It also offers graduate courses on system analysis, as well as post-graduate degrees on the magister, doctoral and post-doctoral levels.

The University of Buenos Aires began imparting courses on engineering as early as 1865, when Rector Juan María Gutiérrez ordered the re-establishment of the Department of Exact Sciences, which saw courses on "pure and applied mathematics", as well as natural history.

By 1866, the department counted with thirteen enrolled students: Valentín Balbín, Santiago Brian, Adolfo Büttner, Jorge Coquet, Luis A. Huergo, Francisco Lavalle, Carlos Olivera, Matías Sánchez, Luis Silveyra, Miguel Sorondo, Zacarías Tapia, Guillermo Villanueva and Guillermo White.

The faculty had its seat at the Illuminated Block, on Perú 222, up until it was relocated to a Neo-Gothic building on Las Heras Av.

[4] The ten six-meter high statues on the roof of the headquarters, representing the "descamisados", were designed and sculpted from Carrara marble by the Italian sculptor Leone Tommasi and installed in 1950.

In 1955, after the coup d'état, the statues were removed and thrown into the Matanza River, from where, in 1996, by order of President Carlos Menem, only three were found and were retrieved.

The faculty is headed by a Dean (Spanish: decana or decano), who presides over the Directive Council (Consejo Directivo).