Which objective conditions guide the academic investments of higher education students? This article examines this question by discussing the socio and cultural resources that undergraduate students in the Faculty of Education at a major public university in Brazil use in the construction of their college pathways. The data was obtained through a questionnaire applied to 114 seniors. The results show the importance of the previous educational trajectory (whether they studied at public or private schools; whether they worked while attending high school), the religion declared by the students and the type of job they had while attending college in shaping their academic investments.
Higher education; Academic investment; Popular layers; Labour; Religion
