Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - UNMdP

What Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - UNMdP does

Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias is a constituent faculty of the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), a public national university in Argentina headquartered at its Balcarce campus in the Pampean agricultural region. The institution delivers higher education, applied research, and technology transfer across agricultural sciences, food technology, and rural development. Its academic portfolio spans pre-degree, undergraduate (notably Ingenier\u00eda Agron\u00f3mica, Licenciatura en Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda de Alimentos, and Licenciatura en Producci\u00f3n Vegetal), and graduate programs (Doctorado en Ciencias Agrarias and multiple master's degrees in animal production, plant production, animal health, agricultural economics, and agroindustrial business management), alongside diplomaturas and continuing education courses organized into three academic areas: Producci\u00f3n y Sanidad Animal, Ciencias de las Plantas y Recursos Naturales, and Econom\u00eda y Desarrollo Territorial.

The faculty operates an experimental field, a research equipment database (SIGEq), a university radio station (Radio FCA), and extension services including producer-targeted newsletters. Course delivery spans in-person, hybrid, and fully virtual modalities through Moodle and video conferencing. The technology platform is conventional educational infrastructure rather than proprietary IP.

The institution is funded primarily through Argentine government allocations as part of the public national university system, with no tuition fees for Argentine citizens and foreign students under reciprocity agreements. Its core customer segments are undergraduate students, graduate students, and working agricultural professionals and producers, with no commercial revenue model or pricing competition. The faculty maintains a structural partnership with INTA's Balcarce Experimental Station through the Unidad Integrada de Balcarce (UIB), integrating teaching, research, and extension across the two institutions.

Name

Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - UNMdP

Legal name

Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Website

https://fca.mdp.edu.ar

Company type

Public

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - UNMdP is a public Argentine university faculty in Balcarce offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in agricultural sciences, food technology, and rural development, serving students, researchers, and regional agricultural producers through teaching, applied research, and extension services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education - Agricultural Sciences

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Technical and Trade Schools (61151)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAHAEAA

Engineering & Technology Institutes (Comprehensive)

Education/Higher Education (Colleges & Universities)/Technical & Polytechnic Universities

SECONDARYEDAOAOAN

Agribusiness, Farm Management & Compliance

Education/Vocational, Technical & Trade Education/Agriculture, Horticulture & Skilled Trades

Keywords

• Agricultural higher education
• Agronomic engineering degree
• Food science technology
• Agricultural research services
• Agricultural extension programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Balcarce

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, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public University Funding: As a public national university in Argentina, the institution is primarily funded by government allocations. Tuition is free for Argentine citizens and foreign students under reciprocity agreements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias is a public university faculty delivering undergraduate and graduate academic programs in agricultural sciences. Core offerings include five-year Agronomic Engineering, bachelor's degrees in Food Science and Technology and Plant Production, master's programs in Animal Production, Plant Production, Animal Health, Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management, a doctoral program in Agricultural Sciences, and diploma-level professional courses. The faculty also operates supporting facilities including an experimental field, university radio station, research equipment database (SIGEq), and a specialized electronic newsletter for potato producers.

Product overview

Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - UNMdP is an academic institution offering a comprehensive portfolio of educational products across multiple levels: undergraduate programs (Pregrado, Ingeniería Agronómica, Licenciatura en Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos, Licenciatura en Producción Vegetal), graduate programs (Doctorado en Ciencias Agrarias, Maestrías in Production Animal, Producción Vegetal, Sanidad Animal, Agroeconomía, and MGEAA), specializations, diplomaturas, and continuing education courses. The institution operates as a platform-plus-services model, combining degree programs with supporting services including an experimental field, radio station, research equipment database (SIGEq), potato producer newsletter, and extension projects. Programs are organized into three academic areas: Producción y Sanidad Animal, Ciencias de las Plantas y Recursos Naturales, and Economía y Desarrollo Territorial.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pregrado (Pre-degree Programs)

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrong collaborative relationship with INTA's Experimental Station in Balcarce. INTA researchers serve as thesis directors, co-directors, jury members, and academic advisors. Joint research projects in agronomy, animal production, and agricultural technology. The Faculty and INTA share the UIB (Integrated Unit of Balcarce) for agricultural research.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias: Public Argentine agricultural sciences faculty sharing FCA's focus on agronomic engineering and food technology education within the same national university system.
• Universidad Nacional del Litoral - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias: Public Argentine university faculty delivering agronomy and food science programs, with a similar technical-vocational orientation and government funding base.
• Universidad de Buenos Aires - Facultad de Agronomía: Argentine public university's agricultural sciences faculty offering undergraduate and graduate programs in agronomy, comparable to FCA in mission, programs, and public-funding model.
• Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales: Another Argentine public university faculty offering agricultural sciences programs including agronomic engineering, with overlapping program structure and audience as FCA.
• Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias: Argentine public university faculty specializing in agronomic and veterinary sciences, a comparable peer within the same national public university system.

Broad incumbents

• Wageningen University & Research: World-leading agricultural sciences university; a global benchmark for the same mission FCA pursues at a regional scale, including food technology, plant sciences, and animal production.
• INTA - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria: Argentina's national agricultural research institute, which is both FCA's core strategic partner (UIB) and a broader R&D institution covering agricultural extension and applied research.

Emerging players

• Fundación Universidad de Belgrano - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Ambientales: Private Argentine university offering agricultural and environmental programs; not a like-for-like public peer, but competes for students in similar fields under a different funding model.

Regional players

• Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de Buenos Aires (UNNOBA): Regional Argentine public university with agronomy and food engineering programs serving Buenos Aires Province, overlapping FCA's Pampean regional reach.
• Universidad Nacional de Cuyo - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias: Another Argentine public agricultural faculty, but serving the Cuyo region rather than Buenos Aires Province, making it more a regional peer than direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fcabalcarce
• Facebookfacebook.com/cecabfca
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/facultad-de-ciencias-agrarias-unmdp

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Funding overview

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