It became Universidad Técnica del Estado (Spanish: Technical University of the State) in 1947, with various campuses throughout the country.

At the time, students ages ranged between 15 and 18 years old, thus making the EAO not a University, but a secondary education entity.

Besides being intensely trained in workshops, students studied algebra, descriptive geometry, trigonometry, technical drawing, industrial mechanics, physics and chemistry, besides Spanish, history and geography.

On February 8, 1952, the first statute that allowed the grouping to begin functioning as a university in legal, administrative and academic terms, was enacted.

The musician and poet Víctor Jara, who worked as a professor at the university, was arrested by Pinochet's forces, tortured and murdered days later In 1981, the military regime through the DFL Decree No.

This association, as a union, acts to represent and protect the collective interests of workers before the action of the university officials, and in general before the State political decisions regarding human resources management and civil service.

Planetario Chile is located at the University Campus; it is 13380 m2, made up of a building, square, gardens, water mirror and parking for 100 cars.

The astronomical dome is 22 m diameter and the stars simulation equipment, a Carl Zeiss projector, model VI, and allows observing the southern and northern night sky.

In 1971, the UTE cinema department released its first production “El Sueldo de Chile” (1971) directed by Fernando Balmaceda.

[1] By then, the Universidad Técnica del Estado was planning to open a television signal in Channel 11, whose intentions were finally aborted after the coup d'état in 1973.

In 1998, students from the informatics career of the aforementioned university led by José Zorrilla, developed a project to transmit the radio via internet and a program transmission system on demand, whose technology would be known six years later as podcasting.

[2][3] At the same time, its web site is launched leading it as the first university radio transmitting via internet with a unique podcasting system in the world.

University of Santiago, Chile radio as well as television contributes to spread local music via cultural programs and hot news such as Escena Viva.