📋 Tender Overview
Those shortlisted must enter an eligible higher education institution to apply for the second part of the competition. 67% of the educational offer is from institutes and schools.Those preselected for Beca 18-2026 who did not obtain a vacancy in the first moment of the competition, or who did not participate, will have a new opportunity in the second moment, for which they must be admitted to an eligible higher education institution. For this reason, the National Scholarship and Educational Credit Program of the Ministry of Education informs about the upcoming admission processes in technological institutes and higher schools to which they can apply.
Currently, the contest has an educational offer from 257 institutions, of which 67% correspond to institutes and schools with headquarters in all regions of the country.
The Minister of Education, Erfurt Castillo, pointed out that the scholarship seeks to form professional profiles that are most required in the country, so additional points will be given to those who choose high-demand careers, according to the Occupational Demand Survey, in Technological Higher Education institutions (EST), and to those who apply with the Children of Teachers modality and pursue careers in Education or pedagogy.
The public pedagogical schools that have announced dates for their admission exams in March are Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (Amazonas), La Salle (Apurimac and Cusco), La Inmaculada and Arequipa (Arequipa), Cuna de La Libertad (Ayacucho), Aristides Merino Merino (Cajamarca), Gregoria Santos and Santa Rosa (Cusco), and San Francisco de Asis (Ica). Likewise, Teodoro Penaloza (Junin), Indoamerica (La Libertad), Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Moquegua), Generalisimo Jose de San Martin (San Martin), Jose Jimenez Borja (Tacna) and Bilingue (Ucayali). Loreto (Loreto) and Lamas (San Martin) will take their admission exam in April.
On the side of the higher technological institutes, the public institution Jose Carlos Mariategui (Moquegua) will take the exam on March 29. The private institute Tecsup No. 1 (Lima) announced its last process for March 17 and upcoming evaluations at its headquarters in La Libertad. For its part, Tecsup No. 2 (Arequipa) will carry out evaluations between March and April. The Peruvian Institute of Business Administration IPAE (Iquitos) keeps its process open until March 20. The Continental (Junin) and Toulouse Lautrec (Arequipa) technological schools maintain virtual processes open until the end of March.
Other study centers maintain open enrollment with the start of classes soon. This is the case of Certus (Arequipa and Lambayeque) and the La Pontificia school (Ayacucho), which will start classes on March 23; the SISE institute (Lima), on April 8; the Khipu schools (Cusco) and Zegel (Arequipa, Ica, Lima and Piura), on April 20; while Cepeban (San Martin) will do so on April 27. Likewise, the Cibertec (La Libertad and Lima), ADEX (Lima) and Corriente Alterna (Lima) schools have processes and start dates for classes throughout the year.
The aforementioned institutions are part of group 1 of the contests prioritization, which means that the preselected who enter one of them will receive additional points during the selection stage of Beca 18-2026. The application for the second moment will be made from April 6 to 27, through www.pronabec.gob.pe/beca-18 For more information, you can write to www.facebook.com/PRONABEC or call the toll-free number 0800 000 18.
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