Technical training centres
43,492 people started an undergraduate programme at one of Chile's 31 CFTs in 2026. Twenty years of who grew, who fell, who opened and who closed, and what they teach.
First-year undergraduates at institutions the register files as CFTs, 2007–2026 · each institution under the type it has today
The main changes
2007–2026Twenty years of entrants
2007–2026Two lines, because institutions moved between types: CFT La Araucana (CFT, last intake 2014) into IP La Araucana in 2015; CFT INACAP (CFT, last intake 2025) into IP INACAP in 2026. The solid line counts each institution under the type it has today and an absorbed institution's history with the one that absorbed it — that is the series every trend on this page is read over. The dashed one is the register as published, each year under that year's own type; its steps are those absorptions, not people changing what they study.
Which institutions grew and which fell
8Only institutions that still enrolled first-years in 2026 and averaged at least 300 entrants a year in both windows: a percentage change on a small base is noise with a large number on top. Those that opened later are not here — growing from nothing has no percentage — and neither are those that closed; both are listed further down.
Fell most
Who opened and who closed
2007–2026Opening is the first year with first-year entrants after 2007; the register starts in 2007, so an institution already enrolling then may be much older. Closing is the last year with first-year entrants: an institution that stops admitting keeps teaching the students it has, and one absorbed by another is marked as such.
Started enrolling after 2007 21
| Institution | Since | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| CFT Academia Chilena de Yoga · Metropolitana | 2024 | 20 |
| CFT de la Region del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins · O'Higgins | 2022 | 787 |
| CFT de la Region del Bio Bio · Biobío | 2022 | 441 |
| CFT de la Region de Aysen del General Carlos Ibañez del Campo · Aysén | 2022 | 360 |
| CFT de la Region de Arica y Parinacota · Arica y Parinacota | 2021 | 1,285 |
| CFT de la Region de Atacama · Atacama | 2021 | 228 |
| CFT de la Region de Valparaiso · Valparaíso | 2020 | 946 |
| CFT de la Region Metropolitana de Santiago · Metropolitana | 2020 | 944 |
| CFT de la Region de los Rios · Los Ríos | 2020 | 832 |
| CFT de la Region de Antofagasta · Antofagasta | 2020 | 324 |
| CFT de la Region de Magallanes y Antartica Chilena · Magallanes | 2020 | 50 |
| CFT de la Region de Tarapaca · Tarapacá | 2019 | 842 |
9 more
| Institution | Since | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| CFT de la Region de Coquimbo · Coquimbo | 2019 | 665 |
| CFT de la Region de los Lagos · Los Lagos | 2019 | 405 |
| CFT de la Region de la Araucania · Araucanía | 2018 | 812 |
| CFT de la Region del Maule · Maule | 2018 | 490 |
| CFT Finning · Antofagasta | 2014 | 0 |
| CFT Escuela Culinaria Francesa · Metropolitana | 2010 | 88 |
| CFT Centro Tecnologico Superior Infomed · Metropolitana | 2008 | 0 |
| CFT EACE · Metropolitana | 2008 | 0 |
| CFT Javiera Carrera · Maule | 2008 | 0 |
Stopped enrolling before 2026 69
| Institution | Last intake | Peak |
|---|---|---|
| CFT INACAP · absorbed by IP INACAP in 2026 | 2025 | 26,579 |
| CFT Instituto Central de Capacitacion Educacional ICCE | 2024 | 1,341 |
| CFT Teodoro Wickel Kluwen | 2024 | 804 |
| CFT Asiste | 2024 | 134 |
| CFT Los Lagos | 2023 | 1,353 |
| CFT Escuela de Comercio | 2023 | 1,126 |
| CFT IPROSEC | 2023 | 422 |
| CFT Instituto Superior de Estudios Juridicos Canon | 2022 | 826 |
| CFT ICEL | 2021 | 5,233 |
| CFT Massachusetts | 2021 | 384 |
| CFT Profasoc | 2021 | 87 |
| CFT Centro Tecnologico Superior Infomed | 2021 | 27 |
57 more
Which programmes grew and which fell
16Inside CFTs only: the same programme taught at a university and at an institute is two intakes that share a name. Read over SIES's generic programme, not over the name each institution registered, and only programmes averaging at least 300 entrants a year in both windows. The programmes with a series cover between 91% and 95% of each year.
Lost most entrants
Gained most
By field of study
CINE-F 2013Where it is offered
Campus regionThe campus, not where the students are from. A student from Chiloé enrolled in Santiago is a Santiago row.
Every CFT enrolling in 2026
31Largest first. The region is the one holding most of its 2026 entrants; the count after it is how many regions it had entrants in.
Mineduc's higher-education register (SIES): first-year undergraduates, one row per person who started that year. Institution names are the register's own and are written as it writes them. Universities, institutes and CFTs.