Access to the university in Argentina: devices and regulations for admission to the universities of the Buenos Aires suburbs

Abstract

Introduction/Objective: This article focuses on the devices and regulations that organize admission to public universities in Argentina, with a special focus on national universities located in Greater Buenos Aires. Starting from considering the sociodemographic context in which the Universities of Greater Buenos Aires operate, some specificities are presented about their creation and institutional/academic organization. Given that the focus of the article is on the devices and regulations for admission, a characterization of the new entrants to the aforementioned universities is presented, in terms of the recent evolution of annual enrollment and from their labor insertion and the educational trajectory of your families. Methodology: From this contextualization, the fundamental characteristics of the entrance regulatory devices built in each university are presented and, from a comparative perspective, their modes of organization are analyzed with regard to their institutionalization, duration, course modality, composition of the curricular spaces that each device includes and the envisaged approval modalities. Results/Conclusion: To end the article, some reflections on the link between these devices and regulations for admission and the challenges facing the contemporary public university are set out for discussion