📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC) released, this Tuesday, November 4th, the result with the order of classification of the remaining vacancies in the Student Financing Fund (Fies) selection process, referring to the second semester of 2025. Candidates can access the result on . In this edition, the MEC offered more than 58 thousand places for 10,319 undergraduate courses/shifts, in 690 private higher education institutions.
According to the , the pre-selected student must appear before the Permanent Supervision and Monitoring Committee (CPSA) of the higher education institution where they were pre-selected on the 5th and 6th of November to prove the information declared at the time of registration. Documents can be delivered physically or digitally. Check the rules, deadlines and opening hours at the institution.
The remaining Fies vacancies refer to financing opportunities that were not filled during the programs regular selection stages. They are intended for students who are able to reach the minimum attendance required to complete the second academic semester of 2025 in the course option, shift and location for which they signed up.
Reservation of vacancies - The notice highlights that 50% of the remaining vacancies will be reserved for candidates with a family income per person of up to half a minimum wage, registered in the Single Registry for Social Programs of the Federal Government (CadUnico), with active registration, as determined by the rules of Fies Social. Those pre-selected in Fies Social will be able to request financing of up to 100% of the educational fees charged by the institutions. These candidates will be automatically identified by the registration system, based on the CadUnico database, provided to the MEC by the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger (MDS).
For self-declared black, brown, indigenous, quilombola and people with disabilities candidates, places will be reserved in percentage according to the proportion of the population in the Federation unit where the educational institution is located, based on the latest census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The reservation of vacancies for candidates with a quota holder profile will be applied to Fies and to vacancies destined for Fies Social.
In the case of vacancies intended for people with disabilities, regardless of whether they have registered for Fies Social vacancies or for other Fies vacancies, candidates must prove their situation through a medical report, attesting to the type and degree of the disability with express reference to the corresponding International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code.
Fies Social - The entire Fies selection process reserves 50% of places for students with a family income of up to half the minimum wage per person and registered with CadUnico, in an active situation. For those pre-selected who meet the Fies Social rules, financing is contracted in full, covering up to 100% of educational costs.
They are exempt from proving their family income with the educational institutions CPSA, but must appear before the commission to validate other information. If the CPSA identifies, among the information provided, a discrepancy regarding the declared family income, it may be required to present additional documentation to prove it.
Fies - Established by Law No. 10,260, of July 12, 2001, the Student Financing Fund is a MEC program that grants financing to students for undergraduate courses at private higher education institutions that adhere to the program and have a positive evaluation in the National Higher Education Assessment System (Sinaes).
MEC Social Communication Advisory, with information from the Higher Education Secretariat (Sesu/MEC)
