While the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the UBA is promoting a crisis discourse, with complaints of mass resignation and complaints against the national government, the university's own official data show a different reality. Far from shrinking, the teaching staff not only remained, but grew in recent years
.According to information released by the Undersecretary of University Policy, Alejandro “El Profe” Álvarez, the number of positions increased from 1968 in May 2023 to 2095 in February 2026. The data not only contradicts the idea of a cutback, but it also exposes a concrete expansion of the teaching structure in
that period.
The growth is no less: this is more than 120 additional positions in less than three years, in a period when different sectors linked to the university installed the idea of generalized defunding. Far from that narrative, the numbers show a structure that not only maintains, but expands.
The detail of the data also reinforces this trend. Simple dedications — the most numerous — have seen a sustained increase, from 1,404 positions in May 2023 to 1,527 in February 2026. At the same time, exclusive and semi-exclusive dedications remain relatively stable, with no evidence of a significant reduction
.The discussion heated up after the official account of Exactas UBA falsely stated that 438 teachers and researchers left the faculty since the beginning of Javier Milei's government, with a rate of resignation of “one every two









