📋 Tender Overview
Pronabec published the list of more than 10,000 selected, who reached the highest scores of the first moment of the contest. They can study a career with all covered costs. More than 10,700 talented Peruvians from all regions of Peru will fulfill their goal of studying a professional career with the support of scholarship 18-2025, of the National Scholarship and Educational Credit Program (Pronabec), of the Ministry of Education. They reached the highest scores of the contest in which more than 80,000 Peruvians participated, and now they will have all the costs covered during their academic training. But what are its characteristics?
Timely access and decentralization
The winners are the selected of the first moment of the 2025 call, whose figure amounts to are 10,773 selected. Of these, more than half, 51.8 % (5578), are minors, and 43.1 % (4646) have since 18 to 20 years. Also, 49.7 % (5349) are women and 50.3 % (5424) are men, which represents an equity between genres. In addition, more 54.4 % (5374) of those selected come from Lima, Ayacucho, Cusco, Ica and Puno.
Regarding the socioeconomic classification, 41.3 % (4450) of the selected ones live in conditions of extreme poverty, while 50 % (5388) are in poverty. On the type of school where they studied, 83.1% of those selected studied their last year of high school in public institutions.
They are boys who really fill us with pride, they are the symbols of hope for the country, which show us that there is good talent in all corners nationwide. All regions have had selected in the first moment of the call, said the executive director of the pronabec, Alexandra Ames, who added that the result represents the commitment of the Peruvian State for contributing to the equity to the access to the access to the access to the access. timely, inclusive and decentralized.
Original communities and key races
A fact that highlights that 21.1 % (2269) belong to rural and native Amazonian communities, they are added 200 that have indicated to be of an Afro -Peruvian population, and 80 accredited having a disability.
Among the races that chose the most stand out with human medicine, civil engineering, law and industrial engineering. A total of 86.3 % will study in universities, 12.8 % will do so in higher education institutes, and 0.8 % (92) will study at a technological or pedagogical higher education school.
The selection of the winners has been made in strict order of merit, and now they must accept the scholarship to become fellows and obtain all the benefits. They have a deadline to do so until Sunday, March 30, entering the acceptance module of the contest selection stage, through the website of the contest www.pronabec.gob.pe/beca-18/
More than 1900 selected together
In line with the objective of giving more opportunities to Peruvians in conditions of vulnerability, of the group of winners of scholarships 18-2025, 1930 belong to household users of the Together Program, of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS). The result represents three times more than registered in the call last year.
Regarding scholarship modalities, 68.9 %belong to the ordinary modality, followed by the modality of Amazonian native communities and Afro -Peruvian population with 13 %, repairs with 6.9 %, EIB (bilingual intercultural education) with 3.5 %and VRAEM with 2.9 %, among others.
The increase of winners in the contest is due to the effort and permanent inter -institutional coordination carried out between the Together and the Pronabec program. Likewise, they have been carried out in vocational fairs, with the support of Regional Directorates of Education, Regional Governments and Local Governments, in which the educational offer was approached to Secondary schoolchildren.
Second moment of the contest
The 18-2025 scholarship selection stage has a second moment to which the preselected ones that did not apply or did not win at the first moment can apply. At this last moment the remaining scholarships will be delivered until the 20,000 offered in the current call. The deadline to participate in the second moment begins on April 7 and ends at 11.59 p. m. of May 7.
Pronabec, through scholarship 18, has transformed the lives of more than 76,000 Peruvians by accessing higher education and improving their living conditions and that of their families. Learn more about the pronabec in your social networks and in consultations, call the free line 0800 000 18 or write to the institutional WhatsApp 914 121 106.
