📋 Tender Overview
This Tuesday, April 29, the registration deadline for the remaining vacancies of the selection process of the first half of 2025, ends.
According to Public Notice No. 7/2025, the result with the classification order and the pre-selection will be released on May 6, made up of a single call and waiting list. If pre-selected, the student must attend the Permanent Committee on Supervision and Monitoring (CPSA) of the Higher Education Institution (HEIs) on May 7 and 8, at the institutions hours, to prove the information declared at the time of registration.
The remaining vacancies of Fies refer to financing opportunities that were not filled during the regular selection steps of the program. They are intended for students who are able to reach the minimum attendance required to complete the first semester of 2025 in the course option, shift and place of offer for which they enrolled.
The notice points out that 50% of the remaining vacancies will be reserved for candidates with family income per person of up to half a minimum wage, registered in the Single Registry for Social Programs of the Federal Government (CadUnico), as determined by the rules of the social FIES. For black, brown, indigenous, quilombola and disabled candidates, vacancies will be reserved in percentage according to the proportion of the population in the federation unit where the educational institution is installed, based on the last census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The reserve will be applied to FIES and for vacancies for social FIES.
The pre-selected by the Social FIES may request the contracting of up to 100% of the educational charges charged by the institutions. They will be automatically identified by FIES Selection from CadUnico database, provided to the Ministry of Education (MEC) by the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Hunger Fighting (MDS).
The candidate who cumulatively meets the following conditions may apply in the selection process:
Having participated in the National High School Exam (Enem) from the 2010 edition, with a note in the valid exam until the moment prior to the opening of the registrations;
Have obtained a score equal to or greater than 450 points on the arithmetic average of the notes achieved in the five ENEM tests and a grade greater than zero in the writing test;
Not participating in that exam as coach;
Have a per capita gross monthly family income of up to three minimum wages;
Must have the conditions to reach the minimum frequency required for the semester for the first half of 2025, in the course, shift and place of offer of the higher education institution for which to register.
This year, MEC will offer more than 112,000 vacancies for FIES - of these, 67,301 were made available in the first half. The other vacancies will be offered in the selection process of the second half of 2025, including those eventually not filled after the end of the reminiscent vacancies of the first half.
FIES SOCIAL - The FIES selection process includes the reserve of 50% of places for students with family income, per person, up to half a minimum wage - and enrolled in active cadunic. In the case of pre-selected ones that meet the rules of the social FIES, the contracting of the financing is full, covering up to 100% of the educational charges.
Students pre-selected with per capita family income from up to half a minimum wage are exempt from proof of family income with the CPSA, but must attend the committee to validate the other information. If the commission identifies, among the information provided, discrepancy regarding the declared family income, the presentation of complementary documentation may be required for proof.
In the case of vacancies for persons with disabilities, regardless of whether they are registered for the vacancy of the social FIES or other vacancies of the FIES, candidates must prove their situation by means of medical report, attesting the species and the degree of disability with express reference to the corresponding code of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
All pre-selected should be aware of the deadlines and procedures established in the notice, so as not to miss the opportunity to secure their vacancies in Fies.
FIES - Established by Law No. 10,260 of July 12, 2001, the Student Financing Fund is an initiative of MEC that grants funding to students for undergraduate courses in private higher education institutions that joined the program and have a positive assessment in the National Higher Education Assessment System (Sinaes).
