Minas Gerais State University

State University of Minas Gerais
Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais
Other name
 UEMG
Type Public University
Established 1989
Rector Dijon de Moraes Junior
Administrative staff
 1,418 (2004)
Undergraduates 21,677 (2004)
Postgraduates 1,331 (2004)
Location Belo Horizonte
Barbacena
Carangola
Diamantina
Frutal
Ibirité
João Monlevade
Lavras
Passos
Poços de Caldas
Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Website www.uemg.br

The State University of Minas Gerais. (Portuguese: Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, UEMG) is a Brazilian public university. It is the 3° largest university in the state of Minas Gerais, second only to the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the Federal University of Uberlândia. It was founded in 1989 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Besides Belo Horizonte, its campuses are distributed across several cities in the Minas Gerais states.

History

UEMG was founded by a regulation from Minas Gerais state constitution from 1989. which allowed the independent institutions of higher education owned by the state government to collaborate, or to be absorved as UEMG's campi. Those institutions were the following:

In addition to the institutions owned by the Minas Gerais state, the following public institutions were also incorporated:

Carangola

Coordinates: 19°52′30″S 43°58′12″W / 19.8751°S 43.9700°W / -19.8751; -43.9700

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