Buenos Aires' University

The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) is an Argentine public university based in the City of Buenos Aires. It was founded on August 12, 1821 by the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Martín Rodríguez, and his government minister, Bernardino Rivadavia. UBA is the largest university in Argentina and is considered one of the most prestigious study centers in America and the world. In 2021, it ranks 66th in the QS World University Ranking, which places it as the best university in Latin America based on its teaching quality, its level of research and its internationalization. About 30% of the country's scientific research is carried out in the sixty-four research institutes of this university. Four of the five Argentine Nobel Prize winners have been students and/or professors at this university (Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Bernardo Houssay, Luis Federico Leloir, César Milstein). Sixteen Argentine presidents graduated from the UBA, of which Alberto Fernández is the last.

According to the bases of its university statute, «it is a public law entity whose aims are: the promotion, dissemination and preservation of culture [...] being in direct and permanent contact with universal thought and paying particular attention to Argentine problems".

Like the other Argentine national universities, it is free of charge (it depends financially on the Argentine State), but it is autonomous, free and secular. Being autonomous, it has its own system of government, formed since the University Reform of 1918 by a Council made up of representatives of professors, students, and graduates. Academic freedom promotes the existence of more than one that dictates each subject; teachers are selected through a competition mechanism and evaluation by juries.

It is made up of thirteen faculties, six secondary education establishments, eight regional university centers, the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, the University Publishing House of Buenos Aires, the Cine Cosmos, eighteen museums and five assistance units.

It has a total of eighty-five undergraduate majors and 116 titles derived from those (which constitute a third level in teaching), in addition to several postgraduate majors that are fourth level (specializations and master's degrees), fifth level (doctorates) and sixth level (postdoctorates). Admission to the university is unrestricted, although since 1985 the first year of all majors is made up of the Common Basic Cycle (CBC), which must be approved before being able to enter the corresponding faculty.

Composition

Faculty of Agronomy

Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism

Faculty of Economic Sciences

Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences

Faculty of Social Sciences

Faculty of Veterinary Sciences

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry

Faculty of Philosophy and Letters

Faculty of Engineering (Sede Paseo Colon)

Faculty of Engineering (Sede Av. Las Heras)

Faculty of Medical Sciences

Faculty of Dentistry

Faculty of Psychology

Faculties

• Faculty of Agronomy (1972) (1909, as Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary)
• Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (1947)
• Faculty of Economic Sciences (1913)
• Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (1891)
• Faculty of Medical Sciences (1822)
• Faculty of Social Sciences (1988)
• Faculty of Veterinary Sciences (1972) (1909, as Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences)
• Faculty of Law (1821)
• Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry (1957)
• Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (1896)
• Faculty of Engineering (1952)
• Faculty of Dentistry (1947)
• Faculty of Psychology (1985)

Racing

Eighty-seven degree courses are taught at the University of Buenos Aires:

High Schools

• Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (1863)
• Carlos Pellegrini High School of Commerce (1890)
• Free Institute of Secondary Education (availed by UBA; 1892)
• Middle-level Professional Technical Education School in Agricultural and Agro-Food Production (FCV; 2009)
• Escuela de Educación Técnica de Villa Lugano (2014)
• Colegio Preuniversitario Ramón Cereijo (2020)

Campus

The University of Buenos Aires was born in the Manzana de las Luces, a group of buildings that belonged to the Jesuit convent built from 1712, and expropriated after 1767, when the kings of Spain expelled the order from America. The colonial buildings had thus passed from the viceroyalty into the hands of the Government of the United Provinces, which handed them over to the new University to begin classes in 1821.

In that founding nucleus, located at Calle Perú 222 and neighboring buildings, the first departments and future faculties were established, which gradually moved to their own buildings as the number of students and the need for spaces specially prepared for classes it was making the construction of adequate buildings inevitable. The Faculty of Law moved to Moreno 350 in 1878, the Faculty of Medicine opened its own headquarters at Avenida Córdoba 2180 in 1895 and the Rectorate moved together with the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters to an old family residence on Viamonte street 430.

Since its foundation in 1909, the Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine had the extensive field of the Agronomía neighborhood, while the Faculty of Law was already building its new neo-Gothic style building in 1912, an ambitious project that would end with a 120-meter tower meters of maximum height and could never be finished due to budgetary and structural problems. A few decades later, it moved definitively to its current headquarters at Avenida Figueroa Alcorta 2263, a neoclassical building inaugurated in 1949. The Faculty of Medicine moved in 1944 to an art deco skyscraper in front of the current Plaza Houssay, forming a complex with the Faculty Economic Sciences, Pharmacy and Dentistry.

At the end of the 1930s, a project for the construction of a University City began to be discussed. Among other proposals, an extensive university campus was proposed that would occupy the Parque de la Raza in Costanera Norte, an extensive piece of land reclaimed from the river that was not used and ended up being used to install the Jorge Newbery Aeroparque a few years later.

At the end of the 1950s, President Arturo Frondizi and his brother, Rector of the UBA Risieri Frondizi, gave a serious boost to the project of a University City to concentrate the dispersed faculties, many of which precariously occupied buildings small and inadequate. Starting in 1961, the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences began moving to the future campus, whose construction was halted in the middle of the following decade, when only the move to Architecture had also been completed.

In those years, the University also had land near the Faculty of Law, which they planned to use to install other faculties on Avenida Figueroa Alcorta, but in 1972 the Rectorate made a very unfavorable exchange with the Municipality of Buenos Aires, in which he exchanged these strategic lots for the title deed to the Moreno 350 building, today the Ethnographic Museum.

La Manzana de las Luces continued to be the headquarters of the Faculties of Exact and Natural Sciences until in 1971 when Exact Sciences was the last to move. From that moment, the Jesuit buildings were recovered and transformed into a museum and cultural center. On the other hand, the UBA abandoned from that time any comprehensive plan for building works, limiting itself to acquiring, remodeling or renting buildings provisionally as the number of students demanded more space for the different faculties, and the state of building crisis grew. in the last decades of the xx century.

Among the latest large-scale works carried out by the University are the expansion of the Faculty of Economic Sciences (inaugurated in 2011), the single building for the Faculty of Social Sciences, under renovation in stages since 2007. and the new building to expand the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences called 0 plus infinity.

Despite not having a campus per se that brings together all its faculties, it has two fields that bring together several of its academic entities.

• University City: located in the porteño district of Núñez, is divided into three buildings (pavilions) where the whole of the races corresponding to the faculties of Architecture, Design and Urbanism and of Exact and Natural Sciences. Activities of the Faculty of Engineering are also carried out and is one of the fifteen headquarters of the CBC.

• Centro Universitario Regional Paternal: in the predio, located at the limit between the neighborhoods of La Paternal and Agronomy, are the faculties of Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences. It is also the headquarters of the CBC.

Locations

It has twenty-five campuses (most of them correspond to regional centers), whose objective is to bring the university closer to students and increase its presence in the city, and are part of the decentralization and regionalization policy of the UBA. In them the CBC and the first subjects of some degree courses are studied:

• See 1: Rector José Luis Romero "Montes de Oca" (ex Paseo Colón) Barracas
• Headquarters 2: University City, Nuñez
• Headquarters 4: Centro Universitario Regional Sur Avellaneda, Sarandí (Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 5: Rector Leónidas Anastasi "Drago", Villa Urquiza
• Headquarters 6: Centro Universitario Regional Norte "San Isidro", Martínez (San Isidro, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 7: Professor Alberto Fernández "Ramos Mejía" (ex "Bulnes", "Tucumán" and "Uriburu"), Caballito
• Subsede 8: "Puan", Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Caballito
• Headquarters 10: Centro Universitario Regional Paternal "Norberto Rodríguez Bustamante", Paternal
• Headquarters 13: Centro Universitario Regional Saladillo, Saladillo (Saladillo, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 14: Centro Universitario Regional Escobar, Belén de Escobar (Escobar, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 21: Centro Universitario Regional Mercedes "Saturnino Unzué", Mercedes (Mercedes, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 27: Centro Universitario Regional Baradero, Baradero (Baradero, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 28: Centro Universitario Regional Moreno, Moreno (Moreno, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 29: Centro Universitario Regional San Miguel, San Miguel (San Miguel, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 30: Centro Universitario Regional Bragado, Bragado (Bragado, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 31: Centro Universitario Chivilcoy, Chivilcoy (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 32: Centro Regional Pilar, Pilar (Pilar, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 33: Tigre Regional Centre, Tigre (Tigre, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 34: Centro Regional Lobos, Lobos (Lobos, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 35: Centro Regional de La Costa, Santa Teresita (Partido de La Costa, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 36: Chacabuco Regional Centre, Chacabuco (Chacabuco, Buenos Aires Province)
• Headquarters 37: Villa Gesell Regional Centre, Villa Gesell (Partido de Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 38: Zárate Regional Centre, Zárate (Zárate, Buenos Aires province)
• Headquarters 39: Centro Villa Lugano, Villa Lugano
• Headquarters 41: Centro Universitario Regional Vicente López (Munro, Buenos Aires province)

Hospital Network

The University of Buenos Aires provides healthcare services through its hospital network, made up of the following institutions dependent on the Faculty of Medical Sciences:

• Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas "Alfredo Lanari"
• Institute of Oncology "Angel Roffo"
• Institute of Tisioneumology "Raúl F. Vacarezza"
• Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín
• Institute of Cardiological Research Prof. Dr. Alberto C. Taquini (ININCA)

To these care centers are added:

• University Dentological Hospital (dependant to the Faculty of Dentistry).
• Hospital Escuela de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias (dependant to the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences).

Museums

The network of museums of the UBA is made up of a series of institutions, diverse in terms of their subject matter, whose common objective is dissemination and interdisciplinary articulation.

• Veterinary Anatomy Museum «Prof. Dr. Luis Van de Pas", at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences
• Museo de la Farmacia «Dra. Rosa D'Alessio de Carnevale Bonino", at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
• Museum of Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences
• Museo de Mineralogía «Dra. Edelmira Mórtola, in the Department of Geology of the Fac. of Exact and Natural Sciences
• Ethnographic Museum "John the Baptist Ambrosetti", in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters
• Mathematics Museum "MateUBA", in the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences
• Museo de Farmacobotánica «Juan Aníbal Domínguez», at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
• Museum and Center of Historical Studies «Prof. Dr. Orestes Walter Siutti”, at the Faculty of Dentistry
• Museum of Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering
• Museum of History of Medicine and Surgery "Vicente A. Risolía", in the Faculty of Medical Sciences
• "Houssay" Museum of Science and Technology History at the Faculty of Medical Sciences
• Museo de la Psicología Experimental Argentina «Horacio Piñero», at the Faculty of Psychology
• Archaeological Museum «Dr. Eduardo Casanova» and Museo de Sitio Pucará dependent on the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, in Tilcara, Jujuy
• Museum of External Debt, Faculty of Economics
• Museum of Anatomy of the J.J. Naón Institute at the Faculty of Medical Sciences
• Museum and Historical Archive at the Faculty of Law
• University Museum of Agricultural Machinery «Ing. Agr. Mario C. Tourn» - MUAMAG at the Faculty of Agronomy
• Museum of Urban Archaeology, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism

Library and Information System (SISBI)

The Library and Information System (SISBI) is a unit dependent on the Secretariat of Science and Technology of the Rectorate, and is made up of eighteen main information units, which includes the thirteen central libraries of the faculties, Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires Aires, Carlos Pellegrini Higher School of Commerce, Hospital de Clínicas and one of its own. It is also made up of another sixty libraries of institutes, centers, laboratories and departments of the university.

It was created on December 23, 1985, through Resolution No. 1913, with the mission of coordinating, promoting, and leading cooperation between the different information units that make up the system.

Students

If around 1974 the University of Buenos Aires had around 120,000 students enrolled, by 1988 the number of undergraduate students had risen to 180,805, and postgraduate students had reached 5,687. By 1992, the number had fallen to 168,808 (undergraduate) and 4,592 (graduate), although there was a rebound in the numbers for 1996, when it reached 183,347 (undergraduate).

For the 2000 census, the CBC student body (76,788 people) was separated from the undergraduate student body (176,472 people), which yielded a total of 253,260 students. In 2004 the number rose to 297,639 (78,684 CBC).

The last census of the UBA, carried out in 2011, showed the data of 262,932 undergraduate students, of whom 67,445 are in the CBC. The faculty with the largest number of students was Economic Sciences (36,377 undergraduate students), followed by Architecture, Design and Urbanism (25,748) and Medicine (24,198). 96% of these students were Argentine nationals and 52.3% were under 25 years of age. 60.9% of students are women.

Governance system

The current tripartite government system of the University of Buenos Aires, inspired by the University Reform of 1918, is made up of the Superior Council and the rector, who presides over it. The Superior Council is made up of the deans of each one of the faculties and of the representatives of the cloisters of professors, graduates and students. The only professors who can elect representatives are full professors, so of the approximately 40,000 that the university has, only about 2,000 have representation, 5%. No teaching assistant (Second Assistant, First Assistant or Head of Practical Work) has representation. Student representatives are elected by all of the approximately 300,000 students.

For its part, each faculty has a government made up of the Dean and the Board of Directors, which is made up of eight representatives of the professors, four of the graduates and four of the students, all elected by direct and obligatory vote of their respective pairs.

History

Of all the houses of higher studies in Argentina, the UBA was the one that most forcefully advocated a modernizing program and due to its political weight, derived from its number of students and its long history, the UBA student movement was key in the political history of the university and the country.

Background

Despite the prolific university activity in various cities of colonial America, Buenos Aires did not have its own university during its belonging to the Spanish Empire. This was due, among other things, to the fact that during the 16th and 17th centuries, span>, the Government of the Río de la Plata was marginal with respect to the circuit of economic activity, centered on the Andean axis. The cultural activity was carried out above all by members of the Society of Jesus (with a strong presence from the province of Paracuaria), which maintained the Colegio San Ignacio. The university offer was, within the viceregal territory, that of Córdoba and Chuquisaca and, in the General Captaincy of Chile, the University of San Felipe (today the University of Chile). When the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was established, new spirits of creating a university spread, which Viceroy Vértiz himself supported, proposing the use of the legacy of the San Ignacio College, abandoned after the expulsion of the Jesuits, these spirits were reciprocated by the Crown but, due to the rivalries between the possible depositaries of teaching, the various monastic orders and the various departments of civil servants, the university was never founded.

19th century

Creation

Bernardino Rivadavia promoted the creation of the University of Buenos Aires in 1821.

After the May Revolution of 1810 and the Declaration of Independence in 1816, it took several years for its creation.

The University of Buenos Aires was officially inaugurated on August 12, 1821 by a decree of the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Brigadier General Martín Rodríguez, dated three days earlier and promoted by his government minister, Bernardino Rivadavia. At the inauguration ceremony, which took place in the Church of San Ignacio, Rivadavia himself and the priest Antonio Sáenz, who was named first rector, were present, among others. Sáenz had made other attempts to endow Buenos Aires From a house of high studies that put it at the level of Córdoba and Chuquisaca, the education provided continued to cling to religious teaching combined with natural and exact sciences. The conflict between secularism understood as modernization and the place of religion continued during the first years of the new university.

Antonio Sáenz, first rector

With the creation of the university, the aim was to do science in an organized way, incorporating educational institutions that already existed: the courses of Mathematics, Drawing, Nautical and Natural History dependent on the Consulate of Buenos Aires, those of the Military Medical Institute and those of the Colegio de la Unión del Sud. He also assumed the theoretical part of the Academy of Jurisprudence and took charge of primary education. When it was inaugurated, his work was already so advanced that the next day he was able to confer five degrees in medicine and one in law.

In 1822, it was made up of the following departments, predecessors of the current faculties:

• First Letters: In it were incorporated the sixteen primary schools of the city and surroundings. The Lancaster system was established as compulsory. In 1828 this Department separated from the University.
• Preparatory studies: it taught Latin, modern languages, philosophy, political economy—transferred in 1823 to the Department of Jurisprudence—and physical and mathematical sciences.
• Exact Sciences: with drawing chairs, general chemistry, descriptive geometry, calculation and mechanics, experimental physics and astronomy. However, everything was finally reduced to drawing and geometry.
• Medicine: with chairs of medical, surgical, and medical and surgical institutions.
• Jurisprudence: with chairs of civil, natural and people law and, starting in 1823, of political economy.
• Sacred Sciences: its operation began in 1824 on the basis of the courses of the College of Ecclesiastical Studies.

Mathematics classes were taught in both the Department of Exact Sciences and the Department of Preparatory Studies. Avelino Díaz, a disciple of Lanz, and Senillosa, who stood out as a professor and scholar, whose teaching texts were used for a long time at the University, were in charge of this last chair. The physics classes in the Department of preparatory studies were initially taught by Díaz. In 1823 a laboratory and a room for experimental physics courses were purchased.

In 1826, the presbyter Valentín Gómez was named rector. That same year, the Italian doctor Pedro Carta Molino, who arrived as an expatriate from his country and had been hired in England by Rivadavia, assumed the chair of materia medica and pharmacy and experimental physics. He left office after Rivadavia's resignation and was succeeded by the astronomer Fabricio Mossotti, also Italian and who had left his country for political reasons. He was, along with Aimé Bonpland, the most important educator of scientists in Argentina in the first half of the xix century. The chair of chemistry was started in 1823 by Manuel Moreno, who resigned in 1828.

In the Department of Medicine, the courses were given by doctors Francisco de Paula Rivero and Francisco Cosme Argerich. In 1822 the National Academy of Medicine was created, which brought together prominent national and foreign physicians and which, with the publication of the first volume of its Annals in 1823, gave rise to the periodical scientific press.

The first legal studies professors were Sáenz, in natural and peoples law, and Pedro Antonio Somellera in civil law. In 1823 political economy was incorporated into the Department of Jurisprudence. This matter was dictated in 1824 by Pedro José Agrelo and from 1826 by Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield. This course followed the theory of James Mill published in Elementos de economía, translated in 1823 in Buenos Aires, and in the practical part it taught the application of the principles to domestic, commercial and social economics, and statistics and administration of public finances. The Department of Jurisprudence was also incorporated in 1826 by the chair of ecclesiastical public law, whose first professor was the priest José Eusebio Agüero.

Weakening

During the time of Juan Manuel de Rosas, free education and the salaries of university professors were abolished in Buenos Aires. However, the University did not close its doors, although the number of students decreased considerably. The chairs of Medicine and Jurisprudence had almost no professors and the Department of Exact Sciences practically disappeared. During this period, Francisco Javier Muñiz, with medical training, began his first studies in Argentine paleontology and became dean of the Buenos Aires Faculty of Medicine.

Resurgence

In 1852, after the fall of Rosas after the Battle of Caseros, the university was reorganized. The State of Buenos Aires immediately gave impetus to the university, promoting higher education. In 1858 the regime of teaching competitions was established and new careers were created.

The physics chair was in charge of one of the most prestigious educators of the time, Amadeo Jacques. The Department of Exact Sciences was reorganized only in 1863, by the work of Juan María Gutiérrez, who was rector of the UBA from 1861 to 1874. He then went on to understand the teaching of pure and applied mathematics and natural history. Thanks to Gutiérrez's management, prestigious professors from Europe were hired, such as Bernardino Speluzzi (mathematician from the University of Pavia), Emilio Rosetti (from Turin) and Pellegrino Strobel (specialized in natural history, from Parma).

In 1869, the first twelve Argentine engineers graduated from the Exact Department, who were called the twelve apostles. Among them was Valentín Balbín, who was president of the Argentine Scientific Society. In 1891 the Department adopted the name of Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, which established the doctorate in chemistry in 1896. The Faculty included Engineering and Architecture careers. In 1909, the faculties of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, the Institute of Higher Commercial Studies and Economic Sciences were created.

In 1863, the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires was created and in 1890 the Superior School of Commerce (now Carlos Pellegrini). In 1881, when the city of Buenos Aires became the Federal Capital, the University became dependent on the national State. In 1883, the UBA took over the technical management of the Hospital de Clínicas, which thus became a teaching hospital.

During the Generation of the Eighties, the University achieved important progress and great prestige, driven by conservative policies and the scientism that emerged from the end of the xix century.

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  Photo of the body of lawyers received in 1891, including Marcelo T. de Alvear, Tomás Le Breton and Leopoldo Melo.

20th century

University Reform

The growth of Argentina and of Buenos Aires in particular and the economic prosperity that the expansion of the internal market offered allowed the children of immigrants ―who went on to make up the great middle social sector― to reach the university.

In June 1918, a political-cultural movement promoted by the students of the National University of Córdoba began and spread throughout Latin America and to a lesser extent Spain and other countries called the University Reform. In a generic sense, the University Reform was the name that corresponded to the set of changes in the structures, contents and purposes of the university. Among its principles were university autonomy, co-government, university extension, the periodicity of the chairs and opposition contests. In practice, the formal democratization of the university.

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  The Rectorate of the UBA towards 1900, at its current headquarters of Viamonte 430 and 444.

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  The former headquarters of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (now the Juan B. Ambrosetti ethnographic Museum) in 1905.

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  Cecilia Grierson, the first Argentine physician and pioneer of feminism in the country, taking examination at the Faculty of Medicine, 1909.

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  Taking of the Faculty of Law during the University Reform of 1918

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  Manzana de las Luces, first UBA headquarters, c. 1920

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  The former Faculty of Medical Sciences in 1923, today the headquarters of the Faculty of Economic Sciences

Intervention from 1930

After the coup d'état of September 6, 1930 that made José Félix Uriburu the de facto president, the UBA was intervened. Intolerance was one of its most outstanding characteristics and it was revealed through the persecution of students and teachers, who were expelled for various reasons. However, the UBA continued to train professionals according to specialties and carried out, thanks to the individual efforts of some of its members, a few research programs.

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  Alfredo Palacios met with students of law, in the days before the coup d'etat of 1930.

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  The current headquarters of the Faculty of Medicine under construction, circa 1940.

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  The current headquarters of the Faculty of Medicine under construction, circa 1940.

Peronism

With the advent of Peronism to the government after the elections of February 24, 1946, university autonomy and tripartite government were suppressed by law. On November 22, 1949, Juan Domingo Perón established free university education through decree 29,337. In this way, unrestricted access to culture, higher education and university professional training was ensured, eliminating the imposition of current tariffs and establishing that "as a measure of good governance, the State must provide all its support to young students who aspire to to contribute to the well-being and prosperity of the Nation, removing any obstacle that prevents or hinders the fulfillment of such a notable and legitimate vocation”. The government gave the possibility for the workers' children to access the university. Between 1935 and 1955, the UBA enrollment went from 12,000 to 74,000 students.

1950s and 1960s

The Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in 1957

After the coup d'état of 1955, the dictatorship of the so-called Liberating Revolution was installed in power, which immediately reestablished the tripartite government and university autonomy, but at the same time coordinated the repression against Peronism and leftist currents In the educational field, which led to the dismissal of hundreds of university professors, black lists of professors who could not continue teaching were drawn up, with the University of Buenos Aires being one of the most affected.

In 1955, the Editorial Department of the University of Buenos Aires was created, which took charge of publishing the Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, created in 1904, and began publishing of a series of books on Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Economic Sciences, Law and Social Sciences, Philosophy, Letters and History. In this second aspect, the Department was replaced in 1958 by the Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires (EUDEBA), which from the following year began extensive editorial work, publishing more than 150 titles until the end of 1961. Since then, EUDEBA has been publishing works of general culture, university-level texts and manuals, and a popular collection begun in 1960 with works of Argentine literature and histories, which reached a circulation of one million copies in a few months.

Night of the Long Canes

Starting with the so-called Night of the Long Canes during the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía, the military government intervened in the universities and applied strict censorship of teaching content. Thus, a reformist project of a scientific university of excellence was dismantled, based on the close link between research and teaching. The so-called Night of the Long Canes consisted of the violent eviction by the police, on July 29, 1966, of five faculties, occupied by the legitimate authorities (students, professors and graduates). The reason for the occupation was opposition to the military government's decision to intervene in the universities and annul the co-government regime after having deposed a month earlier, on June 28, the constitutional government of Arturo Illia.

The repression was particularly violent in the faculties of Exact and Natural Sciences and Philosophy and Letters. In total, four hundred people were arrested and laboratories and libraries destroyed. In the months that followed, hundreds of teachers were fired, resigned from their chairs, or left the country. 301 university professors emigrated, of which 215 were dedicated to scientific research. In some cases entire equipment was dismantled. This is what happened with the Institute of Calculation (UBA) of the Faculty of Exact Sciences, where the first computer in Latin America, called Clementina, had been operating since 1961, brought by Manuel Sadosky from the United Kingdom. Its seventy members resigned and emigrated. The same happened with the institutes of Evolutionary Psychology and Cosmic Radiation.

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  Law School, 1960.

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  La Noche de los Bastón Largos, 29 July 1966

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  Construction of the current Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences in University City, 1969.

Return to democracy and Perón's third presidency

In March 1973, with the advent of democracy, Peronism returned to power. At the beginning of 1974, during the Perón presidency, Law 20,645 of national universities was sanctioned, through which academic and teaching autonomy and administrative and economic autarky were recognized.

Alberto Ottalagano, rector in 1974, never hid his sympathy for fascism.

In the second semester of 1974, during the government of Isabel Perón, Alberto Eduardo Ottalagano was appointed comptroller of the UBA, with the support of the Coordinating Group of Peronist University Students, made up of the National University Movement, the National University Concentration (CNU), the Peronist University Legion, the Nationalist University Alliance, the Peronist University Center of the Evita Command and the October 8 National Command. Ottalagano, Perón's presidential adviser, was an avowed fascist convinced that the university was a training ground for subversive guerrillas, so the intervention was primarily aimed at displacing the Peronist left. During his tenure, 4,000 professors were fired, among them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Luis Federico Leloir, and four students were disappeared.However, these groups did not have the support of the vast majority of UBA students.

Period of the Dictatorship of 1976-1983

During the 1976-1983 dictatorship, which called itself the National Reorganization Process, teachers and students were disappeared regardless of their political affiliation and even those who, at the slightest suspicion by the intervention authorities, were branded as subversives. In addition, a systematic work of censorship was carried out, in which hundreds of thousands of books were burned, including 90,000 copies of Eudeba.

Overruling the postulates of the University Reform of 1918, entrance exams were established, quota reduction for majors, tariffs, suppression of majors, and reorientation of enrollment. In the entrance hall of the university establishments, workstations were installed surveillance of the Federal Police. Numerous teacher competitions were also held in 1982, regularizing a teaching staff that, with few exceptions, was not challenged with the return to democracy.

Recovery of democracy

Democracy recovered with the advent of Raúl Alfonsín to the presidency in 1983, the Argentine university recovered its natural form of government according to the University Statute of 1958, and according to the principles of the University Reform of 1918.

In 1985, the Library and Information System (SISBI) was created, which coordinates the university's library services and is made up of eighteen library units. Also in this year, the Common Basic Cycle (CBC) was created, which constitutes the first compulsory cycle in student training, and a year later it was reinforced with the UBA XXI distance education program.

In 1987, the Science and Technology Program (UBACYT) was launched.

In 1993, the "René Hugo Thalmann" with the aim of allowing teachers to carry out internships in university centers, and teachers to study abroad. A significant increase in financial aid scholarships was achieved in 2002 with the creation of the Sarmiento scholarships.

On the technical side, in 1991 a company dedicated to technology transfer, consultancy and provision of services was created, UBATEC S.A., of which the University of Buenos Aires is a shareholder together with with the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, the Argentine Industrial Union and the General Confederation of Industry. In 1996, the production company UBA TV was launched, with six air programs. The creation of UBANET S.A. in 1997, formed by the UBA and Trainet, from the Telecom Italia group, made it possible to offer training systems and professional training based on advanced technological resources.

21st century

Institutional crisis of 2006

In mid-April 2006, towards the end of the mandate of Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry, the election of a new rector should be called. The Superior Council of the UBA convened the University Assembly five times, but none of these meetings could take place due to the takeover of schools and faculties by the University Federation of Buenos Aires (FUBA). One of the reasons invoked by the FUBA ―backed by Human Rights organizations such as the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and by leftist parties― was the opposition to the candidacy of Atilio Alterini, backed by Franja Morada, accused of collaborating with the dictatorship. The FUBA requested as a condition the prior reform of the University Statute, considering it undemocratic. The accusation was based, among other arguments, on the low participation of students in government bodies, the high number of teachers who cannot vote in their faculty because they are not regularized, and the exclusion of non-teaching workers from participation.

During the attempted session, which was to take place on May 2 at the Faculty of Medicine, members of the FUBA and students seized said faculty, and scuffles broke out when student activists clashed with militants from the union of non-teaching workers.

After Jaim Etcheverry's term ended on May 7, the vice-rector Berardo Dujovne took over, but his term ended a week later. By virtue of article 101 of the University Statute, the oldest dean, Alfredo Buzzi, temporarily assumed the rectory On May 29, and after Buzzi's resignation, he was succeeded in office by Alberto Boveris. On May 31, the Superior Council appointed the former dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aníbal Franco, as vice-rector, who thus temporarily took over the functions of rector.

Around November 2006, a consensus formula was announced between the different sectors. With the support of the thirteen faculties, it was announced that the dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Rubén E. Hallú, would be rector and that Jaime Sorín, dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, would be vice-rector. Successive demonstrations by the FUBA prevented the normal functioning of the Superior Council, the body in charge of calling the University Assembly, for which reason in an "emergency" session the call was made for December 18 in Congress National. Subsequently, and after announcing the call for the University Assembly, on December 12 the vice-chancellor Aníbal Franco requested a leave of absence from his post.

Finally, on December 18, the Assembly was able to meet in the Blue Room of the Congress ―which generated controversies about its validity, since according to the UBA Statute it had to be held within the University facilities― and Rubén Hallú was elected new rector.

2006-present

In 2008 the company Cavcon S.A. The construction of the new annex for the building of the Faculty of Economic Sciences began, inaugurated on March 9, 2011 by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. This annex is integrated with the old buildings through its central patio, around which are articulated two strips of classrooms distributed in L, one on Córdoba Avenue and the other on Uriburu Street. In total, the annex has a ground floor and six floors, including a multipurpose room on the first level, totaling 8,200 m² of covered area, and forty-six classrooms.

In 2011, the unique building of the Faculty of Social Sciences was inaugurated in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución, with capacity for 15,000 students, 13,400,000 square meters, sixty classrooms plus an auditorium for seven hundred spectators and a basement with thirteen classrooms-studios designed for teaching and audiovisual production. Since 2011 they have been moving and incorporating the different courses taught by the Faculty to the new headquarters until finally the first quarter of 2015 finds all five courses operating in the same place. The building required an investment of ninety million pesos.

In 2014, the UBA was first in a university ranking that evaluates the quality of education, by distinctions obtained by students, quality of teachers, in the category of Spanish-speaking countries. According to the results of the Shanghai 2014 ranking, UBA ranked first in the list of Spanish-speaking universities on the continent

Through Higher Council Resolution No. 16/14, the creation of the University for the Century Program was approved XXI.

In 2018 it received a Konex Award - Diploma of Merit awarded by the Konex Foundation as one of the most important Educational Institutions of the last decade in Argentina.

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Radio Universidad de Buenos Aires operates on the FM 87.9 MHz frequency. Its motto "Knowledge is in the air" stands out for the large amount of academic and social interest content it deals with. On December 20, 2005, it was put on the air. By resolution 1053 of the AFSCA (published on September 15, 2011 in the Official Gazette), the frequency change to the current 87.9 MHz was authorized, along with an increase in power (it went from Category G to Category E)
The station was conceived as a public medium. It presents a complementary programming of the commercial frequencies and its contents introduce topics of social relevance and collective interest. It is proposed to link the knowledge of graduates, teachers and students that make up the academic community of the thirteen faculties of the University of Buenos Aires. It broadcasts its own production every day, 24 hours a day. It also co-produces scientific dissemination and cultural expression programs with different academic units of the University. In turn, students can access spaces through contests. The first such contest was held in July 2009.