Founded in 1983, the State University of Bahia was formed by grouping existing schools in the state of Bahia, including the Technical Education Center of Bahia, the faculty of agronomy of the Middle San Francisco College, the faculty of teacher training of Alagoinhas, the faculty of teacher training of Jacobina, the faculty of teacher training of Santo Antônio de Jesus, the faculty of philosophy, sciences and letters of Caetité and the faculty of philosophy, sciences and letters of Juazeiro.
It soon became the largest university in the region, now enrolling approximately 50,000 students.
Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil and in the northeast of the country, on the Atlantic coast. Its capital is the city of Salvador.
Bahia State University offers over 100 undergraduate degrees, 12 graduate degrees, and three doctoral degrees based across over 25 different campuses. The Salvador campus, considered the hub of the university, offers most of the programmes with other campuses offering a few undergraduate and graduate programmes.
The main faculties at the university are: arts, business and management, physics, chemistry, geography, media and communications, psychology, social sciences, exact sciences, engineering, finance and accounting, information technology, and education.
Students will find everything they need including comprehensive libraries across all its campuses, classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, and study areas in addition to on-campus accommodation, recreation centres, computer workstations and career counseling division.
The university has established relationships with universities around the world, carrying academic exchanges, scientific research cooperation and the opportunity for students to study abroad. The university also welcomes students to its campus.
