Universidad Alberto Hurtado
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1,909 people started an undergraduate programme at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in 2026, the 33rd largest intake of Chile's 50 universities, and 9,870 were enrolled there in all. Twenty years of it, 2007–2026, followed by the masked student id from school to title.
University · Enrolling in 2026 · main campus region: Metropolitana
At a glance
2026- Enrolled 2026
- 8,432
- First year 2026
- 1,909
- Titles 2025
- 1,002
Largest fields: business and law, education, social sciences.
- Enrolled 2026
- 1,041
- of them in a doctorate
- 105 · 10%
- First year 2026
- 445
- Titles 2025
- 339
12.3 postgraduate students per 100 undergraduates (universities: 7.3).
- Projects 2015–2024
- 237
- Among universities
- 18 of 49
- Fondecyt
- 208
Most specialised in: sociology, anthropology and archaeology, philosophy.
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, 9.3% of the 5,156 people who started here in 2023–2025 were enrolled nowhere the following year; across every university programme, 8.1%.
| Programme | Entrants 2026 | Campuses | Yearly fee | Dropout, year 1 · 2023–2025 | Same programme, Chile | Employed, year 1 | Income, year 4 | Retention, year 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derecho | 235 | 1 | $6.9 M | 4.6% | 7.4% | 79.2% | $1.8–1.9 M | 84.7% |
| Psicología | 211 | 1 | $6.9 M | 2.1% | 6.8% | 63.9% | $1.1–1.2 M | 95.2% |
| Ingeniería Comercial | 169 | 1 | $6.9 M | 12.3% | 7.3% | 84.6% | $1.8–1.9 M | 72.1% |
| Pedagogía en Artes y Música | 128 | 1 | $5.2 M | 10.5% | 10.0% | 79.7% | $1.0–1.1 M | 86.7% |
| Magister en Derecho | 120 | 1 | $3.4 M | 3.7% | 12.5% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Ciencias Sociales | 119 | 1 | $2.9 M | 11.2% | 15.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ciencias Políticas | 109 | 1 | $6.0 M | 8.8% | 7.0% | 54.4% | n/a | 79.7% |
| Ingeniería Civil, plan común y licenciatura en Ciencias de la Ingeniería | 100 | 1 | $5.1 M | 10.7% | 3.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Trabajo Social | 90 | 1 | $4.9 M | 7.7% | 18.0% | 77.0% | n/a | 80.0% |
| Administración Pública | 85 | 1 | $4.7 M | 8.6% | 13.5% | 79.8% | n/a | 81.6% |
| Pedagogía en Idiomas | 73 | 1 | $4.5 M | 9.4% | 6.9% | 75.2% | $1.0–1.1 M | 88.2% |
| Periodismo | 64 | 1 | $6.2 M | 11.3% | 5.1% | 71.5% | n/a | 80.6% |
| Contador Auditor | 62 | 1 | $4.3 M | 6.9% | 14.2% | 86.1% | n/a | 80.9% |
| Magister en Educación | 62 | 1 | $2.5 M | 6.3% | 11.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Lenguaje, Comunicación y/o Castellano | 58 | 1 | $4.9 M | 9.9% | 6.7% | 92.3% | n/a | 69.6% |
| Magister en Administración y Comercio | 53 | 1 | $2.8 M | 5.8% | 15.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Educación de Párvulos | 52 | 1 | $4.4 M | 14.6% | 6.2% | 71.4% | n/a | 79.6% |
| Pedagogía en Historia, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales | 47 | 1 | $4.9 M | 13.5% | 8.8% | 85.0% | n/a | 80.0% |
| Pedagogía en Educación Básica | 44 | 1 | $4.5 M | 13.3% | 5.6% | 90.8% | n/a | 80.0% |
| Pedagogía en Educación Diferencial | 43 | 1 | $4.4 M | 9.4% | 4.8% | 93.7% | n/a | 84.6% |
| Bachillerato y/o Licenciatura en Humanidades | 42 | 1 | $5.5 M | 12.6% | 13.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Sociología | 34 | 1 | $6.0 M | 15.1% | 9.2% | 75.3% | n/a | 69.4% |
| Magister en Humanidades | 31 | 1 | $2.0 M | 13.9% | 14.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Antropología | 27 | 1 | $5.2 M | 15.9% | 6.7% | 51.1% | n/a | 81.1% |
| Pedagogía en Matemáticas y Computación | 25 | 1 | $4.6 M | 14.3% | 7.3% | 90.0% | n/a | 67.9% |
| Licenciatura en Letras y Literatura | 23 | 1 | $5.5 M | 15.7% | 7.9% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Arte y Arquitectura | 21 | 1 | $2.1 M | 4.3% | 11.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Historia | 20 | 1 | $5.5 M | 15.6% | 8.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Geografía | 16 | 1 | $4.9 M | 8.5% | 5.2% | 58.9% | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Tecnología | 16 | 1 | $3.3 M | — | 12.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Ciencias | 15 | 1 | $4.5 M | 8.1% | 7.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Artes y Licenciatura en Artes | 10 | 1 | $5.0 M | 14.0% | 8.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Filosofía y Religión | 9 | 1 | $4.9 M | 14.7% | 13.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programas de Formación Pedagógica | — | — | — | — | 10.6% | 89.2% | 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, 8,432 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: $5,610,000 (universities: $5,901,000). 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.
4 more, and every other programme
| Pedagogía en Ciencias | 15 | 66 | $4,462,000 | — | |
| Artes y Licenciatura en Artes | 10 | 53 | $4,965,000 | — | |
| Pedagogía en Filosofía y Religión | 9 | 40 | $4,932,000 | — | |
| Filosofía | 5 | 40 | $5,295,000 | — | |
| Every other programme | 0 | — | — | — |
4 programmes it no longer opens
| Programas de Formación Pedagógica | 0 | 130 | $2,962,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería en Control de Gestión | 0 | 24 | $3,945,000 | — | |
| Música, Canto o Danza | 0 | 50 | $5,788,000 | — | |
| Matemática y/o Estadística | 0 | — | — | — |
Who studies here
undergraduate · 2026Its undergraduate enrolment of 2026, each split drawn over the same split for all universities. 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. 5,310 of 5,410 (98.2%) have such a record since 2006; the rest — who left school earlier, studied abroad or validated their studies — are not placed.
86.7% finished school in Metropolitana, the region of its main campus.
| Santiago | 576 | 10.8% |
| Maipú | 417 | 7.9% |
| Puente Alto | 396 | 7.5% |
| La Florida | 247 | 4.7% |
| San Bernardo | 179 | 3.4% |
| Providencia | 174 | 3.3% |
| Quilicura | 150 | 2.8% |
| Ñuñoa | 143 | 2.7% |
| Recoleta | 138 | 2.6% |
| Quinta Normal | 123 | 2.3% |
| San Miguel | 123 | 2.3% |
| Talagante | 121 | 2.3% |
95 more comunas
La Cisterna 120 · Melipilla 101 · Peñalolén 96 · El Bosque 88 · La Pintana 87 · Estación Central 85 · Pudahuel 82 · Colina 81 · Renca 80 · Independencia 77 · Buin 76 · Paine 71 · Rancagua 70 · Lampa 65 · Las Condes 63 · Peñaflor 62 · San Ramón 44 · Padre Hurtado 43 · La Reina 41 · Macul 41 · Cerro Navia 40 · Lo Barnechea 35 · La Granja 34 · Cerrillos 32 · Pedro Aguirre Cerda 32 · Curacaví 27 · San Felipe 26 · Conchalí 26 · Iquique 25 · San Fernando 25 · Lo Espejo 25 · Lo Prado 25 · San Antonio 24 · Los Andes 22 · Huechuraba 21 · La Serena 20 · San Vicente 20 · San Joaquín 20 · Isla de Maipo 19 · Arica 19 · Rengo 18 · Santa Cruz 17 · Coyhaique 17 · Curicó 16 · Vitacura 15 · Antofagasta 14 · Pirque 14 · Calera de Tango 14 · Pichilemu 12 · Puerto Montt 12 · Tiltil 12 · Copiapó 11 · Machalí 11 · Talca 11 · Osorno 11 · Ovalle 10 · Calama 9 · Viña del Mar 9 · Coquimbo 8 · Graneros 8 · Temuco 8 · Punta Arenas 8 · El Monte 8 · Litueche 7 · Chimbarongo 7 · Linares 7 · Pucón 7 · Castro 7 · María Pinto 7 · Chillán 7 · Constitución 6 · Concepción 6 · Puerto Varas 6 · Valparaíso 5 · Nancagua 5 · Cauquenes 5 · San Pedro 5 · Alto Hospicio 4 · Los Vilos 4 · Salamanca 4 · Cartagena 4 · Villa Alemana 4 · Las Cabras 4 · Mostazal 4 · Valdivia 4 · Vallenar 3 · La Ligua 3 · El Quisco 3 · Llaillay 3 · Coltauco 3 · Doñihue 3 · Parral 3 · Tucapel 3 · Villarrica 3 · San Carlos 3
81 more comunas sent fewer than 3 each, together 111 entrants; they are not named.
How they chose it
DEMRE · 2021–2026Centralised admission only. DEMRE's register of the universities in the national admission system: every preference of every regular applicant, and who enrolled through it. Direct admission — the way most people enter an institute or a CFT, and some university programmes — is not in it. In 2026, 1,200 applicants put a programme of Universidad Alberto Hurtado as their first choice and 11,193 included one somewhere on their list.
The order of the programme they enrolled in, on the list they applied with.
PAES scale, which starts in 2023; the years before are another test on another scale and are not drawn. Each bar is a share of its own entrants.
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).
1,870 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. 2,977 of 3,482 titles have the dates to be measured.
| Generic programme (SIES) | Titles | Formal, years | Real, years | On time | Real in Chile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derecho | 406 | 5.3 | 7.9 | 0% | 8.4 |
| Psicología | 361 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 2% | 5.7 |
| Ingeniería Comercial | 225 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 16% | 6.1 |
| Pedagogía en Artes y Música | 212 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 28% | 6.0 |
| Trabajo Social | 167 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 36% | 5.0 |
| Administración Pública | 147 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 41% | 5.1 |
| Pedagogía en Idiomas | 142 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 28% | 5.8 |
| Periodismo | 124 | 4.6 | 6.0 | 2% | 5.7 |
| Pedagogía en Educación Básica | 118 | 5.0 | 7.5 | 25% | 5.4 |
| Pedagogía en Lenguaje, Comunicación y/o Castellano | 109 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 39% | 5.7 |
| Antropología | 103 | 5.0 | 6.7 | 15% | 7.7 |
| Ciencias Políticas | 102 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 25% | 5.9 |
| Pedagogía en Historia, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales | 94 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 13% | 6.1 |
| Pedagogía en Educación Diferencial | 73 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 30% | 5.2 |
| Contador Auditor | 69 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 1% | 5.3 |
| Sociología | 69 | 5.0 | 6.7 | 10% | 6.9 |
| Geografía | 68 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 4% | 7.4 |
| Arqueología | 66 | 5.0 | 7.4 | 2% | 7.4 |
| Licenciatura en Letras y Literatura | 61 | 4.0 | 5.9 | 10% | 5.0 |
| Pedagogía en Matemáticas y Computación | 54 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 24% | 5.9 |
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
1 commune · 2026Where it teaches, not where its students are from. First-year entrants of 2026 by the commune of the campus they enrolled at.
| Santiago | 1,909 |
Postgraduate
2007–2026First year of a master's or a doctorate, and everyone enrolled in one. At this level the register classifies into broad fields, not programmes.
Where its postgraduate students did their undergraduate degree
Postgraduate entrants of 2024–2026, followed back to their most recent undergraduate title. 924 of 1,099 (84.1%) have one in the register, which starts in 2007; the rest graduated earlier or abroad, which is not the same as having no degree. Of those found, 17.0% graduated here (universities: 29.0% stay at their own).
Left, where each entrant took their last undergraduate title; right, the postgraduate field they started here. Ribbon width is people. Only the eight largest institutions are named; the rest, and any contributing fewer than three people, are added into «other institutions».
| Undergraduate institution | People | % |
|---|---|---|
| Universidad Alberto Hurtado (itself) | 157 | 14.3% |
| Universidad de Chile | 63 | 5.7% |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 51 | 4.6% |
| Universidad Andres Bello | 44 | 4.0% |
| Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano | 40 | 3.6% |
| Universidad de Santiago de Chile | 34 | 3.1% |
| Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion | 30 | 2.7% |
| Universidad Diego Portales | 27 | 2.5% |
| Universidad Central de Chile | 27 | 2.5% |
| Universidad de Valparaiso | 27 | 2.5% |
| Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion | 26 | 2.4% |
| Universidad de las Americas | 24 | 2.2% |
| Other institutions | 374 | 34.0% |
| No undergraduate title in the register (before 2007 or abroad) | 175 | 15.9% |
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. 1,391 of 7,673 (18.1%) started one (universities: 9.9%); 36.0% 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 Alberto Hurtado (itself) | 501 | 36.0% |
| Universidad de Chile | 187 | 13.4% |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 136 | 9.8% |
| Universidad Andres Bello | 84 | 6.0% |
| Universidad Diego Portales | 84 | 6.0% |
| Universidad de Santiago de Chile | 54 | 3.9% |
| Universidad Adolfo Ibañez | 50 | 3.6% |
| Universidad Central de Chile | 38 | 2.7% |
| Universidad Mayor | 37 | 2.7% |
| Universidad del Desarrollo | 28 | 2.0% |
| Universidad de los Andes | 26 | 1.9% |
| Universidad Finis Terrae | 25 | 1.8% |
Research
ANID · 2006–2025The projects ANID (CONICYT until 2019) awarded with Universidad Alberto Hurtado as principal institution — the one that answers for the project. Each figure is a count of awarded projects: not publications, not money, not people, and a project with partners counts once, here. The year is the year it was decided.
Projects awarded each year
By OECD area · 2015–2024
By ANID programme · 2015–2024
What it is specialised in: Fondecyt's study groups
Its Fondecyt projects of 2015–2024, by the panel each was evaluated in. Specialisation is Balassa's revealed advantage: the group's share here over its share in Chile; above 1, it weighs more here than in the country.
| Study group | Its projects declare mostly | Projects | % | Specialisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology | sociologia, otras sociologias and cambio social y desarrollo | 42 | 20.2 | 5.22 |
| Anthropology and archaeology | antropologia y arqueologia, antropologia cultural y social and arqueologia | 17 | 8.2 | 4.48 |
| Philosophy | filosofia, historia de la filosofia and filosofia analitica | 22 | 10.6 | 3.96 |
| Arts and architecture | musica, otras especialidades de la arquitectura and cine y fotografia | 17 | 8.2 | 3.62 |
| Education | pedagogia y educacion, formacion inicial and didactica especifica | 35 | 16.8 | 3.11 |
| Law and political science | cienicas juridicas y politicas, ciencia politica (inc. legislacion ) and derecho publico | 28 | 13.5 | 2.70 |
| Linguistics and literature | linguistica literatura y filologia, linguistica and literatura chilena | 19 | 9.1 | 2.59 |
| History | historia de chile, historia hispanoamericana and historia | 8 | 3.8 | 1.40 |
| Geography and urbanism | geografia y urbanismo, geografia fisica and geografia humana y cultural | 6 | 2.9 | 1.31 |
| Economics and management | cs. economicas y administrativas, finanzas and teoria economica | 4 | 1.9 | 0.80 |
| Psychology | psicologia, otras psicologias and psicobiologia | 4 | 1.9 | 0.74 |
| Interdisciplinary research | cambio climatico y desarrollo sostenible, biotecnologia y bioingenieria and otros | 2 | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| Engineering 2 | ingenieria en computacion, ingenieria industrial y de sistemas and ingenieria de instrumentacion y control | 2 | 1.0 | 0.16 |
| Earth sciences | oceanografia, geologia y mineralogia and meteorologia y climatologia | 1 | 0.5 | 0.16 |
| Engineering 1 | ingenieria de materiales, ingenieria mecanica and ingenieria hidraulica | 1 | 0.5 | 0.11 |
Where that falls in Chile's knowledge network
One dot per study group, sized by Chile's projects, coloured by OECD area. Two groups are joined when the institutions specialised in one tend to be specialised in the other too — the proximity of Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann (2007), computed over the 39 institutions with 40 or more projects. Filled: the 9 groups Universidad Alberto Hurtado is specialised in. The axes mean nothing; what the picture says is near and far.
Institutions that research something similar
Affinity compares two institutions' mix of Fondecyt study groups: 100 is the same mix, 0 nothing in common. «In common» are the groups both are specialised in. It is similarity of agenda, not collaboration: ANID publishes only the principal institution of each project, and no network of who works with whom can be read from it.
| Institution | Affinity | Specialised, both, in |
|---|---|---|
| Universidad Catolica de Temuco | 79 | Anthropology and archaeology · Education · Geography and urbanism · History · Law and political science · Linguistics and literature · Sociology |
| Universidad Diego Portales | 77 | Education · Philosophy · History · Law and political science · Sociology |
| Universidad de los Lagos | 71 | Anthropology and archaeology · Arts and architecture · Education · Philosophy · Geography and urbanism · Sociology |
| Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion | 70 | Arts and architecture · Education · Philosophy · History · Linguistics and literature · Sociology |
| Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano | 69 | Anthropology and archaeology · Arts and architecture · Philosophy · Geography and urbanism · History · Linguistics and literature · Sociology |
| Universidad Central de Chile | 69 | Anthropology and archaeology · Geography and urbanism · Law and political science · Sociology |
| Universidad Catolica del Maule | 63 | Education · Philosophy · Geography and urbanism · Linguistics and literature · Sociology |
| Universidad Santo Tomas | 62 | Education · Linguistics and literature · Sociology |
Each dot an institution, near the ones whose mix is similar and joined to its two closest; red is Universidad Alberto Hurtado, blue its 8 closest.
The newest competitions · 2025–2026
From the 2025 competitions ANID classifies every project by OECD discipline (the second level of the Frascati Manual), and Fondecyt evaluates in new groups. These 66 projects are read apart, by discipline, and are not part of the specialisation above.
ANID's historical register of awarded projects (CC0), cut at 31 December 2025. Institutions are matched to the SIES by name, with an explicit table for ANID's other spellings; foundations, centres and faculties with a legal personality of their own count as their own institution. Research across Chile →
The names it registers its programmes under
31 names · 2026The wording each student enrolled under, as the institution filed it. Only names with at least three entrants are printed.
16 more names, together 365 entrants.
Similar institutions
Other universities 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 university.