Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romanian: Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca, UTCN) is a public technical university based at Memorandumului Street 28 in Cluj-Napoca, the principal city of Transylvania in north-western Romania.克卢日-纳波卡技术大学（罗马尼亚语：Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca，简称UTCN）是一所公立技术大学，校部位于罗马尼亚西北部特兰西瓦尼亚地区中心城市克卢日-纳波卡的备忘录街28号。

It traces its origin to the Industrial High School opened on 1 February 1920, was reorganised as the Institute of Mechanics in 1948, became the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj in 1953 and took its present name in 1992, absorbing the North University of Baia Mare in 2012.该校源头是1920年2月1日开办的工业高等学校，1948年改组为机械学院，1953年升格为克卢日理工学院，1992年改用现名，并于2012年并入巴亚马雷北方大学。

It now has twelve faculties, 17,841 students, 1,055 academic staff and 576 international students, and in the 2027 rankings it sits in the QS 1401+ band, the THE 1601-1800 band and 1,693rd place in U.S. News for 2026-27.该校现设十二个学院，有学生17841人、学术人员1055人、留学生576人；在2027年榜单中处于QS 1401+并列区间、泰晤士高等教育1601至1800区间，并在2026至2027年度U.S. News全球排名中位列第1693位。

History

• Technical education in Cluj has roots in the early nineteenth century, but the decisive turn came after the union of Transylvania with Romania on 1 December 1918, when Romanian-language higher education was expanded across the region.克卢日的技术教育可追溯至19世纪初，但决定性转折出现在1918年12月1日特兰西瓦尼亚与罗马尼亚合并之后，罗马尼亚语高等教育随即在全地区扩展。
• On 1 February 1920 the Industrial High School opened in Cluj, the first institution of its kind in the region, and two years later it became the School of Technical Conductors with an electromechanical profile that was unique in Romania at the time.1920年2月1日，克卢日工业高等学校开学，是该地区同类院校中的第一所；两年后它改为技术导员学校，以当时罗马尼亚独有的机电方向办学。
• In the same period a School of Public Works Conductors was created for roads and bridges, and this school is the direct ancestor of today's Faculty of Civil Engineering.同一时期还设立了面向道路与桥梁的公共工程导员学校，这所学校正是今日土木工程学院的直系前身。
• In 1937 the School of Technical Conductors was reorganised as the School of Electromechanical Sub-engineers, a status that consolidated its reputation within Romanian industry before the Second World War.1937年，技术导员学校改组为机电副工程师学校，这一地位在第二次世界大战前巩固了它在罗马尼亚工业界的声誉。
• The 1948 reform of education created the Institute of Mechanics of Cluj with two sections, Thermotechnics and Working Machines, answering the post-war demand for engineers in a rapidly industrialising country.1948年的教育改革创立了克卢日机械学院，下设热工技术与工作机械两个专业，回应了战后快速工业化国家对工程师的需求。
• In 1953 the Institute of Mechanics was transformed into the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj, a broader institution that could train electrical, mechanical and civil engineers under one roof.1953年，机械学院升格为克卢日理工学院，成为能在同一建制下培养电气、机械与土木工程师的更大学府。
• After the 1989 revolution Romanian higher education aligned with Western models, and in 1992 the Polytechnic Institute became the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.1989年革命后，罗马尼亚高等教育向西欧模式靠拢，理工学院于1992年更名为克卢日-纳波卡技术大学。
• When it took the university name in 1992 UTCN had three faculties, and that number had grown to seven by the time the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning opened in 1998.1992年改称大学时，该校只有三个学院；到1998年建筑与城市规划学院开办时，学院数已增至七个。
• The twelve-faculty structure reported in the 2026 QS profile combines the nine Cluj faculties with the three Baia Mare faculties created in 2012, a division that has remained stable since the merger.2026年QS资料所载的十二院结构，由克卢日的九个学院与2012年合并产生的巴亚马雷三个学院组成，这一划分自合并以来保持稳定。
• In 2007 the Faculty of Building Services Engineering was added, separating heating, ventilation, sanitation and energy services from the older civil and mechanical faculties.2007年，建筑设备工程学院成立，把供暖、通风、卫生与能源服务从原有的土木和机械学院中分出。
• A defining moment came in 2012, when UTCN merged with the North University of Baia Mare and created the North University Centre of Baia Mare with faculties of engineering, letters and science.2012年是决定性节点，学校与巴亚马雷北方大学合并，成立巴亚马雷北方大学中心，下设工程、文学与理学三个学院。
• The Baia Mare merger gave the university a second academic city about 140 kilometres north of Cluj, and it explains why UTCN today describes itself as having two university centres rather than one.巴亚马雷合并使学校在克卢日以北约140公里处获得第二座学术城市，也解释了学校今日为何自称拥有两个大学中心而非一个。
• The 2012 merger added three faculties to the nine already in Cluj, producing the twelve-faculty structure that UTCN still reports, and it remains the largest structural change since 1989.2012年的合并为克卢日原有的九个学院增加三个学院，形成该校至今仍公布的十二院结构，也是1989年以来最大的一次结构性变动。
• In 2011 the Ministry of Education recognised UTCN as an advanced research and education university by Order No. 5262, a status that carries research funding and doctoral-school privileges. The designation came 19 years after the 1992 name change and one year before the 2012 merger with Baia Mare.2011年，教育部以第5262号令认定该校为高级研究与教育大学，这一身份附带科研经费与博士学院方面的特权。这一认定距1992年更名19年，距2012年与巴亚马雷合并一年。
• The university is a member of the Romanian Alliance of Science and Technology Universities, ARUST, which coordinates the country's technically oriented institutions in national policy debates.该校是罗马尼亚科学与技术大学联盟（ARUST）成员，该联盟在全国政策讨论中协调罗马尼亚技术类高校的立场。
• UTCN is also one of the nine member universities of the European University of Technology, EUt+, an alliance formed under the 2020 Erasmus+ call that collectively educates about 100,000 students.该校还是「欧洲技术大学」联盟（EUt+）九所成员高校之一，该联盟依据2020年Erasmus+计划征集组建，成员校合计约有10万名学生。
• In 2020 UTCN joined the EUt+ consortium, which links it with Sofia, Cyprus, Darmstadt, Dublin, Riga, Cartagena, Cassino and Troyes through joint curricula and shared research platforms.2020年，该校加入EUt+联盟，与索菲亚、塞浦路斯、达姆施塔特、都柏林、里加、卡塔赫纳、卡西诺和特鲁瓦的伙伴院校通过联合课程与共享科研平台建立联系。
• The EUt+ alliance allows UTCN students to follow joint modules, challenge-based projects and short mobility schemes with the other partner universities without leaving their degree programme.EUt+联盟使该校学生无需退出本专业，便能与伙伴院校共同修读联合模块、参加挑战式项目与短期流动。
• In 2023 the national quality agency ARACIS reconfirmed the university's "high degree of trust" grade, the highest category in the Romanian accreditation system.2023年，国家质量保障机构ARACIS再次确认该校「高度信任」评级，这是罗马尼亚认证体系中的最高档。
• In 2025 the university reaffirmed its mission as a university of advanced education and research and was placed among the top ten universities in Romania by the national metaranking.2025年，学校重申其「高级教育与研究大学」使命，并在全国元排名中跻身罗马尼亚前十所大学之列。
• The history department of the university presents this sequence as a century of continuous technical education, from the 1920 industrial school to the 2012 two-centre structure.该校校史部门把这一脉络概括为百年连续的技术教育史，从1920年的工业学校一直讲到2012年形成的双中心结构。
• UTCN maintains more than 400 international partnerships, and its international office handles Erasmus+ mobility, bilateral agreements and the EUt+ exchange tracks.该校维持着400多项国际合作，其国际处负责Erasmus+流动、双边协议与EUt+交换轨道。

Academics

• The university is organised into twelve faculties, nine of them in Cluj-Napoca and three in Baia Mare, and it describes itself as the second-largest university in Cluj-Napoca.学校下设十二个学院，其中九个在克卢日-纳波卡、三个在巴亚马雷，并自称是克卢日-纳波卡第二大的大学。
• The Cluj faculties are architecture and urban planning, automation and computer science, automotive engineering and mechatronics, civil engineering, electronics and telecommunications, materials and environmental engineering, building services, electrical engineering, and industrial engineering and robotics.克卢日的学院包括建筑与城市规划、自动化与计算机科学、汽车工程与机电一体化、土木工程、电子与电信、材料与环境工程、建筑设备、电气工程，以及工业工程与机器人。
• The three Baia Mare faculties cover engineering, letters and science, and they preserve the profile of the former North University within the UTCN structure.巴亚马雷的三个学院分别覆盖工程、文学与理学，在克卢日-纳波卡技术大学的建制内延续了原北方大学的学科面貌。
• In its 2026 QS profile UTCN reports 17,841 students, 1,055 academic staff and 576 international students, making it a medium-sized European technical university with a comparatively high share of engineers on the staff.在2026年QS资料中，该校报告学生17841人、学术人员1055人、留学生576人，属于中等规模的欧洲技术大学，工程师在师资中的比例较高。
• The Faculty of Automation and Computer Science is the largest computing school in the university and feeds Cluj's software industry, which has become one of the fastest-growing IT clusters in Eastern Europe.自动化与计算机科学学院是校内最大的计算机类学院，为克卢日软件产业输送人才，该产业已成为东欧增长最快的信息技术集群之一。
• The Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology teaches microelectronics, communications, signal processing and embedded systems in laboratories shared with regional companies.电子、电信与信息技术学院教授微电子、通信、信号处理与嵌入式系统，其实验室与区域企业共享。
• The Faculty of Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering builds on the region's automotive supply chain and offers programmes in vehicle engineering, robotics and manufacturing systems.汽车工程、机电一体化与机械工程学院依托本地区汽车供应链，开设车辆工程、机器人与制造系统专业。
• The Faculty of Civil Engineering, descended from the 1920s public-works school, teaches structural engineering, geotechnics, roads and bridges and water engineering.土木工程学院源自1920年代的公共工程学校，教授结构工程、岩土工程、道路桥梁与水利工程。
• The Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, founded in 1998, is the only architecture school in the Cluj-Napoca university structure and combines design studios with heritage-conservation work in Transylvania.建筑与城市规划学院建于1998年，是克卢日-纳波卡大学建制内唯一的建筑学院，把设计工作室与特兰西瓦尼亚遗产保护工作结合起来。
• The Faculty of Materials and Environmental Engineering works on metallurgy, advanced ceramics, polymers and environmental remediation, fields tied to the industrial history of Cluj and Baia Mare.材料与环境工程学院从事冶金、先进陶瓷、高分子与环境修复研究，这些领域与克卢日和巴亚马雷的工业史紧密相关。
• The Faculty of Building Services Engineering, added in 2007, trains engineers in heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing and building energy performance.建筑设备工程学院于2007年增设，培养供暖、通风、空调、给排水与建筑能效方面的工程师。
• The Faculty of Electrical Engineering covers power systems, electrical machines, drives and renewable-energy integration, and it is one of the university's oldest continuous programmes.电气工程学院覆盖电力系统、电机、拖动与可再生能源并网，是该校历史最悠久的连续办学项目之一。
• The Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Robotics and Production Management combines manufacturing technology, quality management and industrial logistics with a strong applied-project component.工业工程、机器人与生产管理学院把制造技术、质量管理与工业物流结合起来，应用项目比重很高。
• Doctoral training is organised through the university's doctoral schools, which award PhDs in engineering, architecture, materials science, computer science and management.博士培养由学校各博士学院组织，授予工程、建筑、材料科学、计算机科学与管理学博士学位。
• Research is concentrated in information and communication technology, renewable energy, sustainable materials, robotics and the energy transition, with the last field linked to a dedicated research centre.科研集中于信息通信技术、可再生能源、可持续材料、机器人以及能源转型，其中能源转型领域设有专门研究中心。
• UTPress, the university publishing house, issues engineering textbooks, conference proceedings and the journals of several faculties, and the university library serves all twelve faculties from Cluj.校出版社UTPress出版工程教材、会议论文集与多个学院的学术期刊，大学图书馆则从克卢日为全部十二个学院服务。

Campus

• The main building at Memorandumului Street 28 houses the rectorate, the senate and the central administration, and it stands in the historic centre of Cluj-Napoca within walking distance of the old town square.备忘录街28号的主楼容纳校部、校务委员会与中央行政机构，位于克卢日-纳波卡历史城区，步行可达老城广场。
• Unlike a single-wall campus, UTCN's buildings are distributed across Cluj-Napoca, with faculty blocks, laboratories and dormitories inserted into several neighbourhoods.与单一围墙式校园不同，该校建筑分布在克卢日-纳波卡全城，学院楼、实验室与宿舍嵌入多个街区。
• The university owns three student complexes, Observator and Mărăști in Cluj-Napoca and a third in Baia Mare, which together house students from all faculties.学校拥有三个学生综合体，即克卢日-纳波卡的观察者综合体与默勒什蒂综合体，以及巴亚马雷的一处综合体，共同容纳各学院学生。
• The Observator complex is the closest to the historic centre and the main faculty buildings, while Mărăști is a larger residential quarter built around its own canteen and sports facilities.观察者综合体距历史中心与主要学院楼最近，默勒什蒂则是围绕自有食堂与体育设施形成的更大住宿区。
• The university swimming complex is a dedicated sports building with a competition pool, and it is used for student training, municipal competitions and water-safety courses.大学游泳综合体是一座专用体育建筑，设有比赛泳池，用于学生训练、市级比赛与水上安全课程。
• Cluj-Napoca lies on the Someșul Mic river in Transylvania, about 440 kilometres north-west of Bucharest, and is served by Avram Iancu Cluj International Airport.克卢日-纳波卡位于特兰西瓦尼亚的索梅什小河畔，距布加勒斯特西北约440公里，由阿夫拉姆·扬库克卢日国际机场提供服务。
• The Baia Mare centre, created in 2012, has its own faculty buildings and dormitories in the city of Baia Mare, about 140 kilometres north of Cluj-Napoca near the Ukrainian border.2012年设立的巴亚马雷中心在巴亚马雷市拥有独立的学院楼与宿舍，该市位于克卢日-纳波卡以北约140公里、靠近乌克兰边境。
• Teaching extensions in Alba Iulia, Bistrița, Satu Mare and Zalău deliver continuing-education and part-time programmes, extending UTCN's reach across north-western Romania.在阿尔巴尤利亚、比斯特里察、萨图马雷与扎勒乌设立的教学点提供继续教育与非全日制课程，把学校的影响扩展到罗马尼亚西北部。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 UTCN is placed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended group that QS reports as a tie rather than a precise position. The band groups universities beyond the ranked cut-off, so it communicates a tier rather than a rank.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，该校处于1401+并列区间，这是QS以并列方式发布的开放式末段，而非精确名次。该区间收纳排名截断线之外的大学，因此表达的是层级而非具体名次。
• Times Higher Education lists the university in the 1601-1800 band of its 2027 world ranking, consistent with its position among Romania's research-intensive technical universities.泰晤士高等教育把该校列入2027年世界大学排名1601至1800区间，这与它在罗马尼亚研究型技术大学中的位置相符。
• U.S. News places UTCN 1,693rd in its 2026-27 Best Global Universities list, the highest of the university's three ranked global results in this cycle. Its score reflects research reputation and citation impact rather than admissions selectivity.U.S. News在2026至2027年度全球最佳大学榜单中把该校列为第1693位，是本周期三项全球榜单成绩中最高的一项。其得分反映科研声誉与引用影响，而非招生选拔度。
• The university does not appear in the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, so its four-main-ranking profile rests on QS, THE and U.S. News.该校未进入2026年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，因此其四项主榜画像由QS、泰晤士高等教育与U.S. News三项支撑。
• In 2025 the national metaranking placed UTCN among the top ten universities in Romania, a standing it shares with much larger comprehensive universities.2025年全国元排名把该校列入罗马尼亚前十所大学，与规模更大的综合性大学同处一档。
• ARACIS awarded the university its "high degree of trust" grade in 2023, the top category in a system that also grades teaching, research and quality management.ARACIS于2023年授予该校「高度信任」评级，这是同时评估教学、科研与质量管理的罗马尼亚体系中的最高档。
• Its membership in the EUt+ European University of Technology alliance is a reputational asset, since the consortium is funded through the European Universities Initiative.加入欧洲技术大学EUt+联盟是该校的声誉资产，该联盟由「欧洲大学倡议」提供资助。
• UTCN is the second-largest university in Cluj-Napoca after Babeș-Bolyai University, and the two institutions together dominate the city's student market.该校是克卢日-纳波卡仅次于巴贝什-博雅依大学的第二大学府，两校共同主导着这座城市的学生市场。
• The university's reputation is strongest among Romanian engineering employers, particularly in software, automotive components, electronics and energy, where its final-year cohorts are a standard recruiting pool.该校的声誉在罗马尼亚工程类雇主中最强，尤其在软件、汽车零部件、电子与能源领域，其毕业班是这些行业惯常的招聘来源。

Student life

• Student organisations include OSSIM for materials and environmental engineering, OSUT as the general student organisation, ASCUT for civil engineering and BEST for European technology students.学生组织包括面向材料与环境工程的OSSIM、全校性的OSUT、土木工程类的ASCUT，以及面向欧洲技术学生的BEST。
• Green Club and LSPV are smaller associations that focus on sustainability, outdoor activities and the professional development of students in technical fields.绿色俱乐部与LSPV是规模较小的协会，关注可持续发展、户外活动以及技术领域学生的职业发展。
• The university's three student complexes are the social centre of student life, with canteens, reading rooms, sports courts and free internet in all accommodation and study spaces.学校的三个学生综合体是学生生活的社交中心，设有食堂、阅览室、运动场，并在所有住宿与学习空间提供免费网络。
• The Start an Engineer programme and the Student Entrepreneurial Society, SAS, encourage teams to turn laboratory projects into start-ups with mentoring from Cluj's technology companies.「成为工程师」计划与学生创业协会SAS鼓励团队把实验室项目转化为初创企业，并由克卢日的科技公司提供导师支持。
• Cluj-Napoca was the European Youth Capital in 2015, and the city's student calendar still includes festivals, hackathons and volunteering fairs that draw UTCN students.克卢日-纳波卡曾是2015年欧洲青年之都，该市的学生日历至今仍包括吸引本校学生的音乐节、黑客松与志愿服务集市。
• The Untold Festival, held in Cluj since 2015, turns the city into one of Europe's largest electronic-music destinations each August and employs many students as seasonal staff.自2015年起在克卢日举办的Untold音乐节每年8月把城市变成欧洲最大的电子音乐目的地之一，许多学生以季节性工作人员身份参与。
• The university swimming complex and the city's sports halls support a competitive programme that includes swimming, basketball, volleyball and orienteering teams.大学游泳综合体与城市体育馆支撑着包括游泳、篮球、排球与定向越野队在内的竞技项目。
• Because Cluj is a compact university city, UTCN students share cafés, libraries and housing with Babeș-Bolyai students, and inter-university societies are common.由于克卢日是一座紧凑的大学城，该校学生与巴贝什-博雅依大学学生共用咖啡馆、图书馆与住房，校际社团也很常见。

Notable people

• Rada Mihalcea, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, is an alumna known for her work in natural language processing and computational social science.拉达·米哈尔恰是密歇根大学计算机科学与工程教授，该校校友，以自然语言处理与计算社会科学研究闻名。
• Doina Precup, a professor at McGill University and the head of DeepMind's Montreal research team, studied at UTCN before building a career in reinforcement learning.多伊娜·普雷库普是麦吉尔大学教授、DeepMind蒙特利尔研究团队负责人，在投身强化学习研究之前曾就读于该校。
• Martha Salcudean, a professor emerita of mechanical engineering at the University of British Columbia, is an alumna recognised for her work in computational fluid dynamics and industrial energy efficiency.玛莎·萨尔库代安是不列颠哥伦比亚大学机械工程荣休教授，该校校友，以计算流体力学与工业能效研究著称。
• Teodor Atanasiu, an engineer and politician who served as Romania's Minister of Defence, graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj before entering public life.特奥多尔·阿塔纳休是工程师与政治家，曾任罗马尼亚国防部长，在进入政界之前毕业于克卢日理工学院。
• Ioan Rus, a politician who held the interior and transport portfolios, is counted among the university's engineering alumni and later served as a county council leader.约安·鲁斯是曾执掌内务与交通部门的政治家，被列为该校工程类校友，后来担任县议会领导人。
• Cornel Itu, a Romanian politician and former member of parliament, studied engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj.科尔内尔·伊图是罗马尼亚政治家、前议会议员，曾在克卢日理工学院学习工程。
• Zsolt Nagy, a politician from the Hungarian community of Transylvania, is an alumnus who has served in local and national elected office.佐尔特·纳吉是特兰西瓦尼亚匈牙利族社区的政治家，该校校友，曾在地方与国家层面担任民选职务。
• Giuseppe Carbone, an Italian engineer known for robotics and mechanism design, received an honorary doctorate from UTCN in 2023.朱塞佩·卡尔博内是意大利工程师，以机器人与机构设计研究闻名，2023年获该校荣誉博士学位。
• Vasile Țopa, a professor of engineering and a former rector, is associated with the university's post-1992 development and its doctoral-school framework.瓦西里·措帕是工程学教授、前校长，与该校1992年后的发展及博士学院框架相联系。
• Nicolae Burnete, a professor of automotive engineering, served as president of the university senate and is identified with its vehicle-engineering programme.尼古拉·布尔内特是汽车工程教授，曾任校务委员会主席，与该校车辆工程专业的发展密切相关。
• The university also counts Florentin Crihălmeanu, a Greek-Catholic bishop, among its graduates, reflecting the religious and ethnic diversity of Transylvania's student body.该校还把希腊礼天主教主教弗洛伦丁·克里赫尔梅亚努列为毕业生，折射出特兰西瓦尼亚学生群体的宗教与族群多样性。
• Anton Ionescu, a Romanian engineer and politician, and Iuliu Nosa, a local political figure, complete the list of engineering alumni who moved into public service.罗马尼亚工程师与政治家安东·约内斯库以及地方政治人物尤柳·诺萨，共同构成该校由工程转向公共服务的校友名单。