Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial
3,459 people started it in 2026, at 24 institutions and 63 campuses in 16 regions. Of everyone who started it in 2023–2025, 30.1% were enrolled nowhere the following year and 63% were still in it; of those who started in 2021, 41% had its title 4 years on.
- Where is it taught?
- 24 institutions
- 63 campuses · 16 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?
- $2.0–3.3 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?
- 3.8 years
- formal length 2.3 · 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?
- 30.1%
- cohorts 2023–2025 · Technical (IP and CFT) 22.0%
- 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?
- 63%
- changed 7% · Technical (IP and CFT) 72%
- Still in this programme at the same institution. Whoever changed programme or institution is still studying.
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- How many graduate?
- 41%
- within 4 years · cohort 2021 · Technical (IP and CFT) 45%
- With a title in this programme, from any institution. Another title is counted apart.
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- Do graduates find work?
- 47–92%
- year 1 · 10 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?
- $1.0–1.8 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?
- 3,459
- entrants 2026 · +4% 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 · 2026Each 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 2021 cohort for every row, with a title in this programme from any institution within 4 years. Employment and income are SIES's own figures for each institution, as published. A window with fewer than 30 entrants carries no rate.
Dropout and staying: cohorts 2023–2025 added up · graduation: cohort 2021 · employment and income: SIES, per institution · the mark on each rail is Chile.
| Institution | Entrants 2026 | Yearly list fee | Dropout, year 1 | Still in it, year 2 | Titled in 4 yrs | Real length, yrs | Employed, year 1 | Income, year 4 |
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| All of Chile24 institutions · the reference | 3,459 | $2.0–3.3 M | 30.1%of 9,018 | 63% | 41% | 3.8 | per institution | per institution |
| IP IACCProfessional institute · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs | 847 | $2.1 M | 33.3%of 2,972 | 62% | 42% | 3.4 | 92% | n/a |
| IP INACAPProfessional institute · 21 campuses · accredited 7 yrs · absorbed CFT INACAP in 2026 | 756 | $3.0–3.1 M | — | — | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| IP AIEPProfessional institute · 13 campuses · accredited 5 yrs | 508 | $2.3–2.7 M | 36.1%of 1,493 | 57% | 34% | 2.7 | 89% | n/a |
| IP Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior - IPLACEXProfessional institute · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs | 247 | $2.2 M | 25.9%of 386 | 68% | 21% | 3.2 | n/a | n/a |
| IP Santo TomasProfessional institute · 2 campuses · accredited 5 yrs | 210 | $2.2–2.7 M | 39.4%of 155 | 46% | — | 3.6 | n/a | n/a |
| Universidad de AtacamaUniversity · 2 campuses · accredited 5 yrs | 94 | $2.4 M | 18.2%of 285 | 72% | 52% | 4.0 | 79% | $1.7–1.8 M |
| CFT San AgustinCFT · 2 campuses · accredited 5 yrs | 91 | $2.9 M | 34.2%of 193 | 61% | 32% | 3.1 | 75% | $1.1–1.2 M |
| IP ProvidenciaProfessional institute · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs | 90 | $2.2 M | 36.2%of 365 | 56% | 33% | 2.9 | n/a | n/a |
| CFT CEDUC - UCNCFT · 3 campuses · accredited 5 yrs | 84 | $2.4–2.7 M | 24.8%of 101 | 71% | 56% | 3.3 | 82% | $1.6–1.7 M |
| IP IPGProfessional institute · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs | 78 | $2.0 M | 37.4%of 115 | 52% | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| Universidad Catolica de la Santisima ConcepcionUniversity · 2 campuses · accredited 5 yrs | 62 | $2.9 M | 28.1%of 153 | 66% | 47% | 3.1 | 60% | $1.0–1.1 M |
| Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa MariaUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 6 yrs | 59 | $3.3 M | 20.2%of 109 | 68% | 56% | 4.2 | 47% | $1.3–1.4 M |
| IP Dr. Virginio Gomez G.Professional institute · 2 campuses · accredited 5 yrs | 50 | $2.3–2.3 M | 26.8%of 82 | 61% | — | 2.9 | n/a | n/a |
| Universidad MayorUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 5 yrs | 42 | $2.4 M | — | — | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| IP DUOC UCProfessional institute · 1 campus · accredited 7 yrs | 41 | $2.5 M | 28.9%of 38 | 63% | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| CFT de ENACCFT · 1 campus · accredited 6 yrs | 39 | $2.7 M | 47.3%of 93 | 30% | 52% | 2.8 | n/a | n/a |
| CFT PUCVCFT · 1 campus · accredited 5 yrs | 28 | $2.6 M | 20.5%of 73 | 71% | — | 2.9 | n/a | n/a |
| CFT Lota-AraucoCFT · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs | 26 | $2.5 M | 46.2%of 106 | 46% | 39% | 4.6 | 69% | n/a |
| CFT Juan BohonCFT · 1 campus · accredited 4 yrs | 24 | $2.0 M | 19.1%of 68 | 72% | 56% | 3.5 | 86% | n/a |
| CFT de la Region de ValparaisoCFT · 1 campus | 23 | $2.2 M | under 30 | — | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| CFT de la Region de los RiosCFT · 1 campus | 21 | $2.0 M | 43.9%of 41 | 49% | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| Universidad de MagallanesUniversity · 1 campus · accredited 5 yrs | 15 | $2.0 M | under 30 | — | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| CFT de la Region de Aysen del General Carlos Ibañez del CampoCFT · 1 campus | 14 | $2.1 M | 11.5%of 52 | 75% | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| CFT de la Region del Libertador General Bernardo O'HigginsCFT · 1 campus | 10 | $2.4 M | under 30 | — | — | — | n/a | n/a |
| CFT INACAPCFT · no entrants in 2026 · absorbed by IP INACAP in 2026 | — | — | 20.1%of 1,959 | 70% | 42% | 4.8 | 78% | $1.4–1.5 M |
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. 130 of the 9,018 entrants of 2023–2025 started at institutions where the programme never reached 10 entrants in a year; they are in Chile's row and not listed.
Where to study it
2026Every 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.
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.
63 places to study it · 3459 entrants in 2026
| Institution and campus | Entrants 2026 | Yearly list fee | Length | Timetable | Dropout, year 1 · 2023–2025 | Employed, year 1 | Income, year 4 | Retention, year 1 |
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IP IACCProfessional institute · Casa Central (Santiago) · Providenciaaccredited 4 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Control · Tecnico en Control Industrial | 847 | $2,105,000 | 5 sem. | Distance | 33.3% | 92% | n/a | 56% |
IP AIEPProfessional institute · Sede Online · Conchalíaccredited 5 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Control Industrial | 273 | $2,470,000 | 5 sem. | Distance | 36.1% | 89% | n/a | 53% |
IP Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior - IPLACEXProfessional institute · Sede Santiago · Santiagoaccredited 4 yearsTecnico en Control Industrial | 247 | $2,205,000 | 4 sem. | Distance | 25.9% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
IP Santo TomasProfessional institute · Sede Virtual · San Joaquínaccredited 5 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion E Instrumentacion Industrial | 166 | $2,152,000 | 5 sem. | Distance | 39.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
IP ProvidenciaProfessional institute · Sede Vicuña Mackenna (Santiago Vicuña Mackenna 380) · Providenciaaccredited 4 yearsTecnico de Nivel Superior en Control de la Produccion Industrial | 90 | $2,244,000 | 4 sem. | Distance | 36.2% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
IP IPGProfessional institute · Sede Providencia · Providenciaaccredited 4 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Control | 78 | $1,990,000 | 5 sem. | Distance | 37.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
 IP INACAPProfessional institute · Sede Calama · Calamaaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Robotica | 66 | $3,050,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime, Evening | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
 Universidad de AtacamaUniversity · Casa Central (Copiapo) · Copiapóaccredited 5 yearsTecnico Universitario en Automatizacion Industrial | 60 | $2,444,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime, Evening | 18.2% | 79% | $1.7–1.8 M | 74% |
| IP INACAPProfessional institute · Sede Antofagasta · Antofagastaaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Robotica | 59 | $3,050,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime, Evening | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa MariaUniversity · Sede Concepcion - Rey Balduino de Belgica · Hualpénaccredited 6 yearsTecnico Universitario en Automatizacion y Control | 59 | $3,260,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime | 20.2% | 47% | $1.3–1.4 M | 58% |
| IP INACAPProfessional institute · Sede Santiago Sur · Maculaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Robotica | 58 | $3,050,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime, Evening | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| IP INACAPProfessional institute · Sede Rancagua · Rancaguaaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Robotica | 55 | $3,050,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime, Evening | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| IP INACAPProfessional institute · Sede Maipu · Maipúaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Robotica | 54 | $3,050,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime, Evening | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
CFT San AgustinCFT · Sede Linares · Linaresaccredited 5 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Control Industrial | 52 | $2,910,000 | 5 sem. | Daytime, Evening | 34.2% | 75% | $1.1–1.2 M | 46% |
| IP INACAPProfessional institute · Sede Arica · Aricaaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Robotica | 44 | $3,050,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime, Evening | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| IP INACAPProfessional institute · Sede Temuco · Temucoaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Robotica | 44 | $3,050,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
IP Santo TomasProfessional institute · Sede Antofagasta · Antofagastaaccredited 5 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion E Instrumentacion Industrial | 44 | $2,675,000 | 5 sem. | Evening | 39.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| IP INACAPProfessional institute · Sede Renca · Rencaaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion y Robotica | 43 | $3,086,000 | 4 sem. | Daytime, Evening | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
 Universidad MayorUniversity · Sede Manuel Montt · Providenciaaccredited 5 yearsTecnico Universitario en Automatizacion y Robotica Industrial | 42 | $2,377,000 | 5 sem. | Distance | — | n/a | n/a | n/a |
 IP DUOC UCProfessional institute · Casa Central · Providenciaaccredited 7 yearsTecnico en Control y Monitoreo Remoto de Procesos Mineros | 41 | $2,470,000 | 4 sem. | Distance | 28.9% | n/a | n/a | n/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 2023–2025Everyone 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 technical (ip and cft) programme, counted the same way. A window or a cohort under 30 people carries no rate.
9,018 people started it in 2023–2025; 2,715 were enrolled nowhere the following year (30.1%) and 643 changed programme or institution (7%). Across every technical (ip and cft) programme: 22.0% dropped out.
Each point is one cohort, the year it started, found the next year. The last one, 2025, had 3,143 people: 27.7% enrolled nowhere in 2026, 65% 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 2007–2025The 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. 4 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.
Horizontal axis: years since entry (0 is the year they started).
3,239 people started in 2021. "Titled in another" is someone whose first title of the same level is in a different generic programme.
How long it really takes
titles 2023–2025Titles 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 3.8 years for a formal 2.3. 5,485 of 5,523 titles have the dates to be measured.
After graduating
mifuturo.cl · 2025-2026What 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.
| Institution | Employed, year 1 | Year 2 | Income, year 4 | Retention, year 1 | Real length, sem. | Keep studying |
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| IP IACCProfessional institute · Técnico en Control Industrial y en Automatización y Control | 91.9% | 93.8% | n/a | 55.9% | 6.9 | 53.3% |
| IP AIEPProfessional institute · Técnico en Automatización y Control Industrial | 88.5% | 91.3% | n/a | 52.5% | 5.4 | 39.3% |
| CFT Juan BohonCFT | 86.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a | — | 38.4% |
| CFT CEDUC - UCNCFT · Técnico en Instrumentación y Control Industrial | 81.5% | 87.3% | $1.6–1.7 M | 65.2% | 6.5 | 27.2% |
| Universidad de AtacamaUniversity · Técnico Universitario y Tecnólogo en Instrumentación y Automatización | 78.9% | 78.8% | $1.7–1.8 M | 74.3% | 6.6 | 47.4% |
| CFT INACAPCFT · Técnico en Automatización y Control Industrial, Automatización y Robótica · no entrants in 2026 | 77.5% | 83.0% | $1.4–1.5 M | 68.0% | 7.5 | 28.1% |
| CFT San AgustinCFT · Técnico en Automatización y Control Industrial | 75.4% | 67.9% | $1.1–1.2 M | 46.4% | 6.9 | 24.0% |
| CFT Lota-AraucoCFT · Técnico en Instrumentación y Automatización Industrial | 69.4% | 75.4% | n/a | 48.6% | — | 25.7% |
| Universidad Catolica de la Santisima ConcepcionUniversity · Técnico Universitario en Automatización Industrial | 60.2% | 62.8% | $1.0–1.1 M | 58.9% | — | 57.0% |
| Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa MariaUniversity · Técnico Universitario en Automatización y Control Industrial | 47.4% | 65.0% | $1.3–1.4 M | 58.1% | — | 57.1% |
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?
2007–2026From 2017–2019 to 2024–2026, its yearly intake went from 3,078 to 3,190 on average: +4%. Since 2007–2009: +221%. 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.
14% of its 2026 entrants are women; in 2007, 6%.
The names it is registered under
18 names · 2026Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial 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.
6 more names, together 123 entrants.
Other programmes in the same field
Engineering and industry- Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial 7,868
- Técnico en Mecánica Automotriz 6,497
- Ingeniería Civil Industrial 6,275
- Ingeniería en Mecánica Automotriz 6,093
- Ingeniería Industrial 5,670
- Ingeniería Civil, plan común y licenciatura en Ciencias de la Ingeniería 5,465
- Ingeniería en Electricidad 4,603
- Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles 4,235
- Técnico en Mantenimiento Industrial 4,185
- Técnico en Minería 4,165
- Arquitectura 3,203
- Construcción Civil 2,733
- Ingeniería en Minas 2,692
- Ingeniería en Construcción 2,493
- Ingeniería Civil en Minas 1,837
- Ingeniería en Automatización, Instrumentación y Control 1,815
- Magister en Tecnología 1,616
- Ingeniería Civil Eléctrica 1,102
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.