Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

The Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, PUC-SP) is a private, non-profit Catholic university in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, owned and maintained by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo.圣保罗天主教大学（Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo，简称 PUC-SP）是巴西圣保罗市的一所私立非营利天主教大学，由圣保罗天主教总教区所有并主办，办学经费来自学费与教会资助。

It was founded in 1946 by the union of several Catholic colleges and was granted the title Pontifical Catholic University by Pope Pius XII in 1947, which is why the official name begins with the word Pontifícia.该校于 1946 年由若干天主教院校合并创办，1947 年获教宗庇护十二世授予宗座天主教大学称号，故正式校名以 Pontifícia 一词开头。

The university serves more than 19,000 students, of whom about 15,500 are undergraduates, and it stands in the 1001-1200 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.该校在校学生逾 19,000 人，其中本科生约 15,500 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 1001-1200 位并列区间。

History

• The Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of São Bento, one of the institutions whose merger created the university, was itself established in São Paulo as early as 1908, more than thirty years before the university was founded.该校创办机构之一的圣本笃哲学、科学与文学学院，早在 1908 年即在圣保罗成立，比大学本身还早了三十多年。
• PUC-SP was formally created in 1946 by uniting the São Bento Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters and the Paulista School of Law with four other Catholic institutions that already operated in the city.圣保罗天主教大学于 1946 年正式创办，由圣本笃哲学、科学与文学学院、保利斯塔法学院与市内另外四所已运作的天主教会机构合并而成。
• The university was founded by Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcellos Motta, then Archbishop of São Paulo, and it was named the Catholic University of São Paulo at the outset of its existence.该校由时任圣保罗总主教卡洛斯·卡梅洛·德瓦斯孔塞洛斯·莫塔创办，创办之初定名圣保罗天主教大学。
• In 1947 Pope Pius XII conferred on it the title Pontifical Catholic University, which explains why the official Portuguese name begins with the word Pontifícia rather than a secular form.1947 年教宗庇护十二世授予其宗座天主教大学称号，这解释了为何其正式葡文校名以 Pontifícia 一词开头，而非世俗形式。
• Osvaldo Aranha Bandeira de Melo served as the first lay rector of the university from 1963 to 1972, at a time when the institution was expanding its courses and campuses across the city.奥斯瓦尔多·阿拉尼亚·班德拉·德梅洛于 1963 年至 1972 年出任该校首位非神职校长，正值该校在全市扩张课程与校区之时。
• The university theatre TUCA was founded in 1965 with a staging of João Cabral de Melo Neto's Morte e Vida Severina, set to music by Chico Buarque, and it quickly became a focus of Brazilian cultural life.该校剧场 TUCA 创立于 1965 年，首演是为若昂·卡布拉尔·德梅洛·内图的《生死塞韦里诺》配以奇科·布阿尔克音乐的演出，很快成为巴西文化生活的焦点。
• During the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985, students and professors of the university took part in demonstrations against the government and pressed for democratic reform.在 1964 年至 1985 年统治巴西的军政府时期，该校学生与教授参与反对政府的示威，并推动民主改革。
• Paulo Evaristo Arns, then Archbishop of São Paulo, hired professors who had been dismissed from public universities by the military, among them the sociologists Florestan Fernandes and Octavio Ianni and the philosopher Bento Prado Júnior.时任圣保罗总主教保罗·埃瓦里斯托·阿尔恩斯接纳了被军政府从公立大学解聘的教授，其中包括社会学家弗洛雷斯坦·费尔南德斯、奥克塔维奥·伊安尼与哲学家本托·普拉多·儒尼奥尔。
• In 1977 the university hosted the 29th annual meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science, a gathering that the government had barred from public institutions and that filled the campus with scholars.1977 年，该校主办了被政府禁止在公立院校举行的巴西科学进步协会第 29 届年会，学者云集校园。
• In September 1977 military police entered the campus and arrested students, professors and staff after a student meeting that the dictatorship had likewise prohibited, an episode later seen as a symbol of academic resistance.1977 年 9 月，在一场同样被独裁政府禁止的学生会议之后，军警进入校园并逮捕了学生、教授与工作人员，此事后来被视为学术抗争的象征。
• In the early 1980s PUC-SP became the first Brazilian university to elect its rector and other senior officers by direct vote of students and teachers, a reform that influenced other institutions.20 世纪 80 年代初，该校成为巴西第一所以师生直接投票选举校长及其它管理层的高校，这一改革影响了其他院校。
• In 1984 two fires, the second of them believed by many to have been started deliberately, damaged the university theatre on the Perdizes campus, which was later restored.1984 年该校剧场先后遭遇两场火灾，其中第二场被许多人认为是蓄意纵火，剧场其后得到修复。
• In the early 2000s the university opened two new campuses, one in the Santana district in the north of the city and one in the neighbouring municipality of Barueri.21 世纪初，该校增设两个校区，分别位于城市北部的桑塔纳街区与邻近的巴鲁埃里市。
• A deficit of 4 million reais recorded in 2001 grew into a bank debt of 82 million reais by the end of 2005, forcing the university to close courses and dismiss staff.2001 年录得的 400 万雷亚尔赤字，到 2005 年底累积成 8,200 万雷亚尔的银行债务，迫使该校停办部分课程并裁减人员。
• After those measures, and protests by professors and students, the university recorded its first months without a deficit at the end of 2006 and began to regain financial stability.在采取上述措施之后，加上教授与学生的抗议，该校于 2006 年底首次录得无赤字月份并逐步恢复财务稳定。
• In 2012 Cardinal Odilo Scherer passed over the most-voted candidate, Dirceu de Mello, and appointed Anna Cintra, the least-voted of the three candidates, as rector.2012 年，枢机奥迪洛·谢雷尔未任命得票最高的候选人迪尔塞乌·德梅洛，而是委任三人中得票最低的安娜·辛特拉为校长。
• Students and professors responded with an open-ended strike, and on 30 November 2012 Cintra was prevented from entering the rector's office by protesters who surrounded the building.学生与教授随即发动无限期罢课，2012 年 11 月 30 日辛特拉一度被包围大楼的抗议者阻止进入校长办公室。
• In 2003 the university began the joint graduate programme in international relations known as Programa San Tiago Dantas, together with the State University of Campinas and the São Paulo State University.2003 年，该校与坎皮纳斯州立大学及圣保罗州立大学共同开设名为圣蒂亚戈·丹塔斯项目的国际关系联合研究生项目。
• Since 2010 it has also offered a joint professional master's degree in the economics of globalisation with Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, an arrangement known as a double diploma.自 2010 年起，该校还与巴黎先贤祠-索邦大学合办全球化经济学专业硕士项目，此即所谓双文凭安排。
• In November 2024 Vidal Serrano Nunes Júnior, a professor of constitutional law and a public prosecutor, was appointed rector of the university for the following term.2024 年 11 月，宪法学教授、检察官维达尔·塞拉诺·努内斯·儒尼奥尔获任命为该校下一任期校长。

Academics

• Teaching at the university is organised across faculties such as Exact Sciences and Technology, Human Sciences and Health, Medical Sciences and Health, Social Sciences, Law, and Economics and Administration.该校教学分布于多个学院，包括精确科学与技术学院、人文与健康科学学院、医学与健康科学学院、社会科学学院、法学院，以及经济与管理学院。
• Its Faculty of Philosophy, Communication, Letters and Arts, commonly known as FAFICLA, covers the humanities, journalism, film and the performing arts.其哲学、传播、文学与艺术学院（简称 FAFICLA）涵盖人文、新闻、影视与表演艺术领域。
• Alongside these faculties the university maintains a Law School, a Business School and a Medical School that is based on the Sorocaba campus in the interior of the state.除上述学院外，该校还设有法学院、商学院，以及设于州内陆索罗卡巴校区的医学院。
• PUC-SP was the first university in Brazil to offer graduate programmes in philosophy, multimedia, social service, applied linguistics and speech-language therapy, disciplines in which it remains active.该校是巴西第一所开设哲学、多媒体、社会工作、应用语言学与言语治疗研究生项目的高校，其在这些学科至今活跃。
• It was also the second university in Brazil to offer a bachelor's degree in international relations, a field in which it has since built a strong reputation.它也是巴西第二所开设国际关系本科专业的高校，其在这一领域此后建立了良好声誉。
• Its graduate programme in international relations, Programa San Tiago Dantas, is run jointly with two public universities and ranks among the leading programmes in the field in Brazil.其国际关系研究生项目圣蒂亚戈·丹塔斯项目与两所公立大学合办，属巴西该领域顶尖项目之一。
• Selected students can obtain a double degree by completing part of their undergraduate studies at Sciences Po in France, an arrangement that gives the programme an international character.部分优秀学生可赴法国巴黎政治学院完成部分本科学业，从而取得双学位，使该项目具有国际特色。
• The university offers postgraduate studies through master's and doctoral programmes across the humanities, social sciences, law and health, and it also maintains a Faculty of Theology.该校通过人文、社会科学、法律与健康等领域的硕士与博士项目提供研究生教育，并设有神学院。
• Every year it awards almost 400 undergraduate research grants, each worth about 800 US dollars, under the national Institutional Scientific Initiation Programme organised by CNPq.该校每年通过国家科学技术发展委员会（CNPq）组织的机构科研入门计划，发放近 400 项本科科研资助，每项约 800 美元。
• Participation in that research programme makes undergraduate students considerably more likely to continue to a master's degree and afterwards to a doctorate.参与该科研计划的本科生继续攻读硕士、进而攻读博士的比例显著更高。
• In 2010, 80 per cent of the university's employees held a college degree, and by 2020 about 63.3 per cent of its researchers were women.2010 年该校 80% 的职员拥有大学学历，到 2020 年其研究者中女性约占 63.3%。
• More than 1,000 teachers and researchers work at the university, around four fifths of them holding doctoral degrees, a high proportion for a private institution in Brazil.该校有 1,000 余名教师与研究人员，其中约五分之四拥有博士学位，这在巴西私立院校中比例颇高。
• Its teaching staff is spread across roughly 47 departments that cover the natural sciences, engineering, law, education, communication and the health professions.其师资分布于约 47 个系，涵盖自然科学、工程、法律、教育、传播与卫生健康等专业领域。
• The university maintains its own publishing house and the Central Library, and it receives research funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation.该校设有自己的出版社与中央图书馆，并获得圣保罗研究基金会的科研资助。
• It also runs the St. Lucinda Hospital in Sorocaba and the TUCA theatre in São Paulo as part of its wider institutional work.它还运营索罗卡巴的圣卢辛达医院与圣保罗的 TUCA 剧场，作为其更广泛机构工作的一部分。
• Students are admitted through the vestibular entrance examination, which tests languages, sciences, mathematics and history over two separate papers that are sat on consecutive days.学生通过「vestibular」入学考试录取，该考试以连续两天举行的两份试卷考查语言、科学、数学与历史。
• The PUC-SP vestibular is also used to select students for a number of other colleges and universities in the state of São Paulo, an arrangement that is unusual in Brazil.该校的「vestibular」考试也为圣保罗州多所其他院校选拔学生，这在巴西并不常见。
• Research is encouraged at undergraduate level, so that students may join the scientific initiation programme and work alongside established academics from their first years.该校在本科阶段即鼓励研究，学生自低年级起即可加入科研入门计划，与资深学者一同工作。
• The university's strongest fields are generally held to be law, economics, philosophy, education and the communication and health sciences.该校最受公认的优势领域为法律、经济、哲学、教育，以及传播与健康科学。
• Graduates are awarded bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, and the university also offers a large number of specialisation courses for working professionals.毕业生可获学士、硕士与博士学位，该校亦为在职专业人士开设大量进修课程。

Campus

• The main campus and administrative headquarters of the university are in Perdizes, a middle-class neighbourhood of the Lapa district on the west side of São Paulo, on the site known as the Monte Alegre campus.该校主校区与行政总部位于圣保罗西区拉帕行政区的中产街区佩尔迪泽斯，该址被称为蒙特阿莱格雷校区。
• Most of the buildings there were put up between 1920 and 1940, and many of them form part of the historical heritage of the city.那里的大部分建筑建于 1920 年至 1940 年之间，其中许多属该市历史遗产的一部分。
• The campus brings together academic buildings, the university theatre TUCA and the university church within one compact area in the middle of the city.该校把教学楼、大学剧场 TUCA 与大学教堂集中于城市中央一片紧凑的园区之内。
• The Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology occupies the Consolação campus, which lies close to the centre of São Paulo and near its main cultural institutions.精确科学与技术学院位于靠近圣保罗市中心及其主要文化机构的康索拉桑校区。
• Business and economics courses are taught at the Santana campus on the northern side of the city, away from the main Perdizes campus.商业与经济课程在位于城市北部、远离佩尔迪泽斯主校区的桑塔纳校区授课。
• The Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences is based at the Sorocaba campus, about 90 kilometres from São Paulo in the interior of the state.医学与健康科学学院设于索罗卡巴校区，位于距圣保罗约 90 公里的州内陆地区。
• A further campus in the municipality of Barueri offers courses in business, economics, physical therapy and psychology.位于巴鲁埃里市的另一校区开设商业、经济、物理治疗与心理学课程。
• The university uses the TUCA theatre and the university church as public cultural venues within the Perdizes area.该校在佩尔迪泽斯一带以 TUCA 剧场与大学教堂作为面向公众的文化场所。
• Together the campuses place the university in the heart of Brazil's largest city, close to its cultural institutions and its extensive transport networks.各校区合起来使该校坐落于巴西最大城市的核心地带，邻近其文化机构与发达的交通网络。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo is placed in the 1001-1200 band, a shared range rather than a single position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，圣保罗天主教大学位列第 1001-1200 位区间，属并列区间而非单一席位。
• It did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, so the QS table is its only major international ranking that year.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，故 QS 榜单是它当年唯一的主要国际排名。
• It is likewise absent from the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking and from the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.该校同样未进入 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名，也未进入软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名。
• A domestic ranking of Brazilian universities has described PUC-SP as the best non-state higher education institution in the state of São Paulo and the second best in Brazil.巴西国内一项高校排名把该校列为圣保罗州最佳非国立高校与巴西第二。
• OpenAlex attributes to the university more than 30,500 scholarly works and about 164,000 citations, a substantial research output for a private institution.OpenAlex 收录该校学术成果逾 30,500 项、被引约 164,000 次，对于一所私立高校而言研究产出相当可观。
• It is widely regarded as one of the strongest private universities in Brazil and is ranked as the highest-placed Catholic university in the QS BRICS rankings.该校被普遍视为巴西最强的私立大学之一，并在 QS 金砖国家排名中位居天主教大学之首。
• Several of its former professors and students have won significant awards, among them two Emmy Awards in television and film production.其多位前教授与学生获得过重要奖项，其中包括电视与电影制作领域的两项艾美奖。
• Its traditional strengths lie in law, economics, philosophy, education, communication and the health sciences, fields in which it has trained generations of Brazilian professionals.其传统优势领域为法律、经济、哲学、教育、传播与健康科学，在这些领域培养了数代巴西专业人才。
• The university belongs to the network of Brazilian Catholic universities and takes part in joint research and teaching programmes with public universities across the country.该校属巴西天主教大学网络，并与全国多所公立大学开展联合科研与教学项目。

Student life

• The university has no formally adopted motto, and its identity is instead bound up with its Catholic and Paulista traditions.该校没有正式采用的校训，其身份认同反而与天主教及圣保罗地方传统紧密相连。
• The TUCA theatre, founded in 1965, is the best-known cultural landmark of PUC-SP and has staged major Brazilian productions since the 1960s, drawing audiences from across the city.创立于 1965 年的 TUCA 剧场是该校最知名的文化地标，自 20 世纪 60 年代以来搬演了众多巴西重要剧目，吸引全市观众。
• During the military dictatorship the theatre became a meeting point for artists and students opposed to the regime.军政府统治时期，该剧场成为反对政权的艺术家与学生的聚会之地。
• The university church, standing beside the theatre, forms the ceremonial heart of the Perdizes campus and hosts regular religious services.与剧场相邻的大学教堂构成佩尔迪泽斯校区的礼仪中心，并定期举行宗教活动。
• Students are admitted through the vestibular, a competitive examination that shapes much of the first-year experience and sets the tone of academic life.学生通过「vestibular」这一竞争激烈的考试入学，该考试塑造了新生第一年的大部分体验并奠定学术生活的基调。
• The university supports student research through hundreds of annual scientific initiation grants, encouraging undergraduates to work with professors.该校每年发放数百项科研入门资助，鼓励本科生与教授共同研究。
• Cultural life is closely tied to São Paulo, Brazil's largest city and a major centre of theatre, music and the visual arts.该校文化生活与圣保罗紧密相连，这座巴西最大城市是戏剧、音乐与视觉艺术的重要中心。
• The university maintains a chaplaincy and a programme of extension activities that link students to social projects in the city.该校设有校牧处，并推行把学生与城市社会项目相联结的社会服务计划。
• Student organisations, sports teams and cultural groups give the university a lively campus life in the middle of a metropolis.学生组织、运动队与文化团体，使该校在都市中心拥有活跃的校园生活。

Notable people

• Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcellos Motta, the Archbishop of São Paulo, founded the university in 1946 and guided its early growth as a Catholic institution.圣保罗总主教卡洛斯·卡梅洛·德瓦斯孔塞洛斯·莫塔于 1946 年创办该校，并引导其作为天主教机构的早期发展。
• Osvaldo Aranha Bandeira de Melo was its first lay rector, serving from 1963 to 1972 and helping to shape its modern academic structure.奥斯瓦尔多·阿拉尼亚·班德拉·德梅洛是该校首位非神职校长，任期为 1963 年至 1972 年，并协助塑造其现代学术架构。
• Paulo Evaristo Arns, Cardinal Archbishop of São Paulo, sheltered professors dismissed by the military dictatorship and is remembered as a defender of the university.圣保罗枢机总主教保罗·埃瓦里斯托·阿尔恩斯庇护了被军政府解聘的教授，被誉为该校的守护者。
• Paulo Freire, the theorist of critical pedagogy, taught at PUC-SP and is among the best-known academics ever associated with the university.批判教育学理论家保罗·弗莱雷曾在 PUC-SP 任教，是与该校相关的最知名学者之一。
• Florestan Fernandes, a sociologist and later a federal deputy, was among the professors who joined PUC-SP after being removed from public universities.社会学家、后任联邦众议员的弗洛雷斯坦·费尔南德斯，是被逐出公立大学后加入该校的教授之一。
• Celso Furtado, an economist who served as Brazil's Minister of Planning and Minister of Culture, was a professor at the university.曾出任巴西计划部长与文化部长的经济学家塞尔索·富尔塔多曾任该校教授。
• Michel Temer, a professor of constitutional law at PUC-SP, served as President of Brazil from 2016 to 2019.曾任 PUC-SP 宪法学教授的米歇尔·特梅尔于 2016 年至 2019 年出任巴西总统。
• Guido Mantega, a professor at the university, was Brazil's Minister of Finance from 2006 to 2015 and later chaired its national development bank.曾任该校教授的吉多·曼特加于 2006 年至 2015 年担任巴西财政部长，其后出任其国家开发银行行长。
• Marta Suplicy, an alumna, was mayor of São Paulo and later served as a senator and as a government minister.该校校友玛尔塔·苏普利西曾任圣保罗市长，后任参议员与政府部长。
• José Dirceu, an alumnus, served as Chief of Staff to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his first term.该校校友若泽·迪尔塞乌曾在卢拉·达席尔瓦首个任期内担任总统幕僚长。
• Shigeaki Ueki, an alumnus, was president of the state oil company Petrobras and later a government minister in Brazil.该校校友植木茂彬曾任国有石油公司巴西石油的总裁，后任巴西政府部长。