PROUNI: Democratização do acesso ao ensino superior ou estímulo a expansão das instituições de ensino superior privadas?

Abstract

This dissertation has as its research object the University for All Program (PROUNI), specifically between the years 2005 and 2020. The central objective of this research is to carry out an analysis of the program's data within the mentioned period and based on this analysis, seek to understand the beneficiaries, with the following central question: Did PROUNI democratize access to higher education or stimulate the expansion of private higher education institutions? To this end, during the research we will analyze the program since its creation through a Provisional Measure and its changes over the years, after which we will demonstrate, through the data collected, offered by the government, the number of scholarships offered, specifying by modality, race , gender, region and type of scholarship, we will also bring the twenty courses with the highest number of scholarships offered per five-year period (2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020) and finally we will demonstrate the government's tax expenditure on the program, considering that its existence is through tax exemptions granted to private higher education institutions, that is, we will verify in practice during the research how much public coffers effectively stopped making profits to maintain the program. Starting from the presentation of the data, we can then analyze the whole and seek understanding for all those benefiting from the program, whether they are scholarship holders or institutions.