Unichristus is a private university in the state of Ceará in Brazil that has its roots in the 1950s with the Christus Elementary School. It then a higher education institution in 1995 as Christus College. The college then became Unichristus in 2012 and now has four campuses in Fortaleza: Dom Luis, Dionisio Torres, Ecologic Park, and Benfica.
Unichristus offers a range of undergraduate programmes in a variety of disciplines that include: management, architecture and urbanism, biomedicine, accounting, nursing, civil engineering, production engineering, and aesthetics and cosmetics. The university also has programmes in the following disciplines: physiotherapy, gastronomy, medicine, nutrition, dentistry, psychology, radiology, and information systems. These courses are divided between their campuses, with health-related courses on the Ecologic Park site and business and finance-related disciplines on the Dom Luis site.
For students who have completed an undergraduate degree, Unichristus also offers a variety of postgraduate options in areas of technology, law, health and management. These options include master’s and specialisation programs with courses such as corporate consulting, forensic expertise, clinical care in mental health, and environmental sanitation engineering.
Remote learning extension courses are also offered at Unichristus which are designed to complement a degree course and enhance the student’s professional performance. In this virtual environment, students have support resources and can participate in discussions like they would in face-to-face learning. Extension courses can be taken in personal finances, investing in the financial market, merchandising, lab quality management, mobile application creation, and didactics.
