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The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) (Spanish: Universidad de Buenos Aires), founded on August 12, 1821 in the City of Buenos Aires, is the largest university in Argentina and one of the most prestigious of the Americas.
Universidad de Buenos Aires | |
Motto | Argentum Virtus Robur et Studium (Latin) |
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Motto in English | Argentine virtue is strength and study |
Type | Public |
Established | 12 August 1821 |
Budget | 364 690 000 US dollars (2009) [1] |
Rector | Rubén E. Hallú |
Academic staff | 28 943 (2004) [2] |
Students | 311 175 (2004) [3] |
Undergraduates | 297 639 (2004) |
Postgraduates | 13 536 (2004) |
Location | , |
Campus | Urban |
Website | www.uba.ar |
As the rest of the Argentine national universities, it depends finantially of the National State, but it's autonomous, free, lay and gratuitous. For being autonomous, it has its own government system, formed since the University Reform in 1918 by representatives of professors, students and alumni. The academic freedom promotes that there is more than a cathedra that dictates each subject. The academic staff is selected by contest and evaluation before juries.
Undergraduate teaching, excluding a short period between 1982 and 1983, has been completely costless since 1949, year in which the ordinance 29.337 was issued and through which the president Juan Domingo Perón deleted the imposotion of current tuition fees so far.
The admission to the university is unrestricted, although since 1985 the first year of almost all undergraduate courses is the Common Basic Cycle (CBC), which must be approved in order to enter the corresponding faculty. The University of Buenos Aires is composed by 13 faculties, the Common Basic Cycle, the Buenos Aires National School, the Carlos Pellegrini High School of Commerce, the Free Institute of Secondary Education, the Professional Technical School of Agriculture and Agri-Food Production, 8 regional university centers, the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, the Buenos Aires University Press (EUDEBA), the Cosmos Cinema, 16 museums and 5 care units.
In 2006, it counts with an offert of 72 undergraduate courses and 28 490 professors. Around a 30% of the national scientific investigation is carried out by this institution. Four out of five Nobel laureates have been students or teachers in this university.