FGV business administration program in Sao Paulo receiving applications for second half of 2024
To take the traditional entrance exam, candidates must sign up between March 4 and May 3. The program’s highlights include a new curriculum with 10 areas of focus and a new building.

Between March 4 and May 3, Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP) will be accepting applications for its mid-year admission process. In all, there are 250 places for the school’s daytime business administration program.
As it celebrates its 70th anniversary, FGV EAESP has some exciting new features: a highly innovative and sustainable building at 63 Rua Professor Picarolo and a new curriculum, in which it is possible to choose an area of information in which to delve deeper.
All 10 areas of focus have places for low-income students and members of underrepresented groups:
- Business Economics;
- Business and Law;
- Data Science;
- Finance;
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship;
- International Business and Global Management;
- Leadership and People Management;
- Marketing;
- Procurement Operations and Management;
- Sustainability.
The 250 slots for the daytime business administration program are broken down as follows:
- FGV EAESP entrance exam: 196;
- National High School Exam (ENEM): 10;
- International selection processes: 34 (based on candidates’ results in the International Baccalaureate, Germany’s ABITUR exam, France’s BAC exam or the United States’ SAT;
- Low-income people and members of underrepresented groups: 10. Candidates must have spent their entire high school education at government schools or received a full need-based scholarship at private schools, or they must identify as black, mixed-race or indigenous.
FGV EAESP will waive the application fee in the case of students who spent their entire high school education at government schools (municipal, state or federal) or who received a full scholarship at private schools. You just need to prove the above, via documents, by April 29 for the university entrance exam process or by May 13 for the ENEM process.
FGV EAESP entrance exam and its results
The exam will take place in person. Candidates must present their original photo ID, namely a Brazilian ID card (RG) or national migrants’ card (RNM). Please note that photocopies or documents that do not make it possible to visually identify candidates will not be accepted. The school will hold the exam in some or all of the following cities:
- Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais)
- Brasilia (Federal District)
- Campo Grande (Mato Grosso do Sul)
- Curitiba (Paraná)
- Florianópolis (Santa Catarina)
- Fortaleza (Ceará)
- Goiânia (Goiás)
- Londrina (Paraná)
- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Recife (Pernambuco)
- Ribeirão Preto (Sao Paulo)
- Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro)
- Salvador (Bahia)
- Sao José dos Campos (Sao Paulo)
- Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo)
- Uberlândia (Minas Gerais)
When applying, you must select three cities and the city of Sao Paulo must be one of them.
Exams will only be held in cities that at least 20 candidates choose as their first option. If it isn’t possible to hold exams in your first and second-option cities, you will have to go to the city of Sao Paulo to take the exam.
About the selection process
The selection process is composed of two phases. The first phase has two modules (a multiple-choice test and an essay and applied mathematics test), while the second phase is an oral exam.
The multiple-choice test will last three and a half hours, and it will cover:
- mathematics;
- the humanities (history, geography and current affairs);
- Portuguese language;
- English language.
The essay and applied mathematics test will last three hours. The first phase test will take place on June 9. The first phase scores will be disclosed at 6 p.m. on June 24. Participants will also have an oral exam between June 26 and July 3. The final results will be announced at 6 p.m. on July 8, including for the selection process based on ENEM. The results based on international exams will be announced on July 22.
Scholarships
Merit scholarships will be awarded to the best performers in the university entrance exam and non-refundable scholarships will also be granted to students experiencing financial difficulties. FGV EAESP also grants refundable scholarships (without interest, but merely adjusted in line with the IPCA inflation index) to undergraduate students who prove they are financially needy.
For more information about FGV EAESP’s admission process, call (11) 3799 7711 (if you are in Greater Sao Paulo) or 0800 770 0423 (if you are in other locations in Brazil), or email processoseletivo@fgv.br.
Discounted application fee
Until 6 p.m. on April 5, the fee for the application process via the university entrance exam or international test results is R$75, while the fee for the process via ENEM results is R$25. After this date, the fees will be R$150 and R$50, respectively.
Applications must be submitted exclusively on the school’s website, where the admission notice can be found.
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