The changes at the university in Spain due to the so-called crisis have stressed the barriers and limitations for the working-class students, which in fact have always existed for entering and staying at the University. The implementation of the Bolonia process in 2010-11, on the one hand, and the raising of tuition fees as result of Real Decreto ley 14/2012 on the other hand, has created a new landscape much harder for working-class families to send and maintain their children at the University. Besides we must mention the changes in scholarships system from 2013: the decrease in the number and proportion of scholarships, and the measures that has become grants system in a competitive one. The new policies are being implemented in the last years are pointing to an increase in the individual and private funding of higher education costs and expenses for students. And before that, we must take account the growth of the private sector in Spanish Higher Education system (very important since 1990).

In this context we are going to do a qualitative approach to working-class students that remain at University. We want to analyze by their discourses if they are making changes in their strategies in any senses: choices of degrees, academic tasks, obtaining grants, paying tuition fees, work, living condition, etc., as a way of adapting to the radical changes of the new university institutional rules. 

In this paper we are focusing in processes of choices: styles of choices (contingent, local choices, risk avoiding), sense of entitlement, and how the dependence on academic achievement in working class students is being reinforced with the last political measures at university.

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