The Eduardo Mondlane University is the oldest and largest university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 in Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

. The UEM is located in Maputo

Maputo

Maputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...

 and has about 8,000 students.

History

The institution was set up as a center for higher education in 1962 in what was then Lourenço Marques

Maputo

Maputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...

, the capital of Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

's overseas province of Mozambique. Founded by the time of Overseas Minister

Ministry of the Overseas (Portugal)

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 Adriano Moreira

Adriano Moreira

Adriano José Alves Moreira , is a Portuguese statesman, deputy, politician, lawyer and professor...

, it was called Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique (Mozambique General University Studies) after Studium Generale

Studium Generale

Studium generale is the old customary name for a Medieval university.- Definition :There is no clear official definition of what constituted a Studium generale...

; in 1968 it became the Universidade de Lourenço Marques (University of Lourenço Marques).http://www.uem.mz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=42 After Mozambique became independent in 1975, the city was renamed "Maputo" and the university was renamed in honor of Frelimo leader Eduardo Mondlane

Eduardo Mondlane

Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane served as President of the Mozambican Liberation Front from 1962, the year that FRELIMO was founded in Tanzania, until his assassination in 1969.-Early life:...

 in 1976. http://www.uem.mz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=42

Notable alumni

• U. Aswathanarayana
  U. Aswathanarayana
  Uppugunduri Aswathanarayana is the Honorary Director of the Mahadevan International Centre for Water Resources Management, India. He is counted among the doyens of geology in independent India and is revered as a leading scientist from Andhra Pradesh...
  
  , Honorary Director of the Mahadevan International Centre for Water Resources Management, India

External links

• Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
• Enrollment Data
• Southern African University