📋 Tender Overview
More than half decided to stay in the same region to study his professional career. 92 % beneficiaries are of extreme poverty and poverty and 55 % are women.In the first six months of 2025, a total of 20 221 young people who are academically highlighted and living in a situation of vulnerability won an educational scholarship or credit of the National Scholarships and Educational Credit Program (PRONABEC) of the Ministry of Education. In this way, it was achieved for the first time that there is at least a Peruvian in the country that access quality higher education, with the financing of the Peruvian State.
Of the beneficiaries, 49 % are 17 years old or less, and 50 % between 18 and 30 years, thus demonstrating that the pronabec allows more Peruvians to apply timely to higher education after completing their secondary studies. Meanwhile, 55 % of the total are women.
More than half of beneficiaries come from Lima, Ayacucho, Cusco, Junin, Puno and Piura. It is important to mention that 55 % of the total decided to stay in the same region to study.
This is the case of Andrea Castro, who occupied the first place in the repaired modality of the first moment of scholarship 18 and decided to study his professional career of Civil Engineering at the National University of San Cristobal de Huamanga, in his native Ayacucho. Andrea is also part of 87 % of beneficiaries who decided to study at a university. 12 % chose an institute.
The more than 20 200 beneficiaries managed to win a vacancy of the BECA 18 competitions, Scholarship Peru or Pro. Scholarship 18, the most representative scholarship of the pronabec, is aimed at students of fifth grade of secondary school or who culminated the school, and who live in a situation of vulnerability, so that they start a professional career with all the expenses covered.
Meanwhile, Beca Peru is a scholarship created with the support of private educational institutions that believe in Peruvian talent, and in this years call it was possible to exponentially increase the number of vacancies offered. Finally, Pro Credit Pro is a student loan that finances all costs for the continuity of undergraduate studies, with a very low effective compensatory interest rate in the market.
1 in 5 winners belong to an original community
A total of 4043 beneficiaries who won an educational scholarship or credit in the first semester of 2025 belongs to an original community, between Amazon or peasant native, which represents 20 % of the total. Likewise, 345 winners accredited being of an Afro -Peruvian population and 125 have a disability.
The pronabec has also achieved that in these first six months of the year its opportunities reach Peruvians who do not have sufficient resources to access higher education, since 92 % of beneficiaries accredited living in condition of poverty and extreme poverty.
During its 13 years of activities, the pronabec has benefited more than 165,000 Peruvians with its educational scholarships and credits. For this semester (from July to December 2025), more Peruvians will have the opportunity to start or continue their careers or a training course, and thus meet their professional goals. For more information, you can write to the social networks of the pronabec, to the institutional WhatsApp 914 121 106, or call the free line 0800 000 18.
This news belongs to the Scholarships and Credits Compendium offered by the pronabec
