Lehigh University

Lehigh University is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, founded on 27 July 1865 by the industrialist Asa Packer.利哈伊大学（Lehigh University）是美国宾夕法尼亚州伯利恒的私立研究型大学，由实业家艾萨·帕克于 1865 年 7 月 27 日创办。

Best known for engineering, science and business, it is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity", has an endowment of about 2.2 billion dollars and enrols some 5,900 undergraduates.该校以工程、科学与商学见长，被归类为「R1：博士型大学——极高研究活跃度」，捐赠基金约 22 亿美元，本科生约 5900 人。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Lehigh is placed 670th in the world, and it competes in 25 Division I sports as a founding member of the Patriot League.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，利哈伊大学位列世界第 670 位；该校作为「爱国者联盟」创始成员，参加 25 个 NCAA 第一级别体育项目。

History

• Lehigh was founded by the industrialist Asa Packer, who made his fortune in the Lehigh Valley's anthracite coal and railroad industries, on 27 July 1865.利哈伊大学由实业家艾萨·帕克创办，他靠在利哈伊谷的无烟煤与铁路产业致富，建校日为 1865 年 7 月 27 日。
• The university was created as an all-male institution with the express purpose of offering a thorough education in civil, mechanical and mining engineering, chemistry, metallurgy, the classics and general literature.该校创建时为男校，明确目标是提供土木、机械与采矿工程、化学、冶金、古典学以及普通文学方面的完备教育。
• At its foundation any man over the age of 16 could attend if he showed mastery of arithmetic and passed a test in Latin and ancient Greek grammar and literature.建校之初，任何年满 16 岁的男性只要能证明掌握算术并通过拉丁语与古希腊语语法及文学测试，即可入学。
• The board of trustees was established in 1866, and Asa Packer's will endowed the institution with a large legacy, including funds for the library and for general expenses.该校董事会于 1866 年成立；艾萨·帕克的遗嘱为学校留下大笔遗产，包括用于图书馆与日常开支的资金。
• Brown and white were adopted as the university's colors in 1874, though the university had already used them since 1867.该校于 1874 年正式采用棕色与白色为校色，而自 1867 年起便已开始使用。
• The engineering honour society Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh in 1885, reflecting the university's early emphasis on engineering.工程荣誉学会 Tau Beta Pi 于 1885 年在利哈伊大学创立，反映出该校早期对工程的重视。
• Business and economics teaching began in 1893, the first dedicated economics classes were offered in 1897, and John L. Stewart was hired as the first professor of economics in 1898.该校于 1893 年开始商业与经济课程，1897 年开设首批专门的经济学课程，1898 年聘任约翰·L·斯图尔特为第一位经济学教授。
• Stewart created the College of Business in 1918, establishing its first courses and teaching most of them himself, and its inaugural class in 1922 numbered just 77 students.斯图尔特于 1918 年创立商学院，开设首批课程并亲自教授大部分课程；1922 年首届班级仅有 77 名学生。
• In 1938 the College of Business Administration was accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and its enrolment that year reached 465, or a quarter of the student body.1938 年商学院获得国际商学院促进协会认证，当年在校生增至 465 人，占全校学生的四分之一。
• The university maintained a United States Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit from 1919, the Steel Battalion of the 2nd ROTC Brigade, headquartered in Jordan Hall.自 1919 年起该校设有美国陆军预备军官训练团单位，即第 2 预备军官训练旅的「钢铁营」，团部设于乔丹楼。
• Lehigh University became coeducational for undergraduates from the 1971 to 1972 academic year, admitting women for the first time in its history.自 1971 至 1972 学年起，利哈伊大学本科阶段开始招收女生，首次实现男女同校。
• The Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise was founded in 1980 with an endowment from Elizabeth Fairchild Martindale and Harry Turner Martindale.马丁代尔私营企业研究中心于 1980 年由伊丽莎白·费尔柴尔德·马丁代尔与哈里·特纳·马丁代尔的捐赠设立。
• The "golden age" of Lehigh's fraternities came in the mid-1980s, when there were 36 fraternities on campus, all located on the part of campus known as The Hill.利哈伊大学兄弟会的「黄金时代」出现在 20 世纪 80 年代中期，当时校园共有 36 个兄弟会，全部位于被称为「山丘」的校园区域。
• The murder of the freshman Jeanne Clery in her dormitory in 1986 led to the federal Clery Act of 1990, which requires colleges to report campus crime statistics.1986 年新生珍妮·克利里在宿舍遇害，促使美国于 1990 年通过联邦《克利里法》，要求高校公布校园犯罪统计数据。
• In May 2012 Lehigh received 755 acres in Upper Saucon Township from the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation, expanding the university towards its present extent.2012 年 5 月，利哈伊大学从唐纳德·B 与多萝西·L·斯特布勒基金会获赠上索康镇的 755 英亩土地，使学校规模进一步扩展。
• The College of Health opened on 21 August 2020 and was the first in the world to offer undergraduate, graduate and executive degrees in population health.健康学院于 2020 年 8 月 21 日开办，是全球首个开设人口健康领域本科、研究生与高管学位的学院。
• The Health, Science and Technology building, which houses the College of Health, opened in January 2022 on the Mountaintop campus.容纳健康学院的健康、科学与技术大楼于 2022 年 1 月在山顶校区启用。
• Joseph J. Helble, a 1982 alumnus and former provost of Dartmouth College, became Lehigh's 15th president on 16 August 2021 and was inaugurated on 15 October 2021.1982 届校友、曾任达特茅斯学院教务长的约瑟夫·J·赫尔布尔于 2021 年 8 月 16 日出任利哈伊大学第 15 任校长，并于 2021 年 10 月 15 日正式就职。
• Asa Packer died in 1879, leaving about 1.5 million dollars as a permanent endowment for general expenses and a further half million dollars for the library.艾萨·帕克于 1879 年去世，留下约 150 万美元作为日常开支的永久基金，另加 50 万美元用于图书馆。
• Under Helble the university completed its first comprehensive strategic plan in 15 years, entitled Inspiring the Future Makers.在赫尔布尔治下，该校完成了 15 年来首份综合性战略规划，题为「启迪未来创造者」。

Academics

• Lehigh is organised into the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Education and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, together with the newer College of Health.该校设文理学院、商学院、教育学院与罗斯林工程与应用科学学院，以及较新的健康学院。
• As of 2022 the university had 584 full-time faculty members, 95 per cent of them holding a doctorate or the highest degree in their field, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 11 to 1.截至 2022 年，该校有 584 名专任教师，其中 95% 持有博士或本领域最高学位，师生比为 11 比 1。
• In 2022 Lehigh enrolled 5,911 undergraduate and 1,781 graduate students, and in 2024 it received 20,396 applications and admitted 5,289, an acceptance rate of about 25 per cent.2022 年该校在校本科生 5911 人、研究生 1781 人；2024 年收到 20,396 份申请并录取 5289 人，录取率约 25%。
• The middle 50 per cent of the incoming Class of 2028 scored between 1420 and 1520 on the SAT and between 32 and 35 on the ACT.2028 届新生中段 50% 的 SAT 成绩介于 1420 至 1520，ACT 成绩介于 32 至 35。
• Most of Lehigh's programmes are concentrated in engineering, business and the applied sciences, and roughly half of its students study engineering, a legacy of its founding mission.利哈伊大学的项目多集中于工程、商学与应用科学；约半数学生主修工程，这是其建校使命的遗产。
• Graduates of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science invented the escalator and founded the Packard Motor Car Company.罗斯林工程与应用科学学院的毕业生发明了自动扶梯，并创办了帕卡德汽车公司。
• The College of Education had awarded more than 7,000 master's, doctoral and professional degrees and Pennsylvania teaching certificates as of 2018.截至 2018 年，教育学院已授予逾 7000 个硕士、博士与专业学位以及宾夕法尼亚州教师资格证书。
• Lehigh's business school was an early provider of graduate management education, offering a five-year industrial engineering and business course from 1952 and MBA courses in the same decade.该校商学院是研究生管理教育的早期提供者，自 1952 年起开设五年制工业工程与商学课程，并在同一时期开设 MBA 课程。
• The College of Health teaches biostatistics, epidemiology and population health data science, and opened in 2020 as part of the university's expansion into the health sciences.健康学院教授生物统计学、流行病学与人口健康数据科学，于 2020 年开办，是该校向健康科学拓展的一部分。
• Research centres include the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise, the Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience and the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship.其研究中心包括马丁代尔私营企业研究中心、灾害建模与韧性研究中心以及贝克创业研究所。
• The university maintains the Loewy Institute for Materials Processing and the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy, supporting its engineering research mission.该校设有洛威材料加工研究所以及信息物理基础设施与能源研究所，支撑其工程研究使命。
• Lehigh's alumni network numbers about 89,000 graduates, and 92 per cent of the Class of 2025 were employed, continuing education or engaged in other pursuits within six months of graduation.该校校友网络约有 89000 名毕业生；2025 届毕业生中有 92% 在毕业六个月内就业、升学或从事其他事业。
• The university is classified as "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity" and operates on a semester system.该校被归类为「R1：博士型大学——极高研究活跃度」，实行学期制。
• Lehigh maintains a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and its undergraduates publish research through journals such as Perspectives on Business and Economics.该校设有 Phi Beta Kappa 荣誉学会分会，其本科生通过《商业与经济透视》等刊物发表研究成果。
• Its College of Business has been accredited by AACSB since 1938, and the university's professional programmes are aligned with United States engineering and health education standards.其商学院自 1938 年起获 AACSB 认证，学校的专业项目与美国工程与健康教育标准相对接。
• Admission is classified as "more selective" by the Carnegie Classification, and The Princeton Review gives Lehigh an admissions selectivity rating of 95 out of 99.卡内基分类将该校录取列为「更具选择性」，而《普林斯顿评论》给利哈伊大学的录取选择性评分为 99 分制中的 95 分。
• The Martindale Center runs the Student Associates Honors Program, sending twelve juniors each year to conduct group and individual research on a small or medium-sized economy.马丁代尔中心设有「学生研究员荣誉项目」，每年选派 12 名大三学生就一个中小型经济体开展小组与个人研究。

Campus

• Lehigh is located in Bethlehem in the Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania, a historically industrial region, and encompassed 2,350 acres as of 2025.该校位于宾夕法尼亚州东部利哈伊谷的伯利恒，这一地区历史上以工业著称；截至 2025 年，校园占地 2350 英亩。
• It is organised into three contiguous campuses on and around South Mountain, including the Asa Packer campus built into the mountain's northern slope.该校由南山上及山麓相连的三个校区组成，其中包括依山北坡而建的艾萨·帕克校区。
• The Asa Packer campus is the university's original and primary campus, and its academic buildings cluster on the hillside above the South Bethlehem neighbourhood.艾萨·帕克校区是该校最早的主校区，其教学楼群集中在南伯利恒社区上方的山坡上。
• The Mountaintop campus, atop South Mountain, contains intramural sports fields, Imbt Laboratories and Iacocca Hall.位于南山顶部的山顶校区设有校内运动场、因布特实验室与艾科卡楼。
• The Murray H. Goodman campus, immediately south in Lower Saucon, includes Goodman Stadium and most of Lehigh's sports facilities.位于下索康、紧邻南侧的默里·H·古德曼校区包括古德曼体育场与该校大部分体育设施。
• The campus includes 180 acres of recreational and playing fields and about 150 buildings comprising roughly four million square feet of floor space.校园内有 180 英亩的休闲与运动场地，以及约 150 座建筑、合建筑面积约 400 万平方英尺。
• In 2012 a gift of 755 acres in Upper Saucon Township from the Stabler Foundation allowed the university to expand to its current extent of 2,350 acres.2012 年，斯特布勒基金会捐赠上索康镇的 755 英亩土地，使该校得以扩展至如今的 2350 英亩规模。
• Lehigh's two libraries hold about 1.2 million volumes and more than 21,500 journals and periodicals, supported by a library endowment created by Asa Packer.该校的两座图书馆藏书约 120 万册、期刊与杂志逾 21,500 种，其经费来自艾萨·帕克设立的图书馆基金。
• The Linderman Library, endowed by Asa Packer in memory of his daughter Lucy Packer Linderman, is a landmark building on the hillside campus.由艾萨·帕克为纪念其女儿露西·帕克·林德曼而捐资设立的林德曼图书馆，是山坡校区上的标志性建筑。
• Bethlehem is about 90 kilometres north of Philadelphia and 130 kilometres west of New York City, and the campus lies close to the Lehigh River and the historic Bethlehem Steel site.伯利恒位于费城以北约 90 公里、纽约市以西约 130 公里，校园靠近利哈伊河与历史悠久的伯利恒钢铁厂遗址。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Lehigh is placed 670th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，利哈伊大学位列世界第 670 位。 ^[1]
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 601 to 650 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列于世界第 601 至 650 区间。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026 to 2027, Lehigh is placed 1,049th in the world.2026 至 2027 年版《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳全球大学排名将利哈伊大学列为世界第 1049 位。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 901 to 1000 band worldwide.2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列于世界第 901 至 1000 区间。
• OpenAlex records 42,570 works and 2,333,699 citations for Lehigh, reflecting its research output in engineering, materials and the sciences.OpenAlex 为利哈伊大学记录 42,570 篇成果、2,333,699 次引用，体现出其在工程、材料与自然科学方面的科研产出。
• In the 2025 U.S. News "Best Colleges" ranking Lehigh was placed 46th among national universities, and in 2024 The Wall Street Journal ranked it 14th best in the United States.在 2025 年《美国新闻与世界报道》「最佳大学」排名中，该校位列全国性大学第 46 位；2024 年《华尔街日报》将其列为全美第 14 位。
• The Princeton Review has ranked Lehigh first in the nation for best science laboratory facilities and second for best college newspaper.《普林斯顿评论》曾把利哈伊大学的科学实验室设施列为全美第一、把其校报列为全美第二。
• According to PayScale's 2024 report, Lehigh ranks 12th among United States universities for bachelor's degree salary potential, with a mid-career median salary of 147,300 dollars.据 PayScale 2024 年报告，该校在全美大学的学士学位薪资潜力排名中列第 12 位，职业中期薪资中位数为 147,300 美元。
• Lehigh is a founding member of the Patriot League, an athletics conference of small, highly selective eastern universities including MIT and Georgetown.利哈伊大学是「爱国者联盟」的创始成员，该体育联盟由麻省理工学院与乔治敦大学等规模小、录取严格的东部高校组成。
• Its wrestling team, begun in 1910, has produced 158 All-Americans and finished second in the nation in 1939, making it the university's most storied athletic programme.该校摔跤队始创于 1910 年，已培养 158 名全美最佳选手，并于 1939 年获得全国亚军，是学校最负盛名的体育项目。
• In 2023 U.S. News ranked Lehigh's 1-MBA programme fifth in the United States for the ratio of starting salary to debt.2023 年《美国新闻与世界报道》把利哈伊大学的 1-MBA 项目列为全美起薪与负债比第五名。

Student life

• Lehigh's motto is Homo Minister et Interpres Naturae, meaning "Man, the servant and interpreter of nature", drawn from the works of Francis Bacon.该校校训为「Homo Minister et Interpres Naturae」，意为「人类是自然的仆人与解释者」，出自弗朗西斯·培根的著作。
• Its teams were known as the Engineers until the first official mascot, the Mountain Hawk, debuted in 1995, and the mascot was named Clutch in 2008.该校运动队原称「工程师」，直到 1995 年首只官方吉祥物「山鹰」亮相，2008 年该吉祥物被命名为 Clutch。
• The Lehigh–Lafayette football rivalry began in 1884 and is the most-played rivalry in college football, with the two teams meeting more than 160 times since.利哈伊与拉斐特的美式足球宿怨始于 1884 年，是大学橄榄球史上交锋次数最多的宿怨，两队至今已交手 160 余次。
• The annual Spirit Week leads up to the Lehigh–Lafayette game and includes the Bed Races, in which student teams decorate beds and race them down Packer Avenue.每年一度的「精神周」为利哈伊与拉斐特之战预热，其中包含「赛床」活动，学生队伍装饰床架在帕克大道上竞速。
• The Marching 97 band performs traditional fight songs through campus during Le-Laf Week, and the Eco-Flame tradition dates from the 1970s.「行进 97」乐队在宿怨周穿行校园演奏传统战歌，「生态之火」传统则始于 20 世纪 70 年代。
• About 35 per cent of undergraduates belong to a fraternity or sorority, with ten fraternities and eight sororities, most housed on campus in the area known as The Hill.约 35% 的本科生加入兄弟会或姐妹会，共有 10 个兄弟会与 8 个姐妹会，多数设在校园内被称为「山丘」的区域。
• The student newspaper, The Brown and White, has been published continuously since 1894, and the student magazine The Lehigh Burr ran from 1881 to 1934.校报《棕与白》自 1894 年起持续出版，学生杂志《利哈伊伯尔》则发行于 1881 至 1934 年。
• Lehigh competes in 25 NCAA Division I sports, and its 2006 student-athlete graduation rate of 97 per cent ranked 12th among all Division I institutions.利哈伊大学参加 25 个 NCAA 第一级别体育项目，其 2006 年学生运动员毕业率高达 97%，在全部第一级别院校中排名第 12。
• Lehigh's part-time online FLEX MBA programme was ranked 13th among online MBA programmes by Poets&Quants for 2025.该校非全日制在线 FLEX MBA 项目被 Poets&Quants 列为 2025 年在线 MBA 第 13 名。

Notable people

• Asa Packer, the founder, was a railroad and coal magnate whose fortune built Lehigh University and its original campus.创办人艾萨·帕克是铁路与煤炭巨头，其财富成就了利哈伊大学及其最初的校园。
• James Ward Packard, a graduate of 1884, founded the Packard Motor Car Company, one of the great American luxury car makers.1884 届毕业生詹姆斯·沃德·帕卡德创办了帕卡德汽车公司，是美国最负盛名的豪华汽车制造商之一。
• Lee Iacocca, who graduated in 1945, became president of Ford Motor Company and later chairman of Chrysler, where he led a celebrated turnaround.1945 届毕业的李·艾科卡先后担任福特汽车公司总裁与克莱斯勒董事长，并在克莱斯勒主导了一次著名的扭亏为盈。
• Roger Penske, an alumnus and auto-racing team owner, built one of the most successful motor-sport organisations in the world.校友罗杰·彭斯克是赛车队老板，打造了全球最成功的赛车组织之一。
• Terry Hart, a 1968 graduate, became a NASA astronaut and flew on a Space Shuttle mission in 1984.1968 届毕业的特里·哈特成为美国国家航空航天局的宇航员，并于 1984 年执行了一次航天飞机任务。
• Stacey Cunningham, a 1996 graduate, became the 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange, the second woman to lead it.1996 届毕业的斯泰西·坎宁安成为纽约证券交易所第 67 任主席，也是第二位执掌该交易所的女性。
• C.J. McCollum, a 2013 graduate, became a star guard in the National Basketball Association, having led Lehigh to an upset over Duke in 2012.2013 届毕业的 C·J·麦科勒姆成为美国职业篮球联赛的明星后卫，曾于 2012 年带领利哈伊大学爆冷击败杜克大学。
• Ali Al-Naimi, who studied at Lehigh in 1962, served as Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for two decades.1962 年在利哈伊大学就读的阿里·阿尔-纳伊米曾长期担任沙特阿拉伯石油与矿产资源大臣。
• James R. Rice, a 1962 graduate, became a professor at Harvard University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.1962 届毕业的詹姆斯·R·赖斯成为哈佛大学教授，并当美国国家科学院与美国国家工程院院士。
• Andrew H. Knoll, a 1973 graduate, is a Harvard palaeontologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences known for work on early life.1973 届毕业的安德鲁·H·诺尔是哈佛大学古生物学家、美国国家科学院院士，以早期生命研究著称。
• Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, received an honorary degree from Lehigh in 1988 that the university revoked in 2021 after the Capitol attack.美国第 45 任总统唐纳德·特朗普于 1988 年获授该校荣誉学位，2021 年国会大厦冲击事件后该学位被撤销。
• Zhou Mingzhen, who earned a doctorate at Lehigh in 1950, became known as the father of dinosaur research in China and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.1950 年在利哈伊大学取得博士学位的周明镇被称为中国恐龙研究之父，并于 1980 年当选中国科学院学部委员。