IP Santo Tomas
9,533 people started an undergraduate programme at IP Santo Tomas in 2026, the 6th largest intake of Chile's 24 professional institutes, and 32,779 were enrolled there in all. Twenty years of it, 2007–2026, followed by the masked student id from school to title.
Professional institute · Enrolling in 2026 · main campus region: Metropolitana
At a glance
2026- Enrolled 2026
- 32,370
- First year 2026
- 9,533
- Titles 2025
- 6,208
Largest fields: business and law, health and welfare, engineering and industry.
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, 18.2% of the 24,849 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trabajo Social | 1,820 | 21 | $2.2–2.8 M | 17.2% | 18.0% | 49.7% | $1.0–1.1 M | 78.1% |
| Psicopedagogía | 977 | 16 | $2.3–2.5 M | 17.0% | 20.1% | 51.9% | n/a | 73.5% |
| Administración de Empresas e Ing. Asociadas | 861 | 17 | $2.4–2.8 M | 19.7% | 20.4% | 73.3% | $1.2–1.3 M | 72.1% |
| Ingeniería en Computación e Informática | 743 | 12 | $2.4–3.1 M | 14.6% | 14.8% | 71.0% | $1.5–1.6 M | 79.5% |
| Ingeniería en Recursos Humanos | 472 | 8 | $2.2–2.9 M | 17.1% | 17.2% | 76.6% | $1.2–1.3 M | 72.7% |
| Contador Auditor | 431 | 8 | $2.2–2.8 M | 16.8% | 14.2% | 80.6% | $1.2–1.3 M | 77.2% |
| Diseño Gráfico | 372 | 7 | $2.7–3.1 M | 11.6% | 14.8% | 40.9% | $0.8–0.9 M | 79.7% |
| Ingeniería en Electricidad | 284 | 4 | $2.9–3.3 M | 20.1% | 16.9% | 88.9% | $1.9–2.0 M | 72.9% |
| Construcción Civil | 275 | 7 | $2.4–3.0 M | 24.9% | 21.6% | 65.7% | $1.3–1.4 M | 63.9% |
| Ingeniería en Sonido | 269 | 2 | $3.3–3.3 M | 18.6% | 16.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Comunicación Audiovisual y/o Multimedia | 268 | 3 | $3.4–3.9 M | 13.6% | 11.8% | 45.7% | $1.0–1.1 M | 84.6% |
| Técnico en Computación e Informática | 254 | 5 | $2.1–2.3 M | 19.7% | 22.7% | 61.7% | $1.2–1.3 M | 77.2% |
| Técnico en Minería | 250 | 4 | $2.6–2.8 M | 23.7% | 28.9% | 71.8% | $1.3–1.4 M | 72.1% |
| Ingeniería Agrícola | 216 | 5 | $2.7–2.8 M | 12.4% | 14.8% | 67.8% | $1.0–1.1 M | 81.4% |
| Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial | 210 | 2 | $2.2–2.7 M | 39.4% | 30.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Servicio Social | 178 | 2 | $1.9–2.2 M | 21.6% | 25.3% | 25.9% | $0.8–0.9 M | 71.6% |
| Ingeniería en Automatización, Instrumentación y Control | 148 | 2 | $2.4–3.0 M | 21.8% | 20.7% | 93.6% | n/a | 85.7% |
| Animación Digital | 140 | 1 | $4.0 M | 11.8% | 9.5% | 31.4% | $0.8–0.9 M | 82.5% |
| Técnico en Sonido | 132 | 2 | $2.8–2.8 M | 25.4% | 21.9% | 36.0% | n/a | 73.2% |
| Ingeniería en Prevención de Riesgos | 125 | 1 | $2.3 M | 30.3% | 21.5% | 72.9% | $1.2–1.3 M | 55.0% |
| Administración Pública | 111 | 3 | $2.3–2.7 M | 20.6% | 13.5% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería | 107 | 3 | $2.3–2.3 M | 22.8% | 21.8% | 45.7% | n/a | 65.9% |
| Ingeniería en Logística | 106 | 1 | $2.3 M | 31.2% | 17.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ingeniería en Química | 105 | 2 | $3.0–3.3 M | 14.8% | 18.1% | 73.0% | n/a | 76.1% |
| Ingeniería en Comercio Exterior | 100 | 3 | $2.5–2.6 M | 14.9% | 14.3% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial | 91 | 2 | $2.6–2.6 M | 24.0% | 25.3% | 79.0% | $1.3–1.4 M | 74.4% |
| Ingeniería Industrial | 89 | 2 | $3.1–3.1 M | 24.2% | 22.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Mantenimiento Industrial | 85 | 2 | $2.5–2.8 M | 36.3% | 23.7% | 83.9% | $1.4–1.5 M | 52.6% |
| Ingeniería en Marketing | 83 | 1 | $2.5 M | 18.8% | 16.9% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Técnico en Diseño Gráfico | 70 | 2 | $2.8–2.8 M | 16.1% | 22.3% | 41.6% | $0.8–0.9 M | 79.8% |
| Técnico en Comunicación Audiovisual | 47 | 1 | $2.9 M | 28.7% | 23.1% | 34.6% | $0.9–1.0 M | 59.6% |
| Publicidad | 42 | 1 | $2.8 M | 12.4% | 9.8% | 55.0% | n/a | 80.0% |
| Técnico en Producción Gráfica y Multimedia | 29 | 2 | $3.0–3.1 M | 20.9% | 26.5% | 25.9% | n/a | 64.0% |
| Técnico en Energía | 25 | 1 | $2.6 M | 22.8% | 21.7% | 68.5% | n/a | 60.0% |
| Ingeniería en Geomensura y Cartografía | 18 | 1 | $2.5 M | — | 21.6% | 85.7% | n/a | n/a |
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingeniería en Gestión Pública | — | — | — | 15.0% | 24.2% | 72.0% | $1.1–1.2 M | 69.8% |
| Técnico en Administración de Empresas | — | — | — | — | 25.6% | 68.1% | $1.1–1.2 M | n/a |
| Técnico en Administración de Redes y Soporte | — | — | — | — | 31.4% | 56.3% | $0.9–1.0 M | n/a |
| Técnico en Contabilidad General | — | — | — | — | 24.8% | 69.4% | $1.1–1.2 M | 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, 32,370 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: $2,669,000 (professional institutes: $2,771,000). 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.
10 more, and every other programme
| Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial | 91 | 195 | $2,621,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería Industrial | 89 | 297 | $3,065,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Mantenimiento Industrial | 85 | 151 | $2,698,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería en Marketing | 83 | 151 | $2,466,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Diseño Gráfico | 70 | 220 | $2,708,000 | −55% | |
| Técnico en Comunicación Audiovisual | 47 | 107 | $2,873,000 | −22% | |
| Publicidad | 42 | 140 | $2,779,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Producción Gráfica y Multimedia | 29 | 94 | $3,024,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Energía | 25 | 61 | $2,610,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería en Geomensura y Cartografía | 18 | 183 | $2,479,000 | — | |
| Every other programme | 0 | — | — | — |
13 programmes it no longer opens
Who studies here
undergraduate · 2026Its undergraduate enrolment of 2026, each split drawn over the same split for all professional institutes. 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. 22,962 of 26,664 (86.1%) have such a record since 2006; the rest — who left school earlier, studied abroad or validated their studies — are not placed.
22.5% finished school in Metropolitana, the region of its main campus.
| Antofagasta | 1,678 | 7.3% |
| Talca | 861 | 3.7% |
| Iquique | 856 | 3.7% |
| Puerto Montt | 790 | 3.4% |
| Temuco | 701 | 3.1% |
| La Serena | 610 | 2.7% |
| Copiapó | 592 | 2.6% |
| Puente Alto | 583 | 2.5% |
| Arica | 567 | 2.5% |
| Santiago | 566 | 2.5% |
| Alto Hospicio | 530 | 2.3% |
| Ovalle | 486 | 2.1% |
290 more comunas
Los Ángeles 468 · Valdivia 452 · Rancagua 436 · Coquimbo 419 · Concepción 412 · La Florida 390 · Osorno 382 · Chillán 342 · Punta Arenas 284 · Curicó 281 · Maipú 277 · San Miguel 198 · Ñuñoa 190 · San Bernardo 187 · La Cisterna 181 · Coronel 175 · La Pintana 159 · Calama 157 · Viña del Mar 157 · Recoleta 148 · Quilpué 145 · Valparaíso 141 · Quilicura 135 · El Bosque 134 · Talcahuano 126 · Peñalolén 122 · San Javier 121 · Linares 119 · Quinta Normal 117 · San Fernando 110 · Rengo 107 · Macul 105 · Pudahuel 105 · Providencia 102 · Estación Central 100 · Puerto Varas 98 · Renca 94 · La Granja 90 · Molina 89 · Graneros 88 · Chiguayante 87 · San Carlos 87 · Independencia 84 · Talagante 84 · San Pedro de la Paz 81 · San Joaquín 80 · Angol 77 · Villa Alemana 75 · San Vicente 74 · Maule 74 · Tomé 73 · La Unión 72 · San Ramón 70 · Padre las Casas 69 · Pitrufquén 68 · Colina 68 · Paine 68 · Vallenar 64 · Constitución 64 · Melipilla 63 · Caldera 61 · Monte Patria 61 · Peñaflor 61 · Buin 60 · Nueva Imperial 59 · Tocopilla 58 · Villarrica 57 · Quillota 56 · Padre Hurtado 54 · Calbuco 53 · Coltauco 52 · Ancud 52 · Pozo Almonte 50 · Machalí 50 · Lota 50 · Purranque 50 · Hualpén 47 · Coyhaique 47 · Conchalí 47 · Pedro Aguirre Cerda 47 · Vicuña 46 · Cauquenes 45 · Teno 45 · Mostazal 44 · San Antonio 43 · Santa Cruz 43 · Carahue 43 · San Nicolás 42 · Illapel 40 · Mulchén 40 · Mejillones 39 · Los Muermos 39 · Cerro Navia 39 · Lampa 39 · Paillaco 39 · Castro 38 · Los Andes 37 · Lautaro 37 · Limache 36 · Bulnes 36 · Cerrillos 35 · Lo Espejo 35 · Río Bueno 35 · San Felipe 33 · Chimbarongo 33 · Frutillar 33 · Requínoa 32 · Cabrero 32 · Pucón 32 · La Reina 32 · Diego de Almagro 31 · Parral 31 · Penco 31 · Tierra Amarilla 30 · Olivar 30 · Retiro 30 · Chillán Viejo 30 · Taltal 29 · Las Condes 29 · Andacollo 28 · Punitaqui 28 · Laja 28 · Quellón 28 · Pica 27 · Cañete 27 · Curanilahue 27 · Nacimiento 27 · Maullín 27 · Hualaihué 27 · Curacaví 27 · San Ignacio 27 · Calera 26 · Romeral 26 · Vilcún 26 · Cholchol 26 · Llanquihue 26 · Lo Prado 26 · Mariquina 26 · Panguipulli 26 · Coelemu 26 · San Clemente 25 · Sagrada Familia 25 · Victoria 25 · Huechuraba 25 · Arauco 24 · Fresia 24 · Lanco 24 · Puyehue 23 · Isla de Maipo 23 · Futrono 23 · Yungay 23 · Las Cabras 22 · Santa Juana 21 · Yumbel 21 · Natales 21 · Quinta de Tilcoco 20 · Freire 20 · Collipulli 20 · El Carmen 20 · Salamanca 19 · Santa Bárbara 19 · Los Vilos 18 · Cabildo 18 · Pichilemu 18 · Hualañé 18 · Cunco 18 · Río Negro 18 · Aysén 18 · Quillón 18 · Chépica 17 · Loncoche 17 · El Monte 17 · Coihueco 17 · Combarbalá 16 · La Ligua 16 · Malloa 16 · Hualqui 16 · Lebu 16 · Puerto Octay 16 · Casablanca 15 · Cartagena 15 · Llaillay 15 · Peumo 15 · Tiltil 15 · Pinto 15 · Quintero 14 · Doñihue 14 · Perquenco 14 · Nogales 13 · Codegua 13 · Tucapel 13 · Galvarino 13 · Renaico 13 · San Juan de la Costa 13 · Lolol 12 · Nancagua 12 · Porvenir 12 · María Elena 11 · Pelarco 11 · Calera de Tango 11 · Los Lagos 11 · Lago Ranco 11 · Huasco 10 · Pichidegua 10 · Pelluhue 10 · Colbún 10 · Curacautín 10 · Lo Barnechea 10 · Pirque 10 · San José de Maipo 10 · Chañaral 9 · Concón 9 · Catemu 9 · Gorbea 9 · Traiguén 9 · Chonchi 9 · San Pablo 9 · Quirihue 9 · Ninhue 9 · Ránquil 9 · Curepto 8 · Licantén 8 · Longaví 8 · Melipeuco 8 · Dalcahue 8 · Corral 8 · Ñiquén 8 · Alto del Carmen 7 · Canela 7 · Puchuncaví 7 · Calle Larga 7 · La Cruz 7 · Olmué 7 · Coinco 7 · Peralillo 7 · Empedrado 7 · Villa Alegre 7 · Negrete 7 · Quilleco 7 · Toltén 7 · Máfil 7 · Portezuelo 7 · Huara 6 · Freirina 6 · El Quisco 6 · Santo Domingo 6 · Litueche 6 · Río Claro 6 · Florida 6 · Los Álamos 6 · Alto Biobío 6 · Saavedra 6 · Purén 6 · Cisnes 6 · María Pinto 6 · Río Hurtado 5 · Petorca 5 · Rauco 5 · Yerbas Buenas 5 · Antuco 5 · Quilaco 5 · San Rosendo 5 · Teodoro Schmidt 5 · Quinchao 5 · Chaitén 5 · Pemuco 5 · San Pedro de Atacama 4 · Papudo 4 · Zapallar 4 · Algarrobo 4 · Pencahue 4 · Curarrehue 4 · Lonquimay 4 · Los Sauces 4 · Lumaco 4 · Cochamó 4 · Palena 4 · Cobquecura 4 · Camiña 3 · Rinconada 3 · El Tabo 3 · Marchihue 3 · Paredones 3 · Chanco 3 · Contulmo 3 · Ercilla 3 · Guaitecas 3 · Chile Chico 3 · Vitacura 3 · San Fabián 3
23 more comunas sent fewer than 3 each, together 36 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).
7,873 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. 12,352 of 16,717 titles have the dates to be measured.
| Generic programme (SIES) | Titles | Formal, years | Real, years | On time | Real in Chile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trabajo Social | 2,377 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 49% | 5.0 |
| Psicopedagogía | 1,292 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 63% | 4.7 |
| Administración de Empresas e Ing. Asociadas | 1,216 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 37% | 5.0 |
| Técnico en Servicio Social | 1,142 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 41% | 3.0 |
| Ingeniería en Computación e Informática | 586 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 11% | 5.3 |
| Contador Auditor | 540 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 49% | 5.3 |
| Ingeniería en Recursos Humanos | 511 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 30% | 4.8 |
| Diseño Gráfico | 466 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 34% | 5.2 |
| Técnico en Computación e Informática | 355 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 14% | 3.7 |
| Comunicación Audiovisual y/o Multimedia | 302 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 18% | 4.9 |
| Técnico en Sonido | 283 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 5% | 3.7 |
| Construcción Civil | 266 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 13% | 5.7 |
| Técnico en Diseño Gráfico | 260 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 21% | 3.1 |
| Ingeniería en Electricidad | 239 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 5% | 5.7 |
| Técnico en Electricidad y Electricidad Industrial | 209 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 33% | 3.5 |
| Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería | 203 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 6% | 3.6 |
| Técnico en Minería | 198 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 8% | 3.8 |
| Técnico en Administración de Empresas | 195 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 52% | 3.3 |
| Animación Digital | 170 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 0% | 4.9 |
| Ingeniería en Gestión Pública | 135 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 67% | 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
20 communes · 2026Where it teaches, not where its students are from. First-year entrants of 2026 by the commune of the campus they enrolled at.
| San Joaquín | 2,701 |
| Antofagasta | 769 |
| Santiago | 677 |
| Talca | 562 |
| Iquique | 510 |
| La Serena | 478 |
| Puerto Montt | 453 |
| Temuco | 443 |
| Concepción | 438 |
| Rancagua | 395 |
| Copiapó | 281 |
| Viña del Mar | 274 |
| Chillán | 257 |
| Los Ángeles | 240 |
| Valdivia | 233 |
| Arica | 204 |
| Osorno | 200 |
| Curicó | 171 |
| Ovalle | 150 |
| Punta Arenas | 97 |
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. 542 of 33,722 (1.6%) started one (professional institutes: 1.3%); 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 | 106 | 19.6% |
| Universidad Santo Tomas | 96 | 17.7% |
| Universidad Central de Chile | 38 | 7.0% |
| Universidad San Sebastian | 35 | 6.5% |
| Universidad de Viña del Mar | 34 | 6.3% |
| Universidad Mayor | 21 | 3.9% |
| Universidad Autonoma de Chile | 20 | 3.7% |
| Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicacion - UNIACC | 17 | 3.1% |
| Universidad de Talca | 15 | 2.8% |
| Universidad de Chile | 12 | 2.2% |
| Universidad de Concepcion | 10 | 1.8% |
| Universidad del Desarrollo | 9 | 1.7% |
The names it registers its programmes under
36 names · 2026The wording each student enrolled under, as the institution filed it. Only names with at least three entrants are printed.
21 more names, together 1,870 entrants.
Similar institutions
Other professional institutes 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 professional institute.