Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)

Founded 1962 (as Estudos Gerais Universitários); chartered as University of Lourenço Marques 1968; renamed UEM 1976. Mozambique's flagship and largest public university, located in Maputo. Founded 1962 in the Portuguese colonial era as Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique, became the University of Lourenço Marques in 1968, and was renamed Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in 1976 (after Mozambique's independence in 1975) in honour of Eduardo Mondlane, founding president of FRELIMO and a key figure in Mozambican independence. Ranked #1 in Mozambique. Multiple faculties spanning sciences, engineering, agriculture, medicine, veterinary, architecture, law, economics, education, arts, and social sciences. Address: Av. Salvador Allende, 702, Caixa Postal 257, Maputo. AULP member. Operates as the reference public research university for Mozambique and the broader Lusophone African higher-education community.

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