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Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
UFSM
AV. RORAIMA ,Nº 1000 - CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIA - BAIRRO CAMOBI
Santa Maria-RS
97105900
Brazil
Type
Government
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Telephone
+55 (55) 3220-8000
Activities
The Federal University of Santa Maria was the first federal university created in the interior, outside a Brazilian capital. This fact represented an important milestone in the interiorization process of public university education in Brazil and contributed to Rio Grande do Sul becoming the first State in the Federation to have two federal universities. It is headquartered in Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Camobi neighborhood, in Cidade Universitária Prof. José Mariano da Rocha Filho, where most of his academic and administrative activities take place. It also has three campuses away from its headquarters: one in Frederico Westphalen, one in Palmeira das Missões and another in Cachoeira do Sul.
In addition to the campuses, the current structure is made up of twelve University Units: Center for Arts and Letters, Center for Natural and Exact Sciences, Center for Rural Sciences, Center for Health Sciences, Center for Social and Human Sciences, Center for Education, Center of Physical Education and Sports, Polytechnic College, Technology Center, Industrial Technical College of Santa Maria, Multidisciplinary Space of UFSM in Silveira Martins, Child Education Unit Ipê Amarelo.
In face-to-face teaching, it offers 131 undergraduate courses/qualifications, 11 of which are higher technology courses, 37 are full degree courses and 83 are bachelor's degrees. In addition, the institution offers 106 postgraduate courses, 34 of which are doctoral, 59 master's, 12 specialization and a postdoctoral program. In basic and technical education, there are 24 post-secondary technical courses, 4 technicians for secondary education, a secondary education course and a pre-school education course. (Data from 11.21.2019. For updated data, see the UFSM Portal in Numbers .
The student body is made up of approximately 30 thousand students, with 27 thousand in the on-site modality and 3,000 in the distance learning modality. The staff has about 5 thousand employees. Of these, 2,200 are teachers and 2,800 are administrative technicians in education. (For updated data, see the UFSM Portal in Numbers ).
