[conanbatt]

Depends on the degree though: Medicine at UBA is a disaster, and other subjects like Accounting and Law don't have much prestige(maybe because it doesn't matter to those degrees).

UBA has its own problems with budget managing, building decay and internal governability issues. Not to mention that is not only free for Argentinians, but free for anyone, which presents extra strains on its budget.

Im all up for free college education tho, it would change the landscape in the US forever if colleges were non-profit oriented.

[lfottaviano]

Medicine@UBA a disaster? Are you talking seriously? Do you have arguments to say that?

[conanbatt]

Many, I took a random class there and had friends there.

1) Decay is tremendous in Medicine: there are pests and cockroaches everywhere. Bathrooms are used very indecently and its not even safe. Girls dont dare go alone to several bathrooms in the building.

2) Under-budgeted: labs are unequipped and classes have an inordinate amount of people for the number of teachers they have.

3) Kafkesque paperwork and Draconian teachers : there are so many people going to medicine in UBA that students get no attention or assistance. The emotional health of med students is disastrous there, people break down a lot.

A few private med schools actually are pretty prestigious and when you study there, you can actually focus on studying medicine and not just surviving an ordeal.