Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham

What Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham does

Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham (UNAHUR) is a publicly funded national university located in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It was established by Argentine law and operates as a state-owned higher education institution within the national public university system. UNAHUR delivers tuition-free undergraduate and graduate education through four specialized academic institutes: Instituto de Salud Comunitaria, Instituto de Tecnología e Ingeniería, Instituto de Biotecnología, and Instituto de Educación. Its primary constituents are enrolled students and faculty in the Hurlingham region of Greater Buenos Aires.

The institution's core digital platform is Campus Virtual UNAHUR (CV UNAHUR), a Moodle-based learning management system accessible via campus.unahur.edu.ar, with separate portal instances maintained for each academic year (campus2024, campus2025, campus2026). UNAHUR has developed a proprietary academic credit framework called SACAU (Sistema de Acreditación de Créditos Académicos Universitarios), in which one credit equals 25 hours of total student work (combining classroom time, independent study, practices, and evaluation). This framework is paired with the Catálogo ACA (Actividades Curriculares Acreditables), a catalog of credit-bearing curricular activities that allow students to customize their academic trajectories. Student information is managed through integration with SIU Guaraní, the standard administrative system used across Argentine national universities, accessible via servicios.unahur.edu.ar. Supporting services include Orientate UNAHUR (orientation portal), Nativo UNAHUR, Donde Curso (classroom scheduling), the Programa de Salud Integral, and the university library.

UNAHUR's business model is non-commercial: the university charges no tuition and generates no revenue from students. Operations are funded by the Argentine national government, with funding legally anchored in the University Financing Law. As of June 2026, the institution faces a sustained funding crisis — over 240 days of non-compliance with the financing law, faculty and staff salary reductions exceeding 50%, multiple strike actions, and paralyzed infrastructure investment. The university supplements its government budget with institutional communications through official web properties and social channels (Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter), but no commercial GTM motion applies. The entity is not investable in the conventional PE/VC sense; any investment-grade thesis must be framed around its public-policy role, funding sustainability, and operational continuity.

Name

Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham

Legal name

Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham

Website

https://campus.unahur.edu.ar

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham (UNAHUR) is a tuition-free Argentine public national university in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires Province, operating four academic institutes (Health, Technology/Engineering, Biotechnology, Education) through a Moodle-based virtual campus and its proprietary SACAU credit system, funded by the national government.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Online Nonprofit Universities (EDAHALAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Transfer, Articulation & Credit Evaluation (EDALAAAH)

Keywords

• Public higher education
• University degree programs
• Academic credit system
• Virtual campus learning
• Community health education

Headquarters

HQ city

Hurlingham

HQ country

Argentina

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Public University Funding: UNAHUR is a publicly funded national university in Argentina. The institution receives government funding for operations, salaries, infrastructure, and student support. As of 2026, the university faces significant budget constraints due to the national government's freeze on university financing, resulting in over 50% salary reductions for faculty and staff and paralyzing equipment and infrastructure plans.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham (UNAHUR) is a public, tuition-free national university in Argentina providing higher education degree programs across four specialized academic institutes: Instituto de Salud Comunitaria, Instituto de Tecnología e Ingeniería, Instituto de Biotecnología, and Instituto de Educación. The university delivers courses via a Moodle-based virtual campus platform (CV UNAHUR) and uses its proprietary SACAU credit system (1 credit = 25 hours of total student work) to organize academic trajectories and recognize student effort. Student enrollment is open through public admission processes, and the institution is fully funded by the Argentine national government.

Product overview

Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham operates a unified virtual campus ecosystem centered on Campus Virtual UNAHUR (CV UNAHUR) as the primary learning management platform. The system integrates SACAU (credit-based academic accreditation system) and Catálogo ACA (curricular activity catalog) to organize four academic institutes: Instituto de Tecnología e Ingeniería, Instituto de Biotecnología, Instituto de Salud Comunitaria, and Instituto de Educación. Core student services include Gestión Estudiantil, Programa de Salud Integral, Biblioteca, Orientate UNAHUR for guidance, and Donde Curso for classroom scheduling. The platform uses SIU Guaraní for student information management and provides access through multiple campus instances (2024, 2025, 2026) with additional tools for help desk support and tutorial delivery via Genially.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SACAU: Sistema de Acreditación de Créditos Académicos UNAHUR - A system that recognizes real-time dedicated to student formation, organizing careers through academic credits expressing total study effort

Products and services

• Campus Virtual UNAHUR (CV UNAHUR) The primary virtual learning management system (LMS) platform that provides centralized access to course materials, student management, academic calendars, and campus services for UNAHUR students and faculty.
• SACAU Academic Credit System Academic credit system that recognizes real-time dedicated to student formation, organizing careers through academic credits that express total study effort (1 credit = 25 hours of total student work), supporting diverse academic trajectories.
• Catálogo ACA (Accreditable Curricular Activities) Curricular activity catalog featuring Experiencias Formativas and Experiencias Formativas Diversas, offering credit-based activities with cuatrimestral (semester) modality.
• Nativo UNAHUR Native UNAHUR platform for academic content delivery and student services.
• Instituto de Tecnología e Ingeniería Academic institute offering technology and engineering degree programs with SACAU credit system integration.
• Instituto de Biotecnología Academic institute offering biotechnology degree programs with credit-based curriculum.
• Instituto de Salud Comunitaria Academic institute focused on community health degree studies with ACA credit offerings.
• Instituto de Educación Academic institute offering education degree programs with SACAU credit system integration.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1 credit = 25 hours of total student work recognized

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SIU GuaranícoreTechnology or IntegrationSIU Guaraní is a student information management system used by Argentine national universities. UNAHUR integrates SIU Guaraní through its servicios.unahur.edu.ar platform for student enrollment, academic record management, and administrative functions. This is a standard technology integration used across the Argentine public university system.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP): One of Argentina's flagship public national universities with strong programs in science, engineering, and health. Comparable to UNAHUR as a public institution facing the same federal financing constraints but with substantially larger scale, research output, and graduate employment networks.
• Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA): Argentina's largest and most prestigious public university, offering the full range of disciplines across multiple faculties. Comparable as a public tuition-free institution but operating at vastly greater scale, funding, and brand recognition, framing UNAHUR's competitive landscape.

Regional players

• Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA): Public national university in Buenos Aires focused on arts and education fields. Less directly overlapping with UNAHUR but operates under the same federal funding regime and represents an alternative destination for Argentine students choosing public higher education.
• Universidad Nacional del Oeste (UNO): Public national university serving the western Buenos Aires Province region, geographically overlapping with UNAHUR's catchment. A relevant regional competitor for prospective students in the Hurlingham area.

Direct peers

• Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS): Public national university in the Buenos Aires conurbation with a similar size, recency of founding, and applied-sciences orientation. A close structural peer to UNAHUR in terms of student scale, regional mission, and dependence on federal financing.
• Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM): Argentine public national university located in the Greater Buenos Aires area with a comparable multi-institute structure focused on science, technology, and social sciences. Directly comparable as a public nonprofit university competing for similar students in the Buenos Aires metropolitan region.
• Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF): Public national university also based in western Buenos Aires Province with a strong emphasis on technology, engineering, and arts. Directly comparable to UNAHUR as a smaller, newer public university serving overlapping regional student demand and operating under the same federal financing regime.
• Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ): Public national university in Greater Buenos Aires widely recognized for its virtual campus and distance-learning programs. Comparable to UNAHUR on both the public-university dimension and the emphasis on digital/virtual delivery, making it the closest analog for UNAHUR's CV UNAHUR platform.
• Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda (UNDAV): Public national university in Greater Buenos Aires with a comparable institutional profile and applied-science orientation. Comparable to UNAHUR as a recently created public university operating under the same national financing framework.

Emerging players

• Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA): Private Argentine university with strong engineering and technology programs competing for the same Buenos Aires STEM talent pool. Useful as a contrasting benchmark on program quality and graduate outcomes versus UNAHUR's technology and engineering institute.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/unahurlingham
• Facebookfacebook.com/UNAHUR
• Instagraminstagram.com/orientateunahur?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/universidad-nacional-de-hurlingham

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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