This study aimed to think about the effects of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 on the higher education students' stay at the Federal University of Goias (UFG) In order to answer this question, documentary research was carried out based on primary data relating to the students' bonding situation in two periods of the first academic semester of 2020, before and after the pandemic, considering both the general scene of the university and the particularities of the university, areas of knowledge, year of entry into the institution and academic degrees. In addition, to support the analysis of the data, the documentary research made use of secondary official documents from the Ministry of Education and the UFG, mainly, but also from the Institute of Applied Economic Research and the National Association of the Directors of the Federal Institutions of University Education. Still, bibliographic research was done, anchored in authors who discuss dropout, student permanence and education in the context of the pandemic. As a result, the study showed that there was a reduction in active bonds, caused by the increase in lockouts and exclusions, which was more pronounced in the Exact and Earth Sciences and with the new entrants from 2016 to 2019.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on permanence in higher education. The scenario of a Brazilian federal university