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We aim to reflect on how the INEP’s censuses may provide a criterion to analyze the professional education of psychologists in Brazil. We established a methodological strategy based on bibliographic-research and document analysis. We contextualized the INEP’s emergence and its logic of establishing higher education census through the figures of Lourenço Filho and Anísio Teixeira, their stays at Columbia University and appropriations of psychological, educational and administrative ideas. We examed such censuses, between 1940-2010, to understand the educational expansionism and professional education of psychologists. In the 2020 census, we observe: predominance of private courses over public ones; educational expansion in inland courses; expression of a commodified Psychology; discrepancy between the Bachelor’s and the Teaching License Degree in the education of psychologists; equivalence and reduced offers of Psychology Degree courses in public and private education. We conclude that the analysis undertaken helps to understand the psychologist professional education field in its historical, political, statistical, social and educational nuances.