Universidad Austral de Chile
Logo: Universidad Austral de Chile, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons3,710 people started an undergraduate programme at Universidad Austral de Chile in 2026, the 16th largest intake of Chile's 50 universities, and 18,515 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: Los Ríos
At a glance
2026- Enrolled 2026
- 17,530
- First year 2026
- 3,710
- Titles 2025
- 2,528
Largest fields: health and welfare, engineering and industry, business and law.
- Enrolled 2026
- 788
- of them in a doctorate
- 178 · 23%
- First year 2026
- 344
- Titles 2025
- 265
4.5 postgraduate students per 100 undergraduates (universities: 7.3).
- Projects 2015–2024
- 726
- Among universities
- 6 of 49
- Fondecyt
- 521
Most specialised in: animal health and production, biology 1, earth sciences.
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, 5.1% of the 10,748 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 | 215 | 2 | $6.0 M | 4.5% | 7.4% | 73.0% | $1.6–1.7 M | 82.4% |
| Ingeniería Comercial | 213 | 2 | $5.9 M | 3.5% | 7.3% | 73.0% | $1.6–1.7 M | 88.5% |
| Ingeniería Civil Industrial | 204 | 2 | $5.9 M | 3.0% | 5.0% | 79.5% | $1.7–1.8 M | 85.5% |
| Psicología | 151 | 2 | $5.9 M | 2.2% | 6.8% | 59.7% | $1.2–1.3 M | 92.4% |
| Administración Pública | 130 | 2 | $5.2 M | 5.0% | 13.5% | 64.8% | n/a | 86.7% |
| Química y Farmacia | 130 | 1 | $5.9 M | 2.7% | 3.6% | 100.0% | $2.3–2.4 M | 87.4% |
| Enfermería | 126 | 2 | $5.9 M | 2.6% | 5.3% | 82.5% | $1.8–1.9 M | 86.7% |
| Medicina Veterinaria | 125 | 1 | $6.7 M | 1.6% | 6.9% | 77.5% | $1.3–1.4 M | 91.4% |
| Tecnología Médica | 125 | 2 | $5.9 M | 3.5% | 5.3% | 74.6% | $1.5–1.6 M | 79.9% |
| Agronomía | 123 | 1 | $6.3 M | 4.3% | 7.5% | 58.7% | $1.5–1.6 M | 79.0% |
| Terapia Ocupacional | 116 | 2 | $5.9 M | 3.3% | 6.6% | 52.3% | $1.2–1.3 M | 91.3% |
| Ingeniería Civil en Computación e Informática | 101 | 1 | $5.9 M | 7.0% | 6.1% | 76.8% | n/a | 76.5% |
| Arquitectura | 95 | 1 | $6.6 M | 3.7% | 6.7% | 57.9% | $1.3–1.4 M | 84.2% |
| Ingeniería Civil en Obras Civiles | 77 | 1 | $5.9 M | 9.2% | 12.6% | 78.8% | $1.7–1.8 M | 80.0% |
| Medicina | 76 | 1 | $8.6 M | 0.5% | 1.3% | 94.2% | over $3.5 M | 96.0% |
| Odontología | 76 | 1 | $9.2 M | 3.7% | 4.1% | 62.2% | $1.6–1.7 M | 88.0% |
| Kinesiología | 75 | 1 | $5.9 M | 2.5% | 7.0% | 50.8% | $1.4–1.5 M | 81.2% |
| Pedagogía en Educación de Párvulos | 75 | 2 | $4.6 M | 2.2% | 6.2% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Biología Marina y Ecología Marina | 71 | 1 | $6.8 M | 4.5% | 6.9% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Ciencias Sociales | 65 | 2 | $2.7–3.3 M | 42.5% | 15.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Educación Física | 65 | 1 | $4.6 M | 9.3% | 6.9% | 54.9% | n/a | 78.2% |
| Bioquímica | 64 | 1 | $6.8 M | 3.6% | 5.6% | 47.2% | n/a | 86.4% |
| Biología | 63 | 1 | $6.8 M | 4.5% | 6.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Geología | 60 | 1 | $6.4 M | 8.0% | 9.6% | 56.1% | n/a | 63.8% |
| Ingeniería Civil Mecánica | 60 | 1 | $5.9 M | 11.2% | 9.5% | 71.4% | n/a | 87.5% |
| Magister en Derecho | 59 | 1 | $4.9 M | 27.6% | 12.5% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Contador Auditor | 57 | 1 | $5.2 M | 4.1% | 14.2% | 83.2% | $1.4–1.5 M | 85.0% |
| Bachillerato y/o Licenciatura en Tecnología | 56 | 1 | $5.9 M | 8.7% | 5.7% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Obstetricia y Puericultura | 56 | 1 | $5.9 M | 2.4% | 3.5% | 77.3% | $1.6–1.7 M | 94.9% |
| Magister en Ciencias Básicas | 53 | 1 | $3.0 M | 29.5% | 13.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ingeniería en Control de Gestión | 52 | 1 | $5.9 M | 3.2% | 8.9% | 86.5% | n/a | 90.2% |
| Periodismo | 52 | 1 | $5.0 M | 6.8% | 5.1% | 63.0% | n/a | 84.8% |
| Ingeniería Civil Electrónica | 49 | 1 | $5.9 M | 5.1% | 7.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Lenguaje, Comunicación y/o Castellano | 44 | 1 | $4.6 M | 3.4% | 6.7% | 68.9% | n/a | 87.2% |
| Diseño | 42 | 1 | $5.9 M | 5.0% | 4.5% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Música, Canto o Danza | 41 | 1 | $6.3 M | 6.9% | 16.9% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Otros Profesionales de Arte y Arquitectura | 40 | 1 | $6.6 M | 1.7% | 19.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Idiomas | 40 | 1 | $4.6 M | 3.2% | 6.9% | 49.2% | $1.0–1.1 M | 91.4% |
| Pedagogía en Historia, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales | 39 | 1 | $4.6 M | 6.4% | 8.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Artes y Licenciatura en Artes | 38 | 1 | $5.9 M | 12.6% | 8.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Educación Básica | 35 | 1 | $4.6 M | 8.4% | 5.6% | 92.2% | $1.2–1.3 M | 90.4% |
| Antropología | 34 | 1 | $4.6 M | 5.5% | 6.7% | 48.2% | n/a | 76.5% |
| Administración Turística y Hotelera | 33 | 1 | $5.3 M | 4.4% | 13.5% | 40.5% | n/a | 86.5% |
| Magister en Administración y Comercio | 33 | 1 | $3.8 M | 22.8% | 15.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ingeniería en Recursos Renovables | 30 | 1 | $6.8 M | 9.9% | 7.2% | 59.1% | $1.2–1.3 M | 74.4% |
| Química, Licenciado en Química | 29 | 1 | $5.9 M | 0.0% | 5.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Trabajo Social | 28 | 1 | $4.6 M | 8.0% | 18.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ingeniería en Construcción | 25 | 1 | $5.6 M | 9.8% | 16.2% | 72.9% | $1.5–1.6 M | 73.2% |
| Pedagogía en Educación Diferencial | 24 | 1 | $4.6 M | 0.0% | 4.8% | 75.6% | $1.1–1.2 M | 92.0% |
| Ingeniería en Alimentos | 21 | 1 | $5.4 M | 17.6% | 11.3% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Educación | 21 | 2 | $3.0–3.0 M | 42.9% | 11.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Fonoaudiología | 20 | 1 | $5.9 M | 6.5% | 7.4% | 49.2% | $1.0–1.1 M | n/a |
| Programas de Formación Pedagógica | 20 | 1 | $4.6 M | 8.5% | 10.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ingeniería en Medio Ambiente | 19 | 1 | $5.9 M | 1.6% | 10.2% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Educación Técnico Profesional | 19 | 1 | $4.6 M | 5.6% | 8.4% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Humanidades | 18 | 1 | $2.9 M | — | 14.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Geografía | 17 | 1 | $5.2 M | 9.3% | 5.2% | 38.6% | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Tecnología | 16 | 2 | $3.0–3.4 M | 31.7% | 12.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Doctorado en Ciencias Básicas | 15 | 1 | $4.2 M | 7.7% | 11.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Matemáticas y Computación | 14 | 1 | $4.6 M | 9.4% | 7.3% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Bachillerato y/o Licenciatura en Ciencias Básicas | 12 | 1 | $7.0 M | 12.5% | 9.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Arte y Arquitectura | 6 | 1 | $3.2 M | — | 11.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Doctorado en Tecnología | 4 | 1 | $4.2 M | — | 11.8% | n/a | 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, 17,530 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: $5,997,000 (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.
| Generic programme (SIES) | First year 2026 | Enrolled 2026 | Mean list fee | 2007–2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derecho | 215 | 889 | $6,037,000 | +134% | |
| Ingeniería Comercial | 213 | 873 | $5,923,000 | +40% | |
| Ingeniería Civil Industrial | 204 | 955 | $5,923,000 | +203% | |
| Psicología | 151 | 743 | $5,923,000 | +159% | |
| Administración Pública | 130 | 510 | $5,198,000 | — | |
| Química y Farmacia | 130 | 600 | $5,923,000 | +104% | |
| Enfermería | 126 | 620 | $5,923,000 | +135% | |
| Tecnología Médica | 125 | 697 | $5,923,000 | +13% | |
| Medicina Veterinaria | 125 | 766 | $6,686,000 | +18% | |
| Agronomía | 123 | 538 | $6,314,000 | +23% | |
| Terapia Ocupacional | 116 | 515 | $5,923,000 | +118% | |
| Ingeniería Civil en Computación e Informática | 101 | 434 | $5,923,000 | +43% | |
| Arquitectura | 95 | 515 | $6,557,000 | +25% | |
| Ingeniería Civil en Obras Civiles | 77 | 397 | $5,923,000 | +2% | |
| Odontología | 76 | 431 | $9,209,000 | +10% | |
| Medicina | 76 | 531 | $8,600,000 | +14% | |
| Pedagogía en Educación de Párvulos | 75 | 375 | $4,559,000 | — | |
| Kinesiología | 75 | 316 | $5,923,000 | +40% | |
| Biología Marina y Ecología Marina | 71 | 306 | $6,825,000 | +77% | |
| Pedagogía en Educación Física | 65 | 299 | $4,559,000 | +42% | |
| Bioquímica | 64 | 274 | $6,825,000 | +44% | |
| Biología | 63 | 155 | $6,825,000 | +3% | |
| Ingeniería Naval | 60 | 264 | $5,586,000 | −3% | |
| Geología | 60 | 313 | $6,443,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería Civil Mecánica | 60 | 246 | $5,923,000 | −3% |
31 more, and every other programme
12 programmes it no longer opens
| Pedagogía en Ciencias | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Ingeniería en Computación e Informática | 0 | 1 | $5,019,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería en Acuicultura y Pesca | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Construcción y Obras Civiles | 0 | 11 | $2,720,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Turismo y Hotelería | 0 | 13 | $3,023,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería Forestal | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico Agropecuario | 0 | 21 | $3,106,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Contabilidad General | 0 | 8 | $2,699,000 | — | |
| Técnico en Acuicultura y Pesca | 0 | 34 | $3,080,000 | — | |
| Secretariado Ejecutivo | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Técnico en Mantenimiento Industrial | 0 | 2 | $3,185,000 | — | |
| Administración de Empresas e Ing. Asociadas | 0 | 1 | $3,785,000 | — |
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. 10,921 of 11,080 (98.6%) have such a record since 2006; the rest — who left school earlier, studied abroad or validated their studies — are not placed.
43.1% finished school in Los Ríos, the region of its main campus.
| Valdivia | 2,797 | 25.6% |
| Puerto Montt | 1,442 | 13.2% |
| Osorno | 570 | 5.2% |
| Castro | 328 | 3.0% |
| Coyhaique | 301 | 2.8% |
| Paillaco | 296 | 2.7% |
| La Unión | 291 | 2.7% |
| Ancud | 235 | 2.2% |
| Puerto Varas | 232 | 2.1% |
| Mariquina | 232 | 2.1% |
| Los Lagos | 215 | 2.0% |
| Panguipulli | 184 | 1.7% |
161 more comunas
Futrono 179 · Río Bueno 169 · Calbuco 162 · Lanco 144 · Los Muermos 121 · Villarrica 116 · Quellón 104 · Purranque 100 · Temuco 99 · Aysén 97 · Frutillar 96 · Fresia 84 · Lago Ranco 78 · Hualaihué 69 · Punta Arenas 67 · Corral 61 · Máfil 58 · Loncoche 55 · Rancagua 54 · Santiago 52 · Los Ángeles 47 · Quinchao 46 · La Serena 45 · Llanquihue 44 · Maullín 43 · Maipú 43 · Natales 42 · Chillán 41 · Pucón 37 · Chonchi 35 · Puente Alto 34 · Calama 31 · Cisnes 31 · Iquique 30 · Antofagasta 30 · Puyehue 30 · Río Negro 30 · Angol 29 · La Florida 29 · Providencia 29 · Arica 28 · Cochrane 27 · Rengo 23 · Curicó 22 · Queilén 22 · Chile Chico 22 · Ñuñoa 21 · Talca 19 · Alto Hospicio 18 · Dalcahue 18 · Linares 17 · Chaitén 17 · Ovalle 16 · Curaco de Vélez 16 · Puerto Octay 16 · Futaleufú 16 · Copiapó 15 · Concepción 15 · Pitrufquén 15 · San Miguel 15 · Valparaíso 14 · Santa Cruz 14 · San Antonio 13 · San Felipe 13 · San Fernando 13 · San Pablo 13 · Colina 13 · Coquimbo 12 · Cochamó 12 · Quemchi 12 · Porvenir 12 · Buin 12 · Viña del Mar 11 · Victoria 11 · El Bosque 11 · La Cisterna 11 · Quilicura 11 · San Bernardo 11 · Quilpué 10 · Peñalolén 10 · Talagante 10 · Cunco 9 · Curacautín 9 · Palena 9 · Padre Hurtado 9 · Los Andes 8 · Villa Alemana 8 · Graneros 8 · Machalí 8 · Independencia 8 · Las Condes 8 · Lampa 8 · Cañete 7 · La Pintana 7 · Peñaflor 7 · Yungay 7 · Quillota 6 · Quinta de Tilcoco 6 · San Vicente 6 · Arauco 6 · Lonquimay 6 · Traiguén 6 · San Juan de la Costa 6 · Guaitecas 6 · La Reina 6 · San Carlos 6 · Concón 5 · Parral 5 · Mulchén 5 · Nacimiento 5 · Purén 5 · Estación Central 5 · Pirque 5 · Paine 5 · Melipilla 5 · El Carmen 5 · San Nicolás 5 · Tocopilla 4 · Andacollo 4 · Illapel 4 · Isla de Pascua 4 · La Ligua 4 · Petorca 4 · Chimbarongo 4 · San Javier 4 · Lebu 4 · Laja 4 · Nueva Imperial 4 · Toltén 4 · Los Sauces 4 · Cerrillos 4 · La Granja 4 · Macul 4 · Quinta Normal 4 · Recoleta 4 · Vicuña 3 · Los Vilos 3 · Casablanca 3 · Quintero 3 · Cabildo 3 · Limache 3 · Coltauco 3 · Pichilemu 3 · Constitución 3 · Cauquenes 3 · San Pedro de la Paz 3 · Tomé 3 · Curanilahue 3 · Santa Bárbara 3 · Tucapel 3 · Carahue 3 · Padre las Casas 3 · Vilcún 3 · Collipulli 3 · Conchalí 3 · Huechuraba 3 · Lo Prado 3 · Pudahuel 3 · San Ramón 3 · Vitacura 3 · San José de Maipo 3
70 more comunas sent fewer than 3 each, together 95 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, 4,579 applicants put a programme of Universidad Austral de Chile as their first choice and 13,035 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).
3,177 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. 7,512 of 7,575 titles have the dates to be measured.
| Generic programme (SIES) | Titles | Formal, years | Real, years | On time | Real in Chile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enfermería | 396 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 24% | 6.0 |
| Psicología | 382 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 61% | 5.7 |
| Terapia Ocupacional | 354 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 49% | 5.7 |
| Ingeniería Civil Industrial | 348 | 5.5 | 7.0 | 4% | 6.9 |
| Ingeniería Comercial | 339 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 8% | 6.1 |
| Tecnología Médica | 327 | 5.0 | 7.5 | 15% | 6.4 |
| Medicina Veterinaria | 298 | 5.0 | 8.5 | 0% | 7.2 |
| Administración Pública | 262 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 73% | 5.1 |
| Medicina | 251 | 7.0 | 7.9 | 49% | 7.5 |
| Agronomía | 229 | 5.0 | 7.5 | 3% | 7.2 |
| Odontología | 202 | 6.0 | 7.2 | 29% | 7.5 |
| Obstetricia y Puericultura | 189 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 23% | 6.1 |
| Ingeniería Civil en Obras Civiles | 187 | 5.5 | 7.6 | 8% | 7.4 |
| Derecho | 171 | 5.0 | 8.3 | 2% | 8.4 |
| Ingeniería en Recursos Renovables | 151 | 5.0 | 6.7 | 5% | 7.2 |
| Arquitectura | 148 | 5.6 | 7.6 | 3% | 7.4 |
| Kinesiología | 148 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 38% | 6.1 |
| Química y Farmacia | 146 | 5.5 | 8.2 | 4% | 7.1 |
| Fonoaudiología | 142 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 35% | 6.1 |
| Pedagogía en Educación Básica | 130 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 50% | 5.4 |
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 · 2026Where it teaches, not where its students are from. First-year entrants of 2026 by the commune of the campus they enrolled at.
| Valdivia | 2,873 |
| Puerto Montt | 837 |
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. 738 of 916 (80.6%) 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, 49.2% 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 Austral de Chile (itself) | 363 | 39.6% |
| Universidad de Chile | 43 | 4.7% |
| Universidad de Concepcion | 36 | 3.9% |
| Universidad Catolica de Temuco | 33 | 3.6% |
| Universidad San Sebastian | 32 | 3.5% |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 18 | 2.0% |
| Universidad de la Frontera | 17 | 1.9% |
| Universidad Andres Bello | 16 | 1.7% |
| Universidad Mayor | 14 | 1.5% |
| Universidad Santo Tomas | 14 | 1.5% |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso | 12 | 1.3% |
| Universidad de Santiago de Chile | 11 | 1.2% |
| Other institutions | 129 | 14.1% |
| No undergraduate title in the register (before 2007 or abroad) | 178 | 19.4% |
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. 2,191 of 16,346 (13.4%) started one (universities: 9.9%); 38.8% 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 Austral de Chile (itself) | 851 | 38.8% |
| Universidad San Sebastian | 167 | 7.6% |
| Universidad Andres Bello | 163 | 7.4% |
| Universidad de Chile | 161 | 7.3% |
| Universidad Mayor | 111 | 5.1% |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 109 | 5.0% |
| Universidad de la Frontera | 89 | 4.1% |
| Universidad de Concepcion | 49 | 2.2% |
| Universidad Santo Tomas | 46 | 2.1% |
| Universidad Adolfo Ibañez | 40 | 1.8% |
| Universidad del Desarrollo | 36 | 1.6% |
| Universidad Central de Chile | 28 | 1.3% |
Research
ANID · 2006–2025The projects ANID (CONICYT until 2019) awarded with Universidad Austral de Chile 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal health and production | salud y produccion animal, acuicultura and ciencias veterinarias | 75 | 14.4 | 5.69 |
| Biology 1 | ecologia y ciencias ambientales, genetica y evolucion and biologia marina | 78 | 15.0 | 3.57 |
| Earth sciences | oceanografia, geologia y mineralogia and meteorologia y climatologia | 33 | 6.3 | 2.06 |
| Geography and urbanism | geografia y urbanismo, geografia fisica and geografia humana y cultural | 23 | 4.4 | 2.01 |
| Biology 3 | biologia molecular, microbiologia and bioquimica | 36 | 6.9 | 1.65 |
| Agronomy | ciencias del suelo, fisiologia vegetal and fruticultura y viticultura | 34 | 6.5 | 1.60 |
| Law and political science | cienicas juridicas y politicas, ciencia politica (inc. legislacion ) and derecho publico | 37 | 7.1 | 1.43 |
| Anthropology and archaeology | antropologia y arqueologia, antropologia cultural y social and arqueologia | 13 | 2.5 | 1.37 |
| Biology 2 | biologia celular, fisiologia biofisica and inmunologia | 16 | 3.1 | 0.97 |
| Arts and architecture | musica, otras especialidades de la arquitectura and cine y fotografia | 11 | 2.1 | 0.93 |
| Interdisciplinary research | cambio climatico y desarrollo sostenible, biotecnologia y bioingenieria and otros | 9 | 1.7 | 0.89 |
| Education | pedagogia y educacion, formacion inicial and didactica especifica | 22 | 4.2 | 0.78 |
| History | historia de chile, historia hispanoamericana and historia | 10 | 1.9 | 0.70 |
| Medicine G1 (biomedical sciences) | medicina g1 - cs. biomedicas, cardiologia fisiologia cardiovascular and oncologia quimioterapia cirugia oncologia | 12 | 2.3 | 0.66 |
| Psychology | psicologia, otras psicologias and psicobiologia | 8 | 1.5 | 0.59 |
| Engineering 1 | ingenieria de materiales, ingenieria mecanica and ingenieria hidraulica | 13 | 2.5 | 0.57 |
| Sociology | sociologia, otras sociologias and cambio social y desarrollo | 11 | 2.1 | 0.55 |
| Astronomy, cosmology and particles | astronomia cosmologia y particulas, astronomia and gravitacion y cosmologia | 13 | 2.5 | 0.50 |
| Philosophy | filosofia, historia de la filosofia and filosofia analitica | 7 | 1.3 | 0.50 |
| Chemistry | quimica, fisico quimica quimica teorica y computacional fotoquimica-fotofisica catalisis y coloides and quimica organica | 18 | 3.5 | 0.44 |
| Mathematics | analisis, ecuaciones diferenciales and metodos numericos | 11 | 2.1 | 0.38 |
| Engineering 3 | ingenieria quimica, procesamiento y tecnologia de alimentos and bioingenieria | 8 | 1.5 | 0.38 |
| Theoretical and experimental physics | fisica teorica y experimental, fisica de solidos and sistemas no lineales | 6 | 1.2 | 0.37 |
| Linguistics and literature | linguistica literatura y filologia, linguistica and literatura chilena | 6 | 1.2 | 0.33 |
| Economics and management | cs. economicas y administrativas, finanzas and teoria economica | 3 | 0.6 | 0.24 |
| Engineering 2 | ingenieria en computacion, ingenieria industrial y de sistemas and ingenieria de instrumentacion y control | 6 | 1.2 | 0.19 |
| Medicine G2–G3 (clinical and public health) | medicina g2-g3 - cs. clinicas y cs. de la salud publica, enfermedades de la nutricion y endocrinologia and anestesiologia reanimacion tratamiento intensivo medicina critica | 2 | 0.4 | 0.13 |
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 8 groups Universidad Austral de Chile 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 del Norte | 70 | Anthropology and archaeology · Biology 1 · Geography and urbanism · Law and political science · Earth sciences |
| Universidad de Concepcion | 67 | Agronomy · Animal health and production · Biology 1 · Biology 3 · Geography and urbanism · Earth sciences |
| Universidad de los Lagos | 66 | Animal health and production · Anthropology and archaeology · Biology 1 · Geography and urbanism · Earth sciences |
| Universidad Mayor | 65 | Agronomy · Anthropology and archaeology · Biology 1 · Biology 3 · Earth sciences |
| Universidad de Chile | 63 | Animal health and production · Anthropology and archaeology · Biology 3 · Earth sciences |
| Universidad Andres Bello | 59 | Animal health and production · Biology 3 |
| Universidad Catolica de Temuco | 59 | Agronomy · Animal health and production · Anthropology and archaeology · Geography and urbanism · Law and political science |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 58 | Biology 1 · Geography and urbanism |
Each dot an institution, near the ones whose mix is similar and joined to its two closest; red is Universidad Austral de Chile, 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 109 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
57 names · 2026The wording each student enrolled under, as the institution filed it. Only names with at least three entrants are printed.
42 more names, together 1,703 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.