On September 7, 1920, through Decree No. 14,343, the federal government created its first university: the University of Rio de Janeiro (URJ). The path to creating universities in the country was long: unlike other colonial areas, in Brazil, universities and higher education courses were prohibited by law, and the children of the colonial and imperial elites went to European universities, mainly Coimbra, to complete their studies in Law and Medicine. Registered in the top ten positions of several academic rankings in Latin America, UFRJ currently has 176 undergraduate courses and 232 master’s and doctoral courses. According to the 2019 Folha University Ranking, UFRJ is the most innovative university in the country, which is also due to its plurality: it has more than 4,000 professors, 65,000 students, 3,000 employees who work in hospitals, and 5,000 administrative technicians.

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