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Universidade Federal do Ceará | |
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Other names | UFC |
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| Motto | Virtvs Vnita Fortior |
Motto in English | The more united the virtues, the stronger |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1954; 71 years ago (1954) |
| Endowment | R$1.2 billion(2014)[1] |
| Chancellor | Custódio Luís Silva de Almeida |
| Vice-Chancellor | Diana Cristina Silva de Azevedo |
Academic staff | 2,052 (1,883 effective) (2012) |
Administrative staff | 1,385 (2007) |
| Students | 34,597 (2012) |
| Undergraduates | 26,956 (2012) |
| Postgraduates | 7,641 (2012) |
| 1,346 (2012) | |
| Location | ,, |
| Affiliations | CRUB,RENEX |
| Website | www |
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TheFederal University of Ceará[2] (Portuguese:Universidade Federal do Ceará,UFC) is a federaluniversity withcampuses in the cities ofFortaleza,Sobral,Russas,Quixadá,Crateús andItapajé, in the state ofCeará,Brazil. UFC is a public andtuition-free university, with several academic programs in most areas of knowledge.
In Fortaleza, the university has three main campuses: "Campus do Pici", with most of the programs inscience andtechnology areas, "Campus do Benfica", which harbors the university's administration and the programs inhumanities,business, and thelaw school, and the "Campus do Porangabussu", with themedical school. The campus of Sobral has aMedical School,Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering,Finance,Economy,Dentistry,Psychology and TeachingMusic. The campus of Quixadá offers graduations inInformation System,Software Engineering,Computer Networks,Computer Science,Computer Engineering, and Digital Design. The campus of Russas is home to courses inComputer Science,Software Engineering,Civil Engineering,Production Engineering, andMechanical Engineering. The campus of Crateús offers graduations inComputer Science, Environmental and Sanitary Engineering,Civil Engineering,Mining Engineering, andInformation System.
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 in 1949. The main character of this movement wasAntônio 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 in December 1954 and began to function on June 25, 1955. Its implementation was owed to the union of the severalhigher education institutes then present in the city of Fortaleza: the School ofAgronomy, the Law College of Ceara, theMedicine College and thePharmacy &Odontology College. Today, the University consists of four centers of basic science and education and five professionalcolleges.[citation needed]
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