Rio de Janeiro State University

Rio de Janeiro State University (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ) is a public state university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded on 4 December 1950 as the University of the Federal District.里约热内卢州立大学（Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro，简称 UERJ）是巴西里约热内卢的一所公立州立大学，1950 年 12 月 4 日以联邦区大学之名创办。

Its main campus, named Francisco Negrão de Lima, occupies 16 hectares in the Maracanã district, while seven further campuses reach Petrópolis, Nova Friburgo, Teresópolis, Duque de Caxias, São Gonçalo, Angra dos Reis and Resende.该校主校区名为弗朗西斯科·内格朗·德利马，占地 16 公顷，位于马拉卡纳区，另在彼得罗波利斯、新弗里堡、特雷索波利斯、杜克德卡希亚斯、圣贡萨洛、安格拉杜斯雷斯与雷森迪设有七个校区。

UERJ is ranked in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, 1801-2000 in the Times Higher Education 2027 and 1,278th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027, with law, medicine and dentistry among its best-known programmes and its law and medical schools among the most selective in Brazil.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中位列 1801-2000 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中居第 1278 位，法学、医学与牙医学为其最知名的项目，其法学院与医学院也是巴西最难考入的院系之一。

History

• The institution was created on 4 December 1950 as the University of the Federal District, bringing together four existing schools in what was then the federal capital of Brazil.该校于 1950 年 12 月 4 日以联邦区大学之名成立，把当时巴西联邦首都已有的四所学院整合在一起。
• Its founding units were the Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Economic Sciences, the Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Philosophy of the La-Fayette Institute and the Faculty of Medical Sciences.其创始单位包括里约热内卢经济科学学院、里约热内卢法学院、拉法耶特研究所哲学院与医学科学学院。
• The law faculty had been founded in 1935, fifteen years before the university itself, and was absorbed into the new institution as one of its oldest and most prestigious schools.法学院早在 1935 年、即大学成立十五年前就已创办，随后作为最古老也最具声望的学院之一并入新大学。
• João Lyra Filho, a jurist and economist, became the university's first rector in 1950, and the main administration building on the Maracanã campus still bears his name.法学家与经济学家若昂·利拉·菲略于 1950 年出任首任校长，马拉卡纳校区的主行政楼至今仍以他的名字命名。
• When the federal capital moved to Brasília in 1960, the university was renamed the University of the State of Guanabara in 1961, reflecting the new state that surrounded the city of Rio de Janeiro.1960 年联邦首都迁往巴西利亚后，该校于 1961 年更名为瓜纳巴拉州立大学，以对应环绕里约热内卢市的新州。
• In 1962 the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital was integrated into the university, giving its medical school a teaching hospital with about fifty specialties.1962 年佩德罗·埃内斯托大学医院并入该校，为其医学院提供拥有约五十个专科的教学医院。
• In 1975 the states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro merged, and the institution received its present name, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, usually shortened to UERJ.1975 年瓜纳巴拉州与里约热内卢州合并，该校遂改用现名里约热内卢州立大学，通常简称 UERJ。
• The Maracanã campus was developed from the 1970s as a unified academic site, replacing scattered faculties that had been spread across the city centre and the northern suburbs.马拉卡纳校区自 1970 年代起被建设为统一的教学园区，取代此前分散在市中心与北郊的各学院。
• UERJ became the first Brazilian university to adopt racial quotas in its entrance examination, approving a system in 2001 and applying it to admissions from 2003, with several revisions since then.该校成为巴西第一所在入学考试中实行种族配额的大学，2001 年通过相关制度，并从 2003 年起用于招生，此后又多次修订。
• The quota policy reserved places for Black, brown and indigenous candidates as well as for students from public schools, and it was later copied by federal universities across Brazil.该配额政策为黑人、混血与原住民考生以及公立学校学生保留名额，后来被巴西各地联邦大学效仿。
• In 2009 UERJ opened the Polytechnic Institute in Nova Friburgo, extending engineering teaching into the mountainous region of the state.2009 年该校在新弗里堡开设理工学院，把工程教学延伸至州内山区。
• During the 2010s the university expanded its regional network with campuses in Duque de Caxias, São Gonçalo, Resende and Angra dos Reis, often in partnership with local municipalities.2010 年代该校在杜克德卡希亚斯、圣贡萨洛、雷森迪与安格拉杜斯雷斯扩展地区网络，多与当地市镇合作办学。
• The Pedro Ernesto hospital and the Piquet Carneiro polyclinic became the core of a health complex that serves both teaching and the public health system of Rio de Janeiro state.佩德罗·埃内斯托医院与皮凯特·卡内罗综合门诊部构成一个健康综合体，既服务教学，也服务里约热内卢州的公共卫生系统。
• UERJ's community health centres include the Centre for Adolescent Health, the Open University for the Third Age and a pain clinic that were among the first of their kind in Brazil.该校的社区健康中心包括青少年健康中心、第三年龄开放大学与疼痛门诊，这些机构在巴西均属较早设立。
• In 2020 the university suspended face-to-face teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic and mobilised its laboratories for diagnostic testing and epidemiological modelling.2020 年该校在新冠疫情中暂停面授教学，并调动实验室参与诊断检测与流行病学建模。
• The university marked its seventieth anniversary in 2020 with an online programme of lectures and exhibitions, since public gatherings were restricted that year.该校于 2020 年以线上讲座与展览纪念建校七十周年，因为当年公共集会受到限制。
• UERJ has retained its original commitment to free tuition, and its 1950 founding statute described the university as a public institution open to all qualified residents of the state.该校始终维持免学费的初衷，其 1950 年建校章程把这所大学描述为向全州合格居民开放的公立机构。
• The university's historical archive and the Rede Sirius library network preserve collections on Rio de Janeiro's urban history, slavery and abolition, and Brazilian public health.该校历史档案馆与西里乌斯图书馆网络收藏有关里约城市史、奴隶制与废奴运动以及巴西公共卫生的文献。
• The 1975 merger also gave UERJ a mandate to serve the whole state, a role reflected in the regional campuses that followed.1975 年的合并还赋予该校服务全州的使命，这一角色体现在此后设立的各地区校区上。
• The four founding faculties had operated independently before 1950, and their merger produced a university organised around institutes and schools rather than isolated colleges.四所创始学院在 1950 年之前各自独立运作，合并后形成的大学以研究所与学院为组织单位，而非彼此隔绝的专门学校。

Academics

• UERJ offers about ninety undergraduate programmes across the biomedical sciences, exact sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities, arts and education.该校在生物医学、精确科学、工程、社会科学、人文、艺术与教育等领域开设约九十个本科项目。
• Graduate education includes 63 academic master's programmes, two professional master's programmes, 46 doctoral programmes and about 80 lato sensu specialisation courses.研究生教育包括 63 个学术硕士项目、2 个专业硕士项目、46 个博士项目以及约 80 个广义专业课程。
• The university enrols approximately 43,000 students in its own programmes, while the QS profile counts about 34,661 degree-seeking students.该校自身项目注册学生约 43000 名，而 QS 档案统计的学位生约为 34661 名。
• The Faculty of Law, founded in 1935, is one of the most selective in Brazil and has trained several justices of the Supreme Federal Court.创办于 1935 年的法学院是巴西最具选拔性的法学院之一，培养了多位联邦最高法院大法官。
• The medical school and the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital train physicians in more than fifty specialties and conduct research on tropical medicine, cardiology and public health.医学院与佩德罗·埃内斯托大学医院在五十多个专科培养医师，并开展热带医学、心脏病学与公共卫生研究。
• The Institute of Social Medicine, the Institute of Biology and the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences are among the university's main research units.社会医学研究所、生物学研究所与哲学与人文科学研究所是该校的主要研究单位。
• UERJ's application school, the Instituto de Aplicação Fernando Rodrigues da Silveira, teaches about 1,000 pupils from primary to secondary level and trains future teachers.该校的附属学校费尔南多·罗德里格斯·达西尔维拉应用学院为约 1000 名中小学学生授课，并培养未来教师。
• The Rede Sirius library network comprises 21 libraries and holds rare books, iconography, university archives and research collections across the campuses.西里乌斯图书馆网络由 21 所图书馆组成，收藏善本、图像资料、大学档案与研究成果，分布于各校区。
• UERJ's health complex includes the Pedro Ernesto hospital, the Piquet Carneiro polyclinic and specialised centres for cancer control, hypertension and elderly care.该校健康综合体包括佩德罗·埃内斯托医院、皮凯特·卡内罗综合门诊部以及癌症控制、高血压与老年护理等专科中心。
• The university's research output is concentrated in medicine, physics, sociology, law, nursing and environmental sciences, with growing work on energy transition and urban inequality.该校科研产出集中于医学、物理学、社会学、法学、护理学与环境科学，并在能源转型与城市不平等研究上持续增长。
• UERJ maintains cooperation agreements with universities in Latin America, Europe and Africa, and participates in Brazilian mobility programmes for undergraduate and graduate students.该校与拉丁美洲、欧洲及非洲的大学保持合作协议，并参与巴西面向本科与研究生的流动项目。
• The university's engineering programmes are taught at the Polytechnic Institute in Nova Friburgo and at the technology centre on the Maracanã campus.该校工程专业在新弗里堡理工学院与马拉卡纳校区的技术中心授课。
• UERJ's teacher-training programmes supply schools across Rio de Janeiro state, and the application school serves as a laboratory for classroom research.该校的教师培养项目为里约热内卢州各地学校输送师资，附属学校则作为课堂教学研究的实验场。
• The university offers free tuition to all admitted students, and its admission is based on the state entrance examination and the national ENEM examination.该校对所有录取学生免收学费，录取依据州入学考试与全国 ENEM 考试。
• Research groups at UERJ work with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and the National Institute of Cancer on epidemiology, vaccine trials and cancer control.该校研究组与奥斯瓦尔多·克鲁兹基金会及国家癌症研究所合作，开展流行病学、疫苗试验与癌症控制研究。
• The university's continuing-education and extension programmes reach communities in the Baixada Fluminense and the mountainous region through legal advice, health screening and teacher training.该校的继续教育与推广项目通过法律咨询、健康筛查与教师培训服务弗鲁米嫩塞低地及山区社区。
• Its academic units include the Institute of Biology Roberto Alcantara Gomes, the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Chemistry, the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, the Institute of Geosciences, the Institute of Arts, the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, the Institute of Social Medicine and the Polytechnic Institute.该校的教学与研究单位包括罗伯托·阿尔坎塔拉·戈麦斯生物学研究所、物理研究所、化学研究所、数学与统计研究所、地球科学研究所、艺术研究所、哲学与人文科学研究所、社会医学研究所以及理工学院。
• Graduate programmes are assessed by CAPES, and several UERJ programmes in social medicine, law, political science and physics hold the top grades of 6 or 7.该校研究生项目由 CAPES 评估，其社会医学、法学、政治学与物理学等领域的多个项目获得 6 或 7 的最高等级。
• The medical school runs residency programmes based at the Pedro Ernesto hospital, while its family-medicine teams also work in primary-care clinics across the city.医学院以佩德罗·埃内斯托医院为基地开展住院医师培训，其家庭医学团队还在全市多家初级保健诊所工作。
• The Institute of Social and Political Studies, known as IESP, is one of Brazil's leading graduate centres in political science and sociology.该校社会与政治研究所（简称 IESP）是巴西政治学与社会学领域最重要的研究生培养中心之一。
• The university publishes academic journals including Physis, a public-health review edited by its Institute of Social Medicine, and the Revista de Direito da UERJ, produced by its law school.该校出版多种学术期刊，包括由社会医学研究所编辑的公卫评论《Physis》以及法学院主办的《里约热内卢州立大学法学评论》。

Campus

• The main campus in Maracanã covers 16 hectares and is officially named Campus Francisco Negrão de Lima after the governor who supported its creation.马拉卡纳主校区占地 16 公顷，正式名称为弗朗西斯科·内格朗·德利马校区，以支持该校创建的州长命名。
• The campus centres on the Edifício João Lyra Filho, which houses the rectorate and central administration, and includes faculties, laboratories and a library network.校区以若昂·利拉·菲略大楼为中心，内设校长办公室与中央行政，并分布各学院、实验室与图书馆网络。
• The Teatro Odylo Costa Filho, a university theatre on the Maracanã campus, hosts plays, concerts and film screenings open to the public.马拉卡纳校区的奥迪洛·科斯塔·菲略大学剧院上演戏剧、音乐会与电影放映，并向公众开放。
• The Pedro Ernesto University Hospital stands in Vila Isabel, close to the Maracanã campus, and is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Rio de Janeiro.佩德罗·埃内斯托大学医院位于维拉伊莎贝尔，靠近马拉卡纳校区，是里约热内卢最大的教学医院之一。
• Regional campuses in Duque de Caxias, São Gonçalo, Resende, Angra dos Reis, Petrópolis, Teresópolis and Nova Friburgo extend the university across the state.杜克德卡希亚斯、圣贡萨洛、雷森迪、安格拉杜斯雷斯、彼得罗波利斯、特雷索波利斯与新弗里堡等地区校区把大学延伸至全州。
• The Nova Friburgo campus houses the Polytechnic Institute, created in 2009, with engineering laboratories and programmes in mechanical, electrical and production engineering.新弗里堡校区设 2009 年创办的理工学院，拥有工程实验室以及机械、电气与生产工程等专业。
• The Maracanã campus lies next to the Maracanã stadium and is served by metro line 2 and several bus routes linking it to the city centre and the northern suburbs.马拉卡纳校区毗邻马拉卡纳体育场，由地铁 2 号线与多条公交线路连接市中心及北郊。
• The university's architecture combines 1970s concrete blocks with later additions, and its open plazas are used for student fairs and political gatherings. The site is compact, and most buildings stand within walking distance of one another.该校建筑以 1970 年代混凝土楼群为主，并陆续增建，开阔广场用于学生集市与政治集会。校区紧凑，多数建筑彼此步行可达。
• The Rede Sirius libraries are distributed across the campuses, with the central library on the Maracanã site holding the largest collection of books and journals.西里乌斯图书馆网络分布于各校区，其中马拉卡纳校区的中央图书馆藏书与期刊最多。
• The regional campuses share the same free-tuition model and admissions system as Maracanã, allowing students from the interior to study close to home.各地区校区与马拉卡纳校区实行同样的免学费模式与招生制度，使内陆学生能够就近求学。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, UERJ is placed in the 1201-1400 band, a joint interval that reflects its position among Brazil's large public universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列 1201-1400 并列区间，这一区间反映其在巴西大型公立大学中的位置。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place UERJ in the 1801-2000 band, a result influenced by its research volume and student-staff ratio, with a still modest international profile.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入 1801-2000 区间，这一结果受其科研体量、师生比以及仍显有限的国际化程度影响。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks UERJ 1,278th in the world and among the leading universities of Brazil and Latin America.2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名将该校列于世界第 1278 位，并居于巴西与拉丁美洲前列。
• UERJ did not enter the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table, although its dentistry and law programmes appear in subject rankings.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，但其牙医学与法学项目出现在学科排名中。
• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025, UERJ's dentistry programme was placed in the 51-150 band, one of its strongest international results.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校牙医学位列 51-150 区间，是其最强的国际成绩之一。
• The same QS subject rankings placed UERJ law in the 301-350 band, reflecting the reputation of a faculty that has trained several Supreme Court justices.同一份 QS 学科排名把该校法学列入 301-350 区间，反映这所培养了多位最高法院大法官的法学院的声誉。
• OpenAlex attributes 78,137 works and 3,348,040 citations to UERJ, making it one of the most productive research universities in Brazil, with output spanning medicine, physics, the social sciences and law.OpenAlex 为该校收录 78137 项成果与 3348040 次引用，使其成为巴西科研产出最高的大学之一，成果覆盖医学、物理学、社会科学与法学。
• UERJ's law and medical schools are regularly ranked among the best in Brazil by national student-performance indices and professional bodies.该校法学院与医学院在全国学生表现指数与专业机构评估中常居巴西前列。
• The university is known for its affirmative-action policy, which became a model for federal quota legislation adopted in 2012.该校以平权招生政策著称，该政策成为 2012 年联邦配额立法的重要范本。
• Its research profile is strengthened by partnerships with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Petrobras and the National Institute of Cancer, especially in health and energy research.该校与奥斯瓦尔多·克鲁兹基金会、巴西石油及国家癌症研究所的合作强化了其科研布局，尤其在健康与能源领域。
• UERJ is consistently placed among Brazil's leading public universities in national assessments, particularly in law, medicine, nursing and philosophy.在全国评估中，该校始终位居巴西顶尖公立大学之列，尤其在法学、医学、护理学与哲学领域。

Student life

• UERJ has no official motto, and its institutional identity instead emphasises free public higher education and social inclusion.该校没有正式校训，其机构认同改为强调免费的公立高等教育与社会包容。
• All admitted students pay no tuition, and the university provides subsidised meals, transport passes and housing support for low-income students, with state funding covering most of its operating budget and federal grants supporting research.所有录取学生免缴学费，校方还为低收入学生提供补贴餐食、交通卡与住宿支持，其运营预算大部分由州政府拨款，科研则由联邦资助。
• The university's quota system created one of the most diverse student bodies in Brazil, with a large share of students from public schools and Afro-Brazilian families.该校的配额制度造就了巴西最多元的学生群体之一，其中相当比例来自公立学校与非裔巴西家庭。
• The Teatro Odylo Costa Filho and the university's cultural centres host theatre, music and film programming that is open to the surrounding Maracanã community.奥迪洛·科斯塔·菲略剧院与该校文化中心举办戏剧、音乐与电影活动，向马拉卡纳周边社区开放。
• UERJ's annual Scientific Initiation Week brings undergraduates together with research supervisors to present projects across all fields.该校每年举办的科学启蒙周让本科生与研究导师共同展示各领域项目。
• Student teams compete in the Brazilian university games in volleyball, basketball, handball and swimming, and the campus has courts and a gymnasium.该校学生队参加巴西大学生运动会的排球、篮球、手球与游泳项目，校区设有球场与体育馆。
• Campus life is tied to Maracanã and the North Zone, with samba schools, street markets and the stadium shaping the daily rhythm of students.校园生活与马拉卡纳及北区紧密相连，桑巴学校、街市与体育场塑造着学生的日常节奏。
• The university's student government and departmental centres organise debates, cultural festivals and mobilisations on education funding and public health.该校学生自治会与各系学生中心组织辩论、文化节以及关于教育经费与公共卫生的动员活动。
• Students eat at subsidised university restaurants and can apply for transport and housing support through the university's student-assistance programmes.学生在享受补贴的大学餐厅就餐，并可通过该校学生资助项目申请交通与住宿支持。

Notable people

• João Lyra Filho, the university's first rector, was a jurist and economist who shaped its early faculty structure and whose name marks the main administration building.首任校长若昂·利拉·菲略是法学家与经济学家，塑造了该校早期院系结构，主行政楼以他命名。
• Luís Roberto Barroso, a professor of constitutional law at UERJ, has served as a justice of the Supreme Federal Court since 2013 and presided over the court from 2023 to 2025.路易斯·罗伯托·巴罗索是该校宪法学教授，自 2013 年起任联邦最高法院大法官，并于 2023 至 2025 年主持该院。
• Luiz Fux, another UERJ law professor, was appointed to the Supreme Federal Court in 2011 and presided over the court from 2020 to 2022.另一位该校法学教授路易斯·富克斯于 2011 年出任联邦最高法院大法官，并于 2020 至 2022 年主持该院。
• Nísia Trindade Lima, a sociologist trained at UERJ, presided over the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation from 2017 to 2023 and served as Brazil's minister of health from 2023 to 2025.尼西亚·特林达德·利马在该校接受社会学训练，2017 至 2023 年领导奥斯瓦尔多·克鲁兹基金会，2023 至 2025 年任巴西卫生部长。
• Jandira Feghali, a physician and federal deputy, graduated from UERJ's medical school and has been a leading voice on health policy in the Brazilian Congress.然迪拉·费加利是医师与联邦众议员，毕业于该校医学院，长期在巴西国会就卫生政策发声。
• Anielle Franco, Brazil's minister of racial equality since 2023, studied journalism at UERJ and founded the Marielle Franco Institute before entering government.安妮尔·弗朗科自 2023 年起任巴西种族平等部长，曾在该校学习新闻学，并在进入政府前创办玛丽埃尔·弗朗科研究所。
• Talíria Petrone, a federal deputy and former teacher, studied history at UERJ and has focused on urban policy, education and human rights.塔利里娅·佩特罗内是联邦众议员与前教师，在该校学习历史，关注城市政策、教育与人权。
• José Gomes Temporão, a physician and public-health specialist, graduated from UERJ and served as Brazil's minister of health from 2007 to 2010.若泽·戈麦斯·滕波朗是医师与公共卫生专家，毕业于该校，2007 至 2010 年任巴西卫生部长。
• Raphael Montes, a novelist known for thrillers such as Perfect Days, studied law at UERJ before turning to full-time writing.拉斐尔·蒙泰斯是以《完美日子》等惊悚小说闻名的作家，在专职写作前于该校学习法律。
• Muniz Sodré, a professor emeritus of communication at UERJ, is a leading Brazilian theorist of media, culture and Afro-Brazilian religion.穆尼斯·索德雷是该校传播学荣休教授，也是巴西研究媒体、文化与非裔巴西宗教的重要理论家。
• Marielle Franco, the Rio de Janeiro city councillor murdered in 2018, graduated in social sciences from UERJ and completed a master's degree in public administration there.2018 年遇害的里约热内卢市议员玛丽埃尔·弗朗科毕业于该校社会科学专业，并在该校完成公共管理硕士学位。