Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA

What Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA does

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN) is a public, tuition-free faculty of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina's largest university, founded in 1865 and located in Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires. It delivers undergraduate (licenciaturas and profesorados), graduate (master's, specializations, doctoral), and continuing-education programs across the exact and natural sciences, computing, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, and related disciplines. The faculty is the country's largest scientific research center outside dedicated agencies, operating 22 UBA-CONICET research institutes that employ over 900 researchers and contribute approximately 10% of Argentina's national scientific output and 25% of all PhDs awarded in the country.

The faculty operates a technology ecosystem that supports its academic, administrative, and research mission, including a virtual learning platform (Campus Virtual), institutional email (Webmail Exactas), cloud storage built on Nextcloud (Nube Exactas), a digital identity service (idEx), document management systems (GDE, SEE, COMDOC), IT support ticketing (OTRS), and integration with Argentina's national e-government platform (TAD). Its research arm is anchored by a dedicated Linkage, Innovation and Technology Transfer division that includes an Intellectual Property and Patent Office and partnerships with the productive sector, including the Polo Exactas platform developed with Fundar. Two Nobel laureates — Luis Federico Leloir (Medicine, 1970) and César Milstein (Medicine, 1984) — have been affiliated with the institution, anchoring its international scientific reputation.

As a state-funded academic institution, FCEN has no commercial revenue streams in the traditional sense; it is financed primarily through national and municipal government allocations to UBA, supplemented by CONICET and external research grants, with minor income from extension and outreach services. It operates a community-led go-to-market model focused on open enrollment for students meeting admission requirements, alongside science communication and extension programs that engage the broader public. The faculty is governed by a Directorial Council and dean under UBA's statutes and is not venture-backed, PE-owned, or publicly traded.

Name

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA

Legal name

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Website

https://exactas.uba.ar

Company type

Private

Founded year

1865

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN) is the public, tuition-free science faculty of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, delivering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral education across exact and natural sciences to Argentine students while conducting research across 22 UBA-CONICET institutes.

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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

Flagship Public Research Universities (R1/R2) (EDAHAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Research Universities with Comprehensive Graduate & Professional Schools (EDAHAAAF)

Keywords

• Higher education
• Scientific research
• STEM degree programs
• Graduate education
• Academic degrees

Headquarters

HQ city

Buenos Aires

HQ country

Argentina

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public Education Funding: As a public university faculty, operates primarily through government funding from national and municipal sources. Education is free and publicly funded through taxpayer contributions and government budgets allocated to Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2. Research Grants and Subsidies: External funding from CONICET, national research councils, and international scientific organizations for specific research projects and programs.
3. Extension and Outreach Services: Community engagement programs including vocational guidance, language courses, cultural workshops, and sports activities generating minimal revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA is a public university faculty founded in 1865 that offers free undergraduate and graduate degree programs (licenciaturas, profesorados, doctorados, maestrías, especializaciones, diplomaturas, cursos de posgrado and language courses) in the exact and natural sciences, operates a network of 22 scientific research institutes, and runs extension/outreach activities that contribute roughly 10% of Argentina's national scientific output and approximately 25% of its PhDs.

Product overview

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA is a public university faculty that offers educational products and administrative technology services to its community. Its core educational offerings include undergraduate degrees (licenciaturas), teaching programs (profesorados), graduate programs (maestrías, especializaciones, doctorados), and continuing education courses. The institution provides a technology ecosystem comprising a virtual learning platform (Campus Virtual), institutional email services (Webmail Exactas), cloud storage (Nube Exactas/Nextcloud), and administrative systems for document management (GDE, COMDOC, SEE), IT support ticketing (OTRS), and digital identity management (idEx). The faculty also integrates with Argentina's national government services (TAD) for remote administrative procedures.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Undergraduate degree programs (Licenciaturas)
• Teaching degree programs (Profesorados)
• Doctoral programs (Doctorados)
• Master's programs (Maestrías)
• Specialization programs (Especializaciones)
• Diplomaturas (Postgraduate diplomas)
• Postgraduate courses (Cursos de posgrado)
• Language courses (Cursos de idiomas)

Quantifiable outcome

• 10% of national scientific production
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing institutional partnership where research institutes operate as joint UBA-CONICET units. Over 900 researchers hold CONICET positions while working at the faculty's 22 research institutes. CONICET provides national research council funding and career positions for researchers.
• Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerExactas FCEN is one of 13 faculties within UBA, Argentina's largest public university. The partnership provides administrative integration, shared governance, and institutional framework under the university's statutes and regulations.
• Fundar (Fundación Centro de Análisis, Investigación y Desarrollo)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership for the Puentes Exactos report analyzing strengths and challenges for deepening linkage with the productive sector, which informed the creation of a new secretariat and institutional design of Polo Exactas.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Universidad de Chile: Chile's flagship public research university with a strong science faculty and significant CONICYT-style national research funding integration. Comparable as a regional leader in publicly funded STEM research and graduate training.
• Universidad de São Paulo (USP): Brazil's premier public research university, the largest in Latin America by research output. Comparable as a state-funded, high-volume science and graduate training powerhouse in the region.
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM): Latin America's largest public university and a comparable continental-scale research institution. Organizes the international space engineering competition in which FCEN's Hornero team ranked top-10 twice consecutively, evidencing peer-level technical competition.
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC): Chile's top-ranked research university with deep science and engineering programs. Comparable on research output, graduate training, and international standing even though its funding model mixes public with private/tuition.

Others

• CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas): Argentina's national research council that jointly operates the 22 UBA-CONICET research institutes housed at FCEN. Not a competitor but the principal funding and career-pathway partner that defines the faculty's research capacity and is structurally comparable to analogous national science agencies.

Direct peers

• Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC): One of the oldest public universities in the Americas with significant science and research output. Shares the Argentine public-university model, free tuition, and CONICET-affiliated research structure.
• Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP): Argentina's other flagship public research university, with strong science faculties and CONICET-affiliated research institutes. Highly comparable in mission, funding model, scale, and Argentine research output to FCEN UBA.
• Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) – other faculties: Sister faculties within the same UBA parent institution. They share governance, funding flows, and the public research university mission in Argentina, making them the closest operational and structural comparables even though they operate different disciplines.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/exactas_uba
• YouTubeyoutube.com/exactasubaoficial
• Facebookfacebook.com/UBAExactas
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/facultad-de-ciencias-exactas-y-naturales-uba
• Instagraminstagram.com/exactas_uba

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