The text discusses the extent to which national educational policies, materialized in programs such as the university for all program (Prouni), the restructuring program of private institutions (Proies), the restructuring program of federal institutions (REUNI), the national unified admission of students program (Sisu), the renewed student loan program (FIES), the law of quotas in the federal higher education institutions, the national student assistance program (PNAES), the creation of new federal universities and campuses, the higher education interiorization programs, the creation of Federal Technological Institutes, among others, have started to alter the socio-economic profile of Brazilian undergraduate students. The major source of information is the socio-economic questionnaire applied to students during the three complete cycles of the national student examination (Enade).
Higher education; Inclusion; Democratization; Undergraduate students
