology and Geosciences of UFPE

Center of Biological Science of UFPE

Center of Informatics of UFPE

Physics Department of UFPE

Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences classes of UFPE
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Universities and colleges in Recife