Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789 and the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States.乔治城大学是一所位于美国首都华盛顿特区的私立耶稣会研究型大学，由约翰·卡罗尔主教于 1789 年创办，是美国最古老的天主教高等教育机构。

Its main campus stands on a hill above the Potomac River and is known for Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark, while the university is organized into eleven undergraduate and graduate schools offering programs in 48 disciplines.其主校区坐落于波托马克河畔的高地上，以美国国家历史名胜希利堂闻名；学校下设十一个本科学院与研究生院，开设 48 个学科的专业。

Fall 2024 enrollment reached 20,031 students, including 7,833 undergraduates and 12,198 graduate and professional students, and alumni include 32 Rhodes Scholars, two U.S. presidents and 116 members of Congress.2024 年秋季在校生达 20,031 人，其中本科生 7,833 人、研究生与专业学位生 12,198 人；校友中有 32 位罗德学者、两位美国总统以及 116 位美国国会议员。

History

• Jesuit settlers from England founded the Province of Maryland in 1634, and after the Royalists lost the English Civil War in 1646 Catholic schools there were conducted clandestinely for most of the colonial era.来自英格兰的耶稣会定居者于 1634 年建立了马里兰省，1646 年保王党在英国内战中失败后，当地的教会学校在殖民地时期大部分时间里只能秘密办学。

• At Benjamin Franklin's recommendation, Pope Pius VI appointed the former Jesuit John Carroll to lead the Catholic Church in the newly independent United States.在本杰明·富兰克林的建议下，教皇庇护六世任命前耶稣会士约翰·卡罗尔领导新独立的美国天主教会。

• On January 23, 1789, Carroll completed the purchase of the Georgetown property on which Dahlgren Quadrangle was later built.1789 年 1 月 23 日，卡罗尔购得乔治城的一处地产，日后的达格伦四方院即建于此。

• The future congressman William Gaston enrolled as the college's first student on November 22, 1791, and instruction began on January 2, 1792.日后的国会议员威廉·加斯顿于 1791 年 11 月 22 日成为该校首位学生，授课则于 1792 年 1 月 2 日开始。

• President James Madison signed Georgetown's congressional charter on March 1, 1815, creating the first federal university charter in the United States.总统詹姆斯·麦迪逊于 1815 年 3 月 1 日签署乔治城的国会特许状，缔造了美国第一份联邦大学特许状。

• In 1838 the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 enslaved people to plantations in Louisiana in order to fund the university and other schools.1838 年，马里兰耶稣会为筹措学校及其他机构的经费，将 272 名被奴役者卖往路易斯安那的种植园。

• The college received a corporate charter in 1844 as The President and Directors of Georgetown College, and the Medical School was founded in 1851.学院于 1844 年以“乔治城学院校长及董事”之名获得法人特许状，医学院则于 1851 年创办。

• During the American Civil War 1,141 students and alumni enlisted on one side or the other, and by May 1861 about 1,400 Union troops were quartered on campus.美国内战期间，共有 1,141 名学生与校友分别加入交战双方，至 1861 年 5 月约有 1,400 名联邦军驻扎于校园。

• Enrollment collapsed after the war, and only seven students graduated in 1869, down from more than 300 in the previous decade.内战结束后入学人数骤降，1869 年仅七名学生毕业，而此前十年曾有 300 余人。

• The Georgetown College Boat Club, founded in 1876, adopted blue for Union uniforms and gray for Confederate uniforms, the colors the university still uses today.创办于 1876 年的乔治城学院赛艇俱乐部采用代表联邦军制服的蓝色与邦联军制服的灰色为队色，这一配色沿用至今。

• Patrick Francis Healy, born a slave by law and the first person of African descent to head a predominantly white American university, served as president from 1873 to 1881.帕特里克·弗朗西斯·希利依法出生即为奴隶，是美国历史上第一位执掌以白人为主大学的有非裔血统者，于 1873 至 1881 年任校长。

• Healy reformed the undergraduate curriculum, lengthened the medical and law programs, founded the Alumni Association and built the hall that now bears his name.希利改革本科课程，延长医学与法学学制，创立校友会，并主持建造了如今以其名字命名的希利堂。

• The School of Foreign Service was founded in 1919 by Edmund A. Walsh to prepare students for leadership in diplomacy and foreign commerce.外交学院由埃德蒙·A·沃尔什于 1919 年创办，旨在培养外交与对外贸易领域的领导人才。

• The Medical School added a dental school in 1901 and the School of Nursing was established in 1903, while Georgetown Preparatory School separated fully from the university in 1927.医学院于 1901 年增设牙科学院，护理学院于 1903 年成立，乔治城预备学校则于 1927 年与大学完全分离。

• The School of Business Administration separated from the School of Foreign Service in 1957 and was renamed the McDonough School of Business in 1998.工商管理学院于 1957 年从外交学院分离，并于 1998 年更名为麦克唐纳商学院。

• Georgetown became fully coeducational when the College of Arts and Sciences admitted its first female students in the 1969 to 1970 academic year.1969 至 1970 学年，文理学院迎来首批女学生，乔治城大学由此完全实现男女同校。

• The Center for Strategic and International Studies was founded at Georgetown in 1962, and Henry Kissinger taught at the School of Foreign Service from 1977.战略与国际研究中心于 1962 年在乔治城大学创立；亨利·基辛格自 1977 年起在外交学院任教。

• The university severed all ties with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 1986 over differences in academic direction.1986 年，学校因学术方向分歧切断了与战略与国际研究中心的全部联系。

• John J. DeGioia, Georgetown's first lay president, led the university from 2001 to 2024 and founded the annual Building Bridges Seminar in 2001.约翰·J·德吉奥亚是该校首位世俗校长，于 2001 至 2024 年领导学校，并于 2001 年创办一年一度的“筑桥研讨会”。

• Georgetown completed its Third Century Campaign in December 2003 after raising more than $1 billion for financial aid, academic chairs and new buildings.2003 年 12 月，学校完成“第三世纪运动”，为助学金、教授席位与新建筑筹得逾 10 亿美元。

• Between 1992 and 2025 Georgetown received almost 1.5 billion in foreign contracts and gifts, of which1.1 billion came from Qatar.1992 至 2025 年间，学校收到近 15 亿美元的外国合同与捐赠，其中 11 亿美元来自卡塔尔。

• The School of Foreign Service in Qatar opened in 2005 in Education City, and the Center for International and Regional Studies opened there the same year.卡塔尔外交学院于 2005 年在教育城开办，国际与区域研究中心同年在当地设立。

• Georgetown announced a Reconciliation Fund in October 2022, and its first five grants, totaling $200,000, were awarded in April 2023.学校于 2022 年 10 月宣布设立“和解基金”，首批五笔资助共 20 万美元于 2023 年 4 月发放。

• In September 2023 Georgetown and Jesuit organizations committed 27 million to the Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Foundation, including10 million from the university.2023 年 9 月，乔治城大学与多个耶稣会机构向“后裔真相与和解基金会”承诺捐助 2,700 万美元，其中 1,000 万美元出自学校。

Academics

• Georgetown is organized into eleven schools, and bachelor's programs are offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing, the McDonough School of Business and the Walsh School of Foreign Service.乔治城大学下设十一个学院，本科课程由文理学院、护理学院、麦克唐纳商学院以及沃尔什外交学院开设。

• Master's and doctoral programs are offered through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Law Center, the Medical School, the McCourt School of Public Policy and the School of Continuing Studies, and the Law Center offers a joint degree with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.硕士与博士课程由文理研究生院、法律中心、医学院、麦考特公共政策学院以及继续教育学院开设；法律中心还与约翰斯·霍普金斯大学布隆伯格公共卫生学院合办联合学位。

• In fall 2024 the university enrolled 20,031 students, comprising 7,833 undergraduates and 12,198 graduate and professional students.2024 年秋季，学校在校生为 20,031 人，其中本科生 7,833 人，研究生与专业学位生 12,198 人。

• Bachelor's degrees are awarded in 48 disciplines, and 58.6 percent of undergraduates study abroad at some point during their degree.学校在 48 个学科授予学士学位，58.6% 的本科生在就读期间曾赴海外学习。

• Admission is deemed most selective, and for the Class of 2025 Georgetown received 27,650 applications and admitted 11.7 percent of applicants.该校录取被评定为“最具选择性”，2025 届共收到 27,650 份申请，录取率为 11.7%。

• As of 2024 acceptance rates stood at 2.8 percent at the Medical School, 12.9 percent at the Law Center, 25 percent at the master's program in foreign service and 35 percent at the MBA program.截至 2024 年，医学院录取率为 2.8%，法律中心为 12.9%，外交硕士项目为 25%，MBA 项目为 35%。

• More than 55 percent of undergraduates receive financial aid, the university meets 100 percent of demonstrated need, and the average aid package is $23,500.超过 55% 的本科生获得资助，学校百分之百满足经核定的经济需求，人均资助额为 23,500 美元。

• As of 2017 Georgetown employed 1,414 full-time and 1,196 part-time faculty, and by fall 2024 there were 5,869 full-time and 1,550 part-time faculty across all campuses.截至 2017 年，学校有 1,414 名全职与 1,196 名兼职教师；到 2024 年秋季，各校区共有 5,869 名全职与 1,550 名兼职教师。

• The faculty includes the Nobel laureate George Akerlof, the linguist Deborah Tannen, the theologian John Haught and the hip-hop scholar Michael Eric Dyson.师资队伍包括诺贝尔奖得主乔治·阿克洛夫、语言学家黛博拉·坦嫩、神学家约翰·霍特以及嘻哈研究学者迈克尔·埃里克·戴森。

• Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former CIA director George Tenet have taught at Georgetown, and former Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and John Roberts each taught there.前国务卿马德琳·奥尔布赖特与前中央情报局局长乔治·特尼特曾在乔治城任教，前最高法院大法官安东宁·斯卡利亚与约翰·罗伯茨也分别在此授课。

• Georgetown is classified among R1: Doctoral Universities with very high research activity and conducts research in religion, ethics, science, public policy and cancer medicine.乔治城大学被列为“R1：研究活动极强的博士型大学”，研究集中于宗教、伦理、科学、公共政策与癌症医学。

• In 2019 the university spent 240.9 million on research, and in 2024 research spending reached376.6 million, including $145.787 million in federal funding.2019 年学校科研支出为 2.409 亿美元，2024 年科研支出达 3.766 亿美元，其中联邦资助为 1.45787 亿美元。

• Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of 41 research-intensive comprehensive cancer centers in the United States, developed a breakthrough HPV vaccine for cervical cancer.乔治城大学的隆巴迪综合癌症中心是美国 41 所研究密集型综合癌症中心之一，研发了预防宫颈癌的突破性 HPV 疫苗。

• As of 2014 Georgetown's libraries held over 3.5 million printed items, including 1.25 million e-books, most of them in Lauinger Library.截至 2014 年，学校图书馆藏有逾 350 万件印刷品，含 125 万种电子书，其中大部分存放于劳因格图书馆。

• The Law School campus includes the nation's fifth-largest law library as of 2007, and the Blommer Science Library holds most of the science collection.截至 2007 年，法学院校区拥有全美第五大的法律图书馆，布洛默科学图书馆则藏有大部分科学类文献。

• Research centers include the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Woodstock Theological Center.科研机构包括伯克利宗教、和平与世界事务中心，瓦利德·本·塔拉勒亲王穆斯林与基督徒理解研究中心，以及伍德斯托克神学中心。

• Regular publications include the Georgetown Law Journal, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.定期出版物包括《乔治城法律杂志》《肯尼迪伦理研究所杂志》以及《乔治城国际事务杂志》。

• The School of Continuing Studies offers four types of degree programs, more than thirty professional certificates and summer courses for graduates, undergraduates and high school students.继续教育学院开设四类学位项目、三十余种专业证书课程，以及面向研究生、本科生与高中生的暑期课程。

• The university's medical school is integrated with Georgetown University Hospital, and the McCourt School of Public Policy opened a new building in September 2024.学校医学院与乔治城大学医院结为一体；麦考特公共政策学院于 2024 年 9 月启用新楼。

• Georgetown's strongest academic fields are government, international relations, economics and finance, the four most popular undergraduate majors.乔治城大学最强势的学科为政治学、国际关系、经济学与金融学，也是本科生最热门的四个专业。

Campus

• Georgetown has four campuses in Washington, D.C.: the undergraduate campus in the Georgetown neighborhood, the Medical Center, the School of Continuing Studies in Chinatown and the Law Center on Capitol Hill.乔治城大学在华盛顿特区共有四个校区：位于乔治城社区的本科校区、医学中心、唐人街的继续教育学院，以及国会山的法律中心。

• The undergraduate and medical campuses sit on an elevated site above the Potomac River, which gives the university its nickname The Hilltop.本科校区与医学院校区坐落于波托马克河畔的高地上，学校因此获得“山顶”的别称。

• The main campus covers 104 acres, or 0.4 square kilometers, and includes fifty-four buildings and residences that house 80 percent of undergraduates.主校区占地 104 英亩（约 0.4 平方公里），共有五十四栋建筑与宿舍，可容纳 80% 的本科生。

• Healy Hall, designed by Paul J. Pelz in Neo-Medieval style and built between 1877 and 1879, is a National Historic Landmark and the architectural centerpiece of the campus.希利堂由保罗·J·佩尔茨以新中世纪风格设计，建于 1877 至 1879 年，是美国国家历史名胜，也是校园建筑的精华所在。

• The Georgetown University Astronomical Observatory, built in 1844, and Healy Hall are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.建于 1844 年的乔治城大学天文台与希利堂均被列入美国国家史迹名录。

• The main gates, known as the Healy Gates, stand at the intersection of 37th and O Streets NW, and Red Square has replaced Dahlgren Quadrangle as the center of student life.主校门“希利门”位于西北区第 37 街与 O 街交汇处；红色广场已取代达格伦四方院成为学生生活的中心。

• The Southwest Quadrangle Project was completed in late 2003 and added a 907-bed residence hall, the Leo J. O'Donovan dining hall and an underground parking facility.西南四方院工程于 2003 年底完工，新增 907 个床位的学生宿舍、利奥·J·奥多诺万餐厅以及一座地下停车场。

• The Healey Family Student Center opened in fall 2014 with more than 43,000 square feet of study spaces, studios and a pub called the Bulldog Tavern.希利家族学生中心于 2014 年秋季启用，拥有逾 43,000 平方英尺的学习空间、排练室，以及名为斗牛犬酒馆的酒吧。

• The Law Center occupies five buildings on New Jersey Avenue near Union Station, and first-year students can live in the on-campus Gewirz Student Center.法律中心占据新泽西大道上联合车站附近的五栋建筑，一年级学生可入住校内的格威尔兹学生中心。

• Overseas facilities include the Walsh School of Foreign Service campus in Doha, Qatar, the Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, Italy, and the Georgetown SFS Asia-Pacific campus launched in Jakarta in January 2025.海外设施包括位于卡塔尔多哈的沃尔什外交学院校区、意大利菲耶索莱的悬崖别墅，以及 2025 年 1 月在雅加达启动的乔治城亚太外交学院校区。

Reputation

• Georgetown places 289th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and joint 196th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.乔治城大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 289，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 196。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking Georgetown is placed 290th, and in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 601-700 band.在 2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中，学校位列第 290；在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中则处于 601 至 700 区间。

• The Walsh School of Foreign Service's master's and bachelor's programs in international relations were ranked first in the world by Foreign Policy in 2024.沃尔什外交学院的国际关系硕士与本科项目在 2024 年被《外交政策》评为世界第一。

• The McCourt School of Public Policy is ranked fourth in global policy and administration by U.S. News and World Report, and the McDonough School of Business ranks 24th in MBA programs.麦考特公共政策学院被《美国新闻与世界报道》评为全球政策与行政研究第四，麦克唐纳商学院的 MBA 项目位列第 24。

• Georgetown University Law Center is ranked 14th in the United States and first in clinical training and part-time law, second in tax law and third in international law.乔治城大学法律中心在美国排名第 14，在临床培训与在职法学项目上排名第一，税法第二，国际法第三。

• According to OpenAlex, Georgetown has produced 100,032 research works that have attracted 7,114,951 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，乔治城大学已产出 100,032 项研究成果，累计被引用 7,114,951 次。

• Georgetown is one of the top producers of Fulbright Scholars, with 565 over its history, and produced more than any other institution in 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024.乔治城大学是富布赖特学者产出最多的院校之一，历史上共 565 人，且在 2020、2021、2023 与 2024 年均为全美第一。

• Its students have won 32 Rhodes Scholarships, 46 Marshall Scholarships, 33 Truman Scholarships and 15 Mitchell Scholarships.其学生曾获 32 项罗德奖学金、46 项马歇尔奖学金、33 项杜鲁门奖学金以及 15 项米切尔奖学金。

• The faculty has included the Nobel laureates George Akerlof, honoured in Economic Sciences in 2001, and Henry Kissinger, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.其师资中曾有诺贝尔奖得主乔治·阿克洛夫（2001 年获经济学奖）与亨利·基辛格（1973 年获诺贝尔和平奖）。

• Among Georgetown's honorary doctorate recipients are the Nobel laureates Christian Anfinsen, Oscar Arias, John Bardeen and William Fowler.乔治城大学的荣誉博士得主中包括诺贝尔奖获得者克里斯蒂安·安芬森、奥斯卡·阿里亚斯、约翰·巴丁与威廉·福勒。

Student life

• Georgetown's motto is Utraque Unum, Latin for both into one, a phrase drawn from the Epistle to the Ephesians.乔治城大学的校训是 Utraque Unum，拉丁语意为“合而为一”，语出《以弗所书》。

• As of 2009, 41 percent of the student body identified as Catholic and 22 percent as Protestant, even though Georgetown is a Jesuit university.截至 2009 年，学生中 41% 自认天主教徒、22% 自认新教徒，尽管乔治城是一所耶稣会大学。

• Georgetown employs a full-time rabbi and was the first U.S. college to appoint a full-time imam, serving the more than four hundred Muslims on campus.学校聘有全职拉比，也是美国第一所设全职伊玛目的大学，为校内 400 余名穆斯林服务。

• A majority of undergraduates, 76 percent, live on campus, including all underclassmen.多数本科生（76%）住校，其中包含全部低年级学生。

• Georgetown has 179 registered student organizations, and 92.9 percent of undergraduates take part in at least one of them.学校有 179 个注册学生组织，92.9% 的本科生至少参与其中之一。

• The Philodemic Society, founded in 1830, is one of the nation's oldest debating clubs, and the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society is the oldest university theater group.创立于 1830 年的同好社是全美历史最悠久的辩论俱乐部之一，面具与花哨戏剧社则是最古老的大学戏剧团体。

• The Hoya, the university's oldest newspaper, has been in print since 1920, and The Georgetown Voice was founded in March 1969.学校最古老的报纸《The Hoya》自 1920 年起发行，《乔治城之声》则创办于 1969 年 3 月。

• Students of Georgetown, Inc., founded in 1972 and known as The Corp, runs three coffee shops and two grocery stores with annual revenues of about $5 million.创立于 1972 年、通称“The Corp”的乔治城学生有限公司经营三家咖啡馆与两家杂货店，年营业额约 500 万美元。

• Georgetown Day is celebrated each April, and Midnight Madness marks the first basketball practice of the season shortly after midnight.每年四月学校庆祝“乔治城日”；“午夜疯狂”则在午夜过后标志赛季首次篮球训练的开始。

Notable people

• Georgetown's founding figures include Bishop John Carroll, who in 1789 established the college that became the university.乔治城大学的奠基者包括主教约翰·卡罗尔，他于 1789 年创办了后来发展为该校的学院。

• Patrick Francis Healy, president from 1873 to 1881, is remembered as the university's second founder.1873 至 1881 年在任的校长帕特里克·弗朗西斯·希利被誉为该校的“第二创校人”。

• Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, graduated from the Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1968.美国第 42 任总统比尔·克林顿于 1968 年毕业于沃尔什外交学院。

• Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president, studied law at the Georgetown University Law Center but left without a degree.美国第 36 任总统林登·约翰逊曾在乔治城大学法律中心攻读法律，但未获学位即离开。

• Former Secretaries of State Alexander Haig and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates are Georgetown alumni, as is former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.前国务卿亚历山大·黑格与前国防部长罗伯特·盖茨都是乔治城校友，前财政部长杰克·卢亦然。

• Jerome Powell, the 16th Chair of the Federal Reserve, is a Georgetown alumnus.美国联邦储备委员会第 16 任主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔是乔治城校友。

• Jan Karski, an alumnus and longtime faculty member, was a World War II resistance fighter who revealed the atrocities of the Holocaust to the world.校友兼长期教员的扬·卡尔斯基是二战抵抗战士，曾向世界揭露大屠杀的暴行。

• Twelve foreign heads of state and government have graduated from Georgetown, including King Felipe VI of Spain, King Abdullah II of Jordan and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines.共有十二位外国国家元首与政府首脑毕业于乔治城大学，包括西班牙国王费利佩六世、约旦国王阿卜杜拉二世，以及菲律宾的格洛丽亚·马卡帕加尔-阿罗约。

• Liu Jianxin, secretary-general of the Examination Yuan of the Republic of China in Taiwan, is a Georgetown alumnus.台湾考试院秘书长刘建忻是乔治城大学校友。