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The fact of being able to simulate a real environment makes attractive the company’s games and simulators and be well accepted by the students. The main focus of our study is the purposes of these games and the main goal is to recognize the professor’s purpose when applies company’s games with simulators, in the Foreign Trade’s graduation, of two Higher Education Institutions from Santa Catarina. The methodology is: concerning the objectives, exploratory research; concerning the procedures, study case; concerning the problem’s approach, qualitative research. Beside there are four main purposes of the company’s games with simulators, based on the literature, the professors quote with more emphasis only two of them: to increase knowledge and to develop abilities. Then, more studies will be need about this subject, but in the professor’s perspective of how to use the company’s games and simulators and the consequences on the learning of the students.

Foreign Trade; Higher Education; Purposes of the Company’s Games; Professors; Simulations