Erasmus University Rotterdam

Erasmus University Rotterdam (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, abbreviated EUR) is a public research university in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, named after Desiderius Erasmus, the fifteenth-century humanist and theologian of the northern Netherlands, whose reputation the city has carried in the academic world for centuries鹿特丹伊拉斯姆斯大学（Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam，简称 EUR）是位于荷兰鹿特丹的公立研究型大学，学校以 15 世纪尼德兰人文主义思想家与神学家伊拉斯谟命名，鹿特丹正是凭借他在学术世界中的声望延续了几个世纪的荣誉。

The university grew out of a business school founded in 1913 and became a university only in 1973, when the medical faculty established in 1966 was merged into it, making it the first university in the Netherlands named after a person, and it now has 29,499 students, of whom 20,508 are undergraduates and 11,104 are postgraduates学校由 1913 年创办的一所商学院发展而来，直到 1973 年与 1966 年设立的医学院合并后才升格为大学，是荷兰第一所以人名命名的大学；目前学校有学生 29,499 人，其中本科生 20,508 人、研究生 11,104 人。

History

• The institution was founded on 8 November 1913 as the Netherlands School of Commerce (Nederlandsche Handels-Hoogeschool, NHH) through private initiative with broad support from the business community of Rotterdam, at a time when the Netherlands had universities but none of them in the south of the country学校于 1913 年 11 月 8 日以荷兰商学院（Nederlandsche Handels-Hoogeschool，简称 NHH）之名创立，由私人发起并得到鹿特丹商界的广泛支持；当时荷兰虽已有多所大学，但南部尚无。
• The early purpose was practical, training merchants and executives for a port economy rather than preparing scholars, and founding the school in the port city rather than in an ancient university town became in itself a statement about where commerce with Europe was concentrated学校早期宗旨十分务实：为港口经济培养商人与高管，而非造就学者；在港口城市而非古老大学城创立，本身就是对欧洲商业重心的一次宣示。
• In 1937 the school was recognised as a higher educational institute with university status, teaching commerce and economics as academic disciplines, and as a result was renamed the Netherlands School of Economics (Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool, NEH)1937 年，学校被认定具备大学地位的高等教育机构，将商业与经济学作为学术学科教授，并随之更名为荷兰经济学院（Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool，简称 NEH）。
• The growing complexity of society then brought new fields, with the faculties of law and social sciences arriving in the 1960s and philosophy, history, arts and business administration following in later decades, so that a single commercial school gradually became a broad university随着社会结构日趋复杂，学校陆续增设法学院与社会科学学院，其后又有哲学、历史、艺术与工商管理专业加入，一所单纯的商学院由此逐步发展为综合性大学。
• Medicine entered the institution through patient lobbying, as from 1950 the Foundation for Higher Clinical Education worked to establish a full academic medical programme in Rotterdam and eventually persuaded the government to create the Medical Faculty Rotterdam in 1966, housed next to the Dijkzigt Hospital医学学科的进入源于长期争取：自 1950 年起，高等临床教育基金会推动在鹿特丹设立完整的医学本科项目，最终于 1966 年说服政府在狄克兹赫特医院旁设立鹿特丹医学院。
• Together with the Sophia Children's Hospital and the Daniel den Hoed Clinic the medical faculty formed the University Hospital Rotterdam, which from 1 January 2003 has borne the name Erasmus MC, a single complex that today counts as one of the largest medical institutions in western Europe and the foremost medical and trauma centre in the Netherlands该医学院与索菲亚儿童医院、丹尼尔·德·霍德诊所共同组成鹿特丹大学医院，该院自 2003 年 1 月 1 日起更名为 Erasmus MC，如今是西欧最大的医疗机构之一，也是荷兰最重要的医疗与创伤中心。
• The decisive step came in 1973, when the Medical Faculty Rotterdam and the Netherlands School of Economics merged and the institution took its present name, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the first university in the Netherlands to be named after a person rather than after a place, a prince or a saint决定性的一步发生在 1973 年：鹿特丹医学院与荷兰经济学院合并，新机构定名为鹿特丹伊拉斯姆斯大学，成为荷兰第一所以人名而非地名、王爵或圣徒命名的大学。
• The choice of the name was deliberate, since Rotterdam had possessed a printing house of Erasmus and a humanist tradition for centuries, so that the merged university presented itself as the continuation of an older intellectual life and not merely as a modern business institution这一命名是有意为之：鹿特丹拥有伊拉斯谟的印书坊与人文主义传统已有数百年，因此新大学把自己定位为古老学术生命的延续，而不只是现代商业机构。
• After the merger the research profile widened quickly, and the Econometric Institute founded by Jan Tinbergen and Henri Theil in 1956 within the school of economics became one of the leading centres in a field the Netherlands largely invented, together with its teaching tradition in econometrics合并之后学校科研格局迅速拓宽，由丁伯根与蒂尔于 1956 年在经济学院内创立的计量经济学研究所，成为这个主要由荷兰人开创的学科及其计量教学传统的核心机构之一。
• Later decades added the research schools that still structure the university's sciences, among them the cardiovascular research school, the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, the postgraduate school of molecular medicine, the medical genetics centre for the south-west of the Netherlands and the school for autonomous systems research, all built around the medical campus此后几十年增建的研究学院至今仍是学校科学的骨架，包括心血管研究学院、荷兰健康科学研究院、分子医学研究生学院、荷兰西南部医学遗传中心与自主系统研究学院，它们均围绕医学院区布局。
• The management side grew in parallel, with the Rotterdam School of Management joining the faculty list as a separate school and the Erasmus School of Economics and Management becoming the joint home of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management, whose purpose is to bring together leading researchers in business and management管理学科同步扩张，鹿特丹管理学院作为独立学院并入序列，伊拉斯谟经济与管理学院则成为伊拉斯谟管理研究所的共同所在地，该研究所旨在汇聚工商与管理领域的一流研究者。
• A distinctive feature of the Dutch model is shared research institutes, such as the Tinbergen Institute, founded jointly with the universities of Amsterdam and the VU University Amsterdam, and the research school for transport, infrastructure and logistics, run with the Delft technical university, which tie the national research system together across institutional boundaries荷兰模式的一个特点是共建研究机构，例如与阿姆斯特丹大学、阿姆斯特丹自由大学共同创立的丁伯根研究所，以及与代尔夫特理工大学合办的交通基础设施与物流研究院，这类机构把全国科研体系跨校连接起来。
• Internationally the university built a governance school of its own, since the International Institute of Social Studies has been located in the centre of The Hague since 1971, giving the university a second national presence in a city of ministries and parliament rather than only in its own campus city学校在国际层面形成了自己的治理学科，国际社会研究院自 1971 年起设于海牙市中心，使大学在部委与议会所在的政治之都拥有了第二个据点，而不只依托本校所在的校园城市。
• After the merger the student body grew sharply, passing twenty thousand undergraduates and eleven thousand postgraduates in the early 2020s, supported by more than 3,200 academic and 3,100 administrative staff and an annual budget of 859.1 million euro, figures that place the university among the largest in the Netherlands合并后学生规模迅速增长，21 世纪 20 年代初本科生超过 2 万人、研究生超过 1.1 万人，配备学术人员 3,200 余人、行政人员 3,100 余人，年度预算 8.591 亿欧元，各项规模均使学校跻身荷兰最大学校之列。
• The university awarded 2,628 doctorates in 2023 and keeps a central unit for doctoral training, while most doctoral programmes remain concentrated in the research schools and institutes, a structure that holds the graduate curriculum close to the laboratories学校 2023 年授予博士学位 2,628 个，并设有博士培养的中枢机构，而多数博士项目仍集中在各研究学院与研究所，这一结构使研究生课程贴近实验一线。
• A visible sign of consolidation in the city was the new Erasmus MC complex, which opened in 2012 on the Hoboken site and replaced a series of separate clinical buildings that had grown up piecemeal around the old hospital, gathering treatment and research in one complex城市整合的一个明显标志是新建的 Erasmus MC 建筑群，它于 2012 年在霍博肯校区启用，取代了围绕老医院零散建起的一批独立临床楼，把诊疗与研究集中于同一园区。
• The university also developed an environmental profile, with the student organisation GreenEUR launched officially on 9 September 2009 on a designated sustainability day and recognised by the executive board from April 2010 onwards, which turned campus sustainability into a formal line of work rather than a student hobby学校还形成了明确的环境形象：学生组织 GreenEUR 于 2009 年 9 月 9 日「可持续日」正式成立，并自 2010 年 4 月起得到执行董事会认可，校园可持续由此成为正式的工作方向，而非学生业余活动。
• The most recent structural phase has been one of open disagreement about the university's finances and its links to the fossil fuel industry, with occupations and demonstrations in 2022 and 2023 broken up by riot police, a pro-Palestinian tent encampment that lasted from 30 May to 9 June, and in October 2025 an executive board statement condemning a planned demonstration against a professor while affirming that the university offers space for differences of opinion最近一个阶段表现为对学校财务及其与化石燃料行业联系公开争议：2022 至 2023 年间多次占领与示威被防暴警察清场，声援巴勒斯坦的帐篷营地自 5 月 30 日持续到 6 月 9 日；2025 年 10 月，执行董事会声明谴责了一场针对某教授的拟议示威，同时强调学校为不同意见提供空间。
• Looking back, the merger of 1973 solved a problem the commercial school alone could not: it turned a port city's ambition into a medical and economic complex capable of serving a national health system and a global business community at the same time回望 1973 年的合并，它解决了单一商学院无法解决的问题：把一座港口城市的抱负转化为兼具医学与经济实力的复合体，既能服务全国医疗体系，又能对接全球商业社群。
• Financially the university remained a public body, with a budget of 859.1 million euro in 2023, an endowment of 588 million euro and no tuition fees charged to Dutch or international students, and it is headed by the rector Jantine Schuit, who succeeded Annelien Bredenoord在财务上学校始终保持公立机构属性，2023 年预算 8.591 亿欧元、校产捐赠 5.88 亿欧元，对本国与国际学生均不收学费；学校由校长 Jantine Schuit 领导，她接替了 Annelien Bredenoord。

Academics

• The university is organised in seven faculties, two institutes and one liberal arts college, namely Erasmus MC, the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, the Erasmus School of Economics, the Rotterdam School of Management, the Erasmus School of Law, the International Institute of Social Studies, the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, the Erasmus School of Philosophy and the Erasmus University College学校下设七个学院、两个研究所与一个本科院，包括医学与健康科学学院（Erasmus MC）、伊拉斯谟健康政策与管理学院、伊拉斯谟经济学院、鹿特丹管理学院、伊拉斯谟法学院、国际社会研究院、伊拉斯谟社会与行为科学学院、伊拉斯谟历史文化与传播学院、伊拉斯谟哲学院，以及伊拉斯谟大学学院。
• The four concentrations of the university are conventionally described as health, wealth, governance and culture, and each pairs an academic faculty with an institute or a professional school, so that medicine meets health policy, economics meets management, law meets international affairs and history meets philosophy学校的四大板块通常概括为健康、财富、治理与文化，每一板块都由一个学院搭配一个研究所或专业学院，使医学与卫生政策相遇、经济学与企业管理相遇、法学与国际事务相遇、历史与哲学相遇。
• Medicine is the largest domain, since Erasmus MC combines the faculty of medicine and health sciences with the university hospital, and its biomedical cluster works on the role of individual genes in disease, supported by long-running cohort studies such as Erasmus Rotterdam Health for the Elderly and Generation R医学是规模最大的板块，Erasmus MC 把医学院与大学医院合为一体，其生物医学集群研究单个基因在疾病中的作用，并以老年人健康追踪研究（ERGO）与「R 世代」等长期队列研究作为支撑。
• Forensic work gives the medical faculty a national function, since its department of forensic molecular biology cooperates with the Netherlands Forensic Institute, while the institute for medical technology assessment carries out health economic research together with the medical centre and the school of health policy and management法医工作赋予医学院全国性职能，其法医分子生物学系与荷兰法医研究所合作；医学技术评估研究所则与医学中心、卫生政策与管理学院合作开展卫生经济学研究。
• Economics and econometrics are a named strength, with the Erasmus School of Economics rated ninth in Europe and fiftieth in the world in 2018 for economics and econometrics and thirty-seventh in the world for accounting and finance, and the city hosts both the Tinbergen Institute and the Econometric Institute经济学与计量经济学是具名优势领域，2018 年伊拉斯谟经济学院在经济学与计量经济学上位列欧洲第 9、全球第 50，在会计与金融上列全球第 37；这座城市同时坐拥丁伯根研究所与计量经济学研究所。
• The Rotterdam School of Management holds triple accreditation from the three main international bodies, AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB, is consistently placed by the Financial Times among the leading European business schools, and ranked third in the world in 2022 for its international management master's programme鹿特丹管理学院同时取得三大国际认证机构 AMBA、EQUIS 与 AACSB 的认证，被《金融时报》持续列入欧洲顶尖商学院之列，其国际管理硕士项目在 2022 年全球排名中位列第 3。
• Governance is a third strength, with the International Institute of Social Studies teaching international affairs and policy in The Hague to students from many countries, the Erasmus School of Law carrying legal research of national standing, and the Netherlands Institute of Government, the Huizinga Instituut and the N.W. Posthumus Instituut working on public administration, medieval history and labour history治理是第三项优势：国际社会研究院在海牙面向多国学生讲授国际事务与政策，伊拉斯谟法学院的法律研究享誉全国，政府研究院、胡伊曾加研究所与 N. W. 波斯特休斯研究所分别研究公共行政、中世纪史与劳工史。
• Research training is organised through named research schools, among them the research school on public safety, the research school of the rights of the human, the experimental psychological research school, the Kurt Lewin Institute and the Amsterdam School of Social-Public Research, which together cover the social sciences from public administration to psychology研究训练通过一批具名研究院组织，包括公共安全研究院、人权研究院、实验心理研究院、库尔特·勒温研究所与阿姆斯特丹社会公共研究学院，它们共同覆盖从公共行政到心理学的社会科学谱系。
• The university employed 3,207 academic and 3,130 administrative staff in 2023, enrolled 20,508 undergraduates and 11,104 postgraduates, awarded 2,628 doctorates and worked with a budget of 859.1 million euro and an endowment of 588 million euro, figures that sit at the upper end of Dutch higher education2023 年学校有学术人员 3,207 人、行政人员 3,130 人，在校本科生 20,508 人、研究生 11,104 人，授予博士学位 2,628 个，预算 8.591 亿欧元、校产捐赠 5.88 亿欧元，各项数据处于荷兰高等教育的上游水平。
• Teaching at bachelor level is broad and mostly given in Dutch, leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws, but several programmes are taught entirely in English for students aiming at international careers, and in those English programmes at least half of the students come from abroad, from more than eighty countries本科教学覆盖面广、以荷兰语为主，授予文学学士、理学学士与法学学士学位；同时也有若干全英语项目面向有志于国际职业的学生，在这些英语项目中至少一半学生来自海外、来自 80 多个国家。
• At master level the university offers common masters, research masters and post-experience masters, with the professional degrees including the Master of Business Administration, the Master of Financial Management and the Master of Health Management, and it also runs an honours academy whose tracks are chosen by students whose first-year results are well above average硕士层面学校提供普通硕士、研究型硕士与在职后经验硕士，职业型学位包括工商管理硕士、金融管理硕士与健康管理硕士；学校还设有荣誉学院，其项目由一年级成绩显著优异的学生自主选择。
• A distinctive instrument is the interdisciplinary honours programme, whose tracks invite the strongest students of several faculties to investigate the same contemporary scientific or societal question from different disciplinary angles, after which they receive an honours certificate and a letter of recommendation from a dean or from the rector学校一项独特设置是跨学科荣誉计划，其项目邀请各学院最优秀的学生从不同学科视角研究同一个当代科学或社会问题，完成后可获得荣誉证书，并得到院长或校长的推荐信。
• The medical centre itself is ranked among the world's leading clinical institutions, standing forty-fifth worldwide in clinical medicine in the 2020 Times Higher Education rankings, twenty-eighth in the 2020 US News table and fiftieth in the 2019 QS list, and it was named the fifth best medical institution outside the United States in 2004医学中心本身位居世界临床医学机构前列，2020 年泰晤士高等教育排名列全球第 45 位，2020 年《美国新闻与世界报道》列第 28 位，2019 年 QS 列第 50 位；2004 年该中心被评为美国之外最佳的第 5 大医疗机构。
• The alumni show a clear pattern in economics and public life, with a former prime minister, a former United Nations High Commissioner, a former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, a former director-general of the World Trade Organization and a long-serving economic adviser to the government of Singapore all among its graduates, reflecting the Dutch tradition of sending commercial and administrative elites abroad校友在经济与公共生活领域呈现清晰脉络：其中有前荷兰首相、前联合国高级专员、前国际货币基金组织总裁、前世界贸易组织总干事，以及长期担任新加坡政府经济顾问的人物，反映了荷兰把商业与行政精英派往海外的传统。
• The Erasmus name also carries a European dimension, because the exchange programme of the European Union that bears the name of the same humanist has become one of the largest student mobility schemes in the world, so that the university's namesake is now better known among students than among scholars「伊拉斯谟」之名还承载着欧洲维度：以同一位人文主义者命名的欧盟交流计划已成为世界上规模最大的学生流动项目之一，校名的原型如今在学生中的知名度甚至超过在学者之中。
• Governance follows the Dutch statutory model, with an executive board and a supervisory body required by law, a rector drawn from the academic community and an academic and administrative staff that together number more than 6,300 people at a single university with no tuition income from its own students学校治理遵循荷兰法定模式，设执行董事会与法定监督机构，校长由学术共同体推选；全校学术与行政人员合计超过 6,300 人，而学校并不向本校学生收取学费。

Campus

• The university is spread over five locations, four of them in Rotterdam and one in The Hague, and the principal campus at Woudestein, near the district of Kralingen, holds the faculties of economics, management, law, the social and behavioural sciences, history, philosophy and the university college学校分布于五处校址，四处在鹿特丹、一处在海牙；主校区沃德斯坦位于克拉林亨区附近，设有经济、管理、法学、社会与行为科学、历史、哲学等学院以及大学学院。
• The medical campus at Hoboken, near the old Dijkzigt Hospital in the west of the city, is where Erasmus MC and its clinical departments are located, and the new complex opened there in 2012 gathers research and treatment under one roof in a way few European medical campuses match位于城市西部、临近老狄克兹赫特医院的霍博肯校区是医学园区，Erasmus MC 及其临床各科均在此；2012 年启用的新建筑群把科研与诊疗集中于同一屋檐下，其做法在欧洲医学院区中并不多见。
• The third Rotterdam location is in the city centre, where the Erasmus University College teaches its liberal arts and sciences programmes in English, and the fourth lies near Delfshaven, where the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship works with start-ups and small firms鹿特丹的第三处校址位于市中心，伊拉斯谟大学学院在此以英语讲授文科与理科项目；第四处校址靠近代尔夫斯黑芬，伊拉斯谟创业中心在此与初创企业和中小企业合作。
• The fifth location is the International Institute of Social Studies in the centre of The Hague, within walking distance of the ministries and of parliament, and it is the reason the university can be called a university of both Rotterdam and The Hague第五处校址是海牙市中心的国际社会研究院，步行即可到达各部委与议会；正是这处校址，使学校得以被称作同时属于鹿特丹与海牙的双城大学。
• Among the named buildings on the Woudestein campus are the university aula, which hosts the graduation ceremonies of all faculties, the main faculty building that contains the Erasmus School of Economics, and the Alma Mater statue, a work by the sculptor Ger van Iersel沃德斯坦校区的具名建筑包括举行全校各学院毕业典礼的大学礼堂、容纳伊拉斯谟经济学院的主楼，以及雕塑家「Ger van Iersel」创作的「母亲学园」雕像。
• The university library sits at the heart of the campus and serves every faculty, while the medical centre maintains its own library for the clinical departments, so that a student working on a health topic can move between the two collections on the same tram line大学图书馆位于校园中心，服务全部学院；医学中心则为临床各系单独设有图书馆，因此研究健康议题的学生可沿同一条有轨电车线往返两处馆藏。
• Accessibility is shaped by the Dutch transport system, since the Woudestein campus is served directly by metro and railway stations and the network of trams and trains allows students and staff to cross the Randstad without a car, which is why cycling dominates the approach to the campus as well校区的可达性由荷兰交通体系塑造：沃德斯坦校区有地铁与火车站直达，密集的有轨电车与铁路网使师生无需汽车即可穿越整个城市圈，因此骑自行车同样是进出校园的主要方式。
• Unlike many campuses of its size the university does not run a system of residential halls of its own, and housing is instead organised by housing corporations and the private market, which has made the cost of student rooms in Rotterdam a recurring subject of protest by the students' movement与许多同等规模的大学不同，学校并不自办学生宿舍体系，住房由住房公司与私人市场组织，这也使鹿特丹的学生宿舍租金成为学生运动反复抗议的议题。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed 148th in the world with an overall score of 61.9在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，鹿特丹伊拉斯姆斯大学位列世界第 148 位，综合得分 61.9 分。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it 109th, and the US News Best Global Universities ranking of 2026 to 2027 lists it 76th, the three together describing a university at the upper end of the Dutch system but outside its very top tier2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为第 109 位；2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名为第 76 位。三大榜单合并来看，学校处于荷兰高等教育体系上层，但未进入最顶尖一档。
• OpenAlex records 82,063 works and 8,497,247 citations for the institution, a total that reflects the concentration of its research in the medical and economic domains rather than a very broad publication baseOpenAlex 收录该校文献 82,063 篇、总被引 8,497,247 次，这一总量反映出其研究集中于医学与经济两大领域，而非覆盖面极广的发表结构。
• Other global lists place the university in the band between 100 and 150, with a Shanghai ranking position of 101 to 150 in 2024, 111th in the Center for World University Rankings of 2025 and 104th in the Leiden ranking of 2024其他全球榜单则把学校列入 100 至 150 名区间：2024 年上海排名为 101 至 150 名，2025 年世界大学排名中心榜为第 111 位，2024 年莱顿排名为第 104 位。
• Subject rankings show where the international profile really lies, with a global position of 22 in business in the QS subject table of 2025 and 23 in the Times Higher Education table of the same year, 55 in economics in the QS table, 29 in the business school ranking of 2020 and 56 among the master's in business administration of the Financial Times in 2025学科排名显示了其国际声望的真正落点：2025 年 QS 商科学科全球第 22，同年 THE 商科第 23；2025 年 QS 经济学第 55；2020 年商学院排名全球第 29；2025 年《金融时报》硕士项目排名第 56。
• In the health domain the university sits in the second tier of the global tables, with medicine placed in the band 51 to 75 in the 2024 Shanghai subject ranking, health at 52 in the 2025 Times Higher Education table, the life sciences at 83 in the QS table of 2025 and the life sciences in the band 76 to 100 in Shanghai在健康领域学校位居全球榜单的第二梯队：2024 年上海排名医学科位列 51 至 75 名，2025 年 THE 卫生健康学科第 52 位，2025 年 QS 生命科学第 83 位，上海排名生命科学为 76 至 100 名。
• Two Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in economics are attached to the university, Jan Tinbergen, who received the inaugural prize in 1969, and Guido Imbens, who received it in 2021, and the Dutch Spinoza Prize, the highest national award for fundamental research, has gone to three of its academics, Frank Grosveld in 1995, Peter Nijkamp in 1996 and Jan Hoeijmakers in 1998与该校相关的诺贝尔经济学奖得主有两位：1969 年首届得主丁伯根，以及 2021 年得主圭多·因贝斯；此外，荷兰最高的基础研究奖项斯宾诺莎奖也有三位校内学者获得，分别是 1995 年的弗兰克·赫罗兹费尔德、1996 年的彼得·尼坎普与 1998 年的扬·霍伊马克斯。
• The university's standing in the wider world is also carried by its medical work, with the Erasmus MC counted among the largest medical centres in Europe and its research clusters drawing visiting fellows and doctoral students from dozens of countries, while its business school operates as one of the three centres of European case-based teaching学校在国际上的声望也由医学工作支撑，Erasmus MC 位居欧洲最大医疗中心之列，其研究集群常年吸引数十个国家的访问学者与博士生；其商学院则是欧洲案例教学的三大中心之一。
• Rankings alone do not settle the university's position, since it sits among a small group of Dutch institutions with a professional profile built on two pillars, a medical centre of national standing and a business and economics complex with an international orientation, which explains both its high subject scores and its more moderate overall position单看排名并不能确定学校的定位：它属于荷兰一小批以两根支柱构建专业声望的高校之列——一所有全国地位的医学中心与一个具有国际取向的经济管理集群，这既解释了它的高学科分数，也解释了它相对温和的综合排名。

Student life

• The motto of the university is Making Minds Matter and Creating a Force for Positive Change, usually shortened to Making Minds Matter, which expresses an ambition to connect research with the practical problems of the city and its port学校校训为「Making Minds Matter and Creating a Force for Positive Change」，通常简作「Making Minds Matter」，表达了把研究连到城市与港口实际问题的志向。
• Students run a dense association life, including FAECTOR with its econometric career days, the Erasmus debating society, which is the oldest in the Netherlands, STAR with its management week, AEclipse for master's students of economics, In Duplo for double degree students, the Erasmus Consultancy Project, Investment Week and its symposium, and the International Students Rotterdam society学生的社团生活十分密集，包括举办计量经济学职业日的 FAECTOR、荷兰历史最悠久的伊拉斯谟辩论社、举办管理周的 STAR、面向经济学硕士生的 AEclipse、面向双学位学生的 In Duplo、伊拉斯谟咨询项目、投资周及其研讨会，以及服务全体国际学生的国际学生鹿特丹社团。
• Student media include the Erasmus Magazine of the university, while a separate paper is published for the campuses abroad, and the entrepreneurial associations organise practical projects in which students advise small companies, which is why consultancy and investment weeks recur in the academic calendar学生媒体包括校内的《Erasmus Magazine》，另有面向海外校区发行的报刊；创业类社团则组织学生为中小企业提供咨询的实践项目，因此咨询周与投资周成为学年日历上的常设项目。
• Student activism has been part of the recent campus life, with occupations and demonstrations over the fossil fuel question in 2022 and 2023, a tent encampment that stood from 30 May to 9 June during the wave of pro-Palestinian protests and required the threat of police intervention to end, and a further planned demonstration in October 2025学生行动是近年校园生活的一部分：2022 至 2023 年围绕化石燃料问题发生占领与示威，声援巴勒斯坦抗议浪潮中的帐篷营地自 5 月 30 日坚持到 6 月 9 日、需要警方干预威胁才结束，2025 年 10 月又出现一场拟议中的示威。
• Housing is the sharpest everyday issue for students, since the university operates no halls of its own and the rents commanded in Rotterdam by the private market have repeatedly been the subject of organised campaigns by student groups, who have also organised against the costs of meals and transport住房是学生最尖锐的日常议题，学校不自办宿舍，鹿特丹私人市场收取的租金屡次引发学生团体的有组织抗争，与餐饮和交通成本的抗争也同时进行。
• Daily life on the campuses is shaped by the way the Dutch network works, with the metro and railway stations at the edge of the Woudestein campus, trams connecting the other locations, and cycling the usual way in, which is why the campus calendar is organised around the academic year rather than around a residential term with its own traditions各校区的日常生活由荷兰的交通网络塑造：沃德斯坦校区旁有地铁与火车站，有轨电车连接其他校址，骑车是通常的到校方式；因此校历围绕学年而非具有自身传统的住宿学期来组织。
• International students are a central part of that life, with students of the university coming from more than eighty countries, at least half of the students in the English language bachelor programmes being from abroad, and the Erasmus exchange scheme giving students the chance to spend a year at a partner institution anywhere in Europe国际学生是这种生活的核心：学校学生来自 80 多个国家，全英语本科项目中至少一半学生来自海外，而伊拉斯谟交流计划则让学生有机会在欧洲任一合作院校度过一年。

Notable people

• The institution was created by the business community of Rotterdam, which in 1913 put up the money for a commercial school in a country whose prosperity depended on that port, and it was named for Desiderius Erasmus, the humanist whose printing house had worked in the city in the sixteenth century and who was born nearby学校由鹿特丹商界于 1913 年出资创办，当时荷兰的繁荣正系于这座港口；校名取自人文主义者伊拉斯谟，其十六世纪印书坊曾在此运作，出生地也在附近。
• Jan Tinbergen and Henri Theil founded the Econometric Institute in 1956 inside the school of economics and founded the discipline's Dutch school with it, and Tinbergen received the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969 while Theil succeeded him at the institute丁伯根与蒂尔于 1956 年在经济学院内共同创立计量经济学研究所，并由此开创了该学科的荷兰学派；丁伯根于 1969 年获首届诺贝尔经济学奖，蒂尔则接替他在研究所的职位。
• Guido Imbens, an economist who studied at the university, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2021 for his work on quasi-experimental methods, which gave the university a second economics laureate less than sixty years after the first在该校求学的经济学家圭多·因贝斯因准实验方法方面的研究，获 2021 年诺贝尔经济学奖；距首位得主丁伯根获奖不到六十年，学校由此拥有第二位经济学奖得主。
• Three academics received the Spinoza Prize, the highest Dutch award for fundamental research, with Frank Grosveld in 1995 for molecular genetics, Peter Nijkamp in 1996 for regional economics and Jan Hoeijmakers in 1998 for DNA repair research三位校内学者获得荷兰最高基础研究奖项斯宾诺莎奖：1995 年的弗兰克·赫罗兹费尔德（分子遗传学）、1996 年的彼得·尼坎普（区域经济学）与 1998 年的扬·霍伊马克斯（DNA 修复研究）。
• The university's scientists include the medical engineer Klaas Bom, who invented the portable ultrasound scanner, the virologist Albert Osterhaus, who headed the national influenza centre and the world reference centre for measles of the world health organization, the chemist Michael Braungart, who holds the cradle to cradle chair, and the computer scientist Eelco van Asperen校内科学家包括发明便携式超声扫描仪的医学工程师克劳斯·邦，国家流感中心与世界卫生组织麻疹参比实验室负责人、病毒学家阿尔伯特·奥斯特豪斯，主持「从摇篮到摇篮」讲席的化学家迈克尔·布劳恩加特，以及计算机科学家埃尔科·范·阿斯佩伦。
• In philosophy and social science the university counts Luce Irigaray, the feminist theorist, and Gerrit van Poelje, who founded the discipline of public administration in the Netherlands, and it is home to a research school of ethics and to the Amsterdam School of Social-Public Research在哲学与社会科学领域，学校拥有女性主义理论家露斯·伊里加瑞，以及荷兰公共行政学科的奠基人赫里特·范·普勒耶；学校还设有伦理学研究院与阿姆斯特丹社会公共研究学院。
• Politically the university educated Ruud Lubbers, prime minister of the Netherlands and later United Nations High Commissioner, and Jan Peter Balkenende, prime minister from 2002 to 2006, as well as the economist and politician Pim Fortuyn, who taught at the university政界方面，学校培养了荷兰首相、后来的联合国高级专员吕德·吕伯斯，2002 至 2006 年出任首相的扬·彼得·巴尔肯内德，以及曾在校任教的经济学家与政治家皮姆·福廷。
• Economists of the university held some of the most senior posts in international institutions, with Johan Witteveen as managing director of the International Monetary Fund from 1973 to 1978 and first chairman of the Group of Thirty, Supachai Panitchpakdi as director-general of the world trade organization from 2002 to 2005, and Albert Winsemius as a long-serving economic adviser to the government of Singapore该校的经济学家曾担任国际组织最高职务：约翰·维特芬于 1973 至 1978 年任国际货币基金组织总裁、并在之后出任三十国集团首任主席；素帕奇·帕尼奇帕克迪于 2002 至 2005 年任世界贸易组织总干事；阿尔贝特·温瑟缪斯则长期担任新加坡政府经济顾问。
• Among its graduates from outside Europe are Mohammad Hatta, who proclaimed the independence of Indonesia and served as its first vice-president and prime minister, Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia, and Kwik Kian Gie, the Indonesian economist who coordinated the economic portfolio of his government欧洲以外的校友中，有宣布印度尼西亚独立并出任首任副总统与总理的穆罕默德·哈达、埃塞俄比亚总理梅莱斯·泽纳维，以及曾任印尼政府经济统筹部长、经济学家黄奕显。
• Business leaders from the university include the chief executives of several of the largest Dutch firms, Frans van Houten at Philips, Joop Bakker at Aegon and Frans Muller at Ahold Delhaize, together with Jeroen van der Veer, chairman of Philips and former chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, Feike Sijbesma at DSM and Kees Storm as chairman of AB InBev企业界校友包括荷兰多家大公司的首席执行官，如飞利浦的弗兰斯·范·豪滕、荷兰全球保险集团的约普·巴克，以及阿荷德戴哈泽集团的弗兰斯·穆勒；此外还有飞利浦董事长、曾任荷兰皇家壳牌首席执行官耶罗恩·范德费尔，帝斯曼的费克·塞杰斯玛，以及百威英博董事长基斯·斯托姆。