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The process by means of which the Provincial University of Mar del Plata was nationalized (absorbing as well the private Catholic University <>) took place within a context of hard governmental and para-governmental repression. The degrees in social sciences (which had promoted the foundation of the Faculty of Humanities in the state university) were completely eliminated. After the closure of inscriptions in 1975, two years later this faculty would only offer the degree programs that had been developed in the catholic and private university: History, Literature, Geography, and English. This article accounts for the sociopolitical context of the university life of that period, and it focuses on specific institutional activities and contending actors in this concrete scenario. Some of the principal axes to be considered in the analyzed case are: (1) complex political disputes in the Province of Buenos Aires, (2) clashes within the peronist militancy in university, and (3) proper features of Mar del Plata City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]