Argentina · Buenos Aires Province
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
National university · Buenos Aires Province · founded 1989
unq.edu.ar →Undergraduates, 2024
32,975
1.3% of the national total
New entrants
12,512
Graduates
813
Students from abroad
2.3%
748 students
11,201 students (34.0%) are on distance programmes.
Students, 2014–2024
| Year | Students | New entrants | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32,975 | 12,512 | 813 |
| 2023 | 30,702 | 11,389 | 950 |
| 2022 | 32,241 | 12,298 | 783 |
| 2021 | 30,856 | 10,036 | 650 |
| 2020 | 27,964 | 10,062 | 591 |
| 2019 | 26,998 | 11,271 | 669 |
| 2018 | 23,991 | 9,696 | 607 |
| 2017 | 30,129 | 4,517 | 701 |
| 2016 | 28,466 | 7,654 | 331 |
| 2015 | 26,537 | 7,650 | 1,143 |
| 2014 | 23,776 | 5,737 | 543 |
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)14,725 · 44.7%
- Applied sciences (engineering, architecture, computing, agriculture)7,442 · 22.6%
- Humanities6,886 · 20.9%
- Health sciences3,425 · 10.4%
- Basic sciences497 · 1.5%
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 Buenos Aires Province: Escuela Universitaria de Teología, Instituto Universitario de Seguridad Marítima, Universidad Atlántida Argentina, Universidad Austral, Universidad Católica de La Plata, Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad de San Isidro Dr. Plácido Marín, Universidad del Este, Universidad FASTA, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda, Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham, Universidad Nacional de José C. Paz, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Universidad Nacional de Moreno, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio de Areco, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional del Oeste, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Universidad Nacional Guillermo Brown, Universidad Nacional Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, Universidad Provincial de Ezeiza, Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste, Universidad Salesiana
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).