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State University of Minas Gerais
Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais
Other name	UEMG
Motto	Unidade na diversidade
Motto in English	Unity in diversity
Type	Public University
Established	1989
President	Lavínia Rosa Rodrigues
Vice-president	Thiago Torres
Administrative staff	1,418 (2004)
Undergraduates	20,956 (2017)
Postgraduates	1,331 (2017)
Location	Belo Horizonte ; Barbacena ; Carangola ; Diamantina ; Frutal ; Ibirité ; João Monlevade ; Lavras ; Passos; Poços de Caldas ; Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 19°52′30″S 43°58′12″W / 19.8751°S 43.9700°W
Website	www.uemg.br

The State University of Minas Gerais. (Portuguese: Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, UEMG) is a Brazilian public university. It is the third largest university in the state of Minas Gerais, second only to the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the Federal University of Uberlândia. It was founded in 1989 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Besides Belo Horizonte, its campuses are distributed across several cities in the Minas Gerais states.

History

UEMG was founded by a regulation from Minas Gerais state constitution from 1989. which allowed the independent institutions of higher education owned by the state government to collaborate, or to be absorbed as UEMG's campi. Those institutions were the following: