Umeå University

Umeå University, in Swedish Umeå universitet, is a public research university in the city of Umeå in the mid-northern Swedish province of Västerbotten, founded in 1965 as the fifth university of Sweden and now the flagship institution of higher education in the north of the country.于默奥大学（Umeå University）是瑞典中北部西博滕省于默奥市的一所公立研究型大学，1965 年创办，为瑞典第五所大学，如今是瑞典北部高等教育的旗舰院校。

As of 2025 the university had 43,736 enrolled students, of whom 1,041 were doctoral students, and 4,560 employees including 304 professors, organised into four faculties, 38 departments and units and 19 research centres, with partner agreements covering 557 universities in 59 countries.截至 2025 年，该校有 43,736 名注册学生，其中博士生 1,041 人；教职工 4,560 人，含 304 名教授；全校分四个学院、38 个系与单位、19 个研究中心，合作协议覆盖 59 个国家的 557 所大学。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Umeå University is placed 438th, it stands in the 351-375 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 441st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and it falls in the 601-700 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中于默奥大学位列第 438，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 351 至 375 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 441，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 601 至 700 区间。

History

• Discussion of a university in the northern Swedish region of Norrland had gone on since the beginning of the 20th century, prompted by the region's relatively low levels of education and a shortage of doctors, teachers and lawyers.关于在瑞典北部诺尔兰地区设立大学的讨论自 20 世纪初就已开始，起因是该地区居民受教育程度相对偏低，且医生、教师与律师严重不足。

• In 1946 Gösta Skoglund, a member of the Swedish Parliament from Umeå, submitted a bill to the Riksdag asking for an inquiry into higher education possibilities in northern Sweden, but the bill was rejected.1946 年，来自于默奥的瑞典国会议员约斯塔·斯科格伦德向议会提交议案，要求就瑞典北部的高等教育可能性展开调查，但议案被否决。

• A proposal in 1947 to create a national hospital with an accompanying dental school met the same fate, and the two main candidates to host a northern university remained Härnösand and Umeå.1947 年关于建立国立医院并附设牙科学校的提案同样未获通过，而承办北部大学的两个主要候选城市仍是海讷桑德与于默奥。

• In 1951 Umeå secured the decisive advantage of a scientific library holding the fifth copy of everything printed in Sweden, a collection that later became the University Library.1951 年，于默奥获得一项决定性优势：在此设立的科学图书馆保存着瑞典全国出版物的第五份副本，这批藏书后来成为该校的大学图书馆。

• In 1956 Umeå received an odontology clinic with dental students, work began on a students' union building and student housing, and in 1957 the town was allotted a medical school as well.1956 年，于默奥获设牙科门诊并招收牙科学生，学生活动中心与学生宿舍的建设也随之启动；1957 年，该地又获批设立医学院。

• The Riksdag accepted the proposal in 1963, and the fifth university of Sweden was inaugurated on 17 September 1965 by King Gustaf VI Adolf.瑞典议会于 1963 年通过相关提案，瑞典第五所大学于 1965 年 9 月 17 日由国王古斯塔夫六世·阿道夫主持落成。

• Lars-Gunnar Larsson was appointed the university's first vice-chancellor, serving from 1964 to 1969, and the campus model was shown to the king and Princess Sibylla at the inauguration in 1965.拉尔斯—贡纳尔·拉尔松被任命为该校首任校长，任期 1964 至 1969 年；1965 年落成典礼上，校园模型曾向国王与西比拉公主展示。

• During its first ten years, 2,000 to 3,000 students studied at Umeå across the medicine, odontology and philosophy faculties.建校头十年，于默奥共有 2,000 至 3,000 名学生在医学、牙医学与哲学三类学院就读。

• The faculty of philosophy was split into mathematics-science, social sciences and arts faculties in 1968 and 1969, a grouping that remained in force until 1999, when the medical and odontology faculties were combined.哲学院于 1968 至 1969 年拆分为数学与自然科学、社会科学及文学三个学院，这一格局延续到 1999 年医学与牙医学院合并之时。

• New subjects and professors were installed rapidly in the university's first five years, and by 1970 the number of students had risen to around 8,000.建校最初五年，新学科与教授职位迅速增设；到 1970 年，学生人数已增至约 8,000 人。

• The period was marked by active student protest and demonstration, which gave the university its long-lived epithet of the red university.那一时期学生抗议与示威活动活跃，为该校赢得了「红色大学」这一沿用多年的别称。

• The Humanities Building of 1972, the Greenhouse of 1973 and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences of 1978 were the larger buildings added on campus during the 1970s.1972 年的人文楼、1973 年的温室以及 1978 年瑞典农业科学大学的建筑，是 1970 年代校园内建成的主要新楼。

• During the 1980s the university's research budget rose by 38 per cent, the decade's main period of growth.1980 年代该校的研究预算增长 38%，这是该十年间最主要的扩张。

• An economic recession in the early 1990s drove a sharp rise in enrolment, for which the university had partly prepared by planning the Behavioural Sciences Building, the Mathematics and Information Technology Building and the Technology Building, all completed in 1994.1990 年代初的经济衰退使入学人数大幅上升；该校为此已有准备，规划了行为科学楼、数学与信息技术楼以及技术楼，三栋均于 1994 年建成。

• The Teacher Education Building followed in 1996 and the Chemical and Biological Centre in 1999, while the Social Sciences Building and the Humanities Building were extended and rebuilt.其后教师教育楼于 1996 年建成，化学生物中心于 1999 年建成，社会科学楼与人文楼也进行了扩建与改建。

• Student numbers reached 25,000 in the middle of the 1990s and peaked at 36,000 in 2011 before falling to 32,000 in 2013, partly because of a smaller cohort of young people.学生人数在 1990 年代中期达到 25,000 人，2011 年达到 36,000 人的高峰，2013 年又降至 32,000 人，部分原因是适龄青年人口减少。

• The University Liaison Building was built in 2004 and the university management moved into it in 2007, bringing external relations, communications and planning offices together with space rented by companies and organisations.大学联络楼于 2004 年建成，校方管理层于 2007 年迁入，对外关系、传播与规划等办公室与租用场地给企业及机构的空间汇集于此。

• Umeå Institute of Design opened in 1989 on what later became the Umeå Arts Campus, the Umeå School of Architecture opened in the autumn of 2009 and moved to the arts campus in 2010.于默奥设计学院于 1989 年在日后成为于默奥艺术校区的地方开办；建筑学院于 2009 年秋成立，2010 年迁入艺术校区。

• A new Umeå Arts Campus was inaugurated in the spring of 2012 on the banks of the Ume River, housing the Institute of Design, the Academy of Fine Arts, the School of Architecture, the Bildmuseet art museum and Humlab X.新的于默奥艺术校区于 2012 年春在乌默河畔落成，容纳设计学院、美术学院、建筑学院、Bildmuseet 美术馆以及 Humlab X。

• Around 2010 the former Faculty of Teaching developed into a new Umeå School of Education, and in January 2013 the Umeå School of Sport Sciences was established.2010 年前后，原教师教育学院发展为新的于默奥教育学院；2013 年 1 月，于默奥体育科学学院成立。

• The Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University, established in 2012, has gathered more than 320 affiliated researchers from across the institution.2012 年设立的于默奥大学北极研究中心，已汇集全校 320 多名相关研究人员。

• The university has been led by eight vice-chancellors since 1964, with Tora Holmberg taking office in 2025 after Hans Adolfsson's tenure from 2016 to 2025.该校自 1964 年以来共有八任校长；托拉·霍尔姆贝里于 2025 年上任，此前为 2016 至 2025 年在任的汉斯·阿道夫松。

• In February 2026 the University Board established a new vision for Umeå University, resting on three strategies: breadth to achieve excellence, cutting-edge research and education, and relevance for societal development.2026 年 2 月，大学董事会为于默奥大学确立了新的愿景，以三项战略为支撑：以广度追求卓越、前沿研究与教育、以及对社会发展的相关性。

Academics

• Teaching and research are organised under four faculties, those of arts and humanities, medicine, social sciences, and science and technology, which between them contain 38 departments and units.该校的教学与研究在文学与人文、医学、社会科学、科学与技术四个学院之下组织，共辖 38 个系与单位。

• As of 2025 the university enrolled 43,736 students, of whom 42,695 studied at bachelor's and master's level and 1,041 at doctoral level, with women making up 65 per cent of the former group.截至 2025 年，该校共有 43,736 名注册学生，其中本科与硕士阶段 42,695 人、博士阶段 1,041 人，前一组中女性占 65%。

• The university employs 4,560 people on average, 56 per cent of them women, including 304 professors, and more than 2,000 of its staff are researchers and teachers.该校平均雇有 4,560 人，其中女性占 56%，含 304 名教授；教职工中有 2,000 余人从事研究与教学。

• Umeå offers about 150 study programmes and 1,800 separate courses, of which more than 40 programmes and 450 courses are taught entirely in English.于默奥大学开设约 150 个学习项目与 1,800 门独立课程，其中 40 多个项目与 450 门课程完全以英语授课。

• The university has eight campus schools, including the Umeå Institute of Design, the Umeå Institute of Technology, the School of Architecture, the School of Business and Economics, the School of Education, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Sport Sciences and the School of Restaurant and Culinary Arts.该校设有八个校区级学院，包括设计学院、技术学院、建筑学院、商业与经济学院、教育学院、美术学院、体育科学学院以及餐饮与烹饪艺术学院。

• Umeå Institute of Design is designed and equipped solely for the teaching of industrial design and was ranked first in the Red Dot design ranking for universities in the Americas and Europe for the ninth consecutive year in 2024.于默奥设计学院专为工业设计教学而建，2024 年连续第九年在红点奖「美洲与欧洲院校」排名中位列第一。

• The Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics has around 2,000 students and is accredited by AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the third business school in Sweden to hold that accreditation.于默奥商业、经济与统计学院约有 2,000 名学生，并获国际商学院协会（AACSB）认证，是瑞典第三所获得该认证的商学院。

• Umeå University Library was established with the university in 1965, with origins in the Scientific Library founded in Umeå in 1950, and its main building dates from 1968 and was most recently rebuilt in 2006.于默奥大学图书馆与大学同于 1965 年建立，其前身是 1950 年在于默奥设立的科学图书馆；主楼建于 1968 年，最近一次改建在 2006 年。

• The Umeå Plant Science Centre, run jointly with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, is one of Europe's strongest environments for basic plant research.于默奥植物科学中心与瑞典农业科学大学合办，是欧洲基础植物研究最强的环境之一。

• Researchers at the centre helped map the genome of the Norway spruce, the first complete sequencing of a gymnosperm, whose genome of some 20 billion base pairs is about seven times the size of the human genome.该中心的研究者参与完成了挪威云杉基因组的测序，这是首个完成测序的裸子植物，其约 200 亿碱基对的基因组约为人类基因组的七倍。

• The Umeå Centre for Microbial Research and the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, the Swedish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, give the university a leading position in infection biology.于默奥微生物研究中心与瑞典分子感染医学实验室（北欧 EMBL 分子医学伙伴关系的瑞典节点）使该校在感染生物学领域居于领先地位。

• Ageing and population studies make use of the Linnaeus database, which covers the entire Swedish population between 1960 and 2009 and links information from four existing databases, and of the Demographic Data Base with parish records reaching back to the 18th century.老龄化与人口研究利用「林奈数据库」，该库覆盖 1960 至 2009 年瑞典全国人口并整合四个既有数据库；此外还使用存有 18 世纪以来教区档案的人口数据库。

• The High Performance Computing Center North, the Humlab digital humanities laboratory and the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies are among the university's named research centres.北方高性能计算中心、Humlab 数字人文实验室与于默奥性别研究中心等，都是该校的具名研究中心。

• Named research centres also include CEDAR, the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research, and Várdduo, the Centre for Sámi Research.具名研究中心还包括人口与老龄化研究中心 CEDAR，以及萨米研究中心 Várdduo。

• The University Hospital of Umeå, known as Norrlands Universitetssjukhus, is the main hospital and medical research centre of northern Sweden and hosts one of Sweden's seven medical and dental schools.于默奥大学医院（Norrlands Universitetssjukhus）是瑞典北部主要的医院与医学研究中心，也是瑞典七所医学与牙科院校之一。

• The university is a member of the University of the Arctic network and takes part in its north2north student mobility programme.该校是「北极大学」网络成员，并参与其「north2north」学生流动项目。

Campus

• Most teaching and research takes place on Campus Umeå, a unified main campus whose buildings fill an area of 235,400 square metres beside the Ume River.该校大部分教学与研究都在于默奥主校区进行，这一整体式校区的建筑占地 235,400 平方米，紧邻乌默河。

• The main campus was built on land long used for winter grazing by the reindeer herders of Ran's sameby, and the last winter grazing there took place in 1952, four years before the dental school opened.主校区所在的土地长期为 Ran 萨米村驯鹿牧民的冬季牧场，最后一次冬季放牧在 1952 年，即牙科学校开办前四年。

• The Umeå Arts Campus, opened in 2012 on the banks of the river closer to the city centre, brings the university's art schools together with the Bildmuseet art museum and the creative incubator Sliperiet.2012 年在更靠近市中心的河畔启用的于默奥艺术校区，把校内各艺术院校与 Bildmuseet 美术馆以及创意孵化器 Sliperiet 汇集在一起。

• The university also has regional campuses in the neighbouring cities of Skellefteå and Örnsköldsvik, where parts of its education and research are delivered.该校还在邻近的谢莱夫特奥与恩舍尔兹维克两市设有地区校区，承担部分教学与研究。

• The University Library's main building dates from 1968 and has been extended and rebuilt several times, most recently in 2006, with subsidiary libraries at the University Hospital and the Arts Campus.大学图书馆主楼建于 1968 年，此后多次扩建与改建，最近一次在 2006 年；大学医院与艺术校区还设有分馆。

• The campus grew in waves, with the Humanities Building of 1972 and the Greenhouse of 1973 in the 1970s and the Behavioural Sciences, Mathematics and Information Technology and Technology Buildings completed together in 1994.校区呈阶段性扩张：1970 年代建成 1972 年的人文楼与 1973 年的温室，1994 年又一次性建成行为科学楼、数学与信息技术楼与技术楼。

• The 2004 University Liaison Building houses the university management, the communications office and the planning office and rents premises to companies and organisations.2004 年建成的大学联络楼容纳校方管理层、传播办公室与规划办公室，并向企业与机构出租场所。

• The University Hospital of Umeå lies close to the campus, so that medical teaching, clinical research and patient care are physically integrated.于默奥大学医院紧邻校区，使医学教学、临床研究与患者护理在地理上融为一体。

• Umeå itself grew alongside the university, the influx of students and staff turning the city into northern Sweden's largest urban community.于默奥市与大学共同成长，学生与教职员的涌入使该市成为瑞典北部最大的城市社区。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Umeå University is placed 438th, after positions of 401st in 2026, 456th in 2025, 465th in 2024 and 369th in 2023.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中于默奥大学位列第 438；此前 2026 年位列第 401、2025 年第 456、2024 年第 465、2023 年第 369。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university stands in the 351-375 band, having been placed in the 401-500 band in each year from 2023 to 2025.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中该校处于 351 至 375 区间，而 2023 至 2025 年则连续处于 401 至 500 区间。

• It is 441st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and in the Academic Ranking of World Universities it stood in the 401-500 band in 2025 after 501-600 in 2024 and 601-700 in 2023.在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中它位列第 441；在软科世界大学学术排名中，2025 年处于 401 至 500 区间，2024 年为 501 至 600，2023 年为 601 至 700。

• The university's best-known scientific achievement is the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool, for which Emmanuelle Charpentier received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020.该校最著名的科学成就是发现 CRISPR-Cas9 基因编辑工具，埃马纽埃尔·卡彭蒂耶因此于 2020 年获得诺贝尔化学奖。

• Umeå Institute of Design has been ranked first in the Red Dot ranking of design schools in the Americas and Europe for nine consecutive years, most recently in 2024.于默奥设计学院连续九年在红点奖「美洲与欧洲设计院校」排名中位列第一，最近一次为 2024 年。

• In the 2025 Shanghai Global Ranking Umeå's nursing and dental subjects were placed among the world's leading groups, with life and agricultural sciences in the 101-150 band in 2014.在 2025 年软科全球排名中，于默奥的护理与牙科等学科位居世界前列；其生命与农业科学在 2014 年位列 101 至 150 区间。

• In 2014 the university was ranked between 151st and 200th in the world for clinical medicine and pharmacy and between 101st and 150th for life and agricultural sciences.2014 年，该校的临床医学与药学位列全球 151 至 200 区间，生命与农业科学位列 101 至 150 区间。

• Umeå University is certified at the platinum level, the highest, in the FISU Healthy Campus programme of the International University Sports Federation.于默奥大学在国际大学体育联合会的 FISU 健康校园计划中获得最高级别的白金认证。

• The University of Umeå is one of Sweden's largest higher education institutions, alongside Uppsala University, Lund University, Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute.于默奥大学是瑞典规模最大的高等教育机构之一，与乌普萨拉大学、隆德大学、斯德哥尔摩大学及卡罗林斯卡学院同属这一行列。

• Sweden's universities are supported by public funding and by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the European Science Foundation, which have honoured Umeå researchers with memberships and grants.瑞典各大学依靠公共经费以及瑞典皇家科学院与欧洲科学基金会的支持，后者曾以院士身份与资助表彰于默奥的研究者。

Student life

• Umeå University has no formal Latin motto, setting out its purpose instead through the vision adopted by its University Board in February 2026 with the strategies of breadth to achieve excellence, cutting-edge research and societal relevance.于默奥大学没有正式的拉丁校训，而是通过大学董事会 2026 年 2 月确立的愿景表述其宗旨，其战略为「以广度追求卓越」「前沿研究与教育」与「对社会发展具有相关性」。

• Student life in the university's first decades was marked by protests and demonstrations, the origin of the old epithet the red university.建校最初数十年，该校学生生活以抗议与示威为标志，这正是「红色大学」这一旧别称的由来。

• The university set up an alumni network in the early 21st century and named its first two Alumni of the Year, one woman and one man, in November 2012.该校在 21 世纪初建立了校友网络，并于 2012 年 11 月首次评选出两位「年度校友」，一男一女。

• Umeå Arts Campus brings the art schools together with the Bildmuseet art museum and the Sliperiet creative incubator, giving students a working cultural environment by the river.于默奥艺术校区把各艺术院校与 Bildmuseet 美术馆、Sliperiet 创意孵化器汇集在一起，为学生在河畔提供可实践的文化环境。

• The Humlab X digital humanities laboratory on the arts campus is open to students and researchers working with digital methods and media.艺术校区内的 Humlab X 数字人文实验室向使用数字方法与媒介的学生与研究者开放。

• Students at Umeå pursue their studies on a tightly knit campus where everything is within a short distance, a feature the university presents as encouraging collaboration.于默奥的学生在一个紧凑的校园中学习，各处相距不远，校方将这一特点视为促进协作的条件。

• The university's sports facilities and its School of Sport Sciences support student athletes, and the university holds platinum certification in the FISU Healthy Campus programme.该校的体育设施与体育科学学院支持学生运动员，学校还持有 FISU 健康校园计划的白金认证。

• The north2north mobility programme of the University of the Arctic network lets Umeå students spend part of their studies at partner institutions elsewhere in the circumpolar north.「北极大学」网络的「north2north」流动项目让于默奥的学生可在北极圈北部的伙伴院校学习一段时间。

Notable people

• Gösta Skoglund, a member of the Swedish Parliament from 1940 to 1970, submitted the 1946 bill that began the campaign for a university in northern Sweden and is counted among the founders of Umeå University.1940 至 1970 年任瑞典国会议员的约斯塔·斯科格伦德于 1946 年提交议案，开启了在瑞典北部设立大学的努力，被列为于默奥大学的创办人之一。

• Lars-Gunnar Larsson was appointed the university's first vice-chancellor and served from 1964 to 1969, showing the campus model to King Gustaf VI Adolf at the 1965 inauguration.拉尔斯—贡纳尔·拉尔松被任命为该校首任校长，任期 1964 至 1969 年，并在 1965 年落成典礼上向国王古斯塔夫六世·阿道夫展示校园模型。

• Emmanuelle Charpentier, a microbiologist and geneticist who worked at Umeå, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool discovered there.曾在于默奥工作的微生物学家与遗传学家埃马纽埃尔·卡彭蒂耶，因在当地发现的 CRISPR-Cas9 基因编辑工具于 2020 年获得诺贝尔化学奖。

• Stefan Löfven, an alumnus of the university, served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 2014 to 2021.该校校友斯特凡·勒文于 2014 至 2021 年担任瑞典首相。

• Ibrahim Baylan, who studied at Umeå, was Sweden's Minister for Energy from 2014, and Stefan Attefall, another alumnus, was Minister for Public Health and for Housing from 2010 to 2014.曾在于默奥求学的易卜拉欣·巴伊兰自 2014 年起任瑞典能源大臣；另一位校友斯特凡·阿特法尔于 2010 至 2014 年任公共卫生大臣与住房大臣。

• Bertil Andersson, an alumnus who was later chief executive of the European Science Foundation, served as president of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 2011 to 2017.校友贝蒂尔·安德松后来出任欧洲科学基金会首席执行官，并于 2011 至 2017 年任新加坡南洋理工大学校长。

• Adi Utarini, an Indonesian scientist and Umeå alumna, was named in Nature's Ten people who helped shape science in 2020 and in Time's list of the 100 most influential people of 2021.印尼科学家、于默奥校友阿迪·乌塔里尼入选《自然》2020 年「塑造科学的十人」，并登上《时代》2021 年百大影响力人物榜。

• Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician, studied at Umeå, as did Dan Olweus, the psychologist known for his research on bullying.哈佛医学院医学教授、生物统计学家马丁·库尔多夫曾在于默奥求学；以霸凌研究闻名的心理学家丹·奥尔韦斯也同样如此。

• Christer Fuglesang, the first Swedish citizen in space, and Tarja Halonen, former president of Finland, both hold honorary doctorates from the university.瑞典首位太空人克里斯特·富格莱桑与芬兰前总统塔里娅·哈洛宁，均获该校荣誉博士学位。

• Gunnar Öquist, professor of plant physiology at Umeå, was permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 2003 to 2010.曾任于默奥植物生理学教授的贡纳尔·厄奎斯特，于 2003 至 2010 年任瑞典皇家科学院常务秘书。

• Lars Lagerbäck, who managed the Sweden national football team from 2000 to 2009 and Iceland from 2011, is counted among the university's alumni.曾于 2000 至 2009 年执教瑞典国家足球队、2011 年起执教冰岛队的拉尔斯·拉格贝克被列为该校校友。

• Kay Pollack, the film director, Annika Norlin, the pop artist known as Hello Saferide, and Sverker Sörlin, the environmental historian, are among the university's notable alumni.电影导演凯·波拉克、以 Hello Saferide 之名知名的流行音乐人安妮卡·诺林，以及环境史学者斯韦克·瑟林，都是该校的知名校友。