Khalifa University

Khalifa University is a public research university located in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, taking its name from the Al Nahyan ruling family of the emirate.哈利法大学是位于阿拉伯联合酋长国阿布扎比的一所公立研究型大学，校名取自该酋长国的统治家族 Al Nahyan。

According to OpenAlex the university is associated with 34,373 scholarly works cited 1,111,298 times, and it is not to be confused with Hamad Bin Khalifa University, a separate institution also named after a member of the same family.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计发表学术成果 34,373 篇，总被引 1,111,298 次；需要注意的是，哈利法大学与哈迈德·本·哈利法大学是同属一个家族成员命名的两所不同学校。

History

• The university's origins go back to 1989, when Etisalat University College was founded in Sharjah by the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation to provide programmes in engineering and applied sciences.学校的渊源可追溯至 1989 年，当时由阿联酋电信公司在沙迦创办 Etisalat University College，提供工程与应用科学课程。
• In 2001 the Petroleum Institute was established in Abu Dhabi by Emiri decree, funded by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and international partners including BP, Shell, Total and the Japan Oil Development Company.2001 年，石油学院依据阿联酋总统令在阿布扎比设立，资金来自阿布扎比国家石油公司以及 BP、Shell、Total 与日本石油开发公司等国际伙伴。
• The Petroleum Institute was developed in partnership with the Colorado School of Mines as a specialised centre for petroleum engineering education and research.石油学院与科罗拉多矿业学院合作建设，作为石油工程教育与研究的专门中心。
• The Petroleum Institute graduated its first cohort of engineers in 2006 and admitted its first female students in the same year.石油学院于 2006 年培养出第一批工程师毕业生，并在同年招收首批女生。
• In 2007 Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, known as KUSTAR, was established by presidential decree, acquiring Etisalat University College in the same year.2007 年，哈利法科技大学（简称 KUSTAR）依据总统令设立，并在同年并购了 Etisalat University College。
• Also in 2007 the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology was established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the region's first graduate-level research university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies.同为 2007 年，马斯达尔科技学院与麻省理工学院合作设立，是该地区第一所聚焦先进能源与可持续技术的研究型研究生大学。
• In February 2017 the UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued a decree merging KUSTAR, the Petroleum Institute and the Masdar Institute into a single institution named Khalifa University.2017 年 2 月，阿联酋总统 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan 发布法令，将 KUSTAR、石油学院与马斯达尔学院合并为单一的哈利法大学。
• At the time of the merger the three institutions together enrolled more than 4,600 students and employed over 465 academic staff.合并时，这三所机构合计在校生超过 4,600 人，学术人员超过 465 人。
• The merger brought together KUSTAR's broad engineering focus, the Petroleum Institute's industry-oriented programmes and the Masdar Institute's emphasis on sustainability and renewable energy under a research-intensive structure.合并把 KUSTAR 的宽口径工程学重点、石油学院的产业导向项目与马斯达尔学院的可持续与可再生能源取向，统一到研究密集型结构之下。
• The merged university was aligned with the UAE's Vision 2021 goals for a knowledge-based economy, giving the new institution its national mandate.合并后的大学与阿联酋「2021 愿景」的知识经济目标对接，这为新机构确立了国家层面的使命。
• Ebrahim Al Hajri is the president of the university, and the institution today comprises three colleges, three research institutes and around twenty research centers covering science, engineering and medicine.现任校长为 Ebrahim Al Hajri，学校现有三个学院、三个研究所与约二十个研究中心，覆盖科学、工程与医学。
• In 2011 the university signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Bristol to establish the Visual Signal Analysis and Processing research centre in Abu Dhabi.2011 年，学校与布里斯托大学签署谅解备忘录，在阿布扎比设立视觉信号分析与处理研究中心。
• In 2019 it established the Emirates Nuclear Technology Centre in collaboration with the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation.2019 年，学校与阿联酋国家核能公司及联邦核监管局合作设立阿联酋核技术中心。
• Also in 2019 the university partnered with the University of Milan and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa to establish a joint laboratory for embodied artificial intelligence in Abu Dhabi.同为 2019 年，学校与米兰大学及比萨高等师范学校合作，在阿布扎比设立具身人工智能联合实验室。
• In 2022 the university and the University of Manchester launched a research partnership focused on graphene innovation.2022 年，学校与曼彻斯特大学启动以石墨烯创新为重点的研究合作。
• In 2023 the university collaborated with Dassault Aviation of France on graphene-based and two-dimensional material technologies for aerospace applications.2023 年，学校与法国达索航空合作，研究面向航天应用的石墨烯基与二维材料技术。
• In 2024 the university launched a dual PhD programme in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering in partnership with KU Leuven of Belgium.2024 年，学校与比利时鲁汶大学合作开办生物医学科学与工程双博士学位项目。
• In 2023 the university launched the Khalifa University Science and Technology Review, a bilingual Arabic and English publication covering research and innovation, and in 2024 it launched Explorer, a research magazine produced with Springer Nature.2023 年，学校创办阿英双语的研究与创新刊物《哈利法大学科学与技术评论》；2024 年又与 Springer Nature 合作推出研究杂志《Explorer》。
• In July 2024 the university awarded a public-private partnership concession to a consortium named KUnnected Living, comprising Plenary Group, Besix and Mazrui International, for student accommodation across both campuses over a 23-year period.2024 年 7 月，学校将由 Plenary Group、Besix 与 Mazrui International 组成的 KUnnected Living 联合体选为公私伙伴，在 23 年期内负责两个校区的学生住宿建设。
• The most recent structural step has been the 2017 consolidation into Khalifa University of Science and Technology, which remains the legal name under which the institution is chartered.最近一次结构性举措是 2017 年整合组建哈利法科技大学，该校名至今仍是学校章程所载的法定名称。

Academics

• The university comprises three colleges, the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, the College of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and the College of Medicine and Health Sciences.学校设有三个学院，即工程与物理科学学院、计算与数学科学学院，以及医学与健康科学学院。
• Beside the three colleges it runs three research institutes, eighteen research centers and thirty-six academic departments, offering undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes across engineering, science, computing and medicine.三个学院之外，学校还运营三个研究所、十八个研究中心与三十六个学术系，提供工程、科学、计算机与医学方向的本科、研究生与博士项目。
• Its Institute for International and Civil Security offers a graduate programme focused on security policy and research, described as the first of its kind in the Gulf region.学校国际与民用安全研究所提供聚焦安全政策与研究的研究生项目，被描述为海湾地区同类项目之首。
• Engineering is the university's strongest field, with petroleum engineering ranked 6th in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, up from 7th the previous year.工程是学校最强的学科，在 2026 年版 QS 学科排名中石油工程列世界第 6，较上一年上升一位。
• In the same subject ranking the university entered the global top 100 for electrical and electronic engineering at 92nd and for chemical engineering at 94th.在同一份学科排名中，学校在电机与电子工程以第 92 位、化学工程以第 94 位进入全球百强。
• It was also ranked for mathematics at 130th, mechanical engineering at 133rd, and computer science and information systems at 137th, placing it in a total of fifteen subjects.学校还以第 130 位入围数学、第 133 位入围机械工程、第 137 位入围计算机科学与信息系统，合计进入十五个学科榜单。
• Recorded figures give more than 4,000 students at the university, with the three founding institutions together having enrolled over 4,600 students and employed over 465 academic staff at the 2017 merger.记录数据为学校学生超过 4,000 人；2017 年合并时，三所创办机构合计在校生超过 4,600 人，学术人员超过 465 人。
• All programmes at the university are licensed and accredited by the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the UAE Ministry of Education.学校所有项目均获阿联酋教育部学术认证委员会许可与认证。
• In 2015 the university achieved ABET accreditation from the Engineering Accreditation Commission for its engineering programmes and from the Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission for its petroleum geosciences programme.2015 年，学校的工程项目获得工程认证委员会 ABET 认证，石油地球科学项目获得应用与自然科学认证委员会 ANSAC 认证。
• Among the university's named research centres are the Visual Signal Analysis and Processing centre with Bristol, the Emirates Nuclear Technology Centre with the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, and the Masdar Institute Solar Platform at Masdar City.学校具名研究中心包括与布里斯托大学合办的视觉信号分析与处理中心、与阿联酋国家核能公司合办的阿联酋核技术中心，以及位于马斯达尔城的马斯达尔太阳能平台。
• The Masdar Institute Solar Platform was inaugurated in November 2015 and is built around a 100kW beam-down solar concentrator, the first of its kind in the UAE.马斯达尔太阳能平台于 2015 年 11 月揭幕，以一台 100 千瓦的下射式聚光太阳能装置为核心，是阿联酋首台同类装置。
• The university maintains academic and research partnerships with the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Texas A&M University Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute and KAIST.学校与佐治亚理工学院、得克萨斯农工大学核安全科学与政策研究所及韩国科学技术院保持学术研究伙伴关系。
• In 2024 the university launched a dual PhD programme in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering in partnership with KU Leuven of Belgium, extending its doctoral provision in the medical field.2024 年，学校与比利时鲁汶大学合作开办生物医学科学与工程双博士学位项目，扩展了学校在医学领域的博士培养。
• In 2024 it launched the Explorer research magazine with Springer Nature and the Khalifa University Science and Technology Review in 2023, giving the university two named channels for its research output.2024 年学校与 Springer Nature 推出研究杂志《Explorer》，并于 2023 年创办《哈利法大学科学与技术评论》，为学校科研成果提供两个具名发布渠道。
• The university is the top ranked institution in the United Arab Emirates and among the leading research institutions in the Arab world, with its reputation built on engineering, energy and medicine.学校是阿联酋排名第一的机构，也是阿拉伯世界领先的研究机构之一，其声誉建立在工程、能源与医学之上。

Campus

• Khalifa University has two campuses in Abu Dhabi, the Main Campus and the Sas Al Nakhl Campus, with coordinates given as 24.45118 degrees north and 54.39696 degrees east.哈利法大学在阿布扎比设有主校区与 Sas Al Nakhl 校区两个校区，坐标记为北纬 24.45118 度、东经 54.39696 度。
• The Main Campus is located on Abu Dhabi Island and houses the university's central administration, comprising 135,000 square metres of facilities including 105 laboratories, 72 classrooms, a sports centre and dining outlets.主校区位于阿布扎比岛，设有学校总部管理机构，设施总面积 135,000 平方米，包括 105 间实验室、72 间教室、一个体育中心与餐饮点。
• A campus extension completed in 2016 added a building recognised at the 2015 MENA Interior Design and Architecture Awards.2016 年完成的校区扩建新增了一栋建筑，该建筑在 2015 年中东与北非室内设计与建筑奖评选中获奖。
• The Sas Al Nakhl Campus hosts the ADNOC Research and Innovation Center, a research facility comprising 39 laboratories covering reservoir rock characterization and reservoir fluid characterization.Sas Al Nakhl 校区设有 ADNOC 研究与创新中心，这是一座包含 39 间实验室的研究设施，涵盖储层岩石表征与储层流体表征。
• The Sas Al Nakhl Campus also provides student accommodation, dining facilities, two libraries, an Independent Learning Center, exercise rooms, sports courts and medical clinics.Sas Al Nakhl 校区还提供学生住宿、餐饮设施、两个图书馆、一座自主学习中心、健身室、运动场与医疗诊所。
• In July 2024 the university awarded a 23-year public-private partnership concession to a consortium named KUnnected Living to design, build, finance and maintain 3,260 student rooms across both campuses.2024 年 7 月，学校将由 Plenary Group、Besix 与 Mazrui International 组成的 KUnnected Living 联合体选为 23 年公私伙伴，负责两个校区共 3,260 间学生宿舍的设计、建设、融资与维护。
• The university also operates the Masdar Institute Solar Platform at Masdar City, a research and demonstration facility for concentrated solar power and thermal energy storage, inaugurated in November 2015.学校还在马斯达尔城运营马斯达尔太阳能平台，这是一座面向聚光太阳能发电与热能储存的研究与示范设施，于 2015 年 11 月揭幕。
• The Masdar Institute Solar Platform is built around a 100kW beam-down solar concentrator, the first of its kind in the UAE, and provides infrastructure for research institutes and industry partners to test such technologies under desert conditions.马斯达尔太阳能平台以一台 100 千瓦下射式聚光太阳能装置为核心，为阿联酋首台同类装置，并为本地与国际研究机构及产业伙伴提供在沙漠条件下测试此类技术的基础设施。
• As a public university on Abu Dhabi Island it sits within the city's higher education belt, and the main campus together with Sas Al Nakhl forms the whole of its physical estate in the emirate.作为阿联酋岛上的公立大学，学校位于该市的高等教育带内，主校区与 Sas Al Nakhl 校区共同构成其在该酋长国的全部实体校产。

Reputation

• The university is ranked 147th in the QS World University Rankings 2027 with a score of 62.0, rising thirty places from the previous edition to become the first university in the United Arab Emirates to enter the global top 150.在 QS 2027 世界大学排名中，学校列第 147 位，评分 62.0，较上一版上升三十位，成为阿联酋首所进入全球前 150 的大学。
• It was named the leading institution in the country for the ninth consecutive year, having placed 177th in the 2026 edition and 202nd in the 2025 edition.学校连续第九年被评为全国领先机构，此前的 2026 年版列第 177 位，2025 年版列第 202 位。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university is tied at 235th, and in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026 to 2027 it is placed 399th.在 THE 2027 世界大学排名中，学校并列第 235 位；在《美国新闻》2026 至 2027 全球最佳大学排名中列第 399 位。
• According to OpenAlex the university has 34,373 works cited 1,111,298 times, its research output being among the most cited in the region.据 OpenAlex 数据，学校累计成果 34,373 篇、被引 1,111,298 次，科研产出在该地区属被引最多之列。
• Between 2022 and 2024 the university produced 7,018 publications with a Field-Weighted Citation Impact of 2.21, meaning its research receives on average more than double the citations of comparable work worldwide.2022 至 2024 年，学校发表 7,018 篇出版物，领域加权引用影响为 2.21，意味着其研究平均获得的引用是全球同类工作的两倍以上。
• In 2024, 112 faculty members were included in the Stanford University and Elsevier Top 2 per cent worldwide scientists list, a measure of the concentration of research talent at the university.2024 年，学校有 112 名教师入选斯坦福大学与 Elsevier 全球科学家前 2% 榜单，显示出学校研究人才的集中度。
• The university has no Nobel laureate, no Turing Award laureate and no Fields Medalist among its alumni or staff, so its standing rests on engineering and energy research rather than on the highest academic prizes.学校校友与教职人员中没有诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其地位建立在工程与能源研究之上，而非最高学术奖项。
• It has been consistently ranked the top university in the United Arab Emirates and ranked third in the Arab world in the QS Arab Region University Rankings 2026, as well as leading all UAE institutions for citations per faculty and faculty-student ratio.学校一贯排名阿联酋第一，并在 2026 年版 QS 阿拉伯地区大学排名中居阿拉伯世界第三，在人均引用与师生比两项上领先阿联酋各校。
• In its 2026 edition the university recorded 11th in the world for International Faculty and 37th for Academic Reputation, and reported a graduate employment rate of 94 per cent.在 2026 年版排名中，学校国际教师比例列世界第 11、学术声誉列第 37，并报告毕业生就业率为 94%。

Student life

• The motto of the university is Nurturing tomorrow's leaders, Growing the knowledge economy, framing its mission in terms of leadership and the knowledge economy.学校校训为培育明日领袖、壮大知识经济，其使命表述围绕领导力与知识经济展开。
• Accommodation is provided across both campuses, with the Sas Al Nakhl Campus offering student housing together with dining, libraries and medical clinics, and 3,260 student rooms to be delivered under the 2024 partnership.两个校区均提供住宿，Sas Al Nakhl 校区设有学生宿舍并配套餐饮、图书馆与医疗诊所，2024 年合作项目还将交付 3,260 间学生宿舍。
• The main campus includes a sports centre among its 135,000 square metres of facilities, and the Sas Al Nakhl Campus provides exercise rooms and sports courts.主校区的 135,000 平方米设施中包括一个体育中心，Sas Al Nakhl 校区则设有健身室与运动场。
• For study and personal development the campuses provide an Independent Learning Center at Sas Al Nakhl and two libraries on the same campus.在学习与个人发展方面，Sas Al Nakhl 校区设有自主学习中心与两个图书馆。
• Students can take part in the university's two research media outlets, the Khalifa University Science and Technology Review launched in 2023 and the Explorer magazine launched with Springer Nature in 2024.学生可参与学校的两份研究媒体，即 2023 年创办的《哈利法大学科学与技术评论》与 2024 年与 Springer Nature 推出的《Explorer》杂志。
• The university offers scholarships to both UAE national and international students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with external sponsorship from government and industry partners.学校在本科与研究生层次同时向阿联酋籍与国际学生提供奖学金，外部赞助来自政府与产业伙伴。
• Sponsorship programmes run with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the UAE Ministry of Education, the UAE Ministry of Defence, the UAE Ministry of Interior and Emirates Health Services.赞助项目与阿布扎比国家石油公司、阿布扎比投资局、阿联酋教育部、国防部、内政部以及阿联酋健康服务有限公司合作开展。
• Outside the classroom, the Masdar Institute Solar Platform offers an environment in which students can observe concentrated solar power research conducted with partners in the field.在课堂之外，马斯达尔太阳能平台提供了让学生实地观察与合作方开展聚光太阳能发电研究的环境。

Notable people

• The university's namesakes are the Al Nahyan family of Abu Dhabi, and its founding presidents decree of 2017 was issued by the UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.学校以阿布扎比的 Al Nahyan 家族命名，2017 年的创办总统令由阿联酋总统 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan 签发。
• Masdar Institute was established with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the university's origins go back to Etisalat University College, founded in Sharjah by the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation in 1989.马斯达尔学院由麻省理工学院参与共建，而学校的渊源可追溯至 1989 年由阿联酋电信公司在沙迦创办的 Etisalat University College。
• The Petroleum Institute was funded at its founding by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company together with BP, Shell, Total and the Japan Oil Development Company, and was developed with the Colorado School of Mines.石油学院创办时的资金来自阿布扎比国家石油公司与 BP、Shell、Total 及日本石油开发公司，并由科罗拉多矿业学院参与建设。
• Ebrahim Al Hajri is the president of the university and the officer responsible for its leadership in the period after the 2017 consolidation.Ebrahim Al Hajri 是学校校长，负责 2017 年整合之后的校务领导。
• Among the university's academic leadership are the deans of its three colleges, with the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences covering the petroleum engineering discipline that ranks sixth in the world.学校学术领导层包括三个学院的院长，其中工程与物理科学学院涵盖的石油工程学科位列世界第 6。
• The university has no Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate among its people, so its academic distinction is carried by engineering and energy researchers rather than by the highest classical science prizes.学校人员中没有诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其学术荣誉由工程与能源研究者而非最高级别的传统科学奖项承载。
• In 2024, 112 faculty members of the university were listed among the Stanford University and Elsevier Top 2 per cent worldwide scientists, identifying the scholars who carry its research reputation.2024 年，学校有 112 名教师入选斯坦福大学与 Elsevier 全球科学家前 2% 榜单，他们是承载学校科研声誉的学者群体。
• Collaboration with KAIST, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Texas A&M University Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute brings external scholars into the university's research programmes.与 KAIST、佐治亚理工学院及得克萨斯农工大学核安全科学与政策研究所的合作，将外部学者引入学校的研究项目。
• The joint embodied artificial intelligence laboratory with the University of Milan and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, established in 2019, links the university to European research in artificial intelligence.2019 年与米兰大学及比萨高等师范学校建立的具身人工智能联合实验室，把学校与欧洲人工智能研究联系起来。
• The Visual Signal Analysis and Processing centre, established with the University of Bristol in 2011, is the university's longest standing named international research partnership.2011 年与布里斯托大学共同设立的视觉信号分析与处理中心，是学校历史最悠久的具名国际研究合作机构。
• The university's academic standing rests on named certifications rather than classical science prizes, having obtained ABET accreditation in 2015 for its engineering programmes and ANSAC accreditation for petroleum geosciences in the same year.学校的学术地位建立在具名认证而非传统科学奖项之上，2015 年工程项目取得 ABET 认证，石油地球科学项目同年取得 ANSAC 认证。
• Among public figures and institutions associated with the school are the UAE President who issued the founding decree in 2017, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation, government partners in its nuclear research.与学校相关的公共人物与机构包括 2017 年签发创办法令的阿联酋总统，以及阿联酋国家核能公司与联邦核监管局这两所核能研究政府伙伴。
• The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is the figure most closely identified with the petroleum research that forms the university's core strength, having funded the Petroleum Institute at its founding in 2001.阿布扎比国家石油公司与构成学校核心优势的石油研究关系最为密切，该公司在 2001 年石油学院创办时提供了资金。
• Chinese and other Asian students are admitted through the university's scholarship programmes, which have been operated with government and industry sponsors including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.华人与其他亚洲学生通过学校的奖学金项目入学，该项目与包括阿布扎比投资局在内的政府与产业赞助方合作运营。
• The university's people number in the hundreds of academics rather than thousands, so its reputation is carried by a concentrated faculty, 112 of whom reached the global top two per cent of scientists in 2024.学校的人员规模以数百名学术人员而非数千人计，其声誉由一支集中的师资队伍承载，其中 112 人在 2024 年进入全球科学家前 2% 之列。