The Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) has a student population of approximately 180,000 students. Physically, it occupies an area of 11.5 million square metres, of which 1.37 million are in the city of Cordoba and the rest in the interior of the province of Cordoba. Its own covered surface area exceeds 411,000 square metres.

Distributed between the University City and the historic centre of Cordoba, the UNC - also known as Casa de Trejo - has 15 faculties; two secondary schools; 145 research centres and institutes; 25 libraries; 20 museums; a blood products laboratory; two hospitals; a blood bank; two astronomical observatories; a nature reserve; two business incubators; and a multimedia communications centre comprising two television channels, two radio stations (AM and FM) and a news portal.