Other name PUC-Rio Phone +55 21 3527-1001 Founded 30 October 1940 | Type Private, non-profit Founder Society of Jesus Colors Yellow, Blue | |
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Motto in English With wings, nothing is heavy Established October 30, 1940; 76 years ago (October 30, 1940) Affiliation Roman Catholic Church and Society of Jesus Chancellor Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist. Address R. Marquês de São Vicente, 225 - Gávea, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22430-060, Brazil Undergraduate tuition and fees International tuition: 35,532 BRL (2011) Motto Alis Grave Nil (With wings, nothing is heavy) Notable alumni Rodrigo Santoro, Marcelo Gleiser, Rodrigo Constantino, Pedro Malan, Alessandro Molon Similar Federal University of Rio de, Rio de Janeiro State Uni, Federal Fluminense University, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Federal University of the Stat | ||
Pontifical catholic university of rio de janeiro
The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio) is a Catholic pontifical university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the joint responsibility of the Catholic Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and the Society of Jesus. In 2016, PUC-Rio was ranked as the fifth best university in Latin America by Times Higher Education magazine.
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Pontifical catholic university of rio de janeiro
History
The University was created in 1941 by the Society of Jesus to emphasize humanistic values in the pursuit of knowledge. PUC-Rio has 12,000 undergraduate students, 2,500 graduate students, and 4,000 extension students. In 2009 it ranked first among 2,252 higher education institutions in Brazil on ENADE, a benchmark exercise run by the Brazilian Ministry of Education.
PUC-Rio has highly accredited faculties in Law, Engineering, Computer science, Psychology, Economics, Business, and International Relations. It fosters cultural diversity in its student body. It has participated in exchange programs with Harvard, Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Brown University as well as European universities, with hundreds of students participating each year.
Location
PUC-Rio is located in Gávea in the south of Rio, at the edge of Tijuca National Forest. The campus was once a coffee farm. A creek crossed by three bridges runs through the campus. Several city bus lines pass the university, which is near the suburban neighborhoods of Leblon, Ipanema, Jardim Botânico, and Lagoa. Metrô busses connect the campus to the General Osório station in Ipanema and the Botafogo subway station on Botafogo beach. The Botanical Gardens and Leblon beach are within walking distance of the university.
Campus
The campus was built with donations from institutions and foundations in the early 1940s. In the early '60s the USA through its American Schools and Hospitals Abroad program donated the building now named after President John Kennedy; the grant was received during his administration. Besides the Central Library there are three specialized libraries. Solar Grandjean de Montigny, PUC-Rio's Cultural Center, has year-round visual arts exhibitions. Pilotis (Kennedy building's ground floor) hosts cultural events such as political debates, shows, and fairs. The "Festa Junina" each June features folkloric food, costumes, and dance from old Brazil.
On campus are three restaurants, five coffee-shops, a pizza-parlor, a bookstore, an office supply store, copy centers, branches of Banco Itaú and Banco Santander Brasil, a post office, newsstand, and ATMs. The neighborhood of the university contains more shops, banks, the Planetarium, specialized bookstores, restaurants, and a mall.
Admission
Undergraduate admission to PUC -Rio takes two forms of entry to graduation: ENEM and Vestibular own. Through these tests are distributed academic scholarships to students.
Research
The Lua programming language was developed by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes, members of the Computer Graphics Technology Group at PUC-Rio, beginning in 1993.
Faculty
The following are a partial list of professors from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.