The State University of Minas Gerais. ( pt, Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, UEMG) is a Brazilian public

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. It is the third largest university in the state of Minas Gerais, second only to the

Federal University of Minas Gerais The Federal University of Minas Gerais ( pt, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG) is a federalIn the Brazilian Higher Education context, ''Federal'' does not mean ''collegiate'' (even though most Federal Universities in Brazil enjoy a sim ...

and the Federal University of Uberlândia. It was founded in 1989 in

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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 ...

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. 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

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owned by the

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to collaborate, or to be absorbed as UEMG's campi. Those institutions were the following: * Fundação Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Carangola * Fundação Educacional do Vale do Jequitinhonha * Fundação de Ensino Superior de Passo
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* Fundação Educacional de Lavras * Fundação de Ensino e Pesquisa do Sul de Minas * Fundação Educacional de Divinópolis * Fundação Educacional de Patos de Minas * Fundação Educacional de Ituiutaba * Fundação Cultural Campanha da Princesa In addition to the institutions owned by the Minas Gerais state, the following public institutions were also incorporated: * Fundação Mineira de Arte Aleijadinho (FUMA) * Fundação Escola Guignard * Curso de Pedagogia - Instituto de Educação * Serviço de Orientação e Seleção Profissional Carangola

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