Pablo de Olavide University

Pablo de Olavide University (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, UPO) is a public university in Seville, Andalusia, created by the regional parliament in 1997 and named after the eighteenth-century reformer Pablo de Olavide.巴勃罗·德奥拉维德大学（Universidad Pablo de Olavide，简称 UPO）是安达卢西亚塞维利亚的一所公立大学，由自治区议会于 1997 年创办，以十八世纪改革家巴勃罗·德奥拉维德命名。

Its single campus of 136 hectares spreads across Seville, Dos Hermanas and Alcalá de Guadaíra, and it teaches about 10,200 students through six faculties and a polytechnic school.该校 136 公顷的单一校区横跨塞维利亚、多斯埃尔马纳斯与阿尔卡拉德瓜代拉三地，六个学院与一所高等理工学院共容纳约 10200 名学生。

UPO is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and 920th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027, with recognised strengths in biotechnology, translation and sport sciences.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中居第 920 位，生物技术、翻译与体育科学为其公认优势。

History

• Pablo de Olavide University was created by Law 8/1997 of 18 December 1997, passed by the Parliament of Andalusia, as part of the regional government's drive to decentralise higher education in the Seville metropolitan area.巴勃罗·德奥拉维德大学依据 1997 年 12 月 18 日安达卢西亚议会通过的 第 8/1997 号法律 创办，是自治区政府推动塞维利亚都市区高等教育去中心化布局的产物。
• The institution took its name from Pablo de Olavide y Jáuregui (1725-1803), the Peruvian-born Spanish official who served as corregidor of Seville and directed the colonisation of the Sierra Morena in the 1760s.校名取自巴勃罗·德奥拉维德·豪雷吉（1725-1803），这位生于秘鲁的西班牙官员曾任塞维利亚市长，并于 1760 年代主持莫雷纳山区的新拓居地计划。
• Olavide arrived in Seville in 1766 and promoted street paving, lighting, public granaries and the reform of the city's charitable institutions, making him a symbol of Enlightenment administration in Andalusia.奥拉维德于 1766 年抵达塞维利亚，推动铺路、照明、公共粮仓与城市慈善机构改革，因而成为安达卢西亚启蒙行政的象征人物。
• His reforms antagonised the cathedral chapter and the local aristocracy, and after being arrested by the Inquisition in 1776 he spent his final years in exile, dying in Baeza in 1803.他的改革触怒了主教座堂与地方贵族，1776 年被宗教裁判所逮捕后长期流亡，最终于 1803 年在巴埃萨去世。
• The new university was carved out of the southern teaching centres of the University of Seville, which had become overcrowded as the city's population spread towards Dos Hermanas and the Aljarafe.新大学从塞维利亚大学南部的教学中心析出，随着城市人口向多斯埃尔马纳斯与阿尔哈拉费方向扩散，母体大学当时已不堪重负。
• UPO opened for the 1997-1998 academic year as one of the youngest public universities in Spain, and its first governing team chose the undeveloped land at El Rincón for a purpose-built campus.巴勃罗·德奥拉维德大学于 1997-1998 学年开学，是西班牙最年轻的公立大学之一，其首届管理团队为专门建造的校区选定了埃尔林孔的一片未开发土地。
• Rosario Valpuesta Fernández, a professor of civil law, became the university's first rector in 1997 and held the post until 2003, the first woman to lead a public university in Andalusia.民法教授罗萨里奥·巴尔普埃斯塔·费尔南德斯于 1997 年出任首任校长并任职至 2003 年，成为安达卢西亚首位领导公立大学的女性。
• Valpuesta shaped the institution around a North American model of a residential campus, an idea then unusual among Andalusian universities, and she remained an emeritus professor until her death in 2013.巴尔普埃斯塔以北美式住宿校区为蓝本塑造这所大学，这在当时注重分散院系的安达卢西亚高校中颇为罕见，她此后一直担任荣休教授，直至 2013 年去世。
• The university began admitting North American study-abroad students in 2001, a move that turned the campus into a base for Spanish-language and Hispanic studies programmes.该校自 2001 年起招收北美交换生，此举使校区逐渐成为西班牙语言与西语文化研究项目的基地。
• In 2002 UPO founded its International Center, which coordinates the Hispanic Studies Program, the University Integration Program and a year-round Spanish-language track for foreign students.2002 年该校成立国际中心，负责协调西语研究项目、大学融入项目以及面向外国学生的全年西班牙语课程。
• The International Center obtained accreditation from the Instituto Cervantes, and by 2010 it was hosting around 600 international students each academic year.国际中心获得塞万提斯学院认证，到 2010 年每学年接收约 600 名国际学生。
• Line 1 of the Seville Metro opened on 2 April 2009 with a station named Pablo de Olavide, linking the campus directly with the city centre and the University of Seville.塞维利亚地铁 1 号线于 2009 年 4 月 2 日通车，其中设有以该校命名的巴勃罗·德奥拉维德站，把校区与市中心及塞维利亚大学直接连接起来。
• By 2010 the university reported 10,741 students, 1,032 teaching staff, 65 research groups, 18 bachelor's degrees and six double degrees, together with 40 official master's programmes and 18 doctorates.到 2010 年，该校报告有 10741 名学生、1032 名教师、65 个研究组、18 个学士学位与 6 个双学位，并开设 40 个官方硕士项目与 18 个博士项目。
• In January 2011 UPO and the Brussels-based NGO Protection International launched an online postgraduate diploma on the protection of human rights defenders, taught in English and Spanish.2011 年 1 月，该校与总部位于布鲁塞尔的非政府组织 Protection International 合作开设人权捍卫者保护在线研究生文凭课程，以英语和西班牙语授课。
• The university marked its twentieth anniversary in 2017 with a programme of conferences and concerts, by which time its campus had grown into the principal higher-education hub of southern Seville.该校于 2017 年以系列会议与音乐会纪念建校二十周年，此时校区已成为塞维利亚南部主要的高等教育中心。
• In the 2024 edition of the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings, UPO was placed in the 201-250 band, its strongest showing in a global young-university table.在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育年轻大学排名中，该校位列 201-250 区间，这是其在全球年轻大学榜单上的最佳表现。
• UPO has never changed its legal name, and its statutes describe it as a single-campus university organised around seven teaching centres and a postgraduate school.该校自建校以来从未更改法定校名，其章程将其界定为一所围绕七个教学中心与一个研究生院组织起来的单校区大学。
• The campus was planned with academic buildings, laboratories, a library, sports facilities and residential space in a single complex, in contrast to the dispersed faculties of older Seville institutions.校区把教学楼、实验室、图书馆、体育设施与住宿空间规划在同一片综合体之内，与塞维利亚老牌院校分散的院系布局形成对照。
• Although UPO is young, its law and social science departments trace their teaching staff to the University of Seville, from which the first professors transferred in the late 1990s.该校虽然年轻，其法学与社会科学师资却可追溯至塞维利亚大学，首批教授于 1990 年代末从母体大学转入。
• The Andalusian government's 1997 decision created a binary map for Seville, with the historic University of Seville in the north and the new UPO serving the southern municipalities.安达卢西亚政府 1997 年的决定为塞维利亚形成双元格局，北面是历史悠久的塞维利亚大学，南面则由新兴的巴勃罗·德奥拉维德大学服务各市镇。

Academics

• UPO is organised into six faculties, namely Experimental Sciences, Business, Social Sciences, Sport, Law and Humanities, together with a Polytechnic School and a Centre for Postgraduate Studies.该校由实验科学、商学、社会科学、体育、法学与人文六个学院组成，另设高等理工学院与研究生学习中心。
• The Faculty of Experimental Sciences teaches biotechnology, environmental science, chemistry and food technology, and its biotechnology degree was among the first offered in Andalusia.实验科学学院开设生物技术、环境科学、化学与食品技术等专业，其生物技术学位是安达卢西亚最早开设的同类项目之一。
• The Faculty of Law offers degrees in law, criminology, political science and public administration, and human resources, and it runs several double degrees with business administration.法学院开设法学、犯罪学、政治学与公共管理以及人力资源等学位，并与工商管理合办多个双学位项目。
• The Faculty of Humanities is responsible for history, geography, humanities and translation and interpreting, the last of which is regularly among the university's most demanded programmes.人文学院负责历史、地理、人文以及翻译与口译专业，其中翻译与口译常年位居该校报考热度最高的项目之列。
• The Faculty of Sport trains graduates in sport and exercise sciences and manages a teaching and research building next to the campus athletics facilities.体育学院培养体育与运动科学毕业生，并在校区田径设施旁管理一座教学与研究大楼。
• UPO offers 24 official bachelor's degrees, including double-degree combinations that let students obtain two qualifications in five years.该校开设 24 个官方学士学位，其中包括允许学生在五年内取得两个学位的双学位组合。
• Postgraduate provision includes around 40 official master's programmes and 18 doctoral programmes, coordinated by the Centre for Postgraduate Studies known as CEDEP.研究生教育包括约 40 个官方硕士项目与 18 个博士项目，由名为 CEDEP 的研究生学习中心统一协调。
• In the 2024-2025 academic year the university enrolled about 10,200 students and employed 847 teaching and research staff, giving a student-to-staff ratio close to twelve to one.2024-2025 学年该校注册学生约 10200 名，聘用 847 名教学与科研人员，师生比接近十二比一。
• Research is organised through 65 groups and several institutes, with concentrated activity in biotechnology, environmental sciences, social sciences, law and sports performance.科研通过 65 个研究组与若干研究所组织，活动集中于生物技术、环境科学、社会科学、法学与运动表现等领域。
• The Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology, a joint institute of the Spanish National Research Council, the regional government and UPO, runs laboratories on the campus and trains doctoral students in developmental genetics.安达卢西亚发育生物学中心由西班牙国家研究委员会、自治区政府与该校共建，在校区设实验室并培养发育遗传学博士生。
• The university library held 748,860 resources by 2010 and provides open-shelf collections, study rooms and digital databases for all faculties on the single campus.该校图书馆到 2010 年藏有 748860 件资源，在单一校区内为各学院提供开架书库、自习室与数字数据库。
• The library belongs to the Andalusian University Libraries Consortium, which shares catalogue records and interlibrary loans among the eight public universities of the region.该图书馆隶属安达卢西亚大学图书馆联盟，与自治区八所公立大学共享书目记录与馆际互借服务。
• The International Center manages exchange agreements with 268 universities and organisations in 42 countries, including API, CIEE and International Studies Abroad.国际中心管理着与 42 个国家 268 所大学及机构签订的交流协议，合作方包括 API、CIEE 与 International Studies Abroad。
• UPO was one of the first Spanish universities to adapt its degrees to the European Higher Education Area, replacing five-year licenciaturas with four-year bachelor's degrees after 2008.该校是西班牙最早按欧洲高等教育区调整学位的大学之一，2008 年之后以四年制学士学位取代五年制旧学位。
• Teaching is delivered in Spanish, although the International Center and several bilingual degrees use English as the language of instruction for part of the curriculum.教学以西班牙语为主，国际中心与部分双语学位则在部分课程中以英语授课。
• The Faculty of Business and the Faculty of Social Sciences share a building complex that also houses the university's language laboratory and computer rooms.商学院与社会科学学院共用一片建筑群，其中还设有多语言实验室与计算机房。
• The university's summer courses, held in the town of Carmona, bring together students and lecturers for short intensive programmes outside the regular academic calendar.该校在卡莫纳镇举办暑期课程，在常规学年之外组织学生与教师参加短期强化项目。
• UPO's doctoral programmes are grouped in the fields of social and legal sciences, experimental sciences, humanities and health, and are taught jointly with Andalusian research institutes.该校博士项目归入社会与法律科学、实验科学、人文与健康等领域，并与安达卢西亚多家研究机构联合培养。
• In 2010 the university operated on a budget of 80.16 million euros, and 635 companies collaborated with its chairs on internships, applied projects and technology transfer.2010 年该校预算为 8016 万欧元，另有 635 家企业与各院系在实习、应用项目与技术转移方面开展合作。
• The Faculty of Social Sciences teaches sociology, social work, social education and labour relations, and its graduates supply much of the social services workforce of Seville province.社会科学学院开设社会学、社会工作、社会教育与劳动关系等专业，其毕业生构成塞维利亚省社会服务队伍的重要来源。

Campus

• The campus covers 136 hectares on the south-eastern edge of Seville and is divided among the municipalities of Seville, Dos Hermanas and Alcalá de Guadaíra.校区占地 136 公顷，位于塞维利亚东南边缘，地跨塞维利亚、多斯埃尔马纳斯与阿尔卡拉德瓜代拉三个市镇。
• The site lies about five kilometres from the historic centre of Seville, a distance covered in roughly fifteen minutes by metro line 1 from the Pablo de Olavide station.校区距塞维利亚历史中心约五公里，从巴勃罗·德奥拉维德站乘坐地铁 1 号线约十五分钟即可抵达。
• Planned as a North American-style campus, UPO combines teaching buildings, laboratories, a library, sports grounds and residential accommodation within one continuous site.校区按北美式校园规划，把教学楼、实验室、图书馆、运动场与住宿设施整合在同一片连续用地之内。
• The Edificio Central houses the rectorate, the governing council and the main administrative services, and faces the principal entrance from the Seville road network.中央大楼设有校长办公室、校务委员会与主要行政服务部门，正对来自塞维利亚公路网的主入口。
• The Biblioteca/CRAI, the university's learning resources centre, provides reading rooms, group study spaces and digital collections for all six faculties.该校的学习资源中心 Biblioteca/CRAI 设有阅览室、小组研讨空间与数字馆藏，服务全部六个学院。
• A sports complex of about 100,000 square metres includes pitches, a gymnasium, tennis courts and a heated swimming pool used by the Faculty of Sport and by student teams.约 10 万平方米的体育综合体包括球场、体育馆、网球场与恒温泳池，供体育学院及学生代表队使用。
• The campus is landscaped with lawns and tree-lined avenues, and its open spaces are used for the annual welcome fair and open-air concerts.校区以草坪与林荫道景观为主，开阔空间用于举办年度迎新集市与露天音乐会。
• Student residences and the International Center are located on the campus itself, so exchange students can walk to classes, the library and the sports facilities.学生宿舍与国际中心均设于校区之内，交换学生步行即可到达教室、图书馆与体育设施。
• The campus provides computer rooms, television and video studios, audio laboratories and an open-access library, facilities that the university presents as part of its practical teaching model.校区设有计算机房、电视与视频演播室、音频实验室以及开架图书馆，校方把这些设施视为实践教学模式的组成部分。
• A student union building houses society offices and common rooms, and regular bus services as well as metro line 1 connect the campus with central Seville.学生会大楼内设社团办公室与公共活动室，常规公交线路与地铁 1 号线共同把校区与塞维利亚市中心连接起来。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, Pablo de Olavide University is placed in the 1201-1400 band, a joint interval that reflects its position among the world's research universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，巴勃罗·德奥拉维德大学位列 1201-1400 并列区间，这一区间反映其在全球研究型大学中的位置。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places UPO 920th in the world, its highest position in a major global table.2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名将该校列于世界第 920 位，这是其在主要全球榜单中的最高位次。
• UPO did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and it was not included in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.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。
• In the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2024, UPO appeared in the 201-250 band, an indicator of its standing among institutions founded after 1971.在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育年轻大学排名中，该校进入 201-250 区间，显示其在一批 1971 年后创办院校中的位置。
• OpenAlex attributes 21,087 works and 833,560 citations to UPO, figures that place it among the mid-sized Spanish public universities with a broad publication profile.OpenAlex 为该校收录 21087 项成果与 833560 次引用，这使其跻身发表覆盖面较广的西班牙中型公立大学之列。
• A 2010 university statistic placed UPO third among Spanish universities for research output relative to its size, a result frequently cited in its institutional reports.2010 年的一项校内统计把该校列为西班牙大学科研产出规模的第三位，这一结果常被校方报告引用。
• The university's reputation rests on applied social sciences, biotechnology and translation, and its law graduates are regularly recruited by Seville's courts and regional administration.该校声誉建立在应用社会科学、生物技术与翻译之上，其法学毕业生常被塞维利亚法院与自治区行政机构录用。
• UPO is a member of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities and participates in Andalusian and European exchange networks, although it is not part of the Russell Group-style alliances.该校是西班牙大学校长会议成员，并参与安达卢西亚与欧洲的交流网络，但不属于罗素集团式的联盟。
• Its relatively small size and single-campus model are presented by the university as advantages for interdisciplinary teaching and for close contact between students and academic staff.校方把相对较小的规模与单校区模式视为跨学科教学以及师生紧密互动的优势。
• In the 2007 InternetLab ranking of Spanish universities, UPO placed 58th among the 100 institutions assessed, an early external recognition of its digital and library services.在 2007 年西班牙大学 InternetLab 排行榜中，该校在 100 所参评院校中位列第 58 名，这是其数字与图书馆服务较早获得的外部认可。
• UPO's Erasmus exchanges link it with Bologna University, Lisbon University and Coimbra University, while the Cervantes Institute accredits its Spanish-language programmes for foreign students.该校的 Erasmus 交流网络连接博洛尼亚大学、里斯本大学与科英布拉大学等伙伴，其面向外国学生的西班牙语课程则获塞万提斯学院认证。

Student life

• UPO has no official motto, and its statutes instead set out the principles of academic freedom, equality and public service that govern the university community.该校没有正式校训，其章程改为规定学术自由、平等与公共服务等治理大学共同体的原则。
• The Sports Service, known as SDUPO, organises leagues, fitness classes and inter-university competitions, and manages the 100,000 square metres of sports facilities on campus.名为 SDUPO 的体育服务处组织联赛、健身课程与校际比赛，并管理校区内 10 万平方米的体育设施。
• International students, about 600 a year in the early 2010s, mix with local students in the Hispanic Studies Program and in the campus residences.国际学生在 2010 年代初约为每年 600 人，他们在西语研究项目与校园宿舍中与本地学生共同学习生活。
• Student associations cover law, business, sport, culture and international cooperation, and the university supports them through the Student Delegation and the Aula de Cultura.学生社团涵盖法学、商学、体育、文化与国际合作等领域，校方通过学生代表团与文化中心提供支持。
• The summer courses in Carmona, held every July, combine lectures with evening visits to the town's Roman necropolis and baroque churches.每年七月在卡莫纳举办的暑期课程把讲座与对当地罗马墓地及巴洛克教堂的夜间参观结合起来。
• Campus life is closely tied to Seville, whose April Fair, Holy Week processions and tapas bars lie a short metro ride from the university.校园生活与塞维利亚紧密相连，四月节、圣周游行与小酒馆街区距该校仅数站地铁。
• The International Center's Hispanic Studies Program, running since 2002, includes homestays, cultural visits and service-learning placements in Seville charities.国际中心的西语研究项目自 2002 年开办，包含寄宿家庭、文化参访与塞维利亚慈善机构的服务学习岗位。
• UPO's teams compete in the Andalusian university championships and the Spanish university championships, with particular strength in athletics, swimming and beach volleyball.该校运动队参加安达卢西亚大区大学生锦标赛与西班牙全国大学生锦标赛，在田径、游泳与沙滩排球项目上表现突出。

Notable people

• Inés Arrimadas, born in Jerez in 1981, graduated in law from UPO and later led the party Ciudadanos from 2020 to 2023 and sat in the Congress of Deputies.1981 年生于赫雷斯的伊内斯·阿里马达斯毕业于该校法学专业，后于 2020 至 2023 年领导公民党并担任众议员。
• Fernando Iwasaki, the Peruvian-Spanish writer and historian born in 1963, has taught in UPO's humanities faculty and written on the Baroque and on Spanish migration to the Americas.1963 年出生的秘鲁裔西班牙作家与历史学家费尔南多·伊瓦萨基曾在该校人文学院任教，著述涉及巴洛克与西班牙向美洲的移民。
• Lorena Miranda, a water polo player who won a silver medal with Spain at the London 2012 Olympics, studied at UPO while competing for the national team.洛雷娜·米兰达是西班牙女子水球队成员，曾获 2012 年伦敦奥运会银牌，她在效力国家队期间就读于该校。
• Rosario Valpuesta Fernández, the university's first rector, was a civil law scholar who promoted the single-campus model and died in 2013 at the age of 62.首任校长罗萨里奥·巴尔普埃斯塔·费尔南德斯是民法学者，推动单校区模式，于 2013 年去世，享年 62 岁。
• Alicia Troncoso Lora, a professor of computer science at UPO, leads its data science and computational intelligence group and has published widely on time-series forecasting.艾丽西亚·特龙科索·洛拉是该校计算机科学教授，领导数据科学与计算智能研究组，在时间序列预测领域发表大量成果。
• Juan Carlos Fernández Truan, a professor of sports history, directs the university's sports service and has written on the history of physical education in Andalusia.体育史教授胡安·卡洛斯·费尔南德斯·特鲁安兼任该校体育服务处主任，著有关于安达卢西亚体育教育史的著作。
• Pepa Millán, a lawyer and Vox spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, took her law degree at UPO before entering regional and national politics.佩帕·米良是律师与议会下院 Vox 党发言人，在进入地区与国家政治之前于该校取得法学学位。
• Pablo de Olavide himself never saw the university, which was founded 194 years after his death, but its name keeps his administrative and educational reforms in public memory.巴勃罗·德奥拉维德本人未能见到这所大学，该校在他去世 194 年后才创办，但校名使他的行政与教育改革留存于公共记忆。
• Pilar Paneque, a geographer trained at UPO, has written on water policy and drought management in southern Spain and has held academic posts in Andalusian universities.皮拉尔·帕内克在该校接受地理学训练，研究西班牙南部的水政策与干旱管理，并在安达卢西亚多所大学任职。