National University of Colombia

The National University of Colombia (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Colombia) is a national public research university in Colombia, with main campuses in Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira and satellite campuses in Leticia, San Andrés, Arauca, Tumaco and La Paz in Cesar.哥伦比亚国立大学（Universidad Nacional de Colombia）是哥伦比亚的一所国立公立研究型大学，主校区位于波哥大、麦德林、马尼萨莱斯与帕尔米拉，并在莱蒂西亚、圣安德烈斯、阿劳卡、图马科以及塞萨尔省的拉巴斯设有分校区。

Established on 22 September 1867 by an act of the Congress of Colombia, it is one of the largest universities in the country, with more than 53,000 students, about 44,000 of them enrolled in undergraduate degrees.学校于 1867 年 9 月 22 日经哥伦比亚国会立法创设，是全国规模最大的大学之一，拥有 53,000 余名学生，其中约 44,000 人攻读本科学位。

It offers 450 academic programmes, including 95 undergraduate degrees, 167 master's degrees and 65 doctorates, and places 293rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校开设 450 个学术项目，其中包括 95 个本科专业、167 个硕士学位项目与 65 个博士项目，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 293。

History

• The university was created on 22 September 1867 by an act of the Congress of Colombia, making it the country's first public and national university.学校于 1867 年 9 月 22 日经哥伦比亚国会立法创设，成为该国第一所公立大学与国立大学。

• At the outset it was composed of only six faculties or departments, a small base from which the institution later expanded.建校之初，学校仅由六个系组成，规模有限，此后逐步扩张。

• Between 1903 and 1940 twenty more departments were added, so that the original six grew to twenty-six.1903 年至 1940 年间，学校增设二十个系，使原有的六个系扩充为二十六个。

• In Medellín its oldest unit is the School of Mines, created in 1886 as a separate institution and incorporated into the university in 1936.在麦德林，学校历史最久的单位是矿业学院，它于 1886 年作为独立机构创办，并于 1936 年并入大学。

• Construction of the Bogotá University City began in 1935 under the government of president Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, on a site in the Teusaquillo locality.波哥大大学城的建设于 1935 年在总统阿方索·洛佩斯·普马雷霍的政府任内动工，选址于特乌萨基略区。

• The campus plan was drawn up by the German educationalist Fritz Karsen and the architect Leopold Rother, both refugees from Nazi Germany.校园总体规划由德国教育家弗里茨·卡尔森与建筑师莱奥波德·罗特拟定，二人均为逃离纳粹德国的难民。

• Since 1938 the Medellín site has served as the university's regional headquarters, from the year the School of Tropical Agriculture, now the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, joined it.自 1938 年起，麦德林园区一直是学校的地区本部，当年热带农业学院（今农业科学学院）并入其中。

• Postgraduate teaching expanded in the second half of the twentieth century, and master's degrees were first awarded from 1967.研究生教育在 20 世纪下半叶不断扩展，学校自 1967 年起开始授予硕士学位。

• In 1967 it also became the first university in Colombia to open a postgraduate programme in computer science.同样在 1967 年，学校成为哥伦比亚第一所开设计算机科学研究生项目的高校。

• Doctoral degrees followed in 1986, when the university began awarding its own doctorates.博士学位则始于 1986 年，学校自此开始授予本校博士学位。

• In 1994 the National School of Mines in Medellín, valued for its architecture and murals, was declared a National Monument.1994 年，麦德林的国立矿业学院因其建筑与壁画价值被列为国家古迹。

• Over the twentieth century the institution grew into a nationwide system of campuses at Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira, with smaller satellite sites in Leticia, San Andrés, Arauca, Tumaco and La Paz.在 20 世纪间，学校发展为遍布全国的多校区体系，校区设于波哥大、麦德林、马尼萨莱斯与帕尔米拉，并在莱蒂西亚、圣安德烈斯、阿劳卡、图马科与拉巴斯设有较小的分校区。

• Together with the University of Antioquia and the University of Valle it forms the so-called Golden Triangle of higher education in Colombia.学校与安蒂奥基亚大学、山谷大学共同构成哥伦比亚高等教育所谓的「黄金三角」。

• By 2018 the SCImago Institutions Rankings Iber placed it as the fourteenth most prolific research institution in Latin America.到 2018 年，SCImago 机构排名将其列为拉丁美洲研究产出第十四位的高校。

• The same analysis found that it produced the largest number of scientific papers in peer-refereed publications in Colombia, ranking seventeenth in Latin America.同一项分析显示，其在哥伦比亚同行评审期刊上发表的科研论文数量全国最多，在拉丁美洲位列第十七。

• The Latin-American Web Ranking of Universities has ranked it first in the country for internet presence.拉丁美洲大学网络排名将学校的网络影响力评为全国第一。

• In the 2023 QS World University Rankings it was placed 243rd globally, tenth in Latin America and second in Colombia.在 2023 年 QS 世界大学排名中，学校位列全球第 243、拉丁美洲第 10、哥伦比亚第 2。

• As of June 2025 it was also rated the ninth best university in Latin America, while among the universities of the CIVETS countries it occupied second place.截至 2025 年 6 月，学校还被评为拉丁美洲第九佳大学，而在 CIVETS 国家的高校中则位居第二。

• The Bogotá University City, begun in 1935, was built up over decades and is described as an expression of the last sixty years of Colombian architecture.波哥大大学城始于 1935 年，历经数十年陆续建成，被称为哥伦比亚近六十年建筑风貌的集中体现。

• It is one of the few universities in Colombia that employs postdoctorate fellows, which reinforces its research profile.学校是哥伦比亚少数聘用博士后研究人员的大学之一，这进一步强化了其研究定位。

• The university is a member of the Association of Colombian Universities, the Iberoamerican Association of Postgraduate Universities and the Iberoamerican University Network Universia.学校是哥伦比亚大学协会、伊比利亚美洲研究生大学协会以及伊比利亚美洲大学网络 Universia 的成员。

• Its public profile rests on its role as the national university of Colombia, a position confirmed by an act of Congress at its foundation.学校的公共地位来自其作为哥伦比亚国立大学的角色，这一身份在建校时即由国会立法确认。

Academics

• The university is organised into twenty schools distributed among its Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira sites.学校下设二十个学院，分布于波哥大、麦德林、马尼萨莱斯与帕尔米拉四个校区。

• Its Bogotá faculties include Agricultural Sciences, Dentistry, Economics, Engineering, Fine Arts, Human Sciences, Law and Political Science, Medicine, Nursing, Science, and Veterinary Medicine and Animal Management.波哥大校区设有农业科学、牙科、经济学、工程、美术、人文科学、法律与政治学、医学、护理、理学以及兽医学与动物管理等学院。

• The Medellín campus hosts faculties of Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Mines, Economics and Human Sciences, and Architecture.麦德林校区设有理学、农业科学、矿业、经济与人文科学以及建筑等学院。

• Across its sites it offers 450 academic programmes, among them 95 undergraduate degrees, 83 academic specialisations, 40 medical specialities, 167 master's degrees and 65 doctorates.全校共开设 450 个学术项目，其中含 95 个本科专业、83 个学术专科、40 个医学专科、167 个硕士项目与 65 个博士项目。

• Its student body of more than 53,000 comprises roughly 44,000 undergraduates and 8,000 postgraduates.学校 53,000 余名学生中，约 44,000 人攻读本科，8,000 人攻读研究生。

• Teaching spans medicine, nursing, dentistry, engineering, chemistry, pharmacy, mathematics, physics, geology, biology, psychology, the social sciences, the arts such as music and fine arts, languages, philosophy and law.教学覆盖医学、护理、牙科、工程、化学、药学、数学、物理、地质、生物、心理学、社会科学、音乐与美术等艺术门类、语言、哲学以及法律。

• The Medellín site alone has 555 faculty professors, of whom 38 per cent hold doctorates, 44 per cent master's degrees and 8 per cent specialist qualifications.仅麦德林校区就有 555 名专任教师，其中 38% 拥有博士学位，44% 拥有硕士学位，8% 拥有专科资格。

• Medellín offers 26 undergraduate and 73 graduate courses, including 15 doctoral, 28 master's and 29 specialisation programmes.麦德林校区开设 26 个本科与 73 个研究生课程，其中包括 15 个博士、28 个硕士与 29 个专科项目。

• It runs the highest number of engineering programmes of any of its campuses, with seventeen such programmes in Medellín.麦德林校区开设的工程类项目数量为全校各校区之最，共有十七个。

• Bogotá's interfaculty institutes include the Institute of Biotechnology, the Institute of Science and Food Technology (ICTA), the Institute of Environmental Studies (IDEA), the Institute of Communication Studies (IECO), the International Institute of Political Studies and Relations (IEPRI) and the Genetics Institute.波哥大校区的跨学院研究机构包括生物技术研究所、食品科学与技术研究所（ICTA）、环境研究所（IDEA）、传播研究所（IECO）、国际政治与关系研究所（IEPRI）以及遗传学研究所。

• In Medellín the research institutes include the Centre for Research in Extractive Metallurgy (CIMEX), the Energy Institute, the Institute for Systems and Decision Sciences, the System Institute, the Materials Institute, the Water Institute and the Fuel Centre.麦德林校区的研究机构包括提取冶金研究中心（CIMEX）、能源研究所、系统与决策科学研究所、系统研究所、材料研究所、水利研究所以及燃料中心。

• The university maintains museums that support teaching and research, among them the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Science and Games and the National Astronomical Observatory in Bogotá.学校设有服务于教学与科研的博物馆，其中包括波哥大的自然历史博物馆、科学与游戏博物馆以及国立天文台。

• The Medellín campus houses the Earth Sciences Museum, the Entomological Museum, the Mycology Museum, the Gabriel Gutierrez Herbarium and a wood collection known as the Xiloteca.麦德林校区设有地球科学博物馆、昆虫学博物馆、真菌学博物馆、加布里埃尔·古铁雷斯植物标本馆以及称为 Xiloteca 的木材标本馆。

• Its library network includes the Central Library Efe Gomez in Medellín and the library of the Bogotá University City, serving tens of thousands of students.其图书馆系统包括麦德林的埃费·戈麦斯中心图书馆与波哥大大学城的图书馆，服务于数万名学生。

• It operates a school for the children of professors, students and employees, the Arturo Ramirez Montufar Pedagogical Institute (IPARM), attached to the Bogotá campus.学校在波哥大校区附设一所面向教授、学生与员工子女的学校，即阿图罗·拉米雷斯·蒙图法尔师范学校（IPARM）。

• The university's media unit Unimedios produces the news agency Agencia de Noticias UN, the newspaper UN Periodico, the internal paper Carta Universitaria, the radio service UN Radio, UN Television and the internet television Prisma TV.学校的媒体部门 Unimedios 运营哥伦比亚国立大学通讯社、UN Periódico 报、校内报 Carta Universitaria、校园电台 UN Radio、UN Televisión 以及网络电视 Prisma TV。

• Other Bogotá collections include the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan House Museum, the National University Art Museum, the Leopoldo Rother Museum of Architecture and the Museum Centre of the History of Medicine.波哥大校区的其他馆藏还包括豪尔赫·埃利埃塞尔·盖坦故居博物馆、国立大学艺术博物馆、莱奥波尔多·罗特建筑博物馆以及医学史博物馆中心。

• The Bogotá campus is the university's largest academic centre, grouping eleven faculties from Agricultural Sciences to Veterinary Medicine and Animal Management.波哥大校区是学校规模最大的学术中心，汇聚了从农业科学到兽医学与动物管理的十一个学院。
• In Medellín the Entomological Museum dates from 1937 and the Museum of Mycology from 1987, both serving the Faculty of Sciences.麦德林的昆虫学博物馆创办于 1937 年，真菌学博物馆创办于 1987 年，二者均服务于理学院。

• The Medellín site developed from the classical degrees of law, medicine, arts and sciences before engineering programmes were added there.麦德林校区最初以法律、医学、艺术与科学等传统学位起家，其后增设了工程类项目。

Campus

• The university operates main campuses in Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira, together with satellite campuses in Leticia, San Andrés, Arauca, Tumaco and La Paz in Cesar.学校在波哥大、麦德林、马尼萨莱斯与帕尔米拉设有主校区，并在莱蒂西亚、圣安德烈斯、阿劳卡、图马科以及塞萨尔省的拉巴斯设有分校区。

• Its flagship campus is the University City of Bogotá, also called the White City, in the Teusaquillo locality northwest of the historic centre.学校的旗舰校区是波哥大大学城，又称「白城」，位于历史中心西北的特乌萨基略区。

• It is the largest campus in Colombia, covering 1,200,000 square metres (300 acres) with a constructed area of 308,541 square metres.该校区是哥伦比亚面积最大的校园，占地 1,200,000 平方米（300 英亩），建筑面积 308,541 平方米。

• Seventeen of its buildings have been declared national monuments, and taken together the campus represents the last sixty years of architecture in Colombia.校区内有 17 座建筑被列为国家古迹，整体上它集中体现了哥伦比亚近六十年的建筑风貌。

• Its ground plan is laid out around an ellipse divided into five parts, each holding one academic division, and seen from the air the layout resembles an owl, its buildings built as prismatic blocks painted white.校区平面以椭圆为核心，划分为五个部分，每部分容纳一个学部，从空中俯瞰其布局酷似一只猫头鹰，各建筑均为刷成白色的棱柱体。

• Landmarks on the campus include the León de Greiff Auditorium and the Francisco de Paula Santander Plaza, unofficially known as the Central Plaza.校区地标包括莱昂·德·格雷夫礼堂与弗朗西斯科·德·保拉·桑坦德广场，后者俗称「中央广场」。

• The campus has its own Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo Stadium, where matches of the Colombian Professional Football league are sometimes played.校区拥有自己的阿方索·洛佩斯·普马雷霍体育场，哥伦比亚职业足球联赛的部分比赛有时在此举行。

• Medellín has two campuses, Central and Robledo, where 10,447 students study, the Central Campus covering 272,982 square metres between El Volador hill and the Medellín River.麦德林设有中央校区与罗夫莱多校区，共 10,447 名学生就读，其中中央校区占地 272,982 平方米，坐落在埃尔沃拉多山与麦德林河之间。

• The Robledo Campus, also called the School of Mines, covers 100,978.69 square metres and has about 3,500 students as well as a Museum of Geosciences.罗夫莱多校区又称矿业学院，占地 100,978.69 平方米，约有 3,500 名学生，并设有地球科学博物馆。

• The Medellín Central Campus has a central heart of 31,758 square metres and adjoins a portion of El Volador hill of about 269,257 square metres.麦德林中央校区的核心区面积为 31,758 平方米，并毗邻埃尔沃拉多山约 269,257 平方米的地块。

Reputation

• The university is placed 293rd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 1601st-1800th band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 605th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and in the 801st-900th band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 293，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 1601 至 1800 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 605，并处于 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名的 801 至 900 区间。

• In the 2023 edition of the QS ranking it stood 243rd in the world, tenth in Latin America and second in Colombia.在 2023 年 QS 同一榜单中，学校位列全球第 243、拉丁美洲第 10、哥伦比亚第 2。

• The SCImago Institutions Rankings Iber found that it produced the largest number of scientific papers in peer-refereed publications in Colombia and was the seventeenth most prolific institution in Latin America, fourteenth in the 2018 edition.SCImago 机构排名显示，学校在哥伦比亚同行评审期刊上发表的科研论文数量全国第一，研究产出在拉丁美洲位列第十七，在 2018 年榜单中则为第十四。

• The Latin-American Web Ranking of Universities has placed it first in Colombia for internet presence.拉丁美洲大学网络排名将其网络影响力评为哥伦比亚第一。

• As of June 2025 it was rated the ninth best university in Latin America, and among the universities of the CIVETS countries it occupied second place.截至 2025 年 6 月，学校被评为拉丁美洲第九佳大学，在 CIVETS 国家的高校中则位居第二。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 98,596 research works that have attracted 1,547,757 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校已产出 98,596 项研究成果，累计被引用 1,547,757 次。

• With the University of Antioquia and the University of Valle it forms the Golden Triangle of higher education in Colombia, being among the country's most selective and competitive universities.学校与安蒂奥基亚大学、山谷大学共同构成哥伦比亚高等教育的「黄金三角」，是全国最具选拔性与竞争力的大学之一。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is recorded on the university's documented list of notable alumni, its standing resting instead on research volume and national research leadership.在学校公布的知名校友名录中，未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其声望更多建立在科研产出规模与全国科研引领地位之上。

• Within engineering, the Medellín site offers seventeen programmes, the highest number among all its campuses and in Colombia generally, reflecting engineering as a distinctive strength.在工程领域，麦德林校区开设十七个项目，数量在其各校区乃至全哥伦比亚均为最多，显示工程是学校的一项突出强项。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto, and its public identity is carried instead by its campuses and its standing as the country's national university.学校没有正式的拉丁校训，其公共形象主要由校园本身以及其作为国家国立大学的地位所承载。

• It traces its identity to its foundation on 22 September 1867, when an act of Congress created it as the national university.学校的身份可追溯至 1867 年 9 月 22 日的建校，当日国会以立法形式将其创设为国家大学。

• Prisma TV, its internet television service, and the radio service UN Radio give students platforms for media production and broadcasting.其网络电视 Prisma TV 与校园电台 UN Radio 为学生提供媒体制作与播出的平台。

• Cultural life centres on venues such as the León de Greiff Auditorium and the campus museums and galleries, which host concerts, exhibitions and public lectures.校园文化生活集中于莱昂·德·格雷夫礼堂以及各博物馆与画廊等场所，这里举办音乐会、展览与公开讲座。

• Sport is organised around the university's own Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo Stadium and its sports facilities on the Bogotá campus.体育活动围绕学校自有的阿方索·洛佩斯·普马雷霍体育场以及波哥大校区的运动设施展开。

• The Bogotá campus is laid out with extensive green areas, open spaces and pedestrian paths that shape everyday student life.波哥大校区设有大片绿地、开放空间与人行步道，构成了学生的日常生活空间。

• The Museum of Science and Games on the Bogotá campus is an interactive museum devoted to curiosity and learning.波哥大校区的科学与游戏博物馆是一座以好奇心与学习为主题的互动式博物馆。

• The Arturo Ramirez Montufar Pedagogical Institute, attached to the campus, teaches the children of professors, students and employees, tying the university to its surrounding community.附设于校园的阿图罗·拉米雷斯·蒙图法尔师范学校招收教授、学生与员工的子女，把大学与其周边社区紧密相连。

Notable people

• Claudia Patricia Vaca Gonzalez is a Colombian pharmaceutical chemist and associate professor at the university who specialises in pharmacoepidemiology.克劳迪娅·帕特里夏·瓦卡·冈萨雷斯是学校的哥伦比亚药物化学家与副教授，专长于药物流行病学。

• Pedro Nel Gomez, the Colombian artist whose murals decorate the School of Mines in Medellín, also designed two of its blocks and its Totem Mythic.哥伦比亚艺术家佩德罗·内尔·戈麦斯为麦德林矿业学院绘制壁画，并设计了其中两座建筑以及「图腾神话」雕塑。

• Jesus Montoya Mejia was the engineer who designed Block 41 at Medellín, begun in 1931 and later declared a National Cultural monument.赫苏斯·蒙托亚·梅希亚是设计麦德林第 41 号楼（Block 41）的工程师，该楼于 1931 年动工，后被列为国家文化遗产。

• Fritz Karsen was the German educationalist and refugee from Nazi Germany who helped plan the Bogotá University City.弗里茨·卡尔森是德国教育家，也是逃离纳粹德国的难民，参与规划了波哥大大学城。

• Leopold Rother was the architect, likewise a refugee from Nazi Germany, who co-planned the campus and is commemorated by its Museum of Architecture.莱奥波德·罗特是建筑师，同样为逃离纳粹德国的难民，参与规划了该校区，校区的建筑博物馆即以他命名。

• Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo was the president of Colombia under whose government the Bogotá campus was begun in 1935 and whose name its stadium bears.阿方索·洛佩斯·普马雷霍是哥伦比亚总统，在其政府任内波哥大校区于 1935 年动工，校区的体育场也以他命名。

• Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the Colombian political figure commemorated by the university's Gaitan House Museum, is remembered through that museum on the Bogotá campus.豪尔赫·埃利埃塞尔·盖坦是哥伦比亚政治人物，学校以其故居设立盖坦故居博物馆，波哥大校区通过该馆纪念他。

• The Medellín herbarium bears the name of Gabriel Gutierrez, while the central library there is named Efe Gomez.麦德林的植物标本馆以加布里埃尔·古铁雷斯命名，当地的中心图书馆则以埃费·戈麦斯命名。

• Francisco de Paula Santander, the independence-era leader of Gran Colombia, is remembered in the name of the central plaza of the Bogotá campus.弗朗西斯科·德·保拉·桑坦德是大哥伦比亚独立时期的领袖，波哥大校区的中央广场即以他命名。