The University of Minas Gerais - UEMG was created by art.81 of the Act of the Transitory Constitutional Provisions of Mining Constitution of 1989. The first paragraph of Art.82 of the same Act, provided the educational foundations of higher education established by the State or with their collaboration, choose to be absorbed as units of UEMG. Law 11539 of July 22, 1994, defined the University as a special regime of authority, legal entity of public law, with headquarters in Belo Horizonte, equity and . own recipe, didactic, scientific, administrative and disciplinary autonomy, including financial and asset management The same law established a framework for the University: the collegiate bodies and administrative units as pro-rectories and regional campuses represented by the foundations have been set Educational they made ​​choice to belong to the University and that would be absorbed by the rules established by law, one every four months, namely: Faculty of Philosophy Foundation, Science and Carangola Letters, Educational Foundation of Vale do Jequitinhonha,