Master Programs in Brazil 2025

The Master's courses in Information Science at UFSC aim to train high-level personnel with competence to: Research theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects related to the production, communication, and representation of knowledge and information. Investigate the processes, environments, services, products, and information and knowledge management systems. The disciplines and other academic activities offered in the Master's and Doctorate courses will be carried out on a quarterly basis with a view to deepening and investigating the chosen line of research. Admission to the PGCIN student body, Master and Doctorate level, requires prior approval in a selection process, and Master's and Doctoral students will have the supervision of an academic advisor and dissertation or thesis.

Understanding Design as innovation, methodology, and technique resulting in artifacts, services, and processes for political, social, and economic development, the Graduate Program in Design is structured in an area of ​​concentration which is Design and in two lines of research, these being: Management - based on Strategic Design Management, applied to organizations with a technological and social base, including sectors with high technological development and also community sectors It considers the operational, tactical, and strategic aspects and their relationship with the performance of the productive processes in the companies.

The Graduate Program - Professional Master in Psychology at UNISC aims to train professionals in Psychology, professionals in the field of Health, Human Sciences, and Applied Social Sciences for innovation and the production of new technologies in the field of Psychology. From this, it is intended to train a professional able to propose creative ways to solve problems and face challenges in different work contexts.

The Graduate Program - Master in Education aims to train and qualify researchers in the field of Education and the like, developing research and other academic activities that establish the dialogue between the various scientific and philosophical perspectives, in addition to deepening the bonds of reflection on education with the world of life, training researchers to work at school and in the most diverse educational instances in society. Thus, it has been constituting a field of studies and propositions aimed at problematizing educational actions and processes, with a special focus on regional demands, which maintain links with national and international ones.

The general objective of the Program is to promote the training of professionals to carry out teaching and research, advisory and consultancy, evaluation and planning activities, in public, private, and third sector institutions, in an interdisciplinary character, valuing the participation, the consolidation of democracy, the affirmation of citizenship and the promotion of the quality of life of regional communities.

The Master in Medicine and Animal Welfare (MMBEA) started its activities in October 2013 and currently presents concept 4 by CAPES. Considered a recent Stricto Sensu program, it presents very positive indicators in the areas of teacher qualification and scientific production. Consisting of doctors, the faculty has an average of publications with an index H = 12. The publications in partnership with the students, the academic experience, the raising of financial resources from the main development agencies (FAPESP and CNPq) combined with comprehensive scientific research are the differentials of this program.

To train masters in Human Sciences so that they can act, in an interdisciplinary way, both in teaching, in research, or in management in the areas of Letters, History, Communication, Sociology, Anthropology and Pedagogy, and their interfaces. Aimed at problematizing the socio-cultural and historical realities in which they are inserted, student-researchers must develop skills and competencies based on a solid interdisciplinary theoretical-methodological formation, when analyzing cultural manifestations and their social contexts of expression, producing research that contributes with reflections and actions to transform your surroundings.

To provide students with the acquisition of scientific knowledge about the health-disease process, disease prevention, and health promotion, seeking to integrate laboratory, clinical and epidemiological studies. Develop and use modern and innovative laboratory technology for the diagnosis of diseases prevalent in the region; Identify the determinants of diseases prevalent in the region; Know and create tools relevant to the management of health services in the region and their impact on health care for the population; Encourage research with a view to offering subsidies to the elaboration of public health actions, to improve people's quality of life; Interact with other graduate programs in the country and abroad, enabling academic-scientific exchange; Train teachers for higher education and professionals to meet the needs of society, with a critical, humanistic, and ethical vision.

The course aims to train professionals in the analysis of business problems and in the use of analytical techniques to deal with the complexity, diversity, and high volume of digital data (“Big Data”) that characterize the current competitive context. It is focused on the convergence of skills, balancing the acquisition of knowledge with the practical application of methods aimed at data modeling, quantitative analysis, identification, and problem-solving, and business management. Thus enabling the development of analytical capacity, with a focus on practical applications, to manage and conduct projects that involve structured and unstructured databases (Big Data), among other capabilities.

The course covers several concepts and practices essential to the training of professionals ready to meet the demand of an increasingly dynamic job market. The course develops a strategic vision, allowing greater efficiency in the process of structuring and synthesizing information related to the Administration area and personal skills in communication, planning, and leadership, contributing to the training of executives prepared for the development and Management of People

This specialization program comes from the current need that the market directs on orthopedics and sports professionals trained for pragmatic and effective clinical actions in favor of patients who are affected by different musculoskeletal disorders of the body system.

The sustainability agenda is imposed on all productive sectors of the economy, including agribusiness. The market demands practices that are consistent with the preservation of the environment, social responsibility, and food security. Thus, professionals in the agribusiness sector need to improve, qualifying to face the challenges of sustainability, combining production with environmental conservation.

Acupuncture has been recognized as a specialty in the health area since 1985, it is an integral part of the set of therapies classified since 2006 as “Complementary Integrative Practice” - PIC, but it has been part of the therapeutic arsenal at the three levels of health care for much longer. It consists of inserting needles in specific points of the body, associated with other forms of stimulation of these points (such as suction cups, heating, electrostimulation, low-power laser, etc.), and it has been practiced for millennia. The first historical findings of its use in the treatment of disease date back more than 4,000 years. From the 1960s on, acupuncture began to be understood in a scientific way in academic circles, through the theories of neuromodulation and immunological response to treatment.

Since the creation of the Psychology Graduation Course in 2005, the creation of a Psychology Graduate Program at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) was already envisioned. From the conclusion of the first undergraduate class in Psychology in 2010, plans began to be drawn up which resulted, in 2014, in CAPES 'recommendation to create the first stricto sensu Graduate Program in Psychology at a public university in the state of Goiás. The creation of this program is, therefore, the result of the maturation of the undergraduate course in Psychology (undergraduate and bachelor's degree) at UFG, which, in 2013, had four classes with the completed course. Although Psychology is a new course at UFG, it has a teaching staff and a physical space that can contribute enormously to teaching and research in Psychology in the Midwest region. Psychology at UFG has laboratories, study rooms, research centers, a Psychology Center in which teaching, research, and extension activities are carried out in the most different areas of Psychology and, also, a Center for Studies, Research, and Extension of the Adolescent (CEPEA).

It is valued for the solid training of a professional with the ability to conduct research independently, managing to work on research projects, to generate well-founded, innovative, and sustainable solutions, in diverse themes of Mechanical Engineering. In addition, the master in Mechanical Sciences, trained at PPGMEC / UFG, must be able to act as a teacher who disseminates scientific and technological knowledge, in order to contribute to the quality of teaching in the region and in the country. And, finally, it must be able to interact with its peers, at the national and international level, understanding, adapting, and obtaining solutions, which are on the frontier of national and world knowledge, for the progress of the region and the country.