Colombia
Covers the entire higher-education system — universities, technological institutions and professional technical institutes. Includes an overview by institutional category, a map by department, and two program finders (one by actual enrollment, the other by up-to-date registro calificado).
Open explorer →Peru
Covers only university education (regulated by SUNEDU). Includes applicants, incoming students, graduates, and degrees and titles awarded — with special attention to the licencia de funcionamiento, which in Peru is mandatory, not an optional quality mark.
Open explorer →Brazil
The largest of the four systems, with data already aggregated by INEP itself. Includes a breakdown by academic organization (universities, university centers, faculties) and by faculty workload, including the distinctly Brazilian dedicação exclusiva category.
Open explorer →Argentina2024
2024 edition of the Anuario de Estadísticas Universitarias (partial preview). Adds an expanded profile per institution — enrollment by discipline, teaching posts, itemized budget, and the socioeconomic profile of incoming students — program listings from the Guía de Carreras, and performance indicators.
Open explorer →Chile
Built from SIES microdata: enrollment, academic staff, graduates and current program offerings. Adds something no other explorer has yet — employability and earnings by degree program, and the real detail of which areas each institution has accredited.
Open explorer →Uruguay
The only one of the six with a different structure: Uruguay has no single body with institution-level data, so it combines a national overview (historical series since 2005) with its own explorer of UDELAR's 18 faculties, which account for 89% of the country's enrollment.
Open explorer →Ecuador
Unlike the other six, we haven't yet been able to build a dedicated explorer for Ecuador — enrollment data lives locked inside an interactive dashboard (Power BI) with no option to download the full dataset. Until we find a way to access the raw data, here's the official SENESCYT portal, which does let you browse the indicators interactively.
Go to the SENESCYT portal →Bolivia
Built from the Boletín Estadístico of the CEUB (Comité Ejecutivo de la Universidad Boliviana), with historical series since 2007. Covers the Sistema de la Universidad Boliviana (SUB) — the 11 autonomous public universities plus 4 under special status — since private universities don't publish consolidated institution-level data.
Open explorer →Mexico
Built from ANUIES's Anuario Estadístico de Educación Superior, the most granular dataset of all — down to the institution, campus/plantel and individual program level, with its own 4-level taxonomy for classifying programs. Includes an institution finder (with nested campuses) and a nationwide program finder.
Open explorer →Argentina
Argentina's general explorer is above, alongside the rest of the countries. Besides that app there are five more specific tools: the previous edition of the yearbook for comparing series, a calculator for converting hours into SACAU credits, and three dedicated explorers — distance education, university budget and foreign students — that don't have an equivalent yet in the other countries.
Argentina2023
Built from the Subsecretaría de Políticas Universitarias' Anuario de Estadísticas Universitarias. Unlike the other three, it covers only the university system (pregrado y grado, plus posgrado) — tertiary institutes in Argentina fall under each province and aren't part of this source. Previous edition, kept available for comparing series.
Open explorer →Argentina
National universities' budgets: appropriations, execution, funding sources and spending per student, institution by institution.
Open explorer →Argentina
Foreign students in the university system: origin by country and continent, share by institution and field of study, with UBA's own census as a point of comparison.
Open explorer →Argentina
An explorer dedicated to distance education in the Argentine university system: 2014-2024 trends by level (pregrado/grado and posgrado), institutional concentration, and the range of distance-learning programs by field and institution.
Open explorer →Argentina
SACAU Calculator: converts each course's pedagogical-interaction (IP) and autonomous-work (TA) hours into academic credits (CRE), and checks whether the totals meet the minimums required for each type of degree, per Res. 2598/2023 and its amendment Res. 556/2025. An independent, non-official tool.
Open calculator →About this project
These explorers are an exploratory public-data analysis exercise, not an official publication of any of the bodies mentioned (SPU, SNIES/MEN, SIES, SUNEDU, INEP/MEC, MEC/INE/UDELAR, SENESCYT, CEUB, or ANUIES). Each application is a self-contained HTML file — it doesn't depend on a server or an internet connection once downloaded, and can be opened directly in any browser.
Since these sources follow different regulatory logics, I avoided forcing direct comparisons between countries within the apps — each one respects its source's own classification and terminology. If you're interested in the question of what is and isn't comparable across Latin American education systems, write to me — it's a conversation I'm glad to keep having.
Write to me 🙂
This series of explorers is a personal project: I build and maintain it on my own time, and it genuinely takes a lot of work. That's why I'm really curious to know who ends up here — why does this information interest you? What were you looking for? How did you find your way to the page? And if something comes to mind that could be improved, I'd love for you to tell me. Any message, however short, comes straight to my inbox and I read every one.