Argentina · Catamarca
Universidad Nacional de Catamarca
National university · Catamarca · founded 1972
unca.edu.ar →Undergraduates, 2024
16,452
0.6% of the national total
New entrants
4,121
Graduates
653
Students from abroad
0.4%
66 students
280 students (1.7%) are on distance programmes.
Students, 2014–2024
| Year | Students | New entrants | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16,452 | 4,121 | 653 |
| 2023 | 15,290 | 3,639 | 490 |
| 2022 | 15,919 | 4,128 | 395 |
| 2021 | 16,589 | 4,395 | 504 |
| 2020 | 14,528 | 3,528 | 343 |
| 2019 | 15,237 | 3,964 | 495 |
| 2018 | 14,241 | 3,576 | 490 |
| 2017 | 13,007 | 3,699 | 408 |
| 2016 | 12,519 | 2,978 | 490 |
| 2015 | 11,895 | 2,867 | 432 |
| 2014 | 11,614 | 2,698 | 614 |
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)6,209 · 37.7%
- Applied sciences (engineering, architecture, computing, agriculture)4,533 · 27.6%
- Humanities2,489 · 15.1%
- Basic sciences1,913 · 11.6%
- Health sciences1,308 · 8.0%
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.
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).