The UFMG is one of Brazil's five largest univerisities. It offers 45 different degree courses, including an extremely sought-after medicine course, traditional options such as law and Social Communication, plus a handful of engineering options and a wide array of science and art courses.
The current principal of UFMG is Prof. Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazzola. Famous former students include Juscelino Kubitschek and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
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In 1898, the Ouro Preto Faculty of Law was transferred to Belo Horizonte, the new state capital.
A few new unconnected faculties would appear later: in 1907, the Free School of Dentistry; in 1911, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Engineering, and a course in pharmacy attached to the Free School of Dentistry.
In 1927, these four schools merged to form the UMG – the University of Minas Gerais, a private institution subsidized by the state government.
The UMG remained in the state sphere until 1949, when it was made federal.
The current name – UFMG – was not adopted until 1965.
At the time of federalization, the schools of architecture, philosophy and economics were already integrated in the university. Its expansion progressed, creating the schools of nursing (1950), veterinary science (1961), information science (1962), music (1962) and physical education (1969).
In 1968, a universitary reform profoundly altered the structure of UFMG. The Faculty of Philosophy spawned multiple institutions. Thus were born the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, the Institute of Biological Sciences, the Institute of Exact Sciences, the Institute of Geosciences and the Faculties of Literature and Education.
A further five courses have been established recently: agronomy, theater, control and automation engineering, computing mathematics, and phonoaudiology.
History of UFMG
UFMG in numbers
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