The Federal University of Santa Maria ( Portuguese : Universidade Federal de Santa Maria , UFSM ) is a Brazilian public university located in Santa Maria , in the state of Rio Grande do Sul , funded by the federal government of Brazil. It was founded in 1960, by Professor José Mariano da Rocha Filho. Its campuses span over 1,837.72 ha, with a total of 386,968 m of buildings and 28,307 students.
11-1212: (Redirected from Universidad Santa María ) St. Mary's University (in French, Université Ste-Marie , in Spanish, Universidad de Santa María ) is the name of several universities: Brazil [ edit ] Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Canada [ edit ] St. Mary's University (Calgary) , Alberta Saint Mary's University (Halifax) , Nova Scotia Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal , Montreal, Quebec, defunct Chile [ edit ] Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Ethiopia [ edit ] St. Mary's University (Addis Ababa) Panama [ edit ] Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua Peru [ edit ] Catholic University of Santa María Philippines [ edit ] Saint Mary's University (Philippines) , Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya South Sudan [ edit ] St. Mary's University in Juba United Kingdom [ edit ] St Mary's University College, Belfast ,
22-799: A college of Queen's University Belfast, in Northern Ireland St Mary's University, Twickenham , London, oldest Catholic university in the United Kingdom United States [ edit ] Saint Mary's College of California , Moraga, California St. Mary's College of Maryland , St. Mary's City, Maryland St. Mary's Seminary and University , Baltimore, Maryland Mount St. Mary's University , Emmitsburg, Maryland Saint Mary's College (Michigan) , Orchard Lake, Michigan, defunct—now known as Madonna University Saint Mary's University of Minnesota , Winona, Minnesota St. Mary's University (Galveston, Texas) , Galveston, Texas,
33-591: A defunct university that closed in 1922. St. Mary's University, Texas , San Antonio, Texas University of Saint Mary , Leavenworth, Kansas Venezuela [ edit ] Universidad Santa María (Venezuela) See also [ edit ] St. Mary's University College (disambiguation) Saint Mary's (disambiguation) Saint Mary's College (disambiguation) St. Mary's High School (disambiguation) St. Mary's School (disambiguation) St. Mary's Academy (disambiguation) University of Mary (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
44-439: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UFSM's presence in the municipality of Santa Maria is one of the reasons why the city is sometimes called "university city" or "culture city". It is located in western Rio Grande do Sul , approximately 290 km far from the capital city of the state, Porto Alegre , thus being set in
55-453: Is usually an argumentative text on a theme. UFSM offers also a serial admission program, called PEIES (or Programa de Ingresso ao Ensino Superior ), which consists of a multiple-choice exam applied at the end of each of the three years of Brazilian high school , plus a written essay only in the third year. UFSM was the first university in Brazil to adopt such a program, through which 20% of all
66-722: The admission for undergraduate courses in UFSM is mainly based on an annual open test called vestibular . The only request to be filled in order to apply for it is to have completed a high school course. UFSM's vestibular comprises a multiple-choice exam and a written essay and lasts for 3 mornings and 1 afternoon. The multiple-choice exam contains 15 questions on each of the following subjects: Portuguese Language , Brazilian Literature , Chemistry , Mathematics , Physics , Geography , History , Biology , Philosophy and Foreign Language (the applicant may choose one among English , Spanish , French , German and Italian ). The written essay
77-487: The city centre. The university is divided into nine academic centers, which administer and organize the undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered. UFSM offers 11 distance education courses and 66 graduate courses . The Federal University of Santa Maria also has three technical and secondary education institutions: They are administered by UFSM's Coordenadoria de Ensino Médio e Tecnológico — Coordination of Secondary and Technical Education . The schools offer
88-505: The country. UFSM has four campuses: the main one in Camobi , Santa Maria ; one campus in the municipality of Silveira Martins , near Santa Maria; and two smaller ones in northern Rio Grande do Sul , in the municipalities of Frederico Westphalen and Palmeira das Missões . In Santa Maria, however, the courses of Law , Business , Accounting , Psychology , Economics , International Relations , and Dentistry are still offered off-campus, in
99-473: The heart of the pampas of Brazil . As a public university, students do not pay tuition fees. It is the oldest federal university not located in a Brazilian state capital city, and the largest in number of undergraduate courses offered in Rio Grande do Sul state. As for 2015, the university was ranked at position 15 at national ranking from MEC . Like most other Brazilian higher education institutions,
110-494: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint_Mary%27s_University&oldid=1252171221 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
121-410: The undergraduate students are admitted. UFSM's vestibular and PEIES are both prepared and administered by Coperves (Permanent Commission for Vestibular). In 2011, the most competitive course was Medicine , with over 96 candidates per opening. Since 2015, vestibular was replaced by "SISU", a national wide selection system for general university entrance, as it happens to most of federal universities on
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