Fordham University

Fordham University is a private Jesuit research university in New York City, United States, established in 1841 and named after the Fordham neighbourhood of the Bronx where its original campus stands.福特汉姆大学（Fordham University）是位于美国纽约市的私立耶稣会研究型大学，创办于 1841 年，以原校区所在的布朗克斯福特汉姆街区命名。

It is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the north-eastern United States and the third-oldest university in New York City, founded as St. John's College by Bishop John Hughes.它是美国东北部最古老的天主教与耶稣会大学，也是纽约市第三古老的大学，由主教约翰·休斯创办，初名圣约翰学院。

Fordham enrols over 16,000 students across ten constituent colleges on three campuses in southern New York State, making it the sixth-largest Catholic university in the United States by enrolment.该校在纽约州南部的三个校区、十个组成学院中招有 16,000 余名学生，按招生规模为美国第六大天主教大学。

History

• Fordham was founded as St. John's College in 1841 by the Irish-born John Hughes, then coadjutor bishop and later archbishop of the Diocese of New York.福特汉姆于 1841 年由爱尔兰裔的约翰·休斯创办，初名圣约翰学院，时任纽约教区助理主教、后升任大主教。

• In 1839 Hughes bought the 106-acre Rose Hill Manor farm in the village of Fordham for $29,750, intending to establish a seminary on the model of Mount Saint Mary's University.1839 年休斯以 29,750 美元购下福特汉姆村 106 英亩的玫瑰山庄园农场，打算仿照圣玛丽山大学建立一所神学院。

• The name Rose Hill was given to the site in 1787 by its owner Robert Watts, a wealthy New York merchant, after his family's ancestral home in Scotland.「玫瑰山」之名由地主罗伯特·沃茨于 1787 年所取，这位富有的纽约商人以此纪念其家族在苏格兰的祖居。

• St. Joseph's Seminary opened at Rose Hill in 1840, and St. John's College followed on 24 June 1841, the feast day of Saint John the Baptist, with a student body of six.圣若瑟神学院 1840 年在玫瑰山开办，圣约翰学院则于 1841 年 6 月 24 日施洗者圣约翰瞻礼日开学，首批学生仅六人。

• John McCloskey, later archbishop of New York and the first American cardinal, served as the college's first president, and the early faculty were secular priests and lay instructors.约翰·麦克洛斯基出任该校首任校长，他后来任纽约大主教并成为首位美国枢机；早期教师多为在俗神父与平信徒讲师。

• In 1845 the seminary church of Our Lady of Mercy was built, and Hughes persuaded Jesuit priests from St. Mary's College in Kentucky to staff St. John's.1845 年建起神学院教堂「慈悲圣母堂」，休斯又说服肯塔基州圣玛丽学院的耶稣会神父来圣约翰任教。

• The college received its charter from the New York State Legislature in 1846, and Hughes sold St. John's to the Jesuits for $40,000 in the same year.学院于 1846 年取得纽约州议会颁发的特许状，同年休斯以 40,000 美元把圣约翰学院售予耶稣会。

• In 1847 Fordham's first school in Manhattan opened, becoming the independently chartered College of St. Francis Xavier in 1861.1847 年该校在曼哈顿的第一所学校开办，1861 年成为独立特许的圣方济各沙勿略学院。

• It was also in 1847 that the poet Edgar Allan Poe arrived in the village of Fordham and began a lifelong friendship with the college Jesuits, publishing The Bells in 1849.同在 1847 年，诗人埃德加·爱伦·坡来到福特汉姆村，与该校耶稣会士结成终生友谊，并于 1849 年发表《钟声》。

• The college's baseball team played its first game on 13 September 1859 and on 3 November 1859 contested the first college baseball game with modern nine-man teams, beating St. Francis Xavier 33-11.该校棒球队于 1859 年 9 月 13 日进行首场比赛，又于 1859 年 11 月 3 日进行了现代九人制大学棒球史上首场比赛，以 33 比 11 击败圣方济各沙勿略学院。

• From 1885 to 1890 Lieutenant Herbert C. Squires, a veteran of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, built a cadet battalion of 200 that became the foundation of Fordham's modern ROTC unit.1885 至 1890 年，第七美国骑兵团老兵赫伯特·C·斯奎尔斯中尉把学员营扩至 200 人，成为福特汉姆现代后备军官训练团的基础。

• A science building was built in 1886 and a three-year Bachelor of Science degree created, while academic regalia for students at commencement was first adopted in 1897.1886 年建成理科楼并设立三年制理学士学位，1897 年又首次在毕业典礼上采用学位服。

• On 7 March 1907 St. John's College officially became Fordham University, taking its name from the village that in turn drew it from a shallow crossing of the Bronx River.1907 年 3 月 7 日圣约翰学院正式更名为福特汉姆大学，其名取自该村，而村名又源于布朗克斯河一处浅滩渡口。

• Fordham University Press was established in 1908, and the College of Pharmacy opened in 1912, with the psychiatrist Carl Jung lecturing at Fordham in September 1912.福特汉姆大学出版社创办于 1908 年，药学院于 1912 年开办，精神病学家卡尔·荣格亦于 1912 年 9 月在福特汉姆讲学。

• The university closed its medical school in 1919, citing a lack of endowment and reduced funds after the First World War, and the Gabelli School of Business began in 1920 as the School of Accounting.该校 1919 年因捐赠不足与一战后经费削减而关闭医学院，加贝利商学院则于 1920 年以会计学院之名开办。

• The School of Professional and Continuing Studies was established in 1944, largely to serve returning veterans taking advantage of the GI Bill.专业与继续教育学院于 1944 年成立，主要服务于依据《退伍军人法案》返校的退伍军人。

• The football programme was established in 1882 and produced the famed Seven Blocks of Granite, one of whom was the legendary coach Vince Lombardi.橄榄球项目始于 1882 年，催生了著名的「花岗岩七块石」锋线，其中一人即传奇教练文斯·隆巴迪。

• On 30 September 1939 Fordham took part in one of the first televised college football games, defeating Waynesburg College 34-7, and in 1940 played in the first televised college basketball game.1939 年 9 月 30 日福特汉姆参加了最早一批电视转播的大学橄榄球赛，以 34 比 7 击败韦恩斯堡学院，1940 年又参加了首场电视转播的大学篮球赛。

• In 1961 the Lincoln Center campus opened as part of the Lincoln Square Renewal Project, a collaboration between city planner Robert Moses and university president Laurence J. McGinley.1961 年林肯中心校区作为林肯广场改造项目的一部分启用，该项目由城市规划者罗伯特·摩西与校长劳伦斯·J·麦金利共同推动。

• The all-female Thomas More College began instruction at Rose Hill in September 1964, and in 1969 the board of trustees was reorganised with a majority of nonclerical members, making Fordham an independent institution.全女生的托马斯·莫尔学院 1964 年 9 月在玫瑰山开课；1969 年校董会改组为多数非神职成员，使福特汉姆成为独立机构。

• Marymount College was consolidated into Fordham in July 2002, its final undergraduate class graduated in May 2007, and in February 2008 the campus was sold for $27 million to the EF school chain.玛丽蒙特学院 2002 年 7 月并入福特汉姆，其最后一届本科生 2007 年 5 月毕业，2008 年 2 月该校园以 2,700 万美元售予英孚教育连锁。

• In 2014 the university completed a five-year 500 million campaign that raised more than540 million, and opened a renovated Law School building and the McKeon Hall dormitory.2014 年该校完成为期五年、目标 5 亿美元的筹款活动，实筹逾 5.4 亿美元，并启用翻新的法学院大楼与麦基恩宿舍楼。

Academics

• Fordham is composed of four undergraduate and six graduate schools, and its academic ethos draws on the Jesuit principles of cura personalis, magis and homines pro aliis.福特汉姆由四个本科学院与六个研究生院组成，其学术精神源于耶稣会的「关怀个人」「追求卓越」与「为他人之人」等理念。

• All undergraduates pursuing bachelor's degrees complete a Core curriculum of 17 courses in nine disciplines, from English and philosophy to natural science and modern or Classical languages.所有攻读学士学位的本科生都须完成涵盖九个学科、共 17 门课程的「核心课程」，从英语、哲学到自然科学与现代或古典语言。

• Upon completing the Core, students choose from about 50 major courses of study, including a personalised interdisciplinary major that lets them design their own course of study.完成核心课程后，学生可从约 50 个主修方向中选择，其中包括允许自设课程组合的个性化跨学科主修。

• Through its International and Study Abroad Programs office the university offers more than 130 study-abroad opportunities lasting from six weeks to a full academic year.该校通过国际与海外学习项目办公室提供 130 多个海外学习机会，时长从六周到整个学年不等。

• Some programmes are run by Fordham itself in London, Granada and Pretoria, while others operate through partners such as Georgetown University, the University of Oxford and the Council on International Educational Exchange.部分项目由福特汉姆在伦敦、格拉纳达与比勒陀利亚自行运营，其他则通过乔治城大学、牛津大学与国际教育交流委员会等伙伴开展。

• Fordham has produced 168 Fulbright scholars since 2003.自 2003 年以来，该校已培养出 168 名富布赖特学者。

• Fordham is classified among R2 doctoral universities with high research activity, and its library system contains over 2.5 million volumes and 3.1 million microforms.福特汉姆被归入 R2 级博士大学（研究活动高），其图书馆系统藏有逾 250 万册图书与 310 万件缩微资料。

• The library subscribes to 16,000 periodicals, holds 19,300 audiovisual items and is a depository for 363,227 United States Government documents.其图书馆订阅 16,000 种期刊，藏有 19,300 件音像资料，并受托保存 363,227 份美国政府文件。

• The William D. Walsh Family Library was ranked the fifth-best collegiate library in the country in 2004, and the Gerald M. Quinn Library serves the Lincoln Center campus.威廉·D·沃尔什家族图书馆 2004 年被评为全美第五佳高校图书馆，杰拉尔德·M·奎恩图书馆则服务于林肯中心校区。

• The Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art holds more than 200 artefacts from Classical antiquity, the largest collection of its kind in the New York metropolitan area.福特汉姆希腊、伊特鲁里亚与罗马艺术博物馆藏有 200 余件古典时期文物，是纽约都会区同类收藏中规模最大者。

• The Louis Calder Center is a 114-acre biological field station and the middle site on an urban-forest transect known as the Urban-Rural Gradient Experiment.路易斯·考尔德中心是一处 114 英亩的生物学野外站，也是「城乡梯度实验」这条城市森林样带上居中一站。

• Fordham University Press, affiliated with Oxford University Press, publishes chiefly in the humanities and social sciences, and the university hosts an annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.隶属牛津大学出版社的福特汉姆大学出版社主要出版人文与社会科学著作，该校每年举办本科生研究研讨会。

• Admissions are selective: for the undergraduate class entering in 2019, Fordham accepted 20,366 of 42,811 applicants, or 47.6 per cent, and enrolled 2,211.其录取具有选择性：2019 年入学的本科班中，福特汉姆从 42,811 名申请者中录取 20,366 人，录取率 47.6%，实际报到 2,211 人。

• Enrolled freshmen in that class had a middle 50 per cent SAT range of 580-670 in critical reading, an ACT composite of 28-33 and an average high-school grade point average of 3.64.该届录取新生的批判性阅读 SAT 中间五十分位区间为 580-670 分，ACT 综合分 28-33，高中平均绩点为 3.64。

• Specialised undergraduate offerings include a 3-2 engineering programme with Columbia and Case Western Reserve universities and a BFA in dance run with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.其特色本科项目包括与哥伦比亚大学及凯斯西储大学合办的 3-2 工程项目，以及与阿尔文·艾利美国舞蹈剧院合办的舞蹈艺术学士项目。

• The Fordham Military Science programme trains students in the Yankee Battalion of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps and is open to students at more than fifty other colleges in the New York area.福特汉姆军事科学项目在陆军后备军官训练团「北方营」中训练学生，并向纽约地区五十余所其他高校的学生开放。

Campus

• Fordham has three main campuses in and around New York City: Rose Hill in the Bronx, Lincoln Center in Manhattan and Westchester in West Harrison, New York.福特汉姆在纽约市内及周边有三处主要校区：布朗克斯的玫瑰山、曼哈顿的林肯中心以及纽约州西哈里森的韦斯特切斯特。

• The 85-acre Rose Hill campus in the central Bronx is among the largest privately owned green spaces in New York City and lies next to the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden.位于布朗克斯中部的玫瑰山校区占地 85 英亩，是纽约市最大的私人绿地之一，紧邻布朗克斯动物园与纽约植物园。

• Rose Hill is largely built of nineteenth-century Collegiate Gothic architecture, with cobblestone streets and ivy-covered buildings, and has eleven residence halls plus two Jesuit residences.玫瑰山校区以十九世纪学院哥特式建筑为主，鹅卵石街道与爬满常春藤的楼宇相间，设有十一栋宿舍以及两处耶稣会士住所。

• The University Church at Rose Hill was built in 1845 as a seminary chapel and parish church and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.玫瑰山的大学教堂建于 1845 年，原为神学院礼拜堂与教区教堂，已列入美国国家史迹名录。

• The campus holds a 138-plot cemetery where the university's nineteenth-century Jesuits, seminarians, students and workers are buried, relocated in 1890 from the site of today's Botanical Garden.校区内有一片 138 个墓位的墓地，安葬该校十九世纪的耶稣会士、修生、学生与职工，1890 年自今日植物园所在之处迁来。

• The 8-acre Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan runs from West 60th to West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, placing it in the cultural heart of the city.曼哈顿的林肯中心校区占地 8 英亩，介于西 60 街至西 62 街、哥伦布大道与阿姆斯特丹大道之间，处于城市的文化中心。

• Lincoln Center houses Fordham College at Lincoln Center, the School of Law, the graduate schools of education and social service, and the Gabelli School of Business.林肯中心校区设有福特汉姆林肯中心学院、法学院、教育与社服研究生院以及加贝利商学院。

• The Westchester campus in West Harrison comprises a three-storey building on a 32-acre landscaped site with a stream and pond, and was renovated for more than $8 million in 2008.位于西哈里森的韦斯特切斯特校区为一栋三层建筑，坐落在带溪流与池塘的 32 英亩园林地块上，2008 年耗资逾 800 万美元翻新。

• Outside New York the university operates the Louis Calder Center field station in Armonk, a London Centre opened in Clerkenwell in October 2018, and field offices in Granada and Pretoria.在纽约之外，该校运营阿蒙克的考尔德中心野外站、2018 年 10 月在伦敦克勒肯维尔启用的伦敦中心，以及在格拉纳达与比勒陀利亚的办事处。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Fordham University is placed in the 1001-1200 band, a shared range rather than a single position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，福特汉姆大学位列第 1001-1200 位区间，与同档多所高校并列而非单一席位。

• It does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking Fordham stands at number 1332 worldwide, and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 801-900 band.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，福特汉姆位列全球第 1332 位；软科 2026 年世界大学学术排名则将其列入第 801-900 位区间。

• OpenAlex attributes 32,714 scholarly works and 843,417 citations to the university.OpenAlex 收录该校署名的学术成果 32,714 项、被引 843,417 次。

• For 2025 U.S. News & World Report tied Fordham at 91st in Best National Universities, tied at 40th for Best Undergraduate Teaching and 73rd in Top Value Schools.《美国新闻与世界报道》2025 年版把福特汉姆列为全美最佳综合性大学并列第 91 位、最佳本科教学并列第 40 位、最具价值学校第 73 位。

• Forbes ranked Fordham 141st among Top Colleges in 2019, and Kiplinger placed it 62nd of 100 Best Values in Private Universities in 2018.《福布斯》2019 年把福特汉姆列为全美顶尖大学第 141 位，《吉普林》2018 年则将其列于百所最具价值私立大学第 62 位。

• UniRanking listed Fordham fifth among the top Catholic universities in the world and fourth among United States schools for 2021.UniRanking 在 2021 年把福特汉姆列为全球顶尖天主教大学第五位、全美高校第四位。

• In 2021 U.S. News tied the AACSB-accredited Gabelli School of Business at tenth in Undergraduate International Business, and in 2022 Poets and Quants ranked it first for corporate social and environmental responsibility.2021 年《美国新闻与世界报道》把获 AACSB 认证的加贝利商学院列为本科国际商务并列第十位，2022 年「Poets and Quants」又将其企业社会与环境责任列全美第一。

• The Fordham Law School was ranked 27th in U.S. News & World Report's 2020 list of America's Best Law Schools.福特汉姆法学院在《美国新闻与世界报道》2020 年「全美最佳法学院」榜单中位列第 27 位。

Student life

• Fordham's motto is the Latin "Sapientia et Doctrina", meaning "Wisdom and Learning", and both appear on the university's seal.该校校训为拉丁语「Sapientia et Doctrina」，意为「智慧与学识」，二者均见于校徽之上。

• Student organisations number over 130 at the Rose Hill campus and 50 at Lincoln Center.玫瑰山校区有 130 多个学生组织，林肯中心校区有 50 个。

• The Mimes and Mummers, founded in 1855 as the Saint John's Dramatic Society, is the oldest entirely student-run club at Fordham and among the oldest college theatre groups in the United States.哑剧与戏子社 1855 年以圣约翰戏剧社之名成立，是福特汉姆历史最久的完全由学生运营的社团，也是美国最古老的大学剧团之一。

• WFUV, the university's 50,000-watt radio station on 90.7 FM, was founded in 1947, serves about 350,000 weekly listeners and is a National Public Radio affiliate.该校 50,000 瓦的 WFUV 电台（90.7 FM）创办于 1947 年，每周服务约 35 万名听众，并与美国国家公共广播电台挂钩。

• In 2017 The Princeton Review ranked WFUV the second-best college radio station in the United States.2017 年《普林斯顿评论》把 WFUV 列为全美第二佳的大学电台。

• Student publications include The Fordham Ram, the university's official journal of record, The Observer for the Lincoln Center campus, and the Fordham Political Review.学生出版物包括该校的正式记录刊物《福特汉姆公羊》、面向林肯中心校区的《观察家》以及《福特汉姆政治评论》。

• Fordham traditions include the autumn President's Ball, the Winter Ball, the "Under the Tent" dance before final exams, the Festival of Lessons and Carols and a midnight breakfast each semester.福特汉姆的传统活动包括秋季的校长舞会、冬季舞会、期末考前在帐篷下举行的「帐下舞会」、九课与颂歌节以及每学期的午夜早餐。

• Its athletic teams are the Rams, wearing maroon and white, and among the symbols is the Victory Bell, the ship's bell of the Japanese aircraft carrier Junyo, first rung on campus by President Harry S. Truman on 11 May 1946.其运动队名为「公羊」，着栗红与白色队服；其象征物之一是胜利之钟，为日本航母「隼鹰」号的舰钟，1946 年 5 月 11 日由总统哈里·S·杜鲁门在校园首次敲响。

Notable people

• John Hughes, the Irish-born coadjutor bishop of New York, founded St. John's College in 1841, the institution that became Fordham University.爱尔兰裔的纽约助理主教约翰·休斯于 1841 年创办圣约翰学院，即后来的福特汉姆大学。

• John McCloskey, the college's first president, later became archbishop of New York and the first American cardinal.该校首任校长约翰·麦克洛斯基后来出任纽约大主教，并成为首位美国枢机。

• Vince Lombardi, the legendary Green Bay Packers coach, was a member of Fordham's 1936 "Seven Blocks of Granite" offensive line.传奇绿湾包装工队教练文斯·隆巴迪是福特汉姆 1936 年「花岗岩七块石」锋线的一员。

• Colin Powell, former United States Secretary of State, trained through Fordham's Military Science programme, as did four-star General John M. Keane.美国前国务卿科林·鲍威尔经由福特汉姆军事科学项目受训，四星上将约翰·M·基恩亦然。

• Geraldine Ferraro, who attended Fordham, became the first female vice-presidential candidate of a major United States political party in 1984.曾就读福特汉姆的杰拉尔丁·费拉罗于 1984 年成为美国主要政党首位女性副总统候选人。

• Andrew Cuomo, former governor of New York State, is an alumnus, as was Martin H. Glynn, the 40th governor of New York and the first Catholic to hold the office.纽约州前州长安德鲁·科莫是该校校友，纽约州第 40 任州长、首位出任该职的天主教徒马丁·H·格林亦然。

• Donald Trump, later president of the United States, attended Fordham for two years and studied economics before leaving in 1966 for the University of Pennsylvania.后来的美国总统唐纳德·特朗普曾在福特汉姆就读两年并学习经济学，1966 年转学至宾夕法尼亚大学。

• William J. Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1981 to 1987, and John O. Brennan, who held the same post from 2013 to 2017, are among its alumni.1981 至 1987 年任中央情报局局长威廉·J·凯西与 2013 至 2017 年任同一职务的约翰·O·布伦南均为该校校友。

• Denzel Washington, a two-time Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe-winning actor, graduated from Fordham.两度获奥斯卡奖与金球奖的演员丹泽尔·华盛顿毕业于福特汉姆。

• Alan Alda, a six-time Emmy and six-time Golden Globe-winning actor, and the novelist Don DeLillo are also alumni, as is the suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark.六度获艾美奖与金球奖的演员艾伦·阿尔达、小说家唐·德里罗以及悬疑作家玛丽·希金斯·克拉克亦为该校校友。

• The singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey studied at Fordham, and the Baseball Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch, known as the Fordham Flash, was an alumnus.创作歌手拉娜·德雷曾就读福特汉姆，棒球名人堂成员、「福特汉姆闪电」弗兰基·弗里施也是该校校友。

• Anne M. Mulcahy, former chairperson and chief executive of Xerox, and Mario Gabelli, billionaire founder of GAMCO Investors, are among Fordham's business alumni.施乐公司前董事长兼首席执行官安妮·M·马尔卡希与 GAMCO 投资公司创办人、亿万富翁马里奥·加贝利都是福特汉姆的商界校友。