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The Times Higher Education (THE) has published the Latin America University Rankings 2020, a list of the best universities in the Latin America and Caribbean Region.

In this year’s edition, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) moved from the 12th to the 9th position in the ranking. Among the 10 top universities in Latin America, UFSC was ranked the 3rd best Brazilian federal university, behind the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp).

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The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), aware of Ordinance no. 447/2020 enacted by the State Health Department (SES), announces that on-campus learning will not be resumed in 2020, while there are still no adequate sanitary and epidemiological conditions that can guarantee the safety of the university community.

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The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) was ranked 15th overall among the 30 Brazilian Universities which participated in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2020. The Impact Rankings assess universities against the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. This was the first time that UFSC participated in the ranking, and it was ranked 301-400th worldwide.

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To meet the needs of students during social isolation, ETS is temporarily offering the TOEFL iBT Special Home Edition. The TOEFL iBT tests will be administered from home until 30 September. For further information, visit ETS website.

SINTER announces that applications for the Santander Universidades Ibero-American Undergraduate Scholarship Program are open, according to the Call for Applications no. 4 SINTER 2020. The program, financed by Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A., offers scholarships to students enrolled at Santander’s partner universities, enabling academic mobility between Ibero-American countries.

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The Central Administration of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) has extended the suspension of the university’s in-person academic and administrative activities until 31 May, according to the Normative Ordinance no. 359 published this Wednesday, 29 April.
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