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SOUSA, José Vieira de  e  SOUSA FILHO, Edson Machado de. Higher education internationalization in Brazil: enrollments of foreign students in undergraduate programs in 2022. Rev. Educ. Polít. Debate [online]. 2024, vol.13, n.2, a2024-72282. ISSN 2238-8346.  https://doi.org/10.14393/repod-v13n2a2024-72282.

The study analyzes data from the 2022 Brazilian Higher Education Census regarding the presence of foreign undergraduate students and their countries of origin, discussing the internationalization of higher education institutions in the country. Data collected by the Enade 2021 Student Questionnaire are also analyzed to discuss the extent to which the internationalization initiatives of Brazilian HEIs are measured in the assessment policy of the National Higher Education Assessment System (Sinaes). Finally, we discuss how internationalization is understood in the external institutional assessment instrument, the main form of quality promotion in the Brazilian system today. It concludes that there is a low presence of foreign students graduating in Brazil, little articulation between what is measured in the census and what is expected as quality in external evaluation, and the inexistence of official statistics regarding undergraduate student mobility abroad.

Palavras-chave : Higher education; Internationalization of education; Student mobility; Higher education census; Sinaes.

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