Federal University of Lavras,

Lavras - Minas Gerais

Brazil

Brazil in the world

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Brazil in the world

Minas Gerais
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area: 586.528 km

popula2on: 20 million

capital: Belo Horizonte (2,4 million)

UFLA is located in the city of

Lavras, in the southern state of
Minas Gerais, 230km away from
t h e c a p i t a l c i t y o f B e l o
Horizonte, 370km from So
Paulo and 420km from Rio de
Janeiro.

Lavras MG

Lavras
n Known as the city of "Ipe" trees and of schools it is
renowned for its teaching and for its universities
which brings together students from the different
regions of Brazil.

Lavras
n Latitude: 2114'30'' S
n Longitude: 4500'10'' W
n Area: 564,5 km.
n Altitude: 918 m
n Population: 92.200 (2012)

Leisure & Culture

Mall (2 movie theaters)
Radical Sports (Rafting)
n Cities around
n Tiradentes / So Joo Del Rei (Historical
cities)
n So Tom das Letras
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n (Mystical City)
n Itumirim

/ Carrancas (Water falls)

Radical Sports (Rafting)

Lavras
n

Lavras BH: 220 km

Lavras SP: 380 km

Lavras Rio: 319 km

History
The Agricultural School of Lavras: Founded 1908
Founder: Dr. Samuel Rhea Gammon
1st Director: Dr. Benjamin Harris Hunnicutt
1938: Superior Agricultural School of Lavras ESAL
1963: Federalization
1973: Graduate programs
1994: Federal University of Lavras

ESAL (1964) 108 students

 2014

 UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS

In 2013, UFLA has received

the highest qualicaIon

UFLA was considered the 2nd best

na2onal university in the country
by the IGC,2012. UFLA received
the highest score amongst the
universi2es of Minas Gerais and
the second place amongst 226
universiIes in Brazil, only behind
UFRGS.

that a University can have

by the Ministry of Educa2on
(MEC), by its qualica2on in
tripod of teaching, research
and extension .

Number of students: 16.581

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undergraduate: 9.454

graduate: 2.027

Number of programs:
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undergraduate: 36

master: 25 (7)

PhD: 22

University Structure
n Area: 600 ha

n Restaurant

n 2 experimental farms

n Museums

n 18 Departments

n Publishing House

n 162 Labs

n Radio and TV Station

n 1 Central Library

UFLA Graduate Programs

Masters Degrees (M)
Doctoral Studies (D)
Professional Master's Programs (P)

 Department of Agriculture

Crop Science (M/D)

Management and ProducIon of Major Crops
Management and ProducIon of HorIcultural
Plants
Seed ProducIon and Technology


Department of Animal Science

Animal Science (M/D)

ProducIon and NutriIon of Non Ruminants
ProducIon and NutriIon of Ruminants

Department of Business
Management

Business Management (M/D)

Strategic Management, MarkeIng and InnovaIon
OrganizaIons, Management and Society
Business Management, Economics and Markets

Development Sustainability
and Extension (P)
Sustainability and Extension
Development and Extension

Public AdministraIon (P)

Management of State Public Organizations
Management of Non-State Public Organizations

Department of Biology

Agricultural Microbiology (M/D)

Ecology, GeneIcs and Physiology of
Microorganisms
Quality and Microbiological Safety of Food
Biotechnology of Microorganisms applied to
Agriculture and Environment

Applied Botany (M/D)

Structure and FuncIon of Plants
Plant BiosystemaIcs

Applied Ecology (M/D)

Survey and DescripIon of Biodiversity
Organism-environment RelaIons
Ecology and Monitoring of Ecosystems under
Anthropogenic Interference

GeneIcs and Plant Breeding

(M/D/P)
Breeding of Plants of Regional Importance
Molecular Markers
CytogeneIcs Applied to Plant Breeding
QuanItaIve GeneIcs in Plant Breeding

Plant Physiology (M/D)

Molecular Biology
Behavior of Plants in Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems
Plant Physiological Behavior under Environmental Stress
Physiology of Sexual and Asexual PropagaIon of Plants
Physiology and Anatomy of Medicinal Plants, Ornamental
and Fruit Trees
NutriIon and Metabolism of C and N in Higher Plants

Department of Computer
Science


Computer Science (M)

Database and So^ware Engineering

ComputaIonal Intelligence and Graphics
Processing
Computer Networks and Embedded Systems


Department of Chemistry

Agricultural Chemistry (M/D)

Environmental Chemistry
ComputaIonal Chemistry
Chemistry and Biochemistry of Natural and
SyntheIc Products

Department of EducaIon

EducaIon (P)
Teacher EducaIon
Language, Cultural Diversity and Pedagogic
InnovaIon

Department of Engineering

Agricultural Engineering (M/D)

ConstrucIon, Environment and Waste
Treatment
InstrumentaIon
Machinery and Agricultural MechanizaIon
Processing of Agricultural Products
Remote Sensing and Geoprocessing

System Engineering (M)

Assessment and Modeling of ConstrucIon
Systems and Ambience
Control and Analysis of fuzzy Systems
ComputaIonal MathemaIcs of Dynamical Systems
Metrology and Image Analysis

Water Resources in Agricultural

Systems (M/D)
Engineering and Management of IrrigaIon and
Draining
Water and Environmental Salinity

Department of Entomology

Entomology (M/D)
Biological Control of Pests
Integrated Pest Management

Department of Forestry
Sciences


Engineering of Biomaterials
(M/D)
Lignocellulosic composites and

nanocomposites
Products and foodstus nanoproducts

Forestry (M/D)
Ecology
Management
GeneIcs

Wood Science and

Technology (M/D)
Wood as Raw Material
Processing and UIlizaIon of Wood

Department of MathemaIcal
Sciences

Agricultural StaIsIcs and

ExperimentaIon (M/D)
Regression Analysis
MulIvariate Analysis
Experimental StaIsIcs
Theory and StaIsIcal Methods
Applied StaIsIcs


MathemaIcs (P)

Improvement of training of basic educaIon

teachers
Encourage the improvement of mathemaIcs
teaching at all levels


Physics (M/P)

Quantum Theory of Fields, GravitaIon and

Cosmology
Condensed maber physics (staIsIcal physics)

Department of Food Science

Food Science (M/D)

Food Engineering
Postharvest Physiology of Plant Products
Food Microbiology
Food Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and
Biochemistry

Department of Plant Pathology

Plant Pathology (M/D)

Plant Virology
Seed Pathology
Plant Nematology
Phytopathogenic Bacteria
Physiology of ParasiIsm
Plant Resistance to Diseases
SystemaIcs and Ecology of Fungi
Ultrastructure of Plant-Pathogen
InteracIons

Department of Soil Science

Soil Science (M/D)

Biology, Microbiology and Soil Processes
FerIlity and Plant NutriIon
Natural Resources and Land Use

Department of Veterinary
Medicine

Veterinary Sciences (M/D)

Animal ProducIon Medicine
ReproducIon, Animal Health & Metabolism
Veterinary Clinic, Surgery and Pathology
GeneIcs, Breeding and Health of AquaIc
Animals

 Interdisciplinary Programs

Environmental Technologies
and InnovaIons (P)
RestoraIon and conservaIon of ecosystems
Soil and its interface with the environment

Medicinal plants, aromaIc and

spice (M/D)
CulIvaIon and sustainable management of
Medicinal Plants
BioacIvity of Medicinal Plants

Plant Biotechnology (M/D)

Genomics and FuncIonal Analysis
GeneIc TransformaIon
Molecular Microbial Ecology

Undergraduate programs

Increasing undergraduate
programs
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36
36
30

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25

Ano 2012

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Undergraduate annual entrance

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4102
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3099
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1530
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1296
840

1000

938

620
500
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Increasing opportunity for daily working

students - Nightly educa2on
1800
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1230
1200
1000
740

800
620
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470
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Increasing student number

Graduate
17000
16000
15000

2545

14000

2907

3027

2304

12000

2184

11000
2064

10000

1941

9000
1836

8000
1665

7000
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1507
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2786

2425

13000

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2666

1090

1139

1426

Undergraduate

2000
1000
0
2006

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2008

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2011

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Areas for collabora2on

Agronomy
Animal Science
Biology
Business administra2on
Computer Science
Engineerings
Human nutri2on
Linguis2cs
Law
Mathema2cs
Medicine
Philosophy
Physical Educa2on
Physics
Public Administra2on
Veterinary Medicine

New Undergraduate
programs

Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Material Engineering
Medicine

InternaIonal AcIons:
UFLA develops ac2ons in
collabora2on with
several foreign
ins2tu2ons in Argen2na,
Spain, United States,
Holland, Mexico, UK,
Portugal, Canada, France,
etc.

Academic Agreements
University of Delaware
USA

Catholic University of Leuven

Belgium

CIRAD
France

Universidad de Lleida
Spain

University of Illinois
USA

University of Guelph
Canada

University of Lancaster
England

Montpellier - SupAgro
France

Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid - Spain

Universida de Murcia
Spain

Universidade de Evora
Portugal

Universidade Tecnica
de Lisboa
Portugal

Academic Agreements
A.I. Alikhanyan Na2onal
Science Laboratory
Armnia

Universidad Pedagogica y
Tecnologica de Colombia
Colombia

Universidad de Cordoba
UNICORDOBA
Colombia

Universidad Pedro de
Valdivia
Chile

Universidad Nacional del

Nordeste
Argen2na

Centro de
Inves2gaciones Op2cas
(CIOP)
Argen2na

Universidad de Sucre
Colombia

Ins2tuto Politcnico
de Bragana
Portugal

Universita Degli
Studi di Milano
Biccoca - Italia

 InternaIonal RelaIons
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Students abroad: 2009 - 2 014

Undergraduate Students: 538

2014: 141 students

Graduate: 91
2014: 15 students

Foreign students :
- 2009 -2014: 81 students
- 2014 : 39 students

 Beyond the academics

 LAVRASTEC

Parcial top view of the campus

Centre for
Food Safety

New road

LavrasTEC

Water
production"

Replacing PET cups by

permanent mugs on Campus

Sewage treatment plant

Reusing water, preventing losses

See you in Lavras and at UFLA!

Oce of Interna2onal Aairs

Thank you very much !
dri@dri.ufla.br
www.ufla.br