Torcuato di Tella University

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Torcuato Di Tella University's Alcorta building
Motto	Aprender para protagonizar (learn in order to lead)
Type	Private
Established	1991
President	Ernesto Schargrodsky
Vice-president	Catalina Smulovitz
Academic staff	256
Students	4,175 (2012)
Undergraduates	1,324 (2012)
Postgraduates	4175 (2012)
Location	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Campus	Urban
Website	www.utdt.edu

The Torcuato Di Tella University (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella commonly referred to as UTDT or La Di Tella) is a non-profit private university founded in 1991. Located in the Núñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it has an undergraduate enrollment of 1,200 students and a graduate enrollment of 1,300. The university is focused primarily on social sciences. The undergraduates majors available are economics, business economics, business administration, law, political science, international relations, social sciences, history and architecture. The university also offers over 30 graduate programs.

The faculty comprises 77 full-time professors, most of them graduate students and visiting scholars from universities abroad. The university provides more than 50 exchange programs with universities in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Africa and Asia. There is also a sizable number of international students that study in the University for a semester or two. Although economic problems have delayed the expansion of the campus, the university is moving to a new building which will allow further growth in the number of students and majors. The university's dean is Ernesto Schargrodsky.

The concept of the new university was developed by the university's first dean, Gerardo della Paolera, and the then Argentine ambassador to the United States, Guido di Tella. They decided to adopt an American university model, and to create a research based university with small class sizes and professors with international studies and recognition.

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella was founded in 1991, with the mission of educating new generations of academics, and business, social and political leaders. It was founded by the Torcuato di Tella Foundation, making use of the experience and resources of the Torcuato di Tella Institute. The latter, a non-profit institute founded in 1958 to promote research in the interest scientific, cultural and artistic development in Argentina, became a leading local center for avant-garde art during the 1960s. The establishments' namesake, Torcuato di Tella, had been a leading Argentine industrialist through his Siam di Tella conglomerate founded in 1911.