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The University of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is the largest university in Argentina and the second largest university by enrollment in Latin America. Founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires, it consists of 13 departments, 6 hospitals, 10 museums and is linked to 4 high schools: Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini, Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza and Escuela de Educación Técnica Profesional en Producción Agropecuaria y Agroalimentaria.
Entry to any of the available programmes of study in the university is open to anyone with a secondary school degree; in most cases, students who have successfully completed high school must pass a first year called CBC, which stands for Ciclo Básico Común (Common Basic Cycle). Only upon completion of this first year may the student enter the chosen school; until then, they must attend courses in different buildings, and have up to 3 years to finish the 6 or 7 subjects (which vary depending on the programme of study chosen) assigned in two groups of 3 or 4. Each subject is of one semester duration (March–July or August–November). If someone passes all 6 subjects in their respective semester, the CBC will take only one year. Potential students of economics, instead, take a 2-year common cycle, the "CBG" (General Basic Cycle), comprising 12 subjects.
The UBA has no central campus. A centralized Ciudad Universitaria (literally, "university city") was started in the 1960s, but contains only two schools, with the others at different locations in Buenos Aires.
Access to the university is free of charge for everyone, including foreigners. However, the postgraduate programs charge tuition fees that can be covered with research scholarships for those students with outstanding academic performance.
The university has produced four Nobel Prize laureates, one of the most prolific institutions in the Spanish-speaking world. It is currently the best ranked Argentine university in college and university rankings, present at number 197 of the Top Universities 2008[4] and at number 151-200 of the 2010 Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranking.[5] According to the 2010 University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP),[6] the university is the best in Argentina and the 247th in the world, and, according to TopUniversities, it is the 46th best university in the world taking into account employer reputation.[7]
The schools that comprise the university are:
Of these, only the last two have their buildings located in Ciudad Universitaria, a campus-like location in Núñez, in northern Buenos Aires. The others are scattered around the city in buildings of various sizes, with some having more than one building. There are projects to move more schools to Ciudad Universitaria, the first one in order of importance is the School of Psychology, whose building is already designed to be placed on this Campus.
The following former students and professors of the university have received the Nobel Prize:
The following Presidents of Argentina have earned their degrees at the university:
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Nobel Peace Prize, 1936.
Bernardo Houssay, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1947.
Luis Federico Leloir, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1970.
César Milstein, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1984.
Carlos Pellegrini.
Luis Sáenz Peña.
Manuel Quintana.
Victorino de la Plaza.
Ramón S. Castillo.
Arturo Frondizi.
Arturo Umberto Illia.
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá.
Eduardo Duhalde.
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