University of Buenos Aires

Unlike other major cities in the Spanish Colonial Americas, Buenos Aires did not count with a university of its own during colonial times. The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was relatively less important compared to other regions in Spanish South America, as most economic activity was based around the Andes range. Cultural and educational work in Buenos Aires was carried out by members of the Company of Jesus, and within the viceroyalty, Córdoba, Chuquisaca, and Santiago de Chile already counted with universities.{{cite book|title=La cultura de Buenos Aires a través de su prensa periódica, desde 1810 hasta 1820|last=Urquiza Almandoz|first=Oscar F.|date=1972|location=Buenos Aires|publisher=Eudeba|language=es}}

File:Antonio Sáenz.jpg, first rector of the University of Buenos Aires]]

Following the May Revolution in 1810 and Argentina's Declaration of Independence in 1816, the push for a university in the capital of the newly independent nation strengthened. On 12 August 1821, the University of Buenos Aires was officially founded through a decree by Governor Martín Rodríguez. At the university's inaugural act, the cleric and statesman Antonio Sáenz was appointed as the first Rector.{{cite web|url=https://www.uba.ar/noticia/16135|website=uba.ar|title=La UBA celebra su 195º aniversario|date=12 August 2016|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826213801/https://www.uba.ar/noticia/16135|url-status=live}}

During the university's early years of existence, the conflict between proponents of a laicist approach to the university's education and defendants of the traditional religious approach divided students and professors alike.{{cite journal|url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2007-28722012000300004|last=Unzué|first=Martín|title=Historia del origen de la universidad de Buenos Aires (A propósito de su 190° aniversario)|trans-title=History of the origin of the University of Buenos Aires (on the occasion of its 190th anniversary)|journal=Revista iberoamericana de educación superior|date=September 2012|volume=3|issue=8|issn=2007-2872|language=es|access-date=26 August 2022|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826213800/https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2007-28722012000300004|url-status=live}} From the start, existing institutions were merged into the university in order to guarantee a high level of professionalism and organization: courses on mathematics, drawing, nautic sciences and natural history were transferred from the Consulate of Buenos Aires, the Military Medical Institute and the Colegio de la Unión del Sud. In addition, law professors and courses were incorporated from the Academia de Jurisprudencia. This allowed the university to begin imparting medicine and law degrees from the moment of its foundation.{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/revista-belgranianos-13/page/n9/mode/2up|publisher=Asociación Belgraniana de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires|journal=Revista Belgraniano|volume=13|last1=Rossi Belgrano|language=es|first1=Alejandro|last2=Rossi Belgrano|first2=Mariana|pages=8–15|title=Manuel Belgrano y la Universidad de Buenos Aires en su Bicentenario}}

Free access to the university was suspended during the rule of caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the number of students decreased considerably. Budget cuts imposed by Rosas's government meant professors were no longer being paid, and the Department of Exact Sciences was nearly forced to close down. During this period, Francisco Javier Muñiz began making the first strides in the field of paleontology in Argentina, and became dean of the Faculty of Medicine. The situation normalized following the fall of Rosas at the Battle of Caseros in 1852. The new government of the State of Buenos Aires made bettering the university's conditions a priority; the political elites began seeing higher education as a necessary part of the country's upcoming consolidation and stabilization stages.{{cite web|url=https://www.uba.ar/historia/contenidos.php?id=2&s=19|website=uba.ar|title=200 años de historia {{!}} Programa Historia y Memoria|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826213800/https://www.uba.ar/historia/contenidos.php?id=2&s=19|url-status=live}}

File:Egresados de la UBA de derecho (1891).jpg and Leopoldo Melo]]

In 1863, the university established the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires; the Escuela Superior de Comercio followed in 1890.{{cite book|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/148073828.pdf|title=El Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires|last=Brandáriz|first=Gustavo A.|date=2010|publisher=Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Manzana de las Luces|location=Buenos Aires|language=es|access-date=26 August 2022|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826213756/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/148073828.pdf|url-status=live}} In 1869, the first twelve Argentine engineers graduated from the University of Buenos Aires; they would henceforth be known as the "Twelve Apostles". Among them was Valentín Balbín, who would become president of the Sociedad Científica Argentina. In 1891, the department of natural sciences took the name of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, and, in 1896, a special doctorate for chemistry was also established. By 1909, UBA had also created the faculties of Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences, as well as the Instituto de Altos Estudios Comerciales y de Ciencias Económicas.{{cite web|url=https://www.agro.uba.ar/historia?page=1|title=Historia de la Facultad de Agronomía|website=agro.uba.ar|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826213801/https://www.agro.uba.ar/historia?page=1|url-status=live}}

The federalization of Buenos Aires in 1881 made the university dependent of the Argentine national state. During the Generation of '80, a period marked by the conservative elitism of Argentina's political class, the University of Buenos Aires made great progress in its scientific research, as the governing elites followed the ideals of positivism and scientificism popular in the late 19th century.{{cite journal|url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/10915/130709/Documento_completo.pdf-PDFA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=El rico aporte de la Generación del 80 en el campo de la educación|last=Franchi|first=Elinor L.|journal=Revista de la Universidad|pages=299–304|date=1981|language=es|access-date=26 August 2022|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826213759/http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/10915/130709/Documento_completo.pdf-PDFA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|url-status=live}} The 1880s were also marked by the university's first women graduates, Élida Passo (pharmacy) and Cecilia Grierson (medicine). These were, however, still exceptions to the rule in an otherwise male-dominated environment, as it fit the customs of Argentine society at the time.{{cite web|url=https://museoroca.cultura.gob.ar/noticia/199-anos-de-la-creacion-de-la-universidad-de-buenos-aires/|work=Museo Roca {{!}} Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas|title=Historia de la creación de la Universidad de Buenos Aires|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826213757/https://museoroca.cultura.gob.ar/noticia/199-anos-de-la-creacion-de-la-universidad-de-buenos-aires/|url-status=live}}

{{Main|Argentine university reform of 1918}}

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The newfound prosperity experienced by Argentina at the turn of the 20th century allowed the children of (primarily European) immigrants, the new Argentine middle class, to attend university for the first time. In June 1918, a political and cultural movement impulsed by students at the National University of Córdoba caused a shockwave across Latin America: students were now protesting for further autonomy in universities, democratically elected authorities and co-governance, and open contests for teaching positions. The reform set up the freedom for universities to define their own curriculum and manage their own budget without interference from the central government. This has had a profound effect on academic life at the universities through the nationalization process that boasts academic freedom and independence throughout university life.

The University Reform granted UBA (as well as all other public universities in Argentina) one of the key features of its institutional life, maintained up to this day: co-governed, democratically elected institutions and authorities.{{cite web|url=https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202108/564855-linea-tiempo-uba-200-anos.html|work=Télam|title=Un viaje por los dos siglos de historia de la Universidad de Buenos Aires|date=12 August 2021|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=20 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920173201/https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/202108/564855-linea-tiempo-uba-200-anos.html|url-status=live}}

In 1923, Ernesto de la Cárcova, a fine arts painter and academic professor, created the Extension Department of Fine Arts Education, known as the Superior Art School of the Nation in Spanish "Escuela Nacional Superior de las Artes", previously guilded in 1905 as the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1905, taking its long origins from the 1875 founding of the National Society of the Stimulus of the Arts by painters Eduardo Schiaffino, Eduardo Sívori, and others. Since 1993, this Arts Extension Department became an independent institution known as IUNA Instituto Universitario Nacional de las Artes, then, in 2014 became the Collegiate University UNA Universidad Nacional de las Artes.

The university's co-governance and autonomy were suspended during the presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, beginning in 1946. Perón's government also made access to public universities completely free of cost, through Decree 29.337, in November 1949. This represented the beginning of unrestricted access to culture, higher education and professionalization for the working class.{{cite news|url=https://www.clarin.com/opinion/gratuidad-universitaria-70-anos-llenan-orgullo_0_ePe1JCfr.html|work=Clarín|last=Barbieri|first=Alberto|title=Gratuidad universitaria: 70 años que nos llenan de orgullo|date=21 November 2019|access-date=22 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826223818/https://www.clarin.com/opinion/gratuidad-universitaria-70-anos-llenan-orgullo_0_ePe1JCfr.html|url-status=live}} From 1935 to 1955, the number of students enrolled at UBA grew from 12,000 to 71,823.{{cite conference|url=https://cdsa.aacademica.org/000-106/421.pdf?view|title=El movimiento estudiantil de la UBA tras la caída del peronismo (1955-1957)|last=Califa|first=Juan Sebastián|page=2|conference=VII Jornadas de Sociología|date=2007|publisher=Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires|language=es|access-date=26 August 2022|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826223819/https://cdsa.aacademica.org/000-106/421.pdf?view|url-status=live}}

The 1940s also saw the creation of the Faculty of Dentistry and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, both through laws passed through the National Congress.

File:Blargos1.jpg, 29 July 1966]]

The 1955 Revolución Libertadora re-established the university's autonomy and co-governance, but also persecuted peronists and leftists within the university, leading to the expulsion and exile of hundreds of professors. Blacklists for university professors were established, and UBA was among the most affected institutions.{{cite journal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132324/http://webiigg.sociales.uba.ar/conflictosocial/revista/05/14_izaguirre.pdf|url=http://webiigg.sociales.uba.ar/conflictosocial/revista/05/14_izaguirre.pdf|last=Izaguirre|first=Inés|title=La Universidad y el Estado terrorista. La Misión Ivanissevich.|journal=Conflicto Social|volume=4|issue=15|date=June 2011|archive-date=4 March 2016|language=es|issn=1852-2262|publisher=Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires}} Further repression and persecution followed during the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía, which intervened all universities and applied censorship to much of the universities' contents. On 29 July 1966, following a student-led occupation of five of UBA's faculties, state authorities dislodged the legitimately-elected authorities of said faculties and violently removed students, graduates and professors from the premises. The students were protesting the 1966 coup d'état, which had deposed constitutional president Arturo Illia. The event would be known as the Night of the Long Batons ({{langx|es|Noche de los Bastones Largos}}).

The Night of the Long Batons ended with over 400 people detained, and several laboratories and libraries destroyed by state authorities. In the months that followed, hundreds of professors were fired or forced to leave their positions. Many went into exile: in total, it is estimated 301 professors, of which 215 were researchers, left Argentina following the events of 29 July 1966.{{cite news|url=https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2020/07/29/la-noche-de-los-bastones-largos-los-garrotazos-a-la-universidad-y-el-mayor-exilio-de-mentes-brillantes-de-la-historia/|work=Infobae|title=La noche de los bastones largos: los garrotazos a la universidad y el mayor exilio de mentes brillantes de la historia|last=Serra|first=Alfredo|date=29 July 2020|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=18 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518182839/https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2020/07/29/la-noche-de-los-bastones-largos-los-garrotazos-a-la-universidad-y-el-mayor-exilio-de-mentes-brillantes-de-la-historia/|url-status=live}}

The return of Juan Domingo Perón to power through democratic elections in 1973 marked the beginning of a new age for the University of Buenos Aires. In 1974, a new law (Ley 20.654) mandated all national and public universities' right to academic autonomy and administrative and economy autarky.{{cite book|url=http://www.bnm.me.gov.ar/giga1/documentos/EL000362.pdf|title=La autonomía y la autarquía de las universidades nacionales|last=Cantini|first=José Luis|date=1997|access-date=26 August 2022|publisher=Academia Nacional de Educación|language=es|location=Buenos Aires|isbn=987-9145-04-6|archive-date=3 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234820/http://www.bnm.me.gov.ar/giga1/documentos/EL000362.pdf|url-status=live}} In contradiction with the university autonomy law, Perón's wife and successor, Isabel Perón, appointed professed fascist Alberto Ottalagano as interventor of the university in 1974. Ottalagano launched a fierce campaign of persecution within the university, targeting students and professors suspected of being sympathizers of the Peronist Left. During Ottalagano's administration, up to 4000 professors were fired (including Nobel in Chemistry laureate Luis Federico Leloir), and four students were disappeared by the State.{{cite book|last=Beltrán|first=Mónica|title=La Franja. De la experiencia universitaria al desafío del poder|publisher=Aguilar|location=Buenos Aires|date=2013|language=es|isbn=9789870429432}}

An enhanced period of state terrorism followed the 1976 coup d'état, which brought to power the dictatorship of the National Reorganization Process. Professors and students were disappeared regardless of their political affiliations, as public universities were suspected of being "breeding grounds" for leftist sympathizers and subversives. In addition, the university's research production and curricula were subject to systemic censorship, and hundreds upon thousands of books were burned (including up to 90,000 books published by Eudeba, UBA's own university press).{{cite news|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/universidad/10-60242-2005-12-09.html|work=Página 12|title=Eudeba y la contracara cultural del proceso represivo de la dictadura|last=Lorca|first=Javier|date=9 December 2005|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826223818/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/universidad/10-60242-2005-12-09.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telam.com.ar//notas/201405/62018-eudeba-reedita-libros-quemados-durante-la-ultima-dictadura-militar.html|work=Télam|title=Eudeba reedita libros quemados durante la última dictadura militar|date=6 May 2014|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826223818/https://www.telam.com.ar//notas/201405/62018-eudeba-reedita-libros-quemados-durante-la-ultima-dictadura-militar.html|url-status=live}} The dictatorship overran the principles of co-governance and established entrance exams, diminished entrance quotas, eradicated free education, and suspended entire degrees. All of the university's buildings and establishments were put under surveillance by state security forces.

The university's autonomy and co-governance were re-established with the return of democracy in 1983. In 1985, the university established the Ciclo Básico Común (CBC; "Common Basic Cycle"), a fixed set of subjects that all aspiring UBA students must approve in order to become enrolled at the university. The CBC replaced the old entrance exams and sought to even the playing field for all students. That same year, the Faculty of Psychology was established, becoming the 12th faculty of the university.

In addition, in 1985 an agreement was signed between the university and the Federal Penitentiary System, creating what would later become the UBA XXII system. UBA XXII allows all people detained at federal prisons to enroll at UBA and study graduate courses whilst deprived of freedom.{{cite news|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/universidad/10-278591-2015-08-04.html|work=Página 12|title=Los treinta años de una embajada de la UBA|date=4 August 2015|access-date=26 August 2022|first=Delfina|last=Torres Cabreros|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826224755/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/universidad/10-278591-2015-08-04.html|url-status=live}} In 1988, the Faculty of Social Sciences was established, becoming the youngest faculty at UBA.{{cite news|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/303923-la-facultad-de-derecho-y-la-facultad-de-ciencias-sociales|work=Página 12|title=La Facultad de Derecho y la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales|last=Ayalón|first=Norberto|date=5 November 2020|access-date=26 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826224755/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/303923-la-facultad-de-derecho-y-la-facultad-de-ciencias-sociales|url-status=live}}

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The University of Buenos Aires is made up of thirteen self-governing faculties ({{langx|es|facultades}}), which impart a number of graduate and post-graduate courses ({{langx|es|carreras}}).{{Cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/contenido/287|title=Facultades|last=Universidad de Buenos Aires|website=uba.ar|access-date=4 May 2019|language=es|archive-date=2 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502104159/http://www.uba.ar/contenido/287|url-status=live}} Although not a faculty, the university also manages the Ciclo Básico Común (CBC, "Common Basic Cycle"), a fixed set of subjects that all aspiring UBA students must pass in order to access any graduate course in the university, and that replaced entrance exams in 1985.

UBA does not count with a single, unified campus. All of its facilities are spread out throughout the City of Buenos Aires, with some (especially branches of the CBC) based in the Greater Buenos Aires metro area. The Ciudad Universitaria ("University City") complex, located in the Núñez neighborhood along the banks of the Río de la Plata, is the closest thing to a centralized campus UBA has, housing the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, a CBC branch, and various research institutes.{{cite journal|url=http://www.unq.edu.ar/advf/documentos/58c0419fac47f.pdf|journal=Redes|title=La creación de Ciudad Universitaria de Buenos Aires (1958-1966): proyección de una ecología común para la transformación de la vida académica en la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales|last1=Romero|first1=Lucía|last2=González Branco|first2=Mercedes|date=December 2014|volume=20|issue=39|pages=115–137|location=Bernal|publisher=Universidad Nacional de Quilmes|language=es|access-date=27 August 2022|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827184137/http://www.unq.edu.ar/advf/documentos/58c0419fac47f.pdf|url-status=live}}

The faculties are:

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• Faculty of Agronomy (FAUBA)
• Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU)
• Faculty of Economic Sciences (FCE)
• Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (FCEN)
• Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMED)
• Faculty of Social Sciences (FSoc)
• Faculty of Veterinary Sciences (FVET)
• Faculty of Law (FDUBA)
• Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry (FFyB)
• Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL)
• Faculty of Engineering (FIUBA)
• Faculty of Dentistry (FOUBA)
• Faculty of Psychology (PSI)

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The Faculty of Economic Sciences is the largest of the UBA's constituent colleges, with over 36,000 students.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/institucional/censos/Estudiantes2011/estudiantes2011.pdf|title=Censo de Estudiantes 2011|website=Universidad de Buenos Aires|access-date=4 May 2019|archive-date=11 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211224959/http://www.uba.ar/institucional/censos/Estudiantes2011/estudiantes2011.pdf|url-status=live}} In recent years, the Faculty of Medicine has attracted the most new students, with 17,004 new enrollees in 2018 compared to the 7,584 new students the Faculty of Economic Sciences added that same year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/educacion/2018/04/06/record-de-inscriptos-al-cbc-de-la-uba-cuales-son-las-carreras-mas-elegidas/|title=Récord de inscriptos al CBC de la UBA: cuáles son las carreras más elegidas|last1=Fern|first1=Por Maximiliano|last2=Mafern|first2=Ez 6 De Abril De 2018|website=Infobae|language=es-ES|access-date=2019-05-04|archive-date=4 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504220924/https://www.infobae.com/educacion/2018/04/06/record-de-inscriptos-al-cbc-de-la-uba-cuales-son-las-carreras-mas-elegidas/|url-status=live}}

In addition to the thirteen faculties, the university administers 6 hospitals,{{Cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/contenido/361|title=Red Hospitalaria|website=uba.ar|access-date=4 May 2019|language=es|archive-date=2 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502110023/http://www.uba.ar/contenido/361|url-status=live}} 16 museums,{{Cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/contenido/51|title=Red de museos|website=uba.ar|access-date=4 May 2019|language=es|archive-date=2 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502104239/http://www.uba.ar/contenido/51|url-status=live}} 13 scientific institutes,{{Cite web|title=Institutos UBA|url=https://cyt.rec.uba.ar/investigacion/institutos/institutos-uba/|website=cyt.rec.uba.ar|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=26 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826201637/https://cyt.rec.uba.ar/investigacion/institutos/institutos-uba/|url-status=live}} 6 interdisciplinary commissions,{{Cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/contenido/150|title=Programas Interdisciplinarios|website=uba.ar|access-date=4 May 2019|language=es|archive-date=2 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502104240/http://www.uba.ar/contenido/150|url-status=live}} 5 high schools (Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini, Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza, Escuela Agropecuaria y Agroalimentaria, and Escuela de Educación Técnica de Villa Lugano),{{Cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/contenido/80|title=Colegios de educación media|website=uba.ar|access-date=5 May 2019|language=es|archive-date=2 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502105953/http://www.uba.ar/contenido/80|url-status=live}} the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas,{{Cite web|url=http://www.rojas.uba.ar/index.php|title=Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas|website=rojas.uba.ar|access-date=15 May 2019|language=es|archive-date=15 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515091455/http://www.rojas.uba.ar/index.php|url-status=live}} the Cosmos Cinema,{{Cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/contenido/360|title=Universidad de Buenos Aires|website=uba.ar|access-date=15 May 2019|language=es|archive-date=2 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502105825/http://www.uba.ar/contenido/360|url-status=live}} the University of Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra,{{Cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/contenido/50|title=Universidad de Buenos Aires|website=uba.ar|access-date=15 May 2019|language=es|archive-date=20 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520232243/http://www.uba.ar/contenido/50|url-status=live}} and Eudeba (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires), Argentina's largest university press.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/cultura/para-festejar-eudeba-cumple-60-anos-nid2146810|title=Para festejar: Eudeba cumple 60 años|date=24 June 2014|work=La Nación|language=es|access-date=5 May 2019|archive-date=3 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103100204/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/cultura/para-festejar-eudeba-cumple-60-anos-nid2146810|url-status=live}}

{{See also|List of rectors of the University of Buenos Aires}}

Since the 1918 University Reform, the University of Buenos Aires has been ruled by the principle of co-governance. The university is headed by the Rector and the Consejo Superior ("Superior Council"). The Consejo Superior is made up of the rector, the deans of the thirteen faculties, and five representatives for each of the three constituent bodies in the university: professors, students and graduates, rounding up to 29 members. Deans and all other representatives of the Consejo Superior are elected every four years in democratic elections in which all professors, students and graduates of the university must partake.{{cite web|url=https://www.uba.ar/consejo_superior/|website=uba.ar|title=Consejo Superior|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827193150/https://www.uba.ar/consejo_superior/|url-status=live}}

Each of the thirteen faculties is autonomous and self-governed. The faculties have a similar governing system: each of them has a democratically elected dean and a Consejo Directivo ("Directive Council"). The faculties' directive councils are made up of eight representatives for the professors, four representatives for the student body, and four representatives for the graduates. The Rector is elected every four years by the University Assembly (Asamblea Universitaria), made up of all members of the Consejo Superior and all members of the directive councils of all thirteen faculties. Since 2022, the Rector of the University of Buenos Aires has been Ricardo Gelpi.{{cite web|url=https://rrhh.uba.ar/Paginas/asamblea-universitaria.aspx|website=rrhh.uba.ar|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|title=Ricardo Gelpi fue electo rector de la UBA|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827193152/https://rrhh.uba.ar/Paginas/asamblea-universitaria.aspx|url-status=live}}

In addition to the Consejo Superior and directive councils, students in all thirteen faculties count with student unions ("Centro de Estudiantes"), which are also democratically elected by students and are organized into the Federación Universitaria de Buenos Aires (FUBA).{{cite news|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/471736-elecciones-en-los-centros-de-estudiantes-de-la-uba-todos-los|work=AM 750|title=Elecciones en los centros de estudiantes de la UBA: todos los resultados|date=9 April 2022|access-date=10 September 2022|language=es|archive-date=10 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910214834/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/471736-elecciones-en-los-centros-de-estudiantes-de-la-uba-todos-los|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.infobae.com/educacion/2022/05/29/el-reformismo-volvio-a-ganar-la-conduccion-de-la-federacion-universitaria-mas-grande-de-latinoamerica/|work=Infobae|title=El reformismo volvió a ganar la conducción de la Federación Universitaria más grande de Latinoamérica|date=28 May 2022|access-date=10 September 2022|language=es|archive-date=10 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910214832/https://www.infobae.com/educacion/2022/05/29/el-reformismo-volvio-a-ganar-la-conduccion-de-la-federacion-universitaria-mas-grande-de-latinoamerica/|url-status=live}} The FUBA is part of the Argentine University Federation.

In the 21st century, diverse political forces have vyed for power across all of these democratically elected institutions. Historically, rectors have belonged to the "reformist" camp, closely related to the Radical Civic Union and its student wing, Franja Morada.{{cite journal|url=http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0025-76802018000300017|title=Los Reformistas, comentario bibliográfico|last=Kantor|first=Isabel N.|date=June 2018|journal=Medicina|volume=78|issue=3|location=Buenos Aires|issn=0025-7680|language=es|access-date=27 August 2022|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827193150/http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0025-76802018000300017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.infobae.com/educacion/2019/09/07/elecciones-en-la-uba-el-reformismo-volvio-a-desplazar-a-la-izquierda-en-los-centros-de-estudiantes/|work=Infobae|title=Elecciones en la UBA: contundente victoria del reformismo sobre la izquierda en los centros de estudiantes|last=Fernández|first=Maximiliano|date=7 September 2019|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827193148/https://www.infobae.com/educacion/2019/09/07/elecciones-en-la-uba-el-reformismo-volvio-a-desplazar-a-la-izquierda-en-los-centros-de-estudiantes/|url-status=live}} Peronists and supporters of the Trotskyist left, organized into several different groups and organizations within each of the faculties, have also historically participated in the university's political life.{{cite news|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/217978-el-mapa-que-dejaron-las-elecciones-en-la-uba|work=Página 12|title=El mapa que dejaron las elecciones en la UBA|last=Bonsignore|first=Constanza|date=14 September 2019|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827193148/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/217978-el-mapa-que-dejaron-las-elecciones-en-la-uba|url-status=live}}

The QS World University Rankings ranked the University of Buenos Aires as 66th in the world in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/universidad-de-buenos-aires-uba|title=Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)|access-date=27 March 2021|website=QS World University Rankings|archive-date=13 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213092324/https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/universidad-de-buenos-aires-uba|url-status=live}} THE's World Reputation Rankings 2020 placed it in the 176–200 range, whereas it is not listed in the performance-based THE World University Rankings.[https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-buenos-aires University of Buenos Aires] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615132547/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-buenos-aires |date=15 June 2021 }} at Times Higher Education World University Rankings

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Throughout its history, a sizeable number of UBA alumni have become notable in many varied fields, both academic and otherwise. Among them are four of Argentina's five Nobel Prize laureates, seventeen presidents of Argentina, and several other notable individuals in various fields, including sciences, business, literature, philosophy, law, medicine, the arts, architecture, and others. Many more are further associated to the university as faculty or through research at UBA institutes and dependencies.

Seventeen Argentine presidents have attended the University of Buenos Aires: Carlos Pellegrini, Luis Sáenz Peña, José Evaristo Uriburu, Manuel Quintana, Roque Sáenz Peña, Victorino de la Plaza, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Marcelo T. de Alvear, Agustín P. Justo, Roberto Ortiz, Ramón Castillo, Arturo Frondizi, Arturo Illia, Raúl Alfonsín, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Eduardo Duhalde, and Alberto Fernández. All of them, save for Justo, an engineer, and Illia, a physician, were educated at the Faculty of Law. Manuel Quintana also served as rector of the university,{{cite web|url=http://www.uba.ar/institucional/contenidos.php?id=91|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614150308/http://www.uba.ar/institucional/contenidos.php?id=91|archive-date=14 June 2012|website=uba.ar|title=Historia|language=es}} while Alberto Fernández taught courses on criminal law at the graduate level for many years before being elected to the presidency.{{cite web|url=https://chequeado.com/el-explicador/es-falso-que-alberto-fernandez-volvio-a-dar-clases-en-la-uba-despues-de-18-anos/|work=Chequeado|title=Es falso que Alberto Fernández volvió a dar clases en la UBA después de 18 años|date=18 July 2019|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827222550/https://chequeado.com/el-explicador/es-falso-que-alberto-fernandez-volvio-a-dar-clases-en-la-uba-despues-de-18-anos/|url-status=live}}

Many political leaders and relevant figures have also been educated at UBA, such as the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine in 1948.{{cite news|url=https://www.radionacional.com.ar/hace-54-anos-el-che-guevara-era-asesinado-en-bolivia/|work=LRA Radio Nacional|title=Hace 54 años, el "Che" Guevara era asesinado en Bolivia|date=9 October 2021|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827222548/https://www.radionacional.com.ar/hace-54-anos-el-che-guevara-era-asesinado-en-bolivia/|url-status=live}} Several government ministers of Argentina have received their degrees at UBA, such as the foreign ministers José Luis Murature, Ángel Gallardo (also a Rector of UBA), Bonifacio del Carril, Miguel Ángel Zavala Ortiz, Juan Atilio Bramuglia, Susana Ruiz Cerutti, Guido di Tella, Adalberto Rodríguez Giavarini, Carlos Ruckauf, and Santiago Cafiero. Economy ministers of diverse political views and pertaining to different economic schools of thought have also earned their degrees at UBA; among them José Martínez de Hoz, Roberto Lavagna, Axel Kicillof, and Nicolás Dujovne.

José Pedro Montero, the 27th president of Paraguay, was educated at UBA.{{cite news|url=https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/abc-revista/jose-p-montero-902017.html|work=ABC|title=José P. Montero|date=7 May 2006|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827222549/https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/abc-revista/jose-p-montero-902017.html|url-status=live}}

A number of relevant jurists have earned their law degrees at the UBA Faculty of Law. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, noted academic and jurist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1936, earned his law degree at UBA and served as rector of the university from 1941 to 1943. Luis Moreno Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, earned his degree in 1978.Luis Moreno-Ocampo (2003){{Cite web |url= http://www2.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/9A924BCD-A9C0-4B59-9F60-7DCB2B78CB13/277535/MorenoOcampoCVe.pdf |title=Curriculum Vitae |access-date=17 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327070512/http://www2.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/9A924BCD-A9C0-4B59-9F60-7DCB2B78CB13/277535/MorenoOcampoCVe.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}. Retrieved 3 February 2009. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda judge Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca is also a UBA alumna and former faculty, having taught courses on International Private Law since 2001.{{cite web|url=http://www.derecho.uba.ar/academica/derecho-abierto/cvs/CV-Ines-M-Weinberg-Enero-2015.pdf|website=derecho.uba.ar|title=Dra. Inés M. Weinberg|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=20 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620042437/http://www.derecho.uba.ar/academica/derecho-abierto/cvs/CV-Ines-M-Weinberg-Enero-2015.pdf|url-status=live}} Several ministers of the Supreme Court of Argentina have been UBA alumni as well, such as Enrique S. Petracchi, Carlos Fayt, Carmen Argibay, Elena Highton de Nolasco, and Carlos Rosenkrantz. Mariela Belski, Executive Director of Amnesty International Argentina is also a UBA alumni. Prominent legal philosopher Eugenio Bulygin earned his law degree and his PhD at the UBA Faculty of Law, where he also taught throughout his career. Teodosio César Brea, founder of the prominent Allende & Brea law firm, graduated UBA and taught courses at the Faculty of Law as well.{{cite web|url=https://www.utdt.edu/ver_contenido.php?id_contenido=15832&id_item_menu=26592#:~:text=Teodosio%20C%C3%A9sar%20Brea%20fue%20un,el%20estudio%20jur%C3%ADdico%20Allende%20%26%20Brea.|work=UTDT|title=Teodosio César Brea (1927-2018)|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827222550/https://www.utdt.edu/ver_contenido.php?id_contenido=15832&id_item_menu=26592#:~:text=Teodosio%20C%C3%A9sar%20Brea%20fue%20un,el%20estudio%20jur%C3%ADdico%20Allende%20%26%20Brea.|url-status=live}} Valeria Vegh Weis, criminologist, criminal attorney, and university professor, was also educated at UBA.{{cite web|title=Những điều có lẽ chúng ta phải biết ơn Marx|url=https://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/world-43982212|website=BBC News|language=vi|date=4 May 2018|access-date=12 April 2021|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827222549/https://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/world-43982212|url-status=live}}

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The University of Buenos Aires has produced several relevant figures in the field of medicine. Two Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates have been educated at UBA: Bernardo Houssay (1947) and César Milstein (1984). Houssay's work was carried out at the UBA-affiliated Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental, while Milstein received degree from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences.

Élida Passo (1867–1893), the first Argentine woman to be a pharmacist and South American woman university graduate, earned her UBA degree in 1885.{{cite journal |last1=Itatí Palermo |first1=Alicia |title=El acceso de las mujeres a la educación universitaria |journal=Revista argentina de sociología |date=2006 |volume=4 |issue=7 |pages=11–46 |url=https://biblat.unam.mx/en/revista/revista-argentina-de-sociologia/articulo/el-acceso-de-las-mujeres-a-la-educacion-universitaria |access-date=29 November 2020 |archive-date=27 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827222549/https://biblat.unam.mx/en/revista/revista-argentina-de-sociologia/articulo/el-acceso-de-las-mujeres-a-la-educacion-universitaria |url-status=live }} The first woman to receive a medical degree in Argentina, Cecilia Grierson, did so at the UBA Faculty of Medicine in 1889.{{cite web|url=http://www.irlandeses.org/0811barry1.htm|title=Cecilia Grierson: Argentina's First Female Doctor|author=Barry, Carolina|publisher=The Southern Cross|date=April 2005|access-date=27 August 2022|archive-date=26 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026165237/http://www.irlandeses.org/0811barry1.htm|url-status=live}} Other prominent physicians educated at UBA include public sanitarist Ramón Carrillo, Teresa Ratto, surgeon Juan Rosai, Luis Agote, dentist Ricardo Guardo (credited as the founder of the UBA Faculty of Dentistry), geneticist Primarosa Chieri, and pharmacologist Augusto Claudio Cuello, professor at McGill University in Canada.

Prominent businesspeople educated at the University of Buenos Aires include oil tycoon Alejandro Bulgheroni,{{cite web|title=Alejandro Pedro Bulgheroni|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=28799709&privcapId=20531130|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150115035139/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=28799709&privcapId=20531130|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 January 2015|website=BusinessWeek|access-date=9 January 2015}} and his brother, Bridas Corporation CEO Carlos Bulgheroni; agri-business executive Andrea Grobocopatel,{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-grobocopatel-175b8612/?locale=en_US|title=Andrea Grobocopatel Linkedin|last=Andrea|first=Grobocopatel|date=|website=Linkedin|access-date=March 9, 2019}} and sugar magnate Robustiano Patrón Costas. The university has also produced many successful startup founders. Unicorn startups founded by the University of Buenos Aires's alumni raised the most money in venture capital funding in the Latin American region in 2020.{{cite web|title=Rating of unicorn universities in Q4 2020|date=23 February 2021 |url=https://unicorn-nest.com/ratings-lists/rating-of-unicorn-universities-in-q4-2020/|access-date=26 March 2021|archive-date=9 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309151601/https://unicorn-nest.com/ratings-lists/rating-of-unicorn-universities-in-q4-2020/|url-status=live}}

Engineer and manufacturer Horacio Anasagasti, who created the first Argentine-produced car (the Anasagasti), graduated from the UBA Faculty of Engineering aged 23 in 1902.{{cite web|url=https://parabrisas.perfil.com/noticias/hombres-de-auto/hombres-de-auto-horacio-anasagasti.phtml|work=Parabrisas|title=¿Quién fue Horacio Anasagasti?|date=2 December 2020|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827224839/https://parabrisas.perfil.com/noticias/hombres-de-auto/hombres-de-auto-horacio-anasagasti.phtml|url-status=live}}

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A number of prominent scientists in diverse fields have been educated at the University of Buenos Aires; many of them have also taught classes and have conducted research at UBA. Luis Federico Leloir, Argentina's first Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his discovery of the metabolic pathways in lactose, earned his degree at the Faculty of Medicine in 1932, and attended classes at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences early into his career as well. In the field of chemistry, UBA also educated Silvia Braslavsky, who worked extensively in the domain of photobiology and was senior research scientist and professor at the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry.{{cite web|url=http://www.mpibac.mpg.de/bac/mitarbeiter/Alumni/braslavsky/braslavsky_en.php|title=Max Planck Society CV|access-date=16 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511193238/http://www.mpibac.mpg.de/bac/mitarbeiter/Alumni/braslavsky/braslavsky_en.php|archive-date=11 May 2011}}

UBA has also produced a number of prominent biologists, especially in the field of Antarctic marine biology. Among these are Irene Schloss and Viviana Alder. Patricia Ortúzar, geographist and vice chair of the Antarctic Committee for Environmental Protection, also received her degree from the University of Buenos Aires. Neuroscientist, Turing Fellow and Cambridge University lecturer Tristan Bekinschtein is a FCEN UBA graduate.{{Cite web|title=Tristan Bekinschtein|url=https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/tristan-bekinschtein|access-date=2022-02-12|website=The Alan Turing Institute|language=en|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827222556/https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/tristan-bekinschtein|url-status=live}}

Mathematicians educated at UBA include Graciela Boente, researcher of robust statistics;{{cite web|url=http://www.imas-uba-conicet.gob.ar/iim_miembros/boente-boente-graciela-lina/|title=Investigator profile|publisher=University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Mathematical Investigations|access-date=4 August 2018|language=es|archive-date=5 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805082712/http://www.imas-uba-conicet.gob.ar/iim_miembros/boente-boente-graciela-lina/|url-status=dead}} Alberto Calderón, co-creator of the "Chicago School of (hard) Analysis";{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/20/us/alberto-calderon-77-pioneer-of-mathematical-analysis.html|title=Alberto Calderon, 77, Pioneer Of Mathematical Analysis|last=Noble|first=Holcomb B.|date=20 April 1998|work=The New York Times|access-date=23 June 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=22 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622235332/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/20/us/alberto-calderon-77-pioneer-of-mathematical-analysis.html|url-status=live}} Luis Caffarelli, whose work focuses on partial differential equations;{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201304/rnoti-p474.pdf|last=Kehoe|first=Elaine|title=Aschbacher and Caffarelli Awarded 2012 Wolf Prize|work=Notices of the AMS|volume=60|issue=3|date=April 2013|pages=474–475|access-date=27 August 2022|archive-date=7 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207055346/https://www.ams.org/notices/201304/rnoti-p474.pdf|url-status=live}} Alicia Dickenstein, known for her work on toric geometry, tropical geometry, and their applications to biological systems;{{cite journal |last1=Pérez Millán |first1=Mercedes |last2=Dickenstein |first2=Alicia |title=The Structure of MESSI Biological Systems |journal=SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems |date=2018 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=1650–1682|doi=10.1137/17M1113722|arxiv=1612.08763 |s2cid=1653468 }} Miguel Walsh, known for his work in number theory and ergodic theory.{{cite web|url=https://www.claymath.org/people/miguel-walsh|website=claymath.org|title=Miguel Walsh|access-date=27 August 2022|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827222549/https://www.claymath.org/people/miguel-walsh|url-status=live}}

Other prominent UBA scientists include pioneering computer scientist Cecilia Berdichevsky,{{Cite web|title=Cecilia Berdichevsky y Hedy Lamarr, legado femenino de la ciencia y la tecnología|url=http://noticias.unsam.edu.ar/2017/03/08/cecilia-berdichevsky-y-hedy-lamarr-legado-femenino-de-la-ciencia-y-la-tecnologia/|last=Abeledo|first=María Claudia|date=2017-03-08|website=|language=es-ES|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315063505/http://noticias.unsam.edu.ar:80/2017/03/08/cecilia-berdichevsky-y-hedy-lamarr-legado-femenino-de-la-ciencia-y-la-tecnologia/ |archive-date=2017-03-15 |access-date=2020-05-13}} ecologist Enrique Chaneton, molecular biologist Alberto Kornblihtt,{{Cite journal|last=Viegas|first=J|date=2015|title=Profile of Alberto Kornblihtt|url= |journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=112|issue=7|pages=1917–1918|doi=10.1073/pnas.1421075111|pmid=25425664|pmc=4343084|bibcode=2015PNAS..112.1917V|doi-access=free}} physicist Beatriz Susana Cougnet de Roederer,{{Cite web |date=2023-07-17 |title=RAYOS CÓSMICOS EN LA ARGENTINA - Observatorio Pierre Auger |url=https://visitantes.auger.org.ar/index.php/rayos-cosmicos-en-la-argentina/ |access-date=2023-10-31 |language=es-AR |archive-date=30 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030201653/https://visitantes.auger.org.ar/index.php/rayos-cosmicos-en-la-argentina/ |url-status=live }} biologist María Fernanda Ceriani,{{cite web |title=Fernanda Ceriani fue incorporada a la Organización Europea de Biología Molecular (EMBO) |url=https://www.conicet.gov.ar/fernanda-ceriani-fue-incorporada-a-la-organizacion-europea-de-biologia-molecular-embo/ |publisher=Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |language=es |date=8 June 2021 |access-date=9 August 2023 |archive-date=10 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810225314/https://www.conicet.gov.ar/fernanda-ceriani-fue-incorporada-a-la-organizacion-europea-de-biologia-molecular-embo/ |url-status=live }} solar physicist and former CONICET president, Marta Graciela Rovira,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2018-02-24|title=Marta Rovira: Un lugar bajo el sol para la ciencia {{!}} Revista Pesquisa Fapesp|url=http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/es/2011/11/30/marta-rovira-un-lugar-bajo-el-sol-para-la-ciencia/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224231032/http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/es/2011/11/30/marta-rovira-un-lugar-bajo-el-sol-para-la-ciencia/|archive-date=2018-02-24|access-date=2020-07-21|language=es}} and Emma Pérez Ferreira, first female president of Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission.{{Cite web |last=enula |first=Publicado por |date=2019-04-01 |title=El aporte fundamental de las mujeres en la actividad nuclear argentina |url=https://enula.org/2019/04/el-aporte-fundamental-de-las-mujeres-en-la-actividad-nuclear-argentina/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=ENUla.org - Energía Nuclear Latinoamericana |language=es |archive-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422143127/http://enula.org/2019/04/el-aporte-fundamental-de-las-mujeres-en-la-actividad-nuclear-argentina/ |url-status=live }}

UBA has produced a number of important thinkers and researchers in the fields of social science and philosophy. Raúl Prebisch, creator of the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis and a major proponent of dependency theory, studied economy at the Faculty of Economic Sciences.{{cite book |last1=Cypher |first1= James M. |last2=Dietz |first2= James L. |date=2009 |title=The process of economic development |publisher=London & New York: Routledge |isbn= 978-0-415-77103-0}} Social anthropologist Esther Hermitte, credited with introducing structural-functionalist anthropology in Argentina, was a Faculty of Philosophy and Letters alumna, as was post-marxist theorist Ernesto Laclau.{{cite news|title=Murió el politólogo Ernesto Laclau, el pensador que inspiró al kirchnerismo|url=http://www.losandes.com.ar/notas/2014/4/13/murio-politologo-ernesto-laclau-pensador-inspiro-kirchnerismo-779200.asp|date=13 April 2014|access-date=13 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414131615/http://www.losandes.com.ar/notas/2014/4/13/murio-politologo-ernesto-laclau-pensador-inspiro-kirchnerismo-779200.asp|archive-date=14 April 2014|language=es}}

Political scientist Guillermo O'Donnell studied law at UBA and later pursued a political science degree in the United States; today, he is credited as a major influence in Argentine political science.Interview with Guillermo O'Donnell, "Democratization, Political Engagement and Agenda Setting Research," in Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder, Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2007). Sociologist and political activist Pilar Calveiro began her studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, before the creation of the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1988.{{Cite news|url=https://www.clarin.com/ediciones-anteriores/fede-juventud-comunista-dio-cuadros-guerrilla-menem_0_H1gCfKATYe.html|title=La Fede, la juventud comunista que dio cuadros a la guerrilla y también a Menem|work=Clarín|language=es|date=2 August 2009|access-date=2 January 2018|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201035202/https://www.clarin.com/ediciones-anteriores/fede-juventud-comunista-dio-cuadros-guerrilla-menem_0_H1gCfKATYe.html|url-status=live}} Former British spy Richard Tomlinson studied political science at UBA during his stay in Argentina.Tomlinson, Richard, The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security. Foreword by Nick Fielding. Mainstream Publishing 2001 {{ISBN|1-903813-01-8}}

In the field of psychoanalysis, Faculty of Psychology alumna Alicia Beatriz Casullo is known for being the founder and first head of the Sociedad Argentina de Psicoanálisis.

The University of Buenos Aires has produced a number of prominent architects, renown both nationwide and internationally. Clorindo Testa, pioneer of the brutalist movement in Argentina, earned his degree at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU) in 1948.{{cite web |url=http://artistasargentinos.com/clorindo-testa/ |title=Clorindo Testa |date=14 April 2013|publisher=Artistas Argentinas |access-date=24 November 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124221437/http://artistasargentinos.com/clorindo-testa/ |archive-date=24 November 2016|language=es}} The rationalist Alberto Prebisch earned his degree at the School of Architecture (predecessor of FADU) in 1921; he would later become dean of FADU in 1955.{{cite journal|url=http://www.iaa.fadu.uba.ar/publicaciones/critica/0083.pdf|journal=Seminario de Crítica|title=Alberto Prebisch. La vanguardia clásica.|date=November 1997|last=Novick|first=Alicia|issue=83|language=es|access-date=27 August 2022|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827224636/http://www.iaa.fadu.uba.ar/publicaciones/critica/0083.pdf|url-status=live}} New York-based urban design theorist Diana Agrest graduated from FADU in 1967.{{Cite web|url=https://cooper.edu/architecture/people/diana-agrest|title=Diana Agrest {{!}} The Cooper Union|website=cooper.edu|access-date=2020-03-11|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827224633/https://cooper.edu/architecture/people/diana-agrest|url-status=live}} Other known UBA-educated architects include Claudio Vekstein, organic architecture proponent Patricio Pouchulu, and the Uruguayan Rafael Viñoly, who designed the Cero+infinito building at the Ciudad Universitaria complex, finished in 2022.{{cite news|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/ceroinfinito-la-uba-estrena-un-pabellon-inteligente-de-la-facultad-de-ciencias-exactas-nid13102021/|work=La Nación|title=Cero+infinito: la UBA estrena un "pabellón inteligente" de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas|last=Polack|first=María Elena|date=13 October 2021|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827224633/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/ceroinfinito-la-uba-estrena-un-pabellon-inteligente-de-la-facultad-de-ciencias-exactas-nid13102021/|url-status=live}}

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Writers associated with UBA include the novelist and short story writer Julio Cortázar, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. Cortázar began a philosophy degree aged 18, but did not complete it due to financial woes.{{cite book|last=Herráez|first=Miguel|title=Julio Cortázar, Una Biografía Revisada|publisher=Alrevés|date=2011|isbn=9788415098034|page=343|language=es}} The poet and critic Jorge Fondebrider studied literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, and later served as director of the UBA-owned Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas.{{cite web|url=https://www.unl.edu.ar/noticias/news/view/jorge_fondebrider_abri%C3%B3_el_argentino_de_literatura#.YwqkWHbMLIU|website=unl.edu.ar|title=Jorge Fondebrider abrió el Argentino de Literatura|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=27 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827233304/https://www.unl.edu.ar/noticias/news/view/jorge_fondebrider_abri%C3%B3_el_argentino_de_literatura#.YwqkWHbMLIU|url-status=live}} The Manipulated Man author Esther Vilar,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/13/archives/she-says-its-the-men-who-are-enslaved.html|title=She Says It's the Men Who Are Enslaved (Published 1972)|first=Judith Weinraub Special to The New York|last=Times|work=The New York Times |date=June 13, 1972|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=29 October 2020|archive-date=15 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115011752/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/13/archives/she-says-its-the-men-who-are-enslaved.html|url-status=live}} and the poet and translator Alejandra Pizarnik,{{cite news|last1=Enríquez|first1=Mariana|author-link=Mariana Enríquez|title=Soy|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/soy/1-2635-2012-09-28.html|access-date=22 August 2020|work=Página 12|date=28 September 2012|language=es|archive-date=19 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019101810/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/soy/1-2635-2012-09-28.html|url-status=live}} were also educated at UBA.

After receiving a degree in Natural Sciences from the university, Alicia Jurado wrote biographies of William Henry Hudson, Cunninghame Graham, and Jorge Luis Borges. The short story writer Samanta Schweblin studied film design at UBA.{{cite web|url=https://www.cervantes.es/bibliotecas_documentacion_espanol/creadores/schweblin_samanta.htm|website=cervantes.es|title=Samanta Schweblin. Biografía|access-date=27 August 2022|language=es|archive-date=13 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513224635/https://www.cervantes.es/bibliotecas_documentacion_espanol/creadores/schweblin_samanta.htm|url-status=live}} Elena Presser also began her studies at the University of Buenos Aires,{{Cite web|url=https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/elena-presser|title=Elena Presser {{!}} National Museum of Women in the Arts|website=nmwa.org|access-date=2019-04-26|archive-date=6 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106040622/https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/elena-presser|url-status=live}} as did film director Juan Cabral.{{Cite news|url=http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/199326/HOTLINE-Fallon-poaches-art-director-Mother/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH|title=HOTLINE: Fallon poaches art director from Mother|date=9 January 2004|work=Campaign|access-date=3 December 2011|archive-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918185602/https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/hotline-fallon-poaches-art-director-mother/199326?src_site=brandrepublic|url-status=live}}

The university operates its own radio station, Radio Universidad de Buenos Aires, broadcast on the FM 87.9 MHz frequency. Its content is mostly oriented toward academic and social topics. Launched on 20 December 2005 after being authorized by AFSCA, its motto is El saber está en el aire ("Knowledge is in the air").{{Cite web |url=http://www.radiodifusiondata.com.ar/2011/sep11/res1053-uba.htm |title=Fue oficializado el cambio de frecuencia y potencia de la radio de la UBA |work=RadiodifusiónData |date=16 September 2011 |language=es |access-date=27 August 2022 |archive-date=26 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926223647/http://www.radiodifusiondata.com.ar/2011/sep11/res1053-uba.htm |url-status=live }}

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