King Juan Carlos University

King Juan Carlos University (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, URJC) is a public research university of the Community of Madrid, created by regional law on 8 July 1996 and placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.胡安·卡洛斯国王大学（Universidad Rey Juan Carlos，简称 URJC）是马德里自治区的一所公立研究型大学，1996 年 7 月 8 日依地区法律设立，2027 年位列 QS 世界大学排名第 1001-1200 区间。

It is named after Juan Carlos I, who was king of Spain when the institution was founded, and it carries the Latin motto Non nova, sed nove, meaning not new things but in a new way.校名取自建校时在位的西班牙国王胡安·卡洛斯一世，校训为一句拉丁文，意为「不追求新事物，而以新方式为之」。

With 41,797 students in official degree programmes in 2024-25 it is the second-largest public university in the Community of Madrid after the Complutense, and it teaches on five campuses at Móstoles, Alcorcón, Vicálvaro, Fuenlabrada and Aranjuez.2024 至 2025 学年该校官方学位在读学生 41,797 人，是马德里自治区仅次于康普顿斯大学的第二大公立大学，在莫斯托莱斯、阿尔科尔孔、比卡尔瓦罗、富恩拉布拉达与阿兰胡埃斯五个校区办学。

History

• During the 1980s and 1990s the municipalities south of Madrid grew rapidly, and the region's public university places remained concentrated in the historic campuses of the capital, leaving the new dormitory towns without a university of their own.二十世纪八九十年代，马德里南郊各市镇人口迅速增长，而自治区的公立大学学位仍集中在首都的老校区，新兴居住城镇没有自己的大学。
• The Assembly of Madrid responded with Law 7/1996 of 8 July 1996 on the creation of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, a text signed by the regional president Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón and published in the regional gazette on 17 July 1996.马德里议会以 1996 年 7 月 8 日的第 7/1996 号法律作出回应，设立胡安·卡洛斯国王大学，该法由自治区主席阿尔韦托·鲁伊斯-加利亚东签署，并于 1996 年 7 月 17 日刊登于自治区公报。
• The law named the new university after the reigning monarch, Juan Carlos I, and gave it a mandate to widen access to higher education in the southern metropolitan belt rather than to duplicate the older faculties of the centre.该法以在任君主胡安·卡洛斯一世为大学命名，并要求它扩大南部都市带的高等教育机会，而非重复市中心老校的院系设置。
• A transitional clause attached the Ramón Carande Centre for Social and Legal Studies to the new university, providing it with a first cohort of staff and a legal-studies tradition borrowed from an existing institution.法律的过渡条款把「拉蒙·卡兰德社会与法律研究中心」划归新大学，使其获得了第一批师资和来自既有机构的法学传统。
• Further transitional provisions gave the university five years to elect a constituent cloister, which in turn had one year to choose the rector and draft the first statutes of the institution.其他过渡条款规定，大学须在五年内选出制宪校务会议，该会议再于一年内选出校长并起草学校首部章程。
• Academic activity began in October 1997 in provisional buildings in the southern suburbs, with an initial offer built around communication, business studies and health sciences.1997 年 10 月，学校在南部市郊的临时校舍开课，首批专业围绕传播学、商学与健康科学设置。
• The Alcorcón campus opened in 1997 and housed the Faculty of Health Sciences from the outset, anchoring the university's medical and nursing teaching in the south-western corridor.阿尔科尔孔校区于 1997 年启用，健康科学学院自建校之初便设于此，使该校的医学与护理教学扎根西南走廊。
• In 1998 the Móstoles campus became the seat of the School of Experimental Sciences and Technology, and the Vicálvaro campus in Madrid took the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences.1998 年，莫斯托莱斯校区成为实验科学与技术学院的所在地，马德里市内的比卡尔瓦罗校区则接纳了法律与社会科学学院。
• The Fuenlabrada campus opened in 2000 with the Faculty of Communication Sciences and a school of tourism, extending the university's footprint to the southern industrial belt.富恩拉布拉达校区于 2000 年启用，设传播科学学院与旅游学院，把学校版图延伸至南部工业带。
• The first statutes were revised in 2003, when the university moved from its provisional governance arrangements to a fully elected academic structure.2003 年，学校修订首部章程，由临时治理安排转为完全经选举产生的学术治理结构。
• A telecommunications engineering school, the ETSIT, opened at Fuenlabrada in 2005 and became the nucleus of the engineering teaching later reorganised as the Fuenlabrada School of Engineering.2005 年，电信工程学院在富恩拉布拉达设立，成为后来改组为富恩拉布拉达工程学院的工程教学核心。
• The School of Computer Engineering was established at Móstoles in 2007, the same year the university awarded its first honorary doctorates to the economist Juan Velarde Fuertes, the journalist Iñaki Gabilondo, the broadcaster Luis del Olmo and the cartoonist Antonio Mingote.2007 年，计算机工程学院在莫斯托莱斯成立，同年学校颁授首批荣誉博士学位，获授者为经济学家胡安·贝拉德·富埃尔特斯、记者伊尼亚基·加维隆多、播音员路易斯·德尔奥尔莫与漫画家安东尼奥·明戈特。
• In January 2008 the Argentine economist Bernardo Kliksberg became the first foreigner to receive an honorary doctorate from the university, alongside the jurists Jaime Gil Aluja, José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo and Fernando Sánchez Calero.2008 年 1 月，阿根廷经济学家贝尔纳多·克利克斯贝格成为该校首位获荣誉博士学位的外国人，同批获授者还有法学家海梅·希尔·阿卢哈、何塞·安东尼奥·帕斯托尔·里德鲁埃霍与费尔南多·桑切斯·卡莱罗。
• The tourism school at Fuenlabrada was raised to faculty status in November 2009, a change that recognised tourism as one of the university's largest degree areas.2009 年 11 月，富恩拉布拉达的旅游学院升格为系级学院，标志着旅游学科已成为该校规模最大的学位领域之一。
• In 2011 the university awarded honorary doctorates to Harald zur Hausen, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with the economist Ramón Tamames and the sociologist Peter Waldmann.2011 年，学校向 2008 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主哈拉尔德·楚尔·豪森，以及经济学家拉蒙·塔马梅斯、社会学家彼得·瓦尔德曼颁授荣誉博士学位。
• James A. Yorke, the mathematician who introduced the term chaos in 1975 and won the 2003 Japan Prize, received an honorary doctorate in 2014, the same year Juan Carlos I abdicated in favour of Felipe VI.1975 年提出「混沌」一词、2003 年获日本国际奖的数学家詹姆斯·约克于 2014 年获授荣誉博士学位，同年胡安·卡洛斯一世退位，由费利佩六世继位。
• The university expanded its online teaching through URJC online in the late 2010s, and it now offers six degrees that are taught entirely at a distance.2010 年代后期，学校通过「URJC Online」扩展远程教学，目前有六个学位可完全在线攻读。
• The 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years were given over to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the university, with a programme of events marking a quarter of a century since the first classes of October 1997.2021 至 2022 与 2022 至 2023 两个学年被定为建校二十五周年纪念期，以系列活动回顾 1997 年 10 月首课以来的四分之一个世纪。
• The former ETSIT was renamed the Fuenlabrada School of Engineering in 2023, regrouping telecommunications, mechanical, electronic and aerospace teaching under a single director.2023 年，原电信工程学院更名为富恩拉布拉达工程学院，将电信、机械、电子与航空航天教学归入同一院长管辖。
• The governance of Spanish universities was recast by Organic Law 2/2023 of 22 March 2023, which reshaped the composition of the Governing Council that the rector chairs.2023 年 3 月 22 日的第 2/2023 号大学系统组织法重塑了西班牙大学的治理架构，也改变了由校长主持的校务委员会的构成。
• Abraham Duarte Muñoz is rector in 2026, and in October of that year the ShanghaiRanking subject tables placed the university's dentistry and ecology programmes among the world's top 300.2026 年，阿夫拉罕·杜阿尔特·穆尼奥斯担任校长；同年 10 月，软科世界一流学科排名把该校的口腔医学与生态学列入全球前 300。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into six faculties, three engineering and science schools, an international doctoral school and a school of official master's degrees, each headed by a dean or a director.教学分为六个学院、三个工程与理学类学院、一个国际博士学院与一个官方硕士学院，各由院长或总监主持。
• The faculties cover health sciences, communication sciences, legal and political sciences, education and sport with interdisciplinary studies, economics and business, and arts and humanities.六个学院分别覆盖健康科学、传播科学、法律与政治学、教育体育与跨学科研究、经济与企业科学，以及人文与艺术。
• The degree catalogue lists 64 bachelor's degrees, 44 dual degrees, six degrees taught in English, six online degrees, 18 diplomas and eight engineering degrees.学位目录包括 64 个本科学位、44 个双学位、6 个全英文授课学位、6 个在线学位、18 个文凭项目与 8 个工程学位。
• Postgraduate teaching adds 81 official master's degrees and 34 doctoral programmes, grouped in health sciences, experimental sciences and technology, communication, and law and social sciences.研究生层面另设 81 个官方硕士学位与 34 个博士项目，分属健康科学、实验科学与技术、传播学，以及法学与社会科学四大领域。
• In the 2024-25 academic year the university counted 37,282 bachelor's students, 3,262 master's students and 1,253 doctoral students, taught by 2,811 academic staff with 837 administrative and service staff.2024 至 2025 学年，该校有本科生 37,282 人、硕士生 3,262 人、博士生 1,253 人，专任教学科研人员 2,811 人，行政与服务人员 837 人。
• The university budget reached 203.3 million euros in 2023, a figure that reflects a teaching-intensive profile rather than a large endowment.2023 年该校预算为 2.033 亿欧元，这一数字反映出以教学为主的办学结构，而非依靠大额捐赠基金。
• Medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy and occupational therapy are taught at Alcorcón beside the University Hospital URJC, which supplies clinical placements for the health faculty.医学、护理、口腔医学、物理治疗与作业治疗在阿尔科尔孔校区授课，紧邻胡安·卡洛斯国王大学医院，为健康学院提供临床实习岗位。
• Engineering spans telecommunications, computer science, chemical, materials, electronic, mechanical and aerospace programmes, with an aerospace hangar used for practical instruction at Fuenlabrada.工程学科涵盖电信、计算机、化学、材料、电子、机械与航空航天等专业，富恩拉布拉达校区设有用于实操教学的航空机库。
• The Faculty of Communication Sciences teaches journalism, audiovisual communication and advertising, and it is one of the university's largest recruiters of first-year students.传播科学学院开设新闻学、视听传播与广告学，是该校一年级招生规模最大的学院之一。
• Law and political science are based at Vicálvaro, where the Institute of International Legal Studies and the Emile Noël Centre for European Union research and documentation also sit.法学与政治学设在比卡尔瓦罗校区，国际法研究所与以埃米尔·诺埃尔命名的欧盟研究与文献中心也位于此处。
• The Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies and Applications, CETINIA, carries out work on artificial intelligence and data systems, and the REDLABU network coordinates the university's laboratories.智能信息技术与应用中心（CETINIA）从事人工智能与数据系统研究，REDLABU 实验室网络则统筹全校实验设施。
• Research support is channelled through the CINTTEC centre for innovation, technology transfer and knowledge, which manages contracts with companies and patents.科研支持由创新、技术转移与知识中心（CINTTEC）承担，负责管理企业合同与专利事务。
• The Alicia Alonso Higher Institute of Dance at Fuenlabrada teaches classical and contemporary dance within the European Higher Education Area framework, and the university language centre teaches six languages including Chinese.富恩拉布拉达的艾丽西亚·阿隆索高等舞蹈学院在欧洲高等教育区框架内教授古典舞与现代舞，校语言中心则开设包括汉语在内的六种语言课程。
• A business incubator at Vicálvaro supports student start-ups, and the university's technology support centre at Móstoles provides prototyping and analytical services.比卡尔瓦罗校区设有企业孵化器扶持学生创业，莫斯托莱斯校区的技术支持中心则提供原型制作与分析测试服务。
• The university belongs to the EULiST European alliance of universities linking society and technology, and it takes part in the Erasmus mobility programme with partners across the European Union.该校加入以连接社会与技术为宗旨的 EULiST 欧洲大学联盟，并参与与欧盟各国伙伴的伊拉斯谟流动计划。
• Each of the five campuses has its own library, and the collections are catalogued in a single online system that serves students who commute between sites.五个校区各设图书馆，馆藏统一纳入同一在线目录系统，方便在各校区之间往返的学生使用。
• The International Doctoral School administers the 34 doctoral programmes, while the School of Official Master's Degrees handles admission and quality control for the 81 official master's degrees.国际博士学院负责管理 34 个博士项目，官方硕士学院则承担 81 个官方硕士学位的招生与质量控制。

Campus

• The five campuses form an arc across the southern half of the Community of Madrid, from Aranjuez in the south-east to Móstoles and Alcorcón in the south-west, with Vicálvaro inside the city itself.五个校区在马德里自治区南半部形成一条弧线，自东南的阿兰胡埃斯延伸至西南的莫斯托莱斯与阿尔科尔孔，比卡尔瓦罗则位于市区之内。
• Móstoles is the headquarters, with the rectorate, the University Senate and the Governing Council on Calle Tulipán, and it has housed the School of Experimental Sciences and Technology since 1998 and the School of Computer Engineering since 2007.莫斯托莱斯是校本部所在地，校部办公楼、校务会议与校务委员会均位于郁金香街，实验科学与技术学院自 1998 年、计算机工程学院自 2007 年设于此。
• The Móstoles site has its own stop on Line 12 of the Madrid Metro, the MetroSur ring, which also links it with the Alcorcón and Fuenlabrada campuses.莫斯托莱斯校区设有马德里地铁 12 号线（MetroSur 环线）车站，该线同时把阿尔科尔孔与富恩拉布拉达校区串联起来。
• Alcorcón, on Avenida de Atenas, is the health campus, with the Faculty of Health Sciences, the University Hospital URJC and the Volunteering and Cooperation Centre.位于雅典大道上的阿尔科尔孔校区是健康类校区，设有健康科学学院、胡安·卡洛斯国王大学医院与志愿服务与合作中心。
• Vicálvaro, on Paseo de los Artilleros in eastern Madrid, houses law, social sciences, the language centre, the legal office and the business incubator in a compact urban site.比卡尔瓦罗校区位于马德里东部的炮兵大道，法律与社会科学、语言中心、法律事务所与企业孵化器集中于这一紧凑的城区校址。
• Fuenlabrada concentrates communication, tourism, engineering and dance, and its buildings include the aerospace hangar and the studios used by the communication faculty.富恩拉布拉达校区集中了传播、旅游、工程与舞蹈学科，校舍包括航空机库与传播学院使用的演播室。
• The Aranjuez site occupies the Nuncio's Palace, a historic building given over to research and teaching, and the town also hosts the university's summer courses.阿兰胡埃斯校区使用「教廷大使宫」这座历史建筑开展科研与教学，该镇同时承办学校的暑期课程。
• The foundation that supports the university has its headquarters on Plaza de Manuel Becerra in central Madrid, giving the institution a presence in the city centre beyond its five teaching campuses.支持该校的基金会总部设于马德里市中心的曼努埃尔·贝塞拉广场，使学校在五个教学校区之外还拥有市中心的落脚点。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 1001-1200 band, having stood in the 951-1000 band in the 2024 edition.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 1001-1200 区间，此前在 2024 年版中处于 951-1000 区间。
• Times Higher Education places it in the 1401-1600 band of its World University Rankings 2027, a position that reflects its teaching-heavy profile and modest citation record per faculty member.泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名将该校列入 1401-1600 区间，这一位次反映出其以教学为主的结构与人均引用偏低的状况。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places it 1259th in the world, and the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 puts it in the 901-1000 band.2026 至 2027 年 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名将其列为全球第 1259 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名则将其列入 901-1000 区间。
• In the ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects for 2026, dentistry and ecology both entered the top 300 worldwide, the university's strongest subject results to date.在 2026 年软科世界一流学科排名中，口腔医学与生态学双双进入全球前 300，是该校迄今最好的学科成绩。
• Its researchers have produced 37,452 indexed works and received 1,434,917 citations, a research volume far larger than its position in the world tables would suggest.该校研究人员累计发表索引论文 37,452 篇、获得 1,434,917 次引用，科研体量远高于其在世界榜单上的位次所暗示的水平。
• With 41,797 students in official degree programmes it ranks second among the public universities of the Community of Madrid, behind the Complutense and ahead of the Autonomous University and the Carlos III University.以 41,797 名官方学位在读学生计，该校在马德里自治区公立大学中位居第二，仅次于康普顿斯大学，排在自治大学与卡洛斯三世大学之前。
• It is one of the newest public universities in the region, created in 1996, and its reputation is strongest in health sciences, communication, law and applied engineering.该校是自治区内最年轻的公立大学之一，1996 年创办，声誉最强的领域为健康科学、传播学、法学与应用工程。
• Teaching is oriented towards professional practice, and the university presents internships and company links as its main claim on graduate employability.教学以职业实践为导向，学校把实习与企业合作为毕业生就业力的主要依据。
• The university is a member of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities and takes part in European alliance and mobility schemes rather than in a domestic collegiate system.该校为西班牙大学校长会议成员，主要参与欧洲联盟与流动计划，而不属于任何国内书院式联盟。
• It benchmarks itself against the Complutense University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Madrid, the two older public institutions that dominate the region's research rankings.该校以马德里康普顿斯大学与马德里自治大学为参照，这两所历史更久的公立大学主导着本地区的研究排名。

Student life

• The motto Non nova, sed nove, rendered as not new things but in a new way, was chosen at foundation to present the university as an innovator in method rather than in subject matter.校训以拉丁文写成，意为「不追求新事物，而以新方式为之」，建校时即用以表明学校要在方法上而非题材上创新。
• The university takes its name from Juan Carlos I, who reigned from 1975 until his abdication in June 2014, and the name was retained after the accession of Felipe VI.校名取自 1975 年即位、2014 年 6 月退位的胡安·卡洛斯一世，费利佩六世继位后校名保持不变。
• The twenty-fifth anniversary, marked across the 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years after a delay caused by the pandemic, included staff recognition and a public programme on the university's history.建校二十五周年纪念因疫情推迟，改在 2021 至 2022 与 2022 至 2023 学年举行，内容包括表彰教职工与面向公众的校史活动。
• URJC TV, the university's own television service, produces news and documentary output with student participation, and URJC online runs the distance degrees.校办电视台 URJC TV 制作新闻与纪录片节目并吸收学生参与，URJC Online 则负责远程学位教学。
• The Volunteering and Cooperation Centre at Alcorcón organises social programmes, and the language centre at Vicálvaro runs courses in English, French, German, Italian, Chinese and Spanish for foreigners.阿尔科尔孔的志愿服务与合作中心组织社会项目，比卡尔瓦罗的语言中心开设英语、法语、德语、意大利语、汉语与对外西班牙语课程。
• Dance students at the Alicia Alonso institute train alongside communication and engineering students at Fuenlabrada, giving that campus the most mixed cultural profile of the five.艾丽西亚·阿隆索舞蹈学院的学生与富恩拉布拉达的传播、工程学生同处一校，使该校区在五个校区中文化构成最为多元。
• Because teaching is spread over five sites, student life is organised campus by campus, with each faculty running its own associations, sports teams and graduation ceremonies.由于教学分散在五个校区，学生生活按校区组织，各学院自行运作学生社团、运动队与毕业典礼。
• Students are represented in the University Senate and the Governing Council, and the student sector elects delegates to both bodies under the statutes in force since 2023.学生在校务会议与校务委员会中均有代表，依 2023 年起施行的章程，学生界别自行选举两会代表。

Notable people

• Juan Carlos I, king of Spain from 1975 to 2014, gave the university its name when the regional assembly created it in 1996, during the twenty-first year of his reign.胡安·卡洛斯一世 1975 至 2014 年在位，1996 年自治区议会建校时以其名命名为大学定名，当时是他执政的第二十一年。
• Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, then president of the Community of Madrid, signed Law 7/1996 and later served as Spain's minister of justice between 2011 and 2014.时任马德里自治区主席的阿尔韦托·鲁伊斯-加利亚东签署了第 7/1996 号建校法，后于 2011 至 2014 年出任西班牙司法大臣。
• Abraham Duarte Muñoz is the rector in 2026 and presides over the Governing Council that runs the university under the 2023 university law.阿夫拉罕·杜阿尔特·穆尼奥斯为 2026 年在任校长，依 2023 年大学法主持校务委员会管理学校。
• Harald zur Hausen, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for linking human papillomaviruses to cervical cancer, received an honorary doctorate in 2011.哈拉尔德·楚尔·豪森因发现人乳头瘤病毒与宫颈癌的关联而分享 2008 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，2011 年获该校荣誉博士学位。
• James A. Yorke, whose 1975 work gave mathematics the term chaos and who won the 2003 Japan Prize, was made an honorary doctor in 2014.詹姆斯·约克 1975 年的研究为数学引入「混沌」一词，并获 2003 年日本国际奖，2014 年获该校荣誉博士学位。
• Bernardo Kliksberg, the Argentine economist and management scholar, became the first foreign honorary doctor of the university in January 2008.阿根廷经济学家与管理学者贝尔纳多·克利克斯贝格于 2008 年 1 月成为该校首位外籍荣誉博士。
• Iñaki Gabilondo, one of Spain's best-known broadcast journalists, and Antonio Mingote, the cartoonist of the newspaper ABC, were both honoured in the 2007 cohort.西班牙知名广播记者伊尼亚基·加维隆多与《ABC》报漫画家安东尼奥·明戈特均列于 2007 年的荣誉博士名单。
• Juan Velarde Fuertes, an economist of the Spanish development school, received an honorary doctorate in 2007 alongside the broadcaster Luis del Olmo.西班牙发展学派经济学家胡安·贝拉德·富埃尔特斯与播音员路易斯·德尔奥尔莫同在 2007 年获授荣誉博士学位。
• Pablo Iglesias Turrión completed a doctorate in political science at the university and taught there before co-founding Podemos and serving as second deputy prime minister from 2020 to 2021.巴勃罗·伊格莱西亚斯·图里翁在该校取得政治学博士学位并曾在此任教，后参与创建「我们能」党，并于 2020 至 2021 年任西班牙第二副首相。
• Juan Ramón Rallo, an economist and author of widely read works on monetary theory, took his doctorate at the university and has taught in its economics faculty.胡安·拉蒙·拉略是货币理论领域著述甚多的经济学家，在该校取得博士学位并曾于经济学院任教。
• Ramón Tamames, the economist and former communist deputy who later drafted a censure motion against the government, received an honorary doctorate in 2011.经济学家、前共产党议员拉蒙·塔马梅斯后曾提出针对政府的不信任动议，2011 年获该校荣誉博士学位。