The growth of private higher education sector in Brazil has harmonized a chance for
thousands of Brazilians have access to higher education, but in return, and came along with
this growth, rising defaults student. In order to investigate which factors influence this fact,
this article was elaborated in a Private Higher Education Institution. Found out that the
academic research on the subject in Brazil is insufficient. Therefore it was used as theoretical,
bibliographical material and the testimony of employees linked to the research institution. It
was found to throughout this article that default is related to personal factors, socio-economic,
academic and institutional therefore manageable. The conjecture that default student is guided
exclusively with financial factors not confirmed.
