Southern Methodist Education Network

Southern Methodist Education Network

Southern Methodist Education Network was created with the fusion of the centenarian teaching institutions of Rio Grande dos Sul, Americano Methodist School (1885), IPA Methodist School (1923), and União Methodist School (1870), in Uruguaiana.
Methodist Network is also comprised of Methodist University Center IPA, authorized by the Education Ministry in September 2004.
In 2006, Centenário School and FAMES – High Education Methodist Faculties of Santa Maria were incorporated, creating the Southern Methodist Education Network. As part of the educational system of Methodist Church in Brazil, it has the commitment with the knowledge production, contributing to citizen formation.
Nowadays, Methodist University Center has innumerable graduate courses in several units: Central Unit – IPA, Americano Unit, Dona Leonor Unit, Cruzeiro do Sul Unit. It was the High Education Institution that has had the biggest growth in the past few years.
The Social Service course holds a pioneer structure inside Madre Pelletier women’s prison, granting the interns a chance to have access to quality High Education.
Open to diversity, it receives foreign students from Angola, Mozambique, Haiti, Portugal and East Timor, held by the Methodist dream of a world without boarders. This way, contributing to the formation of leaderships in these countries, which are most in post-war reconstruction.
All the Methodist institutions of Brazil form the Methodist Education Network, which is characterized by offering an inclusive, democratic and universal education.