Aalborg University

Aalborg University is a public university in Denmark, founded in 1974 as Aalborg University Centre and renamed Aalborg University in 1994, with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg and Copenhagen, and it is internationally known for the Aalborg Model of problem-based and project-organised learning.奥尔堡大学是丹麦的一所公立大学，1974 年以奥尔堡大学中心之名创办，1994 年改称奥尔堡大学，在奥尔堡、埃斯比约与哥本哈根设有校区，并以其「基于问题、以项目组织学习」的奥尔堡模式闻名国际。

In 2025 it had 17,692 regular students, of whom 2,528 were international, 2,715 part-time students and 765 doctoral students, taught by 2,343 full-time and 694 part-time academic staff within a workforce of roughly 3,700 employees.2025 年学校有全日制普通学生 17,692 人（其中留学生 2,528 人）、非全日制学生 2,715 人与博士生 765 人，由 2,343 名全职与 694 名兼职教学科研人员任教，全校员工约 3,700 人。

It ranks 329th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 224th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 288th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities table and inside the 301 to 400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex records 108,358 works and 4,621,090 citations.它在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 329，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 224，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中列第 288，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位于 301 至 400 区间。据 OpenAlex 统计，其成果为 108,358 项、被引用 4,621,090 次。

History

• The story of the university begins in 1961, when the North Jutland Committee for higher education institutions was formed to consider how the region could gain a centre of learning, and although local industry preferred a research station the committee chose to press for a university centre.该校的历史始于 1961 年组建的北日德兰高等教育机构委员会，该委员会研究本地区如何获得一个学术中心，当时地方产业界更希望设立研究站，而委员会则主张争取建立一所大学中心。

• On 19 August 1969 the Aalborg University Association was founded by local colleges and a students association, who together outbid competing towns and mounted a sustained campaign for a university in the north of Jutland.1969 年 8 月 19 日，当地多所学院与一个学生协会共同创立奥尔堡大学协会，他们出价压过竞争城镇，为在日德兰北部建立大学展开持久游说。

• In December 1969 about a thousand students staged a demonstration in Aalborg demanding a university centre, and the pressure helped carry the project through Parliament, where the governing law was passed in 1970.1969 年 12 月，约一千名学生在奥尔堡举行集会，要求设立大学中心，这一压力助推该项目在议会过关，相关法律于 1970 年获得通过。

• In 1972 the new centre chose as its first rector the Swedish historian Jörgen Weibull, who shaped the institution's founding ideals of interdisciplinary problem-based study rather than traditional subject-based teaching.1972 年，新大学中心选定瑞典历史学家约根·韦布尔为首任校长，他确立了学校跨学科、以问题为基础而非传统学科灌输的办学理念。

• On 1 September 1974 Aalborg University Centre was officially opened by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and two thousand students were welcomed the following day, beginning the institution's life as a young Danish university.1974 年 9 月 1 日，丹麦女王玛格丽特二世为奥尔堡大学中心主持开校典礼，次日学校迎来两千名学生，这所年轻的丹麦大学自此起步。

• In 1976 Sven Caspersen became rector and drove the development of what became known as the Aalborg Model, embedding problem-based project work in groups as the core of every study programme.1976 年，斯文·卡斯佩森出任校长，推动形成了后来被称为奥尔堡模式的制度，把以小组开展、以问题为导向的项目工作确立为所有专业的核心。

• In 1980 the university signed its first cooperation agreement with a foreign partner, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, opening a long record of international exchange that followed from its problem-based method.1980 年学校与外国伙伴威斯康星大学绿湾分校签署首个合作协议，开启了由问题导向教学法所催生的长期国际交流传统。

• In 1989 local authorities and the university founded the North Jutland knowledge park around the campus, linking the institution to industry and to the region's emerging technology firms.1989 年，地方政府与学校在校园周边创建北日德兰知识园区，把学校与本地区产业及新兴技术公司联系起来。

• In 1993 external representatives such as business and municipal leaders were admitted to the university's consistory, giving outside interests a voice in its governance.1993 年，企业与市政领导人等外部代表获准进入学校最高治理机构，使外部各方在校务治理中有了发言权。

• In 1994 Aalborg University Centre changed status and became Aalborg University, the name it has carried since, a change that came with a more formalised research mission.1994 年，奥尔堡大学中心变更建制，成为延续至今的奥尔堡大学，这一变化也伴随着更为正式化的科研使命。

• In 1995 the university merged with the School of Engineering in Esbjerg, adding the western campus on the North Sea coast and extending its engineering teaching to south-west Jutland.1995 年学校与埃斯比约工程学院合并，在北海沿岸增添了西部校区，把工程教学延伸到日德兰西南部。

• In 1998 the NOVI science park was established as a base for research-based companies, and in 2003 the university opened a campus in Copenhagen in cooperation with an engineering college, its first presence in the capital.1998 年 NOVI 科技园建立，成为依托研究成果创办企业的基地，2003 年学校又在一所工程学院的合作下于哥本哈根开设校区，首次进入首都。

• In 2004 a new university board was set up with rector Jørgen Østergaard at its head, and in 2005 Finn Kjærsdam succeeded him as rector, leading a decade of growth in research income and student numbers.2004 年学校组建新的校董会，由校长约根·奥斯特高领衔，2005 年菲恩·凯尔斯丹接任校长，引领了科研经费与学生规模双双增长的十年。

• In 2007 the university merged with the Danish Building Research Institute, known by the abbreviation SBi, adding construction and housing research to its engineering profile.2007 年学校与丹麦建筑研究所合并，为其工程特色增添了建筑与住房研究方向。

• Also in 2007 the UICEE Centre for Problem Based Learning was founded at Aalborg, a recognition of the Aalborg Model that later led to the university holding a UNESCO Chair in problem-based learning.同在 2007 年，国际工程教育中心下属的基于问题学习研究中心在奥尔堡成立，这一对奥尔堡模式的认可，后来促成了该校获得联合国教科文组织的基于问题学习教席。

• In 2010 the university established a Faculty of Medicine, building on its long-standing health science and technology programmes and creating a full medical school with clinical training.2010 年学校设立医学院，依托其由来已久的健康科学与技术专业，建立起一所具备临床培训的完整医学院。

• In 2014 Per Michael Johansen became rector, and in 2024 the university marked its fiftieth anniversary with a programme of events recalling the 1974 opening by Queen Margrethe II.2014 年佩尔·米凯尔·约翰森出任校长，2024 年学校以一系列活动纪念建校五十周年，追忆 1974 年由女王玛格丽特二世主持的开校典礼。

• The university runs a long-running student satellite programme, launching the AAU CubeSat on 30 June 2003, the AAUSAT-II on 28 April 2008 and the AAUSAT3 in 2013, each built largely by students under the problem-based method.学校长期开展学生卫星项目，分别于 2003 年 6 月 30 日发射 AAU CubeSat、2008 年 4 月 28 日发射 AAUSAT-II、2013 年发射 AAUSAT3，这些卫星大多由学生依问题导向教学模式自行研制。

• It also runs teaching and research centres abroad, including programmes with the Birla Institute of Technology in India, the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia, the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy and Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.学校还在海外设立教学与研究中心，合作对象包括印度的比尔拉理工学院、印度尼西亚的万隆理工学院、意大利的罗马第二大学以及中国的西安交通大学。

Academics

• The university is organised into five faculties, Humanities, Social Sciences, the Technical Faculty of IT and Design, the Faculty of Engineering and Science, and the Faculty of Medicine, each blending teaching with problem-oriented research.学校下设五个学院，即人文学院、社会科学学院、信息技术与设计学院、工程与科学学院以及医学院，各院系都以教学与问题导向研究相结合。

• Its defining method, the Aalborg Model, requires students to work in groups of four to six on a real-world problem for much of each semester, with courses giving way to project work examined through a written report and an oral defence.其标志性的奥尔堡模式要求学生每学期大部分时间以四至六人为一组，围绕真实问题开展项目，课程让位于以书面报告和口头答辩来考核的项目工作。

• Projects are frequently carried out in cooperation with companies and public bodies, so that students apply theory to actual tasks in industry and in the public sector as part of their degrees.项目常与企业及公共机构合作进行，使学生得以在攻读学位期间把理论应用于产业与公共部门的实际任务。

• The Faculty of Engineering and Science covers built environment, materials and production, chemistry and bioscience, mathematical sciences and energy, and is the base for the university's widely cited power-electronics and wind-energy research.工程与科学学院涵盖建成环境、材料与制造、化学与生物科学、数学科学以及能源等领域，是学校被广泛引用的电力电子与风能研究的基地。

• The Technical Faculty of IT and Design groups electronic systems, computer science, architecture, design and media technology and planning, and it trains engineers and designers who work on digital and physical products.信息技术与设计学院汇集电子系统、计算机科学、建筑、设计与媒体技术以及规划等方向，培养从事数字与实体产品开发的工程师和设计师。

• The Faculty of Medicine teaches health science and technology and clinical medicine, building on the university's medical and health programmes that long predate the faculty of 2010.医学院教授健康科学与技术以及临床医学，其基础是该校长久开展的医学与健康类专业，远早于 2010 年建院。

• The Faculty of Social Sciences includes the university's business school, as well as the study of law, politics and society, and sociology and social work, taught with an emphasis on applied and comparative research.社会科学学院包含该校的商学院，以及法律、政治与社会学和社工等方向，教学强调应用性与比较研究。

• Its Faculty of Humanities teaches languages, culture, history, communication and learning, and its programmes feed into teacher education and regional cultural institutions.人文学院教授语言、文化、历史、传播与学习等学科，其项目为教师教育与地方文化机构输送人才。

• Aalborg University Press, founded in 1978, publishes scholarly books and journals, four of whose journals are indexed in the Scopus database, giving the university its own academic publishing house.奥尔堡大学出版社成立于 1978 年，出版学术专著与期刊，其中四本期刊被 Scopus 数据库收录，使学校拥有自己的学术出版机构。

• The UICEE Centre for Problem Based Learning and the university's UNESCO Chair in problem-based learning train teachers from other institutions to apply the Aalborg Model in their own countries.国际工程教育中心的基于问题学习研究中心以及该校的教科文组织基于问题学习教席，为其他院校的教师提供培训，帮助他们在本国运用奥尔堡模式。

• Its library system, with its main branch in Aalborg, holds print and electronic collections for all five faculties and provides group study rooms that are heavily used by project groups.其图书馆系统主馆设在奥尔堡，为全部五个学院提供纸质与电子馆藏，并设有被项目小组大量使用的研讨室。

• The university's international centres teach Danish-style problem-based engineering in India, Indonesia, Italy and China, exporting the method through joint programmes with partner universities.学校的国际中心在印度、印度尼西亚、意大利与中国教授丹麦式的问题导向工程教育，通过与伙伴大学的联合项目推广这一方法。

• Research at the university concentrates on health technology, wireless communication, energy and sustainability, computer science, innovation economics and comparative welfare studies, reflecting its mission-driven approach.学校的科研集中于健康技术、无线通信、能源与可持续性、计算机科学、创新经济学与比较福利研究，体现其以使命为导向的研究路径。

• Its wind-energy and power-electronics groups are among the most cited in their fields worldwide, and its energy researchers work on wind turbines, biogas plants and smart grids.其风能与电力电子研究团队在全球同行中的被引用量名列前茅，能源领域的研究者从事风力发电机、沼气装置与智能电网的研究。

• The university's doctoral school enrols 765 doctoral students, and PhD fellows work within the same problem-based culture as undergraduates, often in externally funded projects.学校博士生院现有博士生 765 人，博士生与本科生同样身处问题导向的培养文化之中，其项目常由外部经费资助。

• Teaching is conducted in Danish for most programmes and in English for a growing number of master's degrees and for the roughly 2,528 international students enrolled in 2025.多数专业以丹麦语授课，越来越多的硕士项目则以英语授课，2025 年入学的约 2,528 名留学生也主要修读英语课程。

Campus

• The university is one university with three campuses: Aalborg, which has about 14,928 students, Copenhagen, with about 2,618, and Esbjerg, with about 388, distributed across Denmark from the Limfjord to the capital.学校是一校三区的格局：奥尔堡校区约有学生 14,928 人，哥本哈根校区约 2,618 人，埃斯比约校区约 388 人，从利姆海峡延伸到首都，遍布丹麦。

• The Aalborg campus occupies a compact central site with libraries, canteens, group rooms and social spaces, and the city's harbourfront nearby holds cultural landmarks such as the Utzon Center and Musikkens Hus.奥尔堡校区位于城市中心的一片紧凑地块，设有图书馆、食堂、研讨室与社交空间，附近的海港沿岸则有乌松中心与音乐厅等文化地标。

• The Copenhagen campus, established in 2003, occupies about 40,000 square metres in the Sydhavnen district of the capital and concentrates on IT, design and engineering programmes.2003 年建立的哥本哈根校区位于首都南港区，建筑面积约 4 万平方米，以信息技术、设计与工程类专业为主。

• The Esbjerg campus on the North Sea coast occupies about 13,000 square metres and specialises in engineering, energy and business programmes taught in a smaller, close-knit setting.位于北海沿岸的埃斯比约校区建筑面积约 1.3 万平方米，在规模较小、关系紧密的环境中开设工程、能源与商科专业。

• All three campuses offer modern facilities including libraries, canteens, group study rooms and social areas with pool tables and table tennis, and are served by public transport in their cities.三座校区均提供现代化设施，包括图书馆、食堂、研讨室以及备有台球与乒乓球桌的社交空间，并有城市公共交通相连。

• The Aalborg campus lies close to the city's cultural life, including the waterfront concert hall and the annual Aalborg Carnival, which in May draws costumed revellers through the streets each year.奥尔堡校区紧邻城市的文化生活，包括海港边的音乐厅，以及每年 5 月让盛装人群穿行街头的奥尔堡狂欢节。

• Sports facilities include a modern fitness centre and the grounds of Aalborg Studenternes Idrætsforening, the student sports club affiliated with the university, open to students from all the city's institutions.体育设施包括一座现代化健身中心以及与该大学相关联、面向全市各校学生开放的学生体育协会「AASI」的场地。

• The main campus library, together with departmental libraries, serves the faculties, and the compact layout of the Aalborg site allows students to cross between buildings on foot within a few minutes.主馆与各系图书馆共同为各学院服务，奥尔堡校区布局紧凑，学生步行几分钟即可在各楼之间往来。

Reputation

• Aalborg University is placed 329th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.奥尔堡大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 329。

• It is joint 224th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 288th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities table.它在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 224，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中列第 288。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University it appears inside the 301 to 400 band.在由上海交通大学发布的 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，它位于 301 至 400 区间。

• According to OpenAlex its scholars have produced 108,358 works attracting 4,621,090 citations, one of the largest research totals among Danish universities.据 OpenAlex 统计，其学者共发表 108,358 项成果、累计被引用 4,621,090 次，是丹麦各大学中科研总量最大者之一。

• In the 2021 U.S. News subject rankings its mechanical engineering was placed eighth in the world and first in Europe, reflecting the university's strength in wind energy and power electronics.在 2021 年 US News 学科排名中，其机械工程列全球第 8、欧洲第 1，体现该校在风能与电力电子方面的实力。

• It ranked sixth in the world in the 2021 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, the highest position among European universities, for its contribution to the sustainable development goals.因其对可持续发展目标的贡献，它在 2021 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中列全球第 6，为欧洲高校中的最高名次。

• In 2022 it was judged best in the world for Sustainable Development Goal 4, quality education, for the third consecutive year, a recognition of the Aalborg Model's reach.2022 年，它在可持续发展目标第四项「优质教育」上被评为全球最佳，这已是连续第三年获此评价，是对奥尔堡模式影响力的认可。

• In the 2024 QS World University Rankings it was placed 336th, showing its steady position among the world's leading young universities.在 2024 年 QS 世界大学排名中它位列第 336，显示其稳居全球领先的年轻大学之列。

• It is a member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities, founded in 1997 and counting fourteen member universities, as well as of the UArctic network and the UNESCO Chair programme in problem-based learning.它是 1997 年成立、拥有十四所成员大学的欧洲创新大学联盟成员，同时还加入北极大学网络并持有教科文组织的基于问题学习教席。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto, and its identity rests instead on the Aalborg Model and on the problem-based project culture that defines student life from the first semester.该校没有正式的校训，其身份认同转而建立在奥尔堡模式以及自第一学期起就塑造学生生活的问题导向项目文化之上。

• Group work is central to daily life, and students spend much of their week in group rooms with their project team, supervised by a faculty adviser rather than taught in large lectures.小组工作是日常生活的核心，学生每周大部分时间与项目小组待在研讨室里，由教师担任导师指导，而非接受大班授课。

• The relationship between students and staff is informal, and each faculty has its own Friday bar, run by volunteer students and open to all as a weekly social meeting place.师生关系轻松不拘，每个学院都有自己的「周五酒吧」，由学生志愿者经营，向所有人开放，成为每周的社交聚点。

• At the Copenhagen campus student life includes the Wednesday cafe known as Kaffepletten, the Friday bar Slusen and the student association AMPED, which organises social and academic events.哥本哈根校区的学生生活包括名为「Kaffepletten」的周三咖啡馆、「Slusen」周五酒吧，以及组织社交与学术活动的学生社团「AMPED」。

• At the Esbjerg campus the student bar known as The Loophole serves as the social centre for the smaller student community on the west coast.埃斯比约校区以名为「The Loophole」的学生酒吧作为西海岸较小规模学生群体的社交中心。

• More than a hundred student associations cover case competitions, music, improvisation, sports and student radio, with organisations such as I-Life helping international students settle into Danish campus culture.学校有上百个学生社团，涵盖案例分析竞赛、音乐、即兴表演、体育与学生电台等领域，其中「I-Life」等组织帮助留学生融入丹麦校园文化。

• The annual Aalborg Carnival in May, the largest carnival in Denmark, draws costumed crowds and concerts into the streets of the city where the main campus stands.每年 5 月举行的奥尔堡狂欢节是丹麦规模最大的狂欢节，盛装人群与音乐演出涌入主校区所在城市的街头。

• Because project groups often work with companies, many students build professional networks before graduation, and study programmes are structured around semester-long projects assessed by report and oral examination.由于项目小组常与企业合作，许多学生在毕业前便建立起职业人脉，其学业也围绕以报告与口头答辩考核的整学期项目来组织。

Notable people

• Mette Frederiksen, prime minister of Denmark since 2019, holds a bachelor's degree in administration and social science from the university and is the youngest person to have held the office.自 2019 年起任丹麦首相的梅特·弗雷泽里克森持有该校行政与社会学学士学位，也是丹麦历史上最年轻的首相。

• Frede Blaabjerg, a professor of power electronics at the university, is among the world's most cited researchers in his field and works on wind turbines, photovoltaics and microgrids.该校电力电子学教授弗雷德·布拉布耶尔是其领域内全球被引用最多的研究者之一，研究涉及风力发电机、光伏系统与微电网。

• Bent Flyvbjerg, a Danish social scientist long associated with the university, is known for his research on megaprojects and major programme management.长期与该大学相关的丹麦社会科学家本特·弗吕夫比约以其对特大型工程与重大项目治理的研究闻名。

• Bengt-Åke Lundvall, an economist closely linked to the university, helped found the field of innovation studies and the national systems of innovation approach.与该校关系密切的经济学家本特-奥克·伦德瓦尔参与创立了创新研究领域以及国家创新体系的研究方法。

• Birkir Hólm Guðnason, an Icelandic business leader and chief executive of Icelandair, and Kim Guldstrand Larsen, a Danish computer scientist and professor, are also counted among its notable people.冰岛商界领袖、冰岛航空首席执行官比尔基尔·霍尔姆·古德纳松，以及丹麦计算机科学家、教授金·古尔德斯特兰德·拉森，也被列入该校的知名人物。

• Christian Graugaard, a physician and professor at the university, is a leading Danish voice on sexual health and sexology.该校医生兼教授克里斯蒂安·格劳高是丹麦在性健康与性学领域的重要声音。

• Jens Blauert, an engineer and professor known for his research in psychoacoustics, has been associated with the university's acoustics research environment.以心理声学研究闻名的工程师兼教授延斯·布劳尔特，与该大学的声音学研究环境关系密切。

• Fredric J. Harris, a professor of electrical and computer engineering known for work on digital signal processing and filter design, taught at the university.以数字信号处理与滤波器设计研究闻名的电气与计算机工程教授弗雷德里克·J. 哈里斯曾在该校任教。

• Jörgen Weibull, the Swedish historian who served as the first rector from 1972, laid down the university's commitment to problem-based, interdisciplinary teaching.自 1972 年起担任首任校长的瑞典历史学家约根·韦布尔，确立了该校对基于问题、跨学科教学的承诺。

• Sven Caspersen, rector from 1976, guided the creation and spread of the Aalborg Model and the university's early growth into a national institution.1976 年起任校长的斯文·卡斯佩森，主导了奥尔堡模式的形成与推广，以及该校早期向全国性机构的发展。