Table 1. General characteristics and concepts of the undergraduate courses in the health area (n=3,712) in Brazil, according to the performance of their students (n=192,715) in ENADE 2019.
| Characteristics | N | % | ENADE concepts (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Undergraduate courses | 3,712 | 100.0 | 4.7 | 26.2 | 40.1 | 22.6 | 6.4 |
| Biomedicine | 301 | 8.1 | 4.7 | 33.2 | 39.5 | 19.9 | 2.7 |
| Physical Education | 501 | 13.5 | 3.2 | 22.4 | 46.5 | 22.9 | 5.0 |
| Nursing | 793 | 21.4 | 6.8 | 33.9 | 39.1 | 16.5 | 3.7 |
| Pharmacy | 429 | 11.6 | 2.6 | 21.7 | 41.5 | 27.7 | 6.5 |
| Physiotherapy | 517 | 13.9 | 3.7 | 26.9 | 44.3 | 17.8 | 7.3 |
| Speech Therapy | 73 | 2.0 | 17.8 | 30.1 | 13.7 | 24.7 | 13.7 |
| Medicine | 232 | 6.2 | 5.6 | 7.8 | 35.8 | 38.8 | 12.0 |
| Veterinary Medicine | 215 | 5.8 | 9.8 | 27.4 | 35.8 | 20.5 | 6.5 |
| Nutrition | 414 | 11.1 | 1.9 | 25.4 | 37.7 | 25.1 | 9.9 |
| Dentistry | 237 | 6.4 | 2.1 | 24.1 | 39.2 | 27.9 | 6.7 |
| Teaching modality | |||||||
| Face-to-face | 3,694 | 99.5 | 4.7 | 26.1 | 40.1 | 22.7 | 6.4 |
| Education at a Distance | 18 | 0.5 | 11.1 | 55.6 | 27.8 | 0.0 | 5.5 |
| Academic organization | |||||||
| University Center | 1,021 | 27.5 | 4.0 | 30.5 | 46.8 | 17.4 | 1.3 |
| College | 1,074 | 28.9 | 8.5 | 41.3 | 39.7 | 9.2 | 1.3 |
| IFECT* | 15 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 13.3 | 26.7 | 46.7 | 13.3 |
| University | 1,602 | 43.2 | 2.6 | 13.6 | 36.2 | 34.6 | 13.0 |
| Administration | |||||||
| Public | 681 | 18.3 | 2.1 | 6.0 | 16.6 | 48.1 | 27.2 |
| Private | 3,031 | 81.7 | 5.3 | 30.8 | 45.3 | 16.9 | 1.7 |
| Public management | |||||||
| Federal | 433 | 63.6 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 13.9 | 50.1 | 33.7 |
| State | 185 | 27.2 | 0.5 | 4.3 | 16.8 | 57.3 | 21.1 |
| Municipal | 63 | 9.2 | 19.1 | 38.1 | 34.9 | 7.9 | 0.0 |
| Macro-region of the country | |||||||
| North | 259 | 7.0 | 13.1 | 43.6 | 28.6 | 13.1 | 1.6 |
| Northeast | 842 | 22.7 | 4.4 | 33.0 | 35.2 | 19.1 | 8.3 |
| Midwest | 351 | 9.4 | 7.4 | 28.5 | 36.5 | 23.4 | 4.2 |
| Southeast | 1,614 | 43.5 | 3.9 | 23.8 | 42.9 | 22.8 | 6.6 |
| South | 646 | 17.4 | 2.2 | 15.3 | 46.1 | 30.0 | 6.4 |
| Population size of the city† where the course is offered | |||||||
| Small size | 182 | 4.9 | 12.6 | 32.4 | 36.3 | 14.8 | 3.9 |
| Medium size | 594 | 16.0 | 5.9 | 30.5 | 40.7 | 18.5 | 4.4 |
| Large size | 2,936 | 79.1 | 4.0 | 25.0 | 40.2 | 23.9 | 6.9 |
| Metropolitan Region (MR) | |||||||
| Yes | 1,921 | 51.8 | 4.1 | 25.3 | 39.7 | 23.3 | 7.6 |
| No | 1,791 | 48.2 | 5.3 | 27.3 | 40.5 | 21.9 | 5.0 |
Source: INEP, 2020. * Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia; †Small size: <50,000 inhabitants and Demographic Density (DD) <80 inhabitants/km2; Medium size: From 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants or DD ≥80 inhabitants/km2; and Large size: >100,000 inhabitants