The article aims to discuss the emergence of oligopolies in private higher education that have arisen as the result of the reconfiguration of the Brazilian process on higher education to the adoption of public policies of neoliberal bias in the 1990s, and produced as the result of profound changes in the field of education in Brazil. This process is the beginning of mergers, the formation of large conglomerates educational, resulting financialization of university education. The study detects a movement that has occurred so that the process of capitalist accumulation favors the formation of conglomerates whose economic power governs a segment that should was be administered by the State.
Key words:
Education commodification; Oligopolies; Private higher education.