The office of Research and Graduate Programs (PPG) at the UFV aims to coordinate graduate activities. The Technical Councils of the Stricto Sensu and “Lato Sensu” Graduate Programs are entailed to PPG. These councils have the following duties: accrediting professors for graduate courses; deciding about the creation, denomination, functioning, alteration or extinction of analytical programs and graduate course distribution; approving and supervising the offer of “Lato Sensu” graduate courses, including those offered in partnerships; taking decisions on graduate students’ requests.
The UFV offers 34 academic Stricto Sensu graduate programs in several areas of knowledge – twenty Master’s programs followed by Doctorate degrees and 14 programs forMaster’s degree only.
In 2007, 1,049 students were registered in Master’s and 856 in Doctorate programs; 69 were under Post Doctorate training and 267 were enrolled in graduate courses although not in graduate programs (“special students”), which totals 2,241 students. In 2006, 337 Master’s Theses and 128 Doctorate Theses were submitted and approved.
In 2006, 592 students were registered for the following “Lato Sensu” graduate programs: Computer Science "42"; Veterinary Surgery and Clinics "29"; Agrarian and Environmental Law "40"; Education "30"; Soccer "39"; Business Management and Diagnosis "46"; Strategic Management "59"; Linguistics and Compared Literature "29"; Nutrition and Health "38"; Plant Protection "108"; and Paper and Cellulose Technology "109; Rural Business Management “23”.
In March 2006, the following new Master’s programs were launched: Economy, Animal Biology and Applied Statistics and Biometry, in addition to the Doctorate program in Applied Physics. The Agricultural Chemistry doctorate program was approved by the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) and started in 2007. The Master’s in Mathematics and the Master’s in Cellulose and Paper Technology programs were also approved to begin in 2008. The offer of graduate programs has increased mainly because of the faculty training policies implemented at UFV four decades ago, the national and international educational relevance of the UFV, and the consequent increased demand for new programs.
Evaluation by CAPES: the results of the evaluation of the 34 UFV graduate programs by CAPES were the following: two programs have grade 7 (maximum); five programs, grade 6; five programs, grade 5; 14 programs, grade 4; and eight programs, 3. In agrarian sciences, nine programs in Brazil received grade 7 in the national evaluation and two of them are in the UFV (Entomology and Animal Sciences). The maximum grade given by CAPES is 7 when both Master’s and Doctorate programs are offered; and 5 for those programs offering only Master’s. The evaluation was carried out by CAPES, which is based on the following criteria: (1) Program Proposal; (2) Faculty; (3) Research Activities, Development and Extension; (4) Training Activity; (5) Students; (6) Conclusion Assignments; and (7) Intellectual Production. The evaluation of each program is based on the annual reports presented.
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