Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrialat IP Santo Tomas
210 people started it here in 2026, at 2 campuses: 6.1% of everyone who started Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial in Chile. Of everyone who started it here in 2023–2025, 39.4% were enrolled nowhere the following year (all of Chile: 30.1%) and 46% were still in it (63%); of those who started in 2019, 34% had its title 4 years on (all of Chile: 37%).
Professional institute · accredited 5 years · Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial across Chile →
- Where is it taught here?
- 2 campuses
- San Joaquín, Antofagasta
- Campuses with first-year entrants this year; the comuna is the campus's.
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- What does a year cost?
- $2.2–2.7 M
- list fee 2026 · Chile $2.0–3.3 M
- The list price, before free tuition, grants or loans.
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- How long does it take?
- 3.6 years
- formal 2.5 · Chile 3.8
- What it really took those who graduated here, 2023–2025.
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- How many drop out after the first year?
- 39.4%
- cohorts 2023–2025 · Chile 30.1%
- Not enrolled at any institution the year after starting here. Some come back later: it is first-year dropout, not final.
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- How many are still in it in year two?
- 46%
- changed 15% · Chile 63%
- Still in this programme here. Whoever changed programme or institution is still studying.
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- How many graduate?
- 34%
- within 4 years · cohort 2019 · Chile 37%
- Of those who started here, with a title in this programme from any institution.
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- Is it growing here?
- 210
- entrants 2026 · +170% vs 2017–2019
- More entrants means more places and more demand, not a better programme.
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Everything on this page is about IP Santo Tomas's own students of this programme and what SIES publishes for it; every block sets it beside the programme across Chile, counted the same way. Students are followed for the institution as a whole: only where it is taught is split by campus.
Where it is taught
2026Every campus of IP Santo Tomas that took first-year entrants into this programme in 2026. The comuna is the campus's, not the students'.
Each dot is a comuna with a campus that took first-year entrants; its area is how many. The comuna is the campus's, not the students'. Click a dot to list only that comuna.
2 places to study it · 210 entrants in 2026
| Institution and campus | Entrants 2026 | Yearly list fee | Length | Timetable | Dropout, year 1 · 2023–2025 | Employed, year 1 | Income, year 4 | Retention, year 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IP Santo TomasProfessional institute · Sede Virtual · San Joaquínaccredited 5 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion E Instrumentacion Industrial | 166 | $2,152,000 | 5 sem. | Distance | 39.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
IP Santo TomasProfessional institute · Sede Antofagasta · Antofagastaaccredited 5 yearsTecnico en Automatizacion E Instrumentacion Industrial | 44 | $2,675,000 | 5 sem. | Evening | 39.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
First-year dropout is the share of the institution's entrants to this programme in 2023–2025 who were enrolled at no institution the following year, counted by PuroChile on Mineduc's register for the institution as a whole — the same on each of its campuses; "—" is fewer than 30 entrants. The first five columns are Mineduc's enrolment register for 2026: the campus, its first-year entrants (1–2 where there were fewer than three), the mean yearly list fee of those entrants (a fee filed in UF reads "UF"), the formal length in semesters, the timetables, and under the name the institution's accreditation as the register files it. The last three are what SIES publishes on mifuturo.cl (release 2025-2026) for the institution and this generic programme — the same figure on every campus of an institution, because SIES does not publish them by campus. "s/d" means SIES did not publish it, usually because fewer than eleven graduates could be matched.
Who stays, who changes, who drops out
cohorts 2023–2025Everyone who started this programme here is looked up in the next year's enrolment register by their masked id: still in this programme here; here in another programme; at another institution; or not enrolled anywhere, which is first-year dropout. Changing programme or institution is not dropping out, and not every dropout is final: some come back later, which one year's register cannot see. The bar adds up the cohorts of 2023–2025 — everyone in each outcome over everyone who started, not an average of three years — beside everyone who started the programme anywhere in Chile in those years. A window or a cohort under 30 people carries no rate.
155 people started it here in 2023–2025; 39.4% were enrolled nowhere the following year (all of Chile: 30.1%) and 15% changed programme or institution (7%). Every institution side by side →
Each point is one cohort that started here, found the next year; a cohort under 30 people has no point. The last, 2025, had 94: 44.7% enrolled nowhere in 2026, 38% still in the programme.
Who graduates, and when
titles 2007–2025The same cohorts followed into the register of titles: the share with a title in this generic programme by years since they started here — from this institution or from any other, since someone who moved and finished the same programme elsewhere did finish it. 4 years is the formal length here rounded up plus one. A recent cohort has a short line, not a low one: the register goes to 2025.
Horizontal axis: years since entry (0 is the year they started).
41 people started here in 2019. "Titled in another" is someone whose first title of the same level is in a different generic programme. The row for Chile is that year's whole cohort of the programme, over the same 4 years.
How long it really takes
titles 2023–2025The titles in this programme that IP Santo Tomas gave in 2023–2025, in regular plans: from the start of the semester of entry to the date of the title, against the formal length. On average 3.6 years for a formal 2.5; across Chile, 3.8 for 2.3. 46 of its 46 titles have the dates to be measured. These are the people who graduated here, not a cohort that started here.
After graduating
mifuturo.cl · 2025-2026SIES publishes no employment or income for this programme at IP Santo Tomas on mifuturo.cl (release 2025-2026). It leaves out any combination with fewer than eleven graduates it can match to a tax return, broad catch-all groups and postgraduate programmes. PuroChile does not estimate what SIES did not publish. It does for 10 other institutions: see the programme's page.
Is it growing or shrinking here?
2007–2026From 2017–2019 to 2024–2026, its yearly intake here went from 42 to 112 on average: +170%. Each figure compares three-year averages, never two single years, and is printed only where both average at least 20 entrants; the windows leave out 2020–2021. More entrants is more places and more demand, not a better programme.
19% of its 2026 entrants here are women. The same programme across Chile is on its own page.
The names it is registered under here
2026Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial is SIES's generic programme; these are the names IP Santo Tomas registers it under on its campuses, the ones to look for on its admission site. They stay in Spanish on both editions.
- Tecnico en Automatizacion E Instrumentacion Industrial
The same programme at other institutions
entrants 2026- IP IACC 847
- IP INACAP 756
- IP AIEP 508
- IP Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior - IPLACEX 247
- Universidad de Atacama 94
- CFT San Agustin 91
- IP Providencia 90
- CFT CEDUC - UCN 84
- IP IPG 78
- Universidad Catolica de la Santisima Concepcion 62
- Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria 59
- IP Dr. Virginio Gomez G. 50
- Universidad Mayor 42
- IP DUOC UC 41
- CFT de ENAC 39
- CFT PUCV 28
- CFT Lota-Arauco 26
- CFT Juan Bohon 24
- CFT de la Region de Valparaiso 23
- CFT de la Region de los Rios 21
- Universidad de Magallanes 15
- CFT de la Region de Aysen del General Carlos Ibañez del Campo 14
- CFT de la Region del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins 10
Compare every institution's dropout, graduation and fee → · Every place to study Técnico en Instrumentación, Automatización y Control Industrial, on the map →
More programmes at IP Santo Tomas
entrants 2026- Trabajo Social 1,820
- Psicopedagogía 977
- Administración de Empresas e Ing. Asociadas 861
- Ingeniería en Computación e Informática 743
- Ingeniería en Recursos Humanos 472
- Contador Auditor 431
- Diseño Gráfico 372
- Ingeniería en Electricidad 284
- Construcción Civil 275
- Ingeniería en Sonido 269
- Comunicación Audiovisual y/o Multimedia 268
- Técnico en Computación e Informática 254
- Técnico en Minería 250
- Ingeniería Agrícola 216
- Técnico en Servicio Social 178
- Ingeniería en Automatización, Instrumentación y Control 148
- Animación Digital 140
- Técnico en Sonido 132
- Ingeniería en Prevención de Riesgos 125
- Administración Pública 111
- Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería 107
- Ingeniería en Logística 106
- Ingeniería en Química 105
- Ingeniería en Comercio Exterior 100
Mineduc's enrolment and titles registers (SIES), read whole for every year and followed person by person by the masked id Mineduc publishes for that purpose; employment and income from SIES on mifuturo.cl. A programme has a page at an institution where it reached 10 entrants there in some year and is taught there today or published on mifuturo. The institutions of a programme add up to the programme, entrant by entrant and cohort by cohort. How each figure is made, and its checks.