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Federal University of Pernambuco

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Other names	UFPE
Motto	Virtus impavida
Motto in English	Fearless virtue
Type	Public
Established	1946 (law school dates from 1827)
Budget	R$ 1,227,858,265.00 (2014)[1]
Rector	Alfredo Macedo Gomes
Administrative staff	1,670 academic, technical 9,400
Students	43,375
Undergraduates	30,678
Postgraduates	12,697
Location	Recife , Pernambuco , Brazil 8°3′6″S 34°57′3″W / 8.05167°S 34.95083°W / -8.05167; -34.95083
Campus	Urban, 354,909 square meters
Colors	crimson   cream
Website	official site

Federal University of Pernambuco^[2] (Portuguese: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, UFPE) is a public university in Recife, Brazil, established in 1946. UFPE has 70 undergraduate courses and 175 postgraduate courses. As of 2007^[update], UFPE had 35,000 students and 2,000 professors. The university has three campuses: Recife, Vitória de Santo Antão, and Caruaru. Its main campus, Campus Reitor Joaquim Amazonas, is located in western Recife, in the Cidade Universitária neighborhood. The Recife Law School, established in 1827,^[3] is located downtown.

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).^{[citation needed]}

Each year over 6,000 seats are offered in its vestibular. The median and average competition rate is of about 10 applicants for each seat.^{[citation needed]}

History

Olinda Law School can be considered UFPE's precursor.^{[citation needed]} It was created by Pedro I and is, along with the University of São Paulo 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^{[clarification needed]} of the state's government, that allocated 0,10% of sale taxes and consignations^{[clarification needed]} 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

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.

See also

• Brazil University Rankings
• List of federal universities of Brazil
• Universities and Higher Education in Brazil

References

• http://acertodecontas.blog.br/educacao/burocracia-desorganizao-e-falta-de-respeito-o-dia-a-dia-na-ufpe/ Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
• 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

• The Modern Endangered Archives Program sponsored a digitization effort taken on by the Federal University of Pernambuco which can be found at the Frevo Music collection through the UCLA Library.
• Official website (in English)
• Center of Technology and Geosciences of UFPE Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
• Center of Biological Science of UFPE Archived 2006-10-21 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
• Center of Informatics of UFPE (in Portuguese)
• Physics Department of UFPE (in Portuguese)
• Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences classes of UFPE Archived 2008-12-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)