Eduardo Mondlane University

The Eduardo Mondlane University (Portuguese: Universidade Eduardo Mondlane; UEM) is the oldest and largest university in Mozambique.

[5] The university is located in Maputo and has about 40,000 students enrolled.

[6] The institution was set up as a center for higher education in 1962 in what was then Lourenço Marques, the capital of Portugal's overseas province of Mozambique.

Founded by the time of Overseas Minister Adriano Moreira, it was called Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique (Mozambique General University Studies)[1] after Studium Generale; in 1968 it became the Universidade de Lourenço Marques (University of Lourenço Marques).

As of 2015, the university consists of around 40,000 students, of which around 3,300 are pursuing postgraduate courses [8]