Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG (reviews)

The faculty has a magnificent structure, the campus is not only large, but also beautiful. There are many subjects not in my course and it has been a challenge, but the professors are great and give all the support to the students!!!!

UFMG is well known for its excellence. The environment is warm and welcoming, and the professors are both demanding and caring. I’ve had the best tutoring, providing a creative and challenging journey.

If you like contemporary art this is the place for you, but if you are more into the classic academy (learning the old master’s techniques), this is not what you are looking for. The “Escola de Belas Artes UFMG” (School of Fine Arts) is the name of the art school of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The school is well known in Brazil and a lot of good and important artists held their studies there. In the hall of professors, there are still important artists giving classes and passing their experience and knowledge to young students/artists. There’s plenty of room to develop your personal work (ateliers), the library is very rich and you can pick up books not only in the art library (which is actually not very big but has plenty of important books) but also on the whole campus. The complexity of libraries is amazing.

My only problem with the school is the lack of professors that still work with classical drawing. Most of them are more into the contemporary manifestation of art such as performance, installations, ready-mades, videos, conceptual art, and this kind of stuff. Which for me had no problem since I really like contemporary art, but I also like drawing techniques, so I needed to study all by myself since no professor would give me the knowledge I was searching for. Also, some of my friends who were more into classical art (painting and drawing) felt that they were not in the right place since they would not have any professor to guide them through this type of art.

Was great experience for me! UFMG is one of the best universities in Brazil and in the world. There are many good professors and the brightest students. Was a pleasure having studied there. I’ve got there a financial pos graduation.

UFMG is a renowned university in Minas Gerais and Brazil. I had the opportunity to have classes with teachers that are references and also to meet amazing people in this space. Because it is a public university, we face some infrastructure problems due to the transfer of funds to education. At times, it took time for teachers to teach the classes and the classrooms did not have much comfort. I do not know how it is today, because education in Brazil has changed a lot in the last government, but during the period I studied (2008-2012) I can say that I had a great experience and it was very worthwhile. I studied Psychology.