diff --git a/app/helpers/admin/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/admin/application_helper.rb
index 7761e35a289ee2a548010092daeeaea67de74d89..461fadf88def1748e7e0006a48151b36b871f089 100644
--- a/app/helpers/admin/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/admin/application_helper.rb
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ module Admin::ApplicationHelper
   def prepare_for_github(html, university)
     text = html.to_s
     text = sanitize text,
-                    tags: %w(table a figure img figcaption i em b strong p h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 blockquote),
+                    tags: %w(table a figure img figcaption i em b strong p h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 blockquote br),
                     attributes: %w(href alt title target rel src srcset width height)
     text.gsub! "\r", ''
     text.gsub! "\n", ' '