includes two types of universities:
* University colleges;
* Polytechnic universities.
University education offers the following academic degrees:
* Bacharel – after a three-year training program with the technical, cultural, the right to perform certain professions;
* Licenciado – a four-year cycle of training, with the technical, cultural and professional in the field;
* Mestre – depth knowledge of the area and the ability to carry out scientific research;
* Doutor – a high level of cultural, and the ability to conduct research in specific areas of knowledge.
