Aiming to combat the shortage of qualified professionals, the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) has thousands of vacancies in free courses. Free undergraduate courses are made available through SiSU.
The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) is offering 2.917 free undergraduate course spots, divided between its four campuses (São Carlos, Araras, Sorocaba and Lagoa do Sino). The free course spots are part of the 2025 edition of the Unified Selection System (SiSU), the main gateway to higher education in Brazil. This initiative also aims to combat the shortage of qualified professionals.
Find out how places on free undergraduate courses are distributed
Those interested in free courses at the Federal University must have taken the National High School Exam (Enem) in 2024 and registered with SiSU.
Of the total number of places on free undergraduate courses offered by SiSU, UFSCar reserves half of them opportunities for open competition and 50% for the vacancy reservation system. The list of free undergraduate courses at the Federal University to combat the shortage of qualified professionals is as follows:
- Senai offers 100% free courses for the most sought-after professions! Become a bricklayer, plumber, painter and more!
- Free courses at the Federal Institute! Become an expert in Agribusiness, Mechanics, Clothing Modeling or Sales
- Federal Institute calls for those interested in taking completely free courses. There are 1.344 vacancies in technical and higher education courses in the areas of IT, Libras, Logistics, Administration and more!
- Get trained without spending anything! UFRRJ offers 150 free online specialization spots in the Data area
- ABI – PHILOSOPHY;
- ABI – MATHEMATICS;
- LIBRARY SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SCIENCE;
- BIOTECHNOLOGY;
- COMPUTER SCIENCE;
- BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (Bachelor's Degree);
- BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (Bachelor's Degree);
- SOCIAL SCIENCES;
- SPECIAL EDUCATION;
- PHYSICAL EDUCATION (Bachelor's Degree);
- PHYSICAL EDUCATION (Bachelor's Degree);
- NURSING;
- CIVIL ENGINEERING;
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING;
- MATERIALS ENGINEERING;
- PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;
- PHYSICAL ENGINEERING;
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;
- CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;
- STATISTIC;
- PHYSIOTHERAPY;
- PHYSICS (Night Degree);
- PHYSICS (Full Degree);
- PHYSICS (Bachelor's Degree);
- GERONTOLOGY;
- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS;
- IMAGE AND SOUND;
- LETTERS – SPANISH;
- LETTERS – ENGLISH;
- LINGUISTICS;
- MATHEMATICS (Bachelor's degree);
- MEDICINE;
- MUSIC;
- PEDAGOGY (Morning);
- PEDAGOGY (Night);
- PSYCHOLOGY;
- CHEMISTRY (Bachelor's Degree);
- CHEMISTRY (Night);
- OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY;
- TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION IN BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE – LIBRAS/PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE;
- ADMINISTRATION;
- BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (Night);
- ECONOMIC SCIENCES;
- FORESTRY ENGINEERING;
- PHYSICS (Bachelor's Degree);
- GEOGRAPHY;
- PEDAGOGY;
- CHEMISTRY (Bachelor's Degree);
- TOURISM;
- AGROECOLOGY;
- BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES;
- AGRONOMIC ENGINEERING;
- ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;
- FOOD ENGINEERING.
How do I enroll in free undergraduate courses?
Reservations for places on free courses at the Federal University to combat the shortage of qualified professionals are exclusive to those who have completed all the necessary High school in a public school in Brazil or equivalent school, such as community institutions that operate in the field of rural education, in partnership with the public authorities.
People who have, at some point, attended part of their secondary education at private schools (even with a scholarship) or at foreign schools will not be able to compete for the reserved places.
Within the 50% of places on free undergraduate courses in the reservation system, there are those aimed at people who self-declare as black or brown, low-income, recognized as quilombolas, recognized as indigenous and with disabilities.
To register for free courses at the Federal University, which aim to combat the shortage of qualified professionals, candidates must access the website between January 17 and 21 and register as indicated.
At this point, you must choose up to two course options, indicating the competition modality. The Ministry of Education (MEC) expects the result to be published on January 26th.
Differences between free courses at the Federal University
The Federal University has already published the so-called Term of Adhesion, which presents detailed information about courses and shifts, emphasis, duration, number of vacancies, supporting documentation and distribution of vacancies according to the Quota Law.
For 2025, with a focus on combating the shortage of professionals, the Federal University also reinforces another change: the equating of community schools that operate in the field of rural education, in partnership with the public authorities, to public schools, for the purposes of affirmative action policies.
In this way, students who finished high school in community schools will have the same right to places reserved for students in the public school system.