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Rio de Janeiro is an exciting city located inside the tropical forest and by the Atlantic Ocean. Rio provides its inhabitants a majestic realm of colors, sounds and smells. With an intense cultural life, Rio de Janeiro is the perfect place for those who want to immerse themselves into the South American reality: plays, shows, concerts, exhibitions, street performances, scientific conferences, cultural debates - everything happens in Rio.

Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, called PUC-Rio for short, is a private non-profit Catholic University located in Rio de Janiero. It was created in 1941 in order to develop knowledge based on humanistic values. Now with, approximately, 10,000 undergraduate students and 2,500 graduate students PUC-Rio is internationally recognized as one of the top five universities in Brazil and one of the two best in Rio de Janeiro.

Study abroad students with advanced Portuguese language skills can take classes in Portuguese while students without Portuguese skills can take classes taught in English. The classes taugth in Portuguese are taken alongside local Brazilian students within three academic centers: Center for Theology and Human Sciences, Center for Social Sciences and the Center for Science and Technology. Courses taught in English include subjects related to culture, business, civilization, and history.