CFT Santo Tomas
16,197 people started an undergraduate programme at CFT Santo Tomas in 2026, the 1st largest intake of Chile's 31 CFTs, and 39,749 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: Metropolitana
At a glance
2026- Enrolled 2026
- 39,410
- First year 2026
- 16,197
- Titles 2025
- 10,155
Largest fields: health and welfare, services, business and law.
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, 18.7% of the 46,701 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 Enfermería | 3,482 | 20 | $2.6–3.1 M | 15.7% | 20.7% | 59.8% | $0.8–0.9 M | 79.1% |
| Técnico en Deporte, Recreación y Preparación Física | 2,007 | 17 | $2.5–2.7 M | 21.0% | 22.6% | 35.6% | $0.7–0.8 M | 75.0% |
| Técnico Asistente del Educador de Párvulos | 1,761 | 21 | $2.0–2.3 M | 17.5% | 23.0% | 28.0% | $0.6–0.7 M | 79.0% |
| Técnico Veterinario | 1,133 | 12 | $2.5–2.8 M | 12.9% | 15.9% | 41.0% | $0.7–0.8 M | 85.0% |
| Técnico en Gastronomía y Cocina | 1,032 | 16 | $2.6–3.3 M | 21.3% | 18.9% | 40.7% | $0.7–0.8 M | 73.9% |
| Técnico en Administración de Empresas | 991 | 17 | $2.0–2.5 M | 23.5% | 25.6% | 50.3% | $1.0–1.1 M | 69.3% |
| Técnico Asistente del Educador Diferencial | 975 | 21 | $2.0–2.4 M | 15.5% | 22.2% | 28.6% | $0.6–0.7 M | 82.6% |
| Técnico en Logística | 676 | 13 | $2.1–2.6 M | 26.1% | 25.9% | 74.5% | $1.1–1.2 M | 69.8% |
| Técnico Dental y Asistente de Odontología | 523 | 13 | $2.5–2.9 M | 17.0% | 18.6% | 50.4% | $0.7–0.8 M | 82.1% |
| Técnico Agropecuario | 449 | 9 | $2.3–2.7 M | 24.3% | 25.9% | 43.6% | $0.9–1.0 M | 68.4% |
| Técnico Jurídico | 378 | 8 | $2.1–2.5 M | 20.7% | 30.0% | 49.0% | $0.8–0.9 M | 74.3% |
| Técnico en Contabilidad General | 368 | 6 | $2.1–2.5 M | 24.2% | 24.8% | 53.7% | $1.0–1.1 M | 69.8% |
| Técnico en Podología | 345 | 8 | $2.3–2.5 M | 11.7% | 19.6% | 31.3% | $0.7–0.8 M | 89.4% |
| Técnico en Administración de Recursos Humanos y Personal | 336 | 7 | $2.1–2.7 M | 20.4% | 24.3% | 67.2% | $1.0–1.1 M | 72.1% |
| Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles | 316 | 9 | $2.3–2.7 M | 31.7% | 31.3% | 55.4% | $0.9–1.0 M | 62.5% |
| Técnico en Farmacia | 302 | 8 | $2.6–2.8 M | 18.1% | 18.4% | 72.8% | n/a | 78.4% |
| Técnico en Laboratorio Clínico | 286 | 7 | $2.7–3.0 M | 12.5% | 14.4% | 62.3% | $0.8–0.9 M | 84.6% |
| Técnico Laboratorista Dental | 256 | 7 | $2.3–3.0 M | 13.7% | 15.5% | 43.4% | $0.7–0.8 M | 81.2% |
| Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería | 248 | 3 | $2.4–3.1 M | 19.5% | 21.8% | 54.4% | $0.7–0.8 M | 75.7% |
| Técnico en Acuicultura y Pesca | 150 | 1 | $2.4 M | 19.0% | 19.9% | 81.0% | $1.3–1.4 M | 79.6% |
| Técnico en Topografía | 75 | 3 | $2.2–2.3 M | 29.4% | 24.6% | 62.0% | $1.2–1.3 M | 60.0% |
| Técnico en Comercio Exterior | 52 | 2 | $2.0–2.5 M | 20.7% | 23.0% | 71.4% | n/a | 65.7% |
3 more with SIES figures and no entrants in 2026
| 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 Medio Ambiente (Control y Gestión) | — | — | — | 15.4% | 28.2% | 65.9% | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Prevención de Riesgos | — | — | — | — | 28.9% | 61.1% | $1.0–1.1 M | n/a |
| Técnico en Química (Análisis e Industrial) | — | — | — | — | 17.3% | 63.8% | 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, 39,410 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: $2,528,000 (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.
11 programmes it no longer opens
| Técnico en Prevención de Riesgos | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Ginecología y Obstetricia | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico Agente o Visitador Médico | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Química (Análisis e Industrial) | 0 | 11 | $2,651,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Medio Ambiente (Control y Gestión) | 0 | 28 | $2,518,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Agroindustria | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Sonido | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Arsenaleria Quirúrgica | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Otros Técnicos de Salud | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Comunicación Audiovisual | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial | 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. 42,278 of 47,453 (89.1%) have such a record since 2006; the rest — who left school earlier, studied abroad or validated their studies — are not placed.
23.0% finished school in Metropolitana, the region of its main campus.
| Puente Alto | 1,760 | 4.2% |
| Temuco | 1,559 | 3.7% |
| Antofagasta | 1,480 | 3.5% |
| Talca | 1,204 | 2.8% |
| Puerto Montt | 1,182 | 2.8% |
| Los Ángeles | 1,095 | 2.6% |
| Iquique | 1,071 | 2.5% |
| Ovalle | 1,041 | 2.5% |
| Rancagua | 1,021 | 2.4% |
| Osorno | 922 | 2.2% |
| Valdivia | 918 | 2.2% |
| Santiago | 858 | 2.0% |
308 more comunas
La Serena 839 · Concepción 768 · Arica 728 · Curicó 722 · Punta Arenas 716 · Chillán 706 · La Florida 673 · Copiapó 638 · Coquimbo 628 · Quilpué 585 · Viña del Mar 557 · Alto Hospicio 528 · La Pintana 467 · Valparaíso 447 · Maipú 391 · La Cisterna 337 · Ñuñoa 330 · San Miguel 311 · San Bernardo 310 · Coronel 307 · Recoleta 265 · Rengo 258 · Villa Alemana 254 · El Bosque 240 · Peñalolén 240 · Nueva Imperial 230 · San Carlos 216 · Quilicura 211 · San Fernando 207 · Graneros 204 · Pitrufquén 195 · Molina 194 · San Pedro de la Paz 190 · Padre las Casas 190 · Talcahuano 184 · San Javier 180 · Calama 164 · La Granja 164 · Quinta Normal 159 · San Ramón 158 · Providencia 156 · Colina 156 · Estación Central 151 · Macul 151 · Monte Patria 145 · Calbuco 142 · Puerto Varas 142 · Independencia 142 · Pudahuel 141 · Carahue 140 · Renca 140 · Tomé 139 · Linares 138 · Chiguayante 137 · San Vicente 136 · Mulchén 136 · Buin 136 · Paine 135 · Talagante 135 · Villarrica 132 · La Unión 132 · Lampa 125 · Teno 124 · Purranque 123 · Machalí 121 · San Joaquín 121 · Angol 116 · Paillaco 116 · Santa Cruz 115 · Melipilla 113 · Caldera 112 · Quillota 112 · Maule 109 · Constitución 108 · Cunco 104 · Pedro Aguirre Cerda 101 · Coltauco 98 · Laja 97 · Los Muermos 96 · Santa Bárbara 94 · Lautaro 94 · Las Condes 94 · Hualpén 93 · Vilcún 92 · Peñaflor 92 · Lota 91 · Cholchol 91 · San Antonio 88 · Vallenar 86 · Vicuña 86 · Mostazal 86 · Cabrero 85 · Freire 84 · Río Bueno 84 · Olivar 81 · Ancud 81 · Mariquina 81 · Panguipulli 81 · Cerro Navia 79 · Requínoa 77 · Pucón 76 · Penco 75 · Loncoche 75 · Calera 74 · Puyehue 74 · La Ligua 71 · Coyhaique 71 · Doñihue 70 · Bulnes 69 · Punitaqui 68 · Chimbarongo 66 · Nacimiento 66 · Conchalí 65 · Futrono 65 · Chillán Viejo 65 · San Ignacio 65 · Tocopilla 64 · Lo Espejo 64 · Limache 63 · Yumbel 62 · Hualaihué 60 · Padre Hurtado 60 · Lanco 60 · San Nicolás 60 · Fresia 59 · Frutillar 59 · Río Negro 59 · Los Lagos 58 · Victoria 57 · San Pablo 57 · Salamanca 56 · Quinta de Tilcoco 56 · Pirque 56 · Romeral 55 · San Felipe 54 · Pozo Almonte 53 · Illapel 52 · Chépica 52 · Quintero 51 · Huechuraba 51 · Las Cabras 50 · Cerrillos 50 · La Reina 50 · Máfil 50 · Concón 49 · Los Andes 48 · San Clemente 48 · Cauquenes 48 · El Carmen 48 · Cañete 47 · Codegua 46 · Sagrada Familia 46 · Retiro 46 · Tucapel 46 · Castro 46 · Lo Prado 46 · Combarbalá 45 · Parral 45 · Yungay 45 · Galvarino 44 · Puerto Octay 44 · Collipulli 43 · Tierra Amarilla 42 · Santa Juana 42 · Negrete 42 · San José de Maipo 42 · Maullín 41 · Aysén 41 · Curanilahue 39 · Quellón 39 · Curacaví 39 · Casablanca 38 · Natales 38 · Coihueco 38 · Los Vilos 37 · Hualañé 36 · Renaico 36 · Lo Barnechea 36 · Isla de Maipo 35 · Diego de Almagro 34 · Cartagena 34 · Hualqui 34 · Perquenco 34 · Coelemu 34 · Mejillones 33 · Arauco 33 · Teodoro Schmidt 33 · Pinto 33 · Quillón 33 · Taltal 32 · Cabildo 32 · Quilleco 32 · Llanquihue 31 · Lago Ranco 31 · Nogales 30 · Gorbea 30 · Lonquimay 30 · Quirihue 30 · Malloa 28 · Traiguén 28 · Florida 27 · Curacautín 27 · Pica 26 · Algarrobo 26 · Toltén 25 · Chonchi 25 · Melipeuco 24 · Corral 24 · Purén 23 · Chañaral 22 · Llaillay 22 · Peumo 22 · Rauco 22 · Saavedra 22 · San Juan de la Costa 22 · Longaví 21 · El Monte 21 · Petorca 20 · Olmué 20 · Nancagua 20 · Los Sauces 20 · Porvenir 20 · Tiltil 20 · Andacollo 19 · Pichidegua 18 · Peralillo 18 · Licantén 18 · Pemuco 18 · Ninhue 18 · Ñiquén 18 · Coinco 17 · Río Claro 17 · Calera de Tango 17 · Río Hurtado 15 · Lolol 15 · Colbún 15 · Portezuelo 15 · Huasco 14 · Catemu 14 · Pichilemu 14 · Pelarco 14 · Los Álamos 14 · Alto Biobío 14 · Chaitén 14 · Canela 13 · Isla de Pascua 13 · Empedrado 13 · Yerbas Buenas 13 · Quilaco 13 · Ránquil 13 · Puchuncaví 12 · Calle Larga 12 · La Cruz 12 · Paredones 12 · Pelluhue 12 · Vichuquén 12 · María Pinto 12 · Huara 11 · María Elena 11 · Alto del Carmen 11 · Hijuelas 11 · Palmilla 11 · San Rosendo 11 · Curaco de Vélez 11 · Vitacura 11 · Cobquecura 11 · Freirina 10 · Paihuano 10 · El Quisco 10 · Lebu 10 · Quinchao 10 · Cisnes 10 · Cochrane 10 · Zapallar 9 · El Tabo 9 · Villa Alegre 9 · Cochamó 9 · Futaleufú 9 · Trehuaco 9 · San Pedro de Atacama 8 · Navidad 8 · Curepto 8 · Antuco 8 · Lumaco 8 · Papudo 7 · Contulmo 7 · Palena 7 · Putre 7 · Marchihue 6 · Pencahue 6 · Ercilla 6 · Dalcahue 6 · Quemchi 6 · Chile Chico 6 · Alhué 6 · San Fabián 6 · Santo Domingo 5 · Santa María 5 · Tirúa 5 · Curarrehue 5 · Queilén 5 · Guaitecas 5 · Putaendo 4 · Chanco 4 · Cabo de Hornos 4 · Colchane 3 · Sierra Gorda 3 · Placilla 3
8 more comunas sent fewer than 3 each, together 14 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).
16,278 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. 30,183 of 30,184 titles have the dates to be measured.
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
21 communes · 2026Where it teaches, not where its students are from. First-year entrants of 2026 by the commune of the campus they enrolled at.
| Santiago | 2,398 |
| Temuco | 1,270 |
| Puente Alto | 1,208 |
| Rancagua | 1,009 |
| Viña del Mar | 991 |
| Concepción | 881 |
| San Joaquín | 797 |
| Puerto Montt | 749 |
| Talca | 745 |
| Los Ángeles | 735 |
| La Serena | 718 |
| Antofagasta | 655 |
| Iquique | 615 |
| Chillán | 582 |
| Valdivia | 547 |
| Osorno | 538 |
| Curicó | 509 |
| Ovalle | 406 |
| Punta Arenas | 307 |
| Arica | 281 |
| Copiapó | 256 |
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. 363 of 80,389 (0.5%) 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 | 105 | 28.9% |
| Universidad Santo Tomas | 41 | 11.3% |
| Universidad Mayor | 29 | 8.0% |
| Universidad San Sebastian | 27 | 7.4% |
| Universidad Central de Chile | 26 | 7.2% |
| Universidad Miguel de Cervantes | 18 | 5.0% |
| Universidad de Viña del Mar | 16 | 4.4% |
| Universidad Autonoma de Chile | 11 | 3.0% |
| Universidad SEK | 8 | 2.2% |
| Universidad de Concepcion | 7 | 1.9% |
| Universidad Catolica del Maule | 7 | 1.9% |
| Universidad de las Americas | 5 | 1.4% |
The names it registers its programmes under
30 names · 2026The wording each student enrolled under, as the institution filed it. Only names with at least three entrants are printed.
15 more names, together 2,494 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.