Tor Vergata University of Rome

Tor Vergata University of Rome, officially the University of Rome Tor Vergata, is a public research university in Rome, Italy, established in 1982 in the south-eastern suburbs of the capital.罗马第二大学，正式名称为罗马第二大学（Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata），是位于意大利首都罗马东南郊区的一所公立研究型大学，创建于 1982 年。

It combines a liberal arts tradition with career-oriented teaching in economics, engineering, humanities, mathematics, physics and natural sciences, and medicine and surgery, and it is placed 342nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.该校将人文教育传统与面向职业的教学相结合，涵盖经济、工程、人文、数学、物理与自然科学以及医学与外科，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 342。

It stands in the 326-350 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 391st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, and in the 401-500 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 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 391，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 401 至 500 区间。

History

• The university was established in 1982 with the goal of providing high-quality education for students preparing to meet the changing needs and opportunities of the workforce, as Rome's older institution could no longer absorb the growth in demand.该校创建于 1982 年，目标是面向准备应对劳动力市场不断变化的需求与机遇的学生提供高质量教育，因为罗马原有的老校已无法吸纳不断增长的就学需求。

• It takes its name from the 14th-century farmhouse Turris Virgata, which was owned by the Roman noble Annibaldi family and whose remains lie beneath Villa Gentile on the campus.其校名取自 14 世纪的农舍（Turris Virgata），该处产业原属罗马贵族（Annibaldi）家族，其遗迹仍位于校园内的真蒂莱别墅之下。

• The campus was designed to reflect the same atmosphere that students would feel on Anglophone campuses, and it occupies a six-square-kilometre area outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare highway in the eastern sector of the city.校园设计意在营造如同英语国家校园的氛围，占地六平方公里，位于罗马东部环路（Grande Raccordo Anulare）之外。

• Sapienza University and Roma Tre University together with Tor Vergata form the three public universities of Rome, and many professors of Tor Vergata are important members of the Italian cultural and political environment.罗马第一大学、罗马第三大学与罗马第二大学共同构成罗马的三所公立大学，该校许多教授也是意大利文化与政治领域的重要人物。

• Since its foundation the university has grown steadily, with the number of enrolled students rising from about 27,000 in 2019 to 32,000 in 2024.自建校以来该校持续发展，注册学生人数从 2019 年的约 27,000 人增至 2024 年的 32,000 人。

• The academic year 2025-2026 was its forty-third since foundation, and the rector reported a student body approaching 34,000, an increase of 2.8 per cent over the previous year.2025 至 2026 学年是该校建校以来的第四十三个学年，校长在开学典礼上公布学生规模已接近 34,000 人，比上年增长 2.8%。

• The university's structure has grown into six schools, later described as six macroareas, that are organised into eighteen departments.该校的架构逐步发展为六个学院，后又被表述为六大学科领域，并组织为十八个系。

• A university hospital with state-of-the-art medical equipment, the Tor Vergata Polyclinic, stands on the campus and serves both teaching and the wider city.配备尖端医疗设备的大学附属医院即罗马第二大学综合医院设于校园之内，同时服务于教学与更广泛的城市医疗需求。

• The Centre of Economic and International Studies, an internationally recognised research centre within the Faculty of Economics, was founded in 1987 and hosts seminars and conferences with leading economists and experts.经济与国际研究中心是经济学院内享有国际声誉的研究机构，成立于 1987 年，举办汇聚知名经济学家与专家的研讨班和会议。

• Construction of the City of Sports complex designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava began in April 2007 as an integral part of the city of Rome's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.由西班牙建筑师圣地亚哥·卡拉特拉瓦设计的体育城综合体于 2007 年 4 月动工，是罗马申办 2020 年夏季奥运会计划的组成部分。

• On 14 February 2012 the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti ended the Olympic bid, citing uncertain costs and unknown financial benefit, and the complex has remained under construction.2012 年 2 月 14 日，意大利总理马里奥·蒙蒂以成本不确定、财务收益不明为由终止了申奥，该综合体此后一直处于在建状态。

• On 25 July 2012 the new main headquarters of the Italian Space Agency was inaugurated on the campus, strengthening the university's research environment.2012 年 7 月 25 日，意大利航天局的新总部在校园内落成启用，进一步加强了该校的科研环境。

• Campus X, the private student accommodation rolled out in October 2010, now consists of more than 1,300 bed spaces for students and researchers as well as study rooms, a market, a restaurant, a gym and a music recording studio.私营学生公寓 Campus X 于 2010 年 10 月投入使用，现拥有 1,300 多个学生与研究人员床位，并配有自习室、超市、餐厅、健身房与音乐录音棚。

• Designed on the basis of the campus in Berkeley, Campus X is at present the biggest accommodation facility for students in Italy, with a fifteen-thousand-square-metre area.Campus X 以伯克利校园为蓝本设计建造，占地一万五千平方米，目前是意大利规模最大的学生住宿设施。

• In an effort to reduce environmental pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions, Campus X relies on thermal and photovoltaic solar panels that provide up to 70 per cent of the hot water and street lighting needed on campus.为减少环境污染与温室气体排放，Campus X 采用光热与光伏太阳能板，可提供校园所需热水与路灯用电的最多 70%。

• In March 2019 the university joined seven other European universities to form the Young Universities for the Future of Europe alliance, of which it is the only Italian member.2019 年 3 月，该校与另外七所欧洲大学共同组成欧洲未来青年大学联盟，它是该联盟中唯一的意大利成员。

• In June 2019 the European Commission announced that the alliance was among the seventeen projects to receive funding for a three-year pilot under the European Universities Initiative financed through the Erasmus+ programme.2019 年 6 月，欧盟委员会宣布该联盟入选「欧洲大学倡议」下由 Erasmus+ 计划资助的十七个三年期试点项目。

• The alliance's Diploma Supplement Track, rolled out in November 2020, acknowledges the academic courses, professional training and other activities that students take part in across the partner universities.该联盟于 2020 年 11 月推出的文凭补充记录，用以确认学生在各伙伴大学参加的课程、职业培训与其他活动。

• In the QS World University Rankings the university stood 494th in 2022 and 342nd in 2027, a rapid improvement that reflects its growing standing as a young institution.在 QS 世界大学排名中，该校 2022 年位列第 494、2027 年升至第 342，这一快速提升反映出其作为年轻大学不断上升的地位。

Academics

• The university is divided into six schools, namely Economics, Engineering, Humanities, Law, Mathematics Physics and Natural Sciences, and Medicine and Surgery.该校分为六个学院，即经济学院、工程学院、人文学院、法学院、数学物理与自然科学学院以及医学与外科医学院。

• Its eighteen departments together offer 31 PhD programmes and 51 master's degree programmes, and the university also offers 55 three-year bachelor's degree programmes and 7 single-cycle degree programmes.其十八个系共开设 31 个博士项目与 51 个硕士项目，此外该校还设有 55 个三年制学士项目与 7 个本硕连读项目。

• The university offers twenty international degree courses taught in English, made up of three bachelor's, fifteen master's and two single-cycle degrees, out of twenty-two English-taught courses in all.该校开设二十个以英语授课的国际学位项目，包括三个学士、十五个硕士与两个本硕连读项目，英语授课课程合计二十二门。

• Official figures describe an academic offer of 120 undergraduate courses, 142 professional master's programmes, 51 specialisation schools, 37 PhD programmes and 18 departments served by 6 libraries on a campus of about 600 hectares.官方数据描述其教学供给包括 120 个本科课程、142 个专业硕士项目、51 所专科学校、37 个博士项目与 18 个系，并在约 600 公顷的校园内设有 6 座图书馆。

• The six macroareas of Economics, Law, Engineering, Humanities and Philosophy, Medicine and Surgery, and Mathematical Physical and Natural Sciences are currently organised into eighteen departments.经济、法律、工程、人文与哲学、医学与外科、数学物理与自然科学这六大学科领域，目前组织为十八个系。

• Academic years are typically divided into two semesters, the first starting in mid-September and ending in mid-January and the second starting in March and ending in mid-June.学年通常分为两个学期，第一学期从 9 月中旬开始、次年 1 月中旬结束，第二学期从 3 月开始、6 月中旬结束。

• Examinations are held between mid-January and the end of February for first-semester courses and between mid-June and the end of July for second-semester courses, with additional sessions in September depending on the course.考试分别安排在 1 月中旬至 2 月底与 6 月中旬至 7 月底，视课程情况有时还在 9 月增设考试场次。

• Students are asked to earn a minimum of 60 ECTS credits each year, a three-year bachelor's degree consisting of 180 credits and a master's degree of 120, while a single course is worth 6, 9 or 12 credits and entails 60, 90 or 120 lecture hours.学生每年需修满至少 60 个 ECTS 学分，三年制学士共 180 学分、硕士共 120 学分，单门课程通常为 6、9 或 12 学分，对应 60、90 或 120 学时。

• The Faculty of Economics hosts the Centre of Economic and International Studies, founded in 1987, which is engaged in creating and supporting international research and higher-learning networking in the major fields of economics.经济学院下设成立于 1987 年的经济与国际研究中心，该中心致力于在经济学主要领域建立并支持国际研究与高等教学网络。

• Research is carried out in 27 departmental and inter-departmental research centres, and on the campus there are also other major institutions.该校的科研在 27 个系属与跨系研究中心中开展，校园内还设有其他重要研究机构。

• On campus stand the new main headquarters of the Italian Space Agency, inaugurated in 2012, the Tor Vergata research establishment of the National Research Council and a facility of the National Institute for Astrophysics.校园内设有 2012 年启用、意大利航天局的新总部，国家研究委员会的罗马第二大学研究基地，以及国家天体物理研究所的一处设施。

• Close research ties with bodies near the campus, such as the Italian National Agency for New Technologies Energy and Environment, the European Space Agency Center for Earth Observation, the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Frascati National Laboratory, make Tor Vergata a dynamic research environment.校园周边机构如意大利新技术能源与环境署、欧洲空间局对地观测中心与意大利国家核物理研究所以及弗拉斯卡蒂国家实验室与该校联系紧密，使其科研环境颇具活力。

• The university participates in interdisciplinary dialogue with local businesses to provide support for entrepreneurial activities and for small businesses.该校与本地企业开展跨学科对话，为创业活动与中小企业提供支持。

• In its academic performance the university was ranked 285th in the world and 9th in Italy for 2020-21 by the University Ranking by Academic Performance.在学术表现方面，该校在 2020 至 2021 年度由学术表现大学排名列全球第 285、意大利第 9。

• Governance rests with the rector, currently Nathan Levialdi Ghiron, a professor at the School of Engineering and former vice-rector of the university.治理由校长负责，现任校长内森·莱维亚尔迪·吉龙是工程学院教授，曾任该校副校长。

• Teaching is mainly in Italian, while the growing set of English-taught programmes supports international mobility and joint degrees with partner universities.教学主要以意大利语进行，而不断扩大的英语授课项目则支撑国际流动与与伙伴大学的联合学位。

• The university has taken significant steps in recent years to participate in international projects and to link industry to its research, and it uses the European Credit Transfer System across its schools.近年来该校在参与国际项目、把产业与科研相衔接方面采取了重要举措，并在各学院实行欧洲学分转换制度。

Campus

• The university occupies a six-square-kilometre, roughly six-hundred-hectare, area outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare highway connection, in the eastern sector of the city far from the historic centre.该校占地六平方公里、约六百公顷，位于罗马东部环路之外、远离历史城区的地段。

• The Tor Vergata Polyclinic, a university hospital with state-of-the-art medical equipment, is located on the campus beside the faculties of medicine and sciences.拥有先进医疗设备的大学附属医院罗马第二大学综合医院位于校园内，紧邻医学与自然科学各学院。

• The City of Sports project designed by Santiago Calatrava would have hosted the volleyball, gymnastics, trampoline and basketball finals of the 2020 Summer Olympics had Rome not withdrawn its bid.由卡拉特拉瓦设计的体育城项目原本将承办 2020 年夏季奥运会排球、体操、蹦床与篮球决赛，但罗马最终退出了申办。

• Its two main buildings, the Sport Forum and the Swimming Forum, are symmetrical and each about 21,600 square metres in area and some 75 metres in height.其两座主体建筑即体育论坛与游泳论坛互相对称，各约 21,600 平方米、高约 75 米。

• Construction began in April 2007 and was to be completed in 2009 in time for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, but after the bid ended in 2012 the complex remained unfinished.工程于 2007 年 4 月开工，原定 2009 年完工以赶上 2009 年世界游泳锦标赛，但申办于 2012 年终止后该综合体一直未竣工。

• The planned new university tower on the opposite side of the road will rise to about 90 metres, with the penultimate floor hosting the new administrative office and the top floor a wide lobby with panoramic views.规划中位于道路对面、高约 90 米的新大学塔楼，将在倒数第二层设新的行政办公室，顶层设可俯瞰全景的宽敞门厅。

• Accommodation on and near the campus is provided by the regional organisation Lazio DiSCo as well as by Campus X, a private company.校园内及周边的住宿由大区机构拉齐奥 DiSCo 与私营企业 Campus X 共同提供。

• Campus X, whose fifteen-thousand-square-metre area makes it the largest student accommodation facility in Italy, offers over 1,300 bed spaces, study rooms, a market, a restaurant, a gym and a music recording studio.占地一万五千平方米的 Campus X 是意大利规模最大的学生住宿设施，提供 1,300 多个床位、自习室、超市、餐厅、健身房与音乐录音棚。

• Its buildings were designed and built on the basis of the campus in Berkeley, and thermal and photovoltaic solar panels supply up to 70 per cent of the hot water and street lighting on campus.其建筑以伯克利校园为蓝本设计建造，光热与光伏太阳能板可提供校园热水与路灯用电的最多 70%。

• The campus is suburban and green rather than urban in character, and its layout was conceived to give students the atmosphere of an Anglophone university campus.校园具郊区与绿化特征而非城市形态，其布局意在让学生感受到英语国家大学校园的氛围。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Tor Vergata University of Rome is placed 342nd in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，罗马第二大学位列世界第 342。

• It stands in the 326-350 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 391st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking and in the 401-500 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 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 391，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 401 至 500 区间。

• In the 2021 Best Global Universities Ranking by U.S. News and World Report the university was ranked 243rd in the world, 106th in Europe and 12th in Italy.在 US News 2021 年全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列世界第 243、欧洲第 106、意大利第 12。

• According to the 2022 QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university was ranked respectively 494th and in the 301-350th band.依据 2022 年 QS 世界大学排名与泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，该校分别位列第 494 与 301 至 350 区间。

• In the QS World University Rankings Under 50 ranking for 2021 the university stood in the 71-80th band among universities less than fifty years old.在 2021 年 QS 五十强青年大学排名中，该校在成立不足五十年的大学中处于 71 至 80 区间。

• In the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was 51-75th for physical sciences, 76-100th for mathematical sciences, 101-150th for automation and control engineering and for energy science and engineering, and 201-300th for telecommunication engineering.在 2020 年软科世界大学学术排名中，其物理学科为 51 至 75、数学学科为 76 至 100、自动化与控制工程与能源科学与工程为 101 至 150、通信工程为 201 至 300。

• The same U.S. News ranking placed the university 50th in the world in physics, while QS ranked it 314th in the world for engineering and technology, 201-250th for electrical and electronic engineering and 251-300th for chemical engineering.同一 US News 榜单将其物理学列为世界第 50，而 QS 将其工程与技术列为世界第 314、电气与电子工程为 201 至 250、化学工程为 251 至 300。

• In 2020 the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities placed it 281st, and the 2019 Nature Index ranked it 59th among the best 175 young universities in the world and 43rd among the best 50 young universities in physical sciences.2020 年世界大学科研论文表现排名将其列在第 281 位，2019 年自然指数又将其列为全球最佳 175 所青年大学中的第 59、物理科学领域最佳 50 所青年大学中的第 43。

• The Economics faculty has been consistently ranked among the top three economics departments in Italy by La Repubblica's annual ranking and currently holds the top national spot and 96th place worldwide.其经济学院长期被《共和国报》年度排名列为意大利前三的经济学系，目前位居全国第一、全球第 96。

• On employability, the university was ranked 8th in Italy in 2018 for the average wages of graduates aged 25 to 34 years, 5th among public universities, and in 2017 it was 2nd in Central Italy for graduate employability at 88.5 per cent.在就业表现方面，该校 2018 年其 25 至 34 岁毕业生的平均薪资居意大利第 8、公立大学第 5，2017 年其毕业生就业率为 88.5%、居意大利中部第 2。

• In the 2019 European Research Ranking it stood 18th in Italy and 200-300th in Europe, and in 2014 the same ranking placed it 31st in Europe for its research diversity index, while OpenAlex records 100,074 works and 8,781,352 citations.在 2019 年欧洲研究排名中，该校居意大利第 18、欧洲 200 至 300，2014 年该排名又将其研究多样性指数列为欧洲第 31，而 OpenAlex 记载其成果 100,074 项、被引 8,781,352 次。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto, and its identity is bound to the name Turris Virgata, the fourteenth-century farmhouse of the Annibaldi family on whose land the campus was built.该校没有正式校训，其身份与（Turris Virgata）这一名称相连，那是（Annibaldi）家族 14 世纪的农舍，校园正建在其土地上。

• Student life is concentrated on the campus itself, where the polyclinic, research institutes, canteens and sports facilities form a self-contained university district outside the city centre.学生生活集中在校园之内，附属医院、研究机构、食堂与体育设施在此构成一个独立于市中心的大学城区。

• Accommodation is available both through the regional organisation Lazio DiSCo and through the private Campus X complex, the largest student housing facility in Italy with more than 1,300 bed spaces.住宿既可由大区机构拉齐奥 DiSCo 提供，也可使用私营 Campus X 综合体，后者是意大利规模最大的学生公寓，拥有 1,300 多个床位。

• Residents of Campus X can use study rooms, a market, a restaurant, a gym and a music recording studio, and the complex is powered in part by solar panels.Campus X 的住户可使用自习室、超市、餐厅、健身房与音乐录音棚，该综合体部分依靠太阳能板供电。

• The City of Sports project would have given the university one of the most spectacular sports complexes in Italy, hosting volleyball, gymnastics, trampoline and basketball finals before the Olympic bid was abandoned.体育城项目本可为该校提供意大利最壮观的体育综合体之一，在申奥放弃前计划承办排球、体操、蹦床与篮球决赛。

• International life is supported by the European alliance of young universities, whose diploma supplement track since November 2020 records courses and training undertaken across the partner institutions.国际生活由欧洲青年大学联盟支撑，其自 2020 年 11 月起实施的文凭补充记录将学生在各伙伴院校所修课程与培训一一载明。

• With about 34,000 students and a high graduate employability of 88.5 per cent recorded in 2017, the university is an attractive destination for students from Rome and the surrounding Lazio region.凭借约 34,000 名学生与 2017 年录得的 88.5% 高就业率，该校对来自罗马及周边拉齐奥大区的学生颇具吸引力。

Notable people

• Orazio Schillaci, the Italian Minister of Health and former rector of the university, is a full professor of nuclear medicine and former head of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery.意大利卫生部长、该校前校长奥拉齐奥·斯基拉奇是核医学正教授，并曾任医学与外科医学院院长。

• Giovanni Tria, former Minister of Economy and Finance and professor of political economy, was Dean of the School of Economics, while Renato Brunetta, Minister of Public Administration and member of the European Parliament, is a professor of economics.前经济与财政部长、政治经济学教授乔瓦尼·特里亚曾任经济学院院长，而公共行政部长、欧洲议会议员雷纳托·布鲁内塔则是该校经济学教授。

• Enrico Giovannini, former Director of Statistics at the OECD, professor of economics and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, taught at the university.曾任经济合作与发展组织统计司司长、后任意大利基础设施与交通部长的经济学教授恩里科·乔瓦尼尼曾在该校任教。

• Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, former Italian Minister for the Environment Land and Sea and former member of parliament, is associated with the university.曾任意大利环境与国土及海洋部长、前议会议员阿方索·佩科拉罗·斯坎约也与该校有关。

• Sabatino Moscati, the archaeologist and linguist, was professor of Semitic philology, and Mario Perniola, the philosopher, was professor of aesthetics.考古学家与语言学家萨巴蒂诺·莫斯科蒂曾任闪米特语文学教授，哲学家马里奥·佩尔尼奥拉曾任美学教授。

• Alessandro Ferrara, professor of political philosophy, and Stefano Semplici, professor of moral philosophy and social ethics and former president of the UNESCO Bioethics Committee, taught at the university.政治哲学教授亚历山德罗·费拉拉，以及道德哲学与社会伦理学教授、曾任联合国教科文组织生物伦理委员会主席的斯特凡诺·森普利奇都曾在该校任教。

• René Schoof, the mathematician who published the algorithm bearing his name, was professor of mathematics, and Lucio Russo, physicist, mathematician and historian of science, was professor of probability calculus.以自身姓氏命名算法的数学家勒内·斯霍夫曾任数学教授，物理学家、数学家与科学史家卢乔·鲁索曾任概率论教授。

• Alessandro Piperno, the writer, was professor of French literature, Cesare G. De Michelis professor of Russian literature and Pietro Trifone professor of the history of the Italian language.作家亚历山德罗·皮佩尔诺曾任法国文学教授，切萨雷·德·米凯利斯曾任俄罗斯文学教授，彼得罗·特里福内曾任意大利语言史教授。

• Antonio Dal Monte, the physician and medical researcher, was scientific director and head of the department of physiology and biomechanics at the sports science institute of the Italian National Olympic Committee.医师与医学研究者安东尼奥·达尔蒙特曾任意大利国家奥林匹克委员会运动科学研究所的科学主任兼生理学与生物力学部主任。

• Domenicangela Lina Unali, professor of English and American literature, novelist, poet and literary critic, and the composer and classical pianist Piero Niro are counted among its academic figures.英美文学教授、小说家、诗人与文学评论家多梅尼坎杰拉·莉娜·乌纳利，以及作曲家与古典钢琴家皮耶罗·尼罗都被列为该校的学术人物。