The Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil, generally known as UFCG, is a public university whose main campus is located in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. Together with the Federal University of Paraíba, it is the main university of the state of Paraiba, Brazil. Officially established after splitting from UFPB in 2002, it is one of the leading technological and scientific production institutes of northeastern Brazil, being mentioned in a 2001 edition of the Newsweek magazine as a technopole - among 9 other around the world - that represents a new vision for technology. It was again quoted in 2003 as the Brazilian silicon valley. The Higher Education in the State of Paraiba has its origins in the creation of its first high education school, the Northeastern School of Agronomy, in 1934, in the town of Areia. Professional aspirations were still focused on Medical, Law and religious careers, traditional métiers of the rural eleite in the region. The creation of the school led to the expectation of more higher education institutes being opened, what only happened from 1947.