FURG offers 61 undergraduate courses in a wide range of fields of knowledge. In addition, the university offers 18 specialization courses, 31 master’s courses, 13 doctoral courses, 14 residency courses and around 150 research groups certified by CNPq. The university has over 9,000 undergraduate students in person, as well as 300 distance learning undergraduate students and around 2,500 postgraduate students. Regarding staff, there are around 900 professors and over 1,200 administrative technicians in education.

The Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande (FURG), through the national contract between CAPES and IEEE has an unlimited open access agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles as open access without open access fees in all IEEE fully and hybrid open access journals. The agreement applies to all original research articles accepted for publication between 5 November 2024 – 30 October 2027. To benefit from this agreement, the corresponding author has to be affiliated with Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande (FURG). Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submi​​ssion. It is recommended for authors to select the CC BY 4.0 license. The open access funding request will be approved by an OA administrator at CAPES. Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.