Toulouse Capitole University

Toulouse Capitole University, also known as Toulouse 1, is a public university in Toulouse in southwestern France, one of the three universities of the city and the only one that remains on the historic town-centre site of the medieval University of Toulouse.图卢兹第一大学（Toulouse 1）是位于法国西南部图卢兹的公立大学，为该市三所大学之一，也是唯一仍留在中世纪图卢兹大学市中心历史校址的一所。

Founded in 1969 from the break-up of the University of Toulouse, it concentrates on law, political science, economics, management and public administration, and since 1 January 2023 it has been an experimental public institution that includes the Toulouse School of Economics and Sciences Po Toulouse.该校于 1969 年在图卢兹大学拆分后成立，以法学、政治学、经济学、管理学与公共行政为主；自 2023 年 1 月 1 日起，学校改制为实验性公共机构，纳入图卢兹经济学院与图卢兹政治学院。

It placed in the 401-500 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, appeared in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027 without receiving a rank, and entered neither the QS World University Rankings 2027 nor the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 401-500 名区间，进入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单但未获名次，且未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名与 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。

History

• The University of Toulouse was founded in 1229, the second university created in France after the institution that became the Sorbonne around the year 1200.图卢兹大学创办于 1229 年，是继约 1200 年出现的索邦之后法国建立的第二所大学。
• It originally comprised four faculties, theology, canon law, civil law and arts or grammar, and a medical school was added in 1257.该校最初设神学、教会法、民法与文法四大学院，1257 年又增设医学院。
• The revolutionary government abolished the royal universities in 1793, closing the University of Toulouse with them.1793 年，革命政府废止各皇家大学，图卢兹大学随之关闭。
• By the end of the Second Empire the four faculties existed again in Toulouse, and the law school dominated them with three-quarters of the students and the most renowned teachers.到第二帝国末期，图卢兹的四大学院重新并存，其中法学院占据主导地位，拥有四分之三的学生与最负盛名的教师。
• The provincial faculties suffered from chronic underfunding of French higher education outside Paris, while the simultaneous proclamation of freedom of higher education led to the founding of the Catholic University of Toulouse in 1877 as a private institution recognised in the public interest.外省学院长期受制于巴黎以外法国高等教育经费不足；与此同时，高等教育自由的宣示促成了 1877 年天主教图卢兹大学的创立，这是一所受公益认定的私立非营利机构。
• In the 1880s the officials Luis Liard and Ernest Lavisse gave the state faculties enough autonomy for the municipality to support them, and in 1896 the faculties were formally named the University of Toulouse.1880 年代，官员路易·利亚尔与埃内斯特·拉维斯赋予国立学院足够自主权，使市政府得以提供资助；1896 年，这些学院正式定名为图卢兹大学。
• The Edgar Faure university law of 1968 divided the University of Toulouse into three establishments, and the new universities were created in 1969.1968 年的埃德加·富尔高等教育法把图卢兹大学分为三所机构，新大学于 1969 年正式成立。
• Toulouse 1 University of Social Sciences took law, economics and management, while Toulouse 2 took literature and human sciences and Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier took science and health.图卢兹第一大学（社会科学）承接法学、经济学与管理学，图卢兹第二大学承接文学与人文科学，图卢兹第三大学保罗·萨巴捷承接理学与健康学科。
• Toulouse 1 alone stayed on the historic site in the town centre, which is why its buildings stand a two-minute walk from the Place du Capitole.只有图卢兹第一大学留在市中心的历史校址，其校舍距卡比托利欧广场仅两分钟步行路程。
• In September 2009 Toulouse 1 University of Social Sciences took the name Toulouse 1 Capitole University.2009 年 9 月，图卢兹第一社会科学大学更名为图卢兹第一大学（Toulouse 1 Capitole）。
• In March 2007 the university joined the Toulouse alliance of higher education institutions that later became the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées.2007 年 3 月，学校加入图卢兹高等教育机构联盟，该联盟其后发展为图卢兹-比利牛斯大区联邦大学。
• On 1 January 2023 the university became an experimental public institution regrouping the Toulouse School of Economics and Sciences Po Toulouse as component institutions and the law, management, computer science, administration and Rodez technology schools as components.2023 年 1 月 1 日，学校改制为实验性公共机构，把图卢兹经济学院与图卢兹政治学院作为组成机构，把法学院、管理学院、信息学院、管理传播学院与罗德兹技术学院作为组成单位。
• Jean Tirole, a professor at the university and at the Toulouse School of Economics, won the 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.该校与图卢兹经济学院教授让·梯若尔获得 2014 年诺贝尔经济学奖。
• In 2020 the university became a member of Engage.eu, a European university alliance intended to pool curricula and research capacity among its partners.2020 年，学校加入 Engage.eu 欧洲大学联盟，该联盟旨在整合成员高校的课程与研究能力。
• The university library descends from the inter-university library created in 1879, whose social sciences section became a collective documentation service in 1995.学校图书馆源自 1879 年创办的校际图书馆，其社会科学部门于 1995 年改为集体文献服务机构。
• In 2015 the university awarded honorary doctorates to the former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and to Vassilios Skouris, then president of the European Court of Justice.2015 年，学校授予西班牙前首相何塞·路易斯·罗德里格斯·萨帕特罗与时任欧洲法院院长瓦西利奥斯·斯库里斯荣誉博士学位。
• Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, received an honorary doctorate on 9 June 2023, the German constitutional judge Dieter Grimm on 28 November 2024 and the Spanish writer Javier Cercas on 8 December 2025.欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩于 2023 年 6 月 9 日获授荣誉博士学位，德国宪法法院法官迪特尔·格林于 2024 年 11 月 28 日、西班牙作家哈维尔·塞卡斯于 2025 年 12 月 8 日相继获授。
• The university is one of the successor institutions of the medieval University of Toulouse, a status it shares with Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès and Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier.该校是中世纪图卢兹大学的继承机构之一，这一身份与图卢兹第二大学让·饶勒斯、图卢兹第三大学保罗·萨巴捷共享。

Academics

• The university's academic priorities are international degrees, double-language degrees and degrees with a high potential for professional integration.学校的学术重点为国际化文凭、双语文凭以及就业前景良好的文凭。
• It teaches more than 20,000 students every year, of whom over 15 percent are international.学校每年培养两万余名学生，其中超过 15% 为国际学生。
• Its structure combines two component institutions, the Toulouse School of Economics and Sciences Po Toulouse, with five components, the Toulouse School of Law, the Toulouse School of Management, the University Institute of Technology of Rodez, the Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Administration and Communication.学校结构由两个组成机构（图卢兹经济学院与图卢兹政治学院）与五个组成单位（图卢兹法学院、图卢兹管理学院、罗德兹大学技术学院、信息学院与管理传播学院）构成。
• Three departments, physical and sports activities, mathematics, and languages and cultures, support teaching across the components.体育系、数学系与语言文化系三个系为各组成单位提供教学支持。
• Degrees taught entirely in English include a bachelor's in global management and master's programmes in international management, finance, international marketing of innovation, econometrics, economics of markets and organisations, public policy and development, and data science for social sciences.全英文授课的学位包括全球管理学士，以及国际管理、金融、创新国际营销、计量经济学、市场与组织经济学、公共政策与发展、社会科学数据科学等硕士项目。
• It also offers an LL.M. in international aviation law, master's programmes in comparative and European private international law and international economic law, and doctorates in economics and in management.学校还开设国际航空法法学硕士、比较法与欧洲国际私法硕士、国际经济法硕士，以及经济学与管理学博士项目。
• French degrees follow the licence, master and doctorate structure, with 180 ECTS credits for a bachelor's degree and a further 120 for a master's.法国学位实行学士、硕士、博士三级结构，学士需修满 180 个欧洲学分，硕士另需 120 个学分。
• In 2022 annual tuition for a bachelor's degree taught only in English was 262 euros for students from anywhere in the world.2022 年，全英文授课学士学位的年学费为 262 欧元，面向全球各国学生。
• Public university education is open enrollment, unlike the selective grandes écoles, and registration does not require attendance at a post-secondary preparatory school.与选拔性的大学校不同，公立大学实行开放式入学，注册不要求先就读高中后的预科学校。
• The Toulouse School of Economics research centre operates under the CNRS as UMR 5314, the INRAE as UMR 1415, and with the EHESS and the university as supervising bodies.图卢兹经济学院研究中心在法国国家科研中心为国家科研中心 5314 联合研究单位，在法国国家农业食品与环境研究院为 1415 联合研究单位，并由社会科学高等研究院与学校共同监管。
• Research laboratories include the Centre for Business Law, the Institut Maurice Hauriou for public law, the Toulouse Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Research in Computer Science of Toulouse and the Institute of Research on European, International and Comparative Law.研究机构包括商法中心、莫里斯·奥里乌公法研究所、图卢兹数学研究所、图卢兹信息科学研究所以及欧洲、国际与比较法研究所。
• Other centres specialise in the history of law and political ideas, the law of space, territories and communication, and the social sciences of politics, alongside a laboratory on economic policies and social systems.其他中心分别研究法律与政治思想史、空间与领土及传播法、政治社会科学，另设经济政策与社会制度实验室。
• Sciences Po Toulouse, one of the two component institutions created in the 2023 reorganisation, and the Toulouse School of Economics are the university's two most distinctive units.图卢兹政治学院是 2023 年改制设立的两个组成机构之一，与图卢兹经济学院并列为学校最具特色的两个单位。
• The SIRIUS Chair, a public-private partnership with Toulouse Business School, the French space agency CNES, Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space, studies the law and management of space activities.SIRIUS 讲席由学校与图卢兹商学院、法国国家空间研究中心、空中客车防务与航天及泰雷兹阿莱尼亚宇航公司公私合作设立，研究航天活动的法律与管理。
• The university and Toulouse Business School jointly award an EFMD-accredited PhD in management, with access to the business school's research centre and its faculty on the doctoral board.学校与图卢兹商学院联合授予获欧洲管理发展基金会认证的管理学博士学位，博士生可使用商学院研究中心，商学院教师亦进入博士项目董事会。
• Engage.eu brings together seven institutions, among them the University of Mannheim, Luiss Guido Carli, the NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Tilburg University, the University of National and World Economy and Vienna University of Economics and Business.Engage.eu 联盟汇集七所院校，其中包括曼海姆大学、路易斯·圭多·卡利大学、挪威经济学院、蒂尔堡大学、国民经济与世界经济大学以及维也纳经济与商业大学。
• The Faculty of Computer Science and the University Institute of Technology of Rodez deliver technology degrees, the latter offering three-year bachelor of technology programmes that combine theory with practical work.信息学院与罗德兹大学技术学院开设技术类学位，后者提供三年制技术学士课程，强调理论与实践相结合。

Campus

• The university occupies several sites in central Toulouse, principally the Arsenal, the Anciennes Facultés and the Manufacture des Tabacs, together with campuses in Montauban and Rodez.学校在图卢兹市中心拥有多处校址，主要是阿森纳、老学院与烟草制造厂三处，另在蒙托邦与罗德兹设有校区。
• University buildings cover 78,000 square metres and serve 17,000 students, and the Arsenal and Anciennes Facultés sites are a two-minute walk from the Place du Capitole.校舍面积 78,000 平方米，服务 17,000 名学生；阿森纳与老学院两处校址距卡比托利欧广场步行仅两分钟。
• The Arsenal houses the Faculty of Law and Political Science, the European School of Law, most lecture halls and the central administrative services, together with the Arsenal library, the main library, a university restaurant and student residences.阿森纳校址设有法律政治学院、欧洲法律学校、多数阶梯教室与学校行政机构，并有阿森纳图书馆这座主图书馆、大学食堂与学生宿舍。
• The Anciennes Facultés at 2 rue Albert-Lautmann houses the Toulouse School of Management, amphitheatres and the Garrigou library, while the Godechot library serves the Institute of Political Studies.位于阿尔贝-洛特曼街 2 号的老学院设有图卢兹管理学院、阶梯教室与加里古图书馆，戈德肖图书馆则服务于政治学院。
• The Godechot library in the Institute of Political Studies and the Boutaric library complete the four-library network, alongside the Garrigou and Arsenal libraries.政治学院的戈德肖图书馆与布塔里克图书馆，与加里古图书馆、阿森纳图书馆共同构成四馆网络。
• The Manufacture des Tabacs at 21 allée de Brienne, between the Garonne and the Brienne canal and listed as a historical monument, contains most research centres and documentation services.烟草制造厂位于布里耶纳运河与加龙河之间的布里耶纳林荫道 21 号，被列为历史建筑，集中了多数研究中心与文献服务机构。
• The Montauban site, the University Centre of Tarn-et-Garonne on Boulevard Montauriol, offers the complete undergraduate law degree and has its own library and university restaurant.蒙托邦校区即塔恩-加龙大学中心，位于蒙托里奥尔大道，提供完整的法学本科课程，并设有图书馆与大学食堂。
• The University Institute of Technology of Rodez at 50 avenue de Bordeaux delivers three-year technology degrees and has a documentation centre, an amphitheatre, a technology hall and multimedia laboratories.罗德兹大学技术学院位于波尔多大道 50 号，开设三年制技术学位，配有文献中心、阶梯教室、技术大厅与多媒体实验室。
• The library system holds 568,000 printed works, 320,000 e-books, 57,000 theses and dissertations, more than 80,500 online journals, 390 print subscriptions and about 75 specialist databases.图书馆系统藏有 568,000 册印刷图书、320,000 种电子书、57,000 篇学位论文、80,500 余种在线期刊、390 种印刷期刊与约 75 个专业数据库。
• The Arsenal library was built in 1972 by the architects Paul de Noyers and Noël Le Maresquier in a brutalist style, offers 900 reading places and holds a 45,000-volume old collection, while a 450-seat library opened in 1996 in the renovated former tobacco factory.阿森纳图书馆由建筑师保罗·德努瓦耶与诺埃尔·勒马雷斯基于 1972 年以粗野主义风格建成，设 900 个阅览座位，藏有 45,000 册旧籍；1996 年，一座 450 座的图书馆在修缮后的旧烟草工厂内开放。

Reputation

• The university placed in the 401-500 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, the only one of its four rankings in which it holds a position.学校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 401-500 名区间，这是其四项主要榜单中唯一获得位次的一项。
• U.S. News listed it in its Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 without assigning it a rank.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中，学校被收录但未获名次。
• It did not enter the QS World University Rankings 2027 or the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.学校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• It is one of the three universities of Toulouse, alongside Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès and Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, and the only one whose campus lies on the medieval university's historic site.学校是图卢兹三所大学之一，另两所为图卢兹第二大学让·饶勒斯与图卢兹第三大学保罗·萨巴捷；三校中只有它的校园位于中世纪大学的历史校址。
• Its Toulouse School of Economics, a component institution since 2023, is associated with the 2014 Nobel laureate Jean Tirole and organised around a CNRS research unit.其图卢兹经济学院自 2023 年起为组成机构，与 2014 年诺贝尔奖得主让·梯若尔相关联，并依托一个国家科研中心研究单位运行。
• The university is a founding member of the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, the association that also includes Toulouse 2, Toulouse 3, INSA Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO and Toulouse Business School.学校是图卢兹-比利牛斯大区联邦大学的创始成员，该联盟还包括图卢兹第二大学、图卢兹第三大学、图卢兹国立应用科学学院、高等航空航天学院与图卢兹商学院。
• Its honorary doctorates have gone to European public figures including José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2015, Vassilios Skouris in 2015, Ursula von der Leyen in 2023, Dieter Grimm in 2024 and Javier Cercas in 2025.其荣誉博士学位曾授予多位欧洲公众人物，包括 2015 年的萨帕特罗与斯库里斯、2023 年的冯德莱恩、2024 年的格林与 2025 年的塞卡斯。
• The institution's standing rests on law, economics and management rather than on science and medicine, which belong to the separate Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier.学校的学术声望建立在法学、经济学与管理学之上，而非理学与医学，后者属于独立的图卢兹第三大学保罗·萨巴捷。
• Under the 2023 structure the Toulouse School of Law, the Toulouse School of Management and the Faculty of Administration and Communication form the core of its law and management teaching.在 2023 年的结构下，图卢兹法学院、图卢兹管理学院与管理传播学院构成其法学与管理学教学的核心。

Student life

• More than 20,000 students enrol each year, over 15 percent of them international, and the teaching buildings serve 17,000 students on the Toulouse sites.学校每年注册学生超过两万名，其中逾 15% 为国际学生，图卢兹各校址的教学楼服务 17,000 名学生。
• Because public university education is open enrollment, admission after the baccalauréat does not depend on a competitive examination or a preparatory school.由于公立大学实行开放式入学，取得高中毕业文凭后的录取不依赖竞争性考试或预科学校。
• International applicants may be admitted with a high school diploma equivalent to the French baccalauréat.国际申请者可凭与法国高中毕业文凭等效的学历申请入学。
• Annual tuition for the English-taught bachelor's programme was 262 euros in 2022, a figure the university presents as evidence of accessibility.2022 年全英文授课学士项目的年学费为 262 欧元，学校以此作为入学门槛较低的例证。
• The Arsenal site provides a university restaurant and student residences within walking distance of the Place du Capitole.阿森纳校址设有大学食堂与学生宿舍，步行即可到达卡比托利欧广场。
• Students have access to four libraries and about 900 reading places in the Arsenal library alone, along with 75 specialist databases.学生可使用四座图书馆，仅阿森纳图书馆就有约 900 个阅览座位，另有 75 个专业数据库。
• The Engage.eu alliance offers common curricula and increased student mobility with partner universities in Germany, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Austria.Engage.eu 联盟与德国、意大利、挪威、荷兰、保加利亚和奥地利的伙伴高校提供共同课程并扩大学生流动。
• Students based in Montauban can complete the full undergraduate law degree locally, and those in Rodez study technology subjects at the university institute there.在蒙托邦的学生可就地完成法学本科全部课程，在罗德兹的学生则可在当地大学技术学院学习技术类专业。
• The Department of Physical and Sports Activities organises sport for students across the components, alongside the mathematics and languages departments that provide service teaching.体育系为各组成单位的学生组织体育活动，数学系与语言文化系则提供公共课教学。

Notable people

• Jean Tirole, professor of economics at the university and the Toulouse School of Economics, received the 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.让·梯若尔是该校与图卢兹经济学院的经济学教授，获 2014 年诺贝尔经济学奖。
• Jean-Jacques Laffont, an economist who lived from 1947 to 2004, was one of the university's best-known professors and a founder of its economics research tradition.让-雅克·拉丰（1947 至 2004 年）是该校最知名的教授之一，也是其经济学研究传统的奠基者。
• Paul Seabright, an economist born in 1958, is a professor of economics at the university.保罗·西布赖特生于 1958 年，为该校经济学教授。
• Hugues Kenfack, a professor of law born in 1967, serves as president of the university.于格·肯法克生于 1967 年，为法学教授，现任该校校长。
• Vincent Auriol, a graduate of the university, was President of the French Republic from 1947 to 1954.樊尚·奥里奥尔毕业于该校，1947 年至 1954 年任法兰西共和国总统。
• Gaston Monnerville, another graduate, was the first President of the Senate of the Fifth Republic, serving from 1958 to 1968.加斯东·莫内维尔同为该校毕业生，1958 年至 1968 年任第五共和国首任参议院议长。
• Jean-Pierre Bel, a former student, later served as President of the French Senate, and Richard Ferrand as President of the National Assembly.让-皮埃尔·贝尔曾在该校就读，后任法国参议院议长；里夏尔·费朗则曾任国民议会议长。
• Bertrand Delanoë, a former mayor of Paris, and Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor of Toulouse, both studied at the university.巴黎前市长贝特朗·德拉诺埃与图卢兹市长让-吕克·穆登克都曾在该校学习。
• Marguerite Dilhan, the first woman to open her own law firm and to plead before a criminal court in France, trained in law at Toulouse.玛格丽特·迪朗是法国第一位开设自己律师事务所并出庭刑事法庭的女性，她在图卢兹接受法学训练。
• Sylvia Pinel, a former French housing minister, and Ramazan Bashardost, a former Afghan minister of planning, also studied at the university.法国前住房部长西尔维娅·皮内尔与阿富汗前计划部长拉马赞·巴沙尔多斯特也曾在该校就读。
• Alice Nkom, the first woman lawyer in Cameroon, and Cho Hyun, a South Korean foreign minister, are counted among its alumni.喀麦隆第一位女律师爱丽丝·恩孔与韩国外长赵显都被列为该校校友。
• Marlène Dolveck, an executive vice-president of CMA CGM and former head of SNCF Gares and Connexions, and Nassim Belkhayat, co-founder of the Moroccan carmaker Neo Motors, are counted as alumni.达飞海运执行副总裁、法国国铁车站与连接公司前负责人玛莱娜·多尔韦克，以及摩洛哥汽车制造商 Neo Motors 联合创始人纳西姆·贝勒哈亚特，均被列为该校校友。
• Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie regional council, and Jaume Bartumeu, a former prime minister of Andorra, also studied at the university.奥克西塔尼大区议会主席卡萝尔·德尔加与安道尔前首相豪梅·巴图梅乌也曾在该校就读。