Torcuato di Tella University

The Torcuato Di Tella University (Spanish: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, UTDT) is a private non-profit university in Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded in 1991 and focused chiefly on the social sciences, law, business, architecture and design.托尔夸托·迪特拉大学（Universidad Torcuato Di Tella，简称 UTDT）是阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯的一所私立非营利大学，创办于 1991 年，以社会科学、法学、商学、建筑与设计为主。

It was created by the Torcuato Di Tella Foundation, drawing on the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella opened in 1958, and it is named after the industrialist Torcuato di Tella, who built the Siam di Tella manufacturing group.该校由托尔夸托·迪特拉基金会创办，依托 1958 年设立的托尔夸托·迪特拉研究所，校名取自工业家托尔夸托·迪特拉，他一手建立了 Siam di Tella 制造集团。

It enrols 6,314 students, 11 per cent of them international, and occupies the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, while it did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education table, the U.S. News 2026-2027 list or the 2026 Shanghai ranking.该校有学生 6314 人，其中 11% 为国际学生，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，但未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育榜单、US News 2026-2027 榜单及 2026 年软科排名。

History

• The Instituto Torcuato Di Tella was founded in 1958 to promote scientific, cultural and artistic research in Argentina and became the country's leading centre of avant-garde art during the 1960s.托尔夸托·迪特拉研究所于 1958 年成立，旨在推动阿根廷的科学、文化与艺术研究，并在 1960 年代成为本国前卫艺术的中心。
• Its namesake, Torcuato di Tella, had made his name as an industrialist through the Siam di Tella conglomerate, whose household appliances and machinery made it one of the largest Argentine firms of the mid-twentieth century.研究所的同名者托尔夸托·迪特拉以 Siam di Tella 集团成为知名工业家，该集团的家电与机械制造使其跻身二十世纪中叶阿根廷最大的企业之列。
• The university itself was conceived by Gerardo della Paolera, who became its first dean, together with Guido di Tella, then Argentine ambassador to the United States, who wanted an American-style institution with small classes and internationally trained professors.大学本身由首任院长赫拉尔多·德拉保莱拉与当时阿根廷驻美国大使吉多·迪特拉共同构想，两人希望建立一所美式学府，实行小班教学并聘请有国际背景的教授。
• The Torcuato Di Tella Foundation founded the university in 1991 with the mission of training new generations of academic, business, social and political leaders, reusing the experience and resources of the institute.托尔夸托·迪特拉基金会于 1991 年创办该校，使命是培养新一代学术、商业、社会与政治领袖，并沿用研究所的经验与资源。
• It offered its first undergraduate degree in economics in 1992 and later added business economics, political science, international studies, law, history, architecture and business administration.该校 1992 年开设首个本科专业经济学，此后陆续增设商业经济、政治学、国际研究、法学、历史、建筑与工商管理。
• Gerardo della Paolera presided over the university from its foundation until 2001, when the economist Juan Pablo Nicolini succeeded him.赫拉尔多·德拉保莱拉自建校起担任校长至 2001 年，其后由经济学家胡安·巴勃罗·尼科利尼接任。
• Nicolini was re-elected in 2005 and served until September 2010, when the term limits written into the university charter barred him from a third mandate.尼科利尼于 2005 年连任，任职至 2010 年 9 月，因大学章程规定的任期限制而无法第三次连任。
• The sociologist and political analyst Manuel Mora y Araujo became president in 2009 and resigned in May 2011 for personal reasons.社会学家、政治分析家曼努埃尔·莫拉·伊·阿劳霍于 2009 年出任校长，2011 年 5 月因个人原因辞职。
• Ernesto Schargrodsky, previously dean of the Business School, took the presidency in 2011 and was re-elected in 2014 to a full four-year term.此前担任商学院院长的埃内斯托·沙格罗茨基 2011 年出任校长，并于 2014 年连任完整的四年任期。
• In May 2019, after two four-year terms, Schargrodsky was succeeded by the economist Juan José Cruces, former director of the Center for Financial Research, who was later re-elected.2019 年 5 月，两届四年任期届满后，沙格罗茨基由经济学家、金融研究中心前主任胡安·何塞·克鲁塞斯接任，后者其后获得连任。
• In 1998 the former waterworks building on Avenida Figueroa Alcorta was put out to tender after the privatisation of Obras Sanitarias de la Nación, and the university submitted the winning bid.1998 年，在国立卫生工程公司私有化之后，位于菲格罗亚·阿尔科塔大道的旧自来水厂建筑对外招标，该校提交的方案中标。
• The building had been erected between 1937 and 1942 and covers 13,700 square metres, and the conversion was designed by a team led by the architects Clorindo Testa, Juan Fontana, Juan Barros Tomé and Horacio Rodrigo.该建筑建于 1937 至 1942 年，面积 13700 平方米，改造由克洛林多·特斯塔、胡安·丰塔纳、胡安·巴罗斯·托梅与奥拉西奥·罗德里戈四位建筑师领衔的团队设计。
• Works began in 2002 and the Business School worked from 1,200 square metres of the complex from 2004, while the rest of the university continued at its earlier premises.改造工程 2002 年动工，商学院自 2004 年起在其中 1200 平方米的空间办公，学校其余部分仍在原址办学。
• In March 2013 the whole university moved to the Figueroa Alcorta campus, which has since been extended twice and gained a green roof terrace overlooking the Río de la Plata.2013 年 3 月，全校迁入菲格罗亚·阿尔科塔校区，此后该校区两度扩建，并在屋顶开辟了可眺望拉普拉塔河的绿色平台。
• Between 2011 and 2018 the student body tripled, putting pressure on the buildings and prompting plans for a further structure able to hold 1,000 more students.2011 至 2018 年间学生人数增至三倍，校舍承压，学校因此计划再建一座可容纳 1000 名学生的新楼。
• A competition held in December 2015 selected the Spanish architect Josep Ferrando, whose design combined an industrial vocabulary with flexible floor plates.2015 年 12 月举行的设计竞赛选中西班牙建筑师何塞普·费兰多，其方案把工业语汇与可灵活划分的楼面结合起来。
• The nine-storey building of 11,646 square metres, certified under LEED, was inaugurated in March 2019 in the presence of Vice-President Gabriela Michetti and the deputy mayor of Buenos Aires, Diego Santilli.这座九层、11646 平方米并获得 LEED 认证的大楼于 2019 年 3 月落成，副总统加芙列拉·米凯蒂与布宜诺斯艾利斯市副市长迭戈·桑蒂利出席。
• In 2022 a further international competition was held for the New Parque Building and a new Central Piazza, won by the Paris studio BRUTHER.2022 年，学校为新公园大楼与新中央广场再次举行国际竞赛，巴黎的 BRUTHER 事务所中标。
• Construction of the 27,600 square metre building began in December 2023 and was scheduled for completion in 2026.这座 27600 平方米的建筑于 2023 年 12 月开工，计划 2026 年竣工。
• In 2004 the university opened a centre for visual arts in the refurbished water company building designed by Clorindo Testa, continuing the exhibition tradition of the old institute.2004 年，学校在由克洛林多·特斯塔改造的自来水公司旧楼里开设视觉艺术中心，延续老研究所的展览传统。
• The neuroscience laboratory opened in 2014 with the science minister Lino Barañao present, was directed by Mariano Sigman and began with thirteen researchers, which the dean called a first step into the hard sciences.神经科学实验室 2014 年在科技部长利诺·巴拉尼奥出席下启用，由马里亚诺·西格曼主持，初期有十三名研究人员，院长称之为迈向硬科学的第一步。

Academics

• The university offers twelve undergraduate degrees, in architecture, behavioural science, business administration, business economics, design, digital technologies, economics, history, international relations, law, political science and government, and social science.该校开设十二个本科学位，涵盖建筑、行为科学、工商管理、商业经济、设计、数字技术、经济、历史、国际关系、法学、政治学与政府以及社会科学。
• It also runs 33 graduate degrees, including doctorates in history, international studies and political science.学校还开设 33 个研究生学位项目，其中包括历史、国际研究与政治学博士。
• Teaching is organised in eleven academic units, among them the schools of law, business, government and architecture and urban studies, and the departments of economics, political science and international studies, historical and social sciences, mathematics and statistics, art, design, and engineering and applied science.教学由十一个学术单位承担，包括法学院、商学院、政府学院、建筑与城市研究学院，以及经济系、政治学与国际研究系、历史与社会科学系、数学与统计系、艺术系、设计系和工程与应用科学系。
• The faculty comprises 103 full-time professors, 153 regular professors and more than 1,000 specialised instructors, of whom 98 per cent hold graduate degrees and 76 per cent are active researchers.师资包括 103 名全职教授、153 名专任教授与 1000 余名专业讲师，其中 98% 拥有研究生学位，76% 从事研究工作。
• Ninety-eight of the professors are full-time researchers, most of them holding doctorates from universities in North America and Europe.其中 98 名教授为全职研究人员，多数拥有北美与欧洲高校的博士学位。
• The university maintains 145 cooperation agreements with universities on five continents and offers 14 double degrees.该校与五大洲的高校签订了 145 项合作协议，并开设 14 个双学位项目。
• Partners include HEC Paris, Sciences Po, the Fundação Getulio Vargas business school in São Paulo, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IE University, the University of Toronto and the University of San Diego.合作院校包括巴黎高等商学院、巴黎政治学院、圣保罗的瓦加斯基金会商学院、智利天主教大学、庞培法布拉大学、IE 大学、多伦多大学与圣迭戈大学。
• The Business School also runs programmes with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds accreditation from the Association of MBAs in London.商学院还与麻省理工学院合办项目，并持有伦敦工商管理硕士协会的认证。
• Nine research centres operate within the university, covering finance, artificial intelligence and neuroscience, crime and policy, data, public history, urban policy and housing, inclusive business and contemporary architecture.校内设有九个研究中心，涉及金融、人工智能与神经科学、犯罪与政策、数据、公共史、城市政策与住房、包容性商业以及当代建筑。
• The university publishes eight official indexes, among them the Consumer Confidence Index, the Inflation Expectations Index, the Leader Index, the Government Confidence Index, the Victimization Index and a real estate index.学校发布八项官方指数，包括消费者信心指数、通胀预期指数、先行指数、政府信心指数、受害率指数与房地产指数。
• The Center for Financial Research produces three monthly indexes that are widely quoted in the Argentine press as early readings of the economic cycle.金融研究中心每月编制三项指数，常被阿根廷媒体引作观察经济周期的先行数据。
• The Crime, Institutions and Policy Research Laboratory publishes a victimisation index measuring the share of people who suffered a crime in the previous twelve months.犯罪、制度与政策研究实验室发布受害率指数，衡量过去十二个月内遭遇犯罪的人口比例。
• The library holds more than 95,000 books, 2,500 newspaper collections and 6,000 digital documents, with original editions dating back to the seventeenth century.图书馆藏有 95000 余册图书、2500 种报刊合订本与 6000 份数字文献，其中原件可上溯至十七世纪。
• Named collections include the Max Hartwell, Carlos Escudé, Christiaan Huygens and Fernando Nadra holdings, alongside an archive of Argentine trade union documents.特藏包括马克斯·哈特韦尔、卡洛斯·埃斯库德、克里斯蒂安·惠更斯与费尔南多·纳德拉四家藏书，另有阿根廷工会文献档案。
• The art collection is built on the Edward Shaw and María Padilla de Shaw donation of 100 contemporary paintings, with works by Antonio Berni, Guillermo Kuitca, Antonio Seguí, Luis Fernando Benedit and Emilio Torti.艺术收藏以爱德华·肖与玛丽亚·帕迪利亚·德肖捐赠的 100 幅当代绘画为基础，作者包括安东尼奥·贝尔尼、吉列尔莫·库伊特卡、安东尼奥·塞吉、路易斯·费尔南多·贝内迪特与埃米利奥·托尔蒂。
• Twelve artists receive Kuitca scholarships each year, meeting Guillermo Kuitca once a week to discuss their work, and more than 36 courses are taught in English every semester.每年有十二位艺术家获得库伊特卡奖学金，每周与吉列尔莫·库伊特卡会面一次讨论作品；每学期还有 36 门以上课程以英语授课。
• Of the undergraduate cohort 58 per cent hold some form of scholarship, and the university reports employability of 92 per cent for undergraduates and 96 per cent for graduates.58% 的本科生获得某种形式的奖学金，校方公布的就业率为本科生 92%、研究生 96%。
• The Business School employs 20 full-time faculty and offers the bachelor's degree in business economics, an MBA, an Executive MBA and a master's in finance, while the wider portfolio includes a master's in journalism run with the newspaper La Nación.商学院有 20 名全职教师，开设商业经济本科、MBA、高级工商管理硕士与金融硕士，整体项目还包括与《民族报》合办的新闻学硕士。
• Executive teaching is a substantial side of the institution, with 66 executive-education courses, 28 legal executive-education courses and 31 courses of executive training in public policy counted in its 2024-2025 profile.高管教育是该校的重要一面，其 2024 至 2025 年概况列出 66 门高管课程、28 门法律高管课程与 31 门公共政策高管培训课程。
• The ENI inclusive-business think tank, attached to the university, published the first survey of inclusive businesses in Argentina for 2012-2013 and has since issued working papers on emerging markets and on service-dominant logic.挂靠该校的 ENI 包容性商业智库发布了 2012 至 2013 年阿根廷首份包容性企业调查，此后陆续刊出关于新兴市场与服务主导逻辑的研究报告。

Campus

• The campus stands on Avenida Figueroa Alcorta in the northern part of Buenos Aires, a few metres from the Río de la Plata and within reach of the city's main cultural institutions.校区位于布宜诺斯艾利斯北部的菲格罗亚·阿尔科塔大道，距拉普拉塔河仅数十米，邻近城中主要文化机构。
• Its main building is the former waterworks of 1937-1942, a brick structure of 13,700 square metres converted for teaching after the 1998 tender.主楼是 1937 至 1942 年间的旧自来水厂，砖砌体量达 13700 平方米，在 1998 年招标后改造为教学空间。
• The conversion by Clorindo Testa and his colleagues kept the industrial shell and inserted classrooms, offices and a library, a design often cited in Argentine architectural surveys.克洛林多·特斯塔等人的改造保留工业外壳，在其中嵌入教室、办公与图书馆，这一设计常被阿根廷建筑研究引用。
• The 2019 building by Josep Ferrando adds nine floors and 11,646 square metres behind the older structure, with a facade that shades the interior and floors that can be reconfigured.2019 年建成的费兰多大楼在旧楼之后新增九层、11646 平方米，立面为室内遮阳，楼面可重新划分。
• A green terrace on the roof looks over the river and is used for receptions and end-of-term events.屋顶绿化平台俯瞰河面，用于酒会与学期末活动。
• The New Parque Building and Central Piazza, designed by BRUTHER, will add 27,600 square metres and a public square when completed.由 BRUTHER 设计的新公园大楼与中央广场建成后将新增 27600 平方米建筑与一处公共广场。
• The library and the art collection are distributed between the two completed buildings, with the Shaw paintings on continuous display in circulation areas.图书馆与艺术收藏分布在两座已建成的大楼中，肖氏藏品在公共动线上长期陈列。
• Buenos Aires was ranked among the leading student destinations in the Spanish-speaking world in the QS Best Student Cities index of 2023, a point the university uses in its international recruitment.在 2023 年 QS 最佳学生城市指数中，布宜诺斯艾利斯被评为西语世界最主要的留学目的地之一，该校在国际招生中常引用这一评价。

Reputation

• The university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval in the global table.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，属于全球榜单中的并列区间。
• It did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 or the main table of the Shanghai ranking for 2026.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名、US News 2026-2027 全球最佳大学榜单，也未进入 2026 年软科排名主榜。
• In the QS subject rankings published between 2022 and 2024 it was placed first among Argentine private universities in economics and econometrics and in politics.在 2022 至 2024 年公布的 QS 学科排名中，该校在经济学与计量经济学、政治学两个领域位列阿根廷私立大学第一。
• Its Department of Political Science and International Relations has been ranked among the top 150 departments in the world for that discipline.其政治学与国际关系系在该学科的世界院系排名中进入前 150 名。
• The QS Latin America University Ranking of 2023 placed it first in Argentina for papers per faculty, a measure of research intensity rather than size.2023 年 QS 拉丁美洲大学排名按师均论文数将该校列为阿根廷第一，这一指标衡量的是研究强度而非规模。
• The Chilean magazine América Economía has ranked its Business School among the top ten in Latin America every year since 2010.智利《美洲经济》杂志自 2010 年起每年将其商学院列入拉丁美洲前十。
• OpenAlex indexes 3,753 works and 76,249 citations for the university, a comparatively high citation count for an institution of 6,314 students.OpenAlex 收录该校 3753 篇研究成果与 76249 次引用，对于一所仅有 6314 名学生的院校而言，这一引用量相对可观。
• University figures record 161 publications in 2022 and 7,673 mentions in opinion articles during the same year, reflecting an unusually strong presence in public debate for its size.校方统计显示 2022 年发表 161 篇论文，同年被评论文章提及 7673 次，以其实体规模而言在公共讨论中的能见度相当突出。
• QS describes it as the second-best private university in Argentina and the leading one in Buenos Aires, behind only the University of San Andrés among private institutions.QS 将其描述为阿根廷第二好的私立大学、布宜诺斯艾利斯最好的私立大学，在私立院校中仅次于圣安德烈斯大学。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto, and its identity rests instead on small cohorts, a research-oriented faculty and a deliberately urban campus.该校没有正式校训，其身份认同更多依托小规模班级、研究导向的师资与刻意保持都市性格的校园。
• With 6,314 students and 15,438 alumni, it remains deliberately small by Argentine standards, and 11 per cent of the student body comes from abroad.该校有 6314 名学生与 15438 名校友，按阿根廷标准刻意维持小规模，国际学生占在校生的 11%。
• Undergraduates take at most five courses a semester and graduate students at most three per module, a workload designed to leave room for reading and research assistance.本科生每学期最多修五门课，研究生每模块最多修三门，这样的负荷旨在为阅读与助研留出时间。
• Exchange students usually spend one or two semesters on campus, choosing from more than 36 courses taught in English each semester.交换生通常在校停留一至两个学期，可从每学期 36 门以上的英语课程中选择。
• The art department continues the institute's workshop tradition, and the annual Kuitca scholarships bring twelve young artists into weekly contact with a leading Argentine painter.艺术系延续研究所的工作坊传统，年度库伊特卡奖学金让十二位年轻艺术家每周与一位阿根廷重要画家交流。
• Public seminars and the monthly release of the university's indexes keep the campus connected to national debate, and in July 2026 it hosted the Latin American congress of political science, ALACIP.公开研讨与每月发布的指数使校园与国家议题保持连接，2026 年 7 月该校还承办了拉丁美洲政治学大会 ALACIP。
• The student services office runs a sports and free-time programme, and the riverside location gives students easy access to the running paths and clubs along the Costanera.学生服务处运营体育与休闲项目，临河的位置让学生便于使用沿岸的跑步道与俱乐部。
• Most students live with their families in the city rather than in university housing, so campus life concentrates on daytime classes, lectures and the library rather than on residence halls.多数学生与家人住在城中而非校内宿舍，因此校园生活集中在白天的课程、讲座与图书馆，而非住宿生活。

Notable people

• Torcuato di Tella, the industrialist whose Siam di Tella group produced appliances and machinery, gave the university both its name and the industrial fortune behind the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella.工业家托尔夸托·迪特拉的 Siam di Tella 集团生产家电与机械，他为学校提供了校名，也为托尔夸托·迪特拉研究所提供了背后的工业财富。
• Guido di Tella, Argentine ambassador to the United States when the project was conceived and foreign minister from 1991 to 1999, was one of the two authors of the university's academic model.吉多·迪特拉在项目构思期间任阿根廷驻美国大使，1991 至 1999 年任外交部长，是该校学术模式的两位设计者之一。
• Gerardo della Paolera, an economic historian, was the first dean and president from 1991 to 2001 and shaped the American-style department structure.经济史学家赫拉尔多·德拉保莱拉是首任院长，并于 1991 至 2001 年任校长，奠定了美式学系结构。
• Ernesto Schargrodsky, an economist specialising in crime and education policy, presided from 2011 to 2019 and oversaw the expansion of the Figueroa Alcorta campus.专攻犯罪与教育政策的经济学家埃内斯托·沙格罗茨基 2011 至 2019 年任校长，主持了菲格罗亚·阿尔科塔校区的扩建。
• Juan José Cruces, an economist and former director of the Center for Financial Research, has been president since May 2019 and was re-elected to a second term.经济学家、金融研究中心前主任胡安·何塞·克鲁塞斯自 2019 年 5 月起任校长，并获连任。
• Finn Kydland, awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2004 for work on business cycles, is an honorary professor of the university.芬恩·基德兰德因经济周期研究获 2004 年诺贝尔经济学奖，现为该校荣誉教授。
• The historian Tulio Halperín Donghi, a leading interpreter of Argentine and Latin American history, held an honorary professorship, while Natalio Botana and Juan Carlos Torre are emeritus professors.阿根廷与拉丁美洲史学的重要诠释者图利奥·阿尔佩林·东吉为该校荣誉教授，纳塔利奥·博塔纳与胡安·卡洛斯·托雷则是荣休教授。
• Javier Milei, an economist trained at the university, became President of Argentina in December 2023.在该校接受经济学训练的哈维尔·米莱于 2023 年 12 月就任阿根廷总统。
• Elena Highton de Nolasco, a law graduate, served as a justice of the Argentine Supreme Court from 2004 to 2021 and was its first female member.法学毕业生埃莱娜·海顿·德诺拉斯科 2004 至 2021 年任阿根廷最高法院大法官，是该校走出的首位女性大法官。
• Santiago Cafiero, a political science graduate, was Argentina's foreign minister from 2021 to 2023, and Marcos Peña, another alumnus, was Cabinet Chief from 2015 to 2019.政治学毕业生圣地亚哥·卡菲耶罗 2021 至 2023 年任阿根廷外交部长，另一位校友马科斯·佩尼亚 2015 至 2019 年任内阁首席部长。
• Iván Werning, who studied economics at the university, is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a leading researcher on monetary and fiscal policy.在该校学习经济学的伊万·韦宁现任麻省理工学院教授，是货币与财政政策领域的知名研究者。
• Mariano Sigman, a neuroscientist who directed the university's neuroscience laboratory from 2014, has published widely on decision-making and the brain.神经科学家马里亚诺·西格曼自 2014 年起主持该校神经科学实验室，在决策与大脑研究方面著述甚丰。