Tomas Bata University in Zlín

Tomas Bata University in Zlín (Czech: Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, TBU) is a public university in Zlín, a Moravian city in the eastern Czech Republic, organised into six faculties that teach technology, economics, multimedia, applied informatics, humanities and logistics.托马斯拔佳大学（捷克语：Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně，简称 TBU）是捷克共和国东部摩拉维亚地区兹林市的一所公立大学，设有技术、经济、多媒体、应用信息学、人文与物流六个学院。

It was created by an act signed by President Václav Havel on 14 November 2000 and came into existence on 1 January 2001, taking its name from the shoemaker Tomáš Baťa (1876-1932), whose company turned Zlín into an industrial town.该校依据总统瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔（Václav Havel）于 2000 年 11 月 14 日签署的法案创设，2001 年 1 月 1 日正式成立，校名取自把兹林变成工业城镇的鞋业企业家托马斯·拔佳（Tomáš Baťa，1876 至 1932 年）。

The university enrols about 9,200 students and employs 539 academic staff, and it sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1401-1600 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education table and 2,021st place in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking, while the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list does not include it.该校在校生约 9200 人，专任教师 539 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201 至 1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 1401 至 1600 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单中位列第 2021 位，但未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• Zlín's modern identity was made by the Baťa shoe works, which Tomáš Baťa founded in 1894 with his siblings Antonín and Anna and which by the 1930s employed tens of thousands of people in the Moravian town.兹林的现代面貌由拔佳鞋厂塑造，托马斯·拔佳于 1894 年与兄弟姐妹安东宁（Antonín）和安娜（Anna）共同创办该厂，到 1930 年代它已在摩拉维亚这座小城雇用数万人。
• Tomáš Baťa died in a plane crash at Otrokovice in July 1932, and his half-brother Jan Antonín Baťa took over a concern that was then among the largest footwear producers in the world.托马斯·拔佳于 1932 年 7 月在奥特罗科维采（Otrokovice）因飞机失事遇难，其同父异母兄弟扬·安东宁·拔佳（Jan Antonín Baťa）接手了当时世界最大的制鞋企业之一。
• Baťa had founded the Bata School of Work in 1925, an apprentice system that mixed factory shifts with evening classes and became the model for the company's later educational ambitions in Zlín.拔佳于 1925 年创办拔佳劳动学校，这套学徒制度把工厂轮班与夜校课程结合起来，成为公司后来在兹林兴办教育的范本。
• After 1945 the Czechoslovak state nationalised the Baťa plants under the Beneš decrees and in 1949 reorganised them as the Svit national enterprise, which became the industrial parent of the town's technical school.1945 年后，捷克斯洛伐克国家依据贝奈斯法令将拔佳各厂收归国有，并于 1949 年改组为斯维特（Svit）国营企业，该企业后来成为当地技术学校的产业母体。
• In 1960 the Svit factory school was chartered as a vocational college for leather, plastics and rubber technology and attached to the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava.1960 年，斯维特厂办学校获批升格为皮革、塑料与橡胶技术高等专科学校，隶属布拉迪斯拉发斯洛伐克技术大学。
• The college was transferred in 1963 to the Technical University of Brno, which gave the Zlín campus a degree-awarding parent and a research mandate in macromolecular chemistry.1963 年，该校转隶布尔诺技术大学，兹林校区由此获得可授予学位的母体机构，并承担起高分子化学领域的研究任务。
• On 1 January 1969 the Faculty of Technology was formally established in Zlín as a branch faculty of the Brno university, the institution from which Tomas Bata University later grew.1969 年 1 月 1 日，技术学院作为布尔诺技术大学的分支学院在兹林正式设立，这一机构正是日后托马斯拔佳大学的前身。
• A separate design school opened in the town later and survives as a department of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, an institutional neighbour rather than a TBU faculty.此后当地又开办了一所独立的设计学校，该校延续至今，成为布拉格艺术、建筑与设计学院的一个系，是与托马斯拔佳大学比邻而立的另一所院校，而非其下属学院。
• In the second half of the 1990s Zlín added a Faculty of Management and Economics and an Institute of Advertising and Marketing Communications, the bodies that became the core of the future university.1990 年代后半期，兹林相继设立经济管理学院与广告与市场传播研究所，这两个机构成为未来大学的核心。
• The Czech Parliament passed the act establishing Tomas Bata University in Zlín, and President Václav Havel signed it on 14 November 2000.捷克议会通过设立托马斯拔佳大学的法案，总统瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔于 2000 年 11 月 14 日签署生效。
• The university came into legal existence on 1 January 2001, absorbing the Zlín faculties of the Brno university and adopting the name of the town's most famous industrialist.2001 年 1 月 1 日，该校取得法人资格，接收原布尔诺技术大学在兹林的各学院，并采用这座小城最著名实业家的名字作为校名。
• Petr Sáha, a polymer scientist, became the first rector in 2001 and later served as president of the Polymer Processing Society, giving the new university a research profile from its first year.高分子科学家彼得·萨哈（Petr Sáha）于 2001 年出任首任校长，后来担任国际聚合物加工学会主席，使这所新大学自创立之初便具备研究型定位。
• The Faculty of Multimedia Communications was created in January 2002, converting the earlier advertising institute into a full faculty for film, animation, design and marketing communication.多媒体传播学院于 2002 年 1 月成立，把先前的广告研究所升格为涵盖电影、动画、设计与营销传播的完整学院。
• The Faculty of Applied Informatics was founded on 1 January 2006, reflecting the growth of computing and cybernetics teaching that had begun in the 1990s.应用信息学学院于 2006 年 1 月 1 日成立，反映出 1990 年代以来计算机与控制系统教学的扩张。
• A Faculty of Humanities followed in 2007, adding languages, cultural studies, pedagogy and social sciences to a portfolio previously dominated by technology and economics.人文学院于 2007 年设立，在以往以技术与经济为主的学科布局中加入语言、文化研究、教育学与社会科学。
• The Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management opened on 1 September 2009 in Uherské Hradiště, extending the university's teaching beyond Zlín for the first time.物流与危机管理学院于 2009 年 9 月 1 日在乌赫尔堡（Uherské Hradiště）开办，使该校的教学首次延伸到兹林以外。
• Construction of the University Centre began in June 2008 to designs by the Zlín-born architect Eva Jiřičná, on a site adjoining the historic Baťa factory district.大学中心于 2008 年 6 月动工，由兹林出身的建筑师埃娃·伊日奇娜（Eva Jiřičná）设计，选址紧邻历史悠久的拔佳厂区。
• José Manuel Barroso, then president of the European Commission, received an honorary doctorate on 22 April 2009, the university's first such award to a serving European leader.时任欧盟委员会主席若泽·曼努埃尔·巴罗佐（José Manuel Barroso）于 2009 年 4 月 22 日获授名誉博士学位，这是该校首次向在任的欧洲领导人颁发此类学位。
• Eva Jiřičná was awarded an honorary doctorate on 18 May 2011 for her architecture and for the University Centre that now houses the rectorate and the library.埃娃·伊日奇娜于 2011 年 5 月 18 日获授名誉博士学位，以表彰其建筑成就以及她设计、如今容纳校部与图书馆的大学中心。
• Sonja Baťa, widow of Tomáš Baťa Jr. and a longtime supporter of Zlín institutions, received an honorary doctorate on 26 April 2012.托马斯·拔佳之子托马斯·拔佳二世（Tomáš Baťa Jr.）的遗孀、长期资助兹林各机构的索尼娅·拔佳（Sonja Baťa）于 2012 年 4 月 26 日获授名誉博士学位。
• The university joined the European University Association and signed the Magna Charta Universitatum, commitments that framed its later Erasmus exchanges and diploma supplement arrangements.该校加入欧洲大学协会并签署《博洛尼亚大学大宪章》，这些承诺为此后的伊拉斯谟交流与文凭补充文件制度奠定了基础。
• In 2020 the pandemic forced TBU to move teaching online, and laboratory work in polymer and food technology was rescheduled into block sessions after the campuses reopened.2020 年疫情期间，该校被迫转为线上教学，校区重新开放后，高分子与食品技术等实验课程改以集中时段补授。
• The university marked its twentieth anniversary in 2021 and has since expanded its English-taught programmes, with Vladimír Sedlařík serving as rector.该校于 2021 年迎来建校二十周年，此后不断扩大英语授课项目，现任校长为弗拉迪米尔·塞德拉日克（Vladimír Sedlařík）。

Academics

• TBU is organised into six faculties: Technology, Management and Economics, Multimedia Communications, Applied Informatics, Humanities, and Logistics and Crisis Management.托马斯拔佳大学设有六个学院，即技术学院、经济管理学院、多媒体传播学院、应用信息学学院、人文学院与物流与危机管理学院。
• In 2019 the university offered 190 accredited degree courses within 111 accredited programmes at bachelor's, master's and doctoral level, taught in Czech or in English.2019 年，该校在 111 个获认证的学位项目中开设 190 门获认证的学位课程，覆盖学士、硕士与博士三个层次，授课语言为捷克语或英语。
• Czech-language programmes are tuition-free for students of any nationality, while English-language programmes charge fees, a split fixed by the 1998 Higher Education Act.捷克语授课项目对所有国籍的学生免收学费，英语授课项目则收取学费，这一区分由 1998 年《高等教育法》确定。
• The Faculty of Technology teaches chemical and process engineering, polymer engineering, food technology, leather and footwear technology, and materials science.技术学院开设化学与过程工程、高分子工程、食品技术、皮革与制鞋技术以及材料科学等专业。
• Polymer processing is the university's strongest research line, supported by the Centre of Polymer Systems, a university institute with rheology, microscopy and extrusion laboratories, and by grants from the Czech Science Foundation.高分子加工是该校最强的研究方向，由高分子系统中心提供支撑，该中心为校属研究机构，设有流变学、显微分析与挤出成型实验室，相关研究还获得捷克科学基金会的资助。
• The footwear department continues a specialism that began with the Svit factory school and covers foot health, lasts, protective footwear and the history of shoe design.制鞋系延续了斯维特厂办学校时期的专业传统，研究范围包括足部健康、鞋楦、防护鞋与鞋类设计史。
• The Faculty of Management and Economics offers business administration, finance, accounting, marketing and public administration, and runs the university's master's programmes in management.经济管理学院开设工商管理、金融、会计、市场营销与公共管理等专业，并承办该校的管理类硕士项目。
• The Faculty of Multimedia Communications teaches film and animation, graphic and product design, advertising, photography and media studies in studios modelled on art-school practice.多媒体传播学院以艺术院校的工作室模式教授电影与动画、平面与产品设计、广告、摄影以及媒介研究。
• The Faculty of Applied Informatics covers computer science, information technology, security engineering, control systems and artificial intelligence.应用信息学学院涵盖计算机科学、信息技术、安全工程、控制系统与人工智能。
• The Faculty of Humanities offers English and German philology, cultural studies, social pedagogy, journalism and interdisciplinary humanities.人文学院开设英语与德语语言学、文化研究、社会教育学、新闻学以及跨学科人文学科。
• The Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management, based in Uherské Hradiště, teaches logistics, crisis management, population protection and security management.物流与危机管理学院设在乌赫尔堡，教授物流、危机管理、居民防护与安全管理。
• Research infrastructure includes the Centre of Polymer Systems, footwear research laboratories and facilities for food analysis and environmental technology.该校的科研设施包括高分子系统中心、制鞋研究实验室以及食品分析与环境技术平台。
• TBU employs 539 academic staff for about 9,200 students, a ratio of roughly one teacher to seventeen students across its six faculties.该校约有 9200 名学生与 539 名专任教师，六个学院合计的师生比约为一名教师对十七名学生。
• Doctoral programmes are offered in technology, chemistry, management, multimedia and informatics, and candidates defend a dissertation after supervised research.该校在技术、化学、管理、多媒体与信息学领域开设博士项目，博士生在导师指导下完成研究并通过论文答辩。
• All programmes use the European Credit Transfer System, and graduates receive a Diploma Supplement issued in Czech and English.所有项目均采用欧洲学分互认体系，毕业生可获得以捷克语和英语签发的文凭补充文件。
• TBU takes part in Erasmus exchanges and holds bilateral agreements with partner universities in Europe and Asia, and it steadily extends the number of courses taught in English.该校参与伊拉斯谟交流项目，与欧洲及亚洲的合作高校签有双边协议，并持续增加英语授课课程的数量。
• Each faculty has its own scientific council, while the university's Scientific Board oversees doctoral study and professorial appointments, which are formally conferred by the president of the Czech Republic.各学院设有自己的科学委员会，校级学术委员会则负责博士培养与教授任职的评审，教授职称最终由捷克共和国总统正式授予。

Campus

• TBU's seat is Zlín, a city of about 74,000 people in the Zlín Region of eastern Moravia, roughly 70 km east of Brno and 300 km southeast of Prague.该校校址位于兹林，这座约 7.4 万人口的城市地处东摩拉维亚的兹林州，距布尔诺约 70 公里，距布拉格约 300 公里。
• The rectorate and the University Centre stand at náměstí T. G. Masaryka 5555, on the edge of the city centre and within walking distance of the former Baťa factory complex.校部与大学中心位于马萨里克广场 5555 号，地处市中心边缘，步行即可到达原拔佳厂区。
• The University Centre, designed by Eva Jiřičná and begun in 2008, is a glass and steel building that houses the TBU Library with more than 500 study places.大学中心由埃娃·伊日奇娜设计、2008 年动工，是一座玻璃与钢结构建筑，内设拥有 500 多个学习座位的托马斯拔佳大学图书馆。
• The library holds volumes in technology, economics, humanities and art and provides access to Czech and international databases for students and staff.图书馆收藏技术、经济、人文与艺术类图书，并为师生提供捷克国内与国际数据库的检索服务。
• Faculty buildings are dispersed through the city rather than grouped on a single campus, with technology and economics near the centre and multimedia studios in converted industrial premises.各学院建筑分散于城市各处，而非集中在一个校园内，技术与经济类院系靠近市中心，多媒体工作室则设在改造后的工业建筑中。
• The Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management occupies its own building in Uherské Hradiště, about 25 km southwest of Zlín.物流与危机管理学院在兹林西南约 25 公里的乌赫尔堡拥有独立校舍。
• Zlín's built heritage includes Tomáš Baťa's villa by Jan Kotěra of 1910, the Baťa skyscraper of 1938 and František Lýdie Gahura's Tomáš Baťa Memorial of 1933.兹林的建筑遗产包括扬·科捷拉（Jan Kotěra）1910 年设计的托马斯·拔佳别墅、1938 年落成的拔佳摩天楼，以及弗朗齐歇克·利迪耶·加胡拉（František Lýdie Gahura）1933 年设计的托马斯·拔佳纪念堂。
• The Bata Hospital, opened in 1927 as a company hospital and still the main general hospital of the region, stands a short walk from the University Centre.拔佳医院于 1927 年作为公司医院开业，至今仍是该地区主要的综合医院，距大学中心仅数分钟步行路程。
• The city is linked to Brno, Prague, Bratislava and Vienna by rail, and the restored Baťa Canal, a 1930s waterway, now serves recreational boating.该市有铁路通往布尔诺、布拉格、布拉迪斯拉发与维也纳，1930 年代开凿、现已修复的拔佳运河则用于休闲航运。
• Student housing and canteens are run by the university's Koleje a menza unit, and the compact centre puts most faculty buildings within a twenty-minute walk of one another.学生宿舍与食堂由该校的宿舍与餐饮管理处运营，紧凑的市中心使多数学院楼彼此步行二十分钟内可达。

Reputation

• TBU is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, and QS describes its research output as very high in the institutional profile.托马斯拔佳大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201 至 1400 区间，QS 在其机构档案中将该校的科研产出评为「很高」等级。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 1401-1600 band.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1401 至 1600 区间。
• U.S. News places TBU 2,021st in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities ranking.《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中将该校列于第 2021 位。
• The 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities does not include TBU in its main list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录托马斯拔佳大学。
• QS also places the university joint 445th in the QS Europe University Rankings 2026, a table that measures European institutions separately from the world ranking.在 2026 年 QS 欧洲大学排名中，该校并列第 445 位，该榜单以欧洲院校为范围，与世界大学排名分开编制。
• In the QS Sustainability Rankings 2026 the university appears in the 1501+ band, a placement that reflects its environmental reporting and campus energy data rather than its teaching reputation.在 2026 年 QS 可持续发展排名中，该校处于 1501 名以后的区间，这一位次反映的是其环境信息披露与校园能耗数据，而非教学声誉。
• OpenAlex indexes 8,871 works and 326,658 citations for TBU, figures that reflect its concentration in polymer science, food technology and materials engineering.OpenAlex 为该校收录 8871 项成果与 326658 次引用，这些数字反映出该校在高分子科学、食品技术与材料工程方面的集中度。
• TBU staff have won the Rolex Award for Enterprise, the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award, the ExxonMobil Chemical European Science and Engineering Award and the Morand Lambla Award.该校教师曾获劳力士企业奖、欧莱雅联合国教科文组织女性科学家奖、埃克森美孚化学欧洲科学与工程奖以及莫兰·兰布拉奖。
• Its honorary doctorates have gone to European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, the architect Eva Jiřičná and the philanthropist Sonja Baťa.该校的名誉博士包括欧盟委员会主席若泽·曼努埃尔·巴罗佐、建筑师埃娃·伊日奇娜与慈善家索尼娅·拔佳。
• TBU is the only public university headquartered in the Zlín Region and one of the larger non-metropolitan public universities in the Czech Republic.托马斯拔佳大学是唯一以兹林州为总部所在地的公立大学，也是捷克规模较大的非首都圈公立大学之一。
• The university markets itself on the Baťa principle of tying teaching to industrial practice, and its graduates are concentrated in the Moravian manufacturing belt.该校以拔佳「教学与产业实践相结合」的理念作为办学卖点，毕业生多集中在摩拉维亚制造业带就业。

Student life

• TBU's motto is Erudire et Creare, Latin for to educate and create, and its Latin name is Universitas Thomae Bata Zlinensis.该校校训为拉丁语「Erudire et Creare」，意为「教育与创造」，其拉丁文校名为 Universitas Thomae Bata Zlinensis。
• The academic year runs from September to June, with a winter examination period in January and February and a summer one in May and June.学年自 9 月延续至次年 6 月，1 月与 2 月为冬季考试期，5 月与 6 月为夏季考试期。
• Students sit in the student chamber of the Academic Senate, which elects representatives and comments on budgets, curricula and disciplinary rules.学生通过学术评议会中的学生院行使权利，该院选举学生代表并就预算、课程与纪律规章提出意见。
• The university's halls of residence and canteens are operated by its Koleje a menza unit, which serves subsidised meals to students and staff.该校的宿舍与食堂由宿舍与餐饮管理处运营，为学生和教职工提供有补贴的餐食。
• Zlín's Baťa-era architecture shapes daily student life, with the 1938 skyscraper, the 1933 Baťa Memorial and the red-brick factory blocks on the walk between lectures.兹林的拔佳时代建筑塑造了学生的日常生活，1938 年的摩天楼、1933 年的拔佳纪念堂与红砖厂房构成了课间往来的街景。
• The city hosts the Zlín Film Festival, founded in 1961 and dedicated to films for children and youth, which brings screenings and international visitors to venues near the faculties each spring.该市每年春季举办兹林电影节，这一电影节创办于 1961 年，专注儿童与青少年影片，在学院附近的场馆放映并吸引国际来宾。
• Sport in the city centres on the ice hockey club PSG Berani Zlín and the football club FC Fastav Zlín, while university teams compete in Czech academic championships.当地体育以冰球俱乐部 PSG 贝拉尼兹林与足球俱乐部 FC 法斯塔夫兹林为核心，校队则参加捷克大学生锦标赛。
• The international office runs an orientation week for exchange students, and Erasmus participants take Czech language courses alongside their faculty modules.国际处为交换生举办迎新周，伊拉斯谟项目的学生除专业课之外还修读捷克语课程。

Notable people

• Tomáš Baťa (1876-1932), the shoe manufacturer whose name the university bears, built the Zlín works that made the town an industrial centre.托马斯·拔佳（1876 至 1932 年）是该校校名所纪念的鞋业企业家，他建立的兹林工厂使这座小城成为工业中心。
• Jan Antonín Baťa (1898-1965) led the Baťa concern after his half-brother's death in 1932 and expanded it across four continents.扬·安东宁·拔佳（1898 至 1965 年）在异母兄弟 1932 年去世后执掌拔佳集团，并将其业务扩展至四大洲。
• Tomáš Baťa Jr. (1914-2008), the founder's son, rebuilt the company from Canada after 1945 and returned to Zlín after 1989 to support the town's institutions.创始人之子托马斯·拔佳二世（1914 至 2008 年）于 1945 年后在加拿大重建公司，1989 年后重返兹林支持当地机构。
• Václav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, signed the founding act on 14 November 2000, the legal step that created the university.捷克共和国总统瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔于 2000 年 11 月 14 日签署建校法案，这一法律步骤促成了该校的诞生。
• Petr Sáha, a polymer scientist and former president of the Polymer Processing Society, served as TBU's first rector from 2001.高分子科学家、国际聚合物加工学会前主席彼得·萨哈自 2001 年起担任该校首任校长。
• Eva Jiřičná, the Zlín-born architect, designed the University Centre and received an honorary doctorate in 2011.兹林出身的建筑师埃娃·伊日奇娜设计了大学中心，并于 2011 年获授名誉博士学位。
• José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014, received an honorary doctorate in April 2009.2004 至 2014 年间担任欧盟委员会主席的若泽·曼努埃尔·巴罗佐于 2009 年 4 月获授名誉博士学位。
• Sonja Baťa (1926-2018), philanthropist and widow of Tomáš Baťa Jr., received an honorary doctorate in 2012 for her support of Zlín institutions.慈善家、托马斯·拔佳二世遗孀索尼娅·拔佳（1926 至 2018 年）因长期支持兹林各机构，于 2012 年获授名誉博士学位。
• Milan Zelený, the Czech-American economist known for his work on multiple criteria decision making and human systems management, taught at TBU.捷克裔美国经济学家米兰·泽莱尼（Milan Zelený）以多准则决策与人类系统管理研究著称，曾在托马斯拔佳大学任教。
• Karel Kolomazník, a chemical engineer at the Faculty of Technology, won the Rolex Award for Enterprise for his work on leather-waste processing.技术学院化学工程师卡雷尔·科洛马兹尼克（Karel Kolomazník）因皮革废料处理研究获得劳力士企业奖。
• Berenika Hausnerová, a professor of polymer engineering, received the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award for research on pressure effects in powder injection moulding.高分子工程教授贝雷尼卡·豪斯内罗娃（Berenika Hausnerová）因粉末注射成型中压力效应研究获得欧莱雅联合国教科文组织女性科学家奖。
• Petr Hlaváček, a footwear hygienist, led research on the shoes of the Alpine Iceman Ötzi and on the Terracotta Army's footwear between 2006 and 2009.制鞋卫生专家彼得·赫拉瓦切克（Petr Hlaváček）于 2006 至 2009 年间主持了阿尔卑斯冰人奥茨的鞋具与兵马俑鞋履研究。