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Federal University of Ceará

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Other names
  
UFC

Established
  
1954 (1954)

Total enrollment
  
42,443 (2012)

Founded
  
16 December 1954

Type
  
Public

Endowment
  
R$1.2 Billions(2014)

Phone
  
+55 85 3366-7300

Federal University of Ceará

Motto in English
  
The more united the virtues, the stronger

Chancellor
  
Jesualdo Pereira Farias

Address
  
Av. da Universidade, 2853 - Benfica, Fortaleza - CE, 60020-180, Brazil

Motto
  
Virtvs Vnita Fortior (The united the virtues, the stronger, la)

Notable alumni
  
Ciro Gomes, Camilo Santana, Cid Gomes, Luizianne Lins, Roberto Cláudio

Similar
  
Ceará State University, University of Fortaleza, Instituto Federal do Ceará, Federal University of Perna, State University of the Vall

Profiles

The Federal University of Ceará (Portuguese: Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC) is a federal university with campuses in the cities of Fortaleza, Sobral, Barbalha, Russas and Quixadá, in the state of Ceará, Brazil. UFC is a public and tuition-free university, with several academic programs in most areas of knowledge.

Contents

In Fortaleza, the university has three main campuses: "Campus do Pici", with the most of the programs in science and technology areas, "Campus do Benfica", which harbors the university's administration and the programs in humanities, business, and the law school, and the "Campus do Porangabussu", with the medical school. The campus of Sobral is new and has a Medical School, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Finance, Economy, Dentistry, Psychology and Teaching Music.

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History

UFC was created by the Brazilian federal government in 1955 and is under the Ministry of Education. The University was created as the result of great public debate, which had begun on 1949. The main character of this movement was Antônio Martins Filho, an intellectual who became the first director of the recently created "Universidade do Ceará" ('University of Ceará'). The University itself was created by Law #2.373, ratified on December 1954 and began to function on June 25, 1955. Its implementation was owed to the union of the several higher education institutes then present in the city of Fortaleza: the School of Agronomy, the Law College of Ceara, the Medicine College and the Pharmacy & Odontology College. Today, the University consists of four centers of basic science and education and five professional colleges, and is one of the most respected universities of Brazil.

References

Federal University of Ceará Wikipedia