University of Pernambuco

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University of Pernambuco

Universidade de Pernambuco
Other name	UPE
Type	Public
Established	1965
Rector	Pedro Henrique de Barros Falcão
Location	Recife , Pernambuco , Brazil
Website	official site

The University of Pernambuco (Portuguese: Universidade de Pernambuco, UPE; formerly Fundação de Ensino Superior de Pernambuco, FESP) is a public state university located in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.^[1]

Every year almost 4,000 seats of UPE are offered in Brazilian's universities entry exam, the National High School Exam (ENEM). The competition rate is over 12 applicants for each seat, in general.^[2][3]

UPE is well positioned in brazilians universities rankings, such as Guia do Estudante^[4] and RUF,^[5] with most of its courses being between the 50 best of Brazil. In 2021, UPE was classified as the 45th best university of Brazil and the 100th best of Latin America by Times Higher Education University Rankings (THE).^[6]