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

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

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 (literall ...

. 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, a clinic for psychotherapy, dental and psychological treatment and others. One of the best

universities in Brazil This is a list of universities in Brazil, divided by states. Across the country there are more than 2,368 Brazilian schools (public and private) recognized by the MEC (Ministry of Education). Acre * Faculdade da Amazônia Ocidental (FAAO) ...

, PUC-MG was rated 4 by the Brazilian Ministry of Education 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 (

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 G ...

). 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

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, Betim, Contagem,

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.

Notable professors and alumni

Alumni

Notable Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais alumni include: *

Cármen Lúcia Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha (; 19 April 1954) is a Brazilian jurist and member of the Supreme Federal Court since 2006. She is the second woman to have been chosen as a justice for the Court and Chief Justice and a professor of Constitutional L ...

, Chief Justice of the Supreme Federal Court * José Bonifácio Borges de Andrada ( pt), former

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* Clésio Andrade, Senator from

and businessman * Aécio Neves, economist and Governor of

* Fernando Pimentel, economist, and Governor of

* Rodrigo Pacheco, Lawyer, Senator for

, and

President of the Brazilian Senate The president of the Federal Senate, sometimes referred to as the President of the Senate, is the presiding officer of the Federal Senate of Brazil In addition to chairing the chamber's debates and ordering its business, the president of the F ...

Chico Pinheiro Francisco de Assis Pinheiro, known professionally as Chico Pinheiro (born 17 June 1953, in Santa Maria), is a Brazilian newscaster and journalist. He is the current editor-in-chief and anchorman of Bom Dia Brasil, the Brazilian news program, a ...

, journalist of

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* Adriana Araújo ( pt), journalist of

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* Patrus Ananias, lawyer and Federal Deputy from

* Alberto Taveira Corrêa, 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, volleyball player * Natália Guimarães, 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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