Linköping University

Linköping University (LiU, Swedish: Linköpings universitet) is a public research university in Linköping, in the province of Östergötland in southern Sweden, founded in 1969 and granted full university status in 1975 as the country's sixth university.林雪平大学（缩写 LiU，瑞典语：Linköpings universitet）是位于瑞典南部东约特兰省林雪平市的一所公立研究型大学，1969 年创立、1975 年获得正式大学地位，成为瑞典第六所大学。

Teaching and research are spread over four campuses in three cities — Campus Valla and Campus US in Linköping, Campus Norrköping in Norrköping and Campus Lidingö in the Stockholm archipelago — organised into four faculties and twelve large cross-disciplinary departments.教学与科研分布在三个城市的四个校区——林雪平的瓦拉校区与 US 校区、北雪平的北雪平校区，以及斯德哥尔摩群岛中的利多校区——共设四个学院和十二个大型跨学科系。

It is a founding member of the CDIO Initiative and the European Consortium of Innovative Universities, is ranked 308th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, and is known nationally for combining medicine with engineering and for the aviation cluster around its Linköping Science Park.它是 CDIO 倡议与欧洲创新大学联盟的创始成员，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 308，并以医工结合以及林雪平科技园周边的航空产业聚落而著称。

History

• Linköping has been a centre of learning since the Middle Ages, when Linköping Cathedral ran a school with its own student hall in Paris, and in 1627 the Cathedral School became the third upper secondary school in Sweden.林雪平自中世纪起便是学术重镇，林雪平主教座堂曾办有一所拥有巴黎学生会馆的学校，1627 年主教座堂学校成为瑞典第三所中学。

• A college for training elementary-school teachers opened in Linköping in 1843, and in Norrköping the Fröbel Institute, Sweden's first college for training pre-school teachers, was founded in 1902.1843 年一所培养小学教师的学院在林雪平开办，1902 年北雪平的弗里布尔学院成为瑞典第一所培养学前教师的学院。

• Higher education in Sweden was expanding rapidly in the 1960s, and in 1965 the Swedish national legislature, the Riksdag, resolved to build a branch of Stockholm University together with a university college of engineering and medicine in Linköping.1960 年代瑞典高等教育急速扩张，1965 年瑞典国家立法机构议会决定在林雪平设立斯德哥尔摩大学分校，并配套建立一所工程与医学大学学院。

• In the autumn of 1967 the branch of Stockholm University opened in Linköping, offering teaching in the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences.1967 年秋，斯德哥尔摩大学在林雪平的分校开学，提供人文科学、社会科学和自然科学方面的教学。

• Two years later, in 1969, a unit for medical training and the Institute of Technology were established, an event usually taken as the founding of the university.两年后的 1969 年，医学培训单位与理工学院相继设立，此事通常被视为该大学的创立。

• Also in 1969 the Institute of Technology opened its first teaching building, and the school has long recruited under the name Linköping Institute of Technology, abbreviated LITH.同样在 1969 年理工学院启用第一栋教学楼，该校也长期以“林雪平理工学院”（缩写 LITH）之名对外招生。

• In 1970 all activities were brought together inside a single Linköping University College made up of three bodies: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Technology.1970 年各项事务并入统一的林雪平大学学院，由三个单元组成：文科学院、医学院和理工学院。

• On 1 January 1975 the college was granted full university status and renamed Linköping University, becoming the sixth university in Sweden.1975 年 1 月 1 日，该学院获得正式大学地位并更名为林雪平大学，成为瑞典第六所大学。

• In 1975 it also launched Sweden's first degree programme in computer science, giving it the oldest and among the largest computer science departments in the Nordic countries.1975 年它还开设了瑞典第一个计算机科学学位专业，使其成为北欧历史最悠久、规模最大的计算机科学系之一。

• The teacher training colleges in Linköping and Norrköping were transferred to the university in 1977, strengthening its programmes in educational sciences.1977 年林雪平与北雪平的师资培训学院划归该校，强化了其教育科学方面的专业。

• In 1980 Linköping University became the first Swedish university to introduce interdisciplinary thematic research within its Faculty of Arts and Sciences and an interdisciplinary perspective in its doctoral schools.1980 年林雪平大学成为瑞典第一所在文科学院内引入跨学科主题研究、并在博士生院采用跨学科视角的大学。

• The Faculty of Health Sciences was formed in 1986, growing out of the Faculty of Medicine and regionally funded education in health-care professions.健康科学学院于 1986 年成立，由医学院及地方资助的医护专业教育合并发展而来。

• Also in 1986 the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences became the first faculty in Sweden to put problem-based learning into practice in medical and health-care training.同样在 1986 年，医学与健康科学学院成为瑞典第一个在医学与医护培养中推行问题导向学习的学院。

• A campus in the neighbouring industrial city of Norrköping was opened in 1997, roughly forty kilometres to the north-east of Linköping.1997 年在邻近的工业城市北雪平开设校区，位于林雪平东北约四十公里处。

• The celebrated Carl Malmsten School of Furniture, officially Malmstens Linköping University, has formed part of the university since 2000.著名的卡尔·马尔姆斯坦家具学院，正式名称为马尔姆斯滕林雪平大学，自 2000 年起成为该校的一部分。

• In 2000 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Linköping University, Chalmers University of Technology and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, formally founded the CDIO Initiative for engineering education.2000 年麻省理工学院与林雪平大学、查尔姆斯理工大学和瑞典皇家理工学院合作，正式创立面向工程教育的 CDIO 倡议。

• By 2004 the university had some 44,500 students and 4,700 employees, confirming its place among Sweden's largest academic institutions.到 2004 年该校已有约 44,500 名学生和 4,700 名雇员，稳居瑞典最大学术机构之列。

• In 2007 its Medical Programme and its Department of Electrical Engineering Control Systems Division were recognised as Centres of Excellence in Higher Education, two of the eight such awards given to Swedish universities.2007 年其医学专业和电气工程系控制系统实验室被评为高等教育卓越中心，是颁发给瑞典高校的八个此类奖项中的两个。

• After almost sixty years in central Stockholm the Malmstens furniture school moved into new premises in Lidingö in 2009, creating the university's fourth campus.马尔姆斯滕家具学校在斯德哥尔摩市中心经营近六十年后于 2009 年迁入利多新址，形成该校第四个校区。

• The university adopted a new corporate logo on 20 May 2015, and since 2023 its incubator LEAD has served as a Swedish node in NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic.学校于 2015 年 5 月 20 日启用新标识，自 2023 年起其孵化器 LEAD 成为北约“北海大西洋防务创新加速器”的瑞典节点。

• The National Supercomputer Centre, operated by Linköping University, hosted five supercomputers in the June 2026 TOP500 list, including Arrhenius, the fastest computer in Sweden.由林雪平大学运营的国家超级计算中心在 2026 年 6 月的 TOP500 榜单上拥有五台超级计算机，其中包括瑞典最快的阿伦尼乌斯号。

• Its rectors shaped the young institution, Hans Meijer serving from 1970 to 1983, Sven Erlander from 1983 to 1995, Anders Flodström from 1996 to 1999, Bertil Andersson from 1999 to 2003 and Mille Millnert from 2003 to 2009.该校历任校长塑造了这所年轻学府，汉斯·梅耶尔于 1970 至 1983 年在任，斯文·厄兰德尔于 1983 至 1995 年在任，安德士·弗洛德斯特罗姆于 1996 至 1999 年在任，伯蒂尔·安德松于 1999 至 2003 年在任，米勒·米勒讷特于 2003 至 2009 年在任。

Academics

• Linköping University is organised into four faculties: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering (the Institute of Technology), the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Faculty of Educational Sciences.林雪平大学下设四个学院：文科学院、科学工程学院（即理工学院）、医学与健康科学学院以及教育科学学院。

• Underneath the faculties sit twelve large departments that deliberately cut across traditional disciplines, among them the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences and the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology.学院之下设有十二个大型系，刻意打破传统学科界限，其中包括生物医学与临床科学系以及物理、化学与生物系。

• The university teaches through roughly 120 degree programmes and 550 single-subject courses, together with specialised and interdisciplinary postgraduate studies该校以约 120 个学位专业、550 门单科课程以及专业化与跨学科的研究生教育开展教学；

• Many degree programmes lead to qualified professional degrees in medicine, business and economics, teacher education and engineering, and numerous programmes blend fields such as industrial management with engineering or economics with law and languages.许多专业授予医学、商业与经济学、教师教育和工程的职业资格学位，还有大量专业将工业管理与工程、或经济学与法律和语言相结合。

• Its biomedical engineering programme is organised as a national research centre, jointly housed in the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine.其生物医学工程专业按国家研究中心模式组织，同时隶属于科学工程学院与医学与健康科学学院。

• Notable strengths include medicine, which is one of the largest programmes of its kind in Sweden, together with the Institute of Technology and the Department of Computer and Information Science.其优势学科包括医学（瑞典规模最大的同类专业之一），以及理工学院和计算机与信息科学系。

• On the research side the university receives strategic government funding in five areas: information technology and mobile communication, materials science, security and emergency management, e-Science and transport research.科研方面，该校在五个战略领域获政府资助：信息技术与移动通信、材料科学、安全与应急管理、eScience 以及交通研究。

• Its research centres include the Linnaeus Centre CADICS for control and decision-making, the Linnaeus Centre HEAD for hearing and deafness research and the strategic centre for organic electronics, OBOE.其研究中心包括负责控制与决策的林奈厄斯 CADICS 中心、从事听觉与失聪研究的林奈厄斯 HEAD 中心，以及有机电子战略中心 OBOE。

• The Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, CMIV, and the Norrköping Visualization Center C support work in imaging and visualisation, and the Dome Theatre, built in 2009, is the most technically advanced dome in northern Europe.医学影像科学与可视化中心 CMIV 和北雪平可视化中心 C 支撑影像与可视化研究；2009 年建成的穹顶影院是北欧技术最先进的穹顶。

• The Center for Disaster Medicine and Traumatology, KMC, is a national research centre for traumatology assigned by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare.灾害医学与创伤学中心 KMC 是由瑞典国家卫生与福利委员会指定的国家创伤学研究中心。

• The Institute for Analytical Sociology and Didacticum LiU are two of the university's thematic units, while its National Supercomputer Centre supplies computing resources to researchers across Sweden.分析社会学研究所与 Didacticum LiU 是该校两个主题单元，而国家超级计算中心则为全瑞典的研究者提供计算资源。

• Two science parks, Linköping Science Park and Norrköping Science Park, are closely tied to the university, and its incubator LEAD is housed within them.林雪平科技园与北雪平科技园两所科技园区与该校关系密切，其孵化器 LEAD 就设在园区内。

• As of 2023 Linköping Science Park hosted around 600 companies employing some 14,000 people, among them Ericsson, Sectra, IFS, Infor, Combitech and CGI Group.截至 2023 年林雪平科技园入驻约 600 家企业、雇约 14,000 人，其中包括爱立信、Sectra、IFS、Infor、Combitech 和 CGI 集团。

• The Cavok District site adjoins Linköping City Airport and the main offices of Saab, developer of the JAS 39 Gripen fighter and the GlobalEye early-warning platform, and Saab's future-fighter work is conducted with the university.Cavok 园区紧邻林雪平城市机场与萨博总部，萨博是 JAS 39 鹰狮战斗机与 GlobalEye 预警平台的研制方，其未来战机项目与该校合作开展。

• Norrköping Science Park gathers about 130 companies around printed electronics, interactivity and visualisation, echoing the strengths of Campus Norrköping.北雪平科技园聚集约 130 家企业，围绕印刷电子、交互与可视化，与北雪平校区的优势相呼应。

• Linköping University is a member of the European University Association, the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), NORDTEK and the European Consortium of Innovative Universities, and takes part in the European Erasmus exchange scheme.林雪平大学是欧洲大学协会、欧洲工程教育学会（SEFI）、NORDTEK 与欧洲创新大学联盟成员，并参与欧盟 Erasmus 交流计划。

• Its interdisciplinary flagship programmes, among them industrial engineering and management, applied physics and electrical engineering and cognitive science, were the first of their kind in Sweden.该校的跨学科旗舰专业，包括工业工程与管理、应用物理学与电气工程以及认知科学，均为瑞典首创。

Campus

• Campus Valla lies about three kilometres from the centre of Linköping, is the largest campus, and holds the majority of students and researchers.瓦拉校区距林雪平市中心约三公里，是最大校区，容纳大部分学生与研究者。

• Campus Valla is hemmed in by Linköping Science Park and the Linköping Golf Course to the west and by Valla Wood, a nature reserve of roughly 200 acres, to the east.瓦拉校区西侧被林雪平科技园与林雪平高尔夫球场环抱，东侧是约 200 英亩的瓦拉林地自然保护区。

• Government research institutes share Campus Valla, among them the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, and the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, VTI.多家政府研究机构与瓦拉校区同址，其中包括瑞典防务研究局 FOI 与瑞典国家公路与交通研究所 VTI。

• Campus US, the University Hospital campus, houses the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and sits next to Linköping University Hospital and the Linköping City Park, Trädgårdsföreningen, only a few hundred metres from the city centre.US 校区即大学医院校区，容纳医学与健康科学学院，紧邻林雪平大学医院与林雪平城市公园，距市中心仅数百米。

• Campus Norrköping is a city campus in central Norrköping about forty kilometres north-east of Linköping, where roughly one quarter of the students study北雪平校区是位于北雪平市中心、距林雪平东北约四十公里的城市校区，约四分之一的学生在此就读；

• Its buildings stand on both banks of the river Motala ström in the historic Industrilandskapet district, linked by a footbridge known as Campusbron.其校舍坐落于历史悠久的工业景观区、横跨莫塔拉河两岸，由一座名为 Campusbron 的人行桥相连。

• Campus Lidingö houses the Carl Malmsten School of Furniture in the inner Stockholm archipelago, reached after the school moved there from central Stockholm in 2009.利多校区坐落在斯德哥尔摩内群岛，容纳卡尔·马尔姆斯坦家具学院，该学院 2009 年从斯德哥尔摩市中心迁来。

• A free Campus Bus links the Valla, US and Norrköping campuses, and most students attending the Linköping campuses live in the Ryd student-residential district.免费校园巴士连接瓦拉、US 与北雪平三校区，在林雪平校区上课的学生大多住在吕德学生宿舍区。

Reputation

• Linköping University is ranked 308th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.林雪平大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 308。

• It is placed at 242 in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 306th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027.学校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 242，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 306。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Linköping University falls in the 301-400 band.在由上海交通大学发布的 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，林雪平大学处于 301 至 400 区间。

• Its engineering subjects sit in the world top 100 of the ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, with Telecommunication Engineering 51-75 and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Science, Nanoscience and Energy all in the 76-100 band in 2022.其工程学科位列软科世界大学学术排名全球前 100：2022 年通信工程为 51 至 75，电气与电子工程、材料科学、纳米科学和能源均处于 76 至 100 档。

• In the 2022 Times Higher Education subject tables it placed in the world top 125 for Engineering and Technology, Business and Economics and Psychology, and in the top 200 for Computer Science and Social Sciences.在 2022 年泰晤士高等教育学科排名中，它于工程与技术、商业与经济、心理学位列世界前 125，在计算机科学与社会科学进入前 200。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 88,131 research works attracting 6,525,392 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 88,131 项研究成果，累计被引用 6,525,392 次。

• Linköping University Hospital ranked 192nd in Newsweek's 2025 list of the world's best hospitals, giving its medical faculty a strong clinical base.林雪平大学医院在《新闻周刊》2025 年全球最佳医院榜中位列第 192，为医学院提供了雄厚的临床支撑。

• In a 2007 Swedish government review of teaching quality, Linköping University was the only university to win two top awards, one for medicine and one for control systems engineering.在 2007 年瑞典政府的教育质量评估中，林雪平大学是唯一同时获得两项最高教学奖的高校，一项为医学、一项为控制系统工程。

• No Nobel laureate has been permanently employed at Linköping University, but its applied physicist Ingemar Lundström served as chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, and faculty include Fellows of the ACM and of the AAAI.没有诺贝尔奖得主曾在林雪平大学长期任教，但其应用物理学家英格马尔·伦德斯特勒姆曾出任诺贝尔物理学委员会主席，教职中亦有 ACM 与 AAAI 会士。

Student life

• The university's guiding idea is summed up in the motto "Always an innovator", reflecting its youth, its interdisciplinary programmes and its links with industry.学校的办学精神凝练为校训“Always an innovator”（永远的创新者），体现了它的年轻、跨学科专业与产业联系。

• Students are organised into three field-based student unions: Consensus for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, LinTek for the Faculty of Science and Engineering and StuFF for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Educational Sciences.学生按学科分入三个学生会：服务医学与健康科学学院的 Consensus，服务科学工程学院的 LinTek，以及服务文科学院与教育科学学院的 StuFF。

• The three unions run their headquarters in named buildings: Kårallen on Campus Valla, Örat, meaning "the Ear", on Campus US and Trappan, meaning "the Stair", at Campus Norrköping.三个学生会的会所在各有名目：瓦拉校区的 Kårallen、US 校区意为“耳朵”的 Örat，以及北雪平校区意为“阶梯”的 Trappan。

• Three active student nations, Wermlands nation, Västgöta nation and Vargtass Norrlands nation, offer social life on the Swedish student-nation model, and membership is voluntary.三个活跃的学生民族社团——韦姆兰民族社、西约塔民族社与瓦尔加松北兰民族社——依瑞典民族社团模式提供社交生活，入会全凭自愿。

• Lysator, founded in 1973, is the oldest computer society in Sweden and still runs a public time-sharing computer system for students.创立于 1973 年的 Lysator 是瑞典最古老的计算机社团，至今仍为学生运营一套公开的分时计算机系统。

• LinTek owns and operates the student bookstore Bokakademien i Östergötland, which keeps branches in the student-union buildings on the various campuses.LinTek 拥有并经营学生书店东约特兰学术书店，该店在各校区学生会大楼内设有门市。

• Each year the university runs the recurring Vadstena project in the humanities and arts and the Katrineholm project of distance courses in nursing.学校每年定期举办偏人文与艺术方向的瓦德斯泰纳项目，以及偏护理远程课程的卡特琳娜霍尔姆项目。

• Through the Erasmus scheme and bilateral agreements the university exchanges students with institutions across Europe and with partners in Japan and in China.借助 Erasmus 计划与双边协议，该校与欧洲各地院校以及日本、中国的伙伴学校互换学生。

Notable people

• Among its founders and long-standing professors was Stig Hagström, a materials scientist emeritus who helped establish the university and led research on thin films.该校创始人之一、材料科学荣休教授斯蒂格·赫克斯特罗姆参与创建大学并领导薄膜研究。

• Lennart Ljung, professor of automatic control and a founding professor of the LiU Division of Automatic Control, received the Large Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences for his pioneering work on system identification.自动控制教授、林雪平自动控制实验室创建教授伦纳特·永，因在系统辨识方面的开创性研究获瑞典皇家工程院大金质奖章。

• Erik Sandewall, professor emeritus of computer science and a leading researcher in artificial intelligence, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.计算机科学与人工智能领域权威、荣休教授埃里克·桑德瓦尔是美国人工智能促进会会士。

• Harold Lawson, former professor of telecommunications and computer systems, is credited with inventing the pointer in programming languages and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.前电信与计算机系统教授哈罗德·劳森被誉为在编程语言中发明了指针，是美国计算机协会会士。

• The mathematician Vladimir Mazya, professor emeritus at Linköping, is internationally known for his work on Sobolev spaces and elliptic partial differential equations.该校荣休数学家弗拉基米尔·马兹亚因关于索伯列夫空间与椭圆偏微分方程的工作而享誉国际。

• Ingemar Lundström, professor emeritus of applied physics and a leading researcher in biosensors, served as chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics.应用物理荣休教授、生物传感器研究权威英格马尔·伦德斯特勒姆曾担任诺贝尔物理学委员会主席。

• In organic electronics Magnus Berggren, professor of the field, and Olle Inganäs, professor emeritus, are among the figures behind the strategic OBOE centre.在有机电子领域，该领域教授马格努斯·贝里格伦与荣休教授奥莱·英加纳斯是战略中心 OBOE 背后的代表人物。

• Alumnus Carl-Henric Svanberg served as chief executive of Ericsson and later as chairman of the Volvo board and chairman of BP.校友卡尔-亨里克·斯文贝里曾任爱立信首席执行官，后出任沃尔沃董事会主席和英国石油公司主席。

• Zhong Zhihua, rector of Tongji University and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, holds a doctorate from Linköping University, a key link between the university and China.同济大学校长、中国工程院院士钟志华获林雪平大学博士学位，是该校与中国之间的重要纽带。

• Among public figures, alumnus Gustav Fridolin served as Sweden's minister for education, and alumnus Björn von Sydow was Speaker of the Riksdag and minister for defence from 1997 to 2002, while another alumnus, Bertil Andersson, went on to be president of Nanyang Technological University, and the comedian and filmmaker Tage Danielsson lends his name to a LiU visiting professorship held by the poet Athena Farrokhzad in 2024-2026.公众人物中，校友古斯塔夫·弗里多林曾任瑞典教育大臣，校友比耶恩·冯·西多担任过议会议长并于 1997 至 2002 年任国防大臣，另一位校友伯蒂尔·安德松后任南洋理工大学校长，喜剧演员兼导演塔格·丹尼尔松之名冠名了一项访问教授席，2024 至 2026 年由诗人忒娜·法罗克扎德担任。