Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion
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1,071 people started an undergraduate programme at Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion in 2026, the 44th largest intake of Chile's 50 universities, and 4,680 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
- 4,278
- First year 2026
- 1,071
- Titles 2025
- 411
Largest fields: education, health and welfare, social sciences.
- Enrolled 2026
- 245
- of them in a doctorate
- 29 · 12%
- First year 2026
- 132
- Titles 2025
- 3
5.7 postgraduate students per 100 undergraduates (universities: 7.3).
- Projects 2015–2024
- 28
- Among universities
- 41 of 49
- Fondecyt
- 24
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, 5.4% of the 2,615 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedagogía en Educación Física | 131 | 1 | $3.7 M | 4.9% | 6.9% | 67.4% | $1.1–1.2 M | 91.8% |
| Pedagogía en Idiomas | 104 | 1 | $3.7 M | 3.6% | 6.9% | 74.5% | $1.1–1.2 M | 92.0% |
| Pedagogía en Educación Diferencial | 101 | 1 | $3.7 M | 4.6% | 4.8% | 93.6% | $1.1–1.2 M | 88.1% |
| Psicología | 100 | 1 | $4.3 M | 3.7% | 6.8% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Educación | 99 | 1 | $3.1 M | 15.2% | 11.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Lenguaje, Comunicación y/o Castellano | 95 | 1 | $3.7 M | 6.7% | 6.7% | 94.3% | $1.2–1.3 M | 85.4% |
| Pedagogía en Historia, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales | 93 | 1 | $3.7 M | 6.5% | 8.8% | 79.9% | $1.1–1.2 M | 87.5% |
| Pedagogía en Artes y Música | 82 | 1 | $4.2 M | 9.6% | 10.0% | 76.2% | $1.0–1.1 M | 84.5% |
| Pedagogía en Educación Básica | 82 | 1 | $3.7 M | 5.7% | 5.6% | 89.2% | n/a | 89.0% |
| Pedagogía en Educación de Párvulos | 62 | 1 | $3.7 M | 5.3% | 6.2% | 74.5% | $1.0–1.1 M | 86.2% |
| Kinesiología | 58 | 1 | $5.3 M | 1.2% | 7.0% | 60.8% | $1.4–1.5 M | 89.6% |
| Pedagogía en Ciencias | 44 | 1 | $3.7 M | 3.5% | 7.0% | 90.2% | $1.3–1.4 M | 96.2% |
| Pedagogía en Matemáticas y Computación | 44 | 1 | $3.7 M | 5.3% | 7.3% | 94.2% | $1.3–1.4 M | 72.4% |
| Terapia Ocupacional | 43 | 1 | $4.3 M | — | 6.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Música, Canto o Danza | 21 | 1 | $4.8 M | 2.0% | 16.9% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Ciencias Sociales | 12 | 1 | $3.2 M | 15.4% | 15.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Pedagogía en Filosofía y Religión | 11 | 1 | $3.7 M | 8.5% | 13.1% | 66.7% | n/a | n/a |
| Magister en Ciencias Básicas | 10 | 1 | $3.7 M | — | 13.6% | 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, 4,278 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: $3,881,000 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedagogía en Educación Física | 131 | 482 | $3,700,000 | +5% | |
| Pedagogía en Idiomas | 104 | 387 | $3,700,000 | −20% | |
| Pedagogía en Educación Diferencial | 101 | 436 | $3,700,000 | −7% | |
| Psicología | 100 | 180 | $4,300,000 | — | |
| Pedagogía en Lenguaje, Comunicación y/o Castellano | 95 | 406 | $3,700,000 | +35% | |
| Pedagogía en Historia, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales | 93 | 331 | $3,700,000 | +15% | |
| Pedagogía en Educación Básica | 82 | 515 | $3,530,000 | −26% | |
| Pedagogía en Artes y Música | 82 | 373 | $4,232,000 | +10% | |
| Pedagogía en Educación de Párvulos | 62 | 261 | $3,700,000 | −39% | |
| Kinesiología | 58 | 279 | $5,300,000 | +25% | |
| Pedagogía en Ciencias | 44 | 233 | $3,650,000 | −74% | |
| Pedagogía en Matemáticas y Computación | 44 | 189 | $3,700,000 | −45% | |
| Terapia Ocupacional | 43 | 65 | $4,300,000 | — | |
| Música, Canto o Danza | 21 | 77 | $4,750,000 | — | |
| Pedagogía en Filosofía y Religión | 11 | 64 | $3,700,000 | — |
Every other programme
| Every other programme | 0 | — | — | — |
3 programmes it no longer opens
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. 2,851 of 2,891 (98.6%) have such a record since 2006; the rest — who left school earlier, studied abroad or validated their studies — are not placed.
91.3% finished school in Metropolitana, the region of its main campus.
| Santiago | 336 | 11.8% |
| Puente Alto | 272 | 9.5% |
| Maipú | 231 | 8.1% |
| La Florida | 185 | 6.5% |
| Ñuñoa | 147 | 5.2% |
| Providencia | 121 | 4.2% |
| San Bernardo | 118 | 4.1% |
| San Miguel | 84 | 2.9% |
| Recoleta | 76 | 2.7% |
| La Cisterna | 70 | 2.5% |
| Quilicura | 66 | 2.3% |
| Peñalolén | 62 | 2.2% |
68 more comunas
La Pintana 56 · Talagante 52 · El Bosque 47 · Macul 47 · Estación Central 43 · Independencia 43 · Quinta Normal 37 · La Reina 36 · Colina 35 · Melipilla 35 · Pudahuel 34 · Buin 32 · Las Condes 29 · La Granja 28 · Rancagua 27 · San Ramón 26 · Renca 25 · Paine 25 · Cerrillos 23 · Peñaflor 22 · Conchalí 18 · Isla de Maipo 18 · Lampa 17 · Pedro Aguirre Cerda 15 · Padre Hurtado 14 · Lo Prado 11 · Iquique 10 · Huechuraba 10 · Antofagasta 9 · Pirque 9 · San Joaquín 8 · Calama 7 · Rengo 7 · San Vicente 7 · San Fernando 7 · Los Andes 6 · San Antonio 6 · San José de Maipo 6 · La Serena 5 · La Ligua 5 · Quillota 5 · Litueche 5 · Curicó 5 · Puerto Montt 5 · Cerro Navia 5 · Lo Espejo 5 · Vitacura 5 · Tiltil 5 · Curacaví 5 · Cartagena 4 · Las Cabras 4 · Santa Cruz 4 · Chillán 4 · Copiapó 3 · Vallenar 3 · Salamanca 3 · San Felipe 3 · Doñihue 3 · Machalí 3 · Chimbarongo 3 · Constitución 3 · Linares 3 · Castro 3 · Ancud 3 · Aysén 3 · Calera de Tango 3 · San Pedro 3 · San Nicolás 3
57 more comunas sent fewer than 3 each, together 80 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, 974 applicants put a programme of Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion as their first choice and 4,641 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).
1,176 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. 1,743 of 1,750 titles have the dates to be measured.
| Generic programme (SIES) | Titles | Formal, years | Real, years | On time | Real in Chile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedagogía en Educación Diferencial | 239 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 11% | 5.2 |
| Pedagogía en Ciencias | 214 | 5.0 | 7.1 | 8% | 6.1 |
| Pedagogía en Idiomas | 178 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 39% | 5.8 |
| Pedagogía en Educación Física | 160 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 38% | 5.6 |
| Pedagogía en Lenguaje, Comunicación y/o Castellano | 158 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 13% | 5.7 |
| Pedagogía en Historia, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales | 140 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 41% | 6.1 |
| Pedagogía en Artes y Música | 137 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 36% | 6.0 |
| Pedagogía en Educación de Párvulos | 129 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 69% | 5.0 |
| Pedagogía en Matemáticas y Computación | 129 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 9% | 5.9 |
| Pedagogía en Educación Básica | 94 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 71% | 5.4 |
| Kinesiología | 66 | 5.0 | 6.5 | 8% | 6.1 |
| Pedagogía en Filosofía y Religión | 54 | 5.0 | 8.8 | 0% | 7.5 |
| Música, Canto o Danza | 43 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 7% | 6.1 |
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.
| Ñuñoa | 1,071 |
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. 263 of 318 (82.7%) 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, 36.9% 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 Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion (itself) | 97 | 30.5% |
| Universidad de Chile | 18 | 5.7% |
| Universidad Catolica Cardenal Raul Silva Henriquez | 12 | 3.8% |
| Universidad de Santiago de Chile | 12 | 3.8% |
| Universidad Andres Bello | 10 | 3.1% |
| Universidad Alberto Hurtado | 10 | 3.1% |
| Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano | 8 | 2.5% |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 8 | 2.5% |
| Universidad Mayor | 7 | 2.2% |
| Universidad San Sebastian | 6 | 1.9% |
| Universidad SEK | 5 | 1.6% |
| Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion | 5 | 1.6% |
| Other institutions | 65 | 20.4% |
| No undergraduate title in the register (before 2007 or abroad) | 55 | 17.3% |
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. 1,462 of 7,075 (20.7%) started one (universities: 9.9%); 20.2% 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 Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion (itself) | 296 | 20.2% |
| Universidad Andres Bello | 242 | 16.6% |
| Universidad de Chile | 147 | 10.1% |
| Universidad Mayor | 109 | 7.5% |
| Universidad Central de Chile | 96 | 6.6% |
| Universidad Alberto Hurtado | 85 | 5.8% |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 79 | 5.4% |
| Universidad Finis Terrae | 71 | 4.9% |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso | 56 | 3.8% |
| Universidad de Santiago de Chile | 54 | 3.7% |
| Universidad Diego Portales | 43 | 2.9% |
| Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion | 29 | 2.0% |
Research
ANID · 2006–2025The projects ANID (CONICYT until 2019) awarded with Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion 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. It is computed only for institutions with at least 40 projects in the window, and this one has 24: its shares are shown, its specialisation is not.
| Study group | Its projects declare mostly | Projects | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | pedagogia y educacion, formacion inicial and didactica especifica | 5 | 20.8 |
| History | historia de chile, historia hispanoamericana and historia | 5 | 20.8 |
| Linguistics and literature | linguistica literatura y filologia, linguistica and literatura chilena | 4 | 16.7 |
| Astronomy, cosmology and particles | astronomia cosmologia y particulas, astronomia and gravitacion y cosmologia | 3 | 12.5 |
| Arts and architecture | musica, otras especialidades de la arquitectura and cine y fotografia | 1 | 4.2 |
| Biology 1 | ecologia y ciencias ambientales, genetica y evolucion and biologia marina | 1 | 4.2 |
| Philosophy | filosofia, historia de la filosofia and filosofia analitica | 1 | 4.2 |
| Geography and urbanism | geografia y urbanismo, geografia fisica and geografia humana y cultural | 1 | 4.2 |
| Medicine G1 (biomedical sciences) | medicina g1 - cs. biomedicas, cardiologia fisiologia cardiovascular and oncologia quimioterapia cirugia oncologia | 1 | 4.2 |
| 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 | 1 | 4.2 |
| Chemistry | quimica, fisico quimica quimica teorica y computacional fotoquimica-fotofisica catalisis y coloides and quimica organica | 1 | 4.2 |
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 12 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
22 names · 2026The wording each student enrolled under, as the institution filed it. Only names with at least three entrants are printed.
7 more names, together 83 entrants.
Similar institutions
Other universities with a first-year intake of similar size in 2026.
- 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
- Universidad de Magallanes 1,233
- Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano 1,152
- Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicacion - UNIACC 1,089
- Universidad de Viña del Mar 1,055
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.