Campus and city
UBA is woven through Buenos Aires rather than confined to one campus: its 13 faculties are dispersed across the city, from the riverside Ciudad Universitaria science-and-engineering complex to the historic downtown law, medicine and economics buildings. Student life is large, free-access, intensely political and intellectually charged — UBA has long been a centre of Argentine activism, debate and culture — set in one of Latin America's most vibrant capital cities. The trade-offs are the experience of a 300,000-plus-student mass institution: crowded facilities, big cohorts, long degrees, and periodic disruption from the salary and funding conflicts that accompany Argentina's recurring fiscal crises, including the 2024–2025 university budget protests.