Undergraduates, 2024
304,567
11.7% of the national total
New entrants
63,913
Graduates
22,440
Students from abroad
11.7%
35,759 students
315 students (0.1%) are on distance programmes.
Students, 2014–2024
| Year | Students | New entrants | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 304,567 | 63,913 | 22,440 |
| 2023 | 326,421 | 67,304 | 18,591 |
| 2022 | 347,280 | 81,365 | 25,970 |
| 2021 | 375,974 | 92,975 | 18,936 |
| 2020 | 338,666 | 85,129 | 7,725 |
| 2019 | 318,935 | 75,022 | 17,344 |
| 2018 | 310,810 | 73,274 | 16,507 |
| 2017 | 302,280 | 66,378 | 18,223 |
| 2016 | 293,765 | 62,583 | 17,671 |
| 2015 | 291,744 | 56,334 | 18,192 |
| 2014 | 315,754 | 55,538 | 17,308 |
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)93,619 · 30.7%
- Health sciences86,523 · 28.4%
- Applied sciences (engineering, architecture, computing, agriculture)72,735 · 23.9%
- Humanities44,401 · 14.6%
- Basic sciences7,289 · 2.4%
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 City of Buenos Aires: Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario CEMIC, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud Fundación H. A. Barceló, Instituto Universitario de Gendarmería Nacional, Instituto Universitario de la Policía Federal Argentina, Instituto Universitario Escuela Argentina de Negocios, Instituto Universitario ESEADE, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario para el Desarrollo Productivo y Tecnológico Empresarial de la Argentina, Instituto Universitario River Plate, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy, Universidad CAECE, Universidad de Belgrano, Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales, Universidad de Flores, Universidad de la Defensa Nacional, Universidad de la Marina Mercante, Universidad de Palermo, Universidad del CEMA, Universidad del Cine, Universidad del Museo Social Argentino, Universidad del Salvador, Universidad Favaloro, Universidad ISALUD, Universidad Maimónides, Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Universidad Nacional Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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).