UFMG: Encyclopedia II - UFMG - History of UFMG

UFMG - History of UFMG

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 university 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.

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