The report —based on the Statistical Yearbook of Education published by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), using data from 2024—analyzes the academic offerings in ICT and their recent trends based on indicators of admissions (new students), enrollment, and graduation rates.
What did Cuti measure?
The IT Observatory of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (Cuti) classifies ICT training into three levels:
- technical education (1- to 3-year programs),
- undergraduate education (4 and 5 years) and
- graduate education (specializations, diplomas, master's degrees, and doctorates).
In 2024, the report recorded 7,923 new enrollments in ICT programs in Uruguay, across all three levels.
University leadership at the technical level
In technical education, Cuti reports 3,667 new enrollments in 2024 and notes that this sector accounted for 46% of the country’s new enrollments in ICT training.
Within that sector, Universidad ORT Uruguay 28% of total revenue, making it the university with the largest share at this level.
In the same ranking, the University of the Republic’s technical programmes accounted for 25.3% of admissions, while the Technological University (UTEC) accounted for 6.6%.
The report also identifies ORT as the institution with the largest number of ICT technical programmes surveyed, with 17 programmes at this level.
When considering all technical education institutions surveyed, the report ranks ORT second in terms of revenue share, in a list that includes both university and non-university organizations.
National Context
Globally (at the technical, undergraduate, and graduate levels), ICT education saw year-over-year increases: in 2024, there were 7,923 new students, 24,551 enrollments, and 1,779 graduates, with increases compared to 2023 in all three categories, according to a report by the Cuti IT Observatory.
Universidad ORT Uruguay standing Universidad ORT Uruguay ICT technical education—with the highest share of new students among universities and second place among all institutions surveyed at this level—is part of an educational sector that accounts for nearly half of all new students in this field in the country, according to a survey by the Cuti IT Observatory.