Argentina · Santa Cruz
Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral
National university · Santa Cruz · founded 1995
unpa.edu.ar →Undergraduates, 2024
11,910
0.5% of the national total
New entrants
3,970
Graduates
297
Students from abroad
3.0%
358 students
164 students (1.4%) are on distance programmes.
Students, 2014–2024
| Year | Students | New entrants | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11,910 | 3,970 | 297 |
| 2023 | 11,286 | 4,273 | 183 |
| 2022 | 11,406 | 4,493 | 235 |
| 2021 | 10,577 | 3,895 | 150 |
| 2020 | 9,044 | 3,279 | 127 |
| 2019 | 8,639 | 3,222 | 182 |
| 2018 | 8,555 | 3,821 | 139 |
| 2017 | 8,611 | 3,759 | 243 |
| 2016 | 7,188 | 2,659 | 116 |
| 2015 | 7,349 | 2,726 | 93 |
| 2014 | 7,616 | 3,255 | 150 |
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)4,442 · 37.3%
- Applied sciences (engineering, architecture, computing, agriculture)2,758 · 23.2%
- Health sciences2,243 · 18.8%
- Humanities2,203 · 18.5%
- Basic sciences264 · 2.2%
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).