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Federal University of the São Francisco Valley

Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco
Other names	UNIVASF
Type	Public university
Established	June 27, 2002
Rector	Paulo César Fagundes Neves
Students	6,211 (2019)
Location	Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil
Campus	Five campuses across the São Francisco River Valley region in states of Pernambuco, Bahia and Piauí
Website	www.univasf.edu.br

The Federal University of the São Francisco Valley (Portuguese: Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, UNIVASF) is a publicly funded university serving the São Francisco Valley in the states of Pernambuco, Bahia and Piauí in Brazil. It is headquartered in Petrolina and has campuses in the municipalities of Juazeiro, Senhor do Bonfim, and Paulo Afonso, Bahia; Petrolina, and Salgueiro Pernambuco; and São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí. In 2019, the university enrolled a total of 6,211 students across all campuses in 31 programs of study.

In 2019, Folha de São Paulo ranked UNIVASF 106th nationally, with its animal science program ranked in the top 25.

History

The university was created with a federal law passed on June 27, 2002, with a mandate to operate across state lines in the historically under-developed semi-arid Sertão of Brazil's northeast. It began operations in 2004. From 2015, its medical school was affiliated with a teaching hospital in Petrolina: the Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco.

See also

• List of federal universities of Brazil

References

1. UNIVASF em números 2012 - 2019: Dados e ações da Gestão Universitária (PDF). Petrolina, Brazil: Univasf. 2020.
2. "RUF 2019: Fundação Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF)". Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
3. "L10473". www.planalto.gov.br. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
4. Amanda FrancoDo G1 Petrolina (2014-10-14). "Reitor avalia os 10 anos da Univasf no Vale do São Francisco". Petrolina e Região (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-04-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
5. "Nossa História - EBSERH". www2.ebserh.gov.br. Retrieved 2021-04-25.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)

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