Universidade Estadual de Maringá

The Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM) is a state university in Paraná, Brazil, with its main campus in Maringá and regional campuses in Cianorte, Cidade Gaúcha, Diamante do Norte, Goioerê, Ivaiporã and Umuarama. According to the university's 2025 figures, more than 21,000 students are enrolled in its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

UEM offers undergraduate degree courses (graduação), postgraduate programmes (both lato sensu specialisations and stricto sensu master's and doctoral programmes), medical residencies and distance education. Undergraduate courses on the Maringá campus range across agriculture, the arts, health sciences (including Medicine, Nursing and Dentistry), law, engineering, the natural and social sciences and education; the regional campuses add courses such as Design and Fashion in Cianorte and Veterinary Medicine and technology courses in Umuarama.

The university also runs research units outside Maringá, including an experimental farm in Iguatemi, a fish farming research station in Floriano and the Nupélia research base in Porto Rico, and a health complex that, according to UEM, serves more than 200,000 people from Maringá and the region each year.