For many years, the universities of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and La Plata were the only ones teaching geology until the 1950s, when the universities of Tucumán, Salta, and the University of the South in Bahía Blanca were founded. At the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, the universities of San Juan, San Luis, Patagonia, Jujuy, La Pampa, Catamarca, and Río Cuarto were created. Soon, geology courses began to be offered in all of them. Finally, geology courses were created in the universities of Río Negro, Comahue, La Rioja, Tierra del Fuego and Cuyo. All of these universities where geology was taught were public institutions, except the University of San Juan Bosco, which was private and run by the Salesians. However, a few years later it merged with the National University of Patagonia. All of these new universities began to graduate geologists and with the support of the National State they consolidated to train new professionals with different orientations following regional needs. The study of geology grew steadily, incorporating local students, who perhaps would not have had another opportunity to dedicate themselves to the study of geosciences.