Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University

Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University is a public technical university in Baku, Azerbaijan, specialising in petroleum, chemical and industrial engineering, and it is placed in the 701-710 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.阿塞拜疆国立石油与工业大学是一所位于阿塞拜疆巴库的公立技术大学，以石油、化工与工业工程为专长，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 701-710 区间。

Its lineage runs from a preparatory technical school established in Baku by 1887 through the Baku Polytechnicum and a 1920 founding decree, and the present name dates from a presidential decree of 2015.其源流上承 1887 年之前已在巴库设立的预备技术学校，历经巴库理工学院与 1920 年的创办法令，现行校名则来自 2015 年的一项总统令。

OpenAlex attributes 5,618 research works and 31,728 citations to the university, which is run by a rector with a scientific council and takes part in the Caucasus University Association.OpenAlex 记录该校研究成果 5,618 项、被引 31,728 次；学校由校长与科学委员会管理，并参与高加索大学协会。

History

• The rise of what became the university is tied to the growth of the petroleum industry around Baku, which by the late nineteenth century was one of the world's major oil producing regions.这所大学的兴起与巴库周边石油工业的发展紧密相连，到十九世纪末，该地区已是世界主要产油区之一。

• By 1887 a preparatory technical school that would become the Baku Polytechnicum had been established in the city to train staff for technical work.到 1887 年，一所后来发展为巴库理工学院的预备技术学校已在城中设立，用于培养从事技术工作的员工。

• By 1910 the school had integrated a curriculum related to the growing oil industry, teaching subjects that matched the needs of the Baku oil fields.到 1910 年，该校已把与不断扩张的石油工业相关的课程纳入教学，所授科目与巴库油田的需求相对应。

• Enrolment at that stage was highly skewed, and of the 494 students studying at the school in 1916 only 20 were Azeri, a disparity that later reform addressed.当时的学生构成严重失衡，1916 年在校的 494 名学生中仅有 20 名阿塞拜疆族，这一失衡此后的改革予以了纠正。

• On 14 November 1920, after the Red Army entered Baku and the Azerbaijan SSR was established, the new government decreed that the Baku Polytechnicum would close and be replaced by the Baku Polytechnical Institute.1920 年 11 月 14 日，红军进入巴库、阿塞拜疆苏维埃社会主义共和国建立之后，新政府下令关闭巴库理工学院，代之以巴库工业学院。

• The new institute trained engineers for a broad range of industries, from agriculture to oil, marking the beginning of the present university's institutional line.新学院为从农业到石油的广泛行业培养工程师，标志着现今这所大学机构沿革的开端。

• By 1923 the school had graduated its first three students, and by 1927 the annual number of graduates had risen to 289, showing rapid early growth.到 1923 年，该校送出首批三名毕业生；到 1927 年，年度毕业生人数已增至 289 人，显示出早期的快速成长。

• In 1923 the school changed its name to the Azerbaijan Polytechnical Institute as its emphasis shifted to meet the needs of the young republic.1923 年，该校更名为阿塞拜疆工业学院，其教学重点转向满足这个年轻共和国的需求。

• In 1929 the agriculture department was spun off into a separate Agriculture Institute, and in 1930 the university changed its name to the Azerbaijan Oil Institute.1929 年，其农业系被分立为独立的农业学院；1930 年，该校更名为阿塞拜疆石油学院。

• In 1931 the university received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Azerbaijan SSR, and in 1940 it received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Soviet Union.1931 年，该校获颁阿塞拜疆苏维埃社会主义共和国劳动红旗勋章；1940 年，又获颁苏联劳动红旗勋章。

• In 1934 the name changed again to the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute, as demand grew for engineers in fields outside petroleum.1934 年，随着石油以外领域对工程师需求的增长，校名再度变更为阿塞拜疆工业学院。

• World War II strained the Soviet Union and the institute struggled to remain open, but at the end of the war it trained oil engineers in great numbers for the reconstruction effort.第二次世界大战令苏联承受巨大压力，学院艰难维持办学；战后它为重建工作培养了大批石油工程师。

• In 1952 the government founded a separate Azerbaijan Polytechnical Institute and moved much of the non-petrochemical curriculum there, allowing the institute to concentrate on the oil industry.1952 年，政府另行创办阿塞拜疆工业学院，并将大量非石化课程迁往新校，使本院得以专注于石油工业。

• On 12 February 1959 the school was renamed the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, a title that reflected its chemical engineering work as well as its petroleum teaching.1959 年 2 月 12 日，该校更名为阿塞拜疆石油与化工学院，这一名称既体现其化工研究，也体现其石油教学。

• In the early 1960s an evening programme was developed for working students, and this programme became a separate public university in 1992 under the name Sumgait State University.1960 年代初，学校为在职学生开设夜校项目；该项目于 1992 年独立成为一所公立大学，即苏姆盖特国立大学。

• On 21 March 1992, after Azerbaijan gained independence from the Soviet Union, the university took the name Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, the title by which it was long known in English.1992 年 3 月 21 日，阿塞拜疆脱离苏联独立之后，该校定名为阿塞拜疆国立石油学院，这也是它在英文中长期使用的名称。

• In 1993 the school reformed its curriculum on a more Western model, and its first bachelor's and master's degree candidates graduated in 1999.1993 年，该校按更接近西方的模式改革课程体系，其首批学士与硕士毕业生于 1999 年毕业。

• By presidential decree the university was named the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University in 2015, the name it uses today.2015 年，该校依总统令定名为阿塞拜疆国立石油与工业大学，即今天使用的校名。

• On 30 April 2009 a shooting spree took place at the academy in which thirteen people were killed, an attack carried out by a Georgian citizen of Azerbaijani descent.2009 年 4 月 30 日，学院内发生枪击事件，造成十三人遇难，行凶者为一名阿塞拜疆裔格鲁吉亚公民。

• In 1916 the school enrolled 494 students in its oil-related curriculum, a figure that shows how small the trained technical class remained in the Baku region before the Soviet period.1916 年，该校石油相关课程有 494 名学生，这一数字说明在苏联时期之前，巴库地区受过训练的技术人员群体仍十分有限。

• In 1992, the year of the name change to Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, the republic had just begun to open its oil sector to international companies, raising demand for graduates trained on Western lines.在 1992 年更名为阿塞拜疆国立石油学院的同一年，该国刚刚开始向国际公司开放石油部门，对受过西式训练毕业生的需求随之上升。

Academics

• The university is organised into eight faculties, covering geology and exploration, gas, petroleum and mining, chemical technologies and petro-mechanics.该校设八个学院，涵盖地质与勘探、天然气、石油与采矿、化工技术以及石油机械等领域。

• Its remaining faculties cover energetics, automatisation of production processes, and engineering economics together with international economic relations and management.其余学院则涵盖能源、生产过程自动化，以及工程经济与国际经济关系和管理。

• A separate institute for specialisation and re-education of the workforce serves the continuing training needs of industrial organisations.另设的专门化与劳动力再教育研究所，服务于工业组织的继续培训需求。

• Teaching is offered in more than fifty fields, ranging from geological engineering and geophysics to hydrology, mining and metallurgical engineering.其教学涵盖五十余个专业方向，从地质工程与地球物理，到水文、采矿与冶金工程。

• Engineering programmes also include petroleum and gas construction, equipment production, technology machinery and apparatus, electrical engineering and electronics with radiotechnics.工程类项目还包括油气建设、设备制造、技术机械与仪器、电气工程，以及电子与无线电技术。

• Faster-moving fields such as mechatronics and robotechnology, computer sciences and information technology and systems engineering have been added to the curriculum in recent decades.近数十年来，课程中新增了机电一体化与机器人技术、计算机科学、信息技术与系统工程等较新的方向。

• Chemical engineering, petroleum and gas engineering and automatisation engineering remain the core technical programmes of the university.化学工程、石油与天然气工程以及自动化工程，仍是该校的核心技术类项目。

• Management, engineering economics and marketing are taught alongside the technical specialisms, giving the university a management stream rooted in industry economics.管理与工程经济学、市场营销与技术类专业并行开设，使该校拥有一个以产业经济学为根基的管理方向。

• Since the break-up of the Soviet Union the university has worked with about a dozen Western universities to modernise its programmes.自苏联解体以来，该校与约十余所西方大学合作，以推进课程现代化。

• A partnership with Georgia State University was used to develop a modern Master of Business Administration programme at the university.该校与美国佐治亚州立大学合作，用于发展一个现代化的工商管理硕士项目。

• In 2015 a presidential decree established the French-Azerbaijan University, whose students can obtain a diploma from the University of Strasbourg.2015 年的一项总统令促成了法国-阿塞拜疆大学的建立，其学生可获得斯特拉斯堡大学的文凭。

• Cooperation agreements link the university with institutions including the University of Warwick and the Athens National Technical University.合作协议把该校与华威大学、雅典国立技术大学等院校联系起来。

• Research output is recorded by OpenAlex at 5,618 works and 31,728 citations, concentrated in petroleum, chemical and materials engineering.OpenAlex 记录其研究成果 5,618 项、被引 31,728 次，集中在石油、化工与材料工程领域。

• Teaching is conducted in Azerbaijani, Russian and English, reflecting the language environment of higher education in Baku.教学以阿塞拜疆语、俄语与英语进行，反映巴库高等教育的语言环境。

• The university's programmes are structured at bachelor, master and doctoral levels and serve both full-time students and employees of the energy industry.其课程按学士、硕士与博士层次设置，既服务全日制学生，也服务能源行业在职人员。

• Doctoral and candidate-of-science degrees are awarded through the faculties and the scientific council, which oversees dissertations and academic appointments.博士与副博士学位由各学院与科学委员会授予，后者负责监督学位论文与学术职务任命。

• Programmes in metrology, standardization and certification engineering prepare graduates for quality control and conformity assessment work in industry.计量、标准化与认证工程类项目，为毕业生从事工业界的质量控制与合格评定工作做准备。

• Remanufacturing and repair engineering, technology machinery and apparatus engineering and equipment production engineering serve the machinery and maintenance sectors of the Azerbaijani economy.再制造与维修工程、技术机械与仪器工程、设备制造工程等方向，服务阿塞拜疆经济的机械与维修部门。

Campus

• The campus is located on Azadlıq Prospekti, known in English as Liberty Avenue, in the city of Baku.校园位于巴库市的自由大道（Azadlıq Prospekti）上。

• Its geographic coordinates are approximately 40.37767 degrees north and 49.89201 degrees east, placing it in the core of the Azerbaijani capital.其地理坐标约为北纬 40.37767 度、东经 49.89201 度，位于阿塞拜疆首都的核心区域。

• The university maintains its own sports complex, which includes a swimming pool, tennis courts and an all-weather football pitch.该校拥有自己的体育综合体，包括游泳池、网球场与全天候足球场。

• Teams known as Neftçi, meaning the Oilers, compete in twelve sports including football, swimming, handball, basketball, athletics, judo, boxing and wrestling.以「Neftçi（石油工人）」为名的校队参加十二个运动项目，包括足球、游泳、手球、篮球、田径、柔道、拳击与摔跤。

• The campus buildings house lecture theatres, laboratories for petroleum and chemical engineering and workshops for the mechanical and energy faculties.校园建筑内设有讲堂、石油与化工工程实验室，以及面向机械与能源学院的工场。

• The university also operates the Institute for Specialisation and Re-education of Workforce for Industrial Organisations, which extends its teaching into industry premises.该校还运营面向工业组织的专门化与劳动力再教育研究所，把教学延伸至企业现场。

• Baku's position on the Absheron peninsula places the campus close to Azerbaijan's oil and gas industry and to the headquarters of the state energy company.巴库位于阿普歇伦半岛，使校园紧邻阿塞拜疆的油气产业与国家能源公司总部。

• The city's transport links connect the campus to the wider Baku metropolitan area, where most of its students live.城市的交通网络把校园与更广阔的巴库都会区相连，该校多数学生居住于此。

• International relations offices on campus manage agreements with foreign universities, missions in Baku and international companies in the energy sector.校内的国际关系办公室负责管理与外国大学、驻巴库使团以及能源领域跨国公司之间的协议。

• Laboratory provision includes petroleum and gas engineering rigs and chemical technology benches used by the geology, mining and chemical faculties.其实验设施包括石油与天然气工程装置以及化工实验台，供地质、采矿与化工类学院使用。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the university is placed in the 701-710 band, its position among the leading institutions of the South Caucasus, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校处于 701-710 区间，是南高加索地区领先院校之一。此排名以官方榜单为准。^[1]

• It stands in the 1801-2000 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, a result that reflects its narrow research base.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1801-2000 区间，这一结果反映其科研基础较为单一。

• The university is not placed in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities or in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.该校未进入 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名，也未列入软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名。

• Its national standing is underlined by two Soviet-era decorations, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1931 and the Soviet order of the same name in 1940.其国家地位由两枚苏联时期勋章佐证，即 1931 年的阿塞拜疆苏维埃社会主义共和国劳动红旗勋章与 1940 年的苏联同名勋章。

• OpenAlex attributes 5,618 works and 31,728 citations to the university, concentrated in engineering and the applied sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校 5,618 项成果与 31,728 次被引，集中在工程与应用科学领域。

• The university's chief distinction is its role in training engineers for the Azerbaijani oil and gas industry and for the state energy company's workforce.该校最突出的特色，是为阿塞拜疆油气产业与国家能源公司队伍培养工程师。

• Its collaboration with about a dozen Western universities and its role in founding the French-Azerbaijan University are presented as evidence of international standing.它与约十余所西方大学的合作，以及参与创办法国-阿塞拜疆大学，被作为国际地位的佐证。

• ASOIU is a member of the Caucasus University Association, a regional body of universities in the South Caucasus.该校是高加索大学协会成员，该协会是南高加索地区大学的区域组织。

• Its research relationships extend to oil and gas universities in Romania and Norway and to Russia's state oil and gas university.其研究合作关系延伸至罗马尼亚与挪威的石油天然气大学，以及俄罗斯的国立石油天然气大学。

• The university's reputation is therefore regional and sectoral rather than broad, resting on petroleum engineering and the industries of the Absheron peninsula.因此，该校声誉具有区域性与行业性而非全面性，根基在于石油工程与阿普歇伦半岛的产业。

Student life

• Sport is a visible part of student life, and university teams compete under the name Neftçi across twelve disciplines.体育运动是学生生活中显见的一部分，校队以「Neftçi」之名在十二个项目中参赛。

• The sports complex with its pool, tennis courts and all-weather pitch provides facilities for football, swimming, basketball and athletics, as well as judo, boxing and wrestling.配有泳池、网球场与全天候球场的体育综合体，为足球、游泳、篮球与田径，以及柔道、拳击与摔跤提供场地。

• Students are drawn mainly from Azerbaijan, with a smaller number arriving from other countries under agreements for training specialists for foreign states.学生主要来自阿塞拜疆，另有较少学生依据为外国培养专门人才的协议前来就读。

• Aspects of traditional student culture include celebration of the university's history, including the award dates of its Soviet decorations and its successive renamings.传统学生文化的一部分包括纪念校史，如其苏联勋章的授予日期与历次更名。

• Because the university is located in Baku, students take part in the cultural life of the Azerbaijani capital, including its theatre, music and Caspian seaside traditions.由于校址在巴库，学生参与阿塞拜疆首都的文化生活，包括戏剧、音乐与里海海滨的传统。

• Evening and continuing education programmes mean that part of the student body combines study with work in the energy industry.夜校与继续教育项目意味着部分学生一边学习，一边在能源行业工作。

• The university maintains relations with foreign missions in Baku, which support scholarship and exchange arrangements for its students.该校与驻巴库各使团保持联系，这些关系为其学生的奖学金与交流安排提供支持。

• Graduates maintain an informal network through the state energy company and the ministries where many of them work, a link the university highlights.毕业生通过国家能源公司及其任职的各部委维持非正式网络，学校也强调这一联系。

• International students are admitted under agreements to train specialists for foreign countries, a strand of the university's work that dates from the Soviet period.该校依据为外国培养专门人才的协议招收国际学生，这一办学方向可追溯至苏联时期。

• Student societies and departmental groups concentrate on engineering practice, with teams preparing for national and international technical competitions.学生社团与系级小组以工程实践为重点，各队伍为国内与国际技术竞赛做准备。

• Its alumni occupy senior posts in the Azerbaijani government and in the oil and gas sector, a link the university presents as evidence of its national role.其校友在阿塞拜疆政府与油气行业担任要职，学校把这一联系作为其国家角色的佐证。

Notable people

• Heydar Aliyev, who studied at the institute and later served as President of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003, is among its best-known alumni.曾在该校就读、后于 1993 年至 2003 年担任阿塞拜疆总统的盖达尔·阿利耶夫，是该校最知名的校友之一。

• José Eduardo dos Santos, who studied petroleum engineering at the institute, served as President of Angola from 1979 to 2017.曾在该校学习石油工程的若泽·爱德华多·多斯桑托斯，于 1979 年至 2017 年担任安哥拉总统。

• Ayaz Mutallibov, a graduate of the institute, was the first President of independent Azerbaijan.该校毕业生阿亚兹·穆塔利博夫是独立后阿塞拜疆的首任总统。

• Vagit Alekperov, an alumnus, became president of the Russian oil company LUKOIL and one of the most prominent figures in the post-Soviet oil industry.校友瓦吉特·阿列克佩罗夫出任俄罗斯石油公司卢克石油的总裁，是后苏联石油工业中最具影响力的人物之一。

• Nikolai Baibakov, who trained at the institute, headed Gosplan, the Soviet state planning committee, and directed the Soviet oil industry during the Second World War.曾在该校受训的尼古拉·巴伊巴科夫曾任苏联国家计划委员会主席，并在二战期间主管苏联石油工业。

• Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet security apparatus under Joseph Stalin, also studied at the institute in its early decades.斯大林时期苏联安全机构的负责人拉夫连季·贝利亚，也在该校早期年代就读。

• Sabit Orujov, an alumnus, served as minister of the gas industry of the Soviet Union, one of the highest industrial posts held by a graduate.校友萨比特·奥鲁乔夫曾任苏联天然气工业部长，是该校毕业生担任的最高工业职务之一。

• Artur Rasizade, a graduate, served as Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, and Parviz Shahbazov, another graduate, became Minister of Energy of the republic.毕业生阿尔图尔·拉西扎德曾任阿塞拜疆总理，同为毕业生的帕尔维兹·沙赫巴佐夫出任该国能源部长。

• Farman Salmanov, a geologist trained at the institute, is credited in Russian sources with the discovery of major oil fields in western Siberia.在该校受训的地质学家法尔曼·萨尔曼诺夫，被俄方资料记载为西西伯利亚大型油田的发现者。

• Arif Həşimov, an alumnus, later served as president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.校友阿里夫·哈西莫夫后来担任阿塞拜疆国家科学院院长。

• Vitaly Zholobov, a graduate, became a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 21 mission in 1976.毕业生维塔利·佐洛博夫成为苏联航天员，于 1976 年执行联盟 21 号飞行任务。

• Vali Israfilov, an alumnus, became an Olympic champion, and Tatyana Zatulovskaya, another graduate, was a two-time Olympic chess champion.校友瓦利·伊斯拉菲洛夫成为奥运冠军，同为毕业生的塔季扬娜·扎图洛夫斯卡娅则两度获得奥运国际象棋冠军。