Aga Khan University

The Aga Khan University is a private non-profit research university based in Karachi, Pakistan, founded in 1983 as the country's first private university and operating as an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.阿加汗大学（Aga Khan University，简称 AKU）是设在巴基斯坦卡拉奇的私立非营利研究型大学，1983 年创办，是巴基斯坦第一所私立大学，作为阿加汗发展网络旗下机构运作。

It began life as a health-sciences university, ranks among the largest private health-care providers in Pakistan and East Africa, and its hospitals were the first in those regions to win accreditation from the United States-based Joint Commission International.该校起家于健康科学，是巴基斯坦与东非规模最大的私立医疗提供者之一，其医院是这些地区最先获得美国联合委员会国际部（JCI）认证的医院。

From 2000 the university extended to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Afghanistan, and has since added programmes in teacher education, the study of Muslim civilisations, journalism, early childhood development, public policy, and a liberal-arts undergraduate curriculum.2000 年起该校扩展到肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚、乌干达、英国与阿富汗，又陆续增设教师教育、伊斯兰文明研究、新闻学、幼儿发展、公共政策以及本科博雅课程。

History

• In 1964 the Chancellor announced plans for the construction of the Aga Khan Hospital and Medical College, the project from which the university eventually grew.1964 年，掌学人（Chancellor）宣布兴建阿加汗医院与医学院的计划，大学即由此项目发展而来。

• The founder was Prince Karim Aga Khan, the Aga Khan IV and Forty-Ninth imam of the Ismaili Muslims, whose name the university still carries and whose imamship is marked by the 49 points of its seal.创办人是伊斯玛仪派第四十九任伊玛目、即阿加汗四世的卡里姆亲王，该校至今仍以其名号为校名，其伊玛目位次亦由学校校徽的 49 个星角所标记。

• In 1980 the contract for the main complex of the Aga Khan University Hospital and Medical College was signed in London, committing the project to construction before the university itself existed.1980 年，阿加汗大学医院与医学院主体院区的承建合同在伦敦签署，大学尚未成立，工程已先落定。

• The Charter of the university was presented to the Chancellor in 1983 by the then former President of Pakistan, establishing the Aga Khan University as the first private international university in Pakistan.1983 年，巴基斯坦前总统将大学宪章授予掌学人，阿加汗大学据此成为巴基斯坦第一所私立国际性大学。

• That same year the School of Nursing graduated its first class, so the teaching enterprise began almost immediately alongside the founding charter.同年，护理学院培养出第一届毕业生，教学工作几乎与创校宪章同步展开。

• Inauguration of the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi followed in 1985, giving the new university its teaching hospital at the centre of its 84-acre home campus.1985 年卡拉奇的阿加汗大学医院落成启用，使新大学在 84 英亩的本部校园中心拥有了教学医院。

• The medical college recorded its first batch of graduates in 1989, a decade after the charter and six years after the hospital opened its doors.医学院于 1989 年迎来首届毕业生，此时距宪章颁布已十年、距医院开诊已六年。

• In 1994 the Institute for Educational Development in Karachi was inaugurated, marking the university's first step beyond the health sciences into teacher education and educational research.1994 年卡拉奇的教育发展中心启用，标志该校迈出健康科学之外的第一步，进入教师教育与教育研究领域。

• Launching in 2001, the Advanced Nursing Studies Programme in Uganda opened the university's graduate nursing teaching in East Africa.高级护理研修项目于 2001 年在乌干达开办，把该校的研究生层次护理教学带到东非。

• Established in London in 2002, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations gave the university a European graduate school and research centre for the humanities and social sciences.伊斯兰文明研究所于 2002 年在伦敦设立，使该校拥有一所面向人文与社会科学、设在欧洲的研究生院兼研究中心。

• Starting in 2000 the institution expanded outward to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Afghanistan, turning a Karachi health-sciences university into a multi-region international one.自 2000 年起该校向外扩展至肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚、乌干达、英国与阿富汗，把一所卡拉奇的健康科学大学变成跨区域的国际大学。

• In 2005 the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi was upgraded to Aga Khan University Hospital, tying Kenya's flagship hospital directly to the university's academic mission.2005 年内罗毕的阿加汗医院升格为阿加汗大学医院，使肯尼亚的旗舰医院与大学的学术使命直接挂钩。

• The year 2006 brought three milestones, the inauguration of the Institute for Educational Development in East Africa, the management by the university of the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul, and the first intake of graduate students at the London institute.2006 年出现三项节点：东非教育发展中心启用，该校接管喀布尔的法国儿童医疗机构，伦敦伊斯兰文明研究所招收首批研究生。

• In 2007 the university's Examination Board conducted its first Secondary School Certificate examinations, creating an examination service that reaches school students rather than undergraduates.2007 年该校考试委员会首次举行中学毕业证书考试，把服务范围延伸到中学毕业生而非本科生。

• Three units were founded in 2012, the Graduate School of Media and Communications, the Institute for Human Development, and the East Africa Institute, widening the portfolio into journalism, human development, and regional research.2012 年同时设立三个机构，即传媒与传播研究生院、人类发展研究所与东非研究所，把学科面拓宽到新闻、人类发展与区域研究。

• Tanzania became a chartered campus in 2015 when President Jakaya Kikwete granted Aga Khan University, Tanzania its university charter, and the same year the media graduate school was formally launched.2015 年，总统贾卡亚·基奎特授予阿加汗大学坦桑尼亚分校大学宪章，使其成为有宪章的校区，同年传媒研究生院正式开办。

• Since 2018 the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations has been based in the Aga Khan Centre in the King's Cross area of London, a complex designed by the architect Fumihiko Maki.自 2018 年起，伊斯兰文明研究所设于伦敦国王十字区的阿加汗中心，该综合体由建筑师槙文彦设计。

• In 2020 the university signed a partnership with Columbia University and launched a dual master's degree in September of that year, linking its London graduate teaching with an American private university.2020 年该校与哥伦比亚大学签署合作协议，并于同年 9 月开设双硕士学位，使伦敦的研究生教学与美国私立大学相接。

• Kenya received its own charter in 2021 from President Uhuru Kenyatta, confirming Aga Khan University, Kenya as a university in its own right rather than a branch.2021 年，总统乌胡鲁·肯雅塔向肯尼亚分校授予宪章，确认阿加汗大学肯尼亚为独立大学而非分支机构。

• The Faculty of Arts and Sciences was planned in the 2022 to 2023 academic years on the Stadium Road Campus in Karachi, with Stephen Lyon appointed inaugural dean in September 2022 and the faculty formally launched in September 2023.文理学院在 2022 至 2023 学年设于卡拉奇体育场路校区，2022 年 9 月任命斯蒂芬·莱恩为首任院长，2023 年 9 月正式开办。

Academics

• Health sciences remain the core of teaching, with the Faculty of Health Sciences on the Karachi campus supported by the university's own teaching hospitals in Karachi, Nairobi and Kampala.健康科学仍是教学核心，卡拉奇校园的健康科学学院由该校在卡拉奇、内罗毕与坎帕拉自有或自管的教学医院支撑。

• The Aga Khan University accounts for 75 percent of all biomedical research in Pakistan, while the remaining 25 percent is shared among all the country's other institutions.该校占巴基斯坦全部生物医学研究的 75%，其余 25% 由全国其他所有机构分摊。

• It publishes more research articles in peer-reviewed, internationally indexed journals than any other university in Pakistan, a publishing record that shapes hiring, promotion, and student training alike.该校在国际索引同行评审期刊上发表的研究论文多于巴基斯坦任何一所大学，这一产出纪录同时塑造其聘任、晋升与学生训练。

• Faculty promotions depend on publications in indexed journals and most medical students have published before graduating, with undergraduate medical students credited with up to 50 research papers in indexed health journals.教师晋升以索引期刊论文为条件，多数医学生在毕业前已发表论文，本科医学生发表于索引健康期刊的论文最多达 50 篇。

• It is one of the few universities in Pakistan to give undergraduates access to research facilities, and it maintains a research office to guide and support work conducted across the campuses.该校是巴基斯坦少数向本科生开放科研设施的大学之一，并设有科研办公室，为各校区开展的研究提供指导与支持。

• A University Research Council awards grants after a competitive review run by a Grants Review Committee, with particular emphasis placed on community-related health sciences research.大学研究委员会经资助评审委员会的竞争式评审后拨付科研基金，特别强调面向社区的健康科学研究。

• The university organizes international and national research workshops and seminars, and its annual Health Sciences Research Assembly gives faculty and students a standing platform for presenting their work.该校举办国际与全国性研究工作坊和研讨会，每年的健康科学研究大会为教师与学生提供固定的成果发表平台。

• Its hospitals are registered sites for clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in the United States, a designation that draws its clinical research into an international trial network.其医院获准成为美国国立卫生研究院资助临床试验的研究站点，使其临床研究被纳入国际试验网络。

• Beyond medicine the university has initiated programmes in teacher education, the study of Muslim civilisations, journalism, early childhood development and public policy, and launched an undergraduate liberal-arts programme intended to educate future leaders across many fields.医学之外，该校开设教师教育、伊斯兰文明研究、新闻学、幼儿发展与公共政策等项目，并创办本科博雅教育，意在培养众多领域的未来领导者。

• The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers undergraduate majors in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Social and Development Studies, Human and Environmental Biology, and Politics, Philosophy and Economics.文理学院提供的本科专业方向包括亚洲与中东研究、社会与发展研究、人类与环境生物学，以及政治、哲学与经济。

• The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London is an interdisciplinary graduate school convening humanities scholars and social scientists on the cultural, historical, political, economic, legal, and religious aspects of Muslim societies, awarding an MA in Muslim Cultures accredited by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and regulated by the Quality Assurance Agency in the United Kingdom.设在伦敦的阿加汗大学伊斯兰文明研究所是一所跨学科研究生院，召集人文学者与社会科学家研究穆斯林社会的文化、历史、政治、经济、法律与宗教层面，授予穆斯林文化文学硕士学位，由巴基斯坦高等教育委员会认证、由英国质量保障局监管。

• The Institute for Educational Development, whose Karachi centre opened in 1994 and whose own record dates the institute to 2003, trains teachers, educators, managers, researchers, and policy makers and offers a Master of Education and a doctorate in education.教育发展中心的卡拉奇中心 1994 年启用，而该机构自身的记录将其成立时间系于 2003 年，其任务是培养教师、教育工作者、管理者、研究者与政策制定者，并授予教育学硕士与教育学博士学位。

• The Aga Khan University Examination Board operates as a federal board of intermediate and secondary education in Pakistan, examining students at Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary School Certificate level.阿加汗大学考试委员会是巴基斯坦的中学与高中联邦考试机构，负责中学毕业证书与高级中学毕业证书两个层级的考试。

• The Graduate School of Media and Communications, founded in 2012 and launched in 2015, trains journalists, communicators, media executives, and entrepreneurs in East Africa and beyond, and on 7 December 2019 it announced a partnership with Facebook to create a Video Journalism Fellowship.传媒与传播研究生院 2012 年设立、2015 年开办，面向东非及其以外地区培养记者、传播工作者、媒体高管与创业者，2019 年 12 月 7 日宣布与脸书合作设立视频新闻研究员项目。

• Advanced Nursing Studies programmes run at campuses in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, while separate capacity-development programmes for teachers and nurses serve Afghanistan, Egypt, and Syria.高级护理研修项目设在肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚与乌干达的校区，另有面向教师与护士的能力发展项目服务阿富汗、埃及与叙利亚。

• The Centre for Innovation in Medical Education is the first simulation centre in South Asia to be accredited by the United States-based Society for Simulation in Healthcare.医学教育创新中心是南亚首个获得美国医疗仿真学会认证的仿真教学中心。

• The university seal renders its founding principles: its circular form comes from the rosettes of early Islamic periods, its central star of 49 points commemorates the Forty-Ninth imam who founded it, and its outer ring carries a Quranic verse, chapter 3 verse 103, in classic thuluth script.该校校徽呈现创校原则：圆形取自早期伊斯兰时期的玫瑰纹样，中央 49 角星纪念第四十九任伊玛目的创校，外圈以经典三一体书法刻《古兰经》第 3 章 103 节经文。

Campus

• The Aga Khan University is an international university operating campuses and programmes in Central and South Asia, the African Great Lakes region, Europe, and the Middle East.阿加汗大学是一所国际性大学，在中亚与南亚、非洲大湖区、欧洲及中东设有校区与项目。

• Its Pakistani campus covers 84 acres, some 340,000 square metres, in the heart of Karachi and was built in the 1980s around the teaching hospital that opened in 1985.巴基斯坦校区占地 84 英亩、约 34 万平方米，位于卡拉奇市中心，1980 年代围绕 1985 年开诊的教学医院建成。

• Housing on the Karachi campus consists of two on-campus hostels for male and female students, each with a capacity of 300 residents.卡拉奇校区的住宿由校内男女两所宿舍楼承担，每栋可容纳 300 人。

• Its sports and rehabilitation centre, described as among the best in Pakistan, provides an Olympic-standard swimming pool, cricket practice nets, tennis courts, squash courts, gyms, and an indoor gymnasium with wooden flooring, while cricket and football grounds come with jogging tracks.校内的体育与康复中心堪称巴基斯坦最好之一，配备奥运会标准泳池、板球练习网、网球场、壁球场、健身房与木质地板室内体育馆，板球和足球场旁还设有慢跑道。

• The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is housed in the University Centre on the Stadium Road Campus in Karachi, the same site as the university's founding hospital but in a separate academic block.文理学院设在卡拉奇体育场路校区的大学中心，与该机构办的医院同址而另成一栋教学楼。

• In Karachi the Institute for Educational Development works from the Karimabad area, while its East Africa counterpart operates from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.教育发展中心在卡拉奇设于卡拉马巴德片区，其东非对应机构则在坦桑尼亚的达累斯萨拉姆办学。

• Kenya hosts an Aga Khan University campus of health sciences in Nairobi, anchored on the university hospital upgraded in 2005.肯尼亚的内罗毕设有阿加汗大学健康科学校区，以 2005 年升格的大学医院为枢纽。

• Aga Khan University Kampala sits on 60 acres, about 24 hectares, in Nakawa Division of Uganda's capital, with a School of Nursing and Midwifery, a postgraduate medical school training medical and surgical specialists such as internists and surgeons, and a specialized teaching hospital.阿加汗大学坎帕拉校区占地 60 英亩、约 24 公顷，位于乌干达首都纳卡瓦区，设护理与助产学院、培养内科医生与外科医生等内外科专科医师的研究生医学院，以及一所专科教学医院。

• In London the university occupies part of the Aga Khan Centre in the King's Cross district, the Fumihiko Maki-designed building that has housed the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations since 2018.在伦敦该校使用国王十字区阿加汗中心的部分空间，这座由槙文彦设计的建筑自 2018 年起容纳伊斯兰文明研究所。

• A campus costing some 450 million US dollars is planned for Arusha in north-eastern Tanzania, to be built over the following fifteen years, and separately the university's village land use plan earned a merit award from the Society for College and University Planning for excellence in planning a district or campus component.总价约 4.5 亿美元的校区已规划在坦桑尼亚东北部的阿鲁沙，拟在未来 15 年内建成，另有该校的村庄土地利用规划文件获大学校园规划学会的区域或校园单项规划优异奖。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the Aga Khan University is placed in the 951-1000 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，阿加汗大学位列第 951-1000 区间。

• The university did not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, so its standing in that league table is recorded as unranked for the current edition.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，在现行版榜单中记为未上榜。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking the Aga Khan University stands at number 739, a placing ahead of the 951-1000 band it receives in the QS table.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，阿加汗大学列第 739 位，此名次领先于其在 QS 榜上所得的 951-1000 区间。

• The university was not listed in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, and no place in that year's ShanghaiRanking table is recorded for it.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该年度榜单未记载其名次。

• OpenAlex records 22,132 works and 2,264,839 citations attributed to the Aga Khan University, figures that work out to more than a hundred citations for every recorded work.OpenAlex 收录该校署名成果 22132 项、被引 2264839 次，即每项成果平均被引逾百次。

• On the subject level its biomedical and clinical output is the measure most often cited, since the university alone accounts for 75 percent of Pakistan's biomedical research and publishes more indexed journal articles than any other university in the country.就学科维度而言，其生物医学与临床研究产出最受关注，仅该校即占巴基斯坦生物医学研究的 75%，索引期刊论文数也居全国之首。

• Its hospitals were the first in Pakistan and East Africa to be accredited by the Joint Commission International, and its Centre for Innovation in Medical Education was the first in South Asia accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.其医院是巴基斯坦与东非最先获得联合委员会国际部认证的医院，其医学教育创新中心则是南亚首个获医疗仿真学会认证的机构。

• Honours recorded for the university include the MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship awarded to the Medical College's Urban Health Programme in 2009, the Zairi International Award in Higher Education for disruptive education in 2022, a silver medal at the Digital Health Awards 2023 for its Hayat application, and a merit award for excellence in planning from the Society for College and University Planning.该校所获荣誉包括 2009 年授予医学院城市健康项目的麦克詹奈特全球公民奖、2022 年扎伊里高等教育国际奖的革命性教育卓越奖、2023 年数字健康奖银奖的「Hayat」应用，以及大学校园规划学会颁发的分区或校园单元规划卓越奖。

• The sources examined name no Nobel Prize, Turing Award, or Fields Medal laureate among the university's founders, faculty, or alumni, so its hard honour count rests on accreditation firsts and teaching and health awards rather than on laureates.所依据的资料未在阿加汗大学的创办人、教师或校友中点名任何诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其硬荣誉记录因而落在认证首例与教学、卫生类奖项上，而非顶级科学奖。

Student life

• Undergraduate teaching follows an absolute grading system with fixed score ranges rather than a curve, so a student's mark is set against an unchanging band of performance.本科教学采用绝对评分制，以固定分数区间而非相对曲线评定，学生成绩对应的是不变的档位标准。

• Student life on the Karachi campus is organized around the hospital and the classroom, since teaching in the health sciences runs through the Aga Khan University Hospital inaugurated in 1985 on the same 84-acre site.卡拉奇校区的学生生活围绕医院与课堂展开，健康科学的教学就在同一 84 英亩校区上 1985 年开院的阿加汗大学医院进行。

• Residential students live in the two on-campus hostels of 300 places each, separated by gender, which house the health-sciences cohorts studying beside the teaching hospital.住宿生分住两所按性别分开、各容 300 人的校内宿舍，所住者即在教学医院旁学习的健康科学学生。

• Access to research facilities as an undergraduate is a distinguishing feature of student life, and the annual Health Sciences Research Assembly obliges faculty and students alike to present their findings in public.本科生即可使用科研设施是学生生活的显著特点，一年一度的健康科学研究大会要求教师与学生共同公开报告其发现。

• International and national workshops and seminars run through the academic year, giving students contact with visiting clinicians and researchers and with the trial networks hosted at its hospitals.学年中持续举办国际与全国性的工作坊和研讨会，学生由此接触来访的临床医生与研究者，以及医院承接的试验网络。

• Beyond the campus, the Medical College's Urban Health Programme takes students into community health work in Karachi and earned the university the MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship in 2009.在校门之外，医学院的城市健康项目把学生带入卡拉奇的社区卫生工作，并使该校在 2009 年获麦克詹奈特全球公民奖。

• Graduate awards at the London institute carry external assurance on two sides, the Master of Arts in Muslim Cultures being accredited by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Quality Assurance Agency.伦敦研究所的研究生学历受两端外部保证，穆斯林文化文学硕士由巴基斯坦高等教育委员会认证，并在英国接受质量保障局监管。

Notable people

• Prince Karim Aga Khan, the Aga Khan IV and Forty-Ninth imam of the Ismaili Muslims, founded the university in 1983 and, as its Chancellor, had announced the hospital and medical college project back in 1964.卡里姆·阿加汗亲王即阿加汗四世、伊斯玛仪派第四十九任伊玛目，于 1983 年创办该校，并以其掌学人身份早在 1964 年即宣布医院与医学院计划。

• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, a former foreign minister of Pakistan, is listed among the university's faculty, one of the figures from national public life who taught in its schools.曾任巴基斯坦外交部长的萨希布扎达·雅各布·汗列名于该校教职，是在其学系任教的国内公众人物之一。

• Zulfiqar Bhutta is listed on the faculty as director of the Institute for Global Health and Development, the institute that carries the university's global health research programme.教职名录中的祖勒菲卡尔·布塔出任全球健康与发展研究所所长，该校的全球健康研究项目即由该所承担。

• Marleen Temmerman holds the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Aga Khan University in Kenya, one of the East African campuses alongside the 60-acre site at Kampala in Uganda.马伦·特默曼任阿加汗大学肯尼亚妇产科学科主任，肯尼亚校区与乌干达坎帕拉的 60 英亩校区同属该校在东非的布点。

• Abdul Gaffar Billoo, a pediatric endocrinologist, is a professor of clinical pediatrics at the university, and John Harland Bryant, a former professor of community health sciences, helped shape its primary-care teaching.阿卜杜勒·加法尔·比卢是儿科内分泌学家、该校临床儿科教授，社区健康科学荣休教授约翰·哈兰·布赖恩特则参与塑造其初级卫生保健教学。

• Leif Stenberg, professor of Islamic studies, served as dean of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations from 2017 to 2023, the institute having moved into the Aga Khan Centre in 2018.伊斯兰研究教授莱夫·斯特恩伯格于 2017 至 2023 年出任伊斯兰文明研究所所长，该所于 2018 年迁入阿加汗中心。

• Among alumni are the trauma surgeon Hasan B. Alam and the trauma surgeon and outcomes researcher Adil Haider, both practising in the United States, alongside Adeel A. Butt, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist.校友包括在美国执业的创伤外科医生哈桑·B·阿拉姆与创伤外科兼结局研究学者阿迪勒·海德尔，以及内科与传染病教授阿迪尔·A·巴特。

• Naeem Rahim, a nephrologist, founded the Idaho-based JRM Foundation for humanity, while Saad Omer, a vaccinologist and infectious disease epidemiologist, became inaugural director of the O'Donnell School of Public Health.肾病医生纳伊姆·拉希姆在爱达荷创办 JRM 人道基金会，疫苗学家、传染病流行病学家萨阿德·奥梅尔则出任奥唐奈公共卫生学院首任院长。

• Firoz Rasul served as president of the university and, in a lecture archived on 29 June 2013, spoke about its next twenty-five years, and Stephen Lyon was appointed in September 2022 as inaugural dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences opened on the Stadium Road Campus.菲罗兹·拉苏尔曾任该校校长，其关于学校未来 25 年规划的讲演存档于 2013 年 6 月 29 日，斯蒂芬·莱恩于 2022 年 9 月出任体育场路校区文理学院首任院长。

• The Aga Khan Centre that houses the London institute was designed by Fumihiko Maki, the Japanese architect whose complex in King's Cross has become the university's most visible European address.容纳伦敦研究所的阿加汗中心由日本建筑师槙文彦设计，这座位于国王十字的建筑群已成为该校在欧洲最醒目的门牌。