Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Infobox_University
name = Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
motto = "Incipit Vita Nova" (Latin)
mottoeng = A new life begins


established = 1927
type = Public University
rector= Ronaldo Tadeu Pena
city = Belo Horizonte
state = Minas Gerais
country = Brazil
undergrad = 22,202
postgrad = 10,490
staff = 4,445
campus = Urban, 8,794,767 square meters
endowment = R$ 685.964.440,45
website= [http://www.ufmg.br www.ufmg.br]

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Federal University of Minas Gerais, abbreviated as UFMG) is a public university located in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The students are admitted through yearly exams called vestibular.

UFMG is one of Brazil's five largest universities. It offers 48 different undergraduate degrees, including an extremely sought-after Medicine degree, more traditional options such as Law and Economics, plus a handful of Engineering and a wide array of Science and Art degrees. It also offers 48 PhD programs, 58 MSc programs, 57 diplomas and 37 medical residency programs. In total, UFMG has a capacity for up to 35,324 students.

The current rector of UFMG is Prof. Ronaldo Tadeu Pena. Famous past students include former Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek; writer, medical doctor and diplomat João Guimarães Rosa, plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy, poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade and pop singers Samuel Rosa and Fernanda Takai.

Location

UFMG is located in the northern part of Belo Horizonte, in the neighborhood of Pampulha. The campus area totals 8.794.767 square meters, while built area reaches 592.053 square meters. This is divided in three main campuses (Pampulha Campus, Health Sciences Campus in Central Belo Horizonte and Rural Sciences Institute in Montes Claros together with a few buildings spread in other parts of Belo Horizonte, such as the School of Architecture. Inside the Pampulha Campus there is the CDTN, a Federal Institute for Nuclear Sciences Research; it includes 38 buildings, 50 laboratories and one 250 kW Nuclear Reactor built in 1960 named TRIGA. There is also an extensive area of secondary forest known as the Estação Ecológica ("Ecological Station"), where some university scientists - mainly ecologists and zoologists - carry out research; this is the largest "green" area within the city boundaries, and is home to several endemic insect species.

History of UFMG

In 1898, the Ouro Preto Faculty of Law was transferred to Belo Horizonte, which at the time was set to be the new state capital.

A few new unconnected faculties would be founded 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 found UMG, University of Minas Gerais, a private institution subsidized by the state government.

The UMG remained funded by Minas Gerais government until 1949, when funding had been delegated to Brazilian Government. Even though, the 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. As its expansion carried on, the School of Nursing (1950), Veterinary Science (1961), Information Science (1962), Music (1962) and Physical Education (1969) were founded.

In 1968, an university reform altered profoundly the structure of UFMG. The College of Philosophy spawned multiple institutions: the College of Philosophy and Human Sciences, the Institute of Biological Sciences, the Institute of Exact Sciences, the Institute of Geosciences and the Colleges of Literature and Education.

Five additional courses have been established recently: agronomy, theater, control and automation engineering, computational mathematics, and speech therapy/audiology.

UFMG in numbers

:Number of vacancies: 4,594:Research groups: 547

:National patents: 128:International patents: 24:Publications: 9,077

:Undergraduate students: 22,202:Medical Residents: 285:Master Students: 3,470:PhD Students: 2,096:Total students: 35,324:Teachers: 2,446

:Campuses: 3:Academic units: 21:Total units: 44:Libraries: 28:Books:707,000

:Number of students which take the admission exams yearly: 73,827:Average Ratio of applications/admission: 15,8:Number of admissions/year: 4,674

Blocks

* Colégio Técnico - Coltec
* Centro Esportivo Universitário - CEU
* Escola de Arquitetura
* Escola de Belas-Artes - EBA
* Escola de Ciência da Informação (Escola de Biblioteconomia)
* Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional - EEFFTO
* Escola de Enfermagem
* Escola de Engenharia
* Escola de Música
* Escola de Veterinária
* Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas - FACE
* Faculdade de Direito
* Faculdade de Educação - FAE
* Faculdade de Farmácia
* Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas - FAFICH
* Faculdade de Letras - FALE
* Faculdade de Medicina
* Faculdade de Odontologia
* Instituto de Cîências Biológicas - ICB
* Instituto de Ciências Exatas - ICEx
* Instituto de Geociências - IGC
* Parque Tecnológico - BHTEC

External links

* [http://www.ufmg.br/english/ University homepage]