Argentina · La Rioja
Universidad Nacional de La Rioja
National university · La Rioja · founded 1971
unlar.edu.ar →Undergraduates, 2024
28,048
1.1% of the national total
New entrants
8,545
Graduates
951
Students from abroad
1.2%
329 students
2,527 students (9.0%) are on distance programmes.
Students, 2014–2024
| Year | Students | New entrants | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28,048 | 8,545 | 951 |
| 2023 | 26,544 | 8,256 | 924 |
| 2022 | 26,721 | 7,242 | 808 |
| 2021 | 28,106 | 6,763 | 1,389 |
| 2020 | 24,760 | 6,040 | 427 |
| 2019 | 26,692 | 7,437 | 1,026 |
| 2018 | 25,163 | 6,635 | 815 |
| 2017 | 25,141 | 6,700 | 893 |
| 2016 | 24,776 | 7,751 | 850 |
| 2015 | 21,370 | 5,661 | 1,133 |
| 2014 | 19,613 | 4,153 | 786 |
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)8,471 · 30.2%
- Health sciences6,805 · 24.3%
- Humanities6,277 · 22.4%
- Applied sciences (engineering, architecture, computing, agriculture)6,034 · 21.5%
- Basic sciences461 · 1.6%
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 La Rioja: Universidad Nacional de Chilecito
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).