An-Najah National University

An-Najah National University is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, in the northern West Bank of Palestine, and it is the largest university in the State of Palestine.纳贾赫国立大学是巴勒斯坦约旦河西岸北部城市纳布卢斯的一所非政府公立大学，由董事会治理，也是巴勒斯坦国规模最大的高等学府。

Its lineage reaches back to 1918, when it opened as the An-Najah Nabulsi primary school, and it was chartered as a full-fledged university in 1977 with a Faculty of Arts and a Faculty of Sciences.其源流可上溯至 1918 年开办的纳贾赫纳布卢斯小学，1977 年正式升格为拥有文学院与理学院的完全大学。

The university teaches about 22,000 students through 19 faculties, was placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the 701-800 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education table, and recorded 9,767 works with 302,166 citations in OpenAlex.该校设 19 个学院，在读学生约 2.2 万人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 1001-1200 位、在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育榜中列第 701-800 位，据 OpenAlex 记载有 9767 篇文献与 302166 次被引。

History

• An-Najah began life in 1918 as the An-Najah Nabulsi School, a primary school that took pupils not only from Nablus and other Palestinian districts but also from Arab countries such as Algeria.纳贾赫于 1918 年以纳贾赫纳布卢斯小学起步，其生源不仅来自纳布卢斯与巴勒斯坦其他地区，还来自阿尔及利亚等阿拉伯国家。

• In 1941 the institution was renamed An-Najah College, the name it carried for the following quarter of a century.1941 年该校改称纳贾赫学院，此后四分之一世纪一直沿用此名。

• In 1965 An-Najah became a teacher-preparation institute that also granted intermediate university degrees, the stage at which it began awarding higher-education qualifications.1965 年该校转为师资培养学院，同时可授予大学中间层次文凭，自此开始颁发高等教育资历。

• It was chartered as a full-fledged university in 1977, with a Faculty of Arts and a Faculty of Sciences, and joined the Association of Arab Universities as a full member in the same year.该校于 1977 年获准成为完全大学，设文学院与理学院，并于同年以正式成员身份加入阿拉伯大学协会。

• New faculties followed in 1978, when Economics, Administrative Sciences, Educational Sciences and Engineering were inaugurated.1978 年新学院相继设立，经济学院、行政科学学院、教育科学学院与工程学院同年成立。

• The first master's programme, in curricula management at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, opened in 1981, the year An-Najah was also accepted into the World Union of Universities.首个硕士项目为教育科学学院的课程管理方向，开设于 1981 年，同年该校还获接纳进入世界大学联盟。

• In 1984 the university was closed for four months by the Israeli army, an interruption that stands as the deepest disruption in its recorded history.1984 年该校被以色列军队关闭四个月，这是其有记载的历史中最为严重的一次中断。

• Higher study was widened in 1985 to take in chemistry, Islamic studies and education, extending the university beyond its arts and science base.1985 年其高等研究范围扩至化学、伊斯兰研究与教育，使学校超出原有的文科与理科基础。

• In 1994 the Faculty of Pharmacy was established and a group of specialised units followed, among them the Academic Program for the Study of Involuntary Migration, the Water and Environmental Studies Institute, the Center for Studies, Consultation and Technical Services and the Business and Technology Incubator.1994 年药学院成立，并随之增设若干专门机构，包括非自愿迁移研究学术项目、水与环境研究所、研究咨询与技术服务以及商业与技术孵化器。

• The Faculty of Law was established in 1995, giving the university a legal faculty to sit beside its medical and scientific provision.法学院于 1995 年设立，使该校在医学与理学之外增添了法学板块。

• In 1997 An-Najah signed an agreement with the Director-General of UNESCO to establish the UNESCO Chair on Human Rights and Democracy, and in the same year it launched the Arabic for Non-Native Speakers Programme.1997 年该校与联合国教科文组织总干事签署协议，设立人权与民主教席，并于同年开办面向非母语者的阿拉伯语项目。

• The board of trustees decided in 1998 to establish the Center for Urban and Regional Planning, which was later housed in the Al-Qasem Palace at Beit Wazan.董事会于 1998 年决定设立城市与区域规划中心，该中心后来设在贝特瓦赞的卡西姆宫。

• In 1999 the Faculty of Medicine was established in cooperation with Al-Quds and Al-Azhar universities, and the Community Service Center was set up to serve the surrounding population.1999 年医学院与圣城大学、爱资哈尔大学合作成立，同时设立社区服务中心以服务周边民众。

• On 25 June 2000 Yasser Arafat laid the foundation stone for Munib Masri's College for Engineering and Technology at the New Campus, and in the same year the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and majors in computer engineering, statistics and economy and agricultural development were created.2000 年 6 月 25 日，亚西尔·阿拉法特为新校区穆尼布·马斯里工程与技术学院奠基；同年兽医学院与计算机工程、统计学、经济与农业发展等专业相继设立。

• The Faculty of Information Technology was established in 2001 and construction of the Hisham Hijjawi College of Technology was completed, with the college welcoming its first students that October.信息技术学院于 2001 年成立，希沙姆·希贾维技术学院的建设完成，并在当年 10 月迎来首批学生。

• In 2003 the university launched the Voice of An-Najah radio station and set up the Opinion Polls and Survey Studies Center, the Continuing Education Center and the Measurement and Evaluation Center.2003 年该校开办「纳贾赫之声」广播电台，并设立民意调查与调查研究、继续教育以及测量与评价三个中心。

• The Faculties of Optometry and of Nursing were both established in 2004, broadening the health-professions group that medicine and pharmacy had begun.视光学学院与护理学院均于 2004 年成立，扩展了此前由医学与药学开启的医药卫生板块。

• In 2005 the university opened the Faculty of Honors and a Unit for Architectural Conservation and Reconstruction, launched the An-Najah Award for Scientific Research, and added master's programmes in animal husbandry and in clean energy and consumption rationalisation.2005 年该校设立荣誉学院与建筑保护与复原单位，创设纳贾赫科学研究奖，并增设畜牧，以及清洁能源与消费合理化两个硕士项目。

• In 2006 the Institute of Forensic Medicine was founded as a branch of the Faculty of Medicine, the An-Najah Alumni Association was established, and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, inaugurated the New Campus and received an honorary doctorate in law.2006 年法医学研究所以医学院分支的名义成立，纳贾赫校友会组建，巴勒斯坦民族权力机构主席马哈茂德·阿巴斯为新校区揭幕，并获颁荣誉法学博士。

• Through 2007 and 2008 the university opened a Languages Centre, a computer laboratory for the visually impaired, dental and prosthetics clinics, the Korean-Palestinian IT Institute of Excellence and an eye clinic, and in 2008 its Faculty of Medicine was accredited as an independent faculty by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education.2007 至 2008 年间，该校先后开设语言中心、视障者计算机实验室、牙科与义肢诊所、韩国-巴勒斯坦信息技术卓越研究所以及眼科诊所；2008 年其医学院经巴勒斯坦教育与高等教育部认可为独立学院。

• Also in 2008 An-Najah acquired the Al-Zakat Committee hospitals in Nablus, to be developed into a teaching hospital serving the whole northern West Bank with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and it inaugurated a mosque in August and a Sports Complex at the New Campus in November.同年该校收购纳布卢斯的济贫委员会医院，拟与巴勒斯坦卫生部合作改建为服务整个西岸北部地区的教学医院；8 月清真寺落成，11 月新校区体育中心启用。

Academics

• An-Najah National University runs 19 faculties and teaches about 22,000 students with around 300 professors, which makes it the largest higher-education institution in Palestine.纳贾赫国立大学设 19 个学院，在读学生约 2.2 万人、教授约 300 人，就此成为巴勒斯坦规模最大的高等院校。

• The university's own facts and figures for the 2022/2023 academic year record 25,000 students and 11,452 scholarships, figures that also reflect its role as a scholarship-heavy public institution.校方 2022 至 2023 学年的数据表记载学生 25000 人、奖学金 11452 项，这也反映出该校作为奖学金比重较大的公立机构的角色。

• Its scientific faculties are Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Agriculture, Human Medicine, Optometry, Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Physical Education.其理学类学院包括理学院、工程学院、信息技术学院、农学院、人类医学学院、视光学学院、药学院、兽医学院、护理学院与体育学院。

• The humanities group comprises Arts, Fine Arts, Islamic Law, Law, Economics and Administrative Sciences, Educational Sciences and the Faculty of Graduate Studies.人文类学院包括文学院、美术学院、伊斯兰法学院、法学院、经济与行政科学学院、教育科学学院以及研究生院。

• The Faculty of Medicine, created in 1999 with Al-Quds and Al-Azhar universities, won accreditation as an independent faculty from the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education in 2008.医学院于 1999 年与圣城大学、爱资哈尔大学合作创建，并于 2008 年取得巴勒斯坦教育与高等教育部对其独立学院地位的认可。

• An-Najah National University Hospital serves as the clinical teaching site, and through it the university offers health insurance to its students for the duration of their studies.纳贾赫国立大学医院是其临床教学基地，校方也通过该医院为在校学生提供求学期间的医疗保险。

• The Faculty of Graduate Studies supervises the master's and higher programmes, a track that began in 1981 with curricula management and later took in animal husbandry, clean energy and other fields.研究生院主管硕士及以上层次的项目，这一路径始于 1981 年的课程管理方向，其后纳入畜牧、清洁能源等领域。

• The Faculty of Pharmacy, established in 1994, opened the first Poison Control and Drug Information Center in the Palestinian Territories in 2006, a unit that became a reference point for the whole territory.1994 年成立的药学院于 2006 年开设巴勒斯坦地区首个毒物控制与药物信息中心，该机构此后成为整个地区的参照机构。

• The Arabic for Non-Native Speakers Programme, launched in 1997, is one of the routes by which the university attracts students from outside Palestine.1997 年开办的面向非母语者的阿拉伯语项目，是该校吸引巴勒斯坦境外学生的主要路径之一。

• Its research units include the Water and Environmental Studies Institute, the Academic Program for the Study of Involuntary Migration, the Center for Studies, Consultation and Technical Services and the Business and Technology Incubator.其研究机构包括水与环境研究所、非自愿迁移研究学术项目、研究咨询与技术服务，以及商业与技术孵化器。

• The Institute of Forensic Medicine, attached to the Faculty of Medicine since 2006, is the unit through which the university supports forensic casework in the region.2006 年起隶属医学院的法医学研究所，是该校支援本地区法医鉴定工作的建制单位。

• Continuing and evaluation work sits with three 2003 units, the Opinion Polls and Survey Studies Center, the Continuing Education Center and the Measurement and Evaluation Center.继续教育与评估事务由 2003 年设立的三个单位承担，即民意调查与调查研究、继续教育以及测量与评价中心。

• The An-Najah Award for Scientific Research, created in 2005, is the university's own prize scheme for work in the sciences and the humanities.2005 年创设的纳贾赫科学研究奖，是该校面向自然科学与人文研究所设的自有奖项体系。

• Campus languages are a practical measure of its intake, since Arabic, Hebrew, English, French and Spanish are all spoken by students and professors on site.校园语言是衡量其生源构成的实用指标：校内学生与教师日常使用阿拉伯语、希伯来语、英语、法语与西班牙语。

• The Faculty of Honors, founded in 2005, runs a selective track for high-performing undergraduates, and the Unit for Architectural Conservation and Reconstruction links teaching to preservation practice.2005 年创立的荣誉学院为成绩优异的本科生设有选拔性培养路径，建筑保护与复原单位则把教学与遗产保存实务相衔接。

• International cooperation runs through twinning with the University of Essex Students' Union since 1991, the University of Manchester Students' Union since 2006 and the London School of Economics students' union, with partner work also involving Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and the McGill Middle East Program, through which 2,500 undergraduates volunteer each year.其国际合作包括与埃塞克斯大学学生会自 1991 年起的结对、与曼彻斯特大学学生会自 2006 年起的结对，以及与伦敦政治经济学院学生会的结对；伙伴工作还涉及达姆施塔特应用技术大学与麦吉尔大学中东项目，后者每年有 2500 名本科生参与志愿服务。

Campus

• The university sits in Nablus in the northern West Bank at about latitude 32.22111 and longitude 35.25444, in a city that has been a centre of Palestinian education and commerce.该校位于约旦河西岸北部的纳布卢斯，处北纬 32.22111、东经 35.25444 附近，此城长期是巴勒斯坦教育与商业中心。

• Its Old Campus occupies 30 dunums and houses the faculties of Humanities, Economics and Social Studies, Islamic Law, Educational Sciences and Honors, together with the administration, admission and student activities buildings, a library and the Zafer Al-Masri Auditorium.其老校区占地 30 杜诺，容纳人文，经济与社会研究，伊斯兰法，教育科学及荣誉等学院，另有行政、招生与学生活动楼、图书馆以及扎费尔·马斯里礼堂。

• Construction of the New Campus began in 2000 on about 116 acres of land roughly three kilometres west of the old site, and it is the university's principal modern quarter.新校区于 2000 年在老校区以西约三公里处动工，占地约 116 英亩，是该校最主要的新建院区。

• The New Campus houses the faculties of Graduate Studies, Medicine, Science, Law, Fine Arts, Engineering and Information Technology, Optometry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Media and Physical Education.新校区容纳研究生，医学，理学，法学，美术，工程与信息技术，视光学，药学，护理，媒体及体育等学院。

• Its landmark facilities include the Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Theatre, the Hikmat Al-Masri Amphitheater and the Korean-Palestinian IT Institute of Excellence, alongside a state-of-the-art library, a media centre, a swimming pool, a sports complex and a mosque.其标志性设施包括图尔基·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹亲王剧场、希克马特·马斯里圆形剧场与韩国-巴勒斯坦信息技术卓越研究所，另有设备先进的图书馆、媒体中心、游泳池、体育中心与清真寺。

• The Hisham Hijjawi College of Technology occupies a three-floor building with a total area of 18 acres east of Nablus, and teaches industrial automation, telecommunications, computer networking, auto mechanics, mechanical engineering and graphic design.希沙姆·希贾维技术学院位于纳布卢斯以东，为一栋三层建筑、占地共 18 英亩，开设工业自动化、通信、计算机网络、汽车机械、机械工程与平面设计等专业。

• The agriculture faculty moved in 1996 to the Khadouri Campus at Tulkarem, a site of about 164 dunums located only 14 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, which also hosts the Faculties of Agricultural Engineering and Veterinary Medicine, the only such faculties in Palestine.农学院于 1996 年迁至图勒凯尔姆的哈杜里校区，该址占地约 164 杜诺，距地中海仅 14 公里，并容纳农业工程学院与兽医学院，这两院为巴勒斯坦所仅有。

• An-Najah National University Hospital was developed out of the Al-Zakat Committee hospitals acquired in 2008, and works with the Palestinian Ministry of Health to serve patients across the northern West Bank.纳贾赫国立大学医院由 2008 年收购的济贫委员会医院发展而来，并与巴勒斯坦卫生部合作服务西岸北部各地的病患。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 An-Najah is placed in the 1001-1200 band, the joint interval position shared by the universities in that group.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，纳贾赫列于第 1001-1200 位，即该组院校并列的名次区间。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 701-800 band, the strongest of its current global positions.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列于第 701-800 位，是其现阶段各全球榜中的最好名次。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities table the university stands 1,183rd.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校列第 1183 位。

• It does not appear in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking of World Universities, the ARWU, so no 2026 ARWU position is recorded for it here.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，故本条目不记载其 2026 年软科名次。

• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 the university entered the medicine table for the first time at 39th in the Arab world, leading all Palestinian universities.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校首次进入医学榜单，列阿拉伯世界第 39 位，居巴勒斯坦各高校之首。

• The Center for World University Rankings placed An-Najah 1,719th of 21,291 institutions in its CWUR 2026 table, up from 1,845th in 2025 and within the world's top 8.1 per cent.世界大学排名中心在 CWUR 2026 榜中把纳贾赫列于 21291 所院校中的第 1719 位，较 2025 年的第 1845 位上升，位居全球前 8.1%。

• The Times Higher Education Arab University Rankings 2024 put it 23rd in the Arab world and first in Palestine, a lead it also held in the 2025 ScholarGPS institutional ranking.2024 年泰晤士高等教育阿拉伯地区大学排名将其列阿拉伯世界第 23 位、巴勒斯坦第 1 位；该校在 2025 年 ScholarGPS 机构排名中同样保持这一国内领先。

• In the 2025 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which measure performance against the Sustainable Development Goals, An-Najah was listed among the top 100 institutions worldwide.在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名这一以可持续发展目标达成度为准的榜单中，纳贾赫被列于全球前 100 名之内。

• Its measurable research output as recorded by OpenAlex is 9,767 works with 302,166 citations, a volume far larger than the teaching-led profile of its national peers.据 OpenAlex 记载，其可量化科研产出为 9767 篇文献、30 万 2166 次被引，体量显著大于国内同类以教学为主的院校。

Student life

• Most students are Palestinian, but students and professors come from many other countries, and campus life is conducted in Arabic, Hebrew, English, French and Spanish.学生以巴勒斯坦人为主，但学生与教师来自许多其他国家，校园生活以阿拉伯语、希伯来语、英语、法语与西班牙语多种语言进行。

• Twinning links with British student unions shape part of that international life, running with the University of Essex Students' Union since 1991 and the University of Manchester Students' Union since 2006, the latter surviving a heavily defeated 2007 campaign against the link.与英国学生会的结对关系塑造了这种国际生活的一部分：与埃塞克斯大学学生会自 1991 年结对，与曼彻斯特大学学生会自 2006 年结对，后者在 2007 年一场遭压倒性否决的反对运动中得以保留。

• Through the McGill Middle East Program 2,500 undergraduates take part each year in volunteer programmes run from the Community Service Centre in Nablus.依托麦吉尔大学中东项目，每年有 2500 名本科生参加由纳布卢斯社区服务中心组织的志愿服务项目。

• The Community Service Center, established in 1999, is the institutional base for that volunteering, tying student activity to the needs of the surrounding governorates.1999 年设立的社区服务中心是上述志愿服务的建制依托，把学生活动与周边各省的实际需求相连。

• The Voice of An-Najah radio station, launched in 2003, gives students a campus outlet for news and programming and strengthens ties with the local community.2003 年开播的「纳贾赫之声」广播电台为学生提供了校园新闻与节目的发布渠道，也加强了学校与本地社区的联系。

• A Sports Complex opened at the New Campus in November 2008, and the swimming pool and sports facilities added thereafter anchor inter-faculty competition.新校区体育中心于 2008 年 11 月启用，其后增设的游泳池与运动设施成为院际竞赛的主要依托。

• Student welfare is tied to the university hospital, which provides health insurance during study years, while 11,452 scholarships recorded for 2022/2023 show the scale of financial support.学生福利与大学医院相连，求学期内享有医疗保险；2022 至 2023 学年记录的 11452 项奖学金则显示了资助规模。

• The An-Najah Alumni Association, founded in 2006, keeps graduates connected to the university and to each other, and the annual Parents Day tradition draws families onto campus.2006 年成立的纳贾赫校友会维系毕业生与母校及彼此之间的联系，年度家长日传统则把学生家庭请入校园。

Notable people

• Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, laid the foundation stone of Munib Masri's College for Engineering and Technology on 25 June 2000, the ceremony that opened the university's New Campus building programme.巴勒斯坦领导人亚西尔·阿拉法特于 2000 年 6 月 25 日为穆尼布·马斯里工程与技术学院奠基，该仪式开启了新校区的建设计划。

• Mahmoud Abbas inaugurated the New Campus in 2006 and was presented with an honorary doctorate in law on the same occasion.马哈茂德·阿巴斯 2006 年为新校区揭幕，并在同一场合获颁荣誉法学博士。

• Rami Hamdallah taught English and applied linguistics at the university, rose to its presidency, served some fifteen years in that office and later became Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority from 2013 to 2019.拉米·哈姆达拉曾在校内教授英语与应用语言学，后升任校长，任职约十五年，并于 2013 至 2019 年出任巴勒斯坦民族权力机构总理。

• Abdel Naser Zaid, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and technology and chair of the Department of Pharmacy from 2013, now serves as President of the university.阿卜杜勒·纳赛尔·扎伊德为药物化学与技术教授，自 2013 年起任药学系主任，现任该校校长。

• Kherieh Rassas, Vice President for Partnerships and Global Initiatives, was re-elected president of the Mediterranean Universities Union for a second term in October 2026.主管伙伴关系与全球事务的副校长赫里耶·拉萨，于 2026 年 10 月连任地中海大学联盟主席第二任期。

• Ansam Sawalha, dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, became the first Palestinian woman named to the Women in Science Hall of Fame in 2011 and had established the first Poison Control and Drug Information Center in the Palestinian Territories in 2006.药学院院长安萨姆·萨瓦勒哈于 2011 年成为首位入选「科学界女性名人堂」的巴勒斯坦女性，她还在 2006 年创建了巴勒斯坦地区首个毒物控制与药物信息中心。

• Abdel Sattar Qassem, professor of political science and a critic of the Palestinian leadership, was arrested by Palestinian Authority forces in 2011 after a complaint by the university president, and had earlier been shot and wounded.政治学教授阿卜杜勒·萨塔尔·卡西姆是巴勒斯坦领导层的批评者，2011 年因校长投诉而被巴勒斯坦权力机构拘押，此前还曾遭枪击受伤。

• Ghassan Khaled was among six faculty members arrested in 2010 by Palestinian Authority security forces over close links to a charity suspected of being a front for Hamas.加桑·哈立德即 2010 年被巴勒斯坦权力机构安全部门拘押的六名教师之一，事由是他们与一个被怀疑为哈马斯外围的慈善机构联系密切。

• Donor figures whose names stand on the campus include Munib Masri, for whom the engineering and technology college is named, and Hisham Hijjawi, after whom the technology college east of Nablus is named.与校园建筑同名的重要捐助者包括穆尼布·马斯里，工程与技术学院即以他命名，以及希沙姆·希贾维，纳布卢斯以东的技术学院以他命名。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is recorded among its alumni or staff, and the firmest named honour in its record remains the honorary doctorate conferred on Mahmoud Abbas in 2006.其校友或教师中未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，记载中分量最重的具名荣誉仍是 2006 年授予马哈茂德·阿巴斯的荣誉博士学位。