📋 Tender Overview
Scholarship holders can pursue careers in institutes, schools or universities. The institutes develop technical skills for rapid job placement.Scholarship 18, 2026 call, allows you to start an undergraduate degree in institutions with various training alternatives, taught in institutes, higher education schools or universities, both public and private. Promoted by the National Scholarship and Educational Credit Program of the Ministry of Education, this contest finances the winners academic and non-academic costs for all years of training.
The Minister of Education, Erfurt Castillo, pointed out that Beca 18 is aimed at Peruvians who have achieved academic excellence, in order to expand access to higher education and promote national development.
The 2026 call is open to preselected applicants. They must enter a higher education career and institution that is eligible, that is, licensed and, in the case of private ones, that they have agreed to participate. The list of eligible institutions can be found on the contest website: www.pronabec.gob.pe/beca-18/
One of the options that applicants have is to choose a higher technological education in institutes or schools, lasting approximately 3 or 4 years. This type of training is applied and practical, and is aimed at developing technical, specialized skills required by the productive sectors for rapid job placement.
It should be noted that the bachelors degree awarded by the Schools of Higher Education offers the possibility for the student to pursue a postgraduate degree, including masters degrees. In addition, these types of institutions can grant a certification as you progress in your career.
Likewise, if those preselected have the vocation of teaching in basic education, they can study Education in Higher Pedagogical Education Schools. This type of training, which lasts approximately 5 years, grants the bachelors degree, the professional title of teacher and gives the possibility of subsequently pursuing a second specialty.
It is important to highlight that in the selection stage of Scholarship 18-2026, 10 additional points will be given to those preselected who enter a high-demand career, according to the Occupational Demand Survey (EDO), in Technological Higher Education Institutions and to those who are participating under the modality of Children of Teachers and choose to follow Education and/or Pedagogy in all their specialties.
The other option for those preselected is to pursue university studies, an academic and research-oriented training that lasts at least 5 years. It grants the bachelors degree, professional title and second specialty title. In the selection stage for Scholarship 18-2026, priority will be given to those who enter public universities and in the case of private universities, those who have chosen high-demand careers will be prioritized, according to the EDO.
Those preselected who do not win a vacancy in the first moment of the Beca 18-2026 selection stage, or have not participated, can do so in the second moment from April 6 to 27. For inquiries, you can write to www.facebook.com/PRONABEC or WhatsApp 914 121 106, or call the toll-free line 0800 000 18.
Tutorial on how to apply for the selection stage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kafLVm0l00M&t=1s
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