We present the development of the higher education courses in Administration of FACE/UFMG between its creation and 1968, when the merger of its three courses took place. The study is justified by the important role that the undergraduate courses in Administration play and played to spread management. We shed some light on the history of the courses in Administration of FACE/UFMG, highlighting the establishment of its courses in Public Administration and Sociology and Politics, in 1952, and in Business Administration, in 1954. We also emphasize that FACE/UFMG was not included in the agreement signed in 1959, involving other existing higher education courses or some courses that were about to be created in the country. Sequentially, we present an overview of the route of the higher education courses in Administration of FACE/UFMG in the 1960s, culminating in their unification in 1968. We conclude by claiming the importance to recall the history of the undergraduate courses as a way to understand the current scenario in the area, as well as the need to regard the development of Administration in Brazil as a not natural process that is full of complexities and must be analyzed from a perspective open to interaction between domestic and foreign factors.
Americanization; History of Administration; History of the Brazilian courses in Administration