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University of Buenos Aires
Universidad de Buenos Aires
	Seal of the University of Buenos Aires
Motto	Argentum Virtus Robur et Studium (Latin)
Motto in English	Argentine virtue is strength and study
Type	Public
Established	12 August 1821
Budget	364 690 000 US dollars (2009)
Rector	Rubén E. Hallú
Academic staff	28 943 (2004)
Students	311 175 (2004)
Undergraduates	297 639 (2004)
Postgraduates	13 536 (2004)
Location	Buenos Aires, ; Argentina
Campus	Urban
Website	www.uba.ar

The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) (Spanish: Universidad de Buenos Aires), founded on August 12, 1821 in the City of Buenos Aires, is the largest university in Argentina and one of the most prestigious of the Americas.

As the rest of the Argentine national universities, it depends finantially of the National State, but it's autonomous, free, lay and gratuitous. For being autonomous, it has its own government system, formed since the University Reform in 1918 by representatives of professors, students and alumni. The academic freedom promotes that there is more than a cathedra that dictates each subject. The academic staff is selected by contest and evaluation before juries.

Undergraduate teaching, excluding a short period between 1982 and 1983, has been completely costless since 1949, year in which the ordinance 29.337 was issued and through which the president Juan Domingo Perón deleted the imposotion of current tuition fees so far.

The admission to the university is unrestricted, although since 1985 the first year of almost all undergraduate courses is the Common Basic Cycle (CBC), which must be approved in order to enter the corresponding faculty. The University of Buenos Aires is composed by 13 faculties, the Common Basic Cycle, the Buenos Aires National School, the Carlos Pellegrini High School of Commerce, the Free Institute of Secondary Education, the Professional Technical School of Agriculture and Agri-Food Production, 8 regional university centers, the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, the Buenos Aires University Press (EUDEBA), the Cosmos Cinema, 16 museums and 5 care units.

In 2006, it counts with an offert of 72 undergraduate courses and 28 490 professors. Around a 30% of the national scientific investigation is carried out by this institution. Four out of five Nobel laureates have been students or teachers in this university.

Composition of the university

Faculty of Agronomy
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism
Faculty of Economic Sciences
Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Veterinary Sciences
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Biochemistry and Pharmacy
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Psychology

Hospital network

Institute of Medical Research "Alfredo Lanari"
Institute of Oncology "Ángel Roffo"
Institute of Phthisioneumonology "Raúl F. Vacarezza"
"José de San Martín" Clinical Hospital
School Hospital of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences
University Odontologic Hospital

Extension

The university counts with 16 museums of different disciplines, such as veterinary anatomy, pharmacy, pathology, mineralogy, ethnography, mathematics, pharma-botanic, history, sciences, psychology, archeology, etc.

Campus

The University of Buenos Aires has not a per se campus that compounds all its faculties, but it has two main terrains that gather most of its academic units:

Buenos Aires University City: located in the district of Núñez, it is divided into 3 buildings in which all courses corresponding to the faculties of Architecture, Design and Urbanism and Exact and Natural Sciences are taught. It is also one of the 15 branches of the CBC.

Regional Paternal University Center: it's located in the limits of La Paternal and Agronomía. Here the faculties of Agronomy and Veteriary Sciences are found. Here the CBC courses are also taught.

Government system

The current government system of the University of Buenos Aires is tripartite, inspired in the University Reform in 1918. It's formed by the Superior Council and the Rector, who presides it. The Superior Council consists of the deans of each faculty and of representatives of professors, alumni and students.

Thus, each faculty has a govenrment that consists of a dean and a board, integrated by 8 representatives of teachers, 4 of alumni and 4 of students; all of them elected by a compulsory and direct vote.

Prominent alumni

Nobel laureates

Four out of five Argentine Nobel Laureates have studied or taught at the University of Buenos Aires.

Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas: Nobel Peace Prize 1936; professor at the Faculty of Law.
Dr. Bernardo Houssay: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947; professor at the Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Luis Federico Leloir: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970; ex professor at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences.
Dr. César Milstein: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984; ex professor at the Faculty of Medicine and graduated at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences.