Abstract

MAGALHAES, Fábio Luís Falchi de et al. Panorama Quantitativo dos Programas de Pós-graduação Stricto Sensu em Tecnologia da Informação no Brasil. Rev. iberoam. tecnol. educ. educ. tecnol. [online]. 2018, n.21, pp.52-61. ISSN 1851-0086.

With only 40 years of existence, Information Technology (IT) has been the object of study of different areas of research, such as Administration, Computing, Social Sciences, Information Science and Communication. This research aims to present a quantitative overview of the postgraduate programs in the area of Information Technology in Brazil. To accomplish this goal, a quantitative approach was performed by a documental research and the Sucupira/CAPES Platform was used for the data collection proceed in December 2016. The main results indicate the existence of 249 courses distributed in 178 Postgraduate Programs offered in the country. There are 76 doctorates courses, 138 academic masters and 35 professional masters, distributed in 97 Higher Education Institutions. Thus, 13 of 49 areas CAPES' evaluation have courses based in this topic, with emphasis on 'Computer Science', 'Interdisciplinary', 'Communication and Information', and 'Electrical Engineering', predominantly with '4' and '3' grades in CAPES' evaluation. There is greater presence of Postgraduate Programs in the Southeast Region, notably the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, and the Federal universities stand out to other higher education institutions. As a conclusion, IT is in expansion, and IT is increasing its interdisciplinary scope.

Keywords : Postgraduate education; Information technology education; Master and PhD courses; Educational overview.