Federal Centers for Technological Education

Entrance of **CEFET-CE**, *campus* Fortaleza, Ceará.

The Federal Centers for Technological Education (Portuguese: Centros Federais de Educação Tecnológica, shortened CEFET) are Brazilian educational institutes which are directly linked to the Ministry of Education. They are focused on high school, technical high school and academic degrees linked to technology. Many of them offer academic degrees, just like universities.

After December 28, 2008, most of them were transformed into Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology, the exceptions being the ones in the states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, which remained as CEFETs and the one in the state of Paraná, which became the Federal Technological University of Paraná. ^[1]

References

^ "Law 11.892/2008". 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2009.

Brazilian universities and colleges

Federal

Universities	Acre Alagoas Amapá Amazonas Bahia Recôncavo Southern Western Brasília Ceará Cariri International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony Espírito Santo Goiás Maranhão Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul Grande Dourados Minas Gerais Alfenas Itajubá Juiz de Fora Lavras Ouro Preto São João del-Rei Triângulo Mineiro Uberlândia Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri Viçosa Pará Rural of Amazonia Southern and Southeastern Western Paraíba Campina Grande Paraná Latin American Integration Technology Pernambuco Rural São Francisco Valley Piauí Rio de Janeiro Fluminense Rural State of Rio de Janeiro Rio Grande do Norte Rural of the Semi-arid Region Rio Grande do Sul Health Sciences of Porto Alegre Pampa Pelotas Rio Grande Santa Maria Rondônia Roraima Santa Catarina Fronteira Sul São Paulo ABC Region São Carlos Sergipe Tocantins
Colleges	Instituto Militar de Engenharia Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica Naval School
Institutes	Acre Bahia Baiano Brasília Ceará Mato Grosso Minas Gerais CEFET-MG Pará Paraná Pernambuco Rio de Janeiro CEFET-RJ Rio Grande do Sul Sul-Rio-Grandense Santa Catarina São Paulo