Overview

• The Universidad de Buenos Aires remains 10th in the region and scores second for both academic and employer reputation, with an eighth-place global standing for international research networks.
• Across Argentina’s 45 ranked institutions, 44% fell, 29% were unchanged and 27% rose, which QS frames as an 18% net decline from last year.
• No Argentine university places in the top 50 for research indicators such as articles per faculty or citations, highlighting sustained weakness in output.
• QS executives attribute the national downturn to funding cuts, inflation and worsening labor conditions that constrain teaching and research.
• The regional order shifts as Chile’s Catholic University reaches No. 1 ahead of Brazil’s USP, Brazil expands to 130 ranked institutions and leads in research, and Peru records four universities in the top 100 for the first time.