Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Norwegian: Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet) is a public research university in Trondheim, Norway, and the country's largest university by enrolment, with headquarters in Trondheim and regional campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund.挪威科技大学（Norwegian University of Science and Technology，简称 NTNU）是位于挪威特隆赫姆的一所公立研究型大学，为挪威在校生规模最大的大学，校本部设于特隆赫姆，并在约维克与奥勒松设有地区校区。

It was inaugurated by the King-in-Council in 1996 through the merger of the former University of Trondheim and other university-level institutions, and it has the main national responsibility for education and research in engineering and technology.该校于 1996 年经国王会同国务会议批准设立，由原特隆赫姆大学及其他高等院校合并而成，并承担挪威全国工程与技术教育科研的主要职责。

NTNU is placed 264th in the QS World University Rankings 2027, joint 299th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, 238th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 and in the 151-200 band of the Shanghai ARWU 2026.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 264 位，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 299 位，《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名第 238 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名位列 151-200 区间。

History

• The university's roots lie in Det Trondhiemske Selskab, or Trondheim Academy, Norway's first academic society, which was founded in 1760.该校的源头是 1760 年成立的特隆赫姆学会，这是挪威第一个学术团体。
• In 1767 the academy received recognition from the Danish-Norwegian king and was renamed the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.1767 年，该学会获得丹麦-挪威国王的认可，更名为挪威皇家科学与文学学会。
• Its library, founded in 1768, survives today as the NTNU Gunnerus Library and is Norway's oldest library, while its collection formed the basis of the university museum.其图书馆建于 1768 年，即今日的 NTNU 冈纳鲁斯图书馆，是挪威历史最悠久的图书馆，其藏品也成为大学博物馆的基础。
• The first proposal for a Norwegian polytechnical institute was made in 1833, and Trondhjems Tekniske Læreanstalt, or Trondheim Technical College, was founded in 1870.1833 年首次有人提议创办挪威工学院，特隆赫姆技术学院则于 1870 年成立。
• In 1898 the technical college moved to a larger building in Munkegata, and it was disbanded in the 1900s to make way for the Norwegian Institute of Technology.1898 年，该技术学院迁入蒙克街的更大建筑；20 世纪初学校停办，为挪威理工学院所取代。
• In 1900 the Norwegian Parliament passed a resolution to establish the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim, fixing five departments in the resolution of 31 May 1900.1900 年，挪威议会通过决议，决定在特隆赫姆创办挪威理工学院（NTH），并于 1900 年 5 月 31 日的决议中确定了首批五个系。
• NTH was officially opened on 15 September 1910, and 1910 is regarded as the founding year of today's Norwegian University of Science and Technology.挪威理工学院于 1910 年 9 月 15 日正式开学，1910 年也被视为今日挪威科技大学的创校年。
• In 1922 the Norwegian College of Teaching in Trondheim (NLHT) opened at Lade gård, later becoming part of the University of Trondheim.1922 年，特隆赫姆师范学院（NLHT）在拉德庄园开学，后来成为特隆赫姆大学的一部分。
• In 1950 Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning, the Industrial and Technical Research Centre known as SINTEF, was founded as part of NTH and as its link to Norwegian industry.1950 年，工业与技术研究基金会（SINTEF）作为挪威理工学院的一部分成立，成为其与挪威工业界的纽带。
• The University of Trondheim (UNiT) was established in 1968 as a looser confederation of the Trondheim institutions, which retained a high degree of autonomy.1968 年，特隆赫姆大学（UNiT）成立，是当地几所院校较为松散的联合体，各成员保留高度自主。
• The Faculty of Medicine was established as part of the University of Trondheim in 1974, and its building was designed by the architect Henning Larsen.医学院于 1974 年成为特隆赫姆大学的一部分，其建筑由建筑师亨宁·拉森（Henning Larsen）设计。
• In 1984 the Norwegian College of Teaching absorbed the Norwegian College of General Sciences (AVH) within the University of Trondheim.1984 年，特隆赫姆师范学院将挪威通识科学学院（AVH）并入特隆赫姆大学体系。
• As early as 1989, NTH Rector Karsten Jakobsen had broached the idea of a Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.早在 1989 年，挪威理工学院院长卡斯滕·雅各布森（Karsten Jakobsen）就提出了在特隆赫姆创办挪威科技大学的构想。
• On 21 March 1995 the Norwegian Parliament decided, by a narrow majority after a long debate, to establish NTNU in Trondheim.1995 年 3 月 21 日，挪威议会在长时间辩论后以微弱多数决定在特隆赫姆设立挪威科技大学。
• On 1 January 1996 the University of Trondheim became the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, uniting six research and higher education institutions.1996 年 1 月 1 日，特隆赫姆大学正式成为挪威科技大学，整合了六所科研与高等教育机构。
• In 2010 NTNU marked the 250th anniversary of the Trondheim Academy and the 100th anniversary of NTH, publishing a history titled Turbulens og tankekraft.2010 年，NTNU 纪念特隆赫姆学会成立 250 周年与挪威理工学院建校 100 周年，并出版一部校史著作。
• The trivia game Kahoot! was created in 2012 by Johan Brand, Jamie Brooker and Morten Versvik in a joint project with NTNU, working with Professor Alf Inge Wang.2012 年，问答游戏 Kahoot! 由约翰·布兰德、杰米·布鲁克与莫滕·韦斯维克在与 NTNU 的合作项目中创立，教授阿尔夫·英格·旺（Alf Inge Wang）参与其中。
• In 2014 the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research asked the country's institutions to propose ways of reducing the number of universities and university colleges.2014 年，挪威教育研究部要求各院校就削减挪威高校数量提出建议。
• On 28 January 2015 the NTNU board decided to merge NTNU with the University Colleges of Sør-Trøndelag, Ålesund and Gjøvik, and on 1 January 2016 the merger took effect.2015 年 1 月 28 日，NTNU 董事会决定将本校与南特伦德拉格学院、奥勒松学院与约维克学院合并，合并于 2016 年 1 月 1 日生效。
• A new board met for the first time on 24 November 2015, and the merger made NTNU Norway's largest single university, with campuses in Trondheim, Ålesund and Gjøvik.新一届董事会已于 2015 年 11 月 24 日首次召开会议，此次合并使 NTNU 成为挪威规模最大的单一大学，并在特隆赫姆、奥勒松与约维克设有校区。

Academics

• NTNU is organised into eight faculties plus the NTNU University Museum, together comprising 55 departments at the same time as the University Museum stands at faculty level.NTNU 下设八个学院及 NTNU 大学博物馆，共包含 55 个系所，大学博物馆与学院同级。
• The Faculty of Architecture and Design has four departments, covering architecture and planning, architecture and technology, design, and the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.建筑与设计学院设有四个系，涵盖建筑与规划、建筑与技术、设计以及特隆赫姆美术学院。
• The Faculty of Humanities has seven departments, covering art and media studies, historical and classical studies, studies of culture, language and literature, modern history and society, music, and philosophy and religious studies.人文学院下设七个系，涵盖艺术与媒体研究、历史与古典研究、文化研究、语言与文学、现代史与社会、音乐以及哲学与宗教研究。
• The Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering has seven departments, including computer science, electric energy, electronic systems, engineering cybernetics, information security, and mathematical sciences.信息技术与电气工程学院下设七个系，包括计算机科学、电能、电子系统、工程控制论、信息安全与数学科学等。
• The Faculty of Engineering has eight departments, including civil and environmental engineering, energy and process engineering, geoscience and petroleum, marine technology, and structural engineering.工程学院下设八个系，包括土木与环境工程、能源与过程工程、地球科学与石油、海洋技术以及结构工程等。
• The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is integrated with St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, and is located at Campus Øya in Trondheim.医学与健康科学学院与特隆赫姆大学医院圣奥拉夫医院（St. Olavs Hospital）深度融合，院址位于特隆赫姆的厄亚校区。
• That faculty's eight departments include the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, and its research areas are translational research, medical technology, health surveys, biobanks and registers.该学院的八个系包括卡夫利系统神经科学研究所，研究重点为转化研究、医学技术、健康调查、生物样本库与登记系统。
• The Faculty of Natural Sciences has eight departments, covering biology, biomedical laboratory science, biotechnology and food science, chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science and physics.自然科学学院下设八个系，涵盖生物学、生物医学实验室科学、生物技术与食品科学、化学工程、化学、材料科学与物理。
• The Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences has seven departments, including education and lifelong learning, geography, psychology, social anthropology, social work, sociology and political science, and teacher education.社会与教育科学学院下设七个系，包括教育与终身学习、地理学、心理学、社会人类学、社会工作、社会学与政治学以及教师教育。
• The Faculty of Economics and Management has four departments and includes the NTNU Business School.经济与管理学院下设四个系，并包含 NTNU 商学院。
• The NTNU University Museum forms part of the university at faculty level and has two departments, Archaeology and Cultural History and Natural History.NTNU 大学博物馆与学院同级，下设考古与文化史、自然史两个部门。
• In 2023 NTNU's overall budget was 11 billion Norwegian kroner, most of which came from the Norwegian Ministry of Education.2023 年，NTNU 的总预算为 110 亿挪威克朗，其中大部分来自挪威教育部。
• Following the 2016 merger the university had approximately 39,000 students and some 2,500 doctoral candidates, and by November 2022 it had about 42,000 students and 9,000 employees.2016 年合并后，该校约有 39,000 名学生与约 2,500 名博士研究生；到 2022 年 11 月，在校生约 42,000 人，员工约 9,000 人。
• NTNU has 4,377 scientific staff who conduct research in more than 120 laboratories and are at any time running more than 2,000 research projects.NTNU 拥有 4,377 名科研人员，分布在一百二十多个实验室，常年推进 2,000 多个研究项目。
• Students and staff can use roughly 300 research agreements or exchange programmes with 58 institutions worldwide, and the university participates in about 218 projects under the EU Horizon 2020 framework.师生可利用与全球 58 所机构签订的约 300 项研究或交流协议，该校还参与了欧盟「地平线 2020」框架下的约 218 个项目。
• NTNU has identified four Strategic Research Areas for 2014-2023, namely NTNU Energy, NTNU Health, NTNU Oceans and NTNU Sustainability.NTNU 确定了 2014 至 2023 年的四大战略研究领域，即能源、健康、海洋与可持续性。
• The university hosts six National Centres of Excellence, 12 Centres for Research-based Innovation and three Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research, mainly funded by the Research Council of Norway.该校设有六个国家级卓越研究中心、12 个研究型创新中心与三个环境友好能源研究中心，主要由挪威研究理事会资助。
• The fifteenth Kavli Institute was inaugurated at NTNU in 2007 and was the first Kavli Institute in Northern Europe, and in 2012 Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg opened the Norwegian Brain Centre.第十五座卡夫利研究所于 2007 年在 NTNU 启用，是北欧首个卡夫利研究所；2012 年，时任首相延斯·斯托尔滕贝格为挪威脑研究中心揭幕。
• NTNU offers more than 60 international master's programmes taught in English and had 3,815 foreign students as of 2025.NTNU 开设六十多个全英文授课的国际硕士项目，截至 2025 年有 3,815 名国际学生。

Campus

• NTNU's two main campuses in Trondheim are Gløshaugen, for engineering and natural sciences, and Dragvoll, for humanities and social sciences.NTNU 在特隆赫姆的两大主校区是格洛沙根校区（主要容纳工程与自然科学）与德拉格沃尔校区（主要容纳人文与社会科学）。
• Other campuses include Tyholt for marine technology, Øya for medicine, Kalvskinnet for archaeology, Midtbyen for the music conservatory and Nedre Elvehavn for the art academy.其他校区包括泰霍尔特校区（海洋技术）、厄亚校区（医学）、卡尔夫斯金内特校区（考古学）、米特比恩校区（音乐学院）与内德雷埃尔韦港校区（艺术）。
• NTNU Gløshaugen is an artistic combination of historical NTH buildings and modern buildings, and combined, the campuses span a total area of 734,000 square metres.格洛沙根校区将历史悠久的挪威理工学院建筑与现代建筑巧妙融合；各校区的总面积为 734,000 平方米。
• SINTEF, founded by NTH in 1950 and independent since 1980, has its main departments at Gløshaugen and cooperates closely with NTNU in several areas of research and development.SINTEF 由挪威理工学院创办于 1950 年，1980 年起独立运营，其主要部门设于格洛沙根校区，与 NTNU 在多个研发领域密切合作。
• In 1998 the Paper and Fibre Research Institute moved into a new building at Gløshaugen, relocating from Gaustad in Oslo, and in April 2013 the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research moved into a new building south of the Natural Science building.1998 年，纸张与纤维研究所从奥斯陆的盖于斯塔迁入格洛沙根校区的新楼；2013 年 4 月，挪威自然研究所迁入自然科学楼以南的新建筑。
• In 2013 the Rector initiated a vision project on the future development of the campuses, and a concept study the same year recommended bringing Dragvoll and Gløshaugen together and better integrating them with the city.2013 年，校长发起关于校园未来发展的愿景项目；同年一项概念研究建议将德拉格沃尔与格洛沙根两校区合并，并更好地融入城市。
• After the 2016 merger NTNU also has campuses in Ålesund and Gjøvik, complementing its presence in Trondheim.2016 年合并后，NTNU 在奥勒松与约维克也设有校区，与特隆赫姆校区相辅相成。
• The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is located at Campus Øya together with St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital.医学与健康科学学院连同特隆赫姆大学医院圣奥拉夫医院设于厄亚校区。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 NTNU is placed 264th in the world, and it remains Norway's largest university by enrolment.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，NTNU 位列世界第 264 位，并依然是挪威在校生规模最大的大学。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places NTNU joint 299th in the world.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将 NTNU 列为世界并列第 299 位。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks NTNU 238th in the world.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名将 NTNU 列为世界第 238 位。
• In the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 NTNU appears in the 151-200 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，NTNU 位列 151-200 区间。
• In the CWUR World University Rankings of June 2025 NTNU was ranked 182nd in the world, and in the CWTS Leiden Ranking of July 2024 it was 191st.在 2025 年 6 月的世界大学排名中心（CWUR）排名中，其位列世界第 182 位；在 2024 年 7 月的 CWTS 莱顿排名中位列第 191 位。
• The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities in July 2023 placed NTNU 202nd in the world and 64th in Europe for its web presence.2023 年 7 月的世界大学网络计量排名将其列为世界第 202 位、欧洲第 64 位。
• In the ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025, NTNU ranks 3rd in Marine/Ocean Engineering, 28th in Civil Engineering, 30th in Biological Sciences and 51-75 in Automation and Control.在 2025 年软科世界一流学科排名中，NTNU 的海洋工程位列第 3，土木工程第 28，生物科学第 30，自动化与控制位列 51-75。
• According to Times Higher Education in 2017 NTNU ranked first in the world among universities with the biggest corporate links, as 9.1 per cent of its research output is generated with SINTEF.据 2017 年泰晤士高等教育排名，NTNU 在企业联系最紧密的大学中位列世界第一，其 9.1% 的科研产出与 SINTEF 合作完成。
• The OpenAlex database credits NTNU with 148,646 works and 8,573,715 citations, and the university counts four Nobel laureates among its alumni and staff.OpenAlex 数据库收录 NTNU 148,646 篇成果与 8,573,715 次引用；其校友与教职员中共有四位诺贝尔奖得主。

Student life

• NTNU students have a strong presence in Trondheim, most famously through Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem, known as the red round house for its architecture.NTNU 学生活跃于特隆赫姆全城，其中最有名的是特隆赫姆学生社团，因其建筑造型而被称作「红色的圆屋」。
• Every other year the student society organises the UKA cultural festival, one of Norway's largest cultural events.该学生社团每隔一年举办 UKA 文化节，是挪威规模最大的文化活动之一。
• Another student festival is ISFiT, the International Student Festival in Trondheim, which awards a student peace prize and draws internationally known speakers.另一项学生节庆是特隆赫姆国际学生节（ISFiT），颁发学生和平奖，并邀请国际知名人士演讲。
• EMECS-thon is a student-driven embedded systems marathon in which participants from top universities worldwide have 48 hours to build an embedded project from scratch.EMECS-thon 是一项学生主导的嵌入式系统马拉松，来自全球顶尖大学的参赛者须在 48 小时内从零完成一个嵌入式项目。
• The student sports organisation NTNUI has roughly 10,000 members across branches such as orienteering, cross-country and telemark skiing, as well as American football, lacrosse and aikido.学生体育组织 NTNUI 拥有约 10,000 名成员，分属定向越野、越野滑雪、泰勒马克滑雪，以及美式橄榄球、长曲棍球与合气道等分部。
• NTNU is a pioneer of the student cabin concept, and by 2024 the student sports organisation offered 23 cabins that can be rented for weekends and holidays.NTNU 是「学生小屋」理念的先驱，到 2024 年，学生体育组织提供了 23 座可供周末与假期租用的小屋。
• There are no tuition fees at NTNU for Norwegian and European Union students, though all students pay a semester fee and international students must guarantee living expenses unless they hold a scholarship, and PhD candidates are employed and paid as academic staff under Norwegian law.NTNU 对挪威与欧盟学生免收学费，但所有学生均须缴纳学期费，国际学生若未获奖学金则须证明其生活费保障；博士研究生则按学术人员身份受雇并发薪，依挪威法律享有欧洲较高水平的薪酬。
• NTNU Alumni was founded in 2006 as a network for former students and staff, and by 2014 it had around 30,000 members.NTNU 校友会创立于 2006 年，是面向历届学生与教职员的联络网络，到 2014 年约有 30,000 名成员。

Notable people

• Lars Onsager, who graduated as a chemical engineer from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1925, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.拉斯·昂萨格（Lars Onsager）1925 年在挪威理工学院取得化学工程学位，获 1968 年诺贝尔化学奖。
• Ivar Giaever, a 1952 mechanical engineering graduate of NTH, won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics.伊瓦尔·贾埃弗（Ivar Giaever）是挪威理工学院 1952 届机械工程毕业生，获 1973 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser, both professors of neuroscience at NTNU, shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.爱德华·莫泽与迈-布里特·莫泽（Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser）均为 NTNU 神经科学教授，共同获得 2014 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
• John O'Keefe, a visiting researcher at NTNU from 2015, was also a 2014 laureate in Physiology or Medicine.约翰·奥基夫（John O'Keefe）自 2015 年起担任 NTNU 访问研究员，同为 2014 年生理学或医学奖得主。
• Karsten Jakobsen, Rector of the Norwegian Institute of Technology, first proposed founding a Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim in 1989.卡斯滕·雅各布森（Karsten Jakobsen）曾任挪威理工学院院长，1989 年最早提出在特隆赫姆创办挪威科技大学。
• Johan Brand, Jamie Brooker and Morten Versvik founded the game company Kahoot! in 2012 together with NTNU and Professor Alf Inge Wang.约翰·布兰德、杰米·布鲁克与莫滕·韦斯维克于 2012 年与 NTNU 及教授阿尔夫·英格·旺共同创办游戏公司 Kahoot!。
• Jens Stoltenberg, then Prime Minister of Norway, opened the Norwegian Brain Centre in 2012 as an outgrowth of the Kavli Institute.时任挪威首相延斯·斯托尔滕贝格于 2012 年为挪威脑研究中心揭幕，该中心由卡夫利研究所衍生而来。
• The architect Henning Larsen designed the building of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Trondheim.建筑师亨宁·拉森（Henning Larsen）设计了特隆赫姆大学医学院的大楼。
• Johan Ernst Gunnerus, the 18th-century Norwegian bishop and naturalist, is commemorated in the name of NTNU's research vessel.约翰·恩斯特·冈纳鲁斯（Johan Ernst Gunnerus）是 18 世纪挪威主教与博物学家，NTNU 的研究船即以他命名。
• Honorary doctorates are awarded annually by NTNU to scientists and cultural figures who have made extraordinary contributions.NTNU 每年向对科学或文化作出卓越贡献的科学家与人士颁授荣誉博士学位。