Overview

• The Universidad de Buenos Aires placed 10th in the QS 2026 Latin America & Caribbean list, scoring second for both academic and employer reputation and eighth globally for its International Research Network.
• QS reports national slippage: of 45 Argentine institutions ranked, 44% fell, 27% rose and 29% held steady, leaving only UBA inside the region’s top 20.
• Research output is the key weakness, with no Argentine university in the regional top 50 for articles per faculty and UBA registering declines in citations and papers per professor.
• Argentina performs strongly on teaching resources, posting the region’s best faculty-to-student ratios with five universities in the top 20 led by the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina.
• Regionally, Chile’s Pontificia Universidad Católica took the No. 1 spot from Brazil’s USP, while funding uncertainty at home persists with a Senate debate pending on a veto of the university financing law.