It was the year 1962 when Professor Manoel Bezerra de Melo created in the city of Mogi das Cruzes, one elementary school, which at that time was still called "gym". There began the Organization Mogiana of Education and Culture. - COME In 1964, it installed the first colleges of the educational complex that from 1973 became the University of Mogi das Cruzes (UMC). Tradition and pioneering mark the fifty year history of the institution.
Throughout this period, the UMC is preparing his students, now numbering more than 20,000 in campuses Mogi das Cruzes and Villa-Lobos / Lapa to market requirements work and citizenship. Currently the University of Mogi das Cruzes has dozens of courses whose content and teaching-learning methods are continuously updated and improved. The faculty is made up of UMC 60% of masters and doctors, many of whom develop major scientific projects. Students can also participate in research projects, receiving research fellowships. To this end, the University maintains exchanges with national and international institutions and also offers laboratories, modern equipment and spaces specially designed for the development of classes, lectures, conferences, among many other academic activities.
