“…Material and symbolic permanence (Mendes, 2020;Santos, 2009) is directly related to living conditions, as it depends on the resources that the student and his family have to pay for the permanence in the courses and, in the absence of these, it depends on the resources made available by the institution, in this case the IFSC. Thus, it is essential to bring institutional responsibility in the production of permanence strategies (Mendes, 2020) to the forefront. In this sense, it is stated that student permanence is multi-determined and largely depends on the institutional capacity to produce contexts that are favorable to the permanence of the various subjects who present themselves as students.…”