Thinking Of Moving From Us To Ba As Students

[Jaredberryman]

Please be aware that Argentina does not just accept your HS degree. You must first take some extra stuff (Argentine history and language, etc) and get it tacked on to your HS degree first. Then you would be able to study at UBA. Expect it to take 5 to 6 years to get a degree at UBA--if that's all you do. It takes great patience and perseverance to get a degree from UBA. There are, however, also private universities (you still will need the added High School stuff) that are inexpensive and would make life much easier. I for one would never dare study at UBA unless it were absolutely an emergency.

 

[Matiasba]

Just curious Matias, where did you study, what did you study, and how long did it take?

I studied Sociology at UBA, while the average time is 6, it took me 11 years (!) 10 years + CBC, started in March 1999 ended in February 2010. While I studied, I worked the most of the time, and I also made some mistakes choosing subjects. I ended up owing lots of exams, so I chose not to give them. and start a new subject. I overstudied, I had to choose some specialization and I didnt.
The positive side is that I studied lots of very different subjects I liked.

I have been a student from a Nobel Prize.

 

[sleslie23]

I studied Sociology at UBA, while the average time is 6, it took me 11 years (!) 10 years + CBC, started in March 1999 ended in February 2010. While I studied, I worked the most of the time, and I also made some mistakes choosing subjects. I ended up owing lots of exams, so I chose not to give them. and start a new subject. I overstudied, I had to choose some specialization and I didnt.
The positive side is that I studied lots of very different subjects I liked.

I have been a student from a Nobel Prize.

Most of my friends in Argentina studied in Puan (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras). I even considered studying there myself, but never took the highschool equivalency exams.

There, I think your experience is the norm. I don't know anyone who finished in less than 8. Many took 10 or more. Same with several former coworkers who studied software engineering in UBA.

This is something anyone considering moving to Argentina to study because it is "free" needs to consider.

 

[Matiasba]

Most of my friends in Argentina studied in Puan (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras). I even considered studying there myself, but never took the highschool equivalency exams.

There, I think your experience is the norm. I don't know anyone who finished in less than 8. Many took 10 or more. Same with several former coworkers who studied software engineering in UBA.

This is something anyone considering moving to Argentina to study because it is "free" needs to consider.

Well it used to be like that, that the average was 8 years or so, especially in long carreers like Medicine, or even Architecture. But UBA has been getting more and more exclusive, like upper middle class porteño type, and not so popular middle middle class as it used to be. This can also be because of all the new Universities of the conurbano, Universidad de Quilmes, Universidad de La Matanza, Universidad General Sarmiento, Universidad de San Martin, etc, lots of universities from provincia that took away the diversity UBA had. Its still very popular, and every Faculty has its own defined prototypical student, but I would say that today UBA is like never before an upper middle class institution and lots of people can study there without working, so given the extra time UBA needs compared with other Universities, and lots of people who continue studying abroad are from UBA, the time is no longer 10 years but 6, so they can go young to speciallize with a Master or some Phd.

 

[Matt84]

I studied at public university. There is some bureaucratic issues, but nothing impossible if you take your time with patience). The leve is good, but depends on what do you want to study. Medicine is good, Law is good, Odontology is good, Filosophy and Social Sciences is good, Mathematics and Architecture are very good, as well as Biology and Natural Sciences (Fisica, Chemistry, etc). Economics is different, is quite different from US universities, here is more complete the training, not meaning that better...

The cost of living I would say it is almost the same as the US, maybe cheaper here.

In what way is Economics more complete in training than in the US? Do they have to train them in Agronomic engineering, Metallurgy and ice cream making too since they are expected to direct the entire economy from an office in Buenos Aires?

 

[Matiasba]

In what way is Economics more complete in training than in the US? Do they have to train them in Agronomic engineering, Metallurgy and ice cream making too since they are expected to direct the entire economy from an office in Buenos Aires?

yes

 

[PhilipDT]

yes

Thank god, I've been dying to find a good heladeria in barrio norte. I'll be sure to pick up a conito the next time I visit the foreign debt museum in the parking lot .

 

[LeoNubarron]

so instead of economics they teach u how to rule peoples lives. neat...

 

[sleslie23]

so instead of economics they teach u how to rule peoples lives. neat...

What is the difference?

 

[garryl]

Hello all!
What a wonderful forum you have here! Thank you for all the knowledge I've already soaked you from you guys.
My husband (Mexican native, US permanent resident) and I (US native) are having no luck getting the financial aid necessary to attend college here in the states, so we're looking for options.
Since he and I both speak Spanish and university in Arg is free, this seems like an enticing option.
Does anyone have experience with the educational system and/or know how good a graduate's prospects would be there?

Many Latina American young people choose to study in Argentina like you. I think that's a great move, just come and do not ask questions .

BsAs is full of people like you, I would hire you if I were an employers in US, it shows you are very different. But to be an expert in certain field, you need to get more training from other places.