Adolfo Ibáñez University

The Adolfo Ibáñez University (Spanish: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, UAI) is a private, non-profit research university in Chile, constituted as a university in 1988 under Law No. 18.744 and descended from the Valparaíso Business School founded in 1953 by the Adolfo Ibáñez Foundation.阿道夫·伊瓦涅斯大学（西班牙文 Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez，缩写 UAI）是智利的私立非营利研究型大学，依 1988 年第 18.744 号法律正式组建为大学，其前身是阿道夫·伊瓦涅斯基金会于 1953 年创办的瓦尔帕莱索商学院。

Its main campus at Peñalolén lies on the eastern edge of Santiago, and it also teaches in Viña del Mar and in two Santiago sites, the Presidente Errázuriz and Vitacura campuses, across eight faculties and schools.学校主校区佩尼亚洛伦位于圣地亚哥东缘，另在比尼亚德尔马以及圣地亚哥市内的埃拉苏里斯总统校区与维塔库拉校区办学，下属八所学院与学校。

The university counted 10,035 undergraduate students in twelve programmes and 3,486 postgraduate students in 2021, its Business School holds the triple international accreditation of AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, and the university is placed at 655th in the QS World University Rankings 2027.2021 年学校有本科生 10,035 人、分布在 12 个专业，研究生 3,486 人；其商学院持有 AACSB、EQUIS 与 AMBA 三项国际认证，学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 655 位。

History

• The roots of the university lie in the Valparaíso Business School, established in 1953 under the Adolfo Ibáñez Foundation and the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, to train company managers in business administration.学校的源头是 1953 年在阿道夫·伊瓦涅斯基金会与瓦尔帕莱索天主教大学支持下创办的瓦尔帕莱索商学院，旨在培养企业管理者。

• It was the first institution in Chile to offer the business administration career, and one of the pioneers of such teaching in Latin America.它是智利第一所开设工商管理专业的高校，也是拉丁美洲此类教育的先驱之一。

• During the 1940s the businessman and public figure Adolfo Ibáñez Boggiano laid the foundations of the venture, seeking a business school that would train company leaders rather than only clerks.20 世纪 40 年代，企业家与公共人物阿道夫·伊瓦涅斯·博贾诺为这一事业奠定基础，他设想创办一所培养企业领导者而非普通职员的企业学院。

• In the early 1970s the alliance between the business school and its parent university ended, and after a period of autonomy the school joined the Federico Santa María Technical University, an association that lasted until the late 1980s.20 世纪 70 年代初，商学院与其母体大学的合作关系终止，学校经过一段自治时期后并入费德里科·圣玛丽亚技术大学，这一合作关系延续到 80 年代末。

• In 1979 the school became the first business school in Chile to introduce a master of business administration programme.1979 年，学院成为智利第一所开设工商管理硕士项目的商学院。

• Following the educational reform of the late 1980s, the Adolfo Ibáñez University was constituted in 1988 under Law No. 18.744, with the business school as its central axis.在 80 年代末的教育改革之后，阿道夫·伊瓦涅斯大学于 1988 年依第 18.744 号法律组建，以商学院为其核心。

• The university opened its law and engineering careers in 1989, added journalism and education in 1996 and psychology in 2002, broadening from business into the liberal professions.学校于 1989 年开设法学与工程专业，1996 年增设新闻与教育学，2002 年增设心理学，从商科扩展至多个人文与专业领域。

• On 1 May 1996 the Faculty of Science and Technology was created, and by decree published in 2007 it was renamed the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, effective from 6 August 2007.1996 年 5 月 1 日成立科学技术学院，后依 2007 年公布的法令自当年 8 月 6 日起更名为工程与科学学院。

• On 1 October 2001 the School of Government Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda was founded to improve public policy, and the School of Journalism was founded the same day under a separate decree.2001 年 10 月 1 日，学校以另一项法令成立佩德罗·伊瓦涅斯·奥赫达政府学院，旨在改进公共政策；同日又以单独法令成立了新闻学院。

• On 5 November 2001 the School of Psychology was founded, completing a cluster of social-science schools created at the turn of the millennium.2001 年 11 月 5 日，心理学院成立，至此形成了世纪之交设立的一批社会科学类学院。

• In 2002 the Business School began teaching an executive master of business administration programme in Lima, extending the university's teaching beyond Chile for the first time.2002 年，商学院开始在秘鲁利马开设高管工商管理硕士项目，学校教学首次走出智利。

• In 2006 the Business School opened a base in Miami, making the university the first Latin American institution to open a business school in the United States and award a degree there.2006 年，商学院在迈阿密设立基地，使学校成为第一所在美国开设商学院并授予学位的拉丁美洲高校。

• In April 2009 the university associated with the Indian School of Business to create mutual postgraduate programmes and to exchange students and teachers, and in May 2010 its Business School agreed a dual-degree alliance with the John E. Anderson School of Management at UCLA.2009 年 4 月，学校与印度商学院建立合作，创设相互的研究生项目并互派师生；2010 年 5 月，其商学院又与加州大学洛杉矶分校的约翰·安德森管理学院达成双学位合作。

• On 3 December 2007 the Faculty of Liberal Arts was created by decree to develop the university's core curriculum and its minor subjects, an approach that was new in Chile.2007 年 12 月 3 日，学校依法令成立人文学院，以发展其核心课程与辅修科目，这一做法在智利尚属首创。

• On 1 December 2011 the School of Design, known as DesignLab, was founded as an academic unit attached to the Business School to train professionals able to apply solutions in science and entrepreneurship.2011 年 12 月 1 日，学校成立设计学院（DesignLab），作为隶属商学院的学术单位，培养能够在科学与创业领域应用解决方案的专业人才。

• In 2017 the CORE Curriculum programme began to be taught to all undergraduate students under the Faculty of Liberal Arts, promoting an integrated understanding of reality.2017 年起，学校在人文学院主导下向全体本科生开设 CORE 核心课程项目，倡导对现实的整全理解。

• The Business School has held triple international accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA since 2015, making it the first business school in Chile to hold all three.其商学院自 2015 年起持有 AACSB、EQUIS 与 AMBA 三项国际认证，成为智利第一所同时持有这三项认证的商学院。

• In 2025 the former finance minister Andrés Velasco joined the university as a senior fellow attached to its schools of government and business.2025 年，前财政部长安德烈斯·贝拉斯科以高级研究员身份加入学校，隶属于其政府学院与商学院。

• By 2021 the university had grown to 13,521 students across four campuses, with more than 64,000 square metres of built area in the country.到 2021 年，学校已发展至四个校区、在校生 13,521 人，全国校舍建筑面积超过 64,000 平方米。

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university was placed at 655th, the position under which this entry is catalogued.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，学校列第 655 位，本条目即按此名次收录。

Academics

• The university is organised into eight faculties and schools, covering business, engineering and sciences, law, government, psychology, liberal arts, communications and journalism, and design.学校设八所学院与学校，涵盖商科、工程与科学、法学、政府、心理学、人文、传播与新闻、设计等领域。

• Its undergraduate portfolio in 2021 comprised twelve programmes ranging from commercial engineering and law to psychology, journalism, design, computer science and behavioural sciences.2021 年其本科专业共 12 个，从工商管理与法学到心理学、新闻、设计、计算机科学与行为科学不等。

• Its educational model is based on liberal arts, with each student taking a major, a set of minors and fundamental core subjects, an approach described as unprecedented in Chile.其教育模式以博雅教育为基础，每名学生都需修读一个主修、若干辅修以及核心基础课程，这一做法被称为智利首创。

• The Business School is the university's flagship, and its MBA programmes are offered at multiple levels, with the school running programmes in Santiago, Viña del Mar and internationally.商学院是学校的旗舰，其 MBA 项目分为多个层次，在圣地亚哥、比尼亚德尔马以及海外开设。

• The engineering faculty, created in 1996 and renamed in 2007, offers civil engineering in industrial, computer, bioengineering, energy, mechanical and mining fields.工程与科学学院创办于 1996 年、2007 年更名，开设工业、计算机、生物工程、能源、机械与矿业等方向的土木工程专业。

• The Faculty of Liberal Arts runs the CORE Curriculum taken by all undergraduates and administers the university's minor subjects, which range from drama and music to philosophy.人文学院负责面向全体本科生开设的 CORE 核心课程，并管理学校的辅修科目，范围从戏剧、音乐到哲学。

• The School of Government Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda trains public-policy professionals and runs seminars on economic and political thought, including courses on Hayek and Darwin.佩德罗·伊瓦涅斯·奥赫达政府学院培养公共政策人才，并举办关于经济与政治思想的研讨，包括以哈耶克与达尔文为主题的课程。

• DesignLab, the design school, is attached to the Business School and combines design with science and entrepreneurship, offering a double degree path with commercial or civil engineering.设计学院 DesignLab 隶属商学院，把设计与科学、创业相结合，提供与工商管理或土木工程的双学位路径。

• Postgraduate provision includes eight doctoral programmes, a range of master's degrees and diplomas, together with continuing education for professionals.研究生教育包括八个博士项目、一系列硕士与文凭项目，以及面向在职人员的继续教育。

• The university runs institutional research programmes and an innovation ecosystem, and it joined the Digital Education Council and other networks for teaching transformation.学校设有机构性研究项目与创新生态，并加入数字教育理事会等推动教学变革的网络。

• It has been a partner of the CFA Institute in Chile, positioning its finance teaching alongside the chartered financial analyst qualification.学校多年来是 CFA 协会在智利的合作方，使其金融教学与特许金融分析师资格相衔接。

• Its research strengths are built around a growing body of academics working on public policy, behavioural science, sustainability and data, and the university reports international-standard work.其研究实力依托于一支在公共政策、行为科学、可持续性与数据领域不断壮大的学术队伍，学校称其研究达到国际水准。

• New programmes announced for 2027 admission include a degree in behavioural sciences and business, presented as an interdisciplinary course to understand human conduct.面向 2027 年招生的新专业包括行为科学与商业学位，校方称其为理解人类行为的跨学科课程。

• The university's teaching is delivered across four campuses, and its postgraduate teaching is concentrated at the Presidente Errázuriz campus in the Las Condes district.学校教学分布于四个校区，其研究生教学集中在拉斯孔德斯区的埃拉苏里斯总统校区。

• It maintains a career and employability service, and the university reports placing among the three Chilean universities with the strongest employability indicator.学校设有职业与就业服务，并称其在就业能力指标上位列智利高校前三。

• Admission is through the national centralised system as well as through special direct admission routes that the university promotes to widen access.入学既通过全国统一录取系统，也通过学校推行的特殊直接录取渠道，以扩大招生面。

• It runs a contemporary affairs talk programme, 「Actualidad en Contexto」, produced at the university and distributed as videos and podcasts on its own channel UAI ON.学校制作一档时事谈话节目「Actualidad en Contexto」，并通过自建平台 UAI ON 以视频与播客形式发布。

Campus

• The main campus at Peñalolén lies on the eastern edge of Santiago, sprawling over nearly 250 acres in the foothills of San Ramón Hill within the Peñalolén municipality.主校区佩尼亚洛伦位于圣地亚哥东缘，坐落在佩尼亚洛伦区圣拉蒙山麓，占地近 250 英亩。

• The Peñalolén campus buildings, used mainly by undergraduates, occupy nearly 110,000 square feet and include five computer laboratories for civil engineering students.佩尼亚洛伦校区的建筑主要由本科生使用，建筑面积近 110,000 平方英尺，设有五个面向土木工程学生的计算机实验室。

• The campus has a gym with machines and aerobics rooms open to every enrolled student through biometric access, several cafeterias and about 680 parking spaces.校园内设有健身房（含器械区与有氧操房），通过生物识别向全体在校生开放，还有数间餐厅与约 680 个停车位。

• The Presidente Errázuriz campus in the Las Condes section of north-east Santiago is dedicated mainly to postgraduate programmes and hosts seminar classes and the Business School dean's offices.位于圣地亚哥东北部拉斯孔德斯区的埃拉苏里斯总统校区主要用于研究生教育，设有研讨课程与商学院院长办公室。

• That campus has two amphitheatre-style classrooms fitted with audio equipment, along with climate-controlled study rooms and computer work cubicles for its postgraduate students.该校区设有两间配备音响设备的阶梯式教室，以及面向研究生的恒温自习室与计算机工位。

• The Viña del Mar campus, known as the Recreo campus, occupies a venerable residential neighbourhood and centres on the house that Adolfo Ibáñez Boggiano built in the 1930s.位于比尼亚德尔马的校区即雷克雷奥校区，坐落在历史悠久的住宅区，以阿道夫·伊瓦涅斯·博贾诺于 20 世纪 30 年代建造的宅邸为核心。

• The Recreo campus has a central courtyard that opens onto a panorama of Viña del Mar and the Pacific Ocean, and its buildings were designed to provide an academic setting.雷克雷奥校区设有一座中央庭院，可远眺比尼亚德尔马与太平洋的景象，其建筑亦以营造学术氛围为设计宗旨。

• The Sporting Club campus was planned for Viña del Mar to replace the older Recreo campus, which no longer met the university's requirements in that city.学校曾计划在比尼亚德尔马建设体育俱乐部校区，以取代已不能满足其在当地办学需求的旧雷克雷奥校区。

• The four campuses together total more than 64,000 square metres of built area, spread across Santiago and Viña del Mar.四个校区合计建筑面积超过 64,000 平方米，分布于圣地亚哥与比尼亚德尔马两地。

• The Vitacura campus hosts executive education and events, and the university uses it for business seminars and public policy gatherings.维塔库拉校区承办高管教育与各类活动，学校在此举办商业研讨与公共政策集会。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place the university at 655th in the world, the position under which this entry is catalogued.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将学校列为世界第 655 位，本条目即按此名次收录。

• In the QS Latin America and the Caribbean University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the top one per cent of the region, on employer reputation, scientific productivity and research networks.在 2027 年 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区大学排名中，学校凭借雇主声誉、科研产出与研究网络跻身该地区前 1%。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1401-1600 band, a lower position than the 1201-1500 band recorded the year before.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将学校列入第 1401-1600 位区间，低于上一年的第 1201-1500 位。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places the university at 1520th in the world, its main global-table placement for the period.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名将学校列为世界第 1520 位，是该校在此期主流全球榜单中的位次。

• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 does not list the university in its main table, so it holds no band there.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录该校，因此学校在该榜单中没有位次。

• In Chile the university is frequently ranked the leading private university by América Economía and by the Spanish research body CSIC, a standing it cites prominently.在智利国内，学校常被《美洲经济》杂志与西班牙科研机构 CSIC 评为领先的私立大学，校方对此甚为看重。

• Its Business School's triple accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA places it among the roughly one per cent of business schools worldwide holding all three.其商学院的 AACSB、EQUIS 与 AMBA 三项认证，使其跻身全球约百分之一的同时持有这三项认证的商学院之列。

• In the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025 the university reached fifth place nationally, reflecting its work on the sustainable development goals.在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中，学校位列全国第五，反映其在可持续发展目标方面的工作。

• OpenAlex records 11,552 works and 175,490 citations for the university, the machine-counted output behind its bibliometric profile.OpenAlex 记录该校成果数为 11,552 项、被引次数为 175,490 次，这组机器统计构成其文献计量画像的基础。

Student life

• The university has no formally adopted motto, and its identity is expressed through a mission of education based on freedom and personal responsibility.学校没有正式确定的校训，其身份认同以「基于自由与个人责任的教育」这一使命来表述。

• The Día UAI, or UAI Day, is the university's annual anniversary celebration, marked in October with an institutional account of the past year's progress.UAI 日（Día UAI）是学校的年度校庆活动，于每年 10 月举行，并发布过去一年的机构进展报告。

• A traditional feature of campus life is the chamber music cycle, which in 2026 presented a programme on the flute from the Renaissance to Romanticism.校园生活的一项传统是室内乐系列，2026 年的主题是从文艺复兴到浪漫主义的横笛音乐。

• Student life includes the UAI Sin Fronteras fair and an open startup festival held at the Peñalolén campus, which brings student ventures to a public audience.学生生活包括「UAI 无边界」集市以及在佩尼亚洛伦校区举办的开放创业节，把学生创业项目呈现给公众。

• The university runs a writer's lecture cycle, a research week and public seminars on current affairs, connecting students with Chilean public debate.学校举办作家讲座系列、研究周以及时事公开研讨，把学生与智利公共讨论联系起来。

• The tradition of 「Café con el Rector」, a direct conversation between students and the rector, opened its 2025 cycle as a way of linking the student body with the university authorities.学校延续「Café con el Rector」这一校长与学生直接对话的传统，2025 年的活动即以此把学生群体与校方联系起来。

• Undergraduate students were the first users of the Peñalolén campus, which is designed around classrooms equipped with audiovisual media and dedicated study spaces.本科生是佩尼亚洛伦校区最早的使用者，校区围绕配备视听设备的教室与专门的学习空间设计。

• The university's cafeterias serve as meeting and socialising spaces, and the campus lies on the edge of Santiago with links to the city centre.学校餐厅兼具会面与社交功能，校区位于圣地亚哥东缘，与市中心保持交通联系。

Notable people

• Adolfo Ibáñez Boggiano, the businessman and public figure whose legacy underwrote the institution, founded the Valparaíso Business School in 1953, the direct ancestor of the university.企业家与公共人物阿道夫·伊瓦涅斯·博贾诺以自身遗产支持办学，于 1953 年创办瓦尔帕莱索商学院，即学校的直接前身。

• Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda is commemorated in the name of the School of Government founded in 2001, honouring his role as a public figure associated with the university's family.学校于 2001 年成立的政府学院以佩德罗·伊瓦涅斯·奥赫达命名，以纪念这位与该家族办学事业相关的公共人物。

• Francisco Covarrubias serves as rector of the university, and in 2025 and 2026 he delivered the annual institutional account known as the Cuenta Anual UAI.弗朗西斯科·科瓦鲁维亚斯任学校校长，于 2025 年与 2026 年作年度机构报告「Cuenta Anual UAI」。

• Andrés Velasco, a former finance minister of Chile and former dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics, joined the university as a senior fellow in 2025.智利前财政部长、伦敦政治经济学院公共政策学院前院长安德烈斯·贝拉斯科于 2025 年以高级研究员身份加入学校。

• Eric Goles, a mathematician and National Prize for Exact Sciences laureate, is associated with the university, which in 2026 hosted the launch of his book The Second Principle.数学家、智利国家精确科学奖得主埃里克·戈莱斯与学校关系密切，2026 年其著作《第二原理》的发布会即在校内举行。

• Niels Rivas serves as dean of the Business School, the unit that carries the university's triple international accreditation.尼尔斯·里瓦斯任商学院院长，该学院承载着学校的三项国际认证。

• Jorge Sanhueza is vice-rector for community engagement, student experience and sustainability, overseeing the university's social and environmental agenda.豪尔赫·萨努埃萨任社区联系、学生体验与可持续发展副校长，主管学校的社会与环境事务。

• The university's founders and early faculty came from business and from the Valparaíso region, and its alumni now work in Chilean business, government and academia.学校的创办者与早期教师多来自商界与瓦尔帕莱索地区，其校友如今遍布智利商界、政界与学界。