At PPG PSYCHOLOGY

• As it is a course at a federal public university, no academic fees are charged for undergraduate, master's or doctorate degrees.
• The PPG Psychology is the oldest of the three postgraduate programs in the field of Psychology located at the Institute of Psychology, Social Service, Health and Human Communication (IPSSCH); the Master's degree was created in 1998 and the Doctorate in 1995 
• IPSSCH is one of the buildings of the UFRGS Health Campus, where the Psychological Care Clinic, Annex I of the Health Campus, the Institute of Basic Health Sciences, the buildings of the Faculties of Dentistry, Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing are also located. , Librarianship and Communication, the Porto Alegre Clinical Hospital, the Indigenous Student House, the UFRGS Data Processing Center, the UFRGS Planetarium, the UFRGS Printing Office and the University Restaurant; 
• O UFRGS Health Campus is in the Santa Cecília neighborhood, in the central region of the city of Porto Alegre;
• The psychology subarea at CAPES had 101 programs in the 2017-2020 quadrennium, 87 of which were in the academic modality and 14 in the professional modality; 
• It is among the postgraduate programs in Rio Grande do Sul best evaluated by CAPES in the 2017-2020 four-year period; In the state there were a total of 418 programs in all areas of knowledge, with 37 programs receiving the maximum score (7). The main difference between programs rated 6 and 7 by CAPES is internationalization;
• It is a program of excellence in Brazilian psychology; the CAPES 2017-2020 evaluation gave the maximum score (7) to 4 programs among the 87 evaluated in the psychology subarea; 
• RS has a large concentration of postgraduate students in psychology; In 2020, RS had 12 postgraduate programs in the Psychology subarea, totaling 460 enrolled. There were 6.44 registrations/100 thousand inhabitants, behind only the Federal District (with 6.4 registrations/100 thousand inhabitants).

 

AT UFRGS

With more than 85 years of tradition, UFRGS was named the third best university in Brazil and the best among federal universities according to the 2023 Times Higher Education international ranking. 

UFRGS is evaluated in the maximum range of the General Course Index (IGC), from the Ministry of Education. With a score of 4.349 (on a scale ranging from 1 to 5, it is the second best federal university and third best university in the country.

Differentiators:

• UFRGS has five campuses in Rio Grande do Sul: four located in Porto Alegre (Centro, Vale, Saúde and Olímpico) and one in Tramandaí, a city about 120 km from the capital of Rio Grande do Sul.
• There are more than 30 thousand undergraduate students and 13 thousand stricto sensu postgraduate students and almost 3 thousand teachers https://www.ufrgs.br/paineldedados/ufrgs-em-numeros/
• There are 90 postgraduate courses, the majority of which are in the upper CAPES assessment strata (22% with a maximum grade of 7 and 27% with a grade of 6). (data from PROPG https://www.ufrgs.br/propg/)
• TUAUFRGS: online portal to support students that provides access to all services provided by the institution; 
• A Dean of Student Affairs (PRAE) promotes conditions that help students stay until they graduate 
• International Campus: integration platform with other universities around the world, facilitating academic exchanges; 
• Technologic Park Zenit: encourages entrepreneurship at universities, bringing new ideas to the production sector. 
• The libraries of UFRGS Library System have collections distributed across areas of knowledge, depending on the subject specialization of each library 

 

IN PORTO ALEGRE

• Founded in 1772, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul has a population of 1.5 million inhabitants, according to 2021 IBGE data; 
• The metropolitan region has 34 municipalities, totaling 4.28 million inhabitants. And located in a strategic position in reference to Mercosur;
• The capital's Human Development Index (HDI) – which compares indicators of items such as wealth, literacy, education, life expectancy, birth rate and others – is 0.805, which places Porto Alegre in 28th in the HDI ranking of all cities ; 
• Porto Alegre is the 10th best capital in Brazil to live in, according to the 2021 Municipal Management Challenge (DGM) ranking, which evaluates four areas essential to the population's quality of life: education, health, safety and sanitation and sustainability;
• Porto Alegre is one of the cities with the highest cost of living in Brazil, alongside São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and Salvador; 
• The extensive urbanized shoreline cut by the waters of Lake Guaíba is the most striking expression of landscape of Porto Alegre and offers one of the most beautiful postcards of the city: the sunset; 
• The capital of Rio Grande do Sul stands out on the national scene as a cultural and economic hub and as a city with lots of green space in its streets, parks and rural areas.