Regional Economics and Public Policies
Program Evaluation
In Brazil, graduate programs are accredited and evaluated every four years by the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), which assigns a score from 3 to 7 to each course/program depending on its performance. The lowest score refers to a course/program with satisfactory assessment and with authorization to operate only at master's level. A grade 7 refers to a program whose level is comparable to the best courses in the area abroad. Periodically committees meet and elaborate guidance, establishing the main indicators of each area of knowledge to be used as a basis for the evaluation criteria of the programs.
In the last evaluation events, the program reached the score 4!
