This study aimed to analyze the process of commodification of higher education, based on the study of post-graduation courses lato sensu at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in the period from 2008 to 2012. We understand that the post-graduation courses - PGLS gained prominence in Brazil to meet the demand of needy qualifying professionals in a higher level, to act in the labor market. However, since 1990, the same new contours, being detached from CAPES and without a regulator that controls its supply, coupled with the fact of not being met by educational policy graduate. The scenario that is in force is the supply of self-financed courses and insured and maintained by charging fees or agreements with other institutions. That creates some contradictions, as in the case of legislation, to the 1988 Federal Constitution states that education is free in official establishments, however, the Superior Council of Education, Research and Extension UFPA adopted Resolution UFPA No. 4.065/2010 regulating the provision of these courses, characterizing one of the faces of adoption of market logic within this public university. For our analyzes and discussions, we seek approaches to historical and dialectical materialism and use as a data source documents official national and institutional data available in the system On Line Graduate, Management Report UFPa, Opinions Approval, and Projects reports of the courses selected for the survey, as well as semi-structured interviews with 10 subjects. The survey results showed that of the 264 lato sensu offered between 2008 and 2012, 65.2% of these were self-financed, insured 22.7% and 12.1% free. Moreover, different values were identified in the payment-hour class, the fees and expenses of engineers, especially among courses in the same academic unit. Moreover, the analysis of the use of funds raised shows that self-financed courses in most of the expenses are to be paid time-class courses already insured intended the majority of the revenue for maintenance of the courses with passages daily, office supplies, and other. In summary, the study shows the consolidation of the commodification of PGLS in UFPa, given the profitability that these courses provide, especially for certain areas of knowledge, either through wage supplement, is the adequacy of the institution to the current capitalist dynamic growing prevalence in the mercantile for post-graduation courses.
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