Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia

What Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia does

Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (UFSB) is a Brazilian federal public university created by Law 12.818/2013 and operated under the Ministry of Education (MEC). The institution serves the Southern Bahia region through three campuses: Campus Sosígenes Costa in Porto Seguro, Campus Jorge Amado in Itabuna (headquarters), and Campus Paulo Freire in Teixeira de Freitas. UFSB delivers tuition-free higher education at undergraduate, graduate (master's and doctoral via PPGES), and extension levels using a distinctive cycle-based academic architecture — a first cycle of interdisciplinary bachelor's degrees, a second cycle of professional specialization degrees, and a third cycle of graduate programs. There is no tuition revenue; funding flows from the federal government budget, CAPES, and CNPq.

The university's research portfolio centers on Atlantic Forest restoration, tropical biodiversity, seed dispersal ecology, public health (diabetes screening methodology, mental health policy evaluation), environmental taxation, geochemical forensics (oil spill chemical analysis), and vernacular architecture. Documented research outputs include peer-reviewed publications in Forest Ecology and Management and PLOS ONE, plus a proprietary citizen-science platform (Tikatu) that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate water quality monitoring. Faculty maintain collaborations with peer Brazilian institutions (USP, UNICAMP, UFBA, UFRJ, Unifesp, Fiocruz) and international universities (Yale, University of Connecticut, University of Göttingen, National Tsing Hua University, University of Azores). The institution also partners with CEPLAC for cocoa and regional agricultural research.

UFSB serves four primary user groups: students from Southern Bahia and beyond, the broader Brazilian research community, local communities and traditional populations through extension programs, and public sector bodies for governance and policy research. The entity operates under Brazil's Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI) transparency framework and the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), with a dedicated Integrity and Transparency Directorate (DIT) and a Serviço de Informação ao Cidadão (SIC). UFSB does not generate commercial revenue, has no parent company beyond the federal government, and has no private shareholders or venture capital investors.

Name

Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia

Legal name

Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia

Website

https://ufsb.edu.br

Company type

Public

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia is a Brazilian federal public university offering tuition-free higher education across three campuses in Southern Bahia (Itabuna, Porto Seguro, Teixeira de Freitas), with research focused on Atlantic Forest restoration, biodiversity, public health, and social sciences.

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Product category

Public Higher Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Research Universities with Multi-Campus Systems (EDAHAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Research Universities with Major Extension & Outreach Missions (EDAHAAAG)

Keywords

• Higher education
• Public university
• Academic research
• Graduate programs
• Extension services

Headquarters

HQ city

Itabuna

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia is a Brazilian public federal university that delivers tuition-free higher education through undergraduate and graduate academic programs across three campuses in Southern Bahia. It conducts scientific research in environmental sciences, public health, biodiversity, and social sciences, and runs community extension programs integrating traditional and local communities through eight interdisciplinary Centers of Formation.

Product overview

Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (UFSB) is a public federal university in Brazil offering higher education services including undergraduate programs, graduate studies (master's and doctoral degrees), and extension activities. The institution operates through multiple campuses (Campus Sosígenes Costa in Porto Seguro, Campus Jorge Amado in Itabuna, and Campus Paulo Freire in Teixeira de Freitas) and maintains various academic support platforms including SIG (academic information system), Moodle (learning management), and the UFSB Ciência research publication portal. The university provides educational services across interdisciplinary centers of formation covering arts and communication, environmental sciences, health sciences, agroforestry sciences, territorial development, techno-sciences and innovation, human and social sciences, and public policies and social technologies.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Undergraduate Programs (1st and 2nd Cycle)
• Graduate Programs (PPGES)
• University Extension Programs
• Scientific Research and Publications

Quantifiable outcome

• 66.7% of individuals with elevated blood sugar levels were previously unaware of their condition, demonstrating GCC screening effectiveness
• +2 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature8 records

Partnerships

25 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Universidade dos Açores (Portugal)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020International academic collaboration with Professor José Noronha Rodrigues from University of Azores on migration policy research.
• Universidade de Göttingen (Germany)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020International collaboration with Dylan Craven on seed rain and forest regeneration studies.
• Universidade de Yale (USA)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Collaboration with researchers Florencia Montagnini, Mark Ashton, and Chadwick Oliver from Yale University on Atlantic Forest studies.
• New York Botanical Garden (USA)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Research partnership with William Wayt Thomas on botanical and ecological studies of Atlantic Forest regeneration.
• Instituto Philippe PinelminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Collaboration on mental health and psychiatric deinstitutionalization research.
• Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Collaborative research partnership for forest restoration studies. Dr. Luiz Fernando Silva Magnago from UFSB collaborated with researchers from multiple institutions including UFSCar on ecological restoration research published in Forest Ecology and Management.
• University of Connecticut (USA)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019International research collaboration with Professor Robin Chazdon from University of Connecticut on forest restoration and biodiversity conservation studies.
• National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019International collaboration with Professor Anne Chao on statistical methods for biodiversity research and ecological studies.
• Universidade de São Paulo (USP)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Collaboration with researchers from ESALQ/USP including Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues on forest restoration projects in Atlantic Forest.
• Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Joint research with UNICAMP on forest restoration ecology and biodiversity conservation.
• Universidade de São Paulo - Instituto Oceanográfico (IO-USP)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Inter-institutional collaboration on oil spill chemical analysis research. Researchers from IO-USP led the geochemical forensic analysis of oil contamination samples.
• Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Collaboration with IGEO-UFBA on geochemical studies of oil contamination along the Brazilian coast.
• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Partnership with DOCEAN-UFPE on oceanographic research related to oil spill impact assessment.
• Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Collaboration with Chemistry Department on chemical characterization of oil samples from coastline contamination.
• CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Graduate program funding and accreditation through CAPES. PPGES operates under CAPES oversight and funding for master's and doctoral programs.
• CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Research funding agency providing grants for graduate research and scholarships in partnership programs.
• Organization of American States (OEA/OAS)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018International organization supporting student exchange through PEC-PG program for graduate students from member countries.
• Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015National multicenter research coordination on mental health policy evaluation. UFSB professors collaborated in the national evaluation of the De Volta para Casa program coordinated by Fiocruz.
• Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Collaboration on national mental health policy research in the Baixada Santista region.
• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Partnership on mental health policy evaluation research as part of the multicenter national study.
• Universidade de Brasília (UnB)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Collaboration on national mental health policy research under Fiocruz coordination.
• Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Partnership on mental health research in Paraíba state.
• Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia (IFBA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Partnership initiated in 2014 for joint academic book publication on scientific writing. Collaboration includes professors from both institutions working on academic guidelines and ABNT standards.
• Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Three-institution partnership for joint book publication on academic writing for civil engineering master's programs. Ongoing collaboration since 2014.
• CEPLAC (Comissão Executiva do Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional partnership for cocoa research and agricultural development. Reitoria met to discuss partnerships in 2026.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF): UFF is a multi-campus federal university operating across multiple municipalities in Rio de Janeiro state. Comparable in multi-campus operational complexity, federal funding model, and broad research portfolio.
• Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia (UFOB): UFOB is a regional multi-campus federal university in Western Bahia, established in the same expansion period as UFSB. Comparable in scale, governance, and federal funding model, and serves a similarly underserved region.
• Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar): UFSCar is a federal research university with active research collaboration with UFSB (Atlantic Forest restoration studies). It is comparable as a federal public university with strong environmental and biodiversity research output.
• Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA): UFBA is the largest and oldest federal university in Bahia state, sharing UFSB's geographic region and federal funding model. Both institutions serve Bahia's higher education needs and conduct environmental, health, and social research; UFBA is UFSB's primary intra-state competitor for students, faculty, and research funding.
• Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS): UFS is a regional federal university in Sergipe with active research collaboration with UFSB on the 2019 oil spill chemical analysis. Comparable in regional federal university structure, research scope, and capacity for multi-institution research projects.
• Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC): UFABC is a newer federal university with an innovative interdisciplinary pedagogical model similar to UFSB's cycle-based structure. Both were created to expand federal higher education access in underserved metropolitan/regional areas with non-traditional academic designs.
• Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB): UFRB is another newer multi-campus federal university in Bahia state, created in the same expansion wave as UFSB and serving a similar regional development mission. It is one of the most directly comparable institutions in terms of scale, structure, and mandate.
• Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará (UNIFESSPA): UNIFESSPA is another newer multi-campus federal university in the Brazilian Amazon region, created under the same REUNI/expansion policy as UFSB. It shares the regional development mission, multi-campus structure, and federal-only funding model.

Broad incumbents

• Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP): UNICAMP is one of Brazil's premier state research universities, collaborating with UFSB on Atlantic Forest restoration research. It is a broader incumbent in the Brazilian public research university landscape with overlapping environmental and biodiversity research areas.
• Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV): UFV is a more established federal research university with strong agricultural and environmental science programs. It is broader in scope and longer-established, but operates in a similar federal public research university model with regional development emphasis.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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