Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM), also known in English as the Catholic University of Murcia, is a private Catholic university in the Region of Murcia, Spain, with its main campus at the Los Jerónimos monastery in Guadalupe and a second campus in Cartagena.武康大学（Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia，简称 UCAM，英文亦称 Catholic University of Murcia）是西班牙穆尔西亚自治区的一所私立天主教大学，主校区位于瓜达卢佩的洛斯赫罗尼莫斯修道院，并在卡塔赫纳设有第二校区。

It was founded in 1996 by José Luis Mendoza Pérez and is owned by the Fundación Universitaria San Antonio, taking as its patron Saint Anthony of Padua and as its motto In Libertatem Vocati, the words of Saint Paul.该校由何塞·路易斯·门多萨·佩雷斯（José Luis Mendoza Pérez）于 1996 年创办，隶属于圣安东尼奥大学基金会，以帕多瓦的圣安东尼为主保圣人，校训为圣保禄宗徒的「In Libertatem Vocati」。

UCAM enrols 21,386 students in 2026 and runs 17 official doctoral programmes, and it is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1401-1600 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education table and 1,994th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking, while the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list omits it.该校 2026 年在校生 21386 人，开设 17 个官方博士项目，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201 至 1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 1401 至 1600 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球榜单中位列第 1994 位，未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• Pope John Paul II promulgated the apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae in 1990, and its article 3.3 opened the way for laypeople to establish Catholic universities, provided they combined academic rigour with a Catholic understanding of the human person.教宗若望保禄二世于 1990 年颁布宗座宪令《Ex Corde Ecclesiae》，其第 3.3 条为平信徒创办天主教大学开辟了道路，条件是这些大学须把学术严谨与天主教的人观结合起来。
• José Luis Mendoza Pérez used that provision in 1996 to found UCAM, the first university erected under the new conditions set by the constitution, with the support of a foundation named for Saint Anthony.何塞·路易斯·门多萨·佩雷斯于 1996 年依据该条款创办武康大学，这是在新宪令条件下成立的第一所此类大学，并得到以圣安东尼命名的基金会支持。
• The San Antonio University Foundation owns and governs the university, appoints its president and board, and the patron saint of Padua gives the institution both its name and its coat of arms.圣安东尼奥大学基金会拥有并治理该校，负责任命校长与董事会，帕多瓦的圣安东尼既赋予学校名称，也出现在校徽之中。
• The first classes opened in 1996 in the converted rooms of Los Jerónimos with about 600 students, a cohort that made the new university smaller than a single faculty of the public University of Murcia.首届课程于 1996 年在洛斯赫罗尼莫斯修道院改建的教室里开课，学生约 600 人，规模尚不及公立穆尔西亚大学的一个学院。
• Its degrees have been official Spanish qualifications since the 1996 recognition, which allowed the new institution to issue titles valid across the European Higher Education Area.自 1996 年获承认起，该校学位即为西班牙官方资格，这使这所新学校能够颁发在欧洲高等教育区通用的学位证书。
• Growth in the 2000s followed the health professions, adding medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy and psychology to the early law and business degrees.2000 年代的扩张沿着健康类专业展开，在早期法律与商科之外陆续增设医学、护理、药学、物理治疗与心理学。
• The Faculty of Sport and the university's sports scholarship model turned UCAM into a base for elite Spanish athletes, a strategy that later underpinned its Olympic record.体育学院与校方设立的运动员奖学金模式，使武康大学成为西班牙精英运动员的训练基地，这一策略日后支撑起该校的奥运成绩。
• Iradio UCAM, the university radio station, began broadcasting in the 2009/10 academic year as a project of the Faculty of Communication.校园电台 Iradio UCAM 于 2009 至 2010 学年开播，由传播学院推动设立。
• At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, eleven of the seventeen medals won by Spain belonged to athletes holding UCAM scholarships or studying at the university.2016 年里约奥运会期间，西班牙获得的 17 枚奖牌中有 11 枚属于持有武康大学奖学金或在该校就读的运动员。
• In 2017 U-Multirank placed UCAM first among European universities for computer engineering and psychology and sixteenth among Spanish institutions, with civil engineering sixth in Europe.2017 年，U-Multirank 将武康大学的计算机工程与心理学评为欧洲第一，该校在西班牙高校中排名第十六，土木工程居欧洲第六。
• The Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings placed UCAM in the 151-200 band in 2019 and thirty-seventh in Spain for teaching quality.2019 年，泰晤士高等教育欧洲教学排名将武康大学列入 151 至 200 区间，其教学质量在西班牙位居第三十七。
• QS awarded the university four stars overall in 2019 and five stars in teaching, internationalisation, social responsibility and inclusivity.2019 年，QS 授予该校综合四星评价，并在教学、国际化、社会责任与包容性四项上给予五星。
• Teaching moved online during the 2020 lockdown, and the university's existing online division allowed degrees to continue without a full suspension of the academic year.2020 年封控期间教学转为线上，该校既有的线上教学部门使学位课程得以继续，学年未全面中断。
• UCAM marked its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2021, a year in which its health sciences graduates were prominently employed in the regional pandemic response.武康大学于 2021 年迎来建校二十五周年，同年其健康科学类毕业生大量投入自治区的疫情防控。
• In 2023 QS gave the university a special distinction for its teaching model, campus inclusivity, internationalisation, online provision and employability, a rating held by only seven Spanish institutions.2023 年，QS 就其教学模式、校园包容性、国际化、线上教学与就业力给予该校特别表彰，西班牙仅七所高校获得这一评级。
• By 2026 the student body had reached 21,386, more than thirty-five times the first cohort of 1996, and the university had added a Cartagena campus and a Madrid teaching site.到 2026 年，在校生已达 21386 人，是 1996 年首届学生的三十五倍以上，学校并增设卡塔赫纳校区与马德里教学点。
• The Cartagena campus extended UCAM's health and sports teaching to the naval city, while the Madrid site and a network of examination centres serve students who study partly at a distance.卡塔赫纳校区把该校的健康与体育教学延伸到这座海军城市，马德里教学点与各地考点则服务于部分远程学习的学生。
• The John Paul II International Institute for Charity and Volunteering, sponsored by the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, grew out of the university's chaplaincy and runs a work camp in Pachacútec, Peru.由宗座一心委员会赞助的若望保禄二世国际慈善与志愿服务研究所源自该校的牧灵工作，并在秘鲁帕查库特克举办志愿服务营。
• UCAM's research profile was built around theology, philosophy, bioethics, nutrition and health, fields in which it offers doctoral supervision and joint programmes with foreign partners.该校的科研定位围绕神学、哲学、生命伦理、营养与健康展开，并在这些领域提供博士指导与对外联合培养项目。
• Partnerships with institutions such as EU Business School, Sevilla FC, CESAE and the Universidad Autónoma de Chile gave the university exchange and double-degree routes beyond Spain.该校与 EU 商学院、塞维利亚足球俱乐部、CESAE 以及智利自治大学等机构合作，为学生提供西班牙以外的交换与双学位通道。
• The university remains small by Spanish public standards and has grown by adding professional faculties rather than by absorbing other institutions.按西班牙公立大学的标准衡量，该校规模仍然不大，其扩张主要靠增设应用型学院，而非兼并其他院校。

Academics

• UCAM is organised into ten faculties and schools: Law, Economics and Business, Polytechnic, Medicine, Sport, Nursing, Pharmacy and Nutrition, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Education, and Communication.武康大学设有十个学院，即法学院、经济与商学院、理工学院、医学院、体育学院、护理学院、药学与营养学院、物理治疗与足病学院、教育学院以及传播学院。
• The Faculty of Medicine teaches medicine, dentistry and psychology, and its clinical teaching is carried out with hospitals across the Region of Murcia.医学院开设医学、牙科与心理学专业，临床教学在穆尔西亚自治区的多家医院进行。
• The Faculty of Sport awards degrees in physical activity and sport sciences and in dance, and it combines academic teaching with training support for federated athletes.体育学院授予体育活动与运动科学以及舞蹈学位，并把课堂教学与对注册运动员的训练支持结合起来。
• The Polytechnic School covers architecture, civil engineering, building services engineering, computer engineering and telecommunications technology engineering.理工学院涵盖建筑、土木工程、建筑设备工程、计算机工程与通信技术工程。
• The Faculty of Law offers law, criminology and labour relations, while the Faculty of Economics and Business teaches business administration, marketing and tourism, several of them in English.法学院开设法律、犯罪学与劳动关系专业，经济与商学院则教授工商管理、市场营销与旅游，其中多个专业以英语授课。
• The Faculty of Pharmacy and Nutrition runs degrees in pharmacy, biotechnology, food science, human nutrition and gastronomy, and it anchors the university's nutrition research.药学与营养学院开设药学、生物技术、食品科学、人类营养与美食学等学位，并支撑该校的营养学研究。
• The Faculty of Health Sciences teaches nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and podiatry, and places students in hospitals and clinics from the second year.健康科学类学院教授护理、物理治疗、职业治疗与足病学，并从二年级起安排学生进入医院与诊所实习。
• The Faculty of Education trains primary and early-childhood teachers and offers modern languages and translation and interpreting degrees.教育学院培养小学与幼儿教师，并开设现代语言以及翻译与口译学位。
• The Faculty of Communication teaches audiovisual communication, journalism and advertising, and operates Iradio UCAM as a teaching radio station.传播学院教授视听传播、新闻学与广告学，并把 Iradio UCAM 作为教学电台运营。
• UCAM offers 17 official doctoral programmes, including a joint international doctorate with the FOM University of Applied Sciences in Germany.该校开设 17 个官方博士项目，其中包括与德国 FOM 应用科学大学合办的国际联合博士项目。
• Average annual tuition is about 7,800 euros, ranging from 4,000 to 14,300 euros depending on the degree, a level typical of Spanish private universities.该校年均学费约 7800 欧元，视专业不同在 4000 至 14300 欧元之间，属于西班牙私立大学的常见水平。
• Every degree includes theology, ethics, anthropology and social doctrine courses, the curricular expression of the university's Catholic identity.所有学位都包含神学、伦理、人类学与社会训导课程，这是该校天主教身份在课程上的体现。
• English-taught degrees in business administration, dentistry, psychology, pharmacy, physical activity and sport sciences and modern languages draw students from outside Spain.工商管理、牙科、心理学、药学、体育活动与运动科学以及现代语言等英语授课学位，吸引了大量西班牙以外地区的学生。
• The university library occupies the converted monastic buildings at Los Jerónimos and provides databases, reading rooms and group study space for the ten faculties, alongside an online repository of its theses and research output.大学图书馆设在洛斯赫罗尼莫斯修道院的改建建筑内，为十个学院提供数据库、阅览室与小组学习空间，并建有收录学位论文与科研成果的在线仓储。
• Research concentrates on nutrition and health, bioethics, the social doctrine of the Church and sports performance, with annual international conferences on those themes.该校科研集中于营养与健康、生命伦理、教会社会训导与运动表现，并围绕这些主题每年举办国际会议。
• UCAM also runs a VET institute, a design school and the Spanish Sports University as affiliated teaching units beyond its degree-granting faculties.除授予学位的学院之外，该校还办有职业教育学院、设计学校与西班牙体育大学等附属教学单位。
• The medical degree runs for six years and combines basic science with hospital rotations in Murcia, while dentistry and nursing follow similar clinical patterns.医学学位为六年制，把基础科学与穆尔西亚各医院的轮转结合起来，牙科与护理也采用相近的临床培养模式。
• A university dental clinic treats patients under supervision, and the physiotherapy and podiatry clinics give students patient contact before graduation.校属牙科诊所由教师监督学生接诊，物理治疗与足病诊所则让学生在毕业前就获得接触病人的经验。

Campus

• The main campus occupies the Los Jerónimos monastery about 4 km from the centre of Murcia, an eighteenth-century complex whose baroque church is a National Historic-Artistic Monument and still serves as the ceremonial heart of the university.主校区位于距穆尔西亚市中心约 4 公里的洛斯赫罗尼莫斯修道院，这座 18 世纪建筑群的巴洛克教堂被列为国家历史艺术古迹，至今仍是大学的礼仪中心。
• The built campus covers about 25,000 square metres, of which 14,500 are roofed, and the university has reserved a further 200,000 square metres for gardens, parking, sport and a residence.已建成的校园约 2.5 万平方米，其中 1.45 万平方米为建筑，校方另预留 20 万平方米用于园林、停车场、体育设施与学生宿舍。
• The monastery's church serves as the university chapel and ceremonial hall, and its cloisters have been adapted into lecture rooms and offices.修道院教堂用作大学礼拜堂与礼仪大厅，回廊则被改造成教室与办公室。
• The Cartagena campus extends the university to the port city about 45 km south of Murcia, with teaching in health sciences and sport and clinical placements in its hospitals.卡塔赫纳校区把教学延伸到穆尔西亚以南约 45 公里的港口城市，开设健康科学与体育类课程，并在当地医院安排临床实习。
• A Madrid teaching site and a national network of examination venues allow UCAM to serve students who combine online study with periodic attendance.马德里教学点与遍布全国的考点网络，使该校能够服务把线上学习与定期面授结合起来的学生。
• Campus facilities include the library, an assembly hall, laboratories, computer and multimedia rooms, language classrooms and a cafeteria in the converted monastic wings.校园设施包括图书馆、礼堂、实验室、计算机与多媒体教室、语言教室以及设在修道院侧翼的餐厅。
• The university's sports facilities support its federated teams and scholarship athletes, and the surrounding estate provides fields for training and competition.该校的体育设施服务于注册运动队与奖学金运动员，周边园区提供训练与比赛场地。
• The campus lies on the southern edge of Murcia, linked to the city by road and bus and within reach of the beaches of the Mar Menor and the port of Cartagena.校园位于穆尔西亚南缘，经公路与公交与市区相连，距马尔梅诺尔潟湖海滩与卡塔赫纳港均不远。
• A university residence and the planned garden extension are intended to make Los Jerónimos a residential campus rather than a commuter one.大学宿舍与规划中的园林扩建，意在使洛斯赫罗尼莫斯从通勤型校园转变为住宿型校园。
• Los Jerónimos stands beside Guadalupe, a district of Murcia, and close to the A-30 motorway that links the regional capital with Cartagena and its port.洛斯赫罗尼莫斯紧邻穆尔西亚市辖的瓜达卢佩区，靠近连接自治区首府与卡塔赫纳及其港口的 A-30 高速公路。
• The Cartagena site is smaller than the Murcia campus and concentrates on health sciences and sport, with teaching rooms, laboratories and clinical placements rather than a full faculty estate.卡塔赫纳校区规模小于穆尔西亚主校区，集中于健康科学与体育，配置教室、实验室与临床实习，而非完整的学院建筑群。
• Murcia gained a high-speed rail link to Madrid in 2022, which put the campus within about three hours of the Spanish capital and made the region easier to reach for international students.穆尔西亚于 2022 年开通通往马德里的高速铁路，使校园到西班牙首都的高铁车程约三小时，国际学生前往该地区更为便利。

Reputation

• UCAM is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.武康大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201 至 1400 区间。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1401-1600 band, its position in the table that year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列于 1401 至 1600 区间，这是该校当年的榜单位次。
• U.S. News ranks UCAM 1,994th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list.《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学榜单中将该校列于第 1994 位。
• The 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities does not include UCAM in its main list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录武康大学。
• QS Stars awarded the university four stars overall and five stars for teaching, internationalisation, social responsibility and inclusivity, ratings produced by an audit that also examines employability and online learning.QS 星级评价授予该校综合四星，并在教学、国际化、社会责任与包容性方面给予五星，这一评级还考察就业力与线上教学。
• The Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings 2019 placed UCAM at 151-200 in Europe and 37th in Spain for teaching quality.2019 年泰晤士高等教育欧洲教学排名把武康大学列于欧洲 151 至 200 区间，其教学质量在西班牙排名第三十七。
• U-Multirank 2017 ranked it first in Europe for computer engineering and psychology among 850 institutions assessed, and sixth in Europe for civil engineering.2017 年 U-Multirank 在 850 所受评院校中把该校的计算机工程与心理学评为欧洲第一，土木工程居欧洲第六。
• Its sports record is measurable: eleven of Spain's seventeen medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics went to UCAM athletes, and the university sponsors sixteen federated teams.该校的体育成绩可以量化：2016 年里约奥运会西班牙 17 枚奖牌中有 11 枚由武康大学运动员获得，学校还赞助 16 支注册运动队。
• OpenAlex indexes 9,184 works and 293,662 citations for UCAM, a research profile concentrated in health sciences, nutrition and sports science.OpenAlex 为该校收录 9184 项成果与 293662 次引用，其科研产出集中在健康科学、营养学与运动科学。
• The university's reputation rests on teaching quality, employability and sport rather than on research volume, and it markets small classes and clinical placements to prospective students.该校声誉建立在教学质量、就业力与体育之上，而非科研体量，并向潜在学生主打小班教学与临床实习。

Student life

• UCAM's motto is In Libertatem Vocati, Latin for called to freedom, taken from Saint Paul's letter to the Galatians and inscribed on its coat of arms.该校校训为拉丁语「In Libertatem Vocati」，意为「蒙召为自由」，出自圣保禄致迦拉达人书，并铭刻于校徽之上。
• The university flag is sea green, a colour its statutes associate with the theological virtue of hope, and it flies at the entrance to Los Jerónimos.校旗为海绿色，校章把这一颜色与望德相联系，旗帜悬挂在洛斯赫罗尼莫斯入口处。
• Sport structures student life: basketball, football and volleyball teams carry the UCAM name in national leagues, and scholarship athletes train alongside ordinary students.体育塑造了学生生活：篮球、足球与排球队以武康之名参加全国联赛，奖学金运动员与普通学生一同训练。
• Student societies cover law, health, communication, international students and volunteering, and most are based in the converted rooms around the cloister.学生社团涵盖法律、健康、传播、国际学生与志愿服务，多数以回廊周边的改建教室为活动基地。
• The chaplaincy runs mass in the monastery church, catechesis and the Peru work camp, and it coordinates the John Paul II institute's volunteering programmes.校牧处在修道院教堂举行弥撒、要理讲授与秘鲁志愿服务营，并协调若望保禄二世研究所的志愿项目。
• Iradio UCAM broadcasts student programmes from the communication faculty, giving journalism and audiovisual students live production experience.Iradio UCAM 从传播学院播出学生节目，为新闻与视听专业学生提供直播制作经验。
• Murcia's spring festivals, Holy Week processions and the Mar Menor coast shape the social calendar around the academic year.穆尔西亚的春季节庆、圣周游行与马尔梅诺尔海岸，构成了围绕学年的社会日历。
• International students are a visible presence, particularly in the English-taught business, dentistry and sport degrees, and the international office runs orientation and Spanish courses.国际学生在该校十分显眼，尤其在英语授课的商科、牙科与体育学位中，国际处为他们安排迎新与西班牙语课程。
• Because the campus lies outside the city, student life is centred on the monastery complex, with buses carrying students to Murcia's bars, cinemas and university district.由于校园位于市区之外，学生生活以修道院建筑群为中心，公交车把学生送往穆尔西亚的酒吧、影院与大学城区。
• The basketball club CB UCAM Murcia competes in Spain's top professional league, and its home games give students a team to follow under the university's name.篮球俱乐部 CB 武康穆尔西亚参加西班牙顶级职业联赛，其主场比赛让学生有一支以校名为队名的球队可以追随。

Notable people

• José Luis Mendoza Pérez founded UCAM in 1996 and served as its president, shaping its Catholic identity, its sports strategy and its expansion beyond Murcia.何塞·路易斯·门多萨·佩雷斯于 1996 年创办武康大学并担任校长，塑造了该校的天主教身份、体育战略与走出穆尔西亚的扩张路径。
• Mireia Belmonte, a swimmer who won Olympic gold and silver at Rio 2016, trained under UCAM's athlete programme while competing for Spain.游泳运动员米雷娅·贝尔蒙特在 2016 年里约奥运会获得金牌与银牌，代表西班牙参赛期间在武康大学运动员项目下训练。
• Carolina Marín, the badminton player who won the Rio 2016 Olympic singles title, is associated with the university's athlete programme.羽毛球运动员卡罗琳娜·马林夺得 2016 年里约奥运会女单冠军，与该校的运动员项目关系密切。
• Saúl Craviotto, a canoeist with multiple Olympic medals, has competed under UCAM colours and trained at its facilities.多次获得奥运奖牌的皮划艇运动员绍尔·克拉维奥托曾代表武康大学参赛并在校内训练。
• Ruth Beitia, the high jumper who won Olympic gold in 2016, and Lidia Valentín, an Olympic weightlifting medallist, are among the university's scholarship athletes.2016 年奥运会女子跳高冠军露丝·贝蒂亚与奥运举重奖牌得主莉迪亚·巴伦丁，都是该校的奖学金运动员。
• Joel González, the taekwondo fighter who won Olympic gold at London 2012, trained within the same UCAM sports structure.跆拳道选手霍埃尔·冈萨雷斯在 2012 年伦敦奥运会夺金，同样出自武康大学的体育培养体系。
• José María Aznar, Spain's prime minister from 1996 to 2004, spoke at the university's international conferences, as did Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before his election as Benedict XVI.1996 至 2004 年担任西班牙首相的何塞·玛丽亚·阿斯纳尔曾在该校国际会议上演讲，当时的枢机若瑟·拉青格在当选本笃十六世之前也曾到访。
• Kiko Argüello, founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, and Javier Echevarría, prelate of Opus Dei, also appeared at UCAM conferences, reflecting its networks in the Spanish Church.新慕道之路创办人基科·阿圭略与主业会监督哈维尔·埃切瓦里亚也曾出席该校会议，反映出其在西班牙教会中的人脉。
• Pedro Guillén, the orthopaedic surgeon who founded the Clínica CEMTRO, has lectured at the university and supported its health sciences teaching.创办 CEMTRO 诊所的骨科外科医生佩德罗·吉连曾在武康大学讲学，并支持其健康科学教学。
• The university does not yet have a large alumni cohort in national politics, and its best-known graduates are athletes and health professionals rather than ministers.该校在全国政界尚无规模可观的校友群体，其最知名的毕业生是运动员与医疗卫生专业人士，而非部长级官员。