In this paper, we propose to solve the balanced academic curriculum problem (BACP), which consists of assigning a balanced academic load to academic periods of a curriculum, through an optimization technique based on the attraction of fireflies (FA). Will be solved test instances and real instances in order to measure the performance of the algorithm and to provide a system that simplifies the process of designing a curricular plan in Higher Education Institutions. The obtained results show that the algorithm FA has a fast convergence and finds the optimum known in most of the tests performed.