Universidade Federal de Sergipe

What Universidade Federal de Sergipe does

Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS) is a Brazilian federal public university, created by Decreto-Lei nº 269 of February 28, 1967, and officially installed on May 15, 1968. Maintained by the União (Federal Government of Brazil) under the Ministry of Education (MEC), it operates as a government foundation delivering free higher education to the population of the state of Sergipe. UFS serves students, faculty, and the broader community through undergraduate and graduate programs, distance learning via CESAD, basic education through CODAP, healthcare via two EBSERH-managed university hospitals and a veterinary hospital, and extension/community outreach programs.

The institution operates six campuses — São Cristóvão (headquarters), Aracaju, Itabaiana, Laranjeiras, Lagarto, and Nossa Senhora da Glória — plus 13 distance-learning support centers across Sergipe. Its technology stack is built around integrated federal systems: SIGAA (academic management), SIPAC (procurement, contracts, finance), SIGRH (human resources), and SEI (electronic document management), supplemented by an institutional open data portal (dados.ufs.br) and Power BI budget dashboards. Leadership is structured across a rectorate, five pro-rectorates, four superintendent offices, and five academic centers (CCET, CCBS, CCAA, CCSA, CECH).

The business model is non-commercial: education is tuition-free for undergraduates, and funding flows from the federal government via MEC budget allocations rather than from paying customers or private investors. As a public legal entity under the federal executive branch, UFS has no shareholders, no equity instruments, and no M&A history. Operational growth is governed by multi-year institutional development plans (PDI 2021-2025), compliance with Lei de Acesso à Informação and LGPD, and partnerships such as the EBSERH arrangement for hospital management.

Name

Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Legal name

Fundação Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Website

https://acessoainformacao.ufs.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1968

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Universidade Federal de Sergipe is a Brazilian federal public university, founded in 1968 and maintained by the Ministry of Education, that delivers tuition-free undergraduate and graduate education across six campuses in Sergipe, plus distance learning, basic education, and hospital services via EBSERH partnership.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Marechal Cândido Rondon

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Universidade Federal de Sergipe is a Brazilian federal public university that delivers tuition-free higher education, including undergraduate and graduate degree programs, across six campuses in Sergipe and a distance-learning network of 13 centers. It also provides healthcare through two university hospitals (operated under EBSERH) and a veterinary hospital, runs an attached basic-education school (CODAP), and conducts academic research and community extension activities.

Product overview

Universidade Federal de Sergipe operates as a public higher education institution offering a portfolio of academic and administrative systems. The core academic operations run on SIGAA (Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmicas), supplemented by the distance education platform CESAD. Administrative functions are supported by SIPAC for procurement/contracts and SIGRH for human resources. SEI handles electronic document management. The university also maintains three hospitals (Hospital Universitário de Aracaju, Hospital Universitário de Lagarto, Hospital Veterinário Universitário), a basic education school (CODAP), and publishes institutional data through transparency and open data portals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Undergraduate degree programs (Graduação) Tuition-free undergraduate education (bachelor's, licentiate, and technology degrees) offered across UFS campuses in Sergipe, intended for prospective students admitted via Brazil's national unified selection system (SISU) and a separate vestibular exam.
• Graduate degree programs (Pós-graduação) Academic master's and doctoral programs and professional postgraduate courses, targeted at holders of undergraduate degrees seeking advanced academic and research qualifications.
• Distance-learning programs (CESAD) Distance undergraduate degree programs and extension courses delivered through CESAD's 13 centers across Sergipe and via a virtual learning environment, for students who need flexible, off-campus study.
• Basic education at Colégio de Aplicação (CODAP) Basic education (early childhood through secondary) provided at UFS's attached Colégio de Aplicação (CODAP), serving school-age children and supporting teacher training and educational research.
• Hospital Universitário de Aracaju Public clinical hospital services in Aracaju, operated under EBSERH and integrated with UFS, providing SUS (Brazilian public health system) care to the population and clinical training to health-professions students.
• Hospital Universitário de Lagarto Public clinical hospital services in Lagarto, managed under EBSERH, providing SUS healthcare in southern Sergipe and serving as a teaching and research site for UFS health-professions students.
• Hospital Veterinário Universitário Veterinary clinical services provided by UFS's university veterinary hospital, used for clinical training of veterinary and animal-science students and serving the local community's animal-care needs.
• Research, innovation, and community extension services Academic research projects, innovation initiatives, and community outreach/extension programs, typically funded by federal and state research agencies and offered to public and private-sector partners and communities.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• EBSERH (Empresa Brasileira de Serviços Hospitalares)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for management of university hospitals. EBSERH manages Hospital Universitário de Aracaju (HU) and Hospital Universitário de Lagarto (HUL), both operated within UFS campuses. This is a federal government company that manages teaching hospitals linked to federal universities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco: Northeast federal university with multi-campus model, integrated EBSERH hospital operations, and strong graduate research output. Closely comparable in operational scope and regional role.
• Universidade Federal de Goiás: Federal university with multi-campus structure, hospital operations, and regional research role serving the state of Goiás — directly comparable institutional model outside the Northeast.
• Universidade Federal do Ceará: Major Northeast federal university with extensive multi-campus network, EBSERH teaching hospitals, and significant research output — comparable as a scaled-up version of UFS's federal model.
• Universidade Federal da Paraíba: Northeast federal university with multi-campus operations, EBSERH-managed hospitals, and broad undergraduate/graduate offerings — closely mirrors UFS's institutional structure and mission.
• Universidade Federal de Alagoas: Smaller neighboring federal university in Alagoas with similar multi-campus, hospital, and EaD profile. Comparable as a smaller-scale Northeastern federal university serving a similarly-sized state.
• Universidade Federal da Bahia: Another Brazilian federal public research university in the Northeast region with multi-campus structure, university hospitals under EBSERH, and graduate/professional programs. Most directly comparable in scale, mission, and federal funding model to UFS.
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte: Northeast federal university with multi-campus structure, university hospitals, distance-learning operations, and applied research programs — a near-twin institutional archetype to UFS.

Regional players

• Instituto Federal de Sergipe: Federal network of technical and higher-education institutions also serving Sergipe. Comparable as a co-resident federal education institution in the same state, though focused on technical/vocational rather than university-level programs.

Broad incumbents

• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: Largest Brazilian federal university by some measures, with extensive multi-campus operations, hospital network, and research output. Useful as an upper-bound benchmark for what UFS's model can scale toward.
• Universidade Federal de São Paulo: Larger federal university with multi-campus model and strong hospital network, including UNIFESP Hospital São Paulo. Comparable as a federal university with significant EBSERH hospital presence and graduate research depth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ufsoficial
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/ufsoficial
• Facebookfacebook.com/UFSoficial
• Instagraminstagram.com/ufsoficial

Compliance5 records

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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