This study aimed to analyze the constitutive dispositions of the strategies used by students from low income families, self-declared blacks enrolled in the Federal University of Bahia to remain in higher education. In order to do so, a qualitative research of phenomenological inspiration was developed based on the theoretical contributions on the effects of first and second order in the implementation of public policies in the social field and creativity of the agents (Ball, 2006), from the concepts of cultural capital, habitus, (Bourdieu, 2007) and on issues related to class inequalities in Brazil (Jessé Souza, 2012). The information was collected through questionnaires and interviews with a sample of probable students graduating from some of the university's courses. The results show that the subjects searched revealed difficulties of the following orders: in the socioeconomic field; in the academic-pedagogical field in the ethnic-racial field and used strategies with creativity from the social and cultural repository they had, generated in the environments experienced before the entrance and during the course at the University, strategies that led them to act in a determined way in the achievement in higher education.