Total enrollment 15,202 (2011) | Founded 8 September 1910 | |
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Headquarters Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil Similar Federal Center for Technolo, Federal University of Minas, Federal Institute of Minas Ge, Pontifical Catholic University, Minas Gerais State Uni Profiles | ||
The Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (Portuguese: Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, CEFET-MG) is an education center located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Contents
- Goals
- Secondary level
- Professional and Technological education
- Undergraduate courses
- Bachelors degrees
- Technological degrees
- Graduate courses
- Masters degrees
- Doctoral degrees
- Research
- References
It is a technological institution that offers a broad range of courses in the State of Minas Gerais, in the southeast of Brazil. With approximately 15,000 students, 650 professors and 400 staff members, the institution carries out teaching associated with research and communitarian extension in the secondary and higher education levels.
Campi I, II and VI are located in Amazonas Avenue in Belo Horizonte. The other campi (Decentralized Education Units - UNEDs) located within the state of Minas Gerais, the cities of Leopoldina, Araxá, Divinópolis, Varginha, Timóteo, Nepomuceno, Curvelo and Contagem.
Goals
By fulfilling the challenge of offering the workforce needed by industries, besides the development of new products and technology, CEFET-MG accomplishes its main goals offering technical and technological education, undergraduate and graduate courses, promoting specialization and improvement courses, developing research in both technical and industrial fields, and establishing agreements with both national and international institutions of education as well as enterprises.
A well known educational tradition of almost a hundred years subsides the status of one of the most important centers of excellence in the technological education in Brazil, with great care to guarantee a holistic formation for the students. Therefore, music, choirs, theatrical groups, musical bands, cultural debates, artistic education, music appreciation, several sports teams, research, field exploration, among others, are activities which compose the school curricula, undertaken by our students.
Secondary level
CEFET-MG offers secondary (high-school) level education at all campi. High-school students at CEFET-MG also graduate with a degree from one of the many professional and technological courses offered by the institution. Students are admitted through admission exams held at the end of each calendar year.
Professional and Technological education
CEFET-MG offers professional and technological courses in three ways:
Students are admitted through admission exams held on a semestrial basis, except for the integrated courses.
The courses (some offered only in certain campi) are:
Undergraduate courses
CEFET-MG's undergraduate courses are offered in most campi, most notably Campus I and Campus II. Students are admitted through ENEM, a nationwide high-school-level examination which takes place towards the end of each calendar year. Admitted students are then sorted into two groups according to their ENEM score, one starting late February/early March of the following year (1st semester students) and the other in August (2nd semester students).
CEFET-MG offers the following undegraduate courses:
Bachelor's degrees
Technological degrees
Graduate courses
CEFET-MG offers master's and doctoral degrees as well.
Master's degrees
Doctoral degrees
Research
CEFET-MG supports around 40 research groups, most of them receiving governmental grants to carry on their research. To fulfill this, CEFET-MG has celebrated cooperation agreements with a meaningful number of high level Brazilian higher education institutions and universities in France, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, among others – Australia, Italy and Spain are in prospection at the moment.