Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro

Located in Campos dos Goytacazes in Rio de Janeiro, the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro was founded by Professor Darcy Ribeiro in 1991. The institute was the first Brazilian university to have a faculty made up of 100 per cent PhD professors.

The university is made up of two campuses: the Leonel Brizola campus and the Macaé campus. The Leonel Brizola campus is where the rectory and the main teaching units are located as well as a number of the university campuses. The Macaé campus is where the two laboratories of the Science and Technology Centre are located.

The university offers 18 undergraduate courses and two degrees offered at a distance through the Distance Education Center of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The university also offers 13 postgraduate programmes.

The subjects covered at the university include human and social sciences, biology, civil engineering, maths, veterinary medicine and chemistry among others.

The university is made up of several multidisciplinary laboratories including. The Science and Technology Centre (CCT), the Centre for Agricultural Sciences and Technologies (CCTA), the Centre for Biosciences and Biotechnology (CBB), and the Human Science Centre (CCH).