Universidad de Buenos Aires

The Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) is a public university founded in 1821, which in 2026 turns 205 years old. It is organized into 13 facultades: Agronomía, Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, Ciencias Económicas, Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Ciencias Sociales, Ciencias Veterinarias, Derecho, Farmacia y Bioquímica, Filosofía y Letras, Ingeniería, Ciencias Médicas, Odontología y Psicología.

It offers undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degrees and admission and distance education modalities such as the CBC, UBA XXI and UBA XXII, as well as programs for foreign students. It maintains an intense scientific and technological research activity, with scholarships, grants and its own institutes, a network of university hospitals, its own radio and television, and the Eudeba publishing label. The site describes it as a fundamental institution of the Argentine higher education system that holds the top positions in world university rankings.