College of William & Mary

The College of William & Mary is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, founded on 8 February 1693 by royal charter of King William III and Queen Mary II, which makes it the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.威廉与玛丽学院（College of William & Mary）是位于美国弗吉尼亚州威廉斯堡的公立研究型大学，1693 年 2 月 8 日依据国王威廉三世与女王玛丽二世的皇家特许状创办，是美国第二古老的高等学府。

It is one of the nine colonial colleges, the ninth-oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the only American university holding an official coat of arms granted by the College of Arms in London.该校是九所殖民地学院之一，也是英语世界第九古老的大学，并且是美国唯一一所获伦敦纹章院授予正式纹章的大学。

Fall 2025 enrollment was 6,951 undergraduates and 2,646 graduate students, taught by 725 full-time and 190 part-time faculty on a campus of about 1,160 acres, and it sits in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2025 年秋季，该校有本科生 6951 人、研究生 2646 人，由 725 名全职与 190 名兼职教师授课，校园占地约 1160 英亩；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间。

History

• The charter of 8 February 1693 empowered the college to make, found and establish a place of universal study, a perpetual college of divinity, philosophy, languages and other good arts and sciences in Virginia.1693 年 2 月 8 日的特许状授权学院在弗吉尼亚建立一所普世学问之地，即一所永久性的神学、哲学、语言及其他优良文理学院。
• James Blair, a Church of England clergyman who had lobbied the Crown for years, was named first president for life and served until his death in 1743, and students and professors were required to conform to the Thirty-Nine Articles.多年向王室游说的英格兰教会牧师詹姆斯·布莱尔被任命为首任校长，任职终身直至 1743 年去世；学生与教授均须遵奉《三十九条信纲》。
• Construction of the College Building, now the Sir Christopher Wren Building, began in 1695 at Middle Plantation before Williamsburg existed, and it is the oldest college building still standing in the United States.学院楼（今克里斯托弗·雷恩爵士楼）于 1695 年在尚无威廉斯堡城的中央种植园动工，它至今仍是美国现存最古老的学院建筑。
• The capital of Virginia moved to Williamsburg in 1699, the town received its charter in 1722, and the college became a working law centre whose buildings were used by the colony's legislators.弗吉尼亚首府于 1699 年迁至威廉斯堡，该镇在 1722 年获颁城市特许状；学院由此成为实际的法学中心，其建筑常为殖民地议会所用。
• The Brafferton was built in 1723 to house the Indian School and now holds the president's and provost's offices, while the President's House was completed in 1732 and is among the oldest official residences of a university president in America.布拉弗顿楼建于 1723 年，原为印第安人学校，现为校长与教务长办公处；校长宅建于 1732 年，至今仍是美国最古老的大学校长官邸。
• William & Mary adopted an honour code in 1736, the first at an American college, and the pledge recited by entering students is still administered by an elected student Honour Council.威廉与玛丽学院于 1736 年实行荣誉守则，为美国高校之首；新生入学时宣读的誓词至今仍由学生选举产生的荣誉委员会执行。
• Students founded the F.H.C. Society, popularly called the Flat Hat Club, on 11 November 1750, the first collegiate secret and honour society in what became the United States.1750 年 11 月 11 日，学生创立 F.H.C. 社，通称「平顶帽俱乐部」，是后来美国境内的第一个大学秘密荣誉社团。
• On 5 December 1776 John Heath and William Short founded Phi Beta Kappa as a secret literary and philosophical society, the first Greek-letter fraternity in the United States.1776 年 12 月 5 日，约翰·希思与威廉·肖特创立 Phi Beta Kappa，作为秘密的文学与哲学社团，这是美国第一个以希腊字母命名的兄弟会。
• In 1779, with James Madison as president and Thomas Jefferson on the Board of Visitors, the college abolished its divinity school and Indian school, created the first university-affiliated law school in America and introduced an elective curriculum.1779 年，在校长詹姆斯·麦迪逊与校董托马斯·杰斐逊推动下，学院撤销神学院与印第安人学校，创办美国第一所隶属于大学的法学院，并引入选修课程。
• Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom passed in 1786, ending the Anglican monopoly, and alumni formed the Society of the Alumni in 1842, now the sixth-oldest such organisation in the country.杰斐逊起草的《弗吉尼亚宗教自由法令》于 1786 年通过，结束了圣公会的垄断；1842 年校友成立校友会，如今是全美第六古老的同类组织。
• When the Civil War began the faculty voted on 10 May 1861 to close the college, and 32 of its 35 professors and instructors left to join the Confederate army.内战爆发后，教职员于 1861 年 5 月 10 日表决停办学院，35 名教授与讲师中有 32 人离校加入邦联军。
• The Battle of Williamsburg was fought nearby on 5 May 1862 and the town fell to Union forces the next day, and on 9 September 1862 soldiers of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry set fire to the College Building.1862 年 5 月 5 日，威廉斯堡战役在附近打响，次日该镇被联邦军占领；同年 9 月 9 日，宾夕法尼亚第五骑兵团的士兵纵火焚烧学院楼。
• President Benjamin Stoddert Ewell reopened the college in 1869 with his own money, but it closed again in 1882 for lack of funds, and only in 1888 did the state appropriate 10,000 dollars to support it as a teacher-training institution.校长本杰明·斯托德特·尤厄尔于 1869 年自掏资金复校，但学院因经费匮乏于 1882 年再度关闭；直到 1888 年，州政府才拨款一万美元，支持其作为师范培训机构办学。
• Lyon Gardiner Tyler, son of President John Tyler, became the 17th president in 1888 and expanded the faculty and curriculum, while in 1896 Minnie Braithwaite Jenkins became the first woman to seek admission and was refused.约翰·泰勒总统之子里昂·加德纳·泰勒于 1888 年出任第 17 任校长，扩充了师资与课程；1896 年，米妮·布雷斯韦特·詹金斯成为首位申请入学的女性，但遭拒绝。
• In March 1906 the Virginia General Assembly passed an act taking over the college grounds, and William & Mary has remained publicly supported ever since, becoming in 1918 one of the first Virginia universities to admit women.1906 年 3 月，弗吉尼亚州议会通过法案接管学院校地，该校自此一直由公共财政支持；1918 年，它成为弗吉尼亚最早招收女性的大学之一。
• Enrollment rose from 104 in 1889 to 1,269 by 1932, and in 1926 the rector W. A. R. Goodwin persuaded John D. Rockefeller Jr. to fund the restoration of Williamsburg, which included the Wren Building in 1928-1931.在校生从 1889 年的 104 人增至 1932 年的 1269 人；1926 年，校董 W·A·R·古德温说服小约翰·D·洛克菲勒出资修复威廉斯堡，工程包括 1928 至 1931 年修复雷恩楼。
• The Norfolk Division opened in 1930 and later became Old Dominion University, the Sunken Garden was built in 1935 after a design derived from the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and the college admitted its first Black graduate student in 1951.诺福克分院于 1930 年开办，后来发展为老道明大学；沉园于 1935 年依照切尔西皇家医院的样式建成；1951 年，学院录取了首位黑人研究生。
• The Colleges of William & Mary, a five-campus system, was created in 1960 and dissolved in 1962, leaving Richard Bland College as the only institution still formally associated with the college.1960 年，学院组建了包含五个校区的「威廉与玛丽学院系统」，1962 年该系统解散，仅理查德·布兰德学院仍与本校保持正式隶属关系。
• In 1974 Jay Winston Johns willed Highland, James Monroe's Albemarle County estate, to the college, which restored the house and opened it to the public as a presidential site.1974 年，杰伊·温斯顿·约翰斯将詹姆斯·门罗在阿尔伯马尔县的庄园「高地」遗赠给学院，学院修复宅邸后将其作为总统故居向公众开放。
• Margaret Thatcher became chancellor in 1993, the college's tercentenary, and Robert M. Gates, a 1965 graduate and former defence secretary, succeeded Sandra Day O'Connor as chancellor in 2012.1993 年建校三百周年之际，玛格丽特·撒切尔出任校监；2012 年，1965 届校友、前国防部长罗伯特·M·盖茨接替桑德拉·戴·奥康纳担任校监。
• Katherine A. Rowe became the 28th president in July 2018 and the first woman to lead the college, and in 2020 and 2021 several buildings honouring Confederate figures were renamed after pressure from students and faculty.凯瑟琳·A·罗于 2018 年 7 月出任第 28 任校长，是该校首位女性校长；2020 与 2021 年，在师生推动下，多座以邦联人物命名的建筑被改名。
• A memorial to enslaved people owned and used by the college was dedicated in 2022, and in 2025 the Carnegie classification moved William & Mary into the R1 tier for very high research activity.纪念曾被学院奴役与役使者的纪念碑于 2022 年落成；2025 年，卡内基分类将威廉与玛丽学院列入科研活动极高的 R1 层级。

Academics

• William & Mary comprises six schools, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Raymond A. Mason School of Business, the Batten School of Coastal and Marine Sciences, the School of Computing, Data Sciences and Physics, the School of Education and the Law School.威廉与玛丽学院由六个学院组成，即文理学院、雷蒙德·A·梅森商学院、巴滕海岸与海洋科学学院、计算与数据科学及物理学院、教育学院与法学院。
• Students choose from more than 115 majors, minors and pre-professional programs, and 45 per cent of undergraduates major in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.学生可从 115 个以上的专业、辅修与预科项目中选择，45% 的本科生主修科学、技术、工程或数学。
• The faculty consists of 725 full-time and 190 part-time members, the student-faculty ratio is 11 to 1 and 48 per cent of classes enroll fewer than 20 students.学校有 725 名全职与 190 名兼职教师，生师比为 11 比 1，48% 的课程班级人数少于 20 人。
• Fall 2025 enrollment was 9,597 in total, with 6,951 undergraduates and 2,646 graduate students, and women made up 59 per cent of the student body while 33 per cent were minority students.2025 年秋季全校共有 9597 名学生，其中本科生 6951 人、研究生 2646 人；女性占学生总数的 59%，少数族裔学生占 33%。
• For fall 2024 the college received 17,789 applications, admitted 6,063 for a 34 per cent rate and enrolled 1,614, a yield of 26.6 per cent, with an average high school GPA of 4.4.2024 年秋季，学院收到 17789 份申请，录取 6063 人，录取率 34%，最终入学 1614 人，入学率 26.6%，录取新生平均高中绩点为 4.4。
• The middle 50 per cent of admitted students scored 1400 to 1530 on the SAT and 32 to 34 on the ACT, and U.S. News classes William & Mary as most selective.被录取学生的 SAT 中间区间为 1400 至 1530 分，ACT 为 32 至 34 分；US News 将该校列为「最具选择性」院校。
• Tuition and fees for 2025-26 were 26,456 dollars for Virginia residents and 52,725 dollars for out-of-state students, with room and board set at 16,601 dollars.2025-26 学年，弗吉尼亚州内生学费与杂费为 26456 美元，州外学生为 52725 美元，食宿费为 16601 美元。
• The endowment reached 1.6 billion dollars at the end of fiscal 2025, and the college raised more than 240 million dollars from 33,000 donors, its most successful fundraising year.2025 财年末，学校捐赠基金达 16 亿美元；当年学院从 33000 名捐赠者处筹得 2.4 亿美元以上，为校史最成功的筹款年度。
• William & Mary was designated an R1 research university in 2025, and nearly 85 per cent of undergraduates take part in faculty-mentored research projects before they graduate.威廉与玛丽学院于 2025 年获 R1 研究型大学认定；近 85% 的本科生在毕业前参与教师指导的研究项目。
• The Virginia Institute of Marine Science, founded in 1940 and now the Batten School of Coastal and Marine Sciences, operates a research campus at Gloucester Point on the York River.弗吉尼亚海洋科学研究所成立于 1940 年，现为巴滕海岸与海洋科学学院，在约克河畔的格洛斯特角设有研究校区。
• The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture publishes the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal in early American history, from its base at the college.奥莫洪德罗早期美国历史与文化研究所设于该校，出版早期美国史领域的权威期刊《威廉与玛丽季刊》。
• Students may earn a joint degree in the liberal arts with the University of St Andrews in Scotland or a dual engineering degree with Columbia University through a 3-2 program.学生可与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学联合攻读文理学位，或通过 3-2 项目与哥伦比亚大学联合攻读工程学位。
• The college runs a Washington, D.C. centre for semester programs and internships, and its Reves Center for International Studies coordinates exchange agreements with 15 foreign universities.学院在华盛顿特区设有学期项目与实习中心；其雷维斯国际研究中心协调与 15 所外国大学的交换协议。
• In 2016-17 the college conferred 1,591 bachelor's degrees, 652 master's degrees and 293 doctoral degrees, and it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.2016-17 学年，学院授予 1591 个学士学位、652 个硕士学位与 293 个博士学位；学校获南方院校协会认证。
• Faculty include the first professor of law in the United States, George Wythe, and William Barton Rogers, who taught chemistry at the college before founding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1861.其教师包括美国首位法学教授乔治·威思，以及在 1861 年创办麻省理工学院前曾在本校教授化学的威廉·巴顿·罗杰斯。
• The college's graduation rate is 82 per cent within four years, and the National Science Foundation ranked it first among public institutions for the share of alumni earning doctorates in the humanities in 2022.该校四年毕业率为 82%；2022 年，美国国家科学基金会将其列为公立院校中校友获得人文学科博士学位比例最高的一所。

Campus

• The Williamsburg campus totals about 1,160 acres across its main, Dillard and Law School sites, borders the restored colonial town and includes much woodland, the roughly 47-acre Lake Matoaka and the College Woods preserve.威廉斯堡校区由主校区、迪拉德校区与法学院校区组成，合计约 1160 英亩，与复原的殖民地古镇相邻，包含大片林地、约 47 英亩的马托阿卡湖以及学院森林保护区。
• The Sir Christopher Wren Building, begun in 1695 and rebuilt after fires in 1705, 1859 and 1862, is the oldest academic building in the United States and a National Historic Landmark.克里斯托弗·雷恩爵士楼始建于 1695 年，历经 1705 年与 1859 年火灾后重建，是美国最古老的教学建筑，也是国家历史地标。
• Brafferton of 1723 and the President's House of 1732 flank the Wren Building to form the Ancient Campus, the oldest surviving group of college buildings in the country.1723 年的布拉弗顿楼与 1732 年的校长宅分列雷恩楼两侧，共同构成「古老校区」，是美国现存最古老的学院建筑群。
• The Sunken Garden, built in 1935 west of the Wren Building, borrows its sunken form from the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London and is the central lawn of the Old Campus.沉园建于 1935 年，位于雷恩楼以西，其下沉式形制借鉴伦敦切尔西皇家医院，是「老校区」的中心草坪。
• The Earl Gregg Swem Library anchors the New Campus built between 1950 and 1980, and the Muscarelle Museum of Art holds more than 5,000 works and opened a new home in the Martha Wren Briggs Center in 2025.厄尔·格雷格·斯威姆图书馆是 1950 至 1980 年间建成的「新校区」的核心；马斯卡雷尔艺术博物馆藏有 5000 多件作品，并于 2025 年在玛莎·雷恩·布里格斯中心启用新馆。
• The Arts Quarter drew more than 100,000 visitors in 2025, and the college opened about 1,200 new residential beds in five buildings plus a 50,000-square-foot dining facility through a public-private partnership.艺术区在 2025 年吸引逾十万人次参观；学院通过公私合作，在五栋建筑中新增约 1200 个住宿床位，并建成一座 5 万平方英尺的餐厅。
• The Integrated Science Center, a four-building complex, added its final phase for the School of Computing, Data Sciences and Physics, and the new Arts Quarter includes studio, performance and exhibition space.由四栋建筑组成的综合科学中心已完成最后一期，供计算与数据科学及物理学院使用；新的艺术区则包含工作室、演出与展览空间。
• Williamsburg lies about 150 miles south of Washington and 50 miles east of Richmond, and the campus sits within walking distance of Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and the Yorktown battlefield.威廉斯堡位于华盛顿以南约 150 英里、里士满以东约 50 英里；校园步行可达殖民地威廉斯堡、詹姆斯敦与约克镇战场。
• Undergraduates are not required to live on campus after the first year, but most choose to do so, and all freshman housing is grouped on the New Campus side near the Sunken Garden.本科生在第一学年之后不强制住校，但约 58% 的学生仍选择住在校内；全部新生宿舍集中在沉园附近的新校区一侧。

Reputation

• William & Mary is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval reflecting its small size and its undergraduate-centred research profile.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，威廉与玛丽学院位列 1001-1200 区间，这一并列区间反映了其较小的规模与以本科为中心的研究结构。
• It stood in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, its strongest position among the major global tables for that year.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 801-1000 区间，是当年其在各主要全球榜单中的最好位置。
• U.S. News placed it 1556th in its Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, a ranking weighted toward research volume that disadvantages a college of this size.在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 1556 位；该榜单偏重科研体量，对如此规模的学院并不有利。
• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities placed it in the 801-900 band for 2026, and U.S. News ranked it 52nd among American national universities and 19th among public universities in 2027.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位列 801-900 区间；US News 则在其 2027 年榜单中将其列为全美全国性大学第 52 位、公立大学第 19 位。
• U.S. News rated its undergraduate teaching seventh in the nation in 2027, and Forbes placed it 43rd among American research universities in 2025 while naming it one of the New Ivies.US News 在 2027 年将其本科教学评为全美第 7；福布斯在 2025 年将其列为全美研究型大学第 43 位，并把它列入「新常春藤」名单。
• It is one of the original eight Public Ivies, and the National Science Foundation ranked it first among public institutions in 2022 for the proportion of alumni who earn doctorates in the humanities.该校是最初八所「公立常春藤」之一；2022 年，美国国家科学基金会按校友获得人文学科博士学位的比例，将其列为公立院校第一。
• OpenAlex indexes 36,874 works and 2,129,634 citations for the college, with particular strength in colonial American history, marine science, coastal resilience and condensed-matter physics.OpenAlex 为该校收录 36874 项研究成果与 2129634 次引用，其优势集中在殖民地美国史、海洋科学、海岸韧性与凝聚态物理。
• Alumni include three presidents of the United States, four justices of the Supreme Court, dozens of senators, six Rhodes Scholars and three Marshall Scholars, and the college claims the first honour code and the first Greek-letter society in America.其校友包括三位美国总统、四位最高法院大法官、数十位联邦参议员、六位罗兹学者与三位马歇尔学者；学院还拥有美国首个荣誉守则与首个希腊字母社团。
• It was designated an R1 institution in 2025, and its 1.6 billion dollar endowment and 82 per cent four-year graduation rate place it among the best-resourced small public universities.该校于 2025 年获 R1 认定；16 亿美元的捐赠基金与 82% 的四年毕业率，使其跻身资源最充裕的小型公立大学之列。

Student life

• William & Mary has no official motto, and its best-known institutional song is the alma mater Hark Upon the Gale, sung at Charter Day and at commencement ceremonies.威廉与玛丽学院没有正式校训；其最著名的校歌是《听啊，狂风中的呼唤》，在建校纪念日与毕业典礼上演唱。
• Charter Day falls on 8 February, the date in 1693 when James Blair received the charter at Kensington Palace, and past speakers have included John Tyler, Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher and Robert Gates.建校纪念日为 2 月 8 日，即 1693 年詹姆斯·布莱尔在肯辛顿宫获授特许状之日；历年演讲者包括约翰·泰勒、亨利·基辛格、玛格丽特·撒切尔与罗伯特·盖茨。
• The Yule Log ceremony began with German-born professor Charles Minnigerode in 1842, when he introduced Christmas traditions to his students, and it now features the president reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas.圣诞柴仪式源于 1842 年德国出生的教授查尔斯·明尼格罗德向学生介绍圣诞习俗；如今仪式上由校长朗读《圣诞怪杰》。
• Every entering student recites the Honour Pledge in the Great Hall of the Wren Building, and the student-run Honour Council hears cases of cheating, stealing and lying that can lead to expulsion.每位新生都要在雷恩楼大厅宣读荣誉誓词；由学生运营的荣誉委员会审理作弊、偷窃与说谎案件，最重可处开除。
• About one third of undergraduates join one of 16 national fraternities or 13 sororities, and the flat hat worn at commencement recalls the F.H.C. Society founded in 1750.约三分之一的本科生加入 16 个全国性兄弟会或 13 个姐妹会；毕业典礼上所戴的平顶帽，即纪念 1750 年创立的 F.H.C. 社。
• The Queens' Guard, established on 8 February 1961 as a unit of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps, wears a uniform modelled on the Scots Guards and a Stuart tartan baldric.女王卫队成立于 1961 年 2 月 8 日，原为陆军后备军官训练团的一支分队，其制服仿照苏格兰近卫团，并配斯图亚特格子呢肩带。
• Eleven a cappella groups, among them the Christopher Wren Singers of 1987 and the Gentlemen of the College of 1990, perform throughout the year, and the Sinfonicron Light Opera Company has staged Gilbert and Sullivan since 1965.校内 11 个无伴奏合唱团终年演出，其中包括 1987 年成立的克里斯托弗·雷恩歌手与 1990 年成立的学院绅士；辛福尼康轻歌剧社自 1965 年起排演吉尔伯特与沙利文作品。
• The Flat Hat has been the student newspaper since 1911, WCWM has broadcast since 1959 and WMTV runs the television station, while the underground Triathlon ends with a swim in the Crim Dell pond.《平顶帽报》自 1911 年起为学生报纸，WCWM 电台自 1959 年起播音，WMTV 运营校园电视；地下的「三项赛」传统以在克里姆戴尔池中游泳收尾。
• The Tribe fields 23 varsity teams in NCAA Division I, and from the 2026 season the football team competes in the Patriot League while other sports remain in the Coastal Athletic Association.「部落」拥有 23 支全国大学体育协会一级联赛校队；自 2026 赛季起，橄榄球队参加爱国者联盟，其他项目仍留在海岸体育协会。

Notable people

• James Blair, the founder and first president, secured the 1693 charter, acquired the land and the tobacco duty that financed the college, and led it for half a century until 1743.詹姆斯·布莱尔是创办人与首任校长，争取到 1693 年特许状，并取得供学院运转的土地与烟草税，主持校务半个世纪直至 1743 年。
• Thomas Jefferson attended from 1760 to 1762, later sat on the Board of Visitors and helped design the 1779 reorganisation, and became the third president of the United States in 1801.托马斯·杰斐逊 1760 至 1762 年在此就读，后任校董并参与设计 1779 年的改组，1801 年成为美国第三任总统。
• James Monroe attended from 1774 to 1776, left to fight in the Revolution and became the fifth president of the United States in 1817, and his Highland estate was willed to the college in 1974.詹姆斯·门罗 1774 至 1776 年在此就读，随后投笔从戎参加独立战争，1817 年成为美国第五任总统；其「高地」庄园于 1974 年遗赠给学院。
• John Tyler graduated in 1807 and became the tenth president of the United States in 1841, and his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler later served as the college's 17th president.约翰·泰勒 1807 年毕业，1841 年成为美国第十任总统；其子里昂·加德纳·泰勒后来出任学院第 17 任校长。
• John Marshall attended the college, studied law under George Wythe and served as Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, shaping the doctrine of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison.约翰·马歇尔曾在此就读，师从乔治·威思学习法律，1801 至 1835 年任美国首席大法官，并通过「马伯里诉麦迪逊案」确立了司法审查原则。
• Henry Clay, class of 1797, became Speaker of the House, Secretary of State and the leading architect of the Whig Party and the Missouri Compromise of 1820.亨利·克莱是 1797 届毕业生，后任众议院议长与国务卿，是辉格党的主要缔造者，并推动了 1820 年《密苏里妥协案》。
• George Washington received his surveyor's licence from the college in 1749 although he never enrolled, and he later became its first American chancellor after the Revolution.乔治·华盛顿虽未正式入学，却于 1749 年从学院取得测量师执照，独立战争后成为该校首位美国籍校监。
• George Wythe, who held the first professorship of law in the United States, taught Jefferson, Marshall and Clay, and signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from Virginia in 1776.乔治·威思是美国首位法学教授，教过杰斐逊、马歇尔与克莱，并于 1776 年作为弗吉尼亚代表签署《独立宣言》。
• William Barton Rogers taught chemistry and natural philosophy at the college, where he also studied, and in 1861 he founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and became its first president.威廉·巴顿·罗杰斯曾在此求学并教授化学与自然哲学，1861 年创办麻省理工学院并出任首任校长。
• Robert M. Gates, class of 1965, served as director of central intelligence from 1991 to 1993 and as the 22nd secretary of defence from 2006 to 2011, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 and became chancellor in 2012.罗伯特·M·盖茨是 1965 届校友，1991 至 1993 年任中央情报局局长，2006 至 2011 年任第 22 任国防部长，2011 年获总统自由勋章，2012 年出任校监。
• Warren E. Burger, chancellor from 1986 to 1993, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988, and Sandra Day O'Connor, chancellor from 2005 to 2012, received the same honour in 2009.沃伦·E·伯格于 1986 至 1993 年任校监，1988 年获总统自由勋章；桑德拉·戴·奥康纳于 2005 至 2012 年任校监，2009 年获同一荣誉。
• James Comey, class of 1982, directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2013 to 2017, and Jen Psaki, class of 2000, served as White House press secretary from 2021 to 2022.詹姆斯·科米是 1982 届校友，2013 至 2017 年任联邦调查局局长；珍·普萨基是 2000 届校友，2021 至 2022 年任白宫新闻秘书。
• Jon Stewart, class of 1984, hosted The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015, and Glenn Close, class of 1974, has been nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three Emmy Awards.乔恩·斯图尔特是 1984 届校友，1999 至 2015 年主持《每日秀》；格伦·克洛斯是 1974 届校友，曾八次获奥斯卡提名，并三次获艾美奖。