Tallinn University of Technology

Tallinn University of Technology, known in Estonian as Tallinna Tehnikaülikool and since 2018 by the short name TalTech, is the only technical university in Estonia and the country's leading centre for technological education and research. It is based in the capital city of Tallinn and teaches engineering, business, public administration and maritime affairs.塔林理工大学（爱沙尼亚语 Tallinna Tehnikaülikool，2018 年起简称 TalTech）是爱沙尼亚唯一的理工大学，也是该国技术教育与研究的领军机构，校本部位于首都塔林，教授工程、商科、公共管理与海事等领域。

Its history begins on 17 September 1918, when the Estonian Engineering Society opened special technical courses in Estonia, and the institution took on university status in 1936 before adopting the name Tallinn Technical University in 1938.其历史始于 1918 年 9 月 17 日，爱沙尼亚工程学会在该国开办专门技术课程；学校于 1936 年取得大学地位，1938 年改称塔林理工大学（Tallinna Tehnikaülikool）。

TalTech enrols about 9,000 students from more than ninety countries, employs over 2,000 people including around 1,200 teachers and research staff, and it is placed at 600th in the QS World University Rankings 2027, in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027 and 1,127th in the US News global ranking for 2026-2027.学校在校生约 9,000 人，来自 90 多个国家；雇员超过 2,000 人，其中教师与研究人员约 1,200 人。排名方面，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 600 位、2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名第 801-1000 位、2026-2027 年度 US News 全球排名第 1,127 位。

History

• In the early twentieth century Estonia recognised an urgent need for locally trained engineering specialists, since young Estonians had previously taken their specialist education in St Petersburg, Germany or Riga.20 世纪初，爱沙尼亚意识到急需本地培养的工程专门人才——此前爱沙尼亚青年多在圣彼得堡、德国或里加接受专业教育。

• On 17 September 1918 the Estonian Engineering Society opened an Estonian-based engineering school called Special Engineering Courses, and that date has been recognised as the founding date of the university.1918 年 9 月 17 日，爱沙尼亚工程学会开办了一所以爱沙尼亚为基地的工学院校，名为「专门技术课程」，这一日期被认定为学校的创办日。

• The courses covered mechanical, electrical, civil and hydraulic engineering, shipbuilding and architecture, and in 1919 the school continued as a private institution called Tallinna Tehnikum, the Tallinn College of Engineering.课程涵盖机械、电气、土木与水利工程、造船与建筑；1919 年，学校以私立机构「塔林工学院」（Tallinna Tehnikum）继续办学。

• The college was nationalised in 1920 and soon achieved the status of a state higher education institution, with teachers working out an Estonian terminology for science and technology and the first engineering books published.学院于 1920 年被收归国有，并很快取得国立高等教育机构的地位；教师为科学与技术订立爱沙尼亚语术语，首批工程类书籍得以出版。

• Until 1931 the college worked in tight conditions on Pikk Street, after which it moved to the headquarters of the former Russian-Baltic shipyard in Kopli, a district of Tallinn.学院在光明街（Pikk Street）的狭窄校舍办学至 1931 年，之后迁入塔林科普利区原俄波船厂的总部大楼。

• In 1923 the first engineering graduation theses were defended in Estonia, and in the same year a state laboratory of materials testing opened for research work at the school.1923 年，爱沙尼亚首次进行工程类毕业论文答辩；同年，学校开设了国立的材料测试实验室以供研究。

• By an Act of the Head of State dated 15 September 1936 the school was granted university status and named Tallinn Technical Institute, with two faculties, civil and mechanical engineering and chemistry and mining.依据 1936 年 9 月 15 日的国家元首法令，学校取得大学地位并定名塔林技术学院，下设土木与机械工程、化学与采矿两个系。

• In 1938 the name Tallinn Technical University, Tallinna Tehnikaülikool or TTÜ in Estonian, took effect, giving the institution the designation it would carry for most of the century.1938 年，塔林理工大学（爱沙尼亚语 Tallinna Tehnikaülikool，缩写 TTÜ）之名正式启用，学校由此获得沿用大半个世纪的称谓。

• New faculties followed through the middle of the century, the Faculty of Economics in 1940, the Faculty of Power Engineering in 1958 and the Faculty of Control Engineering in 1965.此后数十年间陆续增设院系：1940 年经济系、1958 年动力工程系、1965 年控制工程系。

• During the Soviet occupation after the Second World War the university was named Tallinna Polütehniline Instituut, the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute, a name it kept until Estonia regained independence.二战后的苏联占领时期，学校被命名为塔林理工学院（Tallinna Polütehniline Instituut），这一名称一直沿用至爱沙尼亚恢复独立。

• From the 1970s the institute gained the status of the leading technical university of the Soviet Union, as its student body grew and the qualifications of its teaching staff rose.自 20 世纪 70 年代起，随着学生规模扩大、教师素质提升，该学院取得苏联领先技术大学的地位。

• A turning point came with the beginning of construction of the Mustamäe campus in the early 1960s, which gave the university a dedicated campus in Tallinn that it still occupies.一个重要转折点是 20 世纪 60 年代初穆斯塔麦（Mustamäe）校区动工兴建，学校由此在塔林拥有至今仍在使用的大型校园。

• In 1989, as the Singing Revolution advanced and Estonia moved towards restored independence, the name Tallinn University of Technology was reintroduced.1989 年，随着歌唱革命推进、爱沙尼亚走向恢复独立，塔林理工大学之名得以恢复。

• After 2003 the university was known in English as Tallinn University of Technology and used the abbreviation TUT, before the short name TalTech replaced the older forms in 2018.2003 年之后，学校英文名采用 Tallinn University of Technology，缩写 TUT；至 2018 年，TalTech 这一简称取代了此前的各种缩写。

• On 1 July 2008 the university took over International University Audentes, which became part of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration except its Law School, which joined the Faculty of Social Sciences.2008 年 7 月 1 日，学校接管「国际大学 Audentes」，其主体并入经济与工商管理学院，法学院则并入社会科学学院。

• In 2014 an agreement was signed to merge the Estonian Maritime Academy into the university, and since 2017 the academy has operated as a school-level structural unit of TalTech.2014 年签署协议把爱沙尼亚海事学院并入学校；自 2017 年起，该学院作为学校学院级别的建制单位运行。

• On 16 November 2016 the university and the Estonian Information Technology College signed a merger agreement, and since 1 August 2017 the IT College has formed part of TalTech.2016 年 11 月 16 日，学校与爱沙尼亚信息技术学院签署合并协议；自 2017 年 8 月 1 日起，信息技术学院成为塔林理工大学的一部分。

• On 17 September 2018, its hundredth birthday, the university officially introduced the short name TalTech alongside its full name, marking the centenary of the special technical courses of 1918.2018 年 9 月 17 日，即建校百周年之际，学校在正式全名之外启用简称 TalTech，以纪念 1918 年「专门技术课程」开办百年。

• The Estonian Maritime Academy traces its own history to the Tallinn Maritime School, where teaching began on 27 October 1919, and it was renamed the Estonian Maritime Academy in 1999 before joining the university.爱沙尼亚海事学院把自身历史追溯到 1919 年 10 月 27 日开始授课的塔林海事学校，1999 年改称爱沙尼亚海事学院，其后并入塔林理工大学。

Academics

• TalTech is organised into four schools, the School of Engineering, the School of Business and Governance, the School of Science and the School of Information Technologies, together with the Estonian Maritime Academy.学校设有四个学院——工程学院、商业与治理学院、科学学院、信息技术学院，另设爱沙尼亚海事学院。

• Together these bodies contain twenty departments, including Tartu College, Virumaa College and the IT College, spreading teaching beyond the Tallinn campus.这些机构共下设 20 个系，其中包括塔尔图学院、维鲁马学院与信息技术学院，把教学延伸到塔林校区之外。

• The university offers more than thirty fully accredited international degree programmes taught entirely in English, comprising four bachelor's, eighteen master's and ten doctoral programmes.学校开设 30 余个全英语授课的完全认证国际学位项目，包括 4 个本科、18 个硕士与 10 个博士项目。

• Its research and high-technology applications cover organic and analytical chemistry, food biotechnology and neurobiology, geology, power converter research, solar cell materials and tribomaterials, computer systems and biorobotics and near-zero energy buildings.其研究与高技术应用涵盖有机与分析化学、食品生物技术与神经生物学、地质学、功率变换器研究、太阳能电池材料与摩擦材料、计算机系统与生物机器人，以及近零能耗建筑。

• TalTech conducts research and development in fields including the green transition, clean energy systems, defence and security, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, framing its mission around sustainable development.学校的研究与发展领域包括绿色转型、清洁能源系统、国防与安全、数字化与人工智能，并把其使命围绕可持续发展展开。

• The university employs more than 2,000 people, including around 1,200 teachers and research staff, and its professorial and research base supports its four schools and the maritime academy.学校雇员超过 2,000 人，其中教师与研究人员约 1,200 人；这支教学科研队伍支撑着四个学院与海事学院。

• About 9,000 students study at TalTech, drawn from over ninety countries, making it the second largest university in Estonia and the only campus-type university in the country.在校学生约 9,000 人，来自 90 多个国家，使该校成为爱沙尼亚第二大大学，也是该国唯一一所校园型大学。

• The university has produced almost 70,000 alumni, a network the institution presents as a technological elite that has contributed to Estonia's development.学校已培养近 70,000 名校友，校方把这一网络视为一支为爱沙尼亚发展作出贡献的技术精英队伍。

• Its Estonian Centre of Engineering Pedagogy supports the teaching of engineering subjects, extending the university's work into teacher training and pedagogy.学校的爱沙尼亚工程教育中心支持工程学科教学，把学校工作延伸到教师培训与教育学研究。

• Departments range from Computer Systems and Software Science to Health Technologies, the Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics, Cybernetics and Marine Systems.其系所从计算机系统、软件科学延伸到健康技术、托马斯·约翰·塞贝克电子学系、控制论与海洋系统等方向。

• Further departments include Civil Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics, Energy Technology, Materials and Environmental Technology, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Geology, Chemistry and Biotechnology, Law and Business Administration.其余系所还包括土木工程与建筑、电力工程与机电一体化、能源技术、材料与环境技术、机械与工业工程、地质学、化学与生物技术、法学以及工商管理。

• The Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance and the Department of Economics and Finance carry the university's teaching and research in public administration and economic policy.拉格纳·努尔克塞创新与治理系，以及经济与金融系，承担学校在公共管理与经济政策领域的教学与研究。

• The university's library has a history going back to 1919, and its teaching and research are supported by laboratories, a business centre and a modern library on the Mustamäe campus.学校图书馆的历史可上溯至 1919 年；穆斯塔麦校区内的实验室、商务中心与现代化图书馆共同支撑教学与研究。

• As an internationally minded institution, TalTech organises student and staff mobility mainly under the Erasmus programme and states an aim of becoming the leading university of technology in the Nordic region.作为一所面向国际的机构，学校的师生流动主要通过伊拉斯谟计划组织，并提出成为北欧地区领先理工大学的目标。

Campus

• The university is a campus-type institution whose main site lies in the Mustamäe district of Tallinn, construction of which began in the early 1960s.学校是一所校园型大学，主校区位于塔林穆斯塔麦区，该校区于 20 世纪 60 年代初动工兴建。

• TalTech is the only university in Estonia that has a residential hall and dormitories on a single compact campus together with laboratories and teaching buildings.塔林理工大学是爱沙尼亚唯一在同一紧凑校园内同时拥有学生宿舍与公寓、实验室与教学楼的大学。

• The campus also contains a modern library, a business centre, an active student house, a sports hall, a number of restaurants and premises for numerous student organisations.校园内还设有现代化图书馆、商务中心、活跃的学生之家、体育馆、多家餐厅，以及供众多学生组织使用的场地。

• Beyond Tallinn the university operates colleges in Tartu and Kohtla-Järve, extending its teaching into southern and north-eastern Estonia.在塔林之外，学校还在塔尔图与科赫特拉-耶尔韦设有学院，把教学延伸到爱沙尼亚南部与东北部。

• The Estonian Maritime Academy, a school-level unit of the university, provides multi-level maritime education and cultivates maritime research and development from its own premises.作为学校学院级单位的爱沙尼亚海事学院，在其自有校址提供多层次海事教育并开展海事研究与发展。

• The historic Kopli site of the former Russian-Baltic shipyard, where the college moved in 1931, belongs to the institution's earlier campus history rather than to its present estate.1931 年学院迁入的原俄波船厂科普利旧址，属于学校较早的校史，而非其当今校区的一部分。

• The university offers a virtual tour of its campus, which it presents as a compact site where study, research and student services are gathered within easy reach.学校提供校园虚拟导览，把校园描述为一处紧凑之地，学习、科研与学生服务皆在步行可达范围内。

• Because the campus is compact and self-contained, students can move between dormitories, laboratories and the student house without leaving the site, a feature the university highlights.由于校园紧凑而自成一体，学生无需离开校园即可往返于宿舍、实验室与学生之家之间，这一特点为学校所强调。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Tallinn University of Technology at 600th in the world, the position under which this entry is catalogued.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名把塔林理工大学列为世界第 600 位，本条目即按此名次收录。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 put the university in the 801-1000 band, a lower placement than the 601-800 band it occupied in the previous year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校列入第 801-1000 位，较上一年度的第 601-800 位有所下降。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places the university at 1,127th in the world, a precise figure within the American table.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名把该校列为世界第 1,127 位，是该榜给出的精确位次。

• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 does not list Tallinn University of Technology in its main table, so it carries no ARWU band for that year.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未把塔林理工大学列入主榜，因此该校在该年没有软科档位。

• In the QS University Rankings for Eastern Europe and Central Asia of 2021 the university ranked 31st, placing it among the top ten technical universities of the region and confirming it as the best technical university in the Baltics.在 2021 年 QS 东欧与中亚大学排名中，该校位列第 31 位，进入该地区前十技术大学之列，并确认其为波罗的海地区最佳技术大学。

• The university is described as the third highest-ranking university in the Baltic states, behind the University of Tartu and Vilnius University in the QS table of its strongest period.在该校排名最好的一段时期里，QS 榜单把其列为波罗的海三国第三高排名大学，仅次于塔尔图大学与维尔纽斯大学。

• TalTech's best-ranked subject departments are in the life sciences and social sciences, placed in the 176-200 and 201-250 brackets respectively in the Times Higher Education subject tables of its strongest year.学校排名最好的学科系为生命科学与社会科系，在其表现最好一年的泰晤士高等教育学科榜单中分别处于第 176-200 位与第 201-250 位。

• It also appears in the 301-500 bracket of the QS Graduate Employability Rankings, an indicator of its graduates' standing with employers.该校还进入 QS 毕业生就业竞争力排名第 301-500 位，显示其毕业生在雇主眼中的评价。

• OpenAlex records 23,517 works and 884,905 citations for the university, the machine-counted research output behind its bibliometric profile.OpenAlex 记录该校的成果数为 23,517 项、被引次数为 884,905 次，这组机器统计构成其文献计量画像的基础。

• No Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal laureate is recorded among the university's faculty or alumni in the available material, so its standing rests on its position as Estonia's leading technical university.在现有材料中，该校教师与校友名录未记载诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其地位因而建立在作为爱沙尼亚领先技术大学这一身份之上。

Student life

• The university's motto is Mente et manu, Latin for by mind and hand, expressing the belief that higher education and research should combine theory with practice.学校校训为拉丁文「Mente et manu」，意为「以心与手」，表达高等教育与研究应把理论与实践相结合的理念。

• The motto reflects values the university attaches equal importance to, critical and creative thinking, an entrepreneurial and practical mindset, openness, reliability and partnership.校训反映出学校同等重视的若干价值：批判与创造性思维、创业与实践心态、开放、可靠与合作精神。

• The Student House, sports hall and numerous student organisations give students a dense range of extracurricular activity on the compact Mustamäe campus.学生之家、体育馆与众多学生组织在紧凑的穆斯塔麦校区内为学生提供密集的课外活动。

• Although TalTech is a technology-focused university, its community is international in composition, with students drawn from more than ninety countries.尽管塔林理工大学以技术学科为主，其社群构成却相当国际化，学生来自 90 多个国家。

• Student and staff mobility is organised mainly under the Erasmus programme, giving students structured exchange periods with partner universities in Europe.师生流动主要依托伊拉斯谟计划组织，为学生提供与欧洲伙伴大学的结构化交换时段。

• The university offers more than thirty English-taught degree programmes at bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels, opening study to non-Estonian-speaking students.学校在本科、硕士与博士阶段开设 30 余个英语授课学位项目，向非爱沙尼亚语背景的学生敞开学习机会。

• The university states that study, research and student services are gathered on one campus, so daily student life is contained within a single district of Tallinn.学校表示学习、科研与学生服务汇聚于同一校园，学生的日常生活因而被收纳在塔林的一个城区之内。

• An alumni network of almost 70,000 graduates, described as the technological elite of Estonia, connects current students with former ones across industry, business and public life.近 70,000 名毕业生组成的校友网络被形容为爱沙尼亚的技术精英，把在读学生与遍布产业、商界与公共生活的往届生连接起来。

Notable people

• Jüri Ratas, President of the Riigikogu and a former Mayor of Tallinn and Prime Minister of Estonia, is counted among the university's alumni.曾任塔林市长与爱沙尼亚总理、现任国会（Riigikogu）议长的尤里·拉塔斯（Jüri Ratas），在该校校友之列。

• Tiit Vähi, a former Prime Minister of Estonia and a prominent industrialist, graduated from the university and is listed among its alumni.爱沙尼亚前总理、知名实业家蒂特·韦希（Tiit Vähi）毕业于该校，并被列入校友名录。

• Jüri Mõis, a former Mayor of Tallinn, Minister of the Interior and one of the founders of Hansabank, studied at the institution and appears among its alumni.曾任塔林市长、内政部长，并为汉萨银行创办人之一的尤里·默伊斯（Jüri Mõis）曾就读于该校，并在校友之列。

• Priit Kasesalu, one of the initial developers of Skype, is numbered among the university's alumni, linking the institution to Estonia's software industry.Skype 最早的开发者之一普里特·卡塞萨鲁（Priit Kasesalu）在该校校友之列，把学校与爱沙尼亚的软件产业联系起来。

• Taavi Kotka, a former Chief Information Officer of the Estonian government and a leader of the e-Residency programme, studied at the university.爱沙尼亚政府前首席信息官、电子居民（e-Residency）计划的主导者塔维·科特卡（Taavi Kotka）曾就读于该校。

• Irina Embrich, an Olympic champion in épée fencing, and Erika Kirpu, also an Olympic champion fencer, are both recorded among the university's alumni.重剑击剑奥运冠军伊琳娜·恩布里希（Irina Embrich）与同样身为奥运冠军击剑手的埃里卡·基尔普（Erika Kirpu），均被记为该校校友。

• Jüri Engelbrecht, a mathematician who served as vice-president and president of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, is counted among the university's alumni.曾担任爱沙尼亚科学院主席与副主席的数学家尤里·恩格尔布雷希特（Jüri Engelbrecht），在该校校友之列。

• Jaak Leimann, a former Minister of Economic Affairs of Estonia, and Toomas Luman, an Estonian entrepreneur, are both listed among the university's alumni.爱沙尼亚前经济事务部长亚克·莱曼（Jaak Leimann）与爱沙尼亚企业家托马斯·卢曼（Toomas Luman），均在该校校友名录之中。

• Jakob Kübarsepp, an engineer and materials scientist who became a professor emeritus and senior researcher at TalTech, represents the university's own academic line.工程师兼材料科学家雅各布·库巴尔塞普（Jakob Kübarsepp）其后成为该校荣休教授与高级研究员，代表学校自身的学术传承。

• Rain Ottis, a cybersecurity researcher associated with the institution, and other figures from Estonia's technology sector appear among the university's alumni.与该校相关的网络安全研究者雷恩·奥蒂斯（Rain Ottis），以及爱沙尼亚技术领域的其他人物，均出现在该校校友之列。

• Tiit Land has served as rector since 1 September 2020 and was re-elected for a second term, having joined the university's leadership after a career in the life sciences.蒂特·兰德（Tiit Land）自 2020 年 9 月 1 日起任校长，并获连任；他是在生命科学领域工作多年后进入学校领导层的。