Edinburgh Napier University

Edinburgh Napier University, whose Scottish Gaelic title reads Oilthigh Napier Dhùn Èideann, is a public university in Edinburgh, Scotland, whose predecessor Napier Technical College was founded in 1964 and named after the sixteenth-century Scottish mathematician and philosopher John Napier.爱丁堡龙比亚大学的苏格兰盖尔语校名为 Oilthigh Napier Dhùn Èideann,是苏格兰爱丁堡的一所公立大学,其前身龙比亚技术学院创办于 1964 年,以十六世纪苏格兰数学家兼哲学家约翰·纳皮尔命名。

The college was inaugurated as a university in 1992 by Lord Douglas-Hamilton, took the name Napier University, and was renamed Edinburgh Napier University in 2009, by which time it was based around the three main Edinburgh campuses of Merchiston, Craiglockhart and Sighthill.该学院于 1992 年由道格拉斯-汉密尔顿勋爵揭幕升格为大学,初名龙比亚大学,2009 年改现名,其时已围绕默奇斯顿、克雷格洛克哈特与锡斯希尔三处爱丁堡主校区办学。

Its student body exceeds 21,000 across Scotland and transnational programmes, and the university is placed in the 801-850 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, in the 601-650 band of the Times Higher Education table of the same year and at 912 in the US News list for 2026-2027.该校含苏格兰本土与跨国课程学生在读逾 21000 人,在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名列第 801-850 位,同年泰晤士高等教育榜列第 601-650 位,2026-2027 年度 US News 榜列第 912 位。

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