Scholarships

3rd Annual Meeting of Scholarship Students
Supporting young talent

Mission

Scholarship Programs are essential for Insper to fulfill its mission. For that reason, the School works to put together a Scholarship Fund with enough resources to fund every talented and academically prepared young adult approved in our selection process and who chooses to pursue one of our undergraduate degrees.

Support the Scholarship Fund

The Scholarship Fund is supported by donations from individuals and companies. Financial resources are also provided by the undergraduate courses, which allocate 1% of its gross revenue to the Fund. You can support the scholarship programs and other initiatives of the institution as well. Click here to contribute.

Scholarships have been granted since 1999. In 2008 alone, over 100 scholarships were awarded:

Full Scholarship

Eligible beneficiaries

Prospective and current students in undergraduate courses with academic abilities and disposition who identify themselves with the School’s Educational Vision and who are unable to meet the costs involved, /// including not only the tuition fee /// but also educational materials and the burden of not working throughout the program due to its full-time nature.

General Characteristics of the Scholarships for Undergraduate Courses

The Scholarships correspond to a discount on the tuition fees and cover enrolment and re-enrolment costs. Scholarships do not cover the cost of courses that have to be retaken.
Are renewed annually if the student keeps a good academic record as well as abide to the School’s Code of Ethics and Conduct. Student Aid is renewed by request from the student.
Are repayable, in installments. The total value to be repaid will be adjusted by inflation rate using the Broad Consumer Price Index (IPCA), with no interest. The repayment contributes to disseminate the sense of commitment and responsibility with the forming of future generation. Former Scholarship students help strengthen the Scholarship Fund and extend to other students the same opportunities they were offered.
- Repayment is made in equal and successive monthly installments, the first of which due one year after the date set for the conclusion of the course, using as reference the regular length of four years and the date of the student’s entry in the course.
- After each 12 month period, the amount still unpaid will be adjusted using the annual variation of the IPCA to calculate the 12 subsequent installments.

Types of the Scholarships for Undergraduate Courses

Freshmen Scholarship

Full Scholarship

• For students with a family gross income equal to or less than eight times the Brazilian minimum wage per capita (click here to see a calculation example) and who had a strong academic record in High School.

• Correspond to a discount of up to 80% of the monthly tuition, enrolment and re-enrolment fees.

• For students with a family gross income equal to or less than 1,5 times the Brazilian minimum wage per capita (click here to see a calculation example) and who have, for the entire duration of High School, attended public schools or private schools funded by a scholarship.

• 100% of the fee for registration to the entrance examination is subsidized by the Institution.

How to request exemption of the fee for registration to the entrance examination:

After registering online at the Undergraduate Program werbsite for the entrance examination, print out the exemption request document, sign it and send it together with the documents required for analysis (documents required for analysis of the Scholarship application).

Requests for analysis of the Freshmen Scholarship and the Full Scholarship should be made throghout the registration period for the entrance examination. Students must fill an online application which is part of the online “registration form”.

For current undergraduate students

Second Semester Scholarship

Financial Aid

• For students with a family gross income equal to or less than eight times the Brazilian minimum wage per capita (click here to see a calculation example), who have finished the First Semester with an average grade equal to or above 6,0 and who are up to date with their payments to the School.

• Corresponds to a discount of up to 80% of the monthly tuition, enrolment and re-enrolment fees.

• For students who have attended at least a year of course in the School, are up to date with their payments and in need of financial help.

• Corresponds to a discount of up to 50% of the monthly tuition, enrolment and re-enrolment fees.

• May fund a semester or a year. In case of need, the student can request a new financial aid.

Notebook Aid: offered to students who have been granted a scholarship of above 50%.

(***) Documents required for analysis of Scholarship applications (all types)

Copy of the most recent income tax form (or document confirming exemption of payment) of the person or people financially responsible for the candidate. In the event these do not file an income tax form, a copy of the Exemption Declaration must be presented.
If those financially responsible for the candidate are:
- business owners: must present, in addition to the income tax form, a copy of the last Balance Statement, copy of the legal person income tax form, and an accountant’s declaration stating management fees, monthly withdrawals and incomes generated by profit.
- Self-employed workers, doctors, dentists, lawyers: must present, in addition to the income tax form, a declaration stating the name, taxpayer’s number, identity card number, total gross monthly income and information regarding the professional activity, and a legal person income tax form, if applicable.
Statement of the household monthly expenses, in accordance with the model available here during the registration period for Scholarship requests, with a copy of the bills declared in the statement and an indication on the form of the number of family members that share the same income, as well as the percentage of Scholarship required.
Candidate’s High School transcript.
Proof of High School scholarship, if applicable.
Letter of recommendation from a teacher or professor:
- For Freshmen or Full Scholarships, from a High School or an Entrance Examination Preparatory Course teacher.
- For Second Semester Scholarship, from a professor of the School.
- For Financial Aid, from two professors of the School, one of them from the semester the student is currently attending and the other from the previous semester.

The complete documentation must be sent by mail or handed to the Scholarship Coordination, by the date established here. Incomplete requests or those presented after the deadline set by the Scholarship Coordination will not be analyzed.

If you are interested in learning about scholarships besides those offered by Insper, you can find more information here.

Fundação Estudar: www.estudar.org.br
Universia: www.universiabrasil.net/bolsas

For more information on scholarships, contact the Scholarship Coordination - programasdebolsa@insper.edu.br

3rd Annual Meeting of Scholarship Students Supporting young talent