Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

Catholic University of Pernambuco

Catholic University of Pernambuco
125px Coat of arms of the university
Motto	Veritati et vitae
Motto in English	True is vital
Type	Private, non-profit
Established	March 31, 1943 (March 31, 1943)
Affiliation	Roman Catholic, Jesuit
Chancellor	Dom Pedro Rubens Ferreira Oliveira
Rector	Aline Maria Grego
Vice rector	Luciano José Pinheiro Barros
Academic staff	249
Students	15,000
Undergraduates	14,309
Postgraduates	691
Location	Recife , Pernambuco , Brazil
Campus	Urban
Colors	Grey and White
Website	www.unicap.br

The Catholic University of Pernambuco (Unicap) in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, is a Catholic University run by the Society of Jesus.

History

Unicap was founded on September 27, 1951, and recognized by the Federal Government (Decree 30,417) on January 18, 1952. It grew out of the first Catholic school in the region, Manoel da Nóbrega College of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters, founded by the Jesuits of the northeast region in 1943. In its development, the University faced incorporation and aggregation or creation of Colleges, Institutes, or Schools, to implement in 1974 the university reform law, adopting the model homogeneous ternary Rectory, Centres, and Departments. Unicap today includes an educational complex with 15,000 students from first-degree courses to graduate school. Some 50,000 have graduated.

The Central Library, named for Aloísio M. de Carvalho, SJ, has 15,000 registered users, 400,000 visits per year, and more than 700,000 loans, with on average of 3,500 readers per day. Its 450,000 volumes are indexed on internet.

Programs

In 2010, in its first evaluation by the Ministry of Education, Unicap received a 4 out of 5. Singled out for commendation were "The policy for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate, research, extension," the policy of incentives for graduates (with the payment of grants and agreements for internships), the approval of the trained law course in the examination of the Bar Association of Brazil (more than 60%), 33 Unicap research groups registered with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the program of scholarships for teachers and employees.

Unicap’s Student Exchange Program offers one or two semesters in an IES exchange program at the national or international level. This is encouraged by the Association of Universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America (AUSJAL), for a beneficial integration of students from Latin American Jesuit higher education institutions. Unicap also receives foreign IES students in exchange.

Courses

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People during a test in Unicap.

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Students in the Campus of Bela Vista.

Professions

Course	Campus
Law	Boa Vista
Philosophy	Boa Vista
History	Boa Vista
Geography	Boa Vista
Pedagogy	Boa Vista
Social service	Boa Vista
Theology	Boa Vista
Social communication	Boa Vista
Letters	Boa Vista
Executive secretary	Boa Vista
Occupational therapy	Boa Vista
Chemical engineering	Boa Vista
Business administration	Boa Vista
Biological sciences	Boa Vista
Accounting	Boa Vista
Economics	Boa Vista
Physical education	Boa Vista
Speech therapy	Boa Vista
Civil engineering	Boa Vista
Environmental engineering	Boa Vista
Physiotherapy	Boa Vista
Mathematics	Boa Vista
Computers	Boa Vista
Tourism	Boa Vista
Architecture	Boa Vista
Computer Science	Boa Vista
Medicine	Boa Vista

Culture collection

Universidade Católica de Pernambuco maintains a microbial culture collection whose strains are qualified using the UCP epithet (for instance Cunninghamella elegans UCP 542).

External links

• (Portuguese) Official website