Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University (SU) is a public research university in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, about 50 kilometres from Cape Town, and it received full university status in 1918.斯泰伦博斯大学（SU）是位于南非西开普省斯泰伦博斯镇的一所公立研究型大学，距开普敦约 50 公里，于 1918 年获得完全的大学地位。

It is known for designing and manufacturing Africa's first microsatellite, SUNSAT, which was launched in 1999, and it is organised in 139 departments across 10 faculties.学校以设计并制造非洲首颗微型卫星「SUNSAT」而闻名，该卫星于 1999 年发射；学校设有 10 个学院、139 个系。

Its Latin motto Pectora roborant cultus recti means "A sound education strengthens the spirit", and its students are nicknamed Maties.其拉丁语校训「Pectora roborant cultus recti」意为「良好的教育使人精神强健」，学生则被昵称为「Maties」。

History

• The origin of the university can be traced to the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, founded in 1864 and opened on 1 March 1866, whose first five students matriculated in 1870.学校的前身可追溯到 1864 年创办、1866 年 3 月 1 日开学的斯泰伦博斯中学，其首批五名学生于 1870 年注册入学。

• Capacity for tertiary education did not initially exist, but in the 1870s the Cape Colony's first locally elected government took office and made education a priority.当时尚不具备高等教育的条件，但到了 19 世纪 70 年代，开普殖民地首个民选政府上台，并把教育列为优先事项。

• In 1873 four of the five students who had matriculated in 1870 became the institution's first graduates by earning the "Second Class Certificate" through distance learning, and student numbers rose above a hundred.1873 年，1870 年注册的五名学生中有四人通过远程学习取得「二等证书」，成为该校首批毕业生，学生人数也增至一百人以上。

• In 1874 a series of government acts provided for colleges and universities with generous subsidies and staff, and a personal intervention by the Prime Minister ensured that Stellenbosch qualified as more than a secondary school.1874 年，一系列政府法案设立学院与大学并提供丰厚补贴与师资；在总理的亲自干预下，斯泰伦博斯得以不止于一所中学的定位而获得资格。

• Later in 1874 the institution appointed its first professor, and in the following years its capacity and staff grew rapidly.1874 年晚些时候，学校聘任了首位教授；此后数年，其办学规模与师资迅速扩大。

• Its first academic senate was constituted at the beginning of 1876, when several new premises were also acquired.1876 年初，学校组建了首个学术评议会，同时购置了若干处新校舍。

• The first MA degree, the first awarded in Stellenbosch and in South Africa, was completed in 1878, the same year that the first four female students were enrolled.1878 年，学校颁发了斯泰伦博斯乃至南非的第一个文学硕士学位；同年，首批四名女学生入学。

• The institution became the Stellenbosch College in 1881, located on the site of the present Arts Department, and in 1887 it was renamed Victoria College.1881 年，学校更名为斯泰伦博斯学院，校址即今文学院所在；1887 年又更名为维多利亚学院。

• When it acquired university status on 2 April 1918 it was renamed once again, becoming Stellenbosch University.1918 年 4 月 2 日获得大学地位后，学校再次更名，成为斯泰伦博斯大学。

• Initially only one university was planned for the Cape, and the government agreed to let the Victoria College become a university only if it could raise 100,000 pounds.最初开普殖民地只计划设立一所大学；政府同意让维多利亚学院升格为大学，但条件是必须筹集到 10 万英镑。

• Jannie Marais, a wealthy Stellenbosch farmer, bequeathed the required money before his death in 1915, on conditions that Dutch and Afrikaans have equal status with English and that lecturers teach at least half their lectures in Dutch or Afrikaans.富有的斯泰伦博斯农场主扬尼·马莱斯在 1915 年去世前遗赠了所需款项，条件是荷兰语与阿非利卡语须与英语享有同等地位，且讲师至少须用荷兰语或阿非利卡语讲授一半课时。

• By 1930 very little instruction was delivered in English, and the university remained a predominantly Afrikaans-medium institution for most of the twentieth century.到 1930 年，几乎已无英语授课；在 20 世纪的大部分时间里，学校始终以阿非利卡语为主要教学语言。

• In December 2014 specialists at the university performed the first successful penis transplantation on a 21-year-old man.2014 年 12 月，该校专家为一名 21 岁男子成功实施了首例阴茎移植手术。

• Stellenbosch University was the first African university to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.斯泰伦博斯大学是非洲首个签署《关于科学与人文学科知识开放获取的柏林宣言》的大学。

• In 2023 Vice-Chancellor Wim de Villiers was accused of nepotism for allegedly using his discretionary power to secure a place for his wife's nephew at the university's medical school, and an investigation found no misconduct warranting his removal but imposed financial consequences.2023 年，校长维姆·德维利尔斯被指利用自由裁量权为其妻子的侄子获取医学院名额，因而被指任人唯亲；调查认定其并无须免职的失当行为，但要求其承担经济后果。

• In 2024 the Wilgenhof Men's Residence faced a scandal after concealed rooms were discovered containing artefacts tied to abusive initiation practices, and an independent panel recommended the residence's closure.2024 年，维尔亨霍夫男生宿舍因被发现藏有与虐待性入会仪式有关的物品而陷入丑闻，独立调查小组建议关闭该宿舍。

• The university council accepted that recommendation in September 2024, prompting legal challenges from the Wilgenhof Alumni Association and the Association for the Advancement of Wilgenhof Residents.大学理事会于 2024 年 9 月接受了这一建议，随即引发维尔亨霍夫校友会与维尔亨霍夫住宿生促进会的法律质疑。

• The residence was shut down for renovations in 2025 with the aim of reopening it as a reimagined male residence, and in February 2025 the university and the alumni association settled their dispute over the naming process.该宿舍于 2025 年停用整修，计划以重新构想的男生宿舍形式重新开放；2025 年 2 月，学校与校友会就命名程序的争议达成和解。

• In 2009 the university was linked to South Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array of radio telescopes, with a hoped-for Pan-African University node at Stellenbosch that was expected to open in February 2010.2009 年，学校与南非申办平方公里阵列射电望远镜的计划相关联，当时有望在斯泰伦博斯设立泛非大学节点，并预计于 2010 年 2 月启用。

Academics

• Stellenbosch University consists of 139 departments across 10 faculties, offering programmes from bachelor's degrees at NQF level 7 to doctoral degrees at NQF level 10 in the English and Afrikaans languages.学校设有 10 个学院、139 个系，以英语与阿非利卡语提供从国家资历框架第 7 级的学士学位到第 10 级的博士学位的各类课程。

• The ten faculties are AgriSciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Economic and Management Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine and Health Sciences, Military Science, Science and Theology.这十个学院分别为农业科学、文学与社会科学、经济与管理科学、教育、工程、法律、医学与健康科学、军事科学、理学以及神学。

• Across five campuses in the Western Cape the university is home to about 32,000 students.学校在西开普省的五个校区共有约 32,000 名学生。

• In 2021 the university reported that 48.7 per cent of its students named English as their home language, 37.4 per cent Afrikaans, 6.8 per cent another South African official language and 7.1 per cent an international language.2021 年学校报告称，48.7% 的学生以英语为家庭语言，37.4% 以阿非利卡语为家庭语言，6.8% 使用南非其他官方语言，7.1% 使用国际语言。

• Between 2017 and 2021 the share of undergraduates who preferred English as the language of learning and instruction rose from 68.2 per cent to 80.8 per cent, and most advanced postgraduate courses are taught in English.2017 至 2021 年间，偏好以英语作为教学语言的本科生比例从 68.2% 升至 80.8%，多数高级研究生课程也以英语授课。

• It is one of the few South African tertiary institutions offering instruction in Afrikaans and the only one of four universities in the Western Cape to offer degree courses in that language.学校是南非少数以阿非利卡语授课的高等院校之一，也是西开普省四所大学中唯一提供阿非利卡语学位课程的大学。

• The university annually hosts the SU Woordfees, a predominantly Afrikaans-language festival of the written and spoken word.学校每年举办 SU Woordfees，这是以阿非利卡语为主的书面与口语艺术节。

• Research strength includes the design and construction of Africa's first microsatellite, SUNSAT, launched in 1999, and work connected to the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project.其研究实力包括设计并建造非洲首颗微型卫星「SUNSAT」（1999 年发射），以及参与平方公里阵列射电望远镜项目的工作。

• The University of Stellenbosch Business School holds triple accreditation from AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB, is ranked second in Africa by Eduniversal and appears in the top 100 worldwide for executive education in the Financial Times ranking.斯泰伦博斯大学商学院持有 AMBA、EQUIS 与 AACSB 三重认证，被 Eduniversal 评为非洲第二，并在《金融时报》高管教育排名中跻身全球百强。

• Its MBA programme was ranked 65th out of 100 leading business schools worldwide in the 2011-12 edition of the Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey, making it the only school in Africa on that list.在阿斯彭研究所《超越灰条纹》调查 2011 至 2012 年版中，其 MBA 项目在全球百所领先商学院中位列第 65，是榜单上唯一的非洲商学院。

• The university library holds collections scattered around the campus, catalogued on a computerized database using the university's original UNIVAC mainframe, with satellite libraries for Theology, Law and the Tygerberg medical faculty.学校图书馆的馆藏分布于校园各处，利用学校原有的 UNIVAC 大型机在计算机数据库中编目，并设有神学、法律与蒂格贝赫医学院的附属图书馆。

• The university has a Conservatory with two concert halls, home to the Stellenbosch University Choir, and a 430-seat HB Thom Theatre together with an open-air amphitheatre, supported by its own Drama Department.学校设有拥有两座音乐厅的音乐学院，是斯泰伦博斯大学合唱团的家园；另有一座设 430 个座位的 HB 汤姆剧院与露天圆形剧场，并由其戏剧系提供支持。

• The Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden is the oldest university botanical garden in South Africa.斯泰伦博斯大学植物园是南非最古老的大学植物园。

• The conservatory and choir, together with the drama and music departments, give the university a strong profile in the performing arts.音乐学院与合唱团连同戏剧系与音乐系，使学校在表演艺术领域享有突出地位。

• It is one of three public universities in the Western Cape and one of about 20 universities in South Africa.学校是西开普省三所公立大学之一，也是南非约 20 所大学之一。

• Postgraduate teaching is organised by the faculties and supported by the university's research chairs and institutes, most advanced courses being taught in English.研究生教学由各学院组织，并得到学校研究讲席与研究所的支撑，多数高级课程以英语授课。

Campus

• Stellenbosch lies about 50 kilometres from Cape Town, on the banks of the Eersterivier in a famous wine-growing region encircled by mountains, and teaching is divided across five campuses.斯泰伦博斯距开普敦约 50 公里，坐落在埃斯特河畔著名的葡萄酒产区，四周群山环抱；教学分布于五个校区。

• The five campuses are the main campus in Stellenbosch, the Bellville Park Campus for the Business School, the Saldanha Campus for Military Science, the Tygerberg Campus for Medicine and Health Sciences, and the Ukwanda Rural Clinical site.五个校区分别是斯泰伦博斯主校区、商学院所在的贝尔维尔帕克校区、军事科学所在的萨尔达尼亚校区、医学与健康科学所在的蒂格贝赫校区，以及乌克万达农村临床教学点。

• For more than 30 competitive and recreational sports the university provides the Danie Craven Stadium, the Coetzenburg Centre for ceremonies and indoor sport, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two artificial hockey fields, a gymnasium and a new football complex.为开展 30 多种竞技与休闲体育项目，学校提供丹尼·克拉文体育场、用于典礼与室内运动的科岑贝赫中心、室内外游泳池、两块人造草皮曲棍球场、体育馆以及一座新的足球综合设施。

• Supported sports range from athletics, basketball, cricket, cycling, fencing, golf, hockey, judo, netball, rowing and rugby union to soccer, surfing, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, water polo and yachting.学校支持的体育项目从田径、篮球、板球、自行车、击剑、高尔夫、曲棍球、柔道、无挡板篮球、赛艇、联盟式橄榄球，到足球、冲浪、游泳、跆拳道、网球、水球与帆船等。

• The central Stellenbosch University Library is complemented by satellite libraries for Theology, Law and the Tygerberg medical faculty, all catalogued on a computerized database built on the university's original UNIVAC mainframe.位于中心的斯泰伦博斯大学图书馆另有神学、法律与蒂格贝赫医学院三个附属图书馆，全部在依托学校原有 UNIVAC 大型机建立的计算机数据库中编目。

• The university's Conservatory has two concert halls and is the home of the Stellenbosch University Choir, the oldest South African choir, and the campus also has the 430-seat HB Thom Theatre and an open-air amphitheatre.学校音乐学院拥有两座音乐厅，是南非最古老的合唱团斯泰伦博斯大学合唱团的家园；校区内还设有 430 座的 HB 汤姆剧院与露天圆形剧场。

• The Langenhoven Students' Centre, known as the Neelsie, houses the Student Representative Council, a food court, a cinema, a post office, a shopping centre, an advice office and the offices of the student societies.以「Neelsie」闻名的朗根霍芬学生中心设有学生代表委员会、美食广场、电影院、邮局、购物中心、咨询处以及各学生社团的办公室。

• The campus radio station, MFM or Matie FM, broadcasts music, news and campus news across the Stellenbosch area at 92.6 FM, and the university distributes the fortnightly Die Matie for students and the monthly Kampusnuus for staff.校园电台 MFM（Matie FM）以 92.6 调频向整个斯泰伦博斯地区播出音乐、新闻与校园资讯；学校还面向学生发行半月刊 Die Matie、面向教工发行月刊 Kampusnuus。

• An official yearbook, Stellenbosch Student, is published annually for graduating students, while the alumni magazine Matieland appears twice a year for some 100,000 alumni and friends of the university.官方年刊《斯泰伦博斯学生》每年出版并赠予毕业生；校友杂志 Matieland 每年出两期，分发给约 100,000 名校友与学校友人。

Reputation

• Stellenbosch University is placed 296th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 326th to 350th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and 299th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking.斯泰伦博斯大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 296，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 326 至 350 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 299。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 401-500 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位于 401 至 500 区间。

• In the latest edition of the Times Higher Education ranking cited by the university it was placed in the 251-275 category in the world and third in Africa, while QS placed it 390th in the world and also third in Africa.在学校引用的最新一版泰晤士高等教育排名中，学校位列世界 251 至 275 区间、非洲第三；QS 则将其列为世界第 390、同样居非洲第三。

• The CWTS Leiden Ranking of 2013 placed Stellenbosch 395th among the top 500 universities worldwide and second in both South Africa and Africa, behind only the University of Cape Town.2013 年的 CWTS 莱顿排名将斯泰伦博斯列为全球前 500 所大学中的第 395 位，在南非与非洲均居第二，仅次于开普敦大学。

• The university ranks in the top 200 worldwide in law, politics and geography, and in the top 100 worldwide in development studies, theology, agriculture and forestry.学校在法律、政治与地理学领域位居全球前 200，在发展研究、神学、农业与林业领域位居全球前 100。

• According to OpenAlex, Stellenbosch researchers have produced 85,253 works that have attracted 4,299,761 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，斯泰伦博斯的研究人员已产出 85,253 项成果，累计被引用 4,299,761 次。

• Laureate-level recognition includes the honorary Doctor of Literature that the university conferred on the Nobel laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah in March 2026, and its molecular biologist Novel Njweipi Chegou won the Royal Society Africa Prize in 2022.其获奖层面的荣誉包括学校于 2026 年 3 月授予诺贝尔文学奖得主阿卜杜勒-拉扎克·古尔纳荣誉文学博士学位，其分子生物学家诺维尔·切古则于 2022 年获得皇家学会非洲奖。

• In 2012 Webometrics ranked Stellenbosch's web footprint the second largest in Africa, again behind the University of Cape Town.2012 年，Webometrics 将斯泰伦博斯的网络影响力列为非洲第二大，同样仅次于开普敦大学。

• The University of Stellenbosch Business School holds triple accreditation, is ranked second in Africa by Eduniversal and appears in the top 100 worldwide for executive education.斯泰伦博斯大学商学院持有三重认证，被 Eduniversal 评为非洲第二，并跻身全球高管教育百强。

Student life

• The university's Latin motto is Pectora roborant cultus recti, meaning "A sound education strengthens the spirit", and its students are known as Maties.学校的拉丁语校训为「Pectora roborant cultus recti」，意为「良好的教育使人精神强健」，学生被称为 Maties。

• The nickname Maties probably derives from the Afrikaans word tamatie, meaning tomato and referring to the maroon sports uniforms and blazer colour, though another theory traces it to the diminutive maatjie for a friend.「Maties」这一昵称可能源自阿非利卡语「tamatie」（意为番茄，指其栗色的运动服与西装外套颜色），另一说法则认为它源自表示「伙伴」的昵称形式「maatjie」。

• Stellenbosch has 34 residence halls in configurations for women only, men only and mixed gender, each supervised by a resident head assisted by a House Committee of senior students.斯泰伦博斯设有 34 栋宿舍楼，分为女生专用、男生专用与男女混住三种类型，每栋由一名宿监主管，并由由高年级学生组成的舍务委员会协助管理。

• Each residence for undergraduates incorporates a laundry room, a common living room and a dining hall, and every first-year student gets a be-well mentor to help with the social and emotional transition from school to university.每栋本科宿舍都设有洗衣房、公共客厅与食堂；每位大一新生都会配有一位「be-well」导师，帮助其完成从中学到大学的社会与情感过渡。

• The oldest residence is the Wilgenhof men's residence, established in 1903.最古老的宿舍是维尔亨霍夫男生宿舍，创立于 1903 年。

• Because rooms in the university residences are limited, some students live in private lodgings and are assigned to one of six Commuter Student Organisations, also known as Private Wards.由于校内宿舍床位有限，部分学生住在校外租房，并被编入六个走读生组织（又称「私人舍区」）之一。

• The residence halls and commuter wards are grouped into six clusters to form student communities, with a seventh cluster on the Tygerberg campus, and three hub facilities, amaMaties, Wimbledon and Victoria, have already been completed.各宿舍楼与走读生舍区被组合为六个社群聚落，另在蒂格贝赫校区设有第七个聚落；amaMaties、Wimbledon 与 Victoria 三处枢纽设施已建成。

• Student life centres on the Neelsie student centre with its food court, cinema and society offices, on the MFM campus radio station, and on the more than 30 sports codes the university supports.学生生活以设有美食广场、电影院与社团办公室的 Neelsie 学生中心、MFM 校园电台以及学校支持的 30 多个体育项目为中心。

• The university hosts the annual SU Woordfees festival and circulates student publications such as the fortnightly Die Matie and the monthly Kampusnuus.学校每年举办 SU Woordfees 艺术节，并发行半月刊 Die Matie、月刊 Kampusnuus 等学生刊物。

Notable people

• James Barry Munnik Hertzog, a former Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, and Jan Smuts, a former South African Prime Minister, were both educated at Stellenbosch University.南非联邦前总理詹姆斯·巴里·蒙尼克·赫尔佐格与南非前总理扬·史末资都曾就读于斯泰伦博斯大学。

• Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, the apartheid-era Prime Minister of South Africa, studied at Stellenbosch University.南非种族隔离时期的总理亨德里克·弗伦施·维沃尔德曾就读于斯泰伦博斯大学。

• Naledi Pandor, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, is an alumna of the university.南非国际关系与合作部长纳莱迪·潘多尔是该校校友。

• Koos Bekker, the billionaire chairman of Naspers, is an alumnus of Stellenbosch University.亿万富翁、Naspers 集团董事长科斯·贝克尔是斯泰伦博斯大学的校友。

• Johann Rupert, the billionaire businessman who heads the Richemont Group, is both an alumnus and the Chancellor of Stellenbosch University.掌管历峰集团的亿万富翁约翰·鲁珀特既是该校校友，也是斯泰伦博斯大学的校监。

• James Leonard Brierley Smith, an ichthyologist, was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, a species then thought long extinct.鱼类学家詹姆斯·伦纳德·布里尔利·史密斯首次辨认出一尾制成标本的鱼为腔棘鱼，当时该物种被认为早已灭绝。

• Lulu Latsky became the first woman to earn a PhD at Stellenbosch, in 1930, and went on to work as a zoologist and writer.露露·拉茨基在 1930 年成为首位在斯泰伦博斯获得博士学位的女性，其后从事动物学与写作工作。

• Danie Craven, a prominent rugby player and sports administrator, was an alumnus of the university, and the Danie Craven Stadium is named after him.著名橄榄球运动员与体育管理者丹尼·克拉文是该校校友，丹尼·克拉文体育场即以他命名。

• Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, a poet who composed the words of the Afrikaner anthem Die Stem, was an alumnus of Stellenbosch.诗人科内利斯·雅各布斯·朗根霍芬撰写了阿非利卡人颂歌 Die Stem 的歌词，是斯泰伦博斯的校友。

• Craig Tiley, the chief executive of Tennis Australia and director of the Australian Open, and the physicist Friedel Sellschop, a pioneer in nuclear physics, are also alumni of the university.澳大利亚网球协会首席执行官、澳大利亚网球公开赛赛事总监克雷格·泰利与核物理先驱弗里德尔·塞尔肖普同样是该校校友。