Universidade de Brasília

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Universidade de Brasília (UnB) is a leading federal public university in Brazil, renowned for its strong research output and academic excellence across a wide range of disciplines, particularly in Law, Architecture and Urbanism, Social Sciences, and various Engineering fields. International students benefit from the dedicated International Affairs Office (INT), which provides support, orientation, and access to Portuguese as a Foreign Language courses, facilitating integration into the vibrant campus life. While most instruction is in Portuguese, UnB actively participates in numerous exchange programs and fosters a diverse environment. Its unique location in Brasília, Brazil's modernist capital and a UNESCO World Heritage site, offers a distinctive cultural and academic experience.

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The University of Brasília (Portuguese: Universidade de Brasília, UnB) is a federal public university in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. It was founded in 1962 and has since consistently been named among the top five Brazilian universities and the top fifteen universities in South America by Times Higher Education (THE). Created under the utopian vision of educator Anísio Teixeira and anthropology professor Darcy Ribeiro in 1962, the University of Brasília (UnB) is located in the centre of Brazil’s capital city, on the banks of the Paranoá Lake. There are four campuses: the Darcy Ribeiro campus (regarded as the UnB’s nucleus), the Ceilândia, Gama and Planaltina campuses. Oscar Niemeyer, one of Modernism’s most feted architects, designed UnB’s main building, the Central Institute of Sciences and was also a key player in the university’s founding. Its strengths lie in its economics, international affairs and political science courses but its general teaching, research and outreach programs have made it one of Brazil’s most well respected universities. Comprising 26 faculties and schools, with...

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