CFT Lota-Arauco
715 people started an undergraduate programme at CFT Lota-Arauco in 2026, the 14th largest intake of Chile's 31 CFTs, and 1,845 were enrolled there in all. Twenty years of it, 2007–2026, followed by the masked student id from school to title.
CFT · Enrolling in 2026 · main campus region: Biobío
At a glance
2026- Enrolled 2026
- 1,845
- First year 2026
- 715
- Titles 2025
- 448
Largest fields: engineering and industry, education, services.
Entrants, enrolment and titles
2007–2026Three counts of the same institution. Undergraduate enrolment is everyone enrolled that year, in any year of their programme; first-year entrants are the people who started; titles are the undergraduate titles and degrees it awarded.
What you can study here
2026 · mifuturo.clEvery generic programme with a page of its own that took first-year entrants here in 2026, with its campuses and list fee from Mineduc's register, and what SIES publishes on mifuturo.cl for this institution and programme: employment the year after the title, the band of the monthly income in the fourth year, and first-year retention. Each programme's name opens what this institution's own students say about it — who stays, who graduates, how long it takes — next to the programme across the country.
The first-year dropout column is PuroChile's own count on Mineduc's register: of everyone who started the programme here in 2023–2025, the share enrolled at no institution at all the following year — the three cohorts added up, never an average of three rates — beside the same programme across Chile. Changing programme or institution is not dropping out, and some who drop out come back later. “—” is a programme with fewer than 30 entrants here in those years. Across all its undergraduate programmes, 33.1% of the 2,719 people who started here in 2023–2025 were enrolled nowhere the following year; across every IP and CFT programme, 22.0%.
| Programme | Entrants 2026 | Campuses | Yearly fee | Dropout, year 1 · 2023–2025 | Same programme, Chile | Employed, year 1 | Income, year 4 | Retention, year 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Técnico en Prevención de Riesgos | 90 | 2 | $2.8 M | 43.6% | 28.9% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico Asistente del Educador Diferencial | 84 | 2 | $1.4 M | 28.0% | 22.2% | 16.7% | n/a | 55.0% |
| Técnico en Servicio Social | 79 | 2 | $1.6 M | 30.6% | 25.3% | 25.0% | n/a | 62.1% |
| Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial | 78 | 1 | $2.5 M | 32.8% | 25.3% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico Asistente del Educador de Párvulos | 72 | 1 | $1.4 M | 22.9% | 23.0% | 15.0% | $0.6–0.7 M | 70.4% |
| Técnico en Mecánica Industrial | 62 | 1 | $2.5 M | 48.3% | 31.8% | 68.0% | $1.1–1.2 M | 45.6% |
| Técnico en Administración de Empresas | 46 | 1 | $2.3 M | 30.8% | 25.6% | 52.6% | $0.9–1.0 M | 61.1% |
| Técnico en Administración Pública o Municipal | 40 | 2 | $2.3 M | 31.8% | 25.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles | 32 | 1 | $2.0 M | 47.2% | 31.3% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería | 32 | 1 | $2.4 M | 27.9% | 21.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial | 26 | 1 | $2.5 M | 46.2% | 30.1% | 69.4% | n/a | 48.6% |
| Técnico en Transporte Marítimo y Puertos | 26 | 1 | $3.0 M | 32.1% | 31.9% | 47.4% | n/a | 55.8% |
| Técnico en Logística | 25 | 1 | $2.3 M | 29.0% | 25.9% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Computación e Informática | 22 | 1 | $2.3 M | 28.7% | 22.7% | 42.3% | n/a | 57.7% |
| Técnico en Administración de Recursos Humanos y Personal | 1 | 1 | $2.4 M | — | 24.3% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Employment and income are SIES's own figures for this institution, published only where at least eleven graduates could be matched to a tax return; “n/a” is a figure SIES did not publish. Incomes are gross, in pesos of September 2025.
What it teaches
2026Everyone enrolled in an undergraduate programme here in 2026, 1,845 enrolments, by CINE-F field and SIES generic programme. Each tile is a programme and its area is its share; click a field's band to open it, or a tile to see that programme across the country.
Mean annual list fee of its undergraduate enrolment: $2,072,000 (CFTs: $2,374,000). It is the published price of each programme averaged over the students enrolled in it, not what each one pays: free tuition (gratuidad), scholarships and loans are not subtracted.
By SIES's generic programme, largest intake first. Only programmes that reached 10 entrants here in some year are listed; the rest are added together at the end. The change compares the first three years with the last three and is only given where both average at least 20 entrants.
| Generic programme (SIES) | First year 2026 | Enrolled 2026 | Mean list fee | 2007–2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Técnico en Prevención de Riesgos | 90 | 168 | $2,770,000 | −22% | |
| Técnico Asistente del Educador Diferencial | 84 | 224 | $1,390,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Servicio Social | 79 | 279 | $1,570,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial | 78 | 133 | $2,530,000 | — | |
| Técnico Asistente del Educador de Párvulos | 72 | 216 | $1,390,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Mecánica Industrial | 62 | 137 | $2,530,000 | −44% | |
| Técnico en Administración de Empresas | 46 | 125 | $2,310,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Administración Pública o Municipal | 40 | 117 | $2,310,000 | −60% | |
| Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles | 32 | 74 | $2,050,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería | 32 | 72 | $2,370,000 | −4% | |
| Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial | 26 | 63 | $2,530,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Transporte Marítimo y Puertos | 26 | 58 | $2,970,000 | −28% | |
| Técnico en Logística | 25 | 89 | $2,310,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Computación e Informática | 22 | 68 | $2,252,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Administración de Recursos Humanos y Personal | 1 | 22 | $2,410,000 | — |
6 programmes it no longer opens
| Técnico en Administración de Redes y Soporte | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Industria Forestal o de la Madera | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Refrigeración y Climatización | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Dibujo Técnico | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Producción, Desarrollo y Diseño Web | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Producción Gráfica y Multimedia | 0 | — | — | — |
Who studies here
undergraduate · 2026Its undergraduate enrolment of 2026, each split drawn over the same split for all CFTs. Every bar is a share of its own total, so the two can be compared whatever their size. How the first year came in is the institution's own declaration to SIES.
Where its entrants come from
2024–2026The comuna of their school, not of their home. First-year entrants of 2024–2026, followed by their masked id to the last time they finished secondary school before starting. Mineduc publishes no home address, and the school is where four years of their education happened. 2,119 of 2,566 (82.6%) have such a record since 2006; the rest — who left school earlier, studied abroad or validated their studies — are not placed.
94.0% finished school in Biobío, the region of its main campus.
| Coronel | 819 | 38.7% |
| Lota | 762 | 36.0% |
| Cañete | 250 | 11.8% |
| Concepción | 43 | 2.0% |
| Los Álamos | 37 | 1.7% |
| San Pedro de la Paz | 19 | 0.9% |
| Arauco | 14 | 0.7% |
| Contulmo | 14 | 0.7% |
| Talcahuano | 9 | 0.4% |
| Curanilahue | 7 | 0.3% |
| Valparaíso | 6 | 0.3% |
| Santiago | 5 | 0.2% |
17 more comunas
Maipú 5 · Puente Alto 5 · Arica 5 · Hualpén 4 · Lebu 4 · La Florida 4 · Quilicura 4 · San Antonio 3 · Tirúa 3 · Puerto Montt 3 · Coyhaique 3 · Porvenir 3 · Natales 3 · La Cisterna 3 · Ñuñoa 3 · Quinta Normal 3 · Colina 3
55 more comunas sent fewer than 3 each, together 73 entrants; they are not named.
Who is still here a year later
cohorts 2007–2025Each year's first-year entrants, followed into the next year's register: still enrolled here (in any programme), enrolled at another institution, or not enrolled anywhere. It is SIES's first-year retention, counted on the published register; a cohort under 30 people has no rate.
Who graduates, and when
titles 2007–2025Each cohort of first-year entrants followed into the register of titles: the share with an undergraduate title from this institution, by years since they started. A recent cohort has a short line, not a low one — the register only goes to 2025. A title is any undergraduate title or degree, including the intermediate ones some programmes award on the way; the register does not tell them apart.
Horizontal axis: years since entry (0 is the year they started).
708 people started here in 2015. "Titled elsewhere" is a title from any other institution and no title from this one: someone who changed institution and finished there.
How long it really takes
titles 2023–2025Undergraduate titles of 2023–2025 in regular plans: the time from the start of the semester they entered (March or August) to the date of the title, in semesters, against the formal length the institution declares. Special and continuation plans are left out, because they take in people with earlier studies whose clock did not start at entry. 1,397 of 1,397 titles have the dates to be measured.
| Generic programme (SIES) | Titles | Formal, years | Real, years | On time | Real in Chile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Técnico en Servicio Social | 283 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 78% | 3.0 |
| Técnico Asistente del Educador Diferencial | 193 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 78% | 3.0 |
| Técnico Asistente del Educador de Párvulos | 150 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 77% | 2.9 |
| Técnico en Administración de Empresas | 118 | 2.5 | 3.7 | 73% | 3.3 |
| Técnico en Transporte Marítimo y Puertos | 100 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 64% | 3.6 |
| Técnico en Mecánica Industrial | 98 | 2.5 | 5.7 | 50% | 3.7 |
| Técnico en Administración Pública o Municipal | 96 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 71% | 3.1 |
| Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial | 64 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 52% | 3.8 |
| Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles | 58 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 69% | 3.9 |
| Técnico en Logística | 58 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 84% | 3.0 |
| Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería | 54 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 67% | 3.6 |
| Técnico en Computación e Informática | 49 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 80% | 3.7 |
| Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial | 48 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 90% | 3.5 |
| Técnico en Prevención de Riesgos | 15 | 2.5 | 10.3 | 0% | 4.8 |
Programmes with at least ten titles in the three years. Years are means over every title, formal and real alike; "on time" is the share titled within the formal length. The last column is the same generic programme at every institution in Chile.
Where its campuses are
2 communes · 2026Where it teaches, not where its students are from. First-year entrants of 2026 by the commune of the campus they enrolled at.
Postgraduate
2007–2026Where its graduates go on to a postgraduate degree
People with an undergraduate title from here in 2010–2021, followed forward to the first master's or doctorate they started, anywhere, up to 2026. 17 of 4,405 (0.4%) started one (CFTs: 0.5%); 0.0% of them here.
Left, the field of the undergraduate title they took here; right, the institution where they started a master's or a doctorate in Chile. Ribbon width is people. Only the ten largest destinations are named; the rest, and any receiving fewer than three people, are added into «other institutions».
| Postgraduate institution | People | % |
|---|---|---|
| Universidad Andres Bello | 6 | 35.3% |
| Universidad San Sebastian | 5 | 29.4% |
The names it registers its programmes under
18 names · 2026The wording each student enrolled under, as the institution filed it. Only names with at least three entrants are printed.
3 more names, together 26 entrants.
Similar institutions
Other CFTs with a first-year intake of similar size in 2026.
Mineduc's higher-education registers (SIES): enrolment 2007–2026 and titles 2007–2025; Mineduc's register of secondary-school leavers; and DEMRE's admission register, republished by Mineduc. They are joined person by person through the masked student id Mineduc publishes in all of them for that purpose. First-year entrants are one row per person who started that year; someone who started at two institutions counts at one. Every figure is a count of records; shares and means are taken after adding. The name is the register's own and is written as it writes it. Every CFT.