Mohammed V University

Mohammed V University (French: Université Mohammed-V de Rabat, Arabic: جامعة محمد الخامس) is a public university in Rabat, Morocco, founded by royal decree in 1957 and supervised by the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation.穆罕默德五世大学（Université Mohammed-V de Rabat，阿拉伯语：جامعة محمد الخامس）是摩洛哥拉巴特的一所公立大学，1957 年依据王室法令创办，受高等教育、科研与创新部监管。

It is the first modern university created in Morocco after independence, takes its name from King Mohammed V, and operates across campuses in Agdal, Souissi and Salé, which together form the oldest academic cluster in the capital.该校是摩洛哥独立后创建的第一所现代大学，以国王穆罕默德五世命名，校区分布于阿格达勒、苏维西与塞拉，三者共同构成首都最古老的学术集群。

It enrolled 98,083 students in 2025/2026 across 18 institutions and 319 accredited programmes, and it is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2025 至 2026 学年，该校 18 个机构共注册 98,083 名学生，开设 319 个获认证的专业，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间。

History

• The Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences traces its origin to the Institut des Hautes Études Marocaines, created in 1917 during the French protectorate as a centre for research on Moroccan society.文学与人文科学学院的前身是 1917 年法国保护国时期设立的摩洛哥高等研究院，该院是研究摩洛哥社会的中心。
• The Scientific Institute was founded in 1920 as the Institut Scientifique Chérifien, making it one of the oldest research bodies later attached to the university.科学研究所创办于 1920 年，原名谢里夫科学研究所，是后来并入该校的最古老研究机构之一。
• Morocco regained independence in 1956, and the new state moved quickly to create a national university capable of training its own administrators, judges, teachers and doctors.摩洛哥于 1956 年恢复独立，新国家迅速着手创建一所能够培养本国行政官、法官、教师和医生的国立大学。
• The University of Rabat was established by royal decree, a dahir, in 1957, grouping the existing higher schools and faculties of the capital into a single institution.拉巴特大学于 1957 年依据王室法令（达希尔）设立，把首都原有的高等学校与学院整合为一个机构。
• King Mohammed V inaugurated the university on 21 December 1957, an act that made it the first modern university founded in Morocco after independence.国王穆罕默德五世于 1957 年 12 月 21 日为大学揭幕，使其成为摩洛哥独立后创办的第一所现代大学。
• Mohammed El Fassi served as the university's first president from 1958 to 1978, shaping its early faculties and its role in training the post-independence elite, and he was also a historian and a leader of the independence movement.穆罕默德·法西自 1958 至 1978 年担任该校首任校长，塑造了早期学院结构及其培养独立后精英的职能，他同时是一位历史学家与独立运动领袖。
• The Mohammadia School of Engineers was founded by King Mohammed V in 1959 as Morocco's first polytechnic institute, responding to a shortage of Moroccan engineers that had persisted through the protectorate.穆罕默德五世工程学院由国王穆罕默德五世于 1959 年创办，是摩洛哥第一所理工学院，回应了保护国时期长期存在的本国工程师短缺问题。
• Mohammed V died in 1961, and the university was renamed in his honour, a change that fixed the name it still bears today.穆罕默德五世于 1961 年逝世，大学随即更名为纪念他，这一名称沿用至今。
• Abdelatif Ben Abdeljlil became president in 1978 and led the university for nearly two decades, a period in which student numbers and faculties expanded steadily and new law and science departments were opened.阿卜杜勒拉蒂夫·本·阿卜杜勒杰利勒于 1978 年出任校长，主持校务近二十年，期间学生人数与学院数量稳步扩张，新的法律与理科系所相继开设。
• The National School of Computer Science and Systems Analysis was created in 1991 to train engineers in computing, a field in which Morocco was then investing heavily.国家计算机科学与系统分析学院于 1991 年创建，培养计算机工程人才，当时摩洛哥正大力投入这一领域。
• In 1993 the university was divided into two independent institutions, Mohammed V University at Agdal and Mohammed V University at Souissi, each with its own president and budget, a division that lasted 21 years.1993 年，该校拆分为两所独立机构，即阿格达勒穆罕默德五世大学与苏维西穆罕默德五世大学，各自拥有校长与预算，这一格局延续了 21 年。
• The Agdal university kept letters, science, law and economics, while the Souissi university received medicine, computer science and communication, a division that shaped both campuses.阿格达勒一方保留文学、理学、法学与经济学，苏维西一方则接管医学、计算机科学与传播学，这一划分塑造了两座校区此后的格局。
• Abdelouahed Belkeziz, later secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, presided over the university from 1997 to 2000.阿卜杜勒瓦希德·贝尔凯齐兹后来出任伊斯兰合作组织秘书长，他于 1997 至 2000 年主持该校。
• The Institute of Hispano-Lusophone Studies was created in 2002, adding Spanish and Portuguese studies to the university's language portfolio and organising conferences on Iberian and Latin American themes.伊比利亚—葡语研究学院于 2002 年设立，为该校语言学科增添西班牙语与葡萄牙语研究，并组织围绕伊比利亚与拉美主题的会议。
• On 1 September 2014 the Agdal and Souissi universities merged into a single Mohammed V University of Rabat while retaining their separate campuses.2014 年 9 月 1 日，阿格达勒与苏维西两校合并为统一的拉巴特穆罕默德五世大学，同时保留各自校区。
• Saïd Amzazi, a biochemist, served as president from 2015 to 2018 before leaving to become Morocco's minister of national education.生物化学家赛义德·阿姆扎齐于 2015 至 2018 年任校长，随后出任摩洛哥国民教育部长。
• On 3 January 2018 the university launched Morocco's first professional bachelor's degree in music, a programme taught in partnership with cultural institutions.2018 年 1 月 3 日，该校推出摩洛哥首个音乐职业学士学位，该项目与文化机构合作授课。
• Mohammed Rhachi, an engineer trained at the Faculty of Sciences and at INSA Toulouse, became president in December 2018 and still held the post in 2026.穆罕默德·拉希在理学院与图卢兹国立应用科学学院接受工程师训练，于 2018 年 12 月出任校长，至 2026 年仍在任。
• In June 2021 the university entered the CWTS Leiden Ranking for the first time, a sign of its growing visibility in bibliometric tables.2021 年 6 月，该校首次进入 CWTS 莱顿排名，显示其在文献计量榜单中的可见度上升。
• On 23 February 2023 the university and the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization signed an agreement creating an ICESCO open education chair.2023 年 2 月 23 日，该校与伊斯兰世界教育、科学及文化组织签署协议，设立伊斯兰教科文组织开放教育教席。
• The university adopted a development plan for 2024-2028 that places the student at the centre of its quality policy and sets digital governance as a structural priority.该校通过 2024 至 2028 年发展规划，把学生置于质量政策的核心，并将数字治理列为结构性优先事项。
• In 2025/2026 it recorded 98,083 students, 319 accredited programmes and 19 research centres, figures published on its own institutional dashboard.2025 至 2026 学年，该校录得 98,083 名学生、319 个获认证专业和 19 个研究中心，这些数字发布在其官方校情看板上。
• In July 2025 the university hosted the fifth ISA Forum of Sociology, the first held in Africa and the Arab world, with about 5,000 researchers and 1,329 sessions.2025 年 7 月，该校承办第五届国际社会学协会论坛，这是该论坛首次在非洲与阿拉伯世界举行，约 5,000 名研究者参加，设 1,329 场次。

Academics

• The university is a federation of 18 institutions, comprising faculties, national schools and institutes spread across Rabat and Salé.该校是由 18 个机构组成的联合体，包括分布于拉巴特与塞拉的学院、国立学校与研究所。
• Its engineering wing comprises the Mohammadia School of Engineers, the National School of Computer Science and Systems Analysis, and the Higher National School of Arts and Crafts.其工程教育由穆罕默德五世工程学院、国家计算机科学与系统分析学院以及国立高等工艺学院组成。
• Health education is provided by the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Faculty of Dental Medicine, both attached to the Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat.医学教育由医学院与牙医学院承担，两者均附属于拉巴特的伊本·西那大学医院。
• The humanities cluster includes the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, the Faculty of Education Sciences, the Institute of African Studies, the Institute of Hispano-Lusophone Studies and the Institute for Arabisation Research.人文集群包括文学与人文科学学院、教育科学学院、非洲研究所、伊比利亚—葡语研究学院以及阿拉伯化研究学院。
• The science cluster comprises the Faculty of Sciences, the Scientific Institute and the University Institute for Scientific Research, the last of which publishes theses and conference proceedings.理学集群包括理学院、科学研究所与大学科学研究学院，后者还出版学位论文与会议论文集。
• Law and economics are taught in three separate faculties, at Agdal, Souissi and Salé, a legacy of the 1993 partition of the university.法律与经济学由阿格达勒、苏维西与塞拉三个独立学院承担，这是 1993 年分校留下的格局。
• The École Normale Supérieure trains secondary-school teachers, while the Higher School of Technology of Salé offers two-year technological diplomas.高等师范学校培养中学教师，塞拉高等技术学院则开设两年制技术文凭课程。
• The university offers 319 accredited programmes at licence, master and doctoral level, covering science, engineering, health, law, economics, education and the humanities.该校开设 319 个获认证的学士、硕士与博士层次专业，覆盖理学、工程、医学、法律、经济、教育与人文。
• Doctoral degrees are awarded after a public defence before a jury, and the university's doctoral centres coordinate admission, supervision and thesis deposit across the 18 institutions.博士学位须经评审委员会公开答辩后授予，该校各博士中心在 18 个机构之间协调录取、指导与论文存档。
• It enrolled 98,083 students in 2025/2026, making it one of the largest universities in Morocco by headcount.2025 至 2026 学年该校注册学生 98,083 人，按人数计是摩洛哥规模最大的大学之一。
• Research is organised through 19 centres and a dense network of faculty laboratories, with doctoral training delivered in doctoral study centres.科研通过 19 个研究中心与各学院实验室网络组织，博士培养则在博士学习中心进行。
• Its researchers published 6,066 items indexed in Scopus and Web of Science in 2025, a figure reported in the university's key indicators.2025 年，该校研究人员发表 6,066 篇被 Scopus 与 Web of Science 收录的成果，这一数字见于该校关键指标。
• The Mohammadia School of Engineers runs nine departments, from civil and electrical engineering to computer science, artificial intelligence and mining.穆罕默德五世工程学院设有九个系，涵盖土木与电气工程、计算机科学、人工智能与采矿等方向。
• The National School of Computer Science and Systems Analysis is one of Morocco's most selective engineering schools and admits students through competitive examination.国家计算机科学与系统分析学院是摩洛哥选拔最严格的工程师学校之一，通过竞争性考试录取学生。
• The Scientific Institute maintains natural-history collections and long-term ecological observatories that predate the university itself by several decades.科学研究所保存着自然史收藏与长期生态观测站，其历史比大学本身早数十年。
• The Institute of African Studies focuses on sub-Saharan Africa and hosts one of the university's most internationally visible research communities.非洲研究所聚焦撒哈拉以南非洲，拥有该校国际化程度最高的研究社群之一。
• The Cité de l'Innovation de Rabat, attached to the university, supports start-ups, technology transfer and student entrepreneurship.附属于该校的拉巴特创新城支持初创企业、技术转移与学生创业。
• Teaching is delivered in Arabic, French, English and Spanish depending on the faculty, with French dominant in science, engineering and medicine.教学按学院分别使用阿拉伯语、法语、英语与西班牙语，理科、工程与医学以法语为主。

Campus

• The administrative headquarters stands on Avenue des Nations Unies in the Agdal district, the historic core of the university and its main address.校部位于阿格达勒区联合国大道，这里既是大学的历史核心，也是其主要地址。
• The Agdal and Souissi campuses are linked by the Rabat-Salé tramway, which opened in 2011 and runs through the Agdal district towards the river.阿格达勒与苏维西校区由拉巴特—塞拉有轨电车相连，该线路于 2011 年开通，穿过阿格达勒区通往河边。
• The Agdal campus houses the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, the Faculty of Sciences and the Agdal law and economics faculty around landscaped courtyards.阿格达勒校区围绕景观庭院布置文学与人文科学学院、理学院以及阿格达勒法律与经济学院。
• The Souissi campus concentrates medicine, dentistry, computer science and teacher training, and stands beside the Ibn Sina University Hospital, whose dental clinic and medical research units serve the health faculties.苏维西校区集中了医学、牙科、计算机科学与教师培训，紧邻伊本·西那大学医院，该院的牙科门诊与医学研究单位服务于各卫生学院。
• The Salé campus hosts the Higher School of Technology and the Salé law and economics faculty, extending the university across the Bouregreg river.塞拉校区设有高等技术学院与塞拉法律与经济学院，使大学跨过布雷格雷格河延伸。
• The Mohammadia School of Engineers occupies a purpose-built campus in Agdal, opened after its foundation in 1959 and repeatedly expanded since.穆罕默德五世工程学院在阿格达勒拥有专门建造的校园，1959 年建校后启用，此后多次扩建。
• The Scientific Institute, founded in 1920, occupies one of the oldest research buildings in Rabat and anchors the university's presence in the botanical and environmental sciences.科学研究所创办于 1920 年，占据拉巴特最古老的研究建筑之一，是该校植物学与环境科学的重要基地。
• The Ibn Sina University Hospital provides the clinical training ground for medical, dental and pharmacy students and is one of the largest hospital complexes in Morocco, serving as the main teaching hospital of the Rabat medical school.伊本·西那大学医院为医学、牙科与药学学生提供临床训练场所，是摩洛哥最大的医院综合体之一，也是拉巴特医学院的主要教学医院。
• The Cité de l'Innovation de Rabat gives the university a dedicated site for incubation, prototyping and partnerships with industry.拉巴特创新城为该校提供专门场地，用于孵化、原型制作与产业合作。
• The campuses sit inside the capital's administrative district, close to ministries, embassies and national institutions, which shapes internship and employment links.各校区位于首都行政区内，靠近各部委、使馆与国家机构，这塑造了实习与就业联系。

Reputation

• Mohammed V University is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval in the global table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，穆罕默德五世大学位列 1001-1200 区间，这是全球榜单中的并列区间。
• It stood in the 1201-1400 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间。
• It was ranked 762nd in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, its strongest position in the three major global tables.该校在 US News 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中位列第 762 位，是其在三大全球榜单中的最好名次。
• The university did not enter the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, so its profile rests on the QS, THE and U.S. News placements.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，因此其国际定位主要依据 QS、THE 与 US News 三项名次。
• It was included in the CWTS Leiden Ranking for the first time in June 2021, entering a table based on bibliometric indicators rather than reputation surveys.该校于 2021 年 6 月首次进入 CWTS 莱顿排名，该榜单依据文献计量指标而非声誉调查。
• Its researchers produced 6,066 Scopus and Web of Science indexed publications in 2025, the highest annual figure reported by the university.2025 年该校研究人员产出 6,066 篇 Scopus 与 Web of Science 收录论文，为校方公布的最高年度数字。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 50,035 works and 1,557,900 citations for the university, spanning medicine, engineering, the sciences and the humanities, a total that reflects its broad disciplinary base rather than a single faculty.OpenAlex 收录该校 50,035 项研究成果与 1,557,900 次引用，覆盖医学、工程、自然科学与人文领域，这一总量反映其广泛的学科基础而非单一学院的产出。
• The university operates 19 research centres and is one of the largest higher-education employers of researchers in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region.该校运营 19 个研究中心，是拉巴特—塞拉—盖尼特拉地区雇佣研究人员最多的高等教育机构之一。
• It belongs to the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, the International Forum of Public Universities and the Mediterranean Universities Union.该校是伊斯兰世界大学联合会、公立大学国际论坛与地中海大学联盟的成员。
• It is the oldest modern university in Morocco, the starting point of the country's post-independence higher-education system and still a reference institution for law and Islamic studies.该校是摩洛哥历史最悠久的现代大学，被视为该国独立后高等教育体系的起点，至今仍是法律与伊斯兰研究的参照机构。
• Its research output is concentrated in medicine, materials science, chemistry and the social sciences, fields in which its faculties maintain partnerships with European and African institutions.该校科研产出集中于医学、材料科学、化学与社会科学，其各学院在这些领域与欧洲及非洲机构保持合作。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto in its statutes, and its public identity rests instead on the name of Mohammed V and a civic mission of service to national development.该校章程中没有正式校训，其公共形象主要依托穆罕默德五世之名以及服务国家发展的公民使命。
• About 3,000 foreign students from 100 countries study at the university, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab world and Asia, a profile that reflects Rabat's diplomatic role.该校约有来自 100 个国家的 3,000 名外国学生，多数来自撒哈拉以南非洲、阿拉伯世界与亚洲，这一结构与拉巴特的外交角色相呼应。
• It holds exchange agreements with institutions in 55 countries and takes part in the Erasmus+ programme, sending students and staff to European partners.该校与 55 个国家的机构签有交换协议，并参与 Erasmus+ 计划，向欧洲伙伴派遣学生与教师。
• Twelve residential buildings accommodate about 3,500 students in single-sex housing, supplemented by private and CROUS-style residences around Rabat, while the university's social services help students find private accommodation.12 栋学生宿舍以男女分住方式容纳约 3,500 名学生，拉巴特周边还有私立与大学福利性质的住宿补充，学校社会服务部门也协助学生寻找校外住房。
• Students compete in football, basketball, handball, rugby, athletics and table tennis, using the university's pitches, courts and gymnasiums.学生在足球、篮球、手球、橄榄球、田径与乒乓球等项目比赛，使用校内的球场、场地与体育馆。
• The professional bachelor's degree in music launched on 3 January 2018 gave the university a public cultural profile beyond its law and science faculties, combining performance, musicology and professional internship.2018 年 1 月 3 日推出的音乐职业学士学位，使该校在法律与理学院之外获得公共文化形象，课程把表演、音乐学与专业实习结合起来。
• The university holds an annual graduation ceremony, honouring 500 graduates of the 2025-2026 class in July 2026 in the presence of the minister of higher education.该校每年举行毕业典礼，2026 年 7 月在高教部长出席下表彰 2025 至 2026 届的 500 名毕业生。
• Hosting the fifth ISA Forum of Sociology in July 2025 brought about 5,000 researchers to Rabat and turned the campuses into venues for public debate.2025 年 7 月承办第五届国际社会学协会论坛，为拉巴特带来约 5,000 名研究者，也使校园成为公共辩论场所。
• Rabat's position as capital gives students access to the National Library, the Mohammed V Theatre and the city's museum and festival circuit, all within reach of the Agdal campus.拉巴特的首都地位使学生能够利用国家图书馆、穆罕默德五世剧院以及城市的博物馆与节庆网络，这些设施都距阿格达勒校区不远。
• The ICESCO open education chair created in February 2023 supports equitable access to inclusive and quality education, a theme that runs through student-facing policies.2023 年 2 月设立的伊斯兰教科文组织开放教育教席支持公平获得包容与优质教育，这一主题贯穿面向学生的各项政策。

Notable people

• King Mohammed V founded the university by dahir in 1957 and inaugurated it on 21 December of that year, giving the institution both its name and its founding legitimacy.国王穆罕默德五世于 1957 年以王室法令创办该校，并于同年 12 月 21 日揭幕，赋予这所大学名称与创校合法性。
• Mohammed El Fassi, the university's first president from 1958 to 1978, oversaw the creation of its original faculties and its early academic standards.穆罕默德·法西于 1958 至 1978 年任该校首任校长，主持了最初一批学院的建立与早期学术标准的形成。
• Mohammed Rhachi, president since December 2018, received the Jean Demal Prize from the International Association of University Pedagogy in Montpellier in 2008.穆罕默德·拉希自 2018 年 12 月起任校长，2008 年在蒙彼利埃获国际大学教学法协会颁发的让·德马尔奖。
• King Mohammed VI, who studied law at the Agdal campus and graduated in 1985, is the university's most prominent alumnus, acceding to the throne in 1999.国王穆罕默德六世曾在阿格达勒校区学习法律并于 1985 年毕业，是该校最著名的校友，他于 1999 年继承王位。
• Mohammed Abed al-Jabri took his bachelor's degree in philosophy at the university in 1967 and his doctorate in 1970, later winning the Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2008 and teaching at the same institution until his retirement.穆罕默德·阿贝德·贾比里 1967 年在该校取得哲学学士学位，1970 年取得博士学位，后于 2008 年获伊本·鲁世德思想自由奖，并在该校任教至退休。
• Fatema Mernissi taught at the Faculty of Letters from 1974 to 1981, won the Prince of Asturias Award in 2003 and the Erasmus Prize in 2004, and published Beyond the Veil in 1975.法蒂玛·梅尔尼西于 1974 至 1981 年在文学学院任教，2003 年获阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖，2004 年获伊拉斯谟奖，并于 1975 年出版《面纱之外》。
• Taha Abdurrahman, a philosopher of ethics and Islamic thought, is among the university's best-known living academics and a leading voice in Arab moral philosophy.塔哈·阿卜杜拉赫曼是伦理与伊斯兰思想哲学家，为该校最知名的在世学者之一，也是阿拉伯道德哲学的重要声音。
• Abdelilah Benkirane, prime minister of Morocco from 2011 to 2017, is an alumnus of the university and led a coalition government after the 2011 legislative elections.阿卜杜勒伊拉·本基兰于 2011 至 2017 年任摩洛哥首相，是该校校友，并在 2011 年立法选举后领导联合政府。
• Laila Lalami, a novelist born in Rabat who writes in English, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for The Moor's Account.出生在拉巴特、以英语写作的小说家莱拉·拉拉米凭《摩尔人的记录》于 2015 年入围普利策奖决选。
• Liu Baolai, a Chinese diplomat, studied at the university and is listed among its alumni in politics and diplomacy.中国外交官刘宝莱曾在该校学习，并被列为该校政治与外交界校友。