About the Provost Office of Research and Graduate Studies
The Federal University of Ceará (UFC) was created on December 16th, 1954, and officially established on June 25th, 1955. Since then, UFC has been leading both scientific research and extension activities in the state of Ceará. Our institution currently has 2,155 professors, of whom 1,879 hold doctoral degrees and 229 hold master’s degrees. Additionally, there are 3,140 administrative staff members.
The UFC was founded during Professor Antônio Martins Filho’s tenure, initially with the faculties of Agronomy, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry.
Today, UFC comprises eight campuses: three in Fortaleza and five in the countryside.
UFC is recognized as one of the best academic institutions in Brazil, representing an important scientific and cultural legacy for local citizens and contributing to the socio-economic development of the country.
The first graduate program at UFC was established in the 1960s, with the creation of the Master’s in Mathematics on November 20, 1965. The first Master’s degree was awarded at UFC in 1967, through the Mathematics program.
The University Reform Act (Law no. 5,540 of November 28, 1968) propelled a new administrative structure at UFC, leading to the creation of the Pro-Rectorate for Research and Graduate Studies on March 13, 1969.
Today, postgraduate studies at UFC are well established, with 89 graduate programmes and a total of 141 graduate courses, of which 56 are doctorate degree courses and 85 are master degree courses. The results of the latest evaluation by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), for the 2017-2020 quadrennium, show that UFC’s have 35 programmes considered to be of excellence: 6 programs with a score of 7, 9 programmes with a score of 6, and 20 programmes with a score of 5. Comparing the average scores of the last evaluation, among universities with more than 50 graduate programmes, UFC had the highest average among institutions in the North and Northeast.
