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Federal University of Pernambuco is a public university located in Recife, Brazil, established in 1946. UFPE has 70 undergraduate courses and 175 postgraduate courses., UFPE had 35,000 students and 2,000 professors. The university has three campuses: Recife, Vitória de Santo Antão, and Caruaru. Its main campus, or "Cidade Universitária", has 10 centers in 149 hectares. It is located in the west part of Recife, in the Várzea neighborhood. The Law School or Faculty of Law is located downtown.UFPE ranks among the top Brazilian universities, being the ninth university both in size and scientific production, and the seventh among the federal institutes. UFPE's Center for Exact and Natural Sciences is consistently the strongest in research production in the university. CAPES ratings are Physics Department, the Center of Informatics and the Chemistry Department .UFPE has been elected twice as the best university of north and northeast Brazil by Guia do Estudante and Banco Real .Each year over 6,000 seats are offered in a competitive entry exam . The median and average competition rate is of about 10 applicants for each seat.HistoryThe Faculty of Law of Olinda can be considered UFPE's precursor, created by emperor Dom Pedro I's decreet, being considered along with the Faculty of Law of USP (created in the same day), the two oldest schools of law in the country. Afterwards, the faculty was transferred to Recife, changing its name to Faculty of Law of Recife; in 1895 the School of Engineering of Pernambuco also started to function. These two faculties/free schools, and those of Medicine (1927), Philosophy currently known as Faculdade Frassinetti do Recife - FAFIRE (1941) and Belas Artes (1932), became the base courses to UFPE's formation.