The Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) was created by State Law 1.366, of December 2, 1955. It does not teach graduation, UFPB has 130 courses, of which 119 are in-person and 11 are distance education. The number of active students, in 2022, is approximately 33 thousand students. Not only post-graduation, the Instituição counts 137 courses, including 40 doctorates and 60 academic masters, 4 medical residencies, as well as 19 specializations, including 1 doctorate and 13 professional masters.

The Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), 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 Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). 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.