Malmö University

Malmö University (Swedish: Malmö universitet) is a public university in Malmö, Sweden, founded in 1998 as a university college and granted full university status on 1 January 2018.马尔默大学（瑞典语：Malmö universitet）是位于瑞典马尔默的一所公立大学，1998 年以大学学院的形式创办，并于 2018 年 1 月 1 日获得正式大学地位。

It is the ninth-largest institution of higher learning in Sweden, with more than 24,000 students and about 1,600 academic and administrative staff, roughly a third of whom have an international background.该校是瑞典第九大高等学府，拥有两万四千余名学生与约 1,600 名教学及行政人员，其中约三分之一具有国际背景。

Its campus occupies the former Kockums shipyard at Universitetsholmen in central Malmö, and the university was placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 among more than 1,500 ranked institutions worldwide.其校区位于马尔默市中心 Universitetsholmen 的原科库姆斯造船厂地块，学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间。

History

• In 1996 the Swedish government approved the creation of a university college in Malmö, part of a national expansion of higher education intended to widen access beyond the traditional university cities.1996 年，瑞典政府批准在马尔默创办一所大学学院，这是该国扩大高等教育覆盖面、使教育资源走出传统大学城的举措之一。
• Malmö University College began teaching in 1998 in premises around the city centre, making it one of the youngest higher education institutions in Sweden.马尔默大学学院于 1998 年在市中心一带的校舍开始授课，成为瑞典最年轻的高等学府之一。
• The college was formed from existing local professional and academic programmes, including teacher education, health sciences, dentistry and the arts and communication, which gave it a strongly applied profile from the start.该学院由当地原有的教师教育、健康科学、牙科以及艺术与传播等专业与学术项目整合而成，从一开始就带有鲜明的应用导向。
• Its campus was laid out on land that had belonged to the Kockums shipyard, founded in 1840 and for decades one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, until the yard closed in the mid-1980s.其校区建在原属科库姆斯造船厂的土地上，该厂创办于 1840 年，曾长期位居世界最大造船企业之列，直至二十世纪八十年代中期关闭。
• The redevelopment of the Western Harbour began with the Bo01 housing exhibition in 2001, which turned the derelict shipyard waterfront into a model district for sustainable urban design.西港区的再开发以 2001 年的 Bo01 住宅博览会为起点，把废弃的船厂滨水地带改造为可持续城市设计的示范街区。
• The Öresund Bridge opened on 1 July 2000, linking Malmö with Copenhagen and turning the city into a cross-border metropolitan centre for students and commuters.厄勒海峡大桥于 2000 年 7 月 1 日通车，把马尔默与哥本哈根连接起来，使这座城市成为学生与通勤者往来的跨境大都市中心。
• In 2005 the Turning Torso, a 190-metre residential tower designed by Santiago Calatrava, was completed in the Western Harbour and became the tallest building in Scandinavia.2005 年，由圣地亚哥·卡拉特拉瓦设计、高 190 米的住宅塔楼「旋转大楼」在西港区落成，成为斯堪的纳维亚最高的建筑。
• The Orkanen quarter, which houses the Faculty of Education and Society and the main library, was masterplanned in 1997 by the Basel architects Diener and Diener.奥尔卡嫩街区容纳教育与社会学院及主图书馆，其总体规划由巴塞尔建筑事务所迪纳与迪纳于 1997 年完成。
• In 2007 the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education named the Faculty of Odontology one of five Centres of Excellence in Higher Education in Sweden.2007 年，瑞典国家高等教育署将该校牙科学院评为全国五个「高等教育卓越中心」之一。
• Malmö University College was renamed Malmö University on 1 January 2018, when the minister for higher education and research granted it full university status.2018 年 1 月 1 日，马尔默大学学院更名为马尔默大学，由瑞典高等教育与研究部部长授予其正式大学地位。
• Kerstin Tham, a professor of occupational therapy, became vice-chancellor in 2016 and led the institution through its transition from college to university.职业治疗学教授克斯廷·塔姆于 2016 年出任校长，主导了学校从大学学院向正式大学的转型。
• In 2021 the Swedish National Union of Students named Malmö the best student city in Sweden for the 2021/2022 academic year, citing cooperation between students, the city and the university.2021 年，瑞典全国学生联合会将马尔默评为 2021/2022 学年瑞典最佳学生城市，理由是学生、市政府与大学之间的良好合作。
• The City Tunnel opened in 2010, connecting Malmö Central Station with the Öresund Bridge and giving the campus direct rail access to Copenhagen Airport.2010 年城市隧道通车，把马尔默中央车站与厄勒海峡大桥连接起来，校区由此可乘火车直达哥本哈根机场。
• Malmö's industrial decline after the shipyard closures of the 1980s left a young, diverse population, and the university became a central instrument of the city's shift to a knowledge economy.二十世纪八十年代船厂关闭后，马尔默经历了工业衰退，却拥有年轻而多元的人口，大学因此成为这座城市转向知识经济的重要工具。
• The university has grown steadily since 1998 and now occupies a cluster of buildings around Universitetsholmen rather than a single walled campus.自 1998 年以来，学校规模稳步扩大，如今其建筑群分布在 Universitetsholmen 周边，而非集中于一个有围墙的单一校区。
• In 2018 the newly named university set itself the goal of strengthening research in five interdisciplinary profile areas tied to the challenges of urban society.2018 年更名后，学校确立了加强五个跨学科重点领域研究的目标，这些领域均与城市社会面临的挑战相关。
• The Faculty of Odontology traces its clinical teaching to the city's public dental service, and its student clinic treats more than 10,000 patients each year.牙科学院的临床教学可追溯到该市公立牙科服务体系，其学生诊所每年接诊逾一万名患者。
• Malmö University Press and the university library began to publish open-access research and teaching material in the 2010s, supporting the institution's open-science policy.马尔默大学出版社与大学图书馆在 2010 年代开始出版开放获取的研究与教学资料，以支持学校的开放科学政策。
• The university marked its twentieth anniversary in 2018 with the change of name and status, and its research income has grown as doctoral programmes expanded.2018 年，学校以更名与升格大学的方式纪念建校二十周年，随着博士项目扩充，其科研经费亦持续增长。
• Malmö University is a young institution by European standards, and its history is bound up with the reinvention of Malmö from a shipbuilding town into a centre of education and culture.在欧洲高校中，马尔默大学历史尚短，其校史与马尔默从造船重镇转型为教育与文化中心的历程紧密交织。
• By 2024 the university had grown to more than 24,000 students and about 1,600 employees, and it described itself as the ninth-largest institution of higher learning in Sweden.到 2024 年，该校已发展到两万四千余名学生与约 1,600 名教职员工，并自称瑞典第九大高等学府。

Academics

• Malmö University has five faculties, all of which are interdisciplinary: Technology and Society, Culture and Society, Education and Society, Odontology, and Health and Society.马尔默大学设有五个学院，均以跨学科为特色，即技术与社会学院、文化与社会学院、教育与社会学院、牙科学院以及健康与社会学院。
• The Faculty of Technology and Society, based in the Niagara building, has about 3,000 students and 100 employees and covers computer science, media technology and product design, with research concentrated in computer science, materials science, applied mathematics and media technology.技术与社会学院设于尼亚加拉大楼，约有三千名学生与一百名教职员，涵盖计算机科学、媒体技术与产品设计，研究集中于计算机科学、材料科学、应用数学与媒体技术。
• The Faculty of Culture and Society, also in Niagara, has 4,900 students and 300 employees in its four institutes of global political studies, urban studies, the School of Arts and Communication and language and linguistics.文化与社会学院同样位于尼亚加拉大楼，拥有 4,900 名学生与三百名教职员，下设全球政治研究、城市研究、艺术与传播学院以及语言与语言学四个院所。
• The Faculty of Education and Society is one of Sweden's largest teacher-training institutions, with about 5,000 students and 260 staff in the Orkanen building beside the central station, organised into departments for children and youth, culture and media, school development and sport sciences.教育与社会学院是瑞典最大的教师培养机构之一，约五千名学生与 260 名教职员在中央车站旁的奥尔卡嫩大楼工作学习，下设儿童与青年、文化与媒体、学校发展以及体育科学等系。
• The Faculty of Odontology, near the Triangeln station, trains dental hygienists, dentists and dental technicians, runs one of the region's largest dental clinics, and researches everything from molecular biology of oral tissue to oral health across generations.牙科学院位于三角站附近，培养牙科卫生师、牙医与牙科技师，运营该地区规模最大的牙科诊所之一，其研究从口腔组织的分子生物学一直延伸到不同代际的口腔健康。
• The Faculty of Health and Society, with about 4,600 students and 260 staff, is based at the university hospital and teaches nursing, social work, public health and biomedical science through departments of biomedical science, care science, criminology, health and welfare studies and social work.健康与社会学院约有 4,600 名学生与 260 名教职员，院址设于大学医院，通过生物医学、护理科学、犯罪学、健康与福利研究以及社会工作等系教授护理、社会工作、公共卫生与生物医学。
• Three priority fields cut across the faculties: urban studies and sustainable environments, new media and public spheres, and international migration and its causes and effects.三个重点领域横跨各学院，即城市研究与可持续环境、新媒体与公共领域，以及国际移民及其成因与影响。
• Research strengths include biofilms and bio-interfaces, criminology, educational science, materials science, information technology, odontology and sports science.其研究优势包括生物膜与生物界面、犯罪学、教育科学、材料科学、信息技术、牙科学与体育科学。
• The Biofilms Research Center for Biointerfaces studies microbial films in medical, industrial and environmental settings, one of the university's most distinctive research platforms.生物膜与生物界面研究中心研究医学、工业与环境场景中的微生物膜，是该校最具特色的研究平台之一。
• The Internet of Things and People Research Centre applies sensor networks to urban services, health care and industry in cooperation with companies in the Öresund region.物联网与人研究中心与厄勒海峡地区的企业合作，把传感器网络应用于城市服务、医疗与工业。
• The Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare conducts comparative research on migration policy, integration and the welfare state.马尔默移民、多样性与福利研究所对移民政策、社会融合与福利国家开展比较研究。
• Medea, the university's centre for collaborative media, works with public institutions and media organisations on digital storytelling and civic communication.该校的合作媒体中心 Medea 与公共机构及媒体组织合作，研究数字叙事与公民传播。
• Doctoral education is organised in the five faculties, and the university participates in national research schools in health, education, urban studies and migration.博士教育由五个学院分别组织，学校还参与健康、教育、城市研究与移民领域的全国性研究生院。
• The university library, housed in the Orkanen quarter, provides a digital repository, open-access publishing support and subject guidance to students and staff.大学图书馆设于奥尔卡嫩街区，为学生与教职员提供数字仓储、开放获取出版支持与学科咨询服务。
• Teaching is project-based and often carried out with external partners, and students on many programmes complete internships in municipal services, firms and cultural institutions.教学以项目制为主，常与外部伙伴共同开展，许多专业的学生会在市政部门、企业与文化机构完成实习。
• The School of Arts and Communication, known as K3, belongs to the Faculty of Culture and Society and teaches media production, interaction design and journalism in studios open to the public.艺术与传播学院简称 K3，隶属文化与社会学院，在向公众开放的工作室中教授媒体制作、交互设计与新闻学。
• Its programmes lead to professional degrees in teaching, nursing, social work, dentistry, biomedical science and engineering, alongside bachelor's and master's degrees in the humanities and social sciences.该校课程可授予教师、护理、社会工作、牙科、生物医学与工程等专业学位，同时也颁发人文与社会科学的学士与硕士学位。
• Several master's programmes are taught entirely in English, and the university recruits international students through its own admissions office, a language centre that teaches Swedish and a network of partner institutions.该校多个硕士项目全程以英语授课，并通过本校招生办公室、教授瑞典语的语言中心以及伙伴院校网络招收国际学生。
• The university cooperates with Lund University, whose Malmö Art Academy, Malmö Academy of Music and Malmö Theatre Academy are located in the same city.该校与隆德大学开展合作，后者的马尔默艺术学院、马尔默音乐学院与马尔默戏剧学院均设于同一座城市。

Campus

• The campus is spread over Universitetsholmen, a waterfront district a few minutes' walk from Malmö Central Station and the old town.校区分布在 Universitetsholmen 滨水街区，步行数分钟即可抵达马尔默中央车站与老城。
• Niagara, the glass-fronted building at Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, houses the faculties of Technology and Society and of Culture and Society.位于努登舍尔德街 1 号的玻璃幕墙建筑尼亚加拉，容纳技术与社会学院以及文化与社会学院。
• Orkanen at Nordenskiöldsgatan 10 houses the Faculty of Education and Society and the main university library, and its quarter was designed by Diener and Diener.位于努登舍尔德街 10 号的奥尔卡嫩大楼容纳教育与社会学院与大学主图书馆，其街区由迪纳与迪纳事务所设计。
• The Faculty of Odontology sits beside the Triangeln railway station, while the Faculty of Health and Society occupies buildings on the grounds of Skåne University Hospital.牙科学院紧邻三角火车站，健康与社会学院则设于斯科讷大学医院院区内的建筑中。
• Most campus buildings face the harbour and the Öresund, and the surrounding Western Harbour contains the Turning Torso and the Bo01 sustainable housing district.多数校舍面朝港湾与厄勒海峡，周边的西港区坐落着旋转大楼与 Bo01 可持续住宅区。
• Student housing is provided in buildings such as Gäddan and Celsius, where students rent single rooms with shared kitchens and bathrooms.学生宿舍设于「Gäddan」与「Celsius」等楼宇，学生可租用带共享厨房与卫浴的单人间。
• The campus is served by city buses and by the City Tunnel, which links Malmö Central Station to Copenhagen Airport in about twenty minutes.校区有市内公交服务，并可经城市隧道从马尔默中央车站约二十分钟抵达哥本哈根机场。
• Malmö's old town, the Malmö Live concert hall and the Moderna Museet Malmö, opened in 2009 in a converted electricity works, lie within walking distance of the university buildings.马尔默老城、马尔默现场音乐厅以及 2009 年在原发电厂建筑中开馆的马尔默现代美术馆，都在校舍步行范围之内。
• The university has no single enclosed campus, and its buildings are integrated into the streets and squares of the former industrial harbour, a deliberate feature of its urban planning.学校没有单一的封闭校园，其建筑融入原工业港区的街道与广场，这是其城市规划的刻意安排。
• The World Maritime University, established by the International Maritime Organization in 1983, occupies the former harbour administration building nearby, making Universitetsholmen a cluster of maritime and academic institutions, although the two institutions are independent of each other.由国际海事组织于 1983 年创办的世界海事大学坐落于附近的原港务局大楼，使 Universitetsholmen 成为海事与学术机构聚集的街区，不过两校彼此独立。
• The campus is a short walk from Malmö Central Station, from which trains reach Copenhagen Airport in about twenty minutes and central Copenhagen in about thirty-five.校区距马尔默中央车站仅数分钟步行路程，从该站乘火车约二十分钟可达哥本哈根机场，约三十五分钟可达哥本哈根市中心。

Reputation

• Malmö University was placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and in the 1301-1400 band of the 2026 edition, an improvement of one band between the two years.马尔默大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，在 2026 年版中则位列 1301-1400 区间，两年间上升了一个区间。
• The university did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and was not included in the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校未进入 2027 年《泰晤士高等教育》世界大学排名，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• It was ranked 1,559th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list, its highest position among the major international rankings.该校在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单中排名第 1,559 位，是其在主要国际榜单中的最高位次。
• OpenAlex records about 13,857 research works and 549,099 citations for the university, a comparatively high citation count for an institution of its size, with output concentrated in the medical and health sciences, social sciences and computer science.OpenAlex 记录该校约 13,857 项研究成果与 549,099 次引用，对于其规模而言这一引用量相对较高，产出集中于医学与健康科学、社会科学以及计算机科学。
• With more than 24,000 students, Malmö University is the ninth-largest higher education institution in Sweden by enrolment.马尔默大学在校生超过两万四千人，按注册人数计为瑞典第九大高等学府。
• The Faculty of Odontology was named a Centre of Excellence in Higher Education in 2007, one of only five such awards made nationally that year.牙科学院于 2007 年获评「高等教育卓越中心」，当年全瑞典仅颁发五个此类称号。
• The university's applied research profile is reflected in its strong performance in urban studies, migration research, odontology and media and communication.该校的应用研究特色体现在城市研究、移民研究、牙科学以及媒体与传播等领域的较强表现。
• Malmö was named Sweden's best student city for 2021/2022 by the Swedish National Union of Students, a recognition that reflects the university's links with the municipality.马尔默被瑞典全国学生联合会评为 2021/2022 学年瑞典最佳学生城市，这一认可体现了大学与市政府的紧密联系。
• The university is a member of the European University Association and cooperates with more than 240 partner institutions through exchange agreements.该校是欧洲大学协会成员，并通过交流协议与 240 多所伙伴院校开展合作。
• Public transport in the region is run by Skånetrafiken, and a student travel card makes daily journeys between Malmö, Lund and Copenhagen affordable.该地区公共交通由斯科讷交通公司运营，学生交通卡使在马尔默、隆德与哥本哈根之间的日常通勤变得经济。
• The student union runs orientation weeks, a mentor programme for newcomers and societies ranging from debate and film to sustainability and entrepreneurship.学生会组织迎新周、面向新生的导师计划，以及从辩论、电影到可持续发展与创业的各类社团。

Student life

• Malmö University has no formal Latin motto, and its public mission is expressed instead through the aim of being an open university for a diverse city.马尔默大学没有正式的拉丁语校训，其公共使命改以「为多元城市办一所开放大学」的目标来表达。
• The Student Union of Malmö University represents students before the university and the city, organises social events and societies, and provides support services for new and international students.马尔默大学学生会代表学生与校方及市政府沟通，组织社交活动与社团，并为新生和国际学生提供支持服务。
• Roughly a third of the students have an international background, and the university's exchange agreements with more than 240 partners bring visitors from across Europe and beyond.约三分之一的学生具有国际背景，学校与 240 多所伙伴院校的交流协议则带来欧洲及世界各地的访客。
• The campus sits beside the old town, where cafés, galleries and the Malmö Festival, held each August since 1984, provide a busy cultural calendar for students in Sweden's third-largest city, home to about 350,000 people.校区紧邻老城，那里的咖啡馆、画廊以及自 1984 年起每年八月举办的马尔默节，为这座约三十五万人口的瑞典第三大城市的学生提供了丰富的文化活动。
• The Öresund Bridge and the City Tunnel put Copenhagen and its universities within about half an hour, and many students live on one side of the strait and study on the other.厄勒海峡大桥与城市隧道使哥本哈根及其高校距此仅约半小时路程，不少学生住在海峡一侧而在另一侧求学。
• Student sport is organised through the city's sports clubs and the university's own facilities, with football, floorball, running and cycling among the most popular activities.学生体育通过该市体育俱乐部与学校自有设施开展，足球、地板球、跑步与骑行是最受欢迎的项目。
• Student housing is concentrated in the Western Harbour and around the central station, and the city's compact size makes bicycles the most common means of transport.学生宿舍集中在西港区与中央车站一带，城市规模紧凑，自行车因此成为最常用的交通工具。
• The university's public lectures, exhibitions and open seminars are held in its campus buildings and are frequently open to the residents of Malmö.学校的公开讲座、展览与开放研讨会在校舍内举行，并常常向马尔默市民开放。
• Malmö's student life is shaped by the city's diversity, with more than 180 nationalities represented in the municipality and a wide range of international restaurants and cultural associations.马尔默的学生生活深受城市多元性影响，该市居民来自一百八十多个民族，国际餐馆与文化社团种类繁多。

Notable people

• Lennart Olausson was the first vice-chancellor of Malmö University College, appointed when teaching began in 1998, and led its early expansion.伦纳特·奥劳松是马尔默大学学院首任校长，于 1998 年开学时受命，主导了学校的早期扩张。
• Kerstin Tham, vice-chancellor since 2016, is a professor of occupational therapy and oversaw the institution's attainment of full university status in 2018.克斯廷·塔姆自 2016 年起任校长，是职业治疗学教授，主持了学校于 2018 年获得正式大学地位的过程。
• Börje Sellergren, professor of biomedical science, is known for his work on molecularly imprinted polymers used in chemical separation and sensing.生物医学教授伯耶·塞勒格伦以分子印迹聚合物的研究著称，这类材料用于化学分离与传感。
• Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Sweden's minister for higher education and research from 2014 to 2019, conferred university status on the institution in 2018.海伦娜·赫尔马克·克努特松在 2014 至 2019 年任瑞典高等教育与研究部部长，于 2018 年授予该校大学地位。
• Carl Tham, minister for education and science from 1994 to 1998, shaped the national expansion of higher education that produced the Malmö college.卡尔·塔姆在 1994 至 1998 年任瑞典教育与科学大臣，推动了催生马尔默大学学院的全国高等教育扩张。
• The university's honorary doctorates have recognised figures from Swedish cultural and civic life, and recipients are announced each year at the academic ceremony.该校的荣誉博士学位授予瑞典文化与公共生活中的杰出人士，每年在学术庆典上公布获授名单。
• Malmö University's alumni work in the city's schools, hospitals, courts, media and technology firms, and the university maintains an alumni network for graduates across the Öresund region.马尔默大学的校友活跃于该市的学校、医院、法院、媒体与科技企业，学校为厄勒海峡地区的毕业生维护着校友网络。