Abstract

TREVISOL, Joviles Vitório; BALSANELLO, Geomara  and  BASTIANI, Sherlon Cristina de. The policies and dynamics of the regionalization of graduate education in Santa Catarina: a study on the West region. Rev. Int. Educ. Super. [online]. 2023, vol.9, e023030.  Epub Mar 27, 2025. ISSN 2446-9424.  https://doi.org/10.20396/riesup.v9i00.8666782.

Brazilian postgraduate programs (PG) have grown exponentially in recent decades. The expansion, however, has not occurred uniformly in all regions of the country. Regional and intraregional inequalities and asymmetries persist. The reduction of asymmetries has been slow. This study aimed to investigate the process of internalization of PG in Brazil from a specific unit of the federation: Santa Catarina (SC). Based on general data from PG in Brazil and SC, it was decided to focus the investigation on a specific region of such state: the Western. The study was developed through documentary research and the systematization and analysis of the main PG indicators available on the Sucupira Platform and on the GeoCapes databases. The data shows that the expansion of PG in the Western region of Santa Catarina was led by non-profit Higher Education Institutions (HEI). In 2019, non-profit HEIs offered 72.4% of PG courses, against 27.6% by public HEIs and 0% of the for-profit private sector. The first PG course in the Western region was recommended by CAPES in 2005. In 2019, the region offered 29 courses (24 masters and 05 doctorates), corresponding to 9.9% of the total PG programs in SC. UFFS, UNOESC and UNOCHAPECÓ account for 82.7% of the offering of courses. The city of Chapecó concentrates 71.4% of the PG courses in the region.

Keywords : Higher education polices; Graduate education; Regionalization; Santa Catarina.

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