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National University of the Northeast

university in Argentina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5261681
Source-derived summary

The National University of the Northeast (Spanish: Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, UNNE) is an Argentine national university. It is located in the cities of Corrientes and Resistencia, capital cities of the Provinces of Corrientes and Chaco respectively, and was established on December 4, 1956. Known as the University of the Sun, it was the seventh-largest university in Argentina by student enrollment numbers as of 2017.

Schools

Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Agrarian and Forest Sciences

Faculty of Agroindustry

Faculty of Economic Sciences

Faculty of Exact Sciences

The Faculty of Exact Sciences consists of 9 academic departments; namely Agricultural Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Physics, Humanities, Informatics, Engineering, Mathematics and Chemistry. These departments offer undergraduate and post-graduate courses. Innovative dual language post-graduate courses have been taught in the faculty of mathematics by internationally distinguished professors such as Bharath Sriraman on topics of Theories and Philosophies of Mathematics Education.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “National University of the Northeast” is university in Argentina. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through National, University and Northeast, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956. For this dossier, National, University and Northeast is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “university in Argentina” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5261681. VIAF identifies the subject as 143074388. The Library of Congress control number is n81035190. Authority coordinates are -27.464, -58.839. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956 and 2017.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “National University of the Northeast”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow National University of the Northeast primary sources, National University of the Northeast archive and National research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “National University of the Northeast”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from National University of the Northeast” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.