Access to Higher Education in Brazil: The Evolution of the Last 15 Years

Abstract

Enrollment in higher education in Brazil has been steadily growing and has reached 7 million recently. However, still only 21% of the population with age between 18 and 24 attend a higher education course. In this paper, we analyze how family income and race (defined in Brazil by self-declared skin color) affect the equity of access to higher education.

Citation

de Andrade, C.Y. (2015), "Access to Higher Education in Brazil: The Evolution of the Last 15 Years", Mitigating Inequality: Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-358X20150000011002