This study examined the academic career of the graduates of the Master Program Graduate School of Education Faculty of Education - FACED / UFU Uberlândia in the period 2004 to 2009. The universe consisted of three hundred and forty nine (349) graduates, we were able to contact and send email to two hundred and forty-two (242) graduates. The sample consisted of thirty-nine (39) subjects enrolled in the master's degree in education, equivalent to 11% of the graduates. Of these, thirty-one (79%) were females and eight (21%) were male. Most of them attended undergraduate public schools, especially at the UFU. The main reasons for individuals to join the Masters Program were the pursuit of teaching careers and the desire to undertake research. Both the program as well as the faculty were considered as very good and excellent. Most of them are not fully devoted to the program, 26% reported their dissertations and about 38% work as advisors, and seventy (70) students are being advised and about two hundred and eighty-five (285) have already been advised. It was observed that most subjects work in public institutions. Most would choose the same profession, take the same Masters program, would choose the same field and the same advisor. The study indicates that the fear of exclusion and marginalization requires the individual's academic improvement, for education is characterized as something to be consumed and that the school values knowledge as a socially defined "educational value." The Master of Education program at the UFU is a quality education program for the training of teachers and researchers.
Education; Alumni evaluation; Educational formation; Alumni profile; Teacher education; School education
