 A number of scandals, suspicions and affairs involving private higher education institutions (for example, major private universities like "Universidade Moderna" (1998), "Universidade Independente" (2007) and "Universidade Internacional" (2007), among others), and a general perception of many of those institutions as having a tendentially relaxed teaching style with less rigorous criteria, have contributed to their poor reputation which originated a state-run inspection of private higher education institutions in 2007.Many institutions did not provide degree programs of academic integrity comparable to those of traditional universities.Like in any other country in the world, this appears to be an injustice for thousands of others students admitted to more rigorous and selective institutions that will face the same competition in the labour market, where the graduation marks are often decisive.