Our Institution

The Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) is one of the best universities in the country, regarding teaching (undergraduate and postgraduate) and research. In the international context, the institution is among the thousand best in the world and the 14th best in the country, according to THE World University Rankings.

UFPE also stands out in national assessments that take into account the students’ performance rates at the National Exam of Student Performance (Exame Nacional de Desempenho de Estudantes - Enade), the institution’s structure and the investment in professors and courses. That data is now gathered in the General Course Rate (Índice Geral de Cursos - IGC). It also takes into consideration the postgraduate professors’ academic degree and scientific production – evaluated by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES), which is part of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação - MEC). 

Today UFPE is composed of three campi, located in Recife, Vitória de Santo Antão e Caruaru and offers courses in almost all areas of knowledge.

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Chancellor’s Office

Chancellor: Prof. Dr. Alfredo Macedo Gomes

Vice-Chancellor: Prof. Dr. Moacyr Cunha de Araújo Filho

Contact info: secretaria.reitor@ufpe.br | +55 81 2126 8018

 

Our Mission

As a public institution, UFEP’s mission is to promote the qualification of people and to build knowledge and scientific and technical competencies globally referenced, following solid ethical, socio-environmental and cultural principles.

The contemporary university cannot fail to meet its duties, to anticipate and answer requests from the global society – which are always changing, amplifying, renovating themselves and demanding new institutional competencies – that need to be developed as a long-term institutional project.

However, it cannot abandon the demands regarding moral responsibility, care for the environment and respect to cultural diversity as cornerstones of a social coexistence more equitable, responsible and just.

 

Our Vision

To be a global university committed to transforming and developing humanity.

The notion of Humanity used here does not reference the numerical group of women and men (demography), but a group of values that we understand as valid, necessary and worthy of being pursued. Some of those values are otherness, justice, human dignity, people’s rights, freedom and cultural differences. A university committed to this vision is necessarily of a “global class”, which means two things at the same time: located among the best in the world and prepared to put the “world” (as a world of human significances, as the meanings humans attribute to their experiences) as the center of its concerns.

 

Our Key Values

As a prominent institution, UFPE grounds itself in the following values:

• Citizenship – to ensure freedom, rights and individual and community duties;
• Cooperation – to interact for the common good: local, regional, national and internationally;
• Creativity – to innovate (theoretically and as well as actively) the interdisciplinary construction of relevant knowledge for a socio-environmental transformation.
• Sustainability – to produce ethically responsible knowledge, aware of the fact that economic and social development is perfectly compatible with preserving the environment;
• Dignity – to treat and respond to each person and community with respect;
• Diversity – to respect the distinctive characteristics of people and communities in their ways of existing and acting;
• Equity – to promote the fair share of fundamental conditions for human development;
• Ethics – to systematically evaluate the purposes and the social and human consequences of the knowledge produced by the institution, in the light of its ideals: respect, integrity and dignity of all people;
• Integrity – to promote honesty and ethics in interpersonal relationships, inside and outside the campus.

 

Our Infrastructure

UFPE gathers over 40 thousand people (considering professors, administrative staff and undergraduate and postgraduate students) distributed in three campi: Recife, Caruaru and Vitória de Santo Antão.

In the Recife Campus there are over 40 buildings, among them the Chancellor’s Office Building, 9 Academic Centers, 8 Supplementary Bodies, 1 Convention Center, 1 Acoustic Shell, 1 University Club, Daycare, Female and Male Student Houses and the Canteen.

There are also buildings in Recife constructed outside the campus, such as the Center of Juridical Sciences (Law School), theUniversity’s Television and Radio Stations, the Benfica Cultural Center and the Medicine Memorial (museum buildings) and the Continuing Education Unit. In the countryside, there are the Academic Center of Agreste, in Caruaru, and the Academic Center of Vitória de Santo Antão, located in the Zona da Mata region.

 

UFPE in numbers

03 campi - Recife, Caruaru and Vitória de Santo Antão

13 Academic Centers – 11 in Recife, one in Caruaru and another in Vitória

104 undergraduate courses: 86 undergraduate courses at Campus Recife, 12 in Caruaru and 06 in Vitória de Santo Antão;

05 distance education undergraduate courses;

152 stricto sensu postgraduate courses, of which 74 are Academic Masters (one in an association), 18 Professional Masters (three in a network) and 54 Academic Doctorates (three in a network and one multicenter) and 3 Professional Doctorates. In total, there are 97 postgraduate programs.

22 in-person lato sensu postgraduate courses (specializations) and 04 distance specialization courses, with 20 support center units;

597 research groups at the University;

362 community outreach projects;

28.989 students enrolled in undergraduate courses(data from the 2020.1 semester). 23.027 from the Recife Campus; 3.919 from the Agreste Campus, and 1.594 from the Vitória Campus. The rest (449) are linked to distance learning courses.

8.777 postgraduate students (4.181 from the academic master's degree, 596 from the professional master's degree, 3.975 from the academic doctorate and 25 from the professional doctorate) (2020 data);

3.117 articles published in journals and 2.562 works published in event annals.

6.474 master's theses and 3.018 doctoral theses defended from 2016 to 2020.

55 patents filed in the name of UFPE and 8 patents granted (2020 data);

408 students from Colégio de Aplicação (elementary and secondary schools) (data from 2020).

8.355 students benefited by the student assistance program (2020 data);

2.494 permanent Higher Education teachers. 89.7% with PhDs, 8.6% with masters, 1.3% specialists and 0.4% with undergraduat degrees (data from 2020). There are also 237 substitute teachers;

55 teachers from the Colégio de Aplicação (Elementary and Secondary level), 89.1% of whom are doctors, 9.1% masters and 1.8% graduates (data from 2020); It is

3.855 technical-administrative employees on the three campuses, of which 1.166 are from Hospital das Clínicas, our university’s hospital (2020 data).

 

Adress

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife - PE

Zip Code: 50670-901

E-mail: secci@ufpe.br (International Office)