Federal University of Minas Gerais

The Federal University of Minas Gerais, known in Portuguese as Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and abbreviated UFMG, is a federal research university in the state of Minas Gerais in south-eastern Brazil, with its main campus in the Pampulha district of Belo Horizonte. It is counted among Brazil's five largest and highest-ranked universities.米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学（葡萄牙语 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais，缩写 UFMG）是巴西东南部米纳斯吉拉斯州的一所联邦研究型大学，主校区位于贝洛奥里藏特的潘普利亚区（Pampulha）。它是巴西规模最大、排名最高的五所大学之一。

Its origins reach back to the nineteenth century, and the institution was founded in 1927 as the University of Minas Gerais, took on federal funding in 1949 and adopted the name Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1965, with the motto Incipit vita nova, meaning a new life begins.学校源头可上溯至 19 世纪；1927 年以米纳斯吉拉斯大学之名创建，1949 年转由联邦政府资助，1965 年改用现名，其校训为拉丁文「Incipit vita nova」，意为「新生命由此开始」。

UFMG offers seventy-nine undergraduate programmes and more than ninety postgraduate programmes, and it is placed at 600th in the QS World University Rankings 2027, in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027, 494th in the US News global ranking for 2026-2027 and in the 501-600 band of the Shanghai ARWU for 2026.学校开设 79 个本科专业与 90 余个研究生项目；排名方面，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 600 位、2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名第 801-1000 位、2026-2027 年度 US News 全球排名第 494 位、2026 年软科世界大学学术排名第 501-600 位。

History

• The institution's earliest roots lie in the transfer of the Ouro Preto Faculty of Law to Belo Horizonte in 1898, when the city was being built as the new state capital of Minas Gerais.学校最古老的源头可追溯到 1898 年欧鲁普雷图法学院迁至贝洛奥里藏特，当时这座城市正被建设为米纳斯吉拉斯州的新首府。

• The Law School itself had been founded in 1892 and remained an autonomous institution until 1927, and it is counted among the oldest law schools in Brazil after those of São Paulo, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro.法学院本身创建于 1892 年，直至 1927 年仍为独立机构，是继圣保罗、伯南布哥与里约热内卢之后巴西最古老的法学院之一。

• Further faculties followed at the start of the twentieth century, the Free School of Dentistry in 1907 and then in 1911 the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Engineering and a pharmacy course attached to the dentistry school.20 世纪初又陆续出现新的学院：1907 年成立自由牙科学院，1911 年成立医学院、工程学院，以及附设于牙科学院的药学课程。

• In 1927 these four schools merged to form the University of Minas Gerais, a private institution subsidised by the state government, and that merger marks the official foundation of the university.1927 年，这四所学院合并组成米纳斯吉拉斯大学——一所受州政府资助的私立机构；这次合并被视为学校的正式创办。

• The first rector of the University of Minas Gerais, appointed on 10 November 1927, was Francisco Mendes Pimentel, director of the Law Faculty, whose school building served as the first rector's office.米纳斯吉拉斯大学首任校长于 1927 年 11 月 10 日获任命，为法学院院长弗朗西斯科·门德斯·皮门特尔（Francisco Mendes Pimentel），法学院大楼成为首任校长办公处。

• The university remained funded by the Minas Gerais government until 1949, when its financing passed to the Brazilian federal government, although the word Federal was not written into its name until 1965.学校一直由米纳斯吉拉斯州政府出资，直至 1949 年经费转由巴西联邦政府承担；不过「联邦」二字直到 1965 年才写入校名。

• During the 1940s a large area in the Pampulha region was set aside for the construction of a University City, and the first structures built were the Institute of Mechanics, now the Vocational School, and the Main Building.20 世纪 40 年代，潘普利亚地区划出大片土地用于建设「大学城」，最早建成的建筑是机械研究所（今职业学校）与主楼。

• The university community only began to occupy the Pampulha campus effectively in the 1960s, when construction started on the buildings that today house most of the academic units.校园由师生实际进驻始于 20 世纪 60 年代，当时开始兴建今日容纳多数教学单位的建筑群。

• By the time of federalisation the schools of architecture, philosophy and economics were already part of the university, and its expansion added nursing in 1950, veterinary science in 1961, information science in 1962, music in 1962 and physical education in 1969.联邦化之时，建筑、哲学与经济等学院已纳入学校；此后又陆续增设护理（1950 年）、兽医学（1961 年）、信息科学（1962 年）、音乐（1962 年）与体育（1969 年）。

• The School of Architecture was founded in 1939 and was the first course of architecture in Brazil released from engineering or fine arts, and its building was designed by the architect Shakespeare Gomes.建筑学院创办于 1939 年，是巴西第一个脱离工程学或美术学的建筑专业，其院馆由建筑师莎士比亚·戈梅斯（Shakespeare Gomes）设计。

• A university reform in 1968 profoundly altered the structure of UFMG, splitting the College of Philosophy into the College of Philosophy and Human Sciences, the Institute of Biological Sciences, the Institute of Exact Sciences, the Institute of Geosciences and the Colleges of Literature and Education.1968 年的大学改革深刻改变了米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学的架构，把哲学院拆分为哲学与人文科学学院、生物科学研究所、精确科学研究所、地球科学研究所，以及文学与教育学院。

• Additional courses were created over the following decades, among them agronomy, archival science, theatre, museology, control engineering, computational mathematics and speech therapy and audiology.此后数十年间又增设多个专业，包括农学、档案学、戏剧、博物馆学、控制工程、计算数学以及言语治疗与听力学。

• On 20 December 2012 the Law School celebrated the 120th anniversary of its foundation, placing its origin in 1892 and its heritage among the oldest legal faculties in the country.2012 年 12 月 20 日，法学院举行建院 120 周年纪念，将其源头定在 1892 年，是巴西历史最悠久的法学机构之一。

• In the 2020s the university continued to grow, and its teaching staff and administrative body now number around 3,281 permanent active docentes and 4,045 technical and administrative staff.进入 2020 年代，学校持续发展；目前其教师与技术行政队伍约有 3,281 名在岗终身教师与 4,045 名技术行政人员。

• Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida served as rector for the two terms from 2018 to 2022 and from 2022 to 2026, before handing over the office in March 2026.桑德拉·雷吉娜·古拉特·阿尔梅达（Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida）连任 2018 至 2022 年与 2022 至 2026 年两届校长，并于 2026 年 3 月交卸职务。

• On 19 March 2026 Alessandro Fernandes Moreira, a professor of electrical engineering, took office as rector for the term 2026 to 2030, with Alamanda Kfoury Pereira as vice-rector.2026 年 3 月 19 日，电气工程教授亚历山德罗·费尔南德斯·莫雷拉（Alessandro Fernandes Moreira）就任 2026 至 2030 年任期校长，阿拉曼达·克富里·佩雷拉（Alamanda Kfoury Pereira）任副校长。

• In 2025 the university offered 6,946 places across 125 admission options, of which 6,512, or 93.75 per cent, were filled through the national SISU system.2025 年，学校通过 125 个入学选项提供 6,946 个名额，其中 6,512 个（93.75%）经全国 SISU 系统录取。

• The university traces its account of expansion to the 19th century and to the merging of four professional schools in 1927, so its history combines the law faculty of 1892 with the federal university created in the twentieth century.学校把自身沿革追溯至 19 世纪与 1927 年四所专业学院的合并，因此其历史既包含 1892 年的法学院，也包含 20 世纪创建的联邦大学。

• UFMG has been described in its own public material as one of the best universities in Brazil and in Latin America, its standing built on federal funding and on a research-oriented teaching model.校方公开材料把米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学称为巴西与拉丁美洲最好的大学之一，其地位建立在联邦经费支持与以研究为导向的教学模式之上。

• The university's motto, Incipit vita nova, is carved on its coat of arms and is presented by the institution as its enduring commitment to renewal and transformation.校训「Incipit vita nova」镌刻于校徽之上，被学校表述为其对更新与变革的持久承诺。

Academics

• UFMG offers seventy-nine undergraduate education programmes, including bachelor's, licenciate and professional degree titles, together with more than ninety postgraduate programmes.学校开设 79 个本科教育项目，涵盖学士、教师资格与专业学位，另设 90 余个研究生项目。

• Its postgraduate portfolio awards about thirty postbaccalaureate specialisation degrees, ninety-two master's degrees and seventy-two doctoral degrees, and its hospital facilities also run forty-one medical residency programmes.研究生教育授予约 30 个专业深造学位、92 个硕士学位与 72 个博士学位，其附属医院另设 41 个住院医师培训项目。

• Academic work is organised into Schools, Faculties and Institutes, three types of collegiate unit that hold equivalent executive status as academic units of the university.学术工作按「学院、学部、研究所」三类合议制单位组织，三者在校内享有同等的行政地位。

• Among the Schools are those of Architecture, Fine Arts, Information Science, Music, Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.其中学院包括建筑、美术、信息科学、音乐、工程、兽医学、护理，以及体育、理疗与职业治疗等学院。

• The School of Engineering hosts thirteen faculty departments, eleven undergraduate engineering degrees and ten postgraduate master's and doctorate programmes across a complex of thirteen pavilions.工程学院下设 13 个系、11 个工程类本科学位与 10 个硕士与博士项目，分布在由 13 座馆舍组成的建筑群中。

• The Faculty of Medicine clusters its staff into twelve departments and offers three undergraduate courses, in medicine, speech and language pathology therapy, and radiodiagnostic technology, alongside ten graduate programmes.医学院把教师编入 12 个系，开设医学、言语病理治疗与放射诊断技术 3 个本科专业，并设 10 个研究生项目。

• The Exact Sciences Institute offers nine undergraduate courses, among them actuarial science, computer science, statistics, physics, mathematics, chemistry and information systems.精确科学研究所开设 9 个本科专业，包括精算学、计算机科学、统计学、物理学、数学、化学与信息系统。

• The Institute of Biological Sciences hosts the undergraduate course in biological sciences, twelve master's and doctoral programmes and ten faculty departments, with around 290 teachers and some 300 research topics.生物科学研究所设有生物科学本科专业、12 个硕士与博士项目与 10 个系，约有 290 名教师和 300 个研究课题。

• Recruitment is research-oriented even at undergraduate level, with students encouraged to join the Scientific Initiation programme, and the university counts 860 research groups and 1,051 patent deposits in Brazil and abroad.学校即便在本科阶段也强调研究导向，鼓励学生参加科研启蒙项目；全校登记有 860 个研究组，在巴西境内外提交专利 1,051 项。

• Of its professorial body, 761, or twenty-four per cent, are recipients of CNPq research productivity awards, and the university holds the highest score of five out of five in the Ministry of Education's undergraduate assessment.全校教师中有 761 人（24%）获得巴西国家科技发展委员会（CNPq）科研生产力奖励；学校在教育部本科评估中获满分五分制中的最高分 5 分。

• Its community numbers roughly 34,482 undergraduate students, 2,247 postbaccalaureate specialisation students and 10,556 master's and doctoral students, taught by about 3,202 professors.学校群体约有 34,482 名本科生、2,247 名专业深造学生与 10,556 名硕士和博士生，由约 3,202 名教授授课。

• More than ninety postgraduate programmes run at UFMG, with around ninety master's courses and seventy doctoral courses, and in the 2022 CAPES quadrennial evaluation sixty-eight per cent of them were rated excellent.学校设有 90 余个研究生项目，含约 90 个硕士课程与 70 个博士课程；在 2022 年 CAPES 四年一度评估中，68% 的项目被评为优秀。

• The Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences has seven departments and nearly 250 faculty members, of whom ninety-five per cent hold doctoral degrees and are active in research.哲学与人文科学学院下设 7 个系、近 250 名教师，其中 95% 拥有博士学位并从事科研。

• The Faculty of Law and State Sciences occupies a two-tower, sixteen-storey building of prize-winning architecture and hosts four departments, awarding degrees in law and in state sciences.法学与国家科学学院坐落于一座双塔式十六层获奖建筑内，下设 4 个系，授予法学与国家科学两类学位。

• The Centre for Regional Development and Planning, the Centre for Research and Graduate Studies in Business Administration and the Research Institute in Economics, Business Administration and Accounting carry much of the university's research in economics and management.区域发展与规划中心、工商管理研究与研究生中心，以及经济、工商管理与会计研究所，承担了学校在经济与管理领域的大部分研究。

Campus

• The main campus occupies the Pampulha region of Belo Horizonte, covering 8,769,690 square metres of land, about 877 hectares, with a built area reaching 639,777 square metres.主校区位于贝洛奥里藏特的潘普利亚地区，占地 8,769,690 平方米（约 877 公顷），建筑面积达 639,777 平方米。

• Within the city of Belo Horizonte the university also maintains the Health Sciences campus on Alfredo Balena Avenue, the School of Architecture and Design campus in the Savassi district and the Faculty of Law campus in the city centre.在贝洛奥里藏特市内，学校还设有阿尔弗雷多·巴莱纳大道的健康科学校区、萨瓦西区的建筑与设计学院校区，以及市中心的法学院校区。

• Outside Belo Horizonte UFMG runs the Agronomic Sciences campus in the city of Montes Claros and a cultural campus in the town of Tiradentes, both in the state of Minas Gerais.在贝洛奥里藏特之外，学校在米纳斯吉拉斯州内的蒙特斯克拉罗斯市设有农学校区，在蒂拉登特斯镇设有文化校区。

• The Pampulha campus avails of thirty-eight built facilities, hundreds of scientific research laboratories and a 250 kilowatt TRIGA nuclear reactor supplied by General Atomics.潘普利亚校区拥有 38 座建成设施、数百个科研实验室，以及由通用原子公司提供的 250 千瓦 TRIGA 核反应堆。

• Also on the Pampulha campus is the CDTN, a federal institute for nuclear sciences research, which shares the site with the university's academic buildings.潘普利亚校区内还设有联邦核科学研究机构 CDTN，与学校的教学建筑共处同一片校园。

• The university operates the 114-hectare Federal University of Minas Gerais Ecological Station on the Pampulha campus, the largest green space within the city boundaries and home to endemic insect species.学校在潘普利亚校区经营占地 114 公顷的米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学生态站，这是市界之内最大的绿地，也是特有昆虫物种的栖息地。

• Belo Horizonte also holds ecological parks and cultural facilities belonging to the university, including a conservatory and twenty museums administered by the institution.贝洛奥里藏特市内还有属于学校的生态公园与文化设施，包括一座音乐学院与由学校管理的 20 座博物馆。

• Elsewhere in Minas Gerais the university maintains facilities such as the Casa da Glória in Diamantina, extending its presence beyond the capital and the two out-of-town campuses.在米纳斯吉拉斯州的其他地方，学校还保有迪亚曼蒂纳的荣耀之家（Casa da Glória）等设施，把存在延伸到首府与两处市外校区之外。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place UFMG at 600th in the world, the position under which this entry is catalogued.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名把米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学列为世界第 600 位，本条目即按此名次收录。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 put the university in the 801-1000 band, unchanged from the 801-1000 band it held the previous year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校列入第 801-1000 位，与上一年度的第 801-1000 位持平。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places UFMG at 494th in the world, its strongest result among the four mainstream global tables.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名把该校列为世界第 494 位，这是它在四项主流全球榜单中的最好成绩。

• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 places the university in the 501-600 band of its main list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜把该校列入第 501-600 位。

• In the Times Higher Education ranking of 2021 the university was described as the third best university in Brazil and the fifth best in Latin America, a standing its federal funding and research base helped secure.在 2021 年泰晤士高等教育排名中，学校被评为巴西第三佳、拉丁美洲第五佳的大学，这一地位得益于其联邦经费与科研基础。

• National ranking systems usually place UFMG among the best universities in the country, and its undergraduate degrees are rated among Brazil's strongest on the ENADE student performance examination.全国性排名体系通常把该校列为巴西最好的大学之一，其本科专业在全国学生表现考试（ENADE）中被评为全巴西最强之列。

• Its research profile rests on 860 research groups, 1,051 patent deposits and 761 CNPq productivity award-holders among the professoriate, figures the university publishes as measures of its output.其科研形象建立在 860 个研究组、1,051 项专利申请，以及教师队伍中 761 名 CNPq 生产力奖励获得者之上，这些数字为学校公布的产出指标。

• OpenAlex records 158,707 works and 6,324,465 citations for UFMG, the machine-counted research output that underlies its bibliometric profile.OpenAlex 记录该校的成果数为 158,707 项、被引次数为 6,324,465 次，这组机器统计构成其文献计量画像的基础。

• Sixty-eight per cent of its postgraduate programmes were rated excellent in the 2022 CAPES quadrennial evaluation, and the university holds the top score in the Ministry of Education's undergraduate assessment.在 2022 年 CAPES 四年一度评估中，学校 68% 的研究生项目被评为优秀；其本科教学在教育部的评估中获得最高分。

• No Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal laureate is recorded among the university's faculty or alumni in the available material, so its reputation rests on national leadership and wide research output.在现有材料中，该校教师与校友名录未记载诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其声誉因而建立在国内领先地位与广泛的科研产出之上。

Student life

• The university's motto is Incipit vita nova, Latin for a new life begins, chosen by its founders in 1927 and carved on its coat of arms.学校校训为拉丁文「Incipit vita nova」，意为「新生命由此开始」，由创办人于 1927 年确定并镌刻于校徽之上。

• Undergraduate admission is decided mainly through the national high school examination, ENEM, and through the SISU placement system, which filled 93.75 per cent of the university's 2025 places.本科录取主要通过全国中学考试 ENEM 与 SISU 录取系统决定；2025 年 SISU 系统录取了学校 93.75% 的名额。

• Competition for undergraduate places is intense, with the university's own figures recording 111,718 candidates for 6,740 vacancies, sixteen candidates per place and about six per cent of applicants admitted.本科学位竞争激烈，校方数据显示曾有 111,718 名考生竞逐 6,740 个名额，平均每名额约 16 名考生，录取率约 6%。

• The Scientific Initiation programme gives undergraduates a structured route into research, encouraging them to work alongside professors on funded projects from an early stage.科研启蒙项目为本学生提供结构化的科研参与路径，鼓励他们自早期起便与教授共同参与课题。

• A conservatory, twenty museums and ecological parks give students cultural and recreational facilities administered directly by the university in Belo Horizonte.音乐学院、20 座博物馆与生态公园为贝洛奥里藏特的学生提供由学校直接管理的文化与休闲设施。

• The university's Veterinary Medicine Hospital, with its many-winged building, treats animals from zoos and institutions across many different parts of Brazil.学校兽医学院的附属动物医院馆舍多翼，接治来自巴西各地动物园与机构的动物。

• The Centros Esportivos Universitários, the university sports centres, sit alongside the academic units and organise sporting life for the student body.大学体育中心与教学单位并设，组织在读学生的体育活动。

• Because the university's sites are spread across Belo Horizonte and beyond, students move between the Pampulha campus, the city-centre faculties and the out-of-town campuses, so daily life is tied to the geography of the city.由于各校址散布于贝洛奥里藏特及市外，学生往来于潘普利亚校区、市中心各学院与市外校区之间，日常生活与城市的地理格局紧密相连。

Notable people

• Juscelino Kubitschek, who studied medicine in Belo Horizonte before becoming President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961, is the university's most prominent political alumnus.在贝洛奥里藏特学医、后于 1956 至 1961 年出任巴西总统的儒塞利诺·库比契克（Juscelino Kubitschek），是该校最著名的政界校友。

• Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016, is counted among the university's alumni, giving UFMG two of the country's modern presidents.曾于 2011 至 2016 年任巴西总统的迪尔玛·罗塞夫（Dilma Rousseff）亦被列入校友名录，使该校拥有两位巴西现代总统校友。

• Tancredo Neves, elected President of Brazil in 1985 and a central figure of the country's democratic transition, studied at the university and is listed among its alumni.1985 年当选巴西总统、该国民主转型核心人物的坦克雷多·内维斯（Tancredo Neves）曾就读于该校，并在校友名录之列。

• Carlos Drummond de Andrade, one of the great Brazilian poets of the twentieth century, is numbered among UFMG's alumni.20 世纪巴西最伟大的诗人之一卡洛斯·德鲁蒙德·德·安德拉德（Carlos Drummond de Andrade）在该校校友之列。

• João Guimarães Rosa, writer, physician and diplomat, best known for the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas, studied at the university and appears on its alumni list.作家、医生兼外交官若昂·吉马良斯·罗萨（João Guimarães Rosa）以小说《广阔的腹地：条条小径》闻名，曾就读于该校，并在校友名录之中。

• Ivo Pitanguy, the plastic surgeon who became internationally known for reconstructive surgery, graduated from the university and is counted among its alumni.因重建外科而享誉国际的整形外科医生伊沃·皮坦吉（Ivo Pitanguy）毕业于该校，被列入校友之列。

• Welington de Melo, an electrical engineer turned mathematician known for work in dynamical systems, studied at UFMG and is listed among its notable alumni.由电气工程师转为数学家的韦林顿·德梅洛（Welington de Melo）以动力系统研究闻名，曾就读于该校，被列为知名校友。

• Pedro Nava, a writer and physician, and Cyro dos Anjos, a novelist and journalist, are among the literary names recorded as alumni of the university.作家兼医生佩德罗·纳瓦（Pedro Nava）与小说家兼记者西罗·多斯安若斯（Cyro dos Anjos），均属被记为该校校友的文学名家。

• Fernando Sabino, a writer and journalist, and Rondon Pacheco, a politician of Minas Gerais, also appear among the university's alumni.作家兼记者费尔南多·萨比诺（Fernando Sabino）与米纳斯吉拉斯州政治家龙东·帕谢科（Rondon Pacheco）同样出现在该校校友名单之中。

• Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida led the university as rector for two terms from 2018 to 2026, and Alessandro Fernandes Moreira became rector for 2026 to 2030, taking office in March 2026.桑德拉·雷吉娜·古拉特·阿尔梅达自 2018 至 2026 年连任两届校长；亚历山德罗·费尔南德斯·莫雷拉于 2026 年 3 月就任 2026 至 2030 年任期校长。

• Adana Omágua Kambeba, described as the first indigenous Amazonian woman to become a doctor, is recorded among the university's alumni, adding an indigenous Amazonian name to the list.被称为首位成为医生的原住民亚马逊女性的阿达娜·奥马瓜·坎贝巴（Adana Omágua Kambeba）被记为该校校友，为名录增添了原住民亚马逊人的名字。