Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, known in Portuguese as the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and as UFRJ, is a public research university in Rio de Janeiro and the largest federal university in Brazil, with about 50,935 undergraduate students and roughly 16,085 postgraduate students.里约热内卢联邦大学（Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro，简称 UFRJ）是巴西里约热内卢的一所公立研究型大学，也是全国规模最大的联邦大学，约有 50,935 名本科在读学生与约 16,085 名专门课程及硕博研究生。

It was created on 7 September 1920 by President Epitácio Pessoa through Law Decree 14343 as the University of Rio de Janeiro, bringing together the Polytechnic School, the School of Medicine and the School of Law, and it traces its institutional roots to 1792.该校由总统埃皮塔西奥·佩索阿于 1920 年 9 月 7 日以第 14343 号法令设立，初名里约热内卢大学（Universidade do Rio de Janeiro），联合了原工科学院、医学院与法学院，其制度沿革可追溯至 1792 年。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 367th, it falls in the 601-650 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 488th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and 501-600 in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with OpenAlex recording 194,571 works and 8,551,464 citations.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 367；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 601 至 650 区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 488；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 501 至 600 区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 194,571 项、累计被引 8,551,464 次。

History

• The university's oldest ancestor, the Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho, was founded on 17 December 1792 during the reign of Queen Maria I of Portugal to train artillery, fortification and military engineering officers in the colony.该校最古老的前身——皇家炮兵、筑城与制图学院于 1792 年 12 月 17 日在葡萄牙女王玛丽亚一世统治时期创立，为殖民地培养炮兵、筑城与军事工程人才。

• That academy was reorganised in 1810 into the Academia Real Militar after the Portuguese court moved to Rio de Janeiro, and through a series of military and civil institutions it evolved into the university's present Polytechnic School.葡萄牙宫廷迁至里约热内卢后，这所学院于 1810 年改组为皇家军事学院（Academia Real Militar），此后历经一系列军事与民事机构演变，发展为该校现今的工科学院。

• Medical teaching in Rio de Janeiro began on 2 April 1808, when the regent prince Dom João VI founded the Academy of Medicine and Surgery, a forerunner of the university's National School of Medicine.里约热内卢的医学教育始于 1808 年 4 月 2 日，摄政王子若昂六世创办解剖、外科与医学学校，即后来国立法医学院的前身。

• The National Museum was founded in 1818 by Dom João VI and was integrated into the university only in 1946, becoming one of its most important research and heritage institutions.巴西国家博物馆由若昂六世于 1818 年创立，直到 1946 年才并入该校，成为其最重要的科研与文化遗产机构之一。

• The Law School came into being after the fusion of the College of Legal and Social Sciences and the Free College of Law, both recognised by Law Decree 693 of 1 October 1891.国立法学院源自法律与社会科学学院与自由法学院两所机构的合并，二者均由 1891 年 10 月 1 日的第 693 号法令获得认可。

• On 7 September 1920 Law Decree 14343 established the University of Rio de Janeiro, and the physician and librarian Benjamin Franklin Ramiz Galvão, a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, became its first rector.1920 年 9 月 7 日，第 14343 号法令设立了里约热内卢大学，医生兼图书馆学家、巴西文学院成员本雅明·富兰克林·拉米兹·加尔旺出任首任校长。

• In 1937 Law 452 of 5 July reorganised the institution and renamed it the University of Brazil, a change designed under Education Minister Gustavo Capanema to make it the model for national higher education.1937 年 7 月 5 日的第 452 号法律对学校进行重组并更名为巴西大学（Universidade do Brasil），此项改革由教育部长古斯塔沃·卡帕内马推动，旨在使之成为全国高等教育的范式。

• The early 1950s saw the institutionalisation of research, with new research institutes, full-time academic staff and partnerships with national and international funding agencies.20 世纪 50 年代初，科研走向制度化，新的研究所相继设立，专职教师队伍形成，学校并与国内外科研资助机构建立起合作关系。

• In 1963 the engineer Alberto Luiz Coimbra founded the Coordenação dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia, which became COPPE and helped spread the engineering doctorate model across Brazil.1963 年，工程师阿尔贝托·路易斯·科英布拉创办工程研究生项目协调机构，后发展为 COPPE，并推动了工程博士培养模式在巴西的普及。

• Law 4831 of 5 November 1965 granted the university financial, didactic and academic autonomy and adopted its current name, following the then-standard practice of naming federal universities after their state or region.1965 年 11 月 5 日的第 4831 号法律赋予该校财务、教学与学术自主权，并采用现行校名，这是当时按州或地区命名联邦大学的通行做法。

• After the 1967 restructuring decree of 13 March, the university entered a deeper phase of reform that reorganised its faculties and departments along modern lines.1967 年 3 月 13 日的重组法令之后，该校进入更深入的改革阶段，按现代方式重新调整了各学院与系所的设置。

• At dawn on 23 September 1968 military police invaded the old premises of the National School of Medicine at Praia Vermelha and beat students gathered to protest, an episode remembered as the Praia Vermelha Massacre.1968 年 9 月 23 日拂晓，军警闯入位于普拉亚韦尔梅利亚的国家医学院旧址，殴打聚集抗议的学生，此事被称为「普拉亚韦尔梅利亚大屠杀」。

• Students and staff also joined the March of the Hundred Thousand in Rio de Janeiro on 26 June 1968, and after the AI-5 decree of December 1968 repression against the student movement intensified further.该校师生还参加了 1968 年 6 月 26 日在里约热内卢举行的「十万人游行」，1968 年 12 月《第五号制度法令》颁布后，对学生运动的镇压进一步加剧。

• The College City on Ilha do Fundão, an island artificially created in 1950 by joining existing islands through land reclamation, began hosting academic activities in 1970 as part of a plan to concentrate the university.位于丰当岛（Ilha do Fundão）的大学城于 1950 年通过填海连接多个小岛而成，1970 年开始承载教学活动，这是将全校活动集中于一处的规划的一部分。

• The COPPEAD Graduate School of Business was founded in 1973 and occupies its own building on Fundão Island, becoming the only Latin American business school listed among the world's 100 best by the Financial Times.COPPEAD 商学院成立于 1973 年，独占丰当岛上的一栋独立建筑，是拉丁美洲唯一进入《金融时报》全球百强的商学院。

• In 1983 the university established the System of Libraries and Information, through which students and staff gained integrated access to the collections of its forty-three libraries.1983 年，该校建立了图书馆与信息系统（SiBI），师生由此可以统一检索其 43 座图书馆的馆藏。

• In 1986 Editora UFRJ was founded to publish scholarly, scientific and cultural works, and its titles have since won several national book awards.1986 年，UFRJ 出版社成立，出版学术、科学与文化著作，其出版物此后获得多项全国性图书奖项。

• In 2000 the Federal Justice allowed the university to reuse the historical name University of Brazil alongside its current legal name, and its Science and Technology Park opened in 2003.2000 年，联邦法院裁定该校可在保留现行法定名称的同时重新使用历史名称巴西大学；2003 年，其科技园正式启用。

• In 2010 the university received the maximum score in the Ministry of Education's General Index of College Courses, and in 2012 the Ponte do Saber cable-stayed bridge was inaugurated to improve access to the College City.2010 年，该校在教育部高校课程总指数（IGC）中获得最高分；2012 年，「知识之桥」（Ponte do Saber）斜拉桥通车，改善了通往大学城的交通。

• On 2 September 2018 a fire destroyed much of the main building of the National Museum, and the reconstruction that followed became one of the largest cultural heritage recovery projects in Brazilian history.2018 年 9 月 2 日，一场大火烧毁了国家博物馆主馆的大部分区域，其后的重建成为巴西历史上规模最大的文化遗产修复工程之一。

• Denise Pires de Carvalho, a biochemist, became the university's first female rector in 2019, and Roberto de Andrade Medronho has served as rector since 2023 with Cássia Curan Turci as vice-rector.生物化学家德妮丝·皮雷斯·德卡瓦略于 2019 年成为该校首位女性校长，罗伯托·德安德拉德·梅德龙霍自 2023 年起任校长，副校长为卡西亚·库兰·图尔奇。

Academics

• UFRJ offers 171 on-campus undergraduate programmes and four distance-learning programmes, together with about 339 lato sensu specialisation courses and 136 stricto sensu master's and doctoral programmes.该校开设 171 个面授本科项目与 4 个远程课程，另设约 339 个（lato sensu）专门课程以及 136 个（stricto sensu）硕士与博士研究生项目。

• The academic structure has long been organised around six knowledge centres, and with the addition of the Centro Multidisciplinar UFRJ-Macaé it now comprises seven intermediate academic centres.其学术组织长期以六个知识领域中为核心，随着 UFRJ—马卡埃多学科中心（Centro Multidisciplinar UFRJ-Macaé）的加入，现共设有七个中间层级学术中心。

• It operates 1,486 laboratories, 44 libraries, 19 museum-type institutions and nine hospitals, and runs 1,863 extension projects and activities serving the wider community.该校运营 1,486 个实验室、44 座图书馆、19 个博物馆类机构和九所医院，并开展 1,863 项面向社会的大学推广项目与活动。

• The Centre of Health Sciences is the university's largest centre, gathering bioscience institutes, three hospitals, several schools and supplemental organs across the College City, Praia Vermelha, Macaé and Xerém premises.健康科学中心是该校规模最大的中心，汇集了诸多生物科学研究所、三所医院及多所学校与补充机构，分布于大学城、普拉亚韦尔梅利亚、马卡埃与谢雷姆等地。

• The Centre of Technology manages the Polytechnic School and the School of Chemistry along with COPPE and two high-technology research institutes, forming one of Brazil's most influential technology poles.技术中心管理工科学院、化学学院、COPPE 以及两个高科技研究所，构成巴西最具影响力的技术极之一。

• The Centre of Mathematical and Natural Sciences grew out of the National School of Philosophy and includes five institutes and the Valongo Observatory, the country's only federal institution offering an undergraduate degree in astronomy.数学与自然科学中心脱胎于国立哲学学院，下设五个研究所与瓦隆古天文台（Valongo Observatory），后者是全国唯一开设天文学本科课程的联邦机构。

• The Centre of Law and Economic Sciences encompasses administration, economics, law, library science and urban planning, and hosts COPPEAD, the business school that has entered the Financial Times Global MBA ranking eleven times.法律与经济科学中心涵盖管理、经济学、法学、图书馆学与城市规划，并设有 COPPEAD 商学院，该院已十一次进入《金融时报》全球工商管理硕士排名。

• The Centre of Literature and Arts brings together the schools and colleges of fine arts, music, architecture and letters, with most activities on Fundão Island and the School of Music remaining downtown.文学与艺术中心汇聚美术、音乐、建筑与文学等学院，多数活动设于丰当岛，音乐学院则保留在市中心。

• According to its yearly statistical report of 2013 the university had 3,821 professors, of whom 3,068 held a doctorate, 618 a master's degree and 61 a specialisation, alongside a laboratory school with 760 pupils.据其 2013 年度统计报告，该校共有 3,821 名教授，其中 3,068 人拥有博士学位、618 人拥有硕士学位、61 人为专科资历，另设一所招有 760 名学生的附属实验学校。

• Undergraduate admission is now handled mainly through the national Sistema de Seleção Unificada using ENEM examination scores, and for 2026 the two semesters together offered 9,281 places.本科招生现主要通过全国统一选拔系统（SiSU）并采用全国中等教育考试（ENEM）成绩进行，2026 年两个学期合计提供 9,281 个名额。

• Since 2010 the university has applied affirmative action policies, with about 30 per cent of vacancies reserved, and for 2026 it added 233 places for transgender applicants from the public school system.自 2010 年起，该校实施平权行动政策，约 30% 的名额被预留；并在 2026 年为来自公立中学的跨性别申请者额外设 233 个名额。

• Until the late 1980s a unified vestibular was organised by the Cesgranrio Foundation, after which the university ran its own open-ended admission examination, considered one of Brazil's toughest, until it joined SiSU.直至 20 世纪 80 年代末，统一入学考试（vestibular）由 Cesgranrio 基金会组织；此后该校自行举办以书面作答为主的入学考试，被视为巴西最难的一类，直到加入 SiSU 体系。

• The Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Post-Graduation and Research in Engineering, known as COPPE, is one of Latin America's largest engineering research and teaching centres with more than 100 research facilities.以阿尔贝托·路易斯·科英布拉命名的工程研究生与研究院（COPPE）是拉丁美洲最大的工程科研与教学中心之一，拥有 100 多项研究设施。

• COPPEAD describes its full-time programme as having entered the Financial Times Global MBA ranking eleven times, ranking 65th in 2010 and 79th in 2014, the only Brazilian entry in the top 100 that year.据 COPPEAD 介绍，其全日制项目曾十一次进入《金融时报》全球工商管理硕士排名，2010 年位列第 65、2014 年位列第 79，是当年唯一进入百强的巴西项目。

• Among its research infrastructure are the LabOceano ocean tank, the Lobo Carneiro supercomputer with 6,048 computing cores and the Brazilian doping control laboratory.其科研基础设施包括拉布海洋工程实验室（LabOceano）水池、拥有 6,048 个计算核心的洛博·卡尔内鲁超级计算机，以及巴西兴奋剂控制实验室。

• The university's teaching hospital, the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital, was created in 1978 and spreads over 110,000 square metres as a national and international reference for complex surgery.该校的克莱门蒂诺·弗拉加·菲略大学医院（HUCFF）创建于 1978 年，占地 110,000 平方米，是国内外复杂外科手术的参考中心之一。

Campus

• The main campus is the College City, occupying almost all of Ilha do Fundão in northern Rio de Janeiro and covering 5.2 million square metres, with architecture strongly influenced by modernism.主校区即大学城，位于里约热内卢北部的丰当岛（Ilha do Fundão），几乎占据全岛，占地 520 万平方米，其建筑深受现代主义影响。

• The rectory building on the College City campus was designed by Jorge Machado Moreira and won an award at the fourth São Paulo Art Biennial.大学城校区内的校长办公楼由若热·马沙多·莫雷拉设计，曾在第四届圣保罗艺术双年展上获奖。

• The Praia Vermelha campus in Urca, in southern Rio, concentrates courses in the human sciences and its largest building, the University Palace, is a neoclassical structure built between 1842 and 1852 and given to the university in 1949.位于里约南部乌尔卡的普拉亚韦尔梅利亚校区集中了人文社科类课程，其最大建筑大学宫（Palácio Universitário）为新古典主义建筑，建于 1842 至 1852 年间，并于 1949 年移交大学。

• Scattered through downtown Rio are the School of Law in the Conde dos Arcos Palace, the School of Music in the old National Library building since 1913, and the Valongo Observatory atop Conceição Hill.里约市中心散布着多处校区单位，包括设于阿尔科斯伯爵宫的法学院、1913 年起沿用原国家图书馆馆舍的音乐学院，以及位于康塞桑山顶的瓦隆古天文台。

• The Xerém campus in the city of Duque de Caxias began with a biophysics course in 2008 and now offers undergraduate courses in biotechnology and nanotechnology in partnership with Inmetro.位于杜克德卡希亚斯市的谢雷姆校区始于 2008 年的生物物理课程，现与国家计量、标准化与工业质量研究院（Inmetro）合作开设生物技术与纳米技术本科课程。

• UFRJ has operated in Macaé since the 1980s and established the Macaé Nucleus for Ecological Research in 1994, and in 2012 the city donated a 29,000 square metre site for a new university centre.该校自 20 世纪 80 年代起在马卡埃开展活动，并于 1994 年建立马卡埃生态研究核心机构；2012 年市政当局捐赠 29,000 平方米土地用于兴建新的大学中心。

• The Ponte do Saber, Rio de Janeiro's first cable-stayed bridge, was inaugurated in 2012 and carries an average of 25,000 vehicles a day between the mainland and the College City.「知识之桥」（Ponte do Saber）是里约热内卢首座斜拉桥，于 2012 年通车，日均通行约 25,000 辆车次，连接大陆与大学城。

• The College City has a residence complex for undergraduates with 504 rooms, three university restaurants known as bandejões, a sports centre and banking branches, served by dozens of free inter-campus bus lines.大学城设有 504 间房的本科生宿舍区、三家俗称（bandejões）的大学餐厅、一座体育中心与多家银行网点，并由数十条免费校际公交线路服务。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is placed 367th, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it falls in the 601-650 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，里约热内卢联邦大学位列第 367；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 601 至 650 区间。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is ranked 488th, and in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 501-600 band.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 488；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 501 至 600 区间。

• In 2010 the university achieved a maximum score in the Ministry of Education's General Index of College Courses, the federal indicator used to evaluate Brazilian higher education institutions.2010 年，该校在教育部高校课程总指数（IGC）中获得最高分，这是巴西用以评估高等教育机构的联邦指标。

• Its COPPEAD business school ranked 65th in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking in 2010 and 79th in 2014, when it was the only Brazilian programme in the top 100.其 COPPEAD 商学院在 2010 年《金融时报》全球工商管理硕士排名中位列第 65，2014 年位列第 79，当年是唯一进入百强的巴西项目。

• The COPPE institute owns the world's largest ocean engineering tank by volume, the LabOceano, whose 23 million litres of water simulate conditions at depths greater than 2,000 metres.COPPE 拥有按容积计全球最大的海洋工程水池 LabOceano，其 2,300 万升水可模拟 2,000 米以上深度的海洋环境。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 194,571 research works attracting 8,551,464 citations, reflecting its broad output across the natural sciences, engineering, health and the humanities.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 194,571 项研究成果，累计被引 8,551,464 次，反映出其在自然科学、工程、健康与人文等领域广泛的产出。

• Researchers at COPPE developed the MagLev Cobra, a superconducting magnetic levitation train whose deployment cost is estimated at one third that of a subway and whose operating speed ranges from 70 to 100 kilometres per hour.COPPE 的科研人员开发出 MagLev Cobra 超导磁悬浮列车，其铺设造价约为地铁的三分之一，正常运行速度为每小时 70 至 100 公里。

• The laboratory of computational methods runs the Lobo Carneiro supercomputer, configured with 6,048 computing cores, 16 terabytes of distributed memory and 226 teraflops of theoretical performance.计算力学实验室运行洛博·卡尔内鲁超级计算机，其配置为 6,048 个计算核心、16 TB 分布式内存与 226 万亿次每秒的理论性能。

• In 2014 the alumnus Artur Ávila won the Fields Medal, becoming the first Latin American mathematician to receive the award, a distinction that raised the university's international profile.2014 年，该校校友阿图尔·阿维拉获得菲尔兹奖，成为首位获此奖项的拉丁美洲数学家，这一荣誉提升了该校的国际声望。

Student life

• Students are represented by the Mário Prata Central Student Directory, founded in 1930 and therefore older than the National Student Union created in 1937.学生由马里奥·普拉塔中央学生联合会（DCE）代表，该组织成立于 1930 年，比 1937 年成立的全国学生联合会（UNE）更为久远。

• The student directory was shut down by the military regime of 1964 to 1985, when dozens of union leaders were persecuted and its president Mário de Souza Prata was killed.该学生联合会在 1964 至 1985 年的军政府时期被取缔，数以十计的学生领袖遭到迫害，其主席马里奥·德索萨·普拉塔被杀。

• On 23 September 1968 about 600 students gathered at Praia Vermelha to protest the closure of the student unions and the arrest of a law student, and were met by police violence now commemorated as the Praia Vermelha Massacre.1968 年 9 月 23 日，约 600 名学生聚集在普拉亚韦尔梅利亚，抗议取缔学生组织与逮捕一名法学院学生，却遭遇警方暴力，此事今被称为「普拉亚韦尔梅利亚大屠杀」以志纪念。

• University members also took part in the March of the Hundred Thousand held in Rio de Janeiro on 26 June 1968, one of the largest protests against the military government.该校成员还参加了 1968 年 6 月 26 日在里约热内卢举行的「十万人游行」，这是反对军政府规模最大的抗议活动之一。

• In the second semester of 2012 the university received 103,829 applications through the unified admission system, the highest number of any Brazilian university in that system.2012 年第二学期，该校通过统一招生系统收到 103,829 份申请，为该系统内申请人数最多的巴西高校。

• About 30 per cent of vacancies are reserved under affirmative action measures favouring applicants from public schools and low-income families, and 233 places were set aside for transgender students in 2026.约 30% 的名额依据平权行动政策预留，优先录取来自公立学校与低收入家庭的申请者，2026 年还为跨性别学生预留了 233 个名额。

• The university adopts the Roman goddess Minerva, patroness of the arts and of knowledge, as its mascot, and many sculptures of the goddess are scattered through its campuses.该校以罗马神话中掌管艺术与智慧的女神密涅瓦（Minerva）为象征，校园各处散布着许多女神雕像。

• Its monthly newspaper Jornal da UFRJ has circulated since 2003 with 25,000 copies distributed across the campuses, and the annual two-day event Getting to Know the UFRJ drew about 14,000 high-school students in 2010.该校月报《UFRJ 报》自 2003 年起发行，每期在校园分发 25,000 份；一年一度的「认识 UFRJ」活动为期两天，2010 年吸引约 14,000 名高中生参加。

Notable people

• Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who designed much of Brasília, studied at the university's National School of Fine Arts.设计了巴西利亚大量建筑的建筑师奥斯卡·尼迈耶（Oscar Niemeyer）曾就读于该校国立美术学院。

• The novelists Clarice Lispector and Jorge Amado, as well as the poet and diplomat Vinícius de Moraes, were educated at the university's institutions.小说家克拉丽斯·利斯佩克托尔（Clarice Lispector）与若热·阿马多（Jorge Amado），以及诗人兼外交家维尼修斯·德莫赖斯（Vinícius de Moraes），均曾在构成该校历史的机构中求学。

• Carlos Chagas, who described Chagas disease in 1909, and Oswaldo Cruz, a pioneer of Brazilian public health, both trained at the university's medical school.于 1909 年发现恰加斯病的卡洛斯·沙加斯（Carlos Chagas），以及巴西公共卫生先驱奥斯瓦尔多·克鲁兹（Oswaldo Cruz），均在该校医学院接受培养。

• Vital Brazil, the physician who developed the first effective antivenom against snake bites in Brazil, was associated with the university's medical institutions.研制出巴西首个有效抗蛇毒血清的医生维塔尔·布拉齐尔（Vital Brazil）与该校医学机构渊源深厚。

• Artur Ávila, a graduate of the university, won the Fields Medal in 2014 for his work in dynamical systems, becoming the first Latin American mathematician to receive it.该校毕业生阿图尔·阿维拉（Artur Ávila）因在动力系统方面的研究于 2014 年获得菲尔兹奖，成为首位获此奖项的拉丁美洲数学家。

• Roberto Mangabeira Unger, the philosopher and politician, and the educator Anísio Teixeira, a shaper of Brazilian public schooling, were both educated at the university.哲学家兼政治家罗伯托·曼加贝拉·温格尔（Roberto Mangabeira Unger），以及塑造巴西公共教育的教育家阿尼西奥·特谢拉（Anísio Teixeira），均就读于该校。

• The economist Mário Henrique Simonsen, a former finance minister of Brazil, and Carlos Lessa, a former president of the national development bank, were both alumni and rectors of the institution.曾任巴西财政部长的经济学家马里奥·恩里克·西蒙森（Mário Henrique Simonsen），以及曾任国家开发银行行长的卡洛斯·莱萨（Carlos Lessa），均为该校校友并曾任校长。

• Benjamin Constant, an engineer and a leading figure in the founding of the Brazilian republic, and the historian and minister Pedro Calmon were among its early graduates and rectors.工程师、巴西共和国建立的关键人物本雅明·康斯坦特（Benjamin Constant），以及历史学家兼部长佩德罗·卡尔蒙（Pedro Calmon），都是该校早期毕业生与校长。

• Benjamin Franklin Ramiz Galvão, a physician, librarian and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, served as the university's first rector in 1920.医生、图书馆学家、巴西文学院成员本雅明·富兰克林·拉米兹·加尔旺（Ramiz Galvão）于 1920 年出任该校首任校长。

• Denise Pires de Carvalho, a biochemist, became the first woman to lead the university when she was appointed rector in 2019.生物化学家德妮丝·皮雷斯·德卡瓦略（Denise Pires de Carvalho）于 2019 年受任校长，成为首位领导该校的女性。