The Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais ( pt, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, PUC-MG) is a private and non-profit Brazilian

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university in

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

, state of

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...

. In 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014, PUC-MG was chosen the best

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in Brazil. It is maintained by the

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Overview

The Catholic University is a higher education institution in

, where it owns more than 100 buildings to host labs, libraries, a museum, a TV channel, a long-distance teaching center, multimedia rooms, theaters, auditoriums, a

veterinary hospital Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

, a clinic for psychotherapy, dental and psychological treatment and others. One of the best universities in Brazil, PUC-MG was rated 4 by the

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index for higher education schools. The highest rating is 5 which is almost exclusively awarded to public universities. Dinossauromcnpucminas

The PUC-MG received, for the second consecutive year, an award given by the Federation of Industries of

( FIEMG) by Euvaldo Lodi Institute for having the best practices of training and the integration of students in companies. The award was received by the coordinator of the Integrated Training University, Professor Evanilde Maria Martins, at a ceremony held in the auditorium of FIEMG. In 2003, the PUC Minas was the first private university in Brazil to house a laboratory to perform climatological studies. It is the Centre of Excellence in Climatology (Centro de Climatologia PUC Minas TempoClima), which was created through a partnership between the university and

Cemig CEMIG is a Brazilian power company headquartered in Belo Horizonte capital of the state of Minas Gerais. The company is one of main electricity concessionaires in Brazil, headquartered in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas G ...

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Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais CEMIG is a Brazilian power company headquartered in Belo Horizonte capital of the state of Minas Gerais. The company is one of main electricity concessionaires in Brazil, headquartered in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas ...

). The TempoClima Center features equipment for receiving weather information and one laboratory course with emphasis on Geography. Its objective is the development of weather forecasts three days in advance for the 853 municipalities of

, warning of severe storms and predictions for use by agriculture, road and rail transport, electricity, industry and tourism.Climatological studies in PUC-MG
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Campuses

Besides the headquarters in Coração Eucarístico district, in

, PUC-MG owns campuses in the districts of Barreiro, São Gabriel and Praça da Liberdade and in the cities of Arcos,

Betim Betim is a town in Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is located at around . The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitan of Belo Horizonte (BH) and to the microregion of Belo Horizonte. It is the fifth largest city in Minas Gerais and one of the 50 larg ...

Contagem Contagem () is a city in the center of the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. It is only from the capital, Belo Horizonte, and forms part of a metropolitan area with a population of 4.8 million. Geography The city belongs to the metropolitan meso ...

Guanhães Guanhães is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Minas Gerais This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais (MG), located in the Southeast Regio ...

Poços de Caldas Poços de Caldas is a municipality in the south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name. Its estimated population in 2020 was 168,641 inhabitants. The city is known for its hot springs. History Poços was founded in 1 ...

and

Serro Serro is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Conceição do Mato Dentro. As of 2020, the estimated population was 20,940. In col ...

Notable professors and alumni

Alumni

Notable Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais alumni include: * Cármen Lúcia, Chief Justice of the Supreme Federal Court *

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( pt), former

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* Clésio Andrade, Senator from

and businessman *

Aécio Neves Aécio Neves da Cunha (; born 10 March 1960) is a Brazilian economist, politician and former president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). He was the 17th Governor of Minas Gerais from 1 January 2003 to 31 March 2010, and is curren ...

, economist and Governor of

* Fernando Pimentel, economist, and Governor of

Rodrigo Pacheco Rodrigo Daniel Pacheco Carrillo (born 14 January 1983) is a Peruvian badminton player. Pacheco started playing badminton when he was 6 years old at the club Regatas Lima. He had made his debut at the Pan Am Junior Championships in 1996, and bec ...

, Lawyer, Senator for

, and President of the Brazilian Senate *

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, journalist of

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* Adriana Araújo ( pt), journalist of

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Patrus Ananias Patrus Ananias de Sousa (Bocaiúva, 26 January 1952) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the Workers' Party (Brazil), Workers' Party (PT). He was Ministry of Agrarian Development (Brazil), Minister of Agrarian Development during the ...

, lawyer and Federal Deputy from

Alberto Taveira Corrêa Alberto Taveira Corrêa (born 26 May 1950) is a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of Brasília from 1991 till 1996, when he became archbishop of Palmas. In 2009 he became archbishop of Belém do Par� ...

, prelate of the Roman Catholic Church *

Wladimir Ribeiro Vladimir Michailowsky Leite Ribeiro (born 17 June 1967) is a former international butterfly and backstroke swimmer from Brazil. He participated for his native South American country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea Seo ...

, a former international butterfly and backstroke swimmer *

Dora Castanheira Dora Castanheira (born 14 March 1960) is a Brazilian volleyball player. She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. References External links

* 1960 births Living people Brazilian women's volleyball players ...

, volleyball player *

Natália Guimarães Natália Aparecida Guimarães (born 25 December 1984 in Juiz de Fora) is a Brazilian people, Brazilian actress, TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Brasil 2007. Early life Due to being born on Christmas, ''nat ...

, Brazilian actress, TV host, journalist and model * Selma Sueli Silva, author, busineswoman, internet celebrity and former radio personality

References

External links

Official website
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