Universidad del Alba
Logo: Editapro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons1,724 people started an undergraduate programme at Universidad del Alba in 2026, the 36th largest intake of Chile's 50 universities, and 9,603 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: Coquimbo
At a glance
2026- Enrolled 2026
- 9,218
- First year 2026
- 1,724
- Titles 2025
- 410
Largest fields: health and welfare, social sciences, agriculture and veterinary.
- Enrolled 2026
- 281
- of them in a doctorate
- 0 · 0%
- First year 2026
- 74
- Titles 2025
- 78
3.0 postgraduate students per 100 undergraduates (universities: 7.3).
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, 16.0% of the 6,374 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psicología | 484 | 4 | $3.6–4.4 M | 18.0% | 6.8% | 57.7% | $1.1–1.2 M | 75.5% |
| Medicina Veterinaria | 294 | 4 | $4.8–5.6 M | 15.0% | 6.9% | 73.8% | n/a | 77.4% |
| Enfermería | 202 | 4 | $4.6–5.4 M | 15.1% | 5.3% | 74.2% | $1.6–1.7 M | 75.7% |
| Derecho | 139 | 4 | $3.9–4.7 M | 19.5% | 7.4% | 34.4% | n/a | 72.7% |
| Kinesiología | 139 | 4 | $4.5–4.7 M | 15.0% | 7.0% | 42.7% | $1.3–1.4 M | 70.5% |
| Tecnología Médica | 124 | 3 | $4.1–5.2 M | 12.9% | 5.3% | 82.2% | n/a | 72.1% |
| Medicina | 117 | 2 | $9.4–9.9 M | 7.4% | 1.3% | 99.1% | over $3.5 M | 88.3% |
| Trabajo Social | 69 | 1 | $2.3 M | 18.8% | 18.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Educación | 45 | 1 | $3.3 M | 7.5% | 11.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ingeniería Civil en Minas | 34 | 1 | $4.3 M | 11.7% | 7.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Terapia Ocupacional | 32 | 2 | $4.2 M | — | 6.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Ciencias Sociales | 29 | 1 | $4.0 M | 11.2% | 15.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ingeniería Civil Industrial | 28 | 1 | $4.4 M | 3.6% | 5.0% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Administración Pública | 21 | 1 | $2.3 M | 15.1% | 13.5% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Ingeniería Comercial | 19 | 1 | $3.5 M | 39.6% | 7.3% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Nutrición y Dietética | 14 | 1 | $4.1 M | 16.3% | 8.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Agronomía | 8 | 1 | $4.2 M | — | 7.5% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fonoaudiología | — | — | — | 24.0% | 7.4% | 53.9% | $0.9–1.0 M | 63.8% |
| Odontología | — | — | — | — | 4.1% | 69.1% | 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, 9,218 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: $4,784,000 (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. 2 enrolments whose fee is written in UF or not recorded are left out.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psicología | 484 | 2,507 | $3,870,000 | +590% | |
| Medicina Veterinaria | 294 | 1,391 | $5,103,000 | +241% | |
| Enfermería | 202 | 1,148 | $4,843,000 | −16% | |
| Derecho | 139 | 779 | $4,313,000 | −35% | |
| Kinesiología | 139 | 660 | $4,640,000 | +29% | |
| Tecnología Médica | 124 | 526 | $4,583,000 | +302% | |
| Medicina | 117 | 896 | $9,676,000 | +82% | |
| Trabajo Social | 69 | 485 | $2,257,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería Civil en Minas | 34 | 110 | $4,348,000 | — | |
| Terapia Ocupacional | 32 | 32 | $4,150,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería Civil Industrial | 28 | 95 | $4,430,000 | — | |
| Administración Pública | 21 | 147 | $2,257,000 | — | |
| Ingeniería Comercial | 19 | 145 | $3,492,000 | −58% | |
| Nutrición y Dietética | 14 | 139 | $4,235,000 | −10% |
Every other programme
| Every other programme | 8 | — | — | — |
25 programmes it no longer opens
| Fonoaudiología | 0 | 99 | $3,954,000 | −74% | |
| Pedagogía en Educación Física | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Ingeniería en Minas | 0 | 2 | — | — | |
| Pedagogía en Educación de Párvulos | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Odontología | 0 | 8 | $7,752,000 | — | |
| Pedagogía en Idiomas | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Pedagogía en Educación Básica | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Geología | 0 | 41 | $4,623,000 | — | |
| Criminalística | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Otros Profesionales de Salud | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Pedagogía en Historia, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Relaciones Públicas | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Administración Turística y Hotelera | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Ingeniería en Construcción | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Ingeniería en Computación e Informática | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Arquitectura | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Pedagogía en Educación Diferencial | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Publicidad | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Diseño Gráfico | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Pedagogía en Lenguaje, Comunicación y/o Castellano | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Ingeniería Industrial | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Periodismo | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Ingeniería en Prevención de Riesgos | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Administración de Empresas e Ing. Asociadas | 0 | — | — | — | |
| Psicopedagogía | 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. 5,133 of 6,139 (83.6%) have such a record since 2006; the rest — who left school earlier, studied abroad or validated their studies — are not placed.
30.0% finished school in Coquimbo, the region of its main campus.
| Antofagasta | 726 | 14.1% |
| La Serena | 717 | 14.0% |
| Coquimbo | 510 | 9.9% |
| Chillán | 510 | 9.9% |
| Calama | 203 | 4.0% |
| Ovalle | 187 | 3.6% |
| San Carlos | 147 | 2.9% |
| Santiago | 132 | 2.6% |
| Copiapó | 96 | 1.9% |
| Vallenar | 95 | 1.9% |
| Maipú | 77 | 1.5% |
| Puente Alto | 59 | 1.1% |
136 more comunas
San Nicolás 52 · La Florida 48 · Bulnes 43 · Iquique 40 · San Bernardo 37 · Arica 37 · Tocopilla 33 · Ñuñoa 31 · Quilicura 31 · Vicuña 30 · Los Ángeles 28 · San Miguel 27 · Rancagua 26 · Parral 26 · Las Condes 25 · Peñalolén 24 · Diego de Almagro 23 · Monte Patria 23 · La Cisterna 23 · Providencia 23 · Estación Central 20 · Recoleta 20 · Coihueco 20 · El Bosque 19 · La Pintana 19 · Chillán Viejo 18 · Combarbalá 17 · San Fernando 17 · San Ignacio 17 · Alto Hospicio 16 · Mejillones 16 · Viña del Mar 16 · Linares 15 · Independencia 15 · Colina 15 · Melipilla 15 · Illapel 14 · Pudahuel 14 · Buin 14 · Huasco 13 · Valparaíso 13 · Osorno 13 · Curicó 12 · Punta Arenas 12 · Macul 12 · Talagante 12 · Peñaflor 12 · El Carmen 12 · Pinto 12 · Chañaral 11 · San Antonio 11 · Talca 11 · Concepción 11 · Puerto Montt 11 · Conchalí 11 · La Reina 11 · Lampa 11 · Taltal 10 · Andacollo 10 · Quillota 10 · Temuco 10 · Quinta Normal 10 · Yungay 10 · Quirihue 10 · María Elena 9 · Caldera 9 · Los Andes 9 · Cauquenes 9 · Pitrufquén 9 · Padre Hurtado 9 · Los Vilos 8 · Coyhaique 8 · Ñiquén 8 · Salamanca 7 · Punitaqui 7 · San Felipe 7 · Castro 7 · Valdivia 7 · Ninhue 7 · Quilpué 6 · Vitacura 6 · Pemuco 6 · Ránquil 6 · Alto del Carmen 5 · Freirina 5 · Santa Cruz 5 · Constitución 5 · San Pedro de la Paz 5 · Talcahuano 5 · Nueva Imperial 5 · Angol 5 · Ancud 5 · Lo Prado 5 · Renca 5 · San Ramón 5 · Paine 5 · San Fabián 5 · San Pedro de Atacama 4 · Canela 4 · Río Hurtado 4 · Limache 4 · Villa Alemana 4 · Machalí 4 · Rengo 4 · San Vicente 4 · Coronel 4 · Cañete 4 · Los Álamos 4 · Purranque 4 · Cerrillos 4 · Lo Espejo 4 · Pedro Aguirre Cerda 4 · Calera de Tango 4 · Paihuano 3 · Concón 3 · La Ligua 3 · Calera 3 · Graneros 3 · Retiro 3 · San Javier 3 · Chiguayante 3 · Tomé 3 · Cabrero 3 · Nacimiento 3 · Carahue 3 · Collipulli 3 · Frutillar 3 · Puerto Varas 3 · Aysén 3 · Cerro Navia 3 · La Granja 3 · Lo Barnechea 3 · San Joaquín 3 · María Pinto 3 · Quillón 3 · Coelemu 3
72 more comunas sent fewer than 3 each, together 98 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, 660 applicants put a programme of Universidad del Alba as their first choice and 5,447 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).
919 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. 1,594 of 1,738 titles have the dates to be measured.
| Generic programme (SIES) | Titles | Formal, years | Real, years | On time | Real in Chile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enfermería | 298 | 5.0 | 6.5 | 35% | 6.0 |
| Psicología | 233 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 61% | 5.7 |
| Derecho | 215 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 63% | 8.4 |
| Medicina | 209 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 50% | 7.5 |
| Fonoaudiología | 144 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 28% | 6.1 |
| Kinesiología | 141 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 35% | 6.1 |
| Medicina Veterinaria | 91 | 5.0 | 7.8 | 5% | 7.2 |
| Tecnología Médica | 86 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 42% | 6.4 |
| Odontología | 49 | 6.0 | 7.4 | 37% | 7.5 |
| Ingeniería Civil en Minas | 33 | 5.0 | 9.4 | 12% | 7.9 |
| Nutrición y Dietética | 27 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 37% | 6.2 |
| Ingeniería Civil Industrial | 25 | 5.0 | 7.5 | 36% | 6.9 |
| Ingeniería en Minas | 21 | 4.0 | 10.3 | 10% | 6.0 |
| Geología | 16 | 5.0 | 9.6 | 0% | 8.0 |
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
4 communes · 2026Where it teaches, not where its students are from. First-year entrants of 2026 by the commune of the campus they enrolled at.
| La Serena | 600 |
| Providencia | 584 |
| Chillán | 293 |
| Antofagasta | 247 |
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. 185 of 236 (78.4%) 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, 19.5% 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 del Alba (itself) | 36 | 15.3% |
| Universidad Tecnologica de Chile INACAP | 9 | 3.8% |
| Universidad de Antofagasta | 8 | 3.4% |
| Universidad San Sebastian | 7 | 3.0% |
| Universidad del Bio-Bio | 7 | 3.0% |
| Universidad Andres Bello | 6 | 2.5% |
| Universidad Santo Tomas | 5 | 2.1% |
| Universidad de las Americas | 5 | 2.1% |
| Universidad Autonoma de Chile | 5 | 2.1% |
| Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins | 5 | 2.1% |
| Universidad Arturo Prat | 5 | 2.1% |
| IP Dr. Virginio Gomez G. | 4 | 1.7% |
| Other institutions | 83 | 35.2% |
| No undergraduate title in the register (before 2007 or abroad) | 51 | 21.6% |
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. 588 of 8,369 (7.0%) started one (universities: 9.9%); 8.3% 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 | 137 | 23.3% |
| Universidad Central de Chile | 71 | 12.1% |
| Universidad del Alba (itself) | 49 | 8.3% |
| Universidad Mayor | 35 | 6.0% |
| Universidad Santo Tomas | 30 | 5.1% |
| Universidad San Sebastian | 24 | 4.1% |
| Universidad Catolica del Norte | 22 | 3.7% |
| Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins | 19 | 3.2% |
| Universidad Finis Terrae | 17 | 2.9% |
| Universidad Miguel de Cervantes | 14 | 2.4% |
| Universidad Adolfo Ibañez | 13 | 2.2% |
| Universidad del Desarrollo | 13 | 2.2% |
Research
ANID's register has no project awarded to Universidad del Alba as principal institution in 2006–2025. That says it won no ANID competition in its own name, not that it does no research: research paid by the institution itself, by CORFO outside ANID or from abroad is not in this register. Research in Chile →
The names it registers its programmes under
16 names · 2026The wording each student enrolled under, as the institution filed it. Only names with at least three entrants are printed.
1 more names, together 8 entrants.
Similar institutions
Other universities with a first-year intake of similar size in 2026.
- Universidad de Atacama 2,048
- Universidad Alberto Hurtado 1,909
- Universidad de los Andes 1,863
- Universidad de la Serena 1,843
- Universidad Catolica Cardenal Raul Silva Henriquez 1,592
- Universidad de Antofagasta 1,578
- Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins 1,514
- Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion 1,460
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.