8 Doctoral Degree Programs in Brazil

The Academic Graduate Studies in Administration Program at FGV EBAPE consists of the MSc and PhD in Administration. Closely connected, these courses share the same values and principles. The main purpose of the MSc program is to prepare students for PhDs (at FGV EBAPE or some other distinguished institution in Brazil or elsewhere in the world) or for the job market. The main purpose of the Ph.D. program is to prepare students for academic careers as research professors at universities or other academic institutions in Brazil or abroad.

The Graduate Course in Medicine at Universidade São Francisco (USF) has more than 40 years of history in the training of physicians in Brazil. Being rated 5 by the Ministry of Education (MEC), a concept aimed at a select group of universities that combine tradition, quality and innovation.

In addition to expanding the theoretical-practical-methodological knowledge of academic research in/about art in an interdisciplinary perspective between the various arts and other areas of knowledge, the doctoral course in Arts, from the School of Fine Arts at Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais, contributes to the qualification of personnel at a higher level working in universities and higher institutes in the field of art through interinstitutional doctorates and for the dissemination of research carried out in the Postgraduate Program in Arts by teachers and students, creating channels of dialogue between this production and thought and practice in art in Brazil and abroad.

The structural and didactic organization of the Undergraduate Medicine course is based on an innovative curriculum with Departments, where related disciplines are grouped to optimize teaching, in addition to avoiding bureaucratic-financial excesses and gigantisms and with administration based on meritocracy and alternation of command.

In the UNIPAC Medicine course, wide learning possibilities are available in theoretical and practical classes, which include serving the population according to the course in which the student is enrolled.

The doctorate of the Graduate Program in Parasitology at Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais has stood out in the training of qualified human resources to work in different areas of parasitology, in search of solutions to different problems in the Brazilian reality, since parasitology transcends academic interest, constituting the fundamental base for the establishment of public health policies.

Since 2001, the Ph.D. in Geology at Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais has trained human resources in the area of geology and related sciences, preparing them to work in fields of study of the organization and evolution of geological terrains or even the description and genesis of metallic and non-metallic mineral deposits, industrial rocks and minerals, environmental and hydrogeological studies.

The Medicine course at the Souza Marques Medical School was designed in compliance with the country's National Curriculum Guidelines (DNCs). The objective is to train a professional capable of meeting individual and collective demands, covering the socio-demographic and economic-cultural diversity that characterizes the Brazilian population.