Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Federal University of Minas Gerais or UFMG) is a federal university located in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The undergratuation students are admitted through the national biannual exams called Unified Selection System (SISU).UFMG is one of Brazil's five largest universities, being the largest federal university. It offers 75 undergraduate degrees, including a Medicine degree, Law and Economics, plus Engineering and Science and Art degrees. It offers 57 PhD programs, 66 MSc programs, 79 Post-Baccalaureate programs and 38 medical internship programs. UFMG has a population of 49,254 students. Its undergraduate courses were ranked in 1st place in the 2007 results for the National Student's Performance Exam (ENADE) and 4th place in the 2008 results. Its Computer Science course was considered the best in the country, as well the Social Sciences course, from FAFICH. by the latest edition of ENADE.The rector of UFMG is Prof. Clélio Campolina Diniz. Past students include former Brazilian presidents Juscelino Kubitschek and Tancredo Neves; writer, medical doctor and diplomat João Guimarães Rosa, writers Fernando Sabino, Pedro Nava and Cyro dos Anjos; plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy, poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade and musicians Samuel Rosa of Skank and Fernanda Takai of Pato Fu.UFMG is the tenth in the rankings of best universities in Latin America, according QS World University Rankings (2011/12). As reported by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), UFMG is one of the five best universities in Brazil in 2013, and in the World Rank is in the range of 301-400 best universities.
Endowment ($)
1.328
Founding date
1927-09-07
Motto
A new life begins
Incipit Vita Nova (Latin)
Number of postgraduate students
14838
Number of undergraduate students
30957
Staff
4445
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