Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), also rendered in English as the Swedish Agricultural University, is a public research university in Sweden whose head office and main campus stand at Ultuna in Uppsala, with further main facilities at Alnarp, Skara and Umeå.瑞典农业科学大学（SLU）是瑞典的一所公立研究型大学，英文亦作 Swedish Agricultural University，总部与主校区位于乌普萨拉的乌尔图纳，另在阿尔纳普、斯卡拉和于默奥设有主要教学科研设施。

It was formed in 1977 by merging the country's separate colleges of veterinary medicine, forestry and agriculture, institutions whose own histories reach back to a veterinary school founded at Skara in 1775.该校于 1977 年由瑞典各自独立的兽医学院、林学院和农学院合并而成，这些学院的历史可上溯至 1775 年在斯卡拉创办的兽医学校。

In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it sits in the 401-500 band and in the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking in the 376-400 band, U.S. News places it 497th for 2026-2027, and the 2027 QS world ranking does not list it.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位列第 401-500 名区间；2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入第 376-400 名区间；2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球排名将其列为第 497 名；2027 年 QS 世界大学排名未收录该校。

History

• Veterinary teaching in Sweden began at Skara in 1775, when Peter Hernqvist founded the Veterinary Institution there after studying under Carl von Linné at Uppsala and under Claude Bourgelat, who had opened the first veterinary college in Lyon in 1762.瑞典的兽医教育始于 1775 年的斯卡拉：彼得·韩奎斯特在乌普萨拉师从卡尔·冯·林奈，又在里昂师从 1762 年创办世界第一所兽医学院的克洛德·布尔吉拉，随后在此创建兽医研究所。
• From 1821 a new veterinary institution in Stockholm took over the training of Swedish veterinarians from Skara, and Stockholm remained the seat of that training until the college was moved to Uppsala in 1977.从 1821 年起，斯德哥尔摩的新兽医机构取代斯卡拉承担瑞典兽医培养工作，斯德哥尔摩由此一直是兽医教育所在地，直至 1977 年该学院迁往乌普萨拉。
• The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture, established in 1813, supervised the agricultural institutes founded at Ultuna in 1848 and at Alnarp in 1862.1813 年成立的瑞典皇家农业科学院监督着 1848 年在乌尔图纳、1862 年在阿尔纳普设立的农业研究所。
• The experimental work that the academy had carried on since 1814 was joined to those institutes in 1932 to create the Agricultural College, the direct predecessor of the present university.科学院自 1814 年起开展的试验研究与上述研究所于 1932 年合并，组建农业学院，这所学院就是今日大学的直接前身。
• The Institute of Forestry was founded in Stockholm in 1828 to provide higher education for people who had already passed through practical forestry schools, and in 1915 it was upgraded to college status.林业研究所 1828 年创建于斯德哥尔摩，目的是为已经读完实用林业学校的人提供高等教育，1915 年升格为学院。
• In 1977 the colleges of veterinary medicine, forestry and agriculture, together with some smaller units, were combined into one university so that departments could share resources and work more efficiently.1977 年，兽医学院、林学院和农学院连同若干较小单位合并为一所大学，以便各系共享资源、提高效率。
• That same reform moved the Veterinary College and the Forestry College from Stockholm to Ultuna, which had been the campus of the agricultural college and remains the site of SLU's head office.同一项改革把兽医学院与林学院从斯德哥尔摩迁至乌尔图纳，这里原是农业学院的校区，如今仍是瑞典农业科学大学总部所在地。
• The reform was meant to improve efficiency by letting departments share resources, and it ended the separation of veterinary, forestry and agricultural teaching into three institutions.这次改革意在通过各系共享资源提高效率，同时结束了兽医、林业与农业教学分属三个机构的局面。
• The premises the two colleges vacated in Stockholm are now used by Stockholm University, which inherited buildings that had housed veterinary and forestry teaching for more than a century.两所学院在斯德哥尔摩腾出的校舍如今由斯德哥尔摩大学使用，这些建筑此前承担兽医与林业教学已一百多年。
• The relocation concentrated all three former colleges at Ultuna, where the agricultural institute had stood since 1848 and where trial grounds and teaching buildings already existed.这次搬迁把原先三所学院集中到乌尔图纳，自 1848 年起农业研究所就在这里，试验用地与教学建筑早已具备。
• The three founding colleges had long histories as independent institutions, which is why the university traces its teaching lineage to 1775 even though it was formally created in 1977.三所创始学院在合并前都有漫长的独立办学史，因此学校虽于 1977 年正式组建，却把教学渊源上溯至 1775 年。
• Each of the predecessor colleges kept its own specialised mission: veterinary medicine in Skara and Stockholm, forestry in Stockholm and agriculture at Ultuna and Alnarp.三所前身学院各自保持专门的办学方向：兽医在斯卡拉与斯德哥尔摩，林业在斯德哥尔摩，农业则在乌尔图纳与阿尔纳普。
• The Journal of Forest Economics, founded by Sören Wibe and published by Elsevier in affiliation with the Department of Forest Economics, was acquired by Now Publishers in 2019.由 Sören Wibe 创办、Elsevier 出版并与森林经济学系合作的《森林经济学杂志》，于 2019 年被 Now Publishers 收购。
• In 2001 the university became a founding member of the Euroleague for Life Sciences, a network of European universities working in agriculture, veterinary medicine and environmental science.2001 年，学校成为欧洲生命科学联盟的创始成员，该网络联结欧洲从事农业、兽医与环境科学的大学。
• For most of its history the university has been funded through the budget of the ministry responsible for rural affairs, now the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, rather than through the education ministry that funds other Swedish universities.在大部分历史中，该校经费来自主管农村事务的部门预算，即如今的企业与企业创新部，而非为瑞典其他大学拨款的教育部。
• The 1932 Agricultural College inherited experiment stations as well as classrooms, a combination of research and practical farming that still shapes SLU's profile.1932 年成立的农业学院继承了试验站与课堂两套体系，这种科研与生产实践结合的模式至今仍塑造着学校的办学特色。
• By the time of the 1977 merger Sweden had three separate national colleges for the rural sector, each with its own admissions, staff and buildings, and the reform replaced them with a single institution.到 1977 年合并时，瑞典在农村领域已设有三所各自独立的国家级学院，各有招生、师资与校舍，改革以单一机构取代了它们。
• Although the university was created in 1977, its oldest component, the veterinary institution at Skara, predates it by more than two hundred years, and the forestry college by a century and a half.虽然学校建于 1977 年，但其最古老的组成部分斯卡拉兽医研究所比它早两百多年，林学院也比它早约一个半世纪。
• The merger brought together institutions that had trained veterinarians since 1775, foresters since 1828 and agriculturalists since 1848, so the new university inherited three separate professional traditions.合并把自 1775 年起培养兽医、自 1828 年起培养林务人员、自 1848 年起培养农业人才的机构汇到一起，新大学因此继承了三套彼此独立的专业传统。

Academics

• SLU is organised into four faculties, covering landscape planning, horticulture and agricultural sciences, natural resources and agricultural sciences, veterinary medicine and animal science, and forest sciences.学校设有四个学院，分别涵盖景观规划、园艺与农业科学，自然资源与农业科学，兽医学与动物科学，以及森林科学。
• The ministry that funds the university is the one responsible for enterprise and innovation rather than education, which ties its remit to farming, forestry and food production as well as to academic research.为学校拨款的部门负责企业与创新而非教育，这使它的职责既面向学术研究，也与农业、林业和食品生产紧密相连。
• The university states that it works for sustainable living through science and education, and its research pages name climate, forests and food systems as the areas where that mission is pursued.学校表示以科学与教育促进可持续生活，其研究页面把气候、森林与食物系统列为落实这一使命的领域。
• In 2020 it employed 3,155 full-time staff and taught 4,216 full-time students, with 559 research students and 191 professors on its books.2020 年，学校有 3155 名全职教职员工、4216 名全日制学生，在读研究生 559 人，教授 191 人。
• Eight years earlier, in 2012, the figures were 3,080 full-time staff, 3,935 full-time undergraduates, 714 postgraduate students and 241 professors, a profile that has stayed broadly stable.八年前的 2012 年，学校有 3080 名全职员工、3935 名全日制本科生、714 名研究生和 241 名教授，整体规模此后大体稳定。
• Unlike other Swedish state universities, SLU is financed from the budget of the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, formerly the Ministry for Rural Affairs, which reflects its sectoral remit.与瑞典其他国立大学不同，该校经费来自企业与企业创新部（原农村事务部）的预算，这与其面向农村产业部门的使命相称。
• In the 2023 QS World University Rankings by Subject it placed third in the world for agriculture and forestry, 25th for veterinary science and 74th for environmental science.在 2023 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校农业与林业位居世界第 3，兽医学第 25，环境科学第 74。
• The 2023 ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects placed it sixth in ecology, tenth in agricultural sciences and 23rd in veterinary sciences.2023 年软科世界一流学科排名将该校生态学列为第 6、农业科学第 10、兽医学第 23。
• The same subject ranking put it 44th in geography, in the 51-75 band for environmental science and engineering, and in the 76-100 band for oceanography and for water resources.同一榜单还将其地理学列为第 44，环境科学与工程列入第 51-75 名区间，海洋学与水资源列入第 76-100 名区间。
• Its research is concentrated in agricultural and veterinary sciences and in ecology, the fields in which it appears among the world's leading universities rather than across the full disciplinary spectrum.学校的研究集中于农业科学、兽医科学和生态学，它正是在这些领域跻身世界前列，而非在全部学科门类上均衡布局。
• Bachelor's and master's programmes are taught across the three main campuses at Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala, and the university presents them as distinctive degrees rather than as a comprehensive catalogue.学校的本科与硕士项目在阿尔纳普、于默奥和乌普萨拉三个主要校区开设，校方将其定位为特色鲜明的学位项目，而非门类齐全的专业目录。
• Doctoral education is organised through research schools, and in 2020 the university counted 559 research students against 191 professors.博士生教育以研究学院的形式组织，2020 年学校有 559 名在读研究生与 191 名教授。
• Research is presented through Future Platforms, among them a bioeconomy platform, which the university uses to group work that crosses its four faculties.学校通过若干「未来平台」组织研究，其中包含生物经济平台，用以整合跨越四个学院的课题。
• The Department of Forest Economics, attached to the forestry side of the university, has long published the Journal of Forest Economics, founded by Sören Wibe.隶属林业方面的森林经济学系长期主办由 Sören Wibe 创办的《森林经济学杂志》。
• Veterinary medicine and animal science form one of the four faculties, a legacy of the Skara and Stockholm veterinary schools that were merged into the university in 1977.兽医学与动物科学是四个学院之一，其源头是 1977 年并入该校的斯卡拉与斯德哥尔摩兽医学校。
• Forest sciences form another faculty, continuing the work of the Institute of Forestry founded in 1828 and made a college in 1915.森林科学构成另一个学院，延续了 1828 年创立、1915 年升格为学院的林业研究所的事业。
• The remaining faculties cover landscape planning, horticulture and agricultural sciences, the fields associated with the Alnarp institute of 1862, and natural resources and agricultural sciences.其余学院分别覆盖景观规划、园艺与农业科学以及自然资源与农业科学，前者与 1862 年的阿尔纳普研究所一脉相承。

Campus

• SLU's main campus and head office are at Ultuna in Uppsala, a site that has housed agricultural teaching and experiment stations since the institute founded there in 1848 and that still holds the university's central administration.该校主校区与总部位于乌普萨拉的乌尔图纳，自 1848 年农业研究所设立以来，这里一直承担农业教学与试验站职能，学校的中枢行政机构也设在此地。
• The other main facilities are at Alnarp in Lomma Municipality in the far south, at Skara in Västergötland and at Umeå in the north of Sweden.其余主要设施分别位于最南端卢马市镇的阿尔纳普、西约特兰的斯卡拉以及瑞典北部的于默奥。
• The university's own description names Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala as its three main campuses, the three sites where its bachelor's and master's programmes are taught.校方将阿尔纳普、于默奥和乌普萨拉列为三个主要校区，本科与硕士项目即在这三地开设，斯卡拉等地则承担专门教学与研究。
• Alnarp lies in Lomma Municipality in Skåne, the southernmost province, where the agricultural institute of 1862 was established.阿尔纳普位于瑞典最南端的斯科讷省卢马市镇，1862 年的农业研究所就设在这里。
• Skara, in Västergötland, is the town where Peter Hernqvist opened the veterinary institution in 1775 and where SLU still maintains a campus.斯卡拉位于西约特兰，是彼得·韩奎斯特 1775 年开办兽医研究所的城镇，学校至今在此保留校区。
• Umeå, the northern campus, lies in Västerbotten and gives the university a presence in the forested north where much of its forestry research is relevant.北部的于默奥校区位于西博滕，使学校得以立足森林资源丰富的北方，其林业研究多与此地相关。
• The 1977 reform concentrated the veterinary and forestry colleges at Ultuna, whose buildings and grounds had served the agricultural college since the nineteenth century.1977 年的改革把兽医学院与林学院集中到乌尔图纳，这里的建筑与场地自 19 世纪起就服务于农业学院。
• The Stockholm buildings that had housed the veterinary and forestry colleges before 1977 passed to Stockholm University, which still uses the area as part of its campus.1977 年之前容纳兽医与林学院的斯德哥尔摩建筑移交斯德哥尔摩大学，后者至今仍将该区域作为校园的一部分。
• The three teaching campuses lie in three different provinces, Uppsala in Uppland, Umeå in Västerbotten and Alnarp in Skåne, a spread of more than a thousand kilometres from south to north.三个教学校区分布在三个不同的省份：乌普萨拉在乌普兰，于默奥在西博滕，阿尔纳普在斯科讷，南北相距逾一千公里。

Reputation

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places SLU in the 401-500 band, and Times Higher Education puts it in the 376-400 band for 2027.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将该校列入第 401-500 名区间，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名则将其列入第 376-400 名区间。
• U.S. News ranks it 497th in its 2026-2027 global list, while the 2027 QS World University Rankings do not include the university at all, so the Times Higher Education band is the strongest of its overall positions.2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球榜单将其列为第 497 名，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名则完全没有收录该校，因此在各项综合排名中泰晤士高等教育的区间成绩最好。
• The university is small and highly specialised, and it ranks among the world's leading institutions in several of its focus areas rather than in the overall tables, which is why subject tables suit it better than institutional ones.该校规模不大且高度专精，其领先地位体现在若干重点领域，而非综合性总榜，因此学科榜单比学校综合榜单更能反映它的实力。
• QS placed it third in the world for agriculture and forestry in 2023, and 25th for veterinary science, results that match its narrow disciplinary profile.QS 在 2023 年将其农业与林业列为世界第 3、兽医学第 25，这与它狭窄的学科布局相符。
• ShanghaiRanking's 2023 subject tables placed it sixth in ecology and tenth in agricultural sciences, the two fields where its reputation is strongest.软科 2023 年学科榜单将其生态学列为第 6、农业科学第 10，这正是其声誉最盛的两个领域。
• Its subject results are far stronger than its overall position, with agriculture and forestry placed third in the world in 2023 while the university sits in the 401-500 band of the 2026 overall ranking.该校的学科表现远强于综合位次：2023 年农业与林业位居世界第三，而在 2026 年综合排名中仅列第 401-500 名区间。
• Its standing rests on veterinary medicine, forestry, agriculture and ecology, fields in which it combines university teaching with applied experiment stations.学校的声望建立在兽医学、林业、农业与生态学之上，在这些领域它把大学教学与应用试验站结合起来。

Student life

• In 2020 the university taught 4,216 full-time students and supervised 559 research students, a student body small enough to be spread over four campus towns.2020 年学校有 4216 名全日制学生和 559 名在读研究生，学生规模较小，因而分散在四个校区城镇。
• Bachelor's and master's students study at Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala, while Skara and the other sites host specialised teaching and research rather than full degree programmes.本科与硕士生在阿尔纳普、于默奥和乌普萨拉就读，斯卡拉等站点主要承担专门教学与研究而非完整学位项目。
• Because the campuses lie in Uppsala, Lomma, Skara and Umeå, student life is organised locally in each town rather than around a single national student centre.由于校区分布在乌普萨拉、卢马、斯卡拉和于默奥，学生生活按各城镇分别组织，而非集中于单一全国性学生中心。
• Membership of the Euroleague for Life Sciences connects SLU students with partner universities elsewhere in Europe that teach agriculture, veterinary medicine and environmental science.作为欧洲生命科学联盟成员，该校学生得以与欧洲其他教授农业、兽医与环境科学的伙伴院校建立联系。
• The university's own student pages describe campus life as including sports and parties, alongside the ordinary run of lectures and laboratory work.学校自己的学生页面把校园生活描述为除了日常课程与实验之外，还包括体育活动与聚会。
• Doctoral students work within research schools, a structure that groups them across departments and gives them a cohort beyond their own subject.博士生在研究学院中工作，这一结构把他们跨系列组织起来，使其拥有本学科之外的同伴群体。
• Ultuna, the Uppsala campus, sits in one of Sweden's oldest university towns, where the agricultural institute has anchored teaching since 1848.乌普萨拉校区乌尔图纳位于瑞典最古老的大学城之一，农业研究所自 1848 年起便在此扎根教学。
• Research students form about one in eight of the student body, with 559 doctoral candidates against 4,216 full-time students in 2020.研究生约占学生总数的八分之一，2020 年有 559 名在读博士生，对应 4216 名全日制学生。

Notable people

• Peter Hernqvist founded the Veterinary Institution at Skara in 1775 and is the earliest named figure in the university's teaching lineage.彼得·韩奎斯特 1775 年在斯卡拉创办兽医研究所，是该校教学谱系中最早留下姓名的人物。
• Hernqvist studied under Carl von Linné at Uppsala and under Claude Bourgelat, the founder of the Lyon veterinary college of 1762, linking SLU's roots to two founders of European veterinary and botanical science.韩奎斯特先后师从乌普萨拉的卡尔·冯·林奈和 1762 年里昂兽医学院创办者克洛德·布尔吉拉，使该校的源头与欧洲兽医和植物科学的两位奠基人相连。
• Sören Wibe founded the Journal of Forest Economics, long published by Elsevier in affiliation with the Department of Forest Economics.Sören Wibe 创办了《森林经济学杂志》，该刊长期由 Elsevier 出版并与森林经济学系合作。
• Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian professor, served as minister of lands, housing and human settlements and as executive director of UN-HABITAT.坦桑尼亚教授安娜·蒂拜朱卡曾任土地、住房与人居部部长，并任联合国人居署执行主任。
• Refaat El-Sayed, a Swedish-Czechoslovak businessman named Swede of the Year in 1985, is known for leading the company Fermenta in the 1980s.Refaat El-Sayed 是瑞典与捷克斯洛伐克裔商人，1985 年获评「年度瑞典人」，因 1980 年代执掌 Fermenta 公司而知名。
• Dan H. Yaalon was a soil scientist and professor whose work is cited in the university's list of notable alumni.Dan H. Yaalon 是土壤科学家与教授，其名字见于该校知名校友名录。
• Aneth David, a Tanzanian biotechnologist, is counted among the university's alumni, part of a small group of African graduates named in its records.坦桑尼亚生物技术专家 Aneth David 也是该校校友，属于校方记录中提到的少数非洲毕业生之一。
• Claude Bourgelat, who founded the veterinary college at Lyon in 1762, taught Peter Hernqvist and so stands at the head of the teaching tradition that reached Sweden through Skara.克洛德·布尔吉拉 1762 年在里昂创办兽医学院，他教导过彼得·韩奎斯特，因而位于经斯卡拉传入瑞典的这一教学传统的源头。
• Carl von Linné, the Uppsala botanist, taught Hernqvist before the younger man left for Lyon, tying the university's veterinary lineage to eighteenth-century Uppsala science.乌普萨拉的博物学家卡尔·冯·林奈在韩奎斯特赴里昂之前教过他，使该校的兽医谱系与 18 世纪的乌普萨拉科学传统相连。