Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), usually abbreviated to PUCP, is a private research university in Lima, Peru, and the oldest private institution of higher learning in the country.秘鲁天主教大学（西班牙文：Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú），通常简称 PUCP，是位于秘鲁利马的一所私立研究型大学，也是该国历史最悠久的私立高等学府。

It was founded on 24 March 1917 by Father Jorge Dintilhac of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, who was elected its first rector, and it received the title of Pontifical from the Holy See on 30 September 1942.该校由耶稣圣心会司铎豪尔赫·丁蒂拉克于 1917 年 3 月 24 日创办并出任首任校长，1942 年 9 月 30 日获圣座授予「宗座」称号。

It is placed 357th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 1601-1800 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking and 1127th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, and it did not enter the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 357，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 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 1127，且未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• The Catholic University of Lima began teaching in 1917 with two schools, Letters and Laws, in free classrooms of the La Recoleta school near the Plaza Francia.利马天主教大学于 1917 年以文学与法学两个学校开班授课，教室借用法国广场附近雷科莱塔学校的空闲房间。

• Its creation was promoted by Father Jorge Dintilhac of the Sacred Hearts Congregation and by five lay founders, among them Carlos Arenas y Loayza and Guillermo Basombrío Carrasco.该校的创办由圣心会司铎豪尔赫·丁蒂拉克与五位平信徒创办人推动，其中包括卡洛斯·阿雷纳斯-洛艾萨与吉列尔莫·巴松布里奥·卡拉斯科。

• The supreme resolution authorising the new university was signed on 24 March 1917 by President José Pardo y Barreda, so the university held official recognition from its foundation.授权这所新大学的最高决议由总统何塞·帕尔多-巴雷达于 1917 年 3 月 24 日签署，学校自创办之初即获得官方承认。

• In 1918 the institution was renamed the Catholic University of Peru, the name its founders had wanted, and it remained the only private university in the country for decades.1918 年该校更名为秘鲁天主教大学，这正是创办者所期望的名称，此后数十年间它一直是全国唯一的私立大学。

• In 1932 the university created the Higher Institute of Commercial Sciences, the Women's Institute of Higher Studies and the Institute of Languages.1932 年该校设立高等商业研究所、女子高等研究所与语言研究所。

• In 1933, when it had more than 500 students, the university established the Schools of Engineering and of Political and Economic Sciences.1933 年，在学生已超过五百人时，该校设立了工程学校以及政治与经济学校。

• In 1935 the School of Education was created, followed in 1936 by the Escuela Normal Urbana, and in 1939 by the Academy of Catholic Art under Adolf Winternitz.1935 年教育学校设立，1936 年又成立城市师范学校，1939 年在阿道夫·温特尼茨主持下创办天主教艺术研究院。

• On 30 September 1942 the Holy See granted the university the title of Pontifical, decreed and signed by Pope Pius XII, and the university began to call itself the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.1942 年 9 月 30 日，圣座由教宗庇护十二世颁令授予该校「宗座」称号，学校遂自称秘鲁天主教大学。

• In 1944 the Peruvian thinker José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma died and left the university his estate, including the Riva-Agüero and O'Higgins houses and the Pando farm in San Miguel, making him its principal benefactor.1944 年，秘鲁思想家何塞·德·拉·里瓦-阿圭罗-奥斯马去世，把包括里瓦-阿圭罗宅邸、奥希金斯宅邸以及圣米格尔潘多农庄在内的产业遗赠该校，成为其最主要的资助人。

• He had first intended to leave his fortune to his alma mater, the Royal and Pontifical University of San Marcos, but chose the Catholic University because he considered San Marcos dominated by liberal ideas.他原本打算把财产留给母校圣马科斯王家与宗座大学，但因认为圣马科斯受自由主义思潮主导，最终选择捐给天主教大学。

• In 1949, under Law 11003, the university obtained its autonomy from the National University of San Marcos, by which it had previously been governed.1949 年，依据第 11003 号法律，该校从圣马科斯国立大学获得自主权，此前它一直接受后者的管辖。

• In 1953 the Riva-Agüero Institute was inaugurated in honour of its benefactor, and in 1959 the School of Religious Studies and the Faculty of Agronomy were created, the latter later transferred to the National Agrarian University.1953 年里瓦-阿圭罗研究所以纪念其资助人而成立，1959 年又设立宗教研究学校与农学院，农学院后来并入国立农业大学。

• Between 1953 and 1962 the university joined leading international university bodies, among them the International Federation of Catholic Universities and the International Association of Universities.1953 至 1962 年间，该校加入多个重要国际大学组织，其中包括国际天主教大学联合会与国际大学协会。

• In the 1960s the university moved from the Recoleta site to new buildings at the Fundo Pando in San Miguel, and on 8 April 1960 Law 13417 granted it the character of a national institution.1960 年代，该校由雷科莱塔旧址迁往圣米格尔潘多农场的新建筑，而 1960 年 4 月 8 日的第 13417 号法律又赋予其国家机构的地位。

• In 1961 the Theater of the Catholic University of Lima was created with Ricardo Blume as its director and only professor.1961 年，利马天主教大学剧院成立，由里卡多·布鲁梅担任院长与唯一的教授。

• In 1986 four large packages containing thousands of papers relating to the poet Martín Adán were delivered to the university, greatly enriching its literary archive.1986 年，四大包与诗人马丁·阿丹相关的数千份文件被移交该校，极大充实了其文学档案。

• In October 2011 Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, was named apostolic visitor, and in a papal decree of 11 July 2012 the Holy See withdrew the titles Pontifical and Catholic from the university.2011 年 10 月，埃斯泰尔戈姆-布达佩斯总主教佩泰尔·埃尔德被任命为宗座视察员，而在 2012 年 7 月 11 日的教宗令中，圣座撤销了该校的「宗座」与「天主教」称号。

• The rector Marcial Rubio refused to give up the titles, arguing that the university was governed by the civil laws of Peru rather than by canon law, and the dispute lasted several years.校长马西亚尔·鲁维奥拒绝放弃称号，主张该校受秘鲁世俗法律而非教会法管辖，争端持续数年之久。

• In 2014 Pope Francis formed a Commission of Cardinals to seek a consensual solution, and in 2016 the Vatican restored the lost titles and ruled that the Archbishop of Lima would no longer be Chancellor.2014 年教宗方济各设立枢机委员会以寻求双方共识，2016 年梵蒂冈恢复了被撤销的称号，并裁定利马总主教不再兼任校监。

• In 1997 the first edition of Elcine was celebrated, and a decade later it had grown into the Festival of Lima, one of the leading film festivals of Latin America.1997 年首届「Elcine」电影节举办，十年后它发展为利马电影节，成为拉丁美洲重要的电影节之一。

• In 2000 the CENTRUM Business School was founded, in 2002 the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism was created, and in 2005 the university introduced political science and government as a field of study.2000 年森特朗商学院成立，2002 年建筑与城市规划学院创建，2005 年该校又开设政治学与政府这一专业方向。

• In 2006 the university bought the Lima Film Archive to save its deteriorating tapes, received the musical manuscripts of Daniel Alomía Robles, and in 2008 completed the McGregor Building on its campus.2006 年该校为抢救日益损坏的胶片而购入利马电影资料馆，并接收丹尼尔·阿洛米亚·罗夫莱斯的音乐手稿，2008 年校园内的麦克格雷格大楼落成。

• In 2016 the university was licensed for ten years by the national higher education authority SUNEDU, the first Peruvian university to receive such a long licence.2016 年，该校获国家高等教育机构 SUNEDU 的十年办学许可，是秘鲁首所获得如此长期限许可的大学。

Academics

• Its academic structure comprises thirteen faculties, sixteen academic departments, two general studies programmes and one graduate school.其学术架构包括十三个系、十六个学术部门、两个通识教育项目与一个研究生院。

• It offers 66 undergraduate programmes and 175 graduate programmes and counted 31,516 undergraduate and graduate students in the second semester of 2025.该校开设 66 个本科项目与 175 个研究生项目，2025 年第二学期共有 31,516 名本科与研究生。

• All students follow general studies before entering a faculty, continuing a tradition of broad education that the Peruvian university system inherited from the colonial period.全体学生在进入系所之前先修读通识教育，延续了秘鲁大学体系自殖民时期继承下来的博雅教育传统。

• Its faculties cover law, social sciences, engineering, business, letters and human sciences, education, science, architecture and urbanism, and medicine.其系所涵盖法学、社会科学、工程学、商学、文学与人文科学、教育学、理学、建筑与城市规划以及医学。

• The CENTRUM Business School offers master's and doctoral programmes in business administration, and the university also maintains a school of religious studies.森特朗商学院开设工商管理硕士与博士项目，该校还设有宗教研究学校。

• Research is carried out through institutes and centres such as the Riva-Agüero Institute, the Institute of Peruvian Studies and Innovapucp, the science and technology transfer centre.其科研通过研究所与中心开展，例如里瓦-阿圭罗研究所、秘鲁研究所，以及科技转移中心 Innovapucp。

• In 2025 the university counted 535 researchers registered with RENACYT, the Peruvian national register of scientists and technologists.2025 年该校有 535 位研究人员登记于秘鲁国家科技人才名册。

• The university's own publishing house, the Fondo Editorial PUCP, produces academic books and journals across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.该校自有出版社 PUCP 出版基金会在人文、社会科学与自然科学领域出版学术图书与期刊。

• The Confucius Institute at the university, set up with Chinese partners, teaches Chinese language, culture and history to students and the public.该校与中方合作设立的孔子学院，向学生与公众教授汉语、文化与历史。

• Language teaching is also provided by Idiomas Católica, a language-learning centre that offers courses to the wider Lima community.语言教学还由天主教语言中心承担，该中心面向利马社会各界开设课程。

• The university library system, one of the largest in Peru, serves the faculties through a central library and a network of branch libraries.该校图书馆体系是秘鲁规模最大的之一，由一座中央图书馆与多个分馆为各系所服务。

• In the twenty-first century the university expanded its arts teaching, creating the Faculty of Performing Arts in 2014 and strengthening an arts major that few Peruvian universities offer.进入 21 世纪后，该校扩展艺术教学，2014 年设立表演艺术学院，并加强国内少有大学开设的艺术专业。

• The School of Government and Public Policy and the specialty of political science and government prepare students for public service and policy analysis.政府与公共政策学院以及政治学与政府专业，为学生从事公共服务与政策分析做准备。

• Undergraduate teaching combines lectures with research seminars, and most faculties require a thesis or supervised research project for graduation.本科教学把课堂讲授与研究讨论相结合，多数系所还要求以论文或导师指导的研究项目毕业。

• The university participates in Latin American academic networks and bilateral agreements that support student exchange and joint research with universities across the region.该校参与拉丁美洲的学术网络与双边协议，藉此与区域内各大学开展学生交流与联合研究。

• Postgraduate training includes 175 graduate programmes, among them master's degrees in public policy, engineering, social sciences and law.其研究生培养包括 175 个项目，涵盖公共政策、工程、社会科学与法学等硕士方向。

• The university counts more than 25,000 students and around 3,000 professors, making it one of the largest private universities in the country.该校拥有两万五千多名学生与约三千名教授，是该国规模最大的私立大学之一。

• Its Faculty of Social Sciences groups the specialities of social anthropology, communication arts, sociology, and political science and government, alongside economics and other fields.其社会科学学院汇集社会人类学、传播艺术、社会学，以及政治学与政府等专业，并涵盖经济学等方向。

Campus

• The main campus lies in the San Miguel district of Lima and includes the Mac Gregor complex, built to expand teaching and student facilities.主校区位于利马圣米格尔区，其中包括为扩展教学与学生设施而建的麦克格雷格建筑群。

• Beyond the main campus the university maintains the Idiomas Católica building, the Confucius Institute and the cultural centre in the district of San Isidro.在主校区之外，该校还保有天主教语言中心大楼、孔子学院，以及位于圣伊西德罗区的文化中心。

• The university's cultural centre, opened in 1994, hosts theatre, music, film and exhibitions and is housed in a converted building in San Isidro.该校文化中心于 1994 年开馆，用于举办戏剧、音乐、电影与展览，馆舍设于圣伊西德罗一栋改造建筑内。

• CENTRUM, the business school, occupies its own site in the district of Santiago de Surco, separate from the main campus.商学院森特朗在圣地亚哥德苏尔科区拥有独立园区，与主校区分开。

• The theater of the university, founded in 1961, remains an active stage on campus for Peruvian drama and for visiting companies.该校剧院成立于 1961 年，至今仍是校园内上演秘鲁戏剧与接待客座剧团的重要舞台。

• The campus includes pastoral and counselling facilities and a sports complex used by students and staff.校园内设有牧灵与心理咨询设施，以及供师生使用的运动场所。

• The university's location in San Miguel places it close to the historic centre of Lima, with public transport linking it to the wider metropolitan area.该校所在的圣米格尔区靠近利马历史城区，公共交通把校园与大都会各区相连。

• The Lima Film Archive, bought by the university in 2006, is preserved on campus and supports film research and public screenings.该校于 2006 年购入的利马电影资料馆保存于校园内，用于支持电影研究与公众放映。

• The main campus in San Miguel houses the central library, the human sciences and engineering buildings and the university's sports fields.圣米格尔主校区设有中央图书馆、人文科学与工程教学楼，以及该校的运动场地。

Reputation

• The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru is ranked 357th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and placed first in Peru in the 2026 QS table.秘鲁天主教大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 357，并在 2026 年 QS 榜单中位列秘鲁第一。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking it sits in the 1601-1800 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is placed 1127th.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中它处于 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 1127。

• It did not enter the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, though it is one of only a few Peruvian universities to have led national tables in major rankings.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，不过它属于少数曾在主要国际排名中位居全国第一的秘鲁大学之一。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 29,500 research works attracting 352,173 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 29,500 项研究成果，累计被引用 352,173 次。

• Together with the National University of San Marcos, often called San Marcos University, and the Cayetano Heredia University, it is one of only three Peruvian universities ever to rank first nationally.该校与圣马科斯国立大学、卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚大学一道，是仅有的三所曾在国际排名中位居全国第一的秘鲁大学。

• It ranked eleventh in Latin America in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and is widely regarded as the country's leading private university.它在 2026 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列拉丁美洲第 11，并被普遍视为该国最好的私立大学。

• The university was the second Peruvian private university to win SUNEDU licensing and the first university in the country to be licensed for a ten-year term.该校是秘鲁第二所通过 SUNEDU 认证的私立大学，也是全国首所获得十年期限认证的大学。

• Its arts and humanities teaching is considered distinctive in Peru, a country where few universities offer a full major in the arts.其艺术与人文学科教学在秘鲁颇具特色，该国只有少数大学开设完整的艺术专业。

• The university's law faculty and social science departments are among the most influential in Peruvian public life, supplying judges, ministers and analysts.该校法学院与社会科学各系在秘鲁公共生活中颇具影响，为国家输送法官、部长与分析人士。

Student life

• Students pursue thirty-eight different specialties across the ten schools, taught largely in Spanish, with other languages offered through the language centres.学生在十个学院中修读 38 个专业方向，教学以西班牙语为主，其他语言由语言中心提供。

• The student body includes about 22,711 undergraduates, 6,333 postgraduates and 393 doctoral students, according to university figures.据校方数据，其学生包括约 22,711 名本科生、6,333 名研究生与 393 名博士生。

• The university belongs to the Consortium of Universities, formed with four other leading private universities to share academic resources.该校是大学联盟的成员，该联盟由它与其他四所顶尖私立大学共同组建，以共享学术资源。

• It also belongs to the Peruvian Network of Universities, which links it with regional public universities across the country.它还加入秘鲁大学网络，该网络把它与全国各地的地区公立大学联系起来。

• Public film screenings run by the university grew out of the Elcine project and now draw audiences as part of the Festival of Lima.该校主办的公众电影放映由「Elcine」项目发展而来，如今作为利马电影节的一部分吸引众多观众。

• The university supports student cultural groups in theatre, music and dance, sustained by its theatre and cultural centre.该校支持戏剧、音乐与舞蹈等学生文化团体，并由其剧院与文化中心提供支撑。

• Community engagement is organised through the cultural centre and through social responsibility projects run with parishes and neighbourhood organisations.其社区参与通过文化中心，以及与堂区、社区组织合办的社会责任项目开展。

• Pastoral and counselling services are provided on campus through the university's pastoral centre, alongside academic tutoring and student welfare offices.校园内由牧灵中心提供牧灵与心理咨询服务，并配有学业辅导与学生事务部门。

• Student life is organised around a pastoral centre, a sports complex and dozens of student groups in law, engineering, the arts and the social sciences.学生生活围绕牧灵中心、运动场地以及法学、工程、艺术与社会科学等数十个学生团体展开。

Notable people

• Father Jorge Dintilhac, a priest of the Sacred Hearts Congregation, founded the university in 1917 and served as its first rector.耶稣圣心会司铎豪尔赫·丁蒂拉克于 1917 年创办该校，并担任首任校长。

• José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, a historian and politician, became the university's principal benefactor when he left it his fortune in 1944.历史学家与政治家何塞·德·拉·里瓦-阿圭罗-奥斯马在 1944 年把财产遗赠该校，成为其最主要的资助人。

• Marcial Rubio, a jurist, served as rector and led the university during the dispute with the Vatican over its pontifical titles.法学家马西亚尔·鲁维奥曾任校长，并在与梵蒂冈就宗座称号的争端中领导该校。

• Salomón Lerner Febres, a philosopher and former rector, later chaired Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.哲学家、前校长萨洛蒙·莱尔纳·费夫雷斯后来出任秘鲁真相与和解委员会主席。

• Gustavo Gutiérrez, the theologian regarded as a founder of liberation theology, taught and researched at the university for many years.被视为解放神学奠基人之一的神学家古斯塔沃·古铁雷斯，在该校任教与研究多年。

• Efraín Gonzales de Olarte, an economist and former rector, also led the university in the twenty-first century.经济学家、前校长埃弗拉因·冈萨莱斯·德奥拉尔特也曾在 21 世纪领导该校。

• Adolf Winternitz directed the Academy of Catholic Art from its founding in 1939 and shaped the university's early teaching of art.阿道夫·温特尼茨自 1939 年研究院成立起担任院长，塑造了该校早期的艺术教学。

• Ricardo Blume, an actor and director, was the first director and only professor of the university's theater in 1961.演员兼导演里卡多·布鲁梅于 1961 年出任该校剧院首任院长兼唯一教授。

• Martín Adán, the poet whose papers were delivered to the university in 1986, is among the most studied figures in Peruvian literature.诗人马丁·阿丹是该国文学研究最多的作家之一，其手稿于 1986 年移交该校。

• Daniel Alomía Robles, composer of the celebrated zarzuela El cóndor pasa, had his musical manuscripts donated to the university by his family.著名萨苏埃拉《山鹰之歌》的作曲者丹尼尔·阿洛米亚·罗夫莱斯，其音乐手稿由家人捐赠给该校。

• Cardinal Péter Erdő and Pope Francis were central figures in the Vatican's long dispute with the university over its name and governance.枢机佩泰尔·埃尔德与教宗方济各，是梵蒂冈就校名与治理问题与该校长期争端中的核心人物。