Sisu 2026 Registration Opens With Best-of-Three Enem Rule and Record 274,800 Seats

Overview

• Registration runs January 19–23, the single regular-call result posts January 29, and matriculation starts February 2.
• The platform automatically selects each applicant’s best Enem score from 2023–2025 under a new MEC regulation now applied to this edition.
• Applications are submitted free at the Portal Único (sisu.mec.gov.br) with a gov.br login, with up to two course choices and modality selection, and media simulators help estimate chances.
• Cutoff scores move daily throughout the period and candidates may revise options until 23:59 on January 23, with early access often unstable as traffic surges.
• This edition offers about 274,800 seats across 7,388 courses at 136 institutions, with UFRJ (9,120), UFF (8,931) and UFPB (8,005) leading nationally and Ufam (2,520) topping the North; Paraíba lists 21,988 statewide and Maranhão around 8,800.