HIGHER EUDCATION IN BRAZIL & UNIVERSITIES.

BRAZIL adopts a mixed system of public and private funded universities.  Usually public funded universities offer the best quality education, and they are 100% financed by the government.  Public universities cab be federally funded (all universities with acronyms in Protuquese starting with "UF" are federal universities), or financed by State Governments (such as USP, Unicamp and Unesp in the State of Sao Paulo).  A list of federal universities of Brazil can also be checked, as well as a list of all universities by State (List of universities in Brazil).

    TABLE OF CONTENTS.

• History of Higher Education in Brazil.
• Degrees.
• Degrees Equivalence with other Countries.
• Vestibular (University Entrance Examination).
• Grading system.
• Exams.
• Public and Private Universities.
• Ranking
• Niches of Excellence.
• Gallery
• See also
• External Links
• References.

History of Higher Education in Brazil.

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in some of the Spanish and English colonies in the Americas, institutions of higher learning denominated universities were established as early as the 17th century.  After the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1759, other religious orders such as the Benedictines and Carmelites were encharged with education in Brazil, alongside "aulas-regias"  funded by the Portuguese Crow.  In 1792, the Escola Politecnica was founded in Rio de Janeiro.Two medical faculties were also established, the Academia Medico-Cirurgica in Salvador (1808) and the Academia Medico-Cirurgica in Rio de Janeiro (1809). Many of those institutions, i.e.  the Federal University of Bahia, the Federal University of Pernambuco, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Sao Paulo.