Medicina Veterinaria

4,569 people started it in 2026, at 18 institutions and 39 campuses in 11 regions. Of everyone who started it in 2023–2025, 6.9% were enrolled nowhere the following year and 87% were still in it; of those who started in 2018, 40% had its title 7 years on.

The essentials for deciding
Where is it taught?
18 institutions
39 campuses · 11 regions · 2026
Campuses that took first-year entrants this year. The map and the list are below.
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What does a year cost?
$4.8–8.1 M
yearly list fee · 2026
The cheapest and the dearest campus. It is the list price, before free tuition, grants or loans.
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How long does it take?
7.2 years
formal length 5.0 · titles 2023–2025
What it really took those who graduated, from the semester they started to their title.
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How many drop out after the first year?
6.9%
cohorts 2023–2025 · University 8.1%
Not enrolled at any institution the year after starting. Some come back later: it is first-year dropout, not final.
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How many are still in it in year two?
87%
changed 6% · University 82%
Still in this programme at the same institution. Whoever changed programme or institution is still studying.
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How many graduate?
40%
within 7 years · cohort 2018 · University 51%
With a title in this programme, from any institution. Another title is counted apart.
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Do graduates find work?
44–78%
year 1 · 11 institutions · SIES
Graduates earning at least the minimum wage: the lowest and the highest institution SIES publishes. Not an average.
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What do they earn?
$1.1–1.6 M
monthly, gross, year 4 · SIES bands
From the lowest band to the highest SIES publishes among institutions.
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Is it growing?
4,569
entrants 2026 · +98% vs 2017–2019
More entrants means more places and more demand, not a better programme.
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Compare the institutions that teach it

cohorts 2023–2025 · 2026

Each institution's own students of this programme, counted exactly as the programme across Chile, which heads the table. First-year dropout is the share of everyone who started there in 2023–2025 who was enrolled at no institution at all the following year: everyone who dropped out over everyone who started, the three cohorts added together, never an average of three percentages. Still in the programme is the share enrolled in it at the same institution the next year; the rest changed programme or institution. Graduation is the 2018 cohort for every row, with a title in this programme from any institution within 7 years. Employment and income are SIES's own figures for each institution, as published. A window with fewer than 30 entrants carries no rate.

First-year dropout, one dot per institution · cohorts 2023–2025
0%5%10%15%Chile 6.9%
0%5%10%15%Chile 6.9%
UniversityDashed line: the programme across Chile

Dropout and staying: cohorts 2023–2025 added up · graduation: cohort 2018 · employment and income: SIES, per institution · the mark on each rail is Chile.

InstitutionEntrants 2026Yearly list feeDropout, year 1Still in it, year 2Titled in 7 yrsReal length, yrsEmployed, year 1Income, year 4
All of Chile18 institutions · the reference4,569$4.8–8.1 M6.9%of 12,918
87%40%7.2per institutionper institution
Universidad de las AmericasUniversity · 7 campuses · accredited 5 yrs880$5.9–6.6 M8.7%of 2,288
87%41%6.363%$1.2–1.3 M
Universidad Andres BelloUniversity · 3 campuses · accredited 6 yrs730$6.5–7.3 M7.5%of 2,163
85%49%5.863%$1.2–1.3 M
Universidad San SebastianUniversity · 4 campuses · accredited 5 yrs616$6.0–7.3 M8.5%of 1,834
84%35%6.858%n/a
Universidad Santo TomasUniversity · 6 campuses · accredited 4 yrs453$5.5–7.0 M3.1%of 1,363
94%47%6.663%$1.2–1.3 M
Universidad del AlbaUniversity · 4 campuses · accredited 3 yrs294$4.8–5.6 M15.0%of 1,036
78%21%7.874%n/a
Universidad MayorUniversity · 2 campuses · accredited 5 yrs287$6.4–7.7 M2.8%of 835
93%49%7.465%$1.3–1.4 M
Universidad de ChileUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 7 yrs212$6.9 M4.1%of 613
91%27%9.575%$1.5–1.6 M
Universidad de ConcepcionUniversity · 2 campuses · accredited 7 yrs186$7.3 M5.2%of 540
87%24%9.567%$1.3–1.4 M
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de ChileUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 7 yrs126$8.1 M1.4%of 348
94%—6.0n/an/a
Universidad Austral de ChileUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 6 yrs125$6.7 M1.6%of 364
93%51%8.578%$1.3–1.4 M
Universidad de los LagosUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 5 yrs107$5.3 M————n/an/a
Universidad Bernardo O'HigginsUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 5 yrs100$6.9 M5.5%of 325
89%—5.1n/an/a
Universidad de O'HigginsUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs100$5.3 M3.2%of 280
89%49%6.0n/an/a
Universidad Catolica de TemucoUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 5 yrs84$6.7 M3.7%of 273
91%30%8.273%$1.4–1.5 M
Universidad de Viña del MarUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs78$5.4 M10.8%of 314
78%48%6.144%$1.1–1.2 M
Universidad de la FronteraUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 5 yrs68$5.2 M4.2%of 189
89%——n/an/a
Universidad Catolica del MauleUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 5 yrs67$6.2 M2.6%of 153
91%——n/an/a
Universidad Academia de Humanismo CristianoUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs56$5.5 M————n/an/a

Read the size beside the rate: with a hundred entrants, one person moves the figure by a point, so a gap of two or three points from Chile can be chance. First-year dropout counts whoever was enrolled nowhere the following year; some return a year or two later, and the register of one year cannot tell a pause from leaving. Students are followed for the institution as a whole, not by campus. The fee is the list fee of its campuses in 2026, before free tuition, grants or loans.

Where to study it

2026

Every campus that took first-year entrants into this programme in 2026, on the map and in the list. Choose a region, a kind of institution or a timetable; click a comuna to see only its campuses. An institution's name opens this programme as its own students tell it: who stays, who graduates and how long it takes there.

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Each dot is a comuna with a campus that took first-year entrants; its area is how many. The comuna is the campus's, not the students'. Click a dot to list only that comuna.

39 places to study it · 4569 entrants in 2026

Institution and campusEntrants 2026Yearly list feeLengthTimetableDropout, year 1 · 2023–2025Employed, year 1Income, year 4Retention, year 1
Universidad Andres BelloUniversity · Casa Central (Santiago) · Santiagoaccredited 6 years
407$7,250,00010 sem.Daytime7.5%63%$1.2–1.3 M85%
Universidad San SebastianUniversity · Sede Santiago · Santiagoaccredited 5 years
247$7,250,00010 sem.Daytime8.5%58%n/a85%
Universidad MayorUniversity · Sede Huechuraba · Huechurabaaccredited 5 years
233$7,675,00010 sem.Daytime2.8%65%$1.3–1.4 M94%
Universidad de ChileUniversity · Santiago · Santiagoaccredited 7 years
212$6,923,00010 sem.Daytime4.1%75%$1.5–1.6 M94%
Universidad Andres BelloUniversity · Sede Viña del Mar · Viña del Maraccredited 6 years
204$6,500,00010 sem.Daytime7.5%63%$1.2–1.3 M85%
Universidad de las AmericasUniversity · Campus Santiago Centro · Santiagoaccredited 5 years
192$6,599,00010 sem.Daytime, Blended8.7%63%$1.2–1.3 M89%
Universidad San SebastianUniversity · Sede Concepcion · Concepciónaccredited 5 years
163$7,300,00010 sem.Daytime8.5%58%n/a85%
Universidad de las AmericasUniversity · Sede Concepcion · Concepciónaccredited 5 years
158$5,885,00010 sem.Daytime, Blended8.7%63%$1.2–1.3 M89%
Universidad del AlbaUniversity · Sede La Serena · La Serenaaccredited 3 years
148$5,010,00010 sem.Daytime, Evening15.0%74%n/a77%
Universidad Santo TomasUniversity · Casa Central (Santiago) · Santiagoaccredited 4 years
131$6,987,00010 sem.Daytime3.1%63%$1.2–1.3 M93%
Universidad de las AmericasUniversity · Sede Viña del Mar · Viña del Maraccredited 5 years
126$5,890,00010 sem.Daytime, Blended8.7%63%$1.2–1.3 M89%
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de ChileUniversity · Campus San Joaquin · Maculaccredited 7 years
126$8,080,00012 sem.Daytime1.4%n/an/an/a
Universidad San SebastianUniversity · Sede Patagonia (Puerto Montt) · Puerto Monttaccredited 5 years
125$5,966,00010 sem.Daytime8.5%58%n/a85%
Universidad Austral de ChileUniversity · Casa Central · Valdiviaaccredited 6 years
125$6,686,00010 sem.Daytime1.6%78%$1.3–1.4 M91%
Universidad de las AmericasUniversity · Campus Melipilla · Melipillaaccredited 5 years
120$6,529,00010 sem.Daytime, Blended8.7%63%$1.2–1.3 M89%
Universidad Andres BelloUniversity · Sede Concepcion · Concepciónaccredited 6 years
119$6,500,00010 sem.Daytime7.5%63%$1.2–1.3 M85%
Universidad de las AmericasUniversity · Campus Providencia · Providenciaaccredited 5 years
114$6,500,00010 sem.Daytime8.7%63%$1.2–1.3 M89%
Universidad de los LagosUniversity · Casa Central (Osorno) · Osornoaccredited 5 years
107$5,304,00010 sem.Daytime—n/an/an/a
Universidad Bernardo O'HigginsUniversity · Campus Rondizzoni · Santiagoaccredited 5 years
100$6,900,00010 sem.Daytime5.5%n/an/an/a
Universidad de O'HigginsUniversity · Sede San Fernando · San Fernandoaccredited 4 years
100$5,320,00010 sem.Daytime3.2%n/an/an/a

First-year dropout is the share of the institution's entrants to this programme in 2023–2025 who were enrolled at no institution the following year, counted by PuroChile on Mineduc's register for the institution as a whole — the same on each of its campuses; "—" is fewer than 30 entrants. The first five columns are Mineduc's enrolment register for 2026: the campus, its first-year entrants (1–2 where there were fewer than three), the mean yearly list fee of those entrants (a fee filed in UF reads "UF"), the formal length in semesters, the timetables, and under the name the institution's accreditation as the register files it. The last three are what SIES publishes on mifuturo.cl (release 2025-2026) for the institution and this generic programme — the same figure on every campus of an institution, because SIES does not publish them by campus. "s/d" means SIES did not publish it, usually because fewer than eleven graduates could be matched.

Who stays, who changes, who drops out

cohorts 2023–2025

Everyone who started this programme in a year is looked up in the next year's enrolment register by the masked id Mineduc publishes for that purpose. There are four ways to be found: still in this programme at the same institution; at the same institution in another programme; at another institution (in this programme or another); or not enrolled anywhere. That last one is first-year dropout. Changing programme is not dropping out: that person is still studying. And not every dropout is final — some come back a year or two later, which one year's register cannot see. The bar adds up the cohorts of 2023–2025: everyone in each outcome over everyone who started, not an average of the three years. It is set beside every university programme, counted the same way. A window or a cohort under 30 people carries no rate.

Cohorts 2023–2025 together, the year after they started
This one87%Still in the programme5.2%6.9%University82%Still in the programme6.9%8.1%Not enrolled…
This one87%Still in the programmeUniversity82%Still in the programme
Still in the programmeSame institution, another programmeAt another institutionNot enrolled: dropped out

12,918 people started it in 2023–2025; 885 were enrolled nowhere the following year (6.9%) and 776 changed programme or institution (6%). Across every university programme: 8.1% dropped out.

Dropped out after year 1, cohort by cohort
Medicina VeterinariaUniversity
051015202007201620258%6%
051015202007201620258%6%
Still in the programme, cohort by cohort
Medicina VeterinariaUniversity
025507510020072016202583%88%
025507510020072016202583%88%

Each point is one cohort, the year it started, found the next year. The last one, 2025, had 4,436 people: 5.9% enrolled nowhere in 2026, 88% still in the programme. A single year moves more than the three-year window above; read the line for its direction.

Who graduates, and when

titles 2007–2025

The same cohorts followed into the register of titles: the share with a title in this generic programme, from any institution, by years since they started. 7 years is the formal length rounded up plus one. A recent cohort has a short line, not a low one: the register goes to 2025. Some programmes award an intermediate title on the way; the register does not tell them apart.

Titled in this programme, % of the cohort
Cohort 2010Cohort 2014Cohort 2018
0204060081554%48%40%
0204060081554%48%40%

Horizontal axis: years since entry (0 is the year they started).

Cohort 2018, 7 years on
This one40%Titled in this programme50%No title yetUniversity51%Titled in this programme13%36%No title yet
This one40%Titled in this program…50%No title yetUniversity51%Titled in this programme36%No title yet
Titled in this programmeTitled in anotherNo title yet

2,211 people started in 2018. "Titled in another" is someone whose first title of the same level is in a different generic programme.

How long it really takes

titles 2023–2025

Titles of 2023–2025 in regular plans: from the start of the semester of entry to the date of the title, against the formal length. On average 7.2 years for a formal 5.0. 4,837 of 4,859 titles have the dates to be measured.

Titles21%Within the formal length24%1–2 semesters more19%3–4 semesters more13%5–6 semesters more14%7–10 semesters more9.6%11 semesters or …
Titles21%24%19%
Within the formal length1–2 semesters more3–4 semesters more5–6 semesters more7–10 semesters more11 semesters or more

After graduating

mifuturo.cl · 2025-2026

What SIES publishes for this programme at each institution, crossing its graduates with their tax returns. Employment is the share of 2021–2023 graduates who earned at least the minimum wage the year after their title; income is the band of the average gross monthly income in the fourth year, for 2018–2020 graduates up to age 30. Each dot is an institution — there is no average across them, because an institution is not a sample of the programme. Hover a dot for its name.

Employed in the first year, by institution
40%50%60%70%80%90%100%
40%50%60%70%80%90%100%
Average monthly income in the fourth year, by institution (SIES band)
$1.0M$1.5M$2.0M
$1.0M$1.5M$2.0M
University
InstitutionEmployed, year 1Year 2Income, year 4Retention, year 1Real length, sem.Keep studying
Universidad Austral de ChileUniversity77.5%77.6%$1.3–1.4 M91.4%16.72.3%
Universidad de ChileUniversity74.7%77.1%$1.5–1.6 M93.5%18.15.4%
Universidad del AlbaUniversity73.8%70.9%n/a77.4%15.049.6%
Universidad Catolica de TemucoUniversity73.2%69.3%$1.4–1.5 M91.7%16.60.8%
Universidad de ConcepcionUniversity67.3%73.2%$1.3–1.4 M88.8%18.43.5%
Universidad MayorUniversity64.9%74.2%$1.3–1.4 M93.9%15.21.2%
Universidad de las AmericasUniversity63.2%77.3%$1.2–1.3 M89.0%13.22.2%
Universidad Santo TomasUniversity63.1%73.4%$1.2–1.3 M93.1%13.90.6%
Universidad Andres BelloUniversity62.6%77.1%$1.2–1.3 M84.9%11.70.4%
Universidad San SebastianUniversity57.6%76.3%n/a85.3%13.02.4%
Universidad de Viña del MarUniversity44.0%67.3%$1.1–1.2 M78.9%12.90.5%

As published by SIES on mifuturo.cl, release 2025-2026: incomes are gross, in pesos of September 2025, and count only graduates earning at least the minimum wage; "keep studying" is the share of 2021–2023 graduates enrolled again the following year. SIES publishes nothing for a combination with fewer than eleven graduates it can match, which is why some institutions that teach this programme are missing and some figures read "n/a". mifuturo.cl

Is it growing or shrinking?

2007–2026

From 2017–2019 to 2024–2026, its yearly intake went from 2,239 to 4,438 on average: +98%. Since 2007–2009: +140%. Each figure compares three-year averages, never two single years; the windows leave out 2020–2021, the dip every programme has. More entrants is more places and more demand, not a better programme; fewer is not a worse one.

02,0004,0006,0002007201720264,569
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76% of its 2026 entrants are women; in 2007, 62%.

The names it is registered under

1 names · 2026

Medicina Veterinaria is a generic programme: SIES's own grouping of the names each institution registers. If you are searching an admission site, these are the names to look for. They stay in Spanish on both editions of this site.

02,0004,0006,000Medicina Veterinaria4,569
02,0004,0006,000Medicina Veterinaria4,569

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Mineduc's enrolment and titles registers (SIES), read whole for every year and followed person by person by the masked id Mineduc publishes for that purpose; employment and income from SIES on mifuturo.cl. Only programmes that reached 300 entrants in some year have a page. How each figure is made, and its checks.