Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", UAIC) is a public university in Iași, Romania, founded by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza in 1860, regarded as the first modern Romanian university and among the oldest in south-eastern Europe.亚历山德鲁·伊万·库扎大学（Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza"，简称 UAIC）是罗马尼亚雅西的一所公立大学，由大公亚历山德鲁·伊万·库扎于 1860 年颁令创办，被视为罗马尼亚第一所现代大学，也是东南欧历史最悠久的大学之一。

It descends from the Princely Academy of Iași of 1707 and the Academia Mihăileană of 1835, carries the name of the ruler who united the Danubian principalities in 1859, and teaches through fifteen faculties in Romanian, English and French on Copou Hill.该校的渊源可追溯至 1707 年的雅西皇家学院与 1835 年的米哈伊列亚纳学院，校名取自 1859 年统一多瑙河两公国的大公，其十五个学院在科波山上以罗马尼亚语、英语和法语授课。

It is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1801-2000 band of the Times Higher Education ranking, and 1,316th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table, with 22,550 works and 453,271 citations in OpenAlex.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201-1400 区间，在泰晤士高等教育排名中位列 1801-2000 区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球榜单中位列第 1,316 位，OpenAlex 收录其 22,550 篇成果与 453,271 次引用。

History

• Higher education in Iași began with the Academia Vasiliană, founded in 1640 by the Moldavian prince Vasile Lupu at the princely court of Iași.雅西的高等教育始于 1640 年，摩尔达维亚大公瓦西里·卢普在雅西宫廷创办了瓦西里亚纳学院。
• In 1707 the institution was reorganised as the Princely Academy of Iași, teaching theology, philosophy and the classical languages to the sons of the Moldavian nobility in Greek and Church Slavonic before Romanian took over.1707 年，该机构改组为雅西皇家学院，以希腊语与教会斯拉夫语向摩尔达维亚贵族子弟教授神学、哲学与古典语言，其后罗马尼亚语逐渐取而代之。
• The academy was renamed the Academy of Philology and Science in 1812, and Romanian gradually replaced Greek as the language of instruction during the following decades.学院于 1812 年更名为语言与科学学院，此后数十年间罗马尼亚语逐步取代希腊语成为教学语言。
• In 1835 Prince Mihail Sturdza founded the Academia Mihăileană, which opened with faculties of Law, Philosophy and Theology and a curriculum modelled on Austrian and German academies.1835 年，米哈伊尔·斯图尔扎大公创办米哈伊列亚纳学院，设法律、哲学与神学三个学院，课程仿照奥地利与德国的学院制度。
• The faculties of Law and of Philosophy, the two oldest units of the future university, date their foundation to 1856, when the academy was expanded on the eve of unification.法律学院与哲学学院是未来大学中最古老的两个单位，其创立年份可追溯至 1856 年，当时学院在两国统一前夕得到扩充。
• After the union of Moldavia and Wallachia under Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the University of Iași was inaugurated on 26 October 1860 as the first modern Romanian university, and for the rest of the century only Iași and Bucharest trained the country's lawyers and physicians.在摩尔达维亚与瓦拉几亚于亚历山德鲁·伊万·库扎大公治下统一之后，雅西大学于 1860 年 10 月 26 日成立，成为罗马尼亚第一所现代大学；此后整个世纪，全国只有雅西与布加勒斯特培养律师和医生。
• Biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics were taught from 1864 as departments of the Faculty of Sciences, and geography and geology followed in 1865.生物学、化学、数学与物理学自 1864 年起作为理学院的系科开设，地理学与地质学则于 1865 年加入。
• By 1879 the university had four faculties, Law, Letters and Philosophy, Sciences, and Medicine, the structure of a complete nineteenth-century European university.至 1879 年，该校已拥有法律、文学与哲学、理学、医学四个学院，构成 19 世纪欧洲完整大学的建制。
• Organic and inorganic chemistry became a separate department in 1892, agricultural chemistry followed in 1906, and the School of Industrial Electricity opened in 1910.有机与无机化学于 1892 年单独设系，农业化学于 1906 年跟进，工业电工学校则于 1910 年开办。
• The University Palace was built between 1893 and 1897 on the site of the first Iași National Theatre, which had burned down in 1888, and was extended between 1933 and 1937.大学宫于 1893 至 1897 年间建于 1888 年焚毁的雅西国家剧院原址之上，并于 1933 至 1937 年间扩建。
• When Iași became the capital of Romania during the First World War, the university hall known as the Hall of the Lost Footsteps served as the parliamentary debating chamber in 1917 and 1918.第一次世界大战期间雅西成为罗马尼亚首都时，被称为「失落足迹大厅」的大学礼堂在 1917 与 1918 年充当议会辩论场。
• In March 1937 the technical higher education departments and the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences were transferred to the newly established Gheorghe Asachi Polytechnic School, which grew into the separate technical university that still shares the palace.1937 年 3 月，技术类高等教育系科与农业科学学院被划归新成立的格奥尔基·阿萨基理工学院，该院后来发展为独立的技术大学，至今仍与该校共用大学宫。
• In 1948 the Medical School became the independent Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iași, now the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and the natural sciences were regrouped into a single faculty.1948 年，医学院独立为雅西医学与药学研究所，即今日的格里戈雷·T·波帕医药大学，自然科学各系则合并为单一学院。
• The Faculty of Letters became a separate faculty in 1960, physical education followed in the same year, and economics was organised as a faculty in 1962.文学院于 1960 年独立设院，体育同年跟进，经济学则于 1962 年组建为学院。
• Computer science began in 1965 as the Department of Computing Machines within the Faculty of Mathematics and became a full faculty in 1991, the first in a non-technical Romanian university.计算机科学于 1965 年以数学系所属的计算机器教研室起步，1991 年成为正式学院，是罗马尼亚非技术类大学中的第一个计算机学院。
• Between 1968 and 1978 the painter Sabin Bălașa covered the palace arcades with romantic frescoes that have become the university's best-known interior.1968 至 1978 年间，画家萨宾·伯拉沙为大学宫拱廊绘制了充满浪漫色彩的壁画，这组壁画后来成为该校最著名的室内景观。
• History and biology were organised as independent faculties in 1990, psychology and education sciences followed in 1997, and Catholic theology in 2002.历史学与生物学于 1990 年独立设院，心理学与教育科学于 1997 年跟进，天主教神学则于 2002 年设院。
• The Centre for European Studies was founded in 2000, adding an interdisciplinary unit outside the faculty structure.欧洲研究中心于 2000 年成立，在学院体制之外增设了一个跨学科单位。
• In 2008 the university was placed first in the national research ranking compiled on Shanghai criteria for the third consecutive year.2008 年，该校连续第三年在按软科标准编制的全国科研排名中位居第一。
• The university is one of the five members of the Universitaria Consortium, the group of elite Romanian universities that coordinates national academic policy.该校是「大学联盟」（Universitaria Consortium）五所成员之一，这一精英大学集团负责协调罗马尼亚的国家学术政策。
• Its coat of arms carries a Y-shaped heraldic pall for the three founding initiatives, a Bible for learning and three stars for the faculties of 1860.该校校徽以 Y 形纹章带代表三个创办源头，以圣经代表学术，以三颗星代表 1860 年的三个学院。

Academics

• The university is made up of fifteen faculties and the Centre for European Studies, covering law, letters, history, philosophy, theology, sciences, economics and computer science.该校由十五个学院与欧洲研究中心组成，学科涵盖法律、文学、历史、哲学、神学、理学、经济学与计算机科学。
• The Faculty of Law, founded in 1856, and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, founded in 1860, are the two units that trace themselves to the pre-university academies.1856 年创办的法律学院与 1860 年创办的东正教神学院，是可直接追溯至大学前身学院的两个单位。
• The Faculty of Catholic Theology, established in 2002, makes Iași one of the few Romanian universities teaching both Orthodox and Catholic theology.2002 年设立的天主教神学院，使雅西成为罗马尼亚少数同时教授东正教与天主教神学的大学之一。
• The Faculty of Computer Science, a faculty since 1991, runs programmes in computer science, information technology and software engineering that recruit students from across Moldavia.计算机学院自 1991 年设院，开设计算机科学、信息技术与软件工程专业，生源遍及摩尔达维亚地区。
• The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, founded in 1962, teaches accounting, finance, management and economics to several thousand students.经济与工商管理学院创办于 1962 年，教授会计、金融、管理与经济学，学生数以千计。
• The Faculty of Physics offers physics, medical physics, biophysics, computational physics and engineering physics, the widest physics curriculum in the region.物理学院开设物理学、医学物理、生物物理、计算物理与工程物理等方向，是区域内物理课程最齐全的院系。
• The Faculty of Chemistry teaches chemistry, technological biochemistry and medical chemistry, continuing a department founded in 1864.化学学院教授化学、技术生物化学与医化学，延续了 1864 年设立的化学系传统。
• Teacher training has been part of the university since 1878, when pedagogy and psychology departments were created, and is now organised in the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences.师范教育自 1878 年设立教育学与心理学教研室起便属该校职能，如今由心理学与教育科学学院承担。
• Bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes are offered in Romanian, with complete degree programmes also taught in English and French for international students.该校以罗马尼亚语开设本科、硕士与博士课程，同时为国际学生提供完整的英语与法语学位项目。
• Research is organised through 24 research centres and more than 400 national and international projects, with strengths in materials science, ecology and Romanian philology, and the biology faculty shares taxonomic collections with the botanical garden.科研通过 24 个研究中心与 400 多个国内国际项目实施，优势领域包括材料科学、生态学与罗马尼亚语文学，生物学院还与植物园共用分类学标本收藏。
• The Mihai Eminescu Central University Library holds about 2.5 million volumes and more than 100,000 rare Romanian and foreign documents from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.米哈伊·爱明内斯库中央大学图书馆藏书约 250 万册，并有 10 万余件 15 至 19 世纪的罗马尼亚与外国珍本文献。
• The library was founded in 1835 as the library of the Academia Mihăileană, is today the largest library in Moldavia, and its old and rare collection includes manuscripts, maps and stamps from the fifteenth century onward.该图书馆创办于 1835 年，原为米哈伊列亚纳学院的图书馆，如今是摩尔达维亚地区最大的图书馆，其珍本部藏有 15 世纪以来的手稿、地图与邮票。
• The university press, Editura Universității Alexandru Ioan Cuza, publishes monographs in history, philology and philosophy and issues the journals of several faculties.该校的亚历山德鲁·伊万·库扎大学出版社出版历史、语文学与哲学专著，并发行若干学院的学术期刊。
• Admission is by baccalaureate results and faculty examinations, with separate quotas for Romanian, Moldovan, EU and non-EU candidates.招生依据高中毕业会考成绩与各学院考试，并为罗马尼亚、摩尔多瓦、欧盟与非欧盟考生设置不同名额。
• The university runs doctoral schools in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and economics, and doctorates are awarded after a public defence before a faculty commission.该校在人文、社会科学、自然科学与经济学领域设有博士学院，博士学位须经学院委员会公开答辩后授予。
• Its academic staff includes members of the Romanian Academy, and several institutes of the academy cooperate with the faculties on Copou Hill.其师资包括罗马尼亚科学院院士，科学院的若干研究所与科波山上的各学院开展合作。
• International cooperation is conducted through Erasmus+ exchanges, a programme that began in 2014, with French, German, Italian and Spanish universities, and through francophone networks in Africa and the Levant.国际合作通过 2014 年启动的 Erasmus+ 项目与法国、德国、意大利、西班牙高校交流，并通过覆盖非洲与黎凡特地区的法语网络开展。
• Continuing education and summer schools in Romanian language and culture bring students from Moldova, Ukraine and the Romanian diaspora to Iași each year.罗语与文化的继续教育课程及暑期学校每年把摩尔多瓦、乌克兰与罗马尼亚侨民的学生带到雅西。

Campus

• The university grounds lie on Copou Hill in the northern part of Iași, an area of parks, villas and academic buildings above the city centre.该校校园位于雅西市北部的科波山，这一带遍布公园、别墅与学院建筑，俯瞰市中心。
• The University Palace, built from 1893 to 1897, dominates Copou with its clock tower, houses the rectorate, and is shared with the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași.建于 1893 至 1897 年的大学宫连同其钟楼是科波山的地标，校内设校长办公室，并与雅西格奥尔基·阿萨基技术大学共用。
• The Hall of the Lost Footsteps, the palace's ceremonial hall, carries Sabin Bălașa's frescoes of 1968-1978 and is used for doctoral ceremonies and concerts.大学宫的礼仪大厅「失落足迹大厅」保存着萨宾·伯拉沙 1968 至 1978 年的壁画，用于博士典礼与音乐会。
• The Mihai Eminescu Central University Library occupies a triangular building of 1930-1934 at the foot of Copou Hill, built for King Ferdinand's Cultural Foundation.米哈伊·爱明内斯库中央大学图书馆位于科波山脚一座 1930 至 1934 年建成的三角形建筑内，原为费迪南德国王文化基金会而建。
• The library building is decorated with Carrara marble and Venetian mosaics, and its reading rooms overlook the Copou parkland.图书馆建筑以卡拉拉大理石与威尼斯马赛克装饰，阅览室可眺望科波公园的绿地。
• Copou Park, beside the campus, contains the linden tree associated with the poet Mihai Eminescu and is one of the oldest public gardens in Romania, while the university's botanical garden, founded in 1856 by the naturalist Anastasie Fătu, lies a short walk away.校园旁的科波公园内有与诗人米哈伊·爱明内斯库相关的椴树，是罗马尼亚最古老的公共园林之一；该校的植物园由博物学家阿纳斯塔西耶·法图于 1856 年创办，距校园仅数步之遥。
• Iași was the capital of Moldavia from the sixteenth century and the capital of Romania from 1916 to 1918, which left the city a dense stock of historic buildings.雅西自 16 世纪起为摩尔达维亚都城，1916 至 1918 年又是罗马尼亚首都，这使城市保有密集的历史建筑。
• Student residences are concentrated in the Tudor Vladimirescu campus on the city's southern edge, connected to the faculties by tram and bus lines of a network that has run electric trams since 1900 and climbs Copou hill past the palace.学生宿舍集中于城市南缘的图多尔·弗拉迪米雷斯库学生城，由 1900 年起运营有轨电车的公交网络连接各学院，电车沿科波山而上经过大学宫。
• The city lies on the Bahlui river about 20 kilometres from the Prut and the border with Moldova, and its railway station links Iași with Bucharest and Chișinău.雅西位于巴赫卢伊河畔，距普鲁特河与摩尔多瓦边境约 20 公里，火车站连接布加勒斯特与基希讷乌。
• The university also uses buildings scattered through the old centre, including the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of History in restored nineteenth-century houses.该校还使用散布于老城的多处建筑，包括设于修复后的 19 世纪宅邸中的法学院与历史学院。

Reputation

• Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the oldest university in Romania and the principal institution of higher education in the Moldavia region.亚历山德鲁·伊万·库扎大学位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1201-1400 区间，是罗马尼亚历史最悠久的大学，也是摩尔达维亚地区高等教育的主要机构。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it in the 1801-2000 band, a weaker result than its QS position.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 1801-2000 区间，成绩弱于其 QS 名次。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it ranks 1,316th, one of the highest placements among Romanian universities in that table.在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单中，该校位列第 1,316 位，是罗马尼亚高校中名次较高的学校之一。
• It did not enter the main table of the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• OpenAlex indexes 22,550 works and 453,271 citations for the university, about twenty citations per paper.OpenAlex 收录该校 22,550 篇成果与 453,271 次引用，篇均约二十次引用。
• The university was ranked first in Romania on Shanghai criteria for three consecutive years up to 2008, a result that underpinned its research reputation.截至 2008 年，该校连续三年在按软科标准编制的罗马尼亚高校排名中位居第一，这一成绩奠定了其科研声誉。
• It is one of five Romanian universities in the Universitaria Consortium, alongside Bucharest, Babeș-Bolyai, West University of Timișoara and the University of Craiova.该校是「大学联盟」五所罗马尼亚高校之一，其余为布加勒斯特大学、巴贝什—博尧伊大学、蒂米什瓦拉西部大学与克拉约瓦大学。
• It belongs to the Coimbra Group, a network founded in 1985 that now links about forty comprehensive European universities, as well as to the Utrecht Network, the European University Association and the International Association of Universities.该校是科英布拉集团成员，该集团成立于 1985 年，如今联结约四十所欧洲综合性大学；它同时加入乌得勒支网络、欧洲大学协会与国际大学协会。
• Its francophone links run through the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie and the Network of Francophone Universities, reflecting the French orientation of nineteenth-century Romanian education, and its philology and history schools remain national reference points.其法语圈联系通过法语大学联盟与法语大学网络展开，反映 19 世纪罗马尼亚教育面向法国的传统；其语文学与历史学学派至今仍是全国性的参照。
• Employer recognition is strongest in law, medicine, philology and computer science, where its graduates hold a large share of professional posts in northern Romania and Moldova.其毕业生在法律、医学、语文学与计算机科学领域的雇主认可度最高，在罗马尼亚北部与摩尔多瓦的专业岗位中占据较大份额。

Student life

• The academic year opens on 1 October with a ceremony in the Aula Magna of the University Palace, attended by the rector, the deans and guests from the Romanian Academy, followed by faculty introductions for first-year students known as boboci.学年于 10 月 1 日在大学宫大礼堂举行开学典礼，校长、各学院院长与罗马尼亚科学院来宾出席，随后各学院为被称为「博博奇」的一年级新生举行入学介绍。
• The Balul Bobocilor, a freshmen ball held in November, is the best-known student tradition and is organised separately by each faculty.每年 11 月举行的新生舞会「Balul Bobocilor」是最知名的学生传统，由各学院分别组织。
• Romania's National Day on 1 December and the Union Day of 24 January are marked with lectures and ceremonies on campus.罗马尼亚 12 月 1 日的国庆日与 1 月 24 日的统一日，校园均以讲座与纪念仪式庆祝。
• Eminescu's birthday on 15 January is celebrated as National Culture Day, and the university library and philology faculty hold readings in Copou Park.1 月 15 日爱明内斯库诞辰被定为全国文化日，该校图书馆与语文学学院会在科波公园举行朗诵活动。
• Student organisations run debating societies, film clubs and volunteer programmes in schools and orphanages across Iași county.学生组织在雅西县各地的学校与孤儿院开展辩论社、电影俱乐部与志愿服务项目。
• Housing is provided in the Tudor Vladimirescu campus, where several thousand students live in blocks served by canteens and sports fields.学校在图多尔·弗拉迪米雷斯库学生城提供宿舍，数千名学生住在配有食堂与运动场的楼群中。
• Iași's theatres, the Vasile Alecsandri National Theatre and the Iași Athenaeum, give students a cultural calendar that rivals Bucharest's, the city holds the Romanian Literature Museum and a drama school attached to the national theatre, and its five universities keep tens of thousands of students in the city.雅西的瓦西里·亚历山德里国家剧院与雅西雅典娜音乐厅，为学生提供了可与布加勒斯特比肩的文化生活；城中还有罗马尼亚文学博物馆以及附属于国家剧院的戏剧学校，五所高校使这座城市常驻数万名学生。
• Orthodox Easter and the winter holidays divide the second semester, and many students return to villages in Moldavia for the long breaks.东正教复活节与冬季假期把第二学期分隔开来，许多学生利用长假定居摩尔达维亚乡村的家中。
• The university's sports clubs compete in Romanian student championships in rowing, athletics and basketball, using facilities shared with city clubs, and the Copou campus has outdoor courts used through the summer.该校体育俱乐部在赛艇、田径与篮球项目上参加罗马尼亚大学生锦标赛，使用与市队共用的设施；科波校区还设有夏季持续开放的露天球场。

Notable people

• Vasile Lupu, prince of Moldavia from 1634 to 1653, founded the Academia Vasiliană in 1640, the first institution of higher learning in Iași.瓦西里·卢普自 1634 至 1653 年统治摩尔达维亚，于 1640 年创办瓦西里亚纳学院，这是雅西第一所高等学府。
• Mihail Sturdza, prince of Moldavia from 1834 to 1849, founded the Academia Mihăileană in 1835 and laid the institutional ground for the 1860 university.米哈伊尔·斯图尔扎自 1834 至 1849 年统治摩尔达维亚，1835 年创办米哈伊列亚纳学院，为 1860 年建校奠定制度基础。
• Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the first ruler of the united Romanian principalities, signed the 1860 decree that created the university and gave it his name.亚历山德鲁·伊万·库扎是罗马尼亚两公国统一后的首位统治者，他签署 1860 年建校法令，大学也因此得名。
• Petru Poni, a chemist and professor at Iași, helped build the science faculty in the late nineteenth century and served as rector of the university.化学家彼得鲁·波尼是雅西的教授，在 19 世纪后期参与建设理学院，并曾担任该校校长。
• Ștefan Procopiu, a physicist who taught at Iași, described the effect that bears his name and worked on the magnetic moment of the electron.曾在雅西任教的物理学家什特凡·普罗科皮乌描述了以他命名的效应，并研究电子的磁矩。
• Grigore T. Popa, an anatomist and professor at the Iași medical faculty, is commemorated in the name of the city's medical university.解剖学家、雅西医学院教授格里戈雷·T·波帕，其名字被用于命名该市的医药大学。
• Alexandru D. Xenopol, a historian of the Romanian people, taught at the university and wrote his multi-volume history of the Romanians in Iași.罗马尼亚民族史学家亚历山德鲁·D·克塞诺波尔在该校任教，并在雅西写成其多卷本《罗马尼亚人史》。
• Nicolae Iorga, historian and prime minister of Romania in 1931-1932, studied at the University of Iași before completing his training in Paris, and was assassinated by the Iron Guard in 1940.历史学家、1931 至 1932 年任罗马尼亚首相的尼古拉·约尔加，曾在雅西大学就读，后赴巴黎完成学业，1940 年遭铁卫团刺杀。
• Mihail Sadoveanu, one of the great Romanian novelists, took his law degree at Iași and set several novels in the Moldavian landscape around the city.罗马尼亚重要小说家米哈伊尔·萨多韦亚努在雅西取得法律学位，其多部小说以该城周边的摩尔达维亚风土为背景。
• Dimitrie Gusti, the sociologist who led royal Romania's social research campaigns, studied at Iași and later served as minister of education.社会学家迪米特里耶·古斯蒂主持了罗马尼亚王国时期的社会调查运动，曾就读于雅西，后出任教育部长。