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

CampusThe whole institution
First-year entrants
715
2026 · 14 of 31
Total enrolment
1,845
2026
Still here a year later · cohort 2025
61.5%
CFT 72.8%
Graduated here in 10 years · cohort 2015
57.9%
CFT 46.6%
Mean list fee · 2026
$2.1 M
CFT $2.4 M
Accreditation
4 years
2026
Women
57.6%
entrants 2026

At a glance

2026
Enrolled 2026
1,845
First year 2026
715
Titles 2025
448

Largest fields: engineering and industry, education, services.

Here100%
UndergraduateMaster'sDoctoratePost-title

Everyone enrolled in 2026, by level. «Universities» adds up the enrolment of every university and divides afterwards.

Entrants, enrolment and titles

2007–2026

Three 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.

Undergraduate enrolmentFirst-year entrantsUndergraduate titles
01,0002,0003,0002007201720261,845448715
01,0002,0003,0002007201720261,845448715

What you can study here

2026 · mifuturo.cl

Every 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%.

ProgrammeEntrants 2026CampusesYearly feeDropout, year 1 · 2023–2025Same programme, ChileEmployed, year 1Income, year 4Retention, year 1
Técnico en Prevención de Riesgos902$2.8 M43.6%28.9%n/an/an/a
Técnico Asistente del Educador Diferencial842$1.4 M28.0%22.2%16.7%n/a55.0%
Técnico en Servicio Social792$1.6 M30.6%25.3%25.0%n/a62.1%
Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial781$2.5 M32.8%25.3%n/an/an/a
Técnico Asistente del Educador de Párvulos721$1.4 M22.9%23.0%15.0%$0.6–0.7 M70.4%
Técnico en Mecánica Industrial621$2.5 M48.3%31.8%68.0%$1.1–1.2 M45.6%
Técnico en Administración de Empresas461$2.3 M30.8%25.6%52.6%$0.9–1.0 M61.1%
Técnico en Administración Pública o Municipal402$2.3 M31.8%25.0%n/an/an/a
Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles321$2.0 M47.2%31.3%n/an/an/a
Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería321$2.4 M27.9%21.8%n/an/an/a
Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial261$2.5 M46.2%30.1%69.4%n/a48.6%
Técnico en Transporte Marítimo y Puertos261$3.0 M32.1%31.9%47.4%n/a55.8%
Técnico en Logística251$2.3 M29.0%25.9%n/an/an/a
Técnico en Computación e Informática221$2.3 M28.7%22.7%42.3%n/a57.7%
Técnico en Administración de Recursos Humanos y Personal11$2.4 M—24.3%n/an/an/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

2026

Everyone 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.

Education 24%Engineering and industry 22%Business and law 19%Services 16%Health and welfare 15%Técnico Asistente delEducador Diferencial12%Técnico Asistente delEducador de Párvulos12%Técnico enMecánicaIndustrial7.4%Técnico enElectricidady…7.2%Técnico enConstrucción yObras Civiles4.0%Técnico enInstrument…Automatiza…3.4%Técnico enAdministración deEmpresas6.8%Técnico enAdministración Pública oMunicipal6.3%Técnico enLogística4.8%Técn…enAdmi…Técnico enPrevención deRiesgos9.1%Técnico en Turismoy Hotelería3.9%Técnico enTransporteMarítimo y PuertosTécnico en Servicio Social15%Téc…enCom…
Education 24%Engineering and ind… 22%Business an… 19%Services 16%Health and … 15%TécnicoAsistentedel…12%TécnicoAsistentedel…12%Técnico enMecánicaIndustrialTécnico enElectricidad yElectricidad…Técni…enConst…4.0%Técni…enInstr…Técnico enAdministraciónde EmpresasTécnicoenAdmini…6.3%TécnicoenLogíst…4.8%Técnico enPrevenciónde Riesgos9.1%Técni…enTuris…3.9%Técni…enTrans…3.1%Técnico enServicioSocial15%Técnico en…
Health and welfareInformation technologyhover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

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.

Programme by programme

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 2026Enrolled 2026Mean list fee2007–2026Change
Técnico en Prevención de Riesgos90168$2,770,000−22%
Técnico Asistente del Educador Diferencial84224$1,390,000—
Técnico en Servicio Social79279$1,570,000—
Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial78133$2,530,000—
Técnico Asistente del Educador de Párvulos72216$1,390,000—
Técnico en Mecánica Industrial62137$2,530,000−44%
Técnico en Administración de Empresas46125$2,310,000—
Técnico en Administración Pública o Municipal40117$2,310,000−60%
Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles3274$2,050,000—
Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería3272$2,370,000−4%
Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial2663$2,530,000—
Técnico en Transporte Marítimo y Puertos2658$2,970,000−28%
Técnico en Logística2589$2,310,000—
Técnico en Computación e Informática2268$2,252,000—
Técnico en Administración de Recursos Humanos y Personal122$2,410,000—
6 programmes it no longer opens
Técnico en Administración de Redes y Soporte0———
Técnico en Industria Forestal o de la Madera0———
Técnico en Refrigeración y Climatización0———
Técnico en Dibujo Técnico0———
Técnico en Producción, Desarrollo y Diseño Web0———
Técnico en Producción Gráfica y Multimedia0———

Who studies here

undergraduate · 2026

Its 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.

Age
Here13%31%20–2416%13%17%All CFTs16%35%20–2414%16%
Here31%20–2416%17%All CFTs16%35%20–2416%
15–1920–2425–2930–3435–3940 and over
Timetable
Here54%Daytime46%EveningAll CFTs57%Daytime33%Evening
Here54%Daytime46%EveningAll CFTs57%Daytime33%Evening
DaytimeEvening
Sex
Here38%Men62%WomenAll CFTs32%Men68%Women
Here38%Men62%WomenAll CFTs32%Men68%Women
MenWomen

Where its entrants come from

2024–2026

The 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.

Region of the school
Biobío94.0%Metropolitana2.7%Valparaíso0.6%Araucanía0.6%Magallanes0.3%O'Higgins0.3%Los Lagos0.3%Ñuble0.3%Arica y Parinacota0.2%Tarapacá0.1%Maule0.1%Aysén0.1%Antofagasta0.1%Atacama0.1%Los Ríos0.0%
Biobío94.0%Metropolitana2.7%Valparaíso0.6%Araucanía0.6%Magallanes0.3%O'Higgins0.3%Los Lagos0.3%Ñuble0.3%Arica y Parinacota0.2%Tarapacá0.1%Maule0.1%Aysén0.1%Antofagasta0.1%Atacama0.1%Los Ríos0.0%
Comuna of the school
Coronel81938.7%
Lota76236.0%
Cañete25011.8%
Concepción432.0%
Los Álamos371.7%
San Pedro de la Paz190.9%
Arauco140.7%
Contulmo140.7%
Talcahuano90.4%
Curanilahue70.3%
Valparaíso60.3%
Santiago50.2%
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.

The kind of school
Here67%Public (municipal or SLEP)32%Subsidised privateAll CFTs46%Public (municipal or SLEP)48%Subsidised private
Here67%Public (municipal or SLEP)32%Subsidised priva…All CFTs46%Public (municipal or SLEP)48%Subsidised private
Public (municipal or SLEP)Subsidised privateFee-paying privateDelegated administration
When they started, after leaving school
Here30%The next year15%19%2–4 years lat…36%5 years or moreAll CFTs33%The next year16%21%2–4 years later29%5 years or more
Here30%The next year15%19%36%5 years or moreAll CFTs33%The next year16%21%29%5 years or more
The next yearA year later2–4 years later5 years or more

Who is still here a year later

cohorts 2007–2025

Each 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.

CFT Lota-AraucoAll CFTs
02040608020072016202572.8%61.5%
02040608020072016202572.8%61.5%
Cohort 2025, in 2026
Here61%Still here33%Not enrolledAll CFTs73%Still here23%Not enrolled
Here61%Still here33%Not enrolledAll CFTs73%Still here23%
Still hereAt another institutionNot enrolled

Who graduates, and when

titles 2007–2025

Each 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.

Titled here, % of the cohort, by years since entry
Cohort 2007Cohort 2011Cohort 2015Cohort 2019Cohort 2021All CFTs 2015
0204060091858%47%
0204060091858%47%

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

Cohort 2015, 10 years on
Here58%Titled here34%No title yetAll CFTs47%Titled here12%41%No title yet
Here58%Titled here34%No title yetAll CFTs47%Titled here41%No title yet
Titled hereTitled elsewhereNo title yet

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.

The undergraduate titles it awarded in 2025
Education 26%Engineering and industry 21%Health and welfare 21%Business and law 17%Services 12%Information techn… 3.1%Técnico Asistente del EducadorDiferencial15%Técnico Asistente del Educador dePárvulos11%Técnico enMecánicaIndustrial7.6%Técnico enElectricid…y…4.9%Técnico enInstrumenta…Automatizac…4.5%Técnico enConstruccióny Obras…3.6%Técnico en ServicioSocial21%Técnico enAdministración deEmpresas9.2%Técnico enLogística6.3%Técnico enTransporteMarítimo y Puertos7.4%Técnico en Turismoy Hotelería4.5%Técnico en…
Education 26%Engineering and i… 21%Health and wel… 21%Business … 17%Services 12%TécnicoAsistentedel…15%TécnicoAsistentedel…11%Técnico enMecánicaIndustrial7.6%Técnico enElectricidady…TécnicoenInstrum…4.5%TécnicoenConstru…Técnico enServicio Social21%Técnico enAdministrac…de Empresas9.2%Técnico enLogística6.3%Técnico enTransporteMarítimo y…7.4%Técnico enTurismo y…Técnico en…
Health and welfarehover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

How long it really takes

titles 2023–2025

Undergraduate 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.

Here71%Within the formal length12%1–2 semesters more8.4%11 semesters …All CFTs32%Within the formal length39%1–2 semesters more9.5%3–4 semesters m…7.5%6.5%5.4%
Here71%Within the formal lengthAll CFTs32%Within the formal…39%1–2 semesters more
Within the formal length1–2 semesters more3–4 semesters more5–6 semesters more7–10 semesters more11 semesters or more
Programme by programme
Generic programme (SIES)TitlesFormal, yearsReal, yearsOn timeReal in Chile
Técnico en Servicio Social2832.53.378%3.0
Técnico Asistente del Educador Diferencial1932.53.178%3.0
Técnico Asistente del Educador de Párvulos1502.53.177%2.9
Técnico en Administración de Empresas1182.53.773%3.3
Técnico en Transporte Marítimo y Puertos1002.54.164%3.6
Técnico en Mecánica Industrial982.55.750%3.7
Técnico en Administración Pública o Municipal962.54.671%3.1
Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial642.54.652%3.8
Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles582.54.669%3.9
Técnico en Logística582.52.884%3.0
Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería542.53.467%3.6
Técnico en Computación e Informática492.52.880%3.7
Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial482.52.990%3.5
Técnico en Prevención de Riesgos152.510.30%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 · 2026

Where it teaches, not where its students are from. First-year entrants of 2026 by the commune of the campus they enrolled at.

By region
Biobío715
Biobío715
By commune
Lota614
Cañete101

Postgraduate

2007–2026

Where 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».

Engineering and industry5 peopleBusiness and law3 peopleServices3 peopleInformation technology3 peopleEducation2 peopleArts and humanities1 peopleUniversidad Andres Bello3 peopleOther institutions14 people
Engineering and…5 peopleBusiness and law3 peopleServices3 peopleInformation tec…3 peopleEducation2 peopleArts and humani…1 peopleUniversidad And…3 peopleOther instituti…14 people
Postgraduate institutionPeople%
Universidad Andres Bello635.3%
Universidad San Sebastian529.4%

The names it registers its programmes under

18 names · 2026

The wording each student enrolled under, as the institution filed it. Only names with at least three entrants are printed.

0255075100Educacion Diferencial84Trabajo Social79Electricidad Industrial y Sistemas Electricos78Tecnico de Nivel Superior en Prevencion de Riesgos y Sustentabilidad67Mecanica Industrial62Administracion de Empresas46Educacion de Parvulo41Administracion Publica40Turismo y Gastronomia32Educacion de Parvulos31Construccion29Gestion Portuaria y Pesquera26Instrumentacion y Automatizacion Industrial26Logistica25Tecnico de Nivel Superior en Prevencion de Riesgos y Gestion Sustentable23
0255075100Educacion Diferencial84Trabajo Social79Electricidad Industrial y Sistemas Electricos78Tecnico de Nivel Superior en Prevencion de Riesgos y Su…67Mecanica Industrial62Administracion de Empresas46Educacion de Parvulo41Administracion Publica40Turismo y Gastronomia32Educacion de Parvulos31Construccion29Gestion Portuaria y Pesquera26Instrumentacion y Automatizacion Industrial26Logistica25Tecnico de Nivel Superior en Prevencion de Riesgos y Ge…23

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.