The Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (, PUC-Goiás) is a private and non-profit Pontifical catholic university, located in

Goiânia Goiânia ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian federative units of Brazil, state of Goiás. With a population of 1,536,097, it is the second-largest city in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West Region and the 10th-larges ...

(headquarters) and Ipameri, is the first university of the State of

Goiás Goiás () is a Brazilian States of Brazil, state located in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Ge ...

. It is maintained by the

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of Goiânia. Founded on October 19, 1961, by the Sociedade Goiana de Cultura, a

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foundation maintained by the Catholic Archdiocese of Goiânia, PUC Goiás is the oldest

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institution of the state and of the Central-Western region, preceding by two months the foundation of UFG. According to INEP.

History

In 1948, Dom Emmanuel Gomes de Oliveira, then Archbishop of Goiânia, had the idea of creating the first university of the Central-Western Brazil. Later that year, the Philosophy College was launched as the first higher education institution of the region, offering degrees in history, geography, Portuguese, and teaching. The Colleges of Economics was founded in 1951, and Law in 1959, in addition to the higher education schools of Fine Arts (1952), Nursing (1954), Social Service (1957), and Social and Economic Studies. In 1958, the Sociedade Goiana de Cultura was created to maintain these colleges and schools, which were gathered into the Universidade de Goiás, later renamed Universidade Católica de Goiás and recently recognized by the

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as a University of Pontifical Right, becoming PUC Goiás. According to the latest results of the General Index of Courses uncovered by the National Institute of Studies and Research on Education (''Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais - INEP''), linked to the

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, PUC Goiás is the second best university in the state of Goiás, behind only UFG and ahead of UEG.

Infrastructure

PUC Goiás has five campuses, four of them in Goiânia, the state capital, and another in the municipality of Ipameri. The university also has a library with over 213,000 books, a school of foreign languages, a local

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(PUC-TV), four research institutes, over 400 laboratories, two school-clinics and two museums.

Campuses

* Campus I - Setor Universitário, Goiânia ** Area I: Rua 226, Rua 235, and 5ª Avenida ** Area II: Praça Universitária, 1ª Avenida, and Rua 240 ** Area III: Praça Universitária, 1ª Avenida, and Av. Universitária ** Area IV: Praça Universitária, 1ª Avenida, and Rua 235 ** Area V: Rua 232 * Campus II: Estrada Santa Rita, km 2, Jardim Olímpico, Goiânia * Campus III: Rua Colônia, Jardim Novo Mundo, Goiânia * Campus IV: Avenida Vereador José Benevenuto Filho, Setor Universitário, Ipameri * Campus V: Avenida José Sebba, Jardim Goiás, Goiânia

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Goias Universities and colleges established in 1959 1959 establishments in Brazil Pontifical universities in Brazil