Universidad Católica del Uruguay

The Catholic University of Uruguay, in Spanish Universidad Católica del Uruguay and abbreviated UCU, is a private university in the capital Montevideo that is the direct successor to several Catholic educational institutes dating back to the 1870s.乌拉圭天主教大学，西班牙语作（Universidad Católica del Uruguay），简称 UCU，是首都蒙得维的亚的一所私立大学，为可上溯至十九世纪七十年代的多所天主教教育机构的直接继承者。

Founded in 1882 by the Archbishop of Montevideo Mariano Soler and reopened in 1985 under the Society of Jesus, it was the only private university in the country until 1996 and belongs to the world network of Jesuit universities.该校由蒙得维的亚总主教马里亚诺·索莱尔于 1882 年创办，1985 年重办并交由耶稣会主持，1996 年以前一直是全国唯一的私立大学，隶属全球耶稣会大学网络。

Organised into five faculties and two schools, with a main campus spread over six sites in Montevideo and further campuses at the coastal town of Punta del Este and the inland city of Salto, it is placed in the 801-850 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校设五大学院与两所学院，主校区分布于蒙得维的亚六处，另设滨海的埃斯特角城与内陆的萨尔托两校区，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 801-850 位。

History

• The university was founded in 1882 by the Archbishop of Montevideo, Monseigneur Mariano Soler, who gave the institution its original Catholic character and its dedication to university teaching.该校由蒙得维的亚总主教马里亚诺·索莱尔于 1882 年创办，他赋予学校最初的天主教特质，也确立其投身大学教学的志业。

• Its roots lie in several Catholic educational institutes dating back to the 1870s, of which the modern university regards itself the direct and continuous successor.其源头为数所可上溯至十九世纪七十年代的天主教教育机构，现代大学自视为这些机构直接而连续的继承者。

• From its beginning the Catholic University of Uruguay set itself the challenge of being a different option in university teaching, deliberately distinct from the state sector.乌拉圭天主教大学自创设伊始即把「在高校教学中另辟蹊径」作为自身挑战，有意区别于公立体系而自立。

• It took to working in areas that had been neglected and to playing a role as an innovator in developing new educational methods and in the evangelization of culture.它着手耕耘长期被忽视的领域，并在开创新式教学方法、以福音化文化两方面扮演革新者的角色。

• In 1985 the university was reopened and entrusted to the Society of Jesus, an act that gave it the Jesuit identity and the religious mission it still carries today.1985 年，该校重新开办并交由耶稣会执掌，此举赋予它耶稣会身份与宗教使命，并延续至今。

• The Society of Jesus, the Catholic order founded in 1540 whose members are known as Jesuits, assumed responsibility for the reopened university in that same year of 1985.耶稣会是创于 1540 年、会士称耶稣会士的天主教修会，该修会于 1985 年同年接手重办后的大学。

• By joining the Society of Jesus the university became part of the world network of Jesuit universities, an international family of Catholic teaching institutions across several continents.因隶属耶稣会，该校加入全球耶稣会大学网络，成为一个横跨数大洲的天主教教学机构国际大家庭的一员。

• Between its refounding in 1985 and 1996 the university remained the only private university in Uruguay, holding the private sector entirely to itself for eleven years.自 1985 年重办至 1996 年间，该校一直是乌拉圭唯一的私立大学，将私立高教领域整整十一年独享于自身。

• That monopoly ended in 1996, when Uruguay authorised further private universities and the Catholic University at last acquired sector peers such as the private Universidad de Montevideo.这一独占局面于 1996 年结束，乌拉圭准许更多私立大学设立，天主教大学至此方有同行，例如私立的蒙得维的亚大学。

• Even after losing its monopoly the university continued to seek a combination of academic excellence, ideological pluralism, ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue in its teaching.即便失去独占地位，该校仍在教学中追求学术卓越、思想多元、普世合一与宗教间对话四者的兼行并举。

• Ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue were set beside academic excellence as founding commitments that guided the institution throughout the decades after its 1985 Jesuit handover.普世合一与宗教间对话与学术卓越并列，成为 1985 年移交耶稣会后数十载间引导该校的创立性承诺。

• Its principal headquarters building, the Sacré Cœur Building, was constructed in 1920 and therefore long predates the 1985 refoundation of the modern university.其主总部建筑圣心楼建于 1920 年，故远早于现代大学于 1985 年的那次重办。

• Before the university used it, the very same building housed the Sacré Cœur Jesuit School for girls until the early 1980s, when that girls' school drew to a close.大学启用此楼之前，同一座楼宇曾作为女子耶稣会圣心学校之用，直至二十世纪八十年代初那所女校停办。

• In 1998 the university inaugurated its second city campus, a seaside site at the resort town of Punta del Este on Uruguay's Atlantic coast, widening its footprint beyond Montevideo.1998 年，该校启用第二座城市校区，即位于乌拉圭大西洋沿岸度假城镇埃斯特角城的海滨校址，把办学版图拓展到蒙得维的亚之外。

• In 2003 it inaugurated a third campus in the inland city of Salto, extending its physical presence across the country rather than confining it to the capital and the coast.2003 年，该校在内陆城市萨尔托启用第三座校区，把实体存在铺展全国，而非局限于首都与海岸。

• The 1882 foundation, the 1920 headquarters, the 1985 refoundation and the 1998 and 2003 campus expansions together mark the five dated stages of the university's growth.1882 年创办、1920 年建总部、1985 年重办，加上 1998 与 2003 年的两处校区启用，共同标记该校发展的五个有年份阶段。

• Over more than a century, from 1882 to the present, it evolved from scattered Catholic institutes into a comprehensive university that has faculties and two specialised schools.跨越逾一个世纪，自 1882 年至今，它由分散的天主教机构演变为设有学院与两所专门学院的综合大学。

• It is now described as one of the most prestigious centres of university learning in Uruguay, a standing resting on that long institutional record rather than on a single ranking.该校今被称作乌拉圭最负盛名的高等学府中心之一，这一地位系于其逾一个世纪的长久办学积累，而非依赖某一份榜单名次，也得益于其遍布五大洲的合作网络。

• The passage from the 1870s Catholic institutes, through the 1882 foundation, to the 1985 Jesuit refounding marks three distinct phases within one continuous Uruguayan institution.从十九世纪七十年代的天主教机构，经 1882 年创办，再到 1985 年耶稣会重办，构成一所乌拉圭连续办学机构内部的三个阶段。

• Its Spanish title Universidad Católica del Uruguay is rendered in English as the Catholic University, distinguishing it from the state-run Universidad de la República.该校西班牙语名称乌拉圭天主教大学英译作天主教大学，以此区别于国立的乌拉圭共和国大学。

• In English the three Montevideo institutions are the Catholic University, the public Republic University and the private Montevideo University, entirely separate bodies that must not be confused.以英文称之，蒙得维的亚这三所学府分别为天主教大学、公立共和国大学与私立蒙得维的亚大学，三者彼此独立，切勿混为一校。

• Its 1882 founding makes it one of the earliest organised higher-education initiatives in Uruguay, predating most of the private sector that only emerged after 1996.其 1882 年的创办使其跻身乌拉圭最早有组织的办学举措之列，先于 1996 年后才大量兴起的私立部门。

• The 1985 refoundation gave the university its present Jesuit character, and it has since grown from a single-city body into a three-city institution spanning the capital and two provincial towns.1985 年的重办赋予该校今日耶稣会性格，此后它由一城之校发展为横跨首都与两座外省城镇的三城机构。

Academics

• The university is divided into five faculties and two schools, namely the UCU Business School and the School of Postgraduate Courses, which together frame its whole academic offering.该校分为五大学院与两所学院，即 UCU 商学院与研究生课程学院，二者连同五大学院共同构成其全部教学格局。

• The five faculties carry the undergraduate teaching load, while the two schools concentrate respectively on management education and on graduate-level study beyond the bachelor's degree.五大学院承担本科教学任务，两所学院则分别聚焦管理教育，以及在学士学位之外的研究生层级培养。

• Teaching is organised around named majors within each faculty, so a student follows a defined field of study from the first year of the undergraduate programme to graduation.教学按各学院内具名的专业方向组织，学生自本科首年起直至毕业，都循着一条明确的修读领域前进。

• Its business education is delivered through the School of Business Sciences and the UCU Business School, the two units that together hold its international accreditation seals.其商科教育由商业科学学院与 UCU 商学院承担，正是这两单位一并持有该校的国际认证印章，二者共同构成面向外部认证的管理类学科主线。

• The School of Postgraduate Courses runs the university's graduate programmes, adding master's-level study to the undergraduate catalogue maintained by the five faculties.研究生课程学院负责该校的研究生项目，在五大学院维持的本科目录之外增设硕士层级的培养。

• In 2015 the university partnered with the Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness to address the issue of competition between companies, linking Uruguayan scholarship to European research.2015 年，该校与巴斯克竞争力研究所（Orkestra）合作，研究企业之间的竞争议题，把乌拉圭学术与欧洲研究相连。

• In conjunction with a professor at Pennsylvania State University, researchers at the university study the effects of iron deficiency and lead toxicity on behavioural and cognitive development in children.该校与宾夕法尼亚州立大学一位教授合作，研究缺铁与铅中毒对儿童行为及认知发展所造成的影响。

• In 2016 the university signed an agreement of cooperation with the newly founded University of Tifariti, extending its scholarly links well beyond the borders of Uruguay.2016 年，该校与新成立的提法里蒂大学签署合作协议，把学术联系延伸至乌拉圭国境之外甚远之地。

• Its Extension Services run service-learning projects that count for credit, either integral or supplemental to classwork, alongside voluntary projects that carry no academic credit.其推广服务处开设计入学分的志愿服务学习项目，既可作课业的组成部分，也可作课业的补充，另办理不计学分的志愿项目。

• In 2015 those Extension Services counted 141 projects carried out with 191 teachers and 1,700 students involved, a quantified snapshot of the university's community-engaged work.2015 年该推广服务处共记录 141 个项目，由 191 位教师与 1,700 名学生共同参与，是该校社区参与型工作的一份量化写照。

• An extensive academic exchange network links the university with more than 300 universities spread across the five continents, giving staff and students wide channels for scholarly mobility.校内设有广泛的学术交流网络，与遍布五大洲的逾 300 所大学建立联系，为师生提供宽阔的学术流动渠道。

• That same exchange network receives about 200 foreign students annually, so international cohorts are woven into the ordinary life of the five faculties and the two schools.同一交流网络每年接收约 200 名外国学生，使国际学生群体融入五大学院与两所学院的日常教学生活。

• Research activity spans several faculties, with the business school carrying the internationally accredited work and the graduate school carrying the postgraduate programmes.科研活动横跨数大学院，其中商学院承担获国际认证的学科，研究生院则承担研究生层级的培养项目。

• Its study themes reach business and economics, child health and toxicology, and the extension and service-learning work bound up with community building projects.其研究主题触及商科与经济学、儿童健康与毒理学，以及同社区建造工程紧密相连的推广与服务学习。

• As a comprehensive teaching body, the university organises all study under its five faculties and two schools rather than through a set of stand-alone professional institutes.作为综合性教学机构，该校把全部学习统摄于五大学院与两所学院之下，而非依赖一组各自独立的专业学院，五大学院与两所学院共同支撑起从本科到研究生的完整修读序列。

• Instruction is conducted principally in Spanish, the working language of its five faculties, its two schools and its published programmes of study for undergraduates and graduates alike.教学主要以西班牙语进行，此语为其五大学院、两所学院，以及面向本科与研究生公布的修读方案的通用工作语言。

Campus

• The Catholic University of Uruguay is made up of several academic and administrative buildings spread across its three campuses in Montevideo, Punta del Este and Salto.乌拉圭天主教大学由分布于蒙得维的亚、埃斯特角城与萨尔托三校区内的多处教学与行政楼宇共同组成。

• Its main Montevideo campus is spread out in six separate locations, concentrated in the residential neighbourhood of La Blanqueada rather than gathered on one enclosed estate.其蒙得维的亚主校区分散于六处独立地点，集中于住宅区拉布兰卡达一带，而非汇聚于一片封闭式的整体校园。

• The Sacré Cœur Building, located on 8 de Octubre Avenue, houses the university's headquarters and its central administrative offices for the whole institution.圣心楼坐落于十月八日大道，容纳该校总部以及面向全校的中央行政办公机构。

• That headquarters was built in 1920 to the design of the architect Elzeario Boix and is neoclassical in style, giving the university a stately public face.这座总部于 1920 年按建筑师埃尔塞阿里奥·博伊克斯的设计兴建，采新古典主义风格，为大学提供了庄重的门面。

• Before becoming the university's seat, the same 1920 building had housed the Sacré Cœur Jesuit School for girls until the early 1980s, when that school closed its doors.在成为大学校址之前，这座建于 1920 年的楼宇曾作为女子耶稣会圣心学校之用，直至二十世纪八十年代初该校关闭门户。

• Its second campus stands in the coastal resort city of Punta del Este, on Roosevelt Avenue and Florencia, and was inaugurated in 1998 as the university's first move beyond Montevideo.其第二座校区坐落于滨海度假城市埃斯特角城，位于罗斯福大道与弗洛伦西亚街口，1998 年启用，是该校走出蒙得维的亚、在外省布点的第一步。

• Its third campus stands in the inland city of Salto on Artigas Street, was inaugurated in 2003, and houses the University's Economic Observatory for research on national output.其第三座校区位于内陆城市萨尔托的阿蒂加斯街，2003 年启用，并容纳研究全国产出的该校经济观测站，使内陆学生得以就近修读相关课程。

• Recorded site coordinates put the Montevideo seat at latitude -34.90328 and longitude -56.18816, in the southern part of the capital near its residential core.登记坐标将该蒙得维的亚校址定位于南纬 34.90328、西经 56.18816，即首都南部邻近居民区的地带。

• Montevideo, the national capital on the wide Rio de la Plata estuary, supplies the urban setting for the six-site main campus and for the university's headquarters.首都蒙得维的亚坐落于宽阔的拉普拉塔河口之滨，为六址主校区与大学总部提供城市背景，也是全国政治与文化的核心所在。

• The three-city layout, completed only when the Salto campus opened in 2003, gives the private university a physical footprint well beyond a single metropolitan site.直到 2003 年萨尔托校区启用才告完成的三城布局，使这所私立大学拥有远超单一都市据点的实体版图。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the Catholic University of Uruguay is placed in the 801-850 band, the ranking position on which this bilingual entry is based.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，乌拉圭天主教大学列入第 801-850 位，本双语条目即据此档位撰写。

• It does not appear in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, being carried in that edition only at Reporter level with no band position assigned to it.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名榜单，在该版中仅以 Reporter 身份记录，而未获赋予任何名次区间。

• No position is recorded for the university in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities ranking, where the ranking mirror carries no entry for it at all.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中未记录该校名次，榜单镜像中亦完全查无其条目。

• The university likewise does not appear in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, so no 2026 ARWU position is on record for it.该校同样未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，因此其 2026 年 ARWU 名次全无记录。

• No subject-level ranking position is recorded for the university in the 2027 world tables, so its measurable standing rests entirely on the single overall QS band noted above.2027 年各世界榜单未为该校记录学科维度名次，其可衡量的地位便完全系于上述唯一的那一项 QS 总榜档位。

• Its hardest honour is institutional and is quantified in accreditation, since the School of Business Sciences and the UCU Business School have been accredited by AACSB since October 2021.该校最硬的荣誉属机构层面并以认证量化，其商业科学学院与 UCU 商学院自 2021 年 10 月起便获 AACSB 认证。

• That AACSB seal makes the university the only one in Uruguay to hold the certification, and since September 2023 its business school also adds AMBA and BGA accreditation.这一 AACSB 印章使该校成为乌拉圭唯一持此认证者，自 2023 年 9 月起其商学院又增添 AMBA 与 BGA 两项认证。

• Because OpenAlex work and citation totals are not available for the institution, its quantifiable activity is read instead from its 141 extension projects, 191 teachers and 1,700 students in 2015.因该校无 OpenAlex 作品与被引数据，其可量化活动改由 2015 年的 141 个推广项目、191 位教师与 1,700 名学生读出。

• Its exchange network, linking more than 300 universities on five continents and receiving about 200 foreign students every year, is the measurable marker of the university's international reach.其交流网络联系五大洲逾 300 所大学、每年接收约 200 名外国学生，正是该校国际影响的可衡量标志，也是其在世界与区域榜单之外的主要可见坐标。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded for the institution, and it is distinct from Montevideo's public University of the Republic and the private Montevideo University.该校未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物关联，且与蒙得维的亚的公立共和国大学及私立蒙得维的亚大学互不相同。

Student life

• As a fundamental objective the university seeks that its students live well beyond the classroom, incorporating extracurricular, artistic and spiritual activity into ordinary campus life.该校以「让学生活在课堂之外」为根本目标，把课外、艺术与灵修活动一并纳入日常的校园生活之中。

• Athletic life is organised through the Universidad Católica Club, the club body that fields the university's competitive teams across its sponsored sports.体育生活经由天主教大学俱乐部组织，这一俱乐部为该校在各资助运动项目派出竞技队伍。

• Sponsored sports include futsal for both men and women, volleyball, basketball, women's handball, swimming, football and field hockey, a broad programme for the number of students.获资助的体育项目包括男女五人制足球、排球、篮球、女子手球、游泳、足球与草地曲棍球，就学生人数而言已属相当可观的项目布局。

• Artistic experience is fostered through the UCU Choir and through the Espacio Crear, and students attend workshops that develop chorus, theatre and the visual arts.艺术熏陶经由 UCU 合唱团与「创意空间」（Espacio Crear）展开，学生可参加培育合唱、戏剧与视觉艺术的工作坊。

• A traditional Pastoral programme offers the faith-based and community dimension of student life that reflects the university's founding Jesuit character.传统「牧灵服务」（Pastoral）项目提供学生生活中基于信仰与社群的面向，直接呼应该校创校时所确立的耶稣会性格与精神传统。

• Service projects are carried out for credit as integral or supplemental to classwork, and a major vacation-time project organises the building of homes for the poor.服务项目以计入学分的方式作为课业的组成或补充开展，一项主要的假期工程则组织起为贫困者建造房屋的活动。

• Throughout the year there are student-organised events and tournaments, together with a series of workshops voted for by the students themselves to foster their special interests.全年有学生自行组织的活动与赛事，并有一系列由学生投票选定、用以培育其专门兴趣的工作坊。

• An environmental club raises ecological awareness by collecting all plastic bottles left on campus, giving sustainability a student-led outlet outside the syllabus.一个环保社团通过收集校园内遗留的全部塑料瓶来提升生态意识，使可持续发展在课程之外拥有由学生主导的出口。

• An extensive exchange network that receives about 200 foreign students annually ensures the everyday student community carries a regular international presence.广泛的交流网络每年接收约 200 名外国学生，确保日常的学生社群始终保有常态化的国际面孔。

Notable people

• The principal named individual tied to the university is its founder Mariano Soler, the Archbishop of Montevideo who established the institution back in 1882.与该校关联的首要具名人物是其创办者马里亚诺·索莱尔，即早在 1882 年创设该校的蒙得维的亚总主教。

• Elzeario Boix is named as the architect of the Sacré Cœur headquarters, the stately neoclassical building raised in 1920 that still houses the university today.埃尔塞阿里奥·博伊克斯被记为圣心楼总部的建筑师，这座 1920 年落成、至今仍供大学使用的庄重新古典建筑出自其手。

• The Society of Jesus, the order associated with Saint Ignatius of Loyola, has run the university since 1985, shaping the Jesuit educational character it keeps today.与圣依纳爵·罗耀拉相关联的耶稣会自 1985 年起执掌该校，塑造了它今日所持守的耶稣会教育性格。

• A professor at Pennsylvania State University worked with the university's researchers on child health, a named partner institution even though the collaborating individuals are not given.宾夕法尼亚州立大学一位教授曾与该校研究者合作儿童健康课题，合作机构具名，而参与的个人姓名则未见于记录。

• Named laureates of Nobel, Turing or Fields stature are recorded neither among its faculty nor its alumni, and the available source simply leaves both lists blank.其教师与校友中皆未记录诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物，可得来源只是把这两份名单统统留为空白。

• Its notable figures are therefore institutional rather than personal, resting on the founding archbishop, the architect of the headquarters, and the Jesuit order that assumed the university in 1985.其重要人物因而偏于机构而非个人，落在创校总主教、总部建筑师，以及 1985 年接掌大学的耶稣会之上。

• Researchers at the university are documented by project rather than by biography, surfacing through the Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness and the Pennsylvania State University collaborations.该校研究者以项目而非人物志的方式留痕，见于其与巴斯克竞争力研究所（Orkestra）及宾夕法尼亚州立大学的合作。

• Some 200 foreign students and the wider exchange community form an unnamed but recurring population attached to the university's faculties and its two schools year after year.约 200 名外国学生与更广泛的交流社群，构成每年附于该校各学院与两所学院、虽未具名却反复出现的人群，为这所以耶稣会为根基的学府持续带来国际化的面孔。

• Its wider record lists separate faculty and alumni sections, but the present source supplies no individual names, so notable graduates remain to be documented elsewhere.其更广泛的记录单列教师与校友板块，但当前来源未提供任何个人姓名，故具名的杰出校友仍待他处补录。