URI Frederico Westphalen

What URI Frederico Westphalen does

URI Frederico Westphalen is a private non-profit regional university in the Alto Uruguai e Missões region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, operated by the Fundação Regional Integrada (FURI), a philanthropic foundation headquartered in Santo Ângelo. Founded in 1992 and housed on a 60,276.26m² campus (25,373.03m² built) containing more than 80 laboratories, the institution delivers 16 presencial undergraduate programs spanning Administration, Agronomy, Architecture, Biomedicine, Biological Sciences, Accounting, Law, Nursing, Civil Engineering, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Pedagogy, Psychology, Industrial Chemistry, Agribusiness Technology, and Occupational Therapy, alongside a Master's/Doctoral program in Education (PPGEDU), over 16 distance learning lato sensu postgraduate specializations, and a Basic Education School offering technical courses including Electrotechnics.

The business model is tuition-driven, with revenue generated through undergraduate and postgraduate fees (subscription/recurring model) supplemented by student financing mechanisms — notably CREDIURI (20-50% financing coverage), FIES, and PROUNI — and by government contracts for specialized programs such as the R$2.4 million Pronera/INCRA partnership serving land reform beneficiaries. Customer acquisition is sales-led, running multiple vestibular entrance exams per year and accepting ENEM scores, transfers, and re-entries, with the EAD channel (ensinodigital.uri.br) extending reach into postgraduate working professionals. The institution is differentiated by its deep regional embeddedness, including a Programa Regional de Sucessão Rural serving 19 municipalities in partnership with Casa Familiar Rural, Epagri, and municipal governments.

Distribution is multi-modal: presencial on-campus instruction, distance learning via the Ensino Digital platform, and rural delivery through alternation-pedagogy partnerships (15-day campus/farm cycles in Agribusiness Technology). Marketing relies on a regional mix — institutional website, YouTube (URIFW1), Facebook, Instagram, email newsletters, and participation in regional events such as Expofred — targeting prospective students primarily in northern Rio Grande do Sul. Leadership is led by Academic Director Carlos Eduardo Blanco Linares and School Director Marcia Dalla Nora; the institution is regulated under SINAES and compliant with Brazil's LGPD data protection framework.

Name

URI Frederico Westphalen

Legal name

FUNDAÇÃO REGIONAL INTEGRADA - FURI

Website

https://fw.uri.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

URI Frederico Westphalen is a private non-profit regional university in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, offering 16 undergraduate programs, postgraduate EAD specializations, and Master's/Doctoral degrees. It serves traditional, working professional, and rural family farmer students across the Alto Uruguai region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Frederico Westphalen

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Tuition and Fees: Revenue generated from undergraduate and graduate tuition, including presencial and distance learning programs
2. Financing Programs: CREDIURI student financing program offering 20-50% coverage as educational financing
3. Graduate Program Fees: Revenue from lato sensu and stricto sensu graduate programs

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

URI Frederico Westphalen is a regional higher education institution operated by Fundação Regional Integrada (FURI) that delivers presencial undergraduate degrees across 14+ disciplines (Administration, Agronomy, Architecture, Biomedicine, Law, Nursing, Engineering, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Industrial Chemistry, Agribusiness Technology, Occupational Therapy), postgraduate specialization (Lato Sensu), Master's and Doctoral programs through PPGEDU, distance learning (EAD) programs via Ensino Digital platform, and basic/technical education. The institution serves the Alto Uruguai and Missões region of Rio Grande do Sul from a 60,276.26m² campus with over 80 laboratories.

Product overview

URI Frederico Westphalen is a regional university offering a comprehensive portfolio of higher education products including undergraduate degrees (Graduação) across 16 presencial programs spanning Administration, Agronomy, Architecture, Biomedicine, Biological Sciences, Accounting, Law, Nursing, Civil Engineering, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Pedagogy, Psychology, Industrial Chemistry, Agribusiness Technology, and Occupational Therapy. The institution also provides postgraduate specialization programs (Pós-Graduação Lato Sensu) via both presencial and distance learning (EAD) modalities, covering Management, Health, Law, Education, and Technology specializations. Additionally, the university offers Master's and Doctoral programs through its Postgraduate Program in Education (PPGEDU), and maintains a Basic Education School with technical courses. The institution operates from a 60,276.26m² campus with over 80 laboratories and serves students through multiple entry pathways including vestibular examinations, ENEM scores, transfers, and re-entry programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Undergraduate Programs (Graduação) Bachelor's degree programs across disciplines including Administration, Agronomy, Architecture, Biomedicine, Biological Sciences, Accounting, Law, Nursing, Civil Engineering, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Pedagogy, Psychology, Industrial Chemistry, and Agribusiness Technology, offered in presencial format.

Quantifiable outcome

• High employability rates for graduates

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• INCRA/RScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024R$2.4 million partnership with INCRA (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform) for 4th turma of Pronera program, offering free higher education for land reform beneficiaries and family farmers in Technology in Agriculture.
• EpagriminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Partnership with Epagri (Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Company of Santa Catarina) for continuing education in Pedagogia da Alternância methodology, training educators to work in rural succession programs in Santa Catarina.
• 19 Municipalities (Programa Regional de Sucessão Rural)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with 19 municipalities in the region through Programa Regional de Sucessão Rural, offering subsidized agricultural education to family farmers, with recent addition of Iraí. Includes Casa Familiar Rural in Alpestre and other locations.
• Municipal and State SecretariesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnerships with Municipal and State Secretaries of Health, Education, and Agriculture for joint projects addressing public policy implementation in SUS, SUAS, and educational systems.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Unicesumar: Brazilian higher education institution with strong EAD scale that competes for postgraduate and undergraduate distance-learning students that URI Frederico Westphalen also targets through its EAD portal.

Broad incumbents

• UCS (Universidade de Caxias do Sul): Private regional university serving the Serra Gaúcha region with overlapping multi-disciplinary programs and EAD offerings, comparable in mission though larger and more diversified than URI Frederico Westphalen.
• UNISINOS (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos): Large private university in São Leopoldo, RS offering extensive undergraduate and graduate programs with EAD, including many of the same disciplines as URI Frederico Westphalen, but at significantly greater scale and national brand recognition.
• UFSM (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria): Federal public university in Rio Grande do Sul with comparable discipline breadth (agronomy, engineering, health sciences) and graduate programs, operating at significantly greater scale and with tuition-free public funding as a different business model.
• PUCRS (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul): A much larger private university in Porto Alegre offering overlapping undergraduate, graduate, and EAD programs across the same disciplines, but operating statewide/nationally at a significantly greater scale.

Direct peers

• UNISC (Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul): Private community-based university in Rio Grande do Sul with comparable size, multi-disciplinary portfolio, EAD programs, and regional development emphasis — directly comparable on business model.
• UNIJUÍ (Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul): A private regional integrated university serving northwest Rio Grande do Sul with a similar multi-disciplinary portfolio (undergraduate, postgraduate, EAD) and comparable regional development focus — the closest direct peer in mission and scale to URI Frederico Westphalen.
• UPF (Universidade de Passo Fundo): Private regional university serving northern Rio Grande do Sul with comparable undergraduate, lato sensu, stricto sensu, and EAD offerings across disciplines similar to URI Frederico Westphalen.
• URI Câmpus Santo Ângelo: Sister campus operated by FURI (the same Fundação Regional Integrada that operates URI Frederico Westphalen), sharing identical brand, governance, EAD platform, and program structure — making it a near-perfect operational peer.
• URI Câmpus Erechim: Another FURI-operated regional campus in Rio Grande do Sul offering the same undergraduate, postgraduate, and EAD programs under the URI brand, providing a direct same-organization peer comparable in size and structure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/URIFW1
• Facebookfacebook.com/urifw1
• Instagraminstagram.com/uri.fw/?hl=pt-br
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/urifw

Compliance3 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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