Sign showing 100 years of the institution, and announcing the transformation to Technological Federal University (Universidade Tecnológica Federal) soon.
TheFederal 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 ofMinas Gerais.[1]
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.
CEFET-MG offers secondary (high-school) level education at all campuses. 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.
CEFET-MG's undergraduate courses are offered in most campuses, most notablyCampus I andCampus II. Students are admitted throughENEM, 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 undergraduate courses:
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.
