Argentina · Salta
Universidad Católica de Salta
Private university · Salta · founded 1963
ucasal.edu.ar →Undergraduates, 2024
34,733
1.3% of the national total
New entrants
11,479
Graduates
1,968
Students from abroad
1.1%
368 students
17,914 students (51.6%) are on distance programmes.
Students, 2014–2024
| Year | Students | New entrants | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34,733 | 11,479 | 1,968 |
| 2023 | 33,052 | 11,548 | 1,356 |
| 2022 | 27,773 | 9,653 | 1,371 |
| 2021 | 25,231 | 7,174 | 1,740 |
| 2020 | 24,790 | 7,447 | 2,207 |
| 2019 | 23,938 | 5,583 | 1,830 |
| 2018 | 23,837 | 5,248 | 1,738 |
| 2017 | 23,388 | 4,741 | 1,636 |
| 2016 | 24,496 | 5,231 | 1,775 |
| 2015 | 24,650 | 5,033 | 1,296 |
| 2014 | 22,786 | 5,007 | 1,250 |
The yearbook treats 2020 and 2021 as statistically unusual years because of the pandemic. A dash means no figure was reported.
What students study
- Social sciences (incl. law, economics, business)20,794 · 59.9%
- Applied sciences (engineering, architecture, computing, agriculture)6,766 · 19.5%
- Humanities4,881 · 14.1%
- Health sciences2,292 · 6.6%
Fees and admission
Undergraduate study at Argentina's national universities is free of tuition, and most admit without an entrance exam. Whether and what a national university may charge non-resident foreign students has been changing since 2024 and is set by each university — check with the university. Private universities charge fees, which are not published as data.
Also in Salta: Universidad Nacional de Salta
Figures are undergraduate (pregrado y grado) students for 2024, from the yearbook's partial advance release of August 2026; a later final edition may revise them. A university institute (instituto universitario) teaches in a single field. Institutions that sent no 2024 figures are not listed.
Source: Subsecretaría de Políticas Universitarias (Dirección Nacional de Presupuesto, Control e Información Universitaria), Anuario de Estadísticas Universitarias 2024, published on argentina.gob.ar under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: tables joined per institution; full names and provinces added by CollegeMatcher; websites and founding years from Wikidata (CC0).