Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ Speciality : Geography
programme: Climate

My experience at UFRJ has been very enriching. It’s a university with a wide range of opportunities, and many classes are truly valuable and content-rich. You can engage in research, extension projects, and connect with brilliant people from different areas. However, it also suffers from major issues caused by long-term government neglect — the infrastructure is precarious in many departments, and unfortunately, some professors lack good teaching methods, which can make learning difficult. This also contributes to high failure rates in some unified courses. Still, UFRJ remains a place of endless possibilities that you simply won’t find everywhere. I would recommend it for students who are independent, curious, and want to be part of a dynamic academic environment.