Universidad de Chile

The University of Chile (Spanish: Universidad de Chile, UChile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile, founded on 19 November 1842 and inaugurated on 17 September 1843, making it the oldest institution of higher education in the country.智利大学（西班牙文：Universidad de Chile，简称 UChile）是位于智利圣地亚哥的公立研究型大学，于 1842 年 11 月 19 日以法律设立、1843 年 9 月 17 日正式开办，是该国历史最悠久的高等学府。

It succeeded the colonial Royal University of San Felipe of 1738 and was organised by the Venezuelan humanist Andrés Bello, who became its first rector and gave it a secular, civic and scientifically modernising mission in the young republic.该校承继 1738 年建立的殖民时期皇家圣费利佩大学，并由委内瑞拉人文主义者安德烈斯·贝略筹组，他出任首任校长，为这所年轻的共和国大学赋予了世俗、服务公众与推动科学现代化的使命。

UChile teaches about 47,000 students across five campuses in Santiago and is closely identified with Chilean public life, counting twenty-one presidents of the republic and both of the country's Nobel laureates in literature among its members.智利大学在圣地亚哥的五个校区就读的学生约 4.7 万人，与智利公共生活紧密相连，其成员中包括二十一位共和国总统以及该国两位诺贝尔文学奖得主。

History

• The university's institutional predecessor was the Royal University of San Felipe, established in 1738 during the Spanish colonial period, whose functions and academic traditions were carried over into the new national university.该校的机构前身是 1738 年西班牙殖民时期建立的皇家圣费利佩大学，其职能与学术传统被新的国立大学所继承。

• In 1841 Manuel Montt, then minister of public education, conceived the idea of founding a corporation for the advancement and development of the sciences and humanities in the newly independent republic.1841 年，时任公共教育部长曼努埃尔·蒙特提出构想，要在刚刚独立的共和国中建立一所推动科学与人文学科发展的机构。

• The Venezuelan poet and humanist Andrés Bello formulated the project, which with minor modifications became law on 19 November 1842, creating the Universidad de Chile as the successor to the colonial university.委内瑞拉诗人、人文主义者安德烈斯·贝略拟定了这一方案，方案稍作修改后于 1842 年 11 月 19 日成为法律，创立智利大学作为殖民时期大学的继承者。

• The university was formally inaugurated on 17 September 1843, when Andrés Bello delivered a famous inaugural address stressing the role of the arts and sciences in strengthening society and the interconnectedness of all knowledge.该校于 1843 年 9 月 17 日正式开办，安德烈斯·贝略发表著名就职演说，强调艺术与科学在强化社会中的作用以及各门知识之间的相互关联。

• At its foundation the university comprised five faculties, namely humanities and philosophy, physical and mathematical sciences, law and political sciences, medicine, and theology.建校时该校设有五个学院，即人文与哲学、物理与数学科学、法学与政治学、医学以及神学。

• Andrés Bello served as the university's first rector from 1843 until 1865, and in the same period he drafted Chile's Civil Code of 1855, a legal model that was widely copied across Latin America.安德烈斯·贝略自 1843 年起担任该校首任校长至 1865 年，其间他还起草了 1855 年的智利民法典，这一法律范本被拉丁美洲多国广泛效仿。

• Ignacio Domeyko, a Polish scientist and mineralogist, served as the second rector from 1867 to 1883 and strengthened the teaching of the natural sciences and mining in the university.波兰科学家、矿物学家伊格纳西奥·多梅伊科于 1867 至 1883 年担任第二任校长，加强了该校自然科学与采矿学的教学。

• The Casa Central, the university's neoclassical main building on the Alameda in Santiago, was built in 1863 and has served as the institution's symbolic home since 1872.该校位于圣地亚哥阿拉梅达大道的新古典主义主楼「主楼」建于 1863 年，自 1872 年起一直是学校的象征性本部。

• In its first decades the university supported the building of national institutions, including the drafting of the Civil Code, the construction of a road network to unite the territory and the development of energy and production infrastructure.在建校后的最初数十年，该校支持了多项国家制度建设，包括起草民法典、修建连接国土的公路网以及发展能源与生产基础设施。

• By 1931 the number of colleges had increased to six, covering philosophy and education, legal and social sciences, biology and medical sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, agronomy and veterinary science, and fine arts.到 1931 年，学院数量增至六个，涵盖哲学与教育、法律与社会科学、生物与医学科学、物理与数学科学、农学与兽医学以及美术。

• The university contributed to the formation of the country's intellectual and political elites, and most Chilean presidents as well as leading figures in politics, business and culture studied in its lecture halls.该校参与了国家知识界与政治精英的培养，多数智利总统以及政界、商界与文化界的领军人物都曾在其课堂中就学。

• In 1927 the football club Club Universidad de Chile was founded with the backing of the university community, and it grew into one of the country's most popular professional clubs, known as La U.1927 年，在大学社群的支持下，智利大学足球俱乐部成立，后来发展为该国最受欢迎的职业俱乐部之一，昵称「La U」。

• During the military regime of Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1989 the university underwent profound changes, beginning with Decree Number 50 of 1973, which provided that its presidents would be designated by the regime.在 1973 至 1989 年奥古斯托·皮诺切特军政统治期间，该校经历深刻变革，其开端是 1973 年第 50 号法令，规定校长由军政当局任命。

• A second major change came on 3 January 1981, when a further decree completely restructured the university and separated most of its provincial campuses to form independent regional universities.第二次重大变革发生于 1981 年 1 月 3 日，一项新法令彻底重组了该校，并把其大部分外地校区分离出去，组建为独立的地区性大学。

• That restructuring produced institutions such as the Universidad de Talca, the Universidad de Valparaíso, the Universidad de Antofagasta, the Universidad de Tarapacá, the Universidad de La Frontera and the Universidad de La Serena.这次重组催生了塔尔卡大学、瓦尔帕莱索大学、安托法加斯塔大学、塔拉帕卡大学、拉弗龙特拉大学与拉塞雷纳大学等院校。

• The Instituto Pedagógico, the university's teacher-training division, was among the units separated in 1981 and became the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación.该校培养师资的教育学院是 1981 年被分离出去的单位之一，后来成为首都教育科学大学。

• After the return of democracy in 1990 the university rebuilt its academic autonomy, and the reform of higher education in the following decades confirmed its place at the top of the Chilean university system.1990 年民主恢复后，该校重建学术自治，此后数十年的高等教育改革确立了其位居智利大学体系之首的地位。

• Among the university's heritage buildings are the Law Faculty of 1937, the Faculty of Medicine of 1952, the Museum of Contemporary Art in the former School of Fine Arts of 1910 and the Cerro Calán astronomical observatory of 1962.该校的历史建筑包括 1937 年的法学院、1952 年的医学院、1910 年原美术学院所在的当代艺术博物馆，以及 1962 年的塞罗卡兰天文台。

• More recent additions include the Institute of Communications of 2002, the Faculty of Economy and Business building of 2005, the Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy building of 2013 and the Beauchef 851 engineering building of 2014.较新的建筑包括 2002 年的传播学院、2005 年的经济与商学院楼、2013 年的化学与药学院楼以及 2014 年的博谢夫 851 工程大楼。

• Rosa Devés, a biochemist who had studied at the university and served as its vice-rector for academic affairs, became the first woman president of UChile on 12 May 2022.曾在该校就读、并担任过学术事务副校长的生物化学家罗莎·德韦斯，于 2022 年 5 月 12 日成为智利大学首位女性校长。

• In 2024 the university enrolled 47,307 students, spread across sixteen faculties and several interdisciplinary institutes, and it continues to define itself by its public and civic mission.2024 年该校在校学生 47,307 人，分布于十六个学院与若干跨学科研究所，至今仍以公共服务与公民使命自我定义。

Academics

• UChile is organised into sixteen faculties and three interdisciplinary institutes, covering architecture and urbanism, arts, agricultural sciences, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences, communications, dentistry, economics and business, forestry, government, law, medicine, philosophy and humanities, physical and mathematical sciences, sciences, social sciences and veterinary and animal sciences.智利大学设有十六个学院与三个跨学科研究所，涵盖建筑与城市规划、艺术、农业科学、化学与药学、传播学、牙医学、经济与商业、林学、政府学、法学、医学、哲学与人文、物理与数学科学、理学、社会科学以及兽医学与动物科学。

• The three interdisciplinary institutes are devoted to advanced studies in education, international studies, and nutrition and food technology, complementing the faculties.三个跨学科研究所分别致力于教育高级研究、国际研究以及营养与食品技术，与各学院相辅相成。

• In 2024 the university taught 47,307 students, and it offers more than sixty bachelor and professional degrees, thirty-eight doctoral programmes and about 116 master's programmes.2024 年该校在校学生 47,307 人，开设六十多个本科与专业学位、38 个博士项目以及约 116 个硕士项目。

• The university employs about 4,100 academics and professional staff, and its teaching combines professional training with research, since students in many fields follow five-year professional curricula leading to licensed practice.该校聘有约 4,100 名学术与专业人员，其教学把职业训练与研究相结合，许多专业的学生需完成五年制职业课程方可取得执业资格。

• UChile develops about thirty per cent of all scientific and technological research carried out at the national level in Chile, making it the country's leading research institution.智利大学承担了全国约 30% 的科学技术研究，是该国最重要的研究机构。

• The Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, based at the Beauchef campus, houses the university's engineering and science common core and is the centre of its applied research in engineering.设在博谢夫校区的物理与数学科学学院承担该校工程与科学的共同基础课程，是应用工程研究的中心。

• The Faculty of Medicine and its associated hospitals form a major clinical and biomedical research centre, and the university's dentistry, nursing and public-health programmes are among the most selective in Chile.医学院及其附属医院构成重要的临床与生物医学研究中心，其牙医学、护理学与公共卫生项目是智利选拔最为严格的项目之一。

• The university's Astronomical Observatory at Cerro Calán supports teaching and research in astronomy and is part of Chile's internationally important astronomical community.该校位于塞罗卡兰的天文台支撑天文学的教学与研究，是智利在国际上具有重要地位的天文学界的一部分。

• Admission to UChile for Chilean-system applicants is through the national PAES examination process, while students who completed their final secondary years abroad take the university's own in-person entrance tests in Santiago.智利学制申请者通过全国 PAES 考试系统进入该校，而在海外完成中学最后阶段的学生则须在圣地亚哥参加校方自设的现场入学考试。

• As a public university UChile takes part in Chile's Gratuidad tuition-free scheme, which covered 16,308 of its students in 2024.作为公立大学，智利大学参与智利的「免费教育」（Gratuidad）政策，2024 年该政策覆盖了该校 16,308 名学生。

• The university maintains a large library system and scholarly press, supporting research and teaching across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and the professions.该校拥有庞大的图书馆体系与学术出版机构，为人文、社会科学、自然科学及各专业的研究与教学提供支持。

• UChile's cultural institutions include the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, the Teatro Nacional Chileno and the Museo de Arte Popular Americano Tomás Lago, which connect the university with the wider public.该校的文化机构包括当代艺术博物馆、智利国家剧院以及托马斯·拉戈美洲民间艺术博物馆，把大学与更广泛的公众联系起来。

• The university's stable artistic ensembles, including the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile and the Ballet Nacional Chileno, perform across the country and are supported by the institution.该校常设的艺术团体，包括智利交响乐团与智利国家芭蕾舞团，在全国各地演出并得到学校的支持。

• Research at UChile has historically addressed national problems such as child malnutrition, earthquake-resistant engineering, forestry and the exploration of the country's territory and natural resources.智利大学的研究历来针对儿童营养不良、抗震工程、林业以及国土与自然资源的勘探等国家问题。

• Postgraduate education is a major part of the university's mission, with doctoral and master's programmes across the sciences, humanities and professions attracting students from across Latin America.研究生教育是该校使命的重要组成部分，其横跨科学、人文与各专业的博士与硕士项目吸引着来自拉丁美洲各地的学生。

• Through exchange agreements and international partnerships UChile hosts visiting students and researchers from many countries, reinforcing its role as a bridge between Chilean and global scholarship.通过交流协议与国际合作，智利大学接纳来自许多国家的访问学生与研究人员，强化其作为智利学术与全球学术之间桥梁的角色。

• The university's Department of Astronomy has built research partnerships with institutions abroad, among them Yale University, Cornell University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Boston University and Delft University of Technology.该校天文学系与多所海外机构建立了研究合作，其中包括耶鲁大学、康奈尔大学、佐治亚理工学院、波士顿大学与代尔夫特理工大学。

• The Institute of International Studies maintains exchange agreements with institutions such as Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.该校国际研究学院与清华大学、中国社会科学院等机构保持交流协议。

Campus

• UChile is an urban university whose five campuses and several experimental stations are distributed across Santiago and other regions of Chile, together covering more than three square kilometres.智利大学是一所城市型大学，其五个校区与若干实验站分布于圣地亚哥及智利其他地区，合计占地超过三平方公里。

• The most important campuses are the Andrés Bello campus, the Beauchef campus, the Juan Gómez Millas campus, the Dra. Eloísa Díaz campus and the Sur campus.其中最重要的校区包括安德烈斯·贝略校区、博谢夫校区、胡安·戈麦斯·米利亚斯校区、埃洛伊萨·迪亚斯博士校区与南方校区。

• The Casa Central on the Alameda, built in 1863, remains the symbolic heart of the university and houses its central administration and ceremonial functions.位于阿拉梅达主街、建于 1863 年的主楼至今仍是该校的象征性核心，设有学校的中央行政机构并承担礼仪职能。

• The Beauchef campus is the home of engineering and the physical and mathematical sciences, with facilities that include the Beauchef 851 building opened in 2014.博谢夫校区是工程学与物理数学科学的所在地，其设施包括 2014 年启用的博谢夫 851 大楼。

• The Juan Gómez Millas campus in eastern Santiago brings together several faculties of the humanities, social sciences and arts.位于圣地亚哥东部的胡安·戈麦斯·米利亚斯校区汇集了人文、社会科学与艺术等若干学院。

• The Dra. Eloísa Díaz campus in the south of the city houses the Faculty of Medicine and related health sciences, adjoining major teaching hospitals.位于城市南部的埃洛伊萨·迪亚斯博士校区设有医学院及相关健康科学，与主要教学医院相邻。

• The university's buildings are considered landmarks of Santiago, and their architectural heritage has shaped the urban surroundings of the areas in which they stand.该校的建筑被视为圣地亚哥的地标，其建筑遗产塑造了所在城区的城市风貌。

• Situated at the foot of the Andes and about 120 kilometres from the Pacific, Santiago gives the university an urban setting that combines cultural life with access to mountains and coast.圣地亚哥位于安第斯山脚下、距太平洋约 120 公里，使这所大学处于兼具文化生活与山海之便的城市环境之中。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Chile is placed 185th in the world, and within Latin America it stands in the top handful of universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，智利大学位列世界第 185 位，在拉丁美洲则位居最前列的少数几所大学之列。

• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks UChile 421st in the world, reflecting a large research output and a broad national mission.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将智利大学列为世界第 421 位，体现其庞大的科研产出与广泛的全国性使命。

• In the QS World University Rankings: Latin America and the Caribbean for 2027 UChile was placed 7th in the region and was the second-highest ranked Chilean university after the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.在 2027 年 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区大学排名中，智利大学位列区域第 7 位，是仅次于智利天主教大学的智利第二高排名高校。

• In the Times Higher Education Latin America University Rankings for 2026 the university was placed 13th in the region, confirming its standing among the leading institutions of Spanish-speaking America.在 2026 年泰晤士高等教育拉丁美洲大学排名中，该校位列区域第 13 位，印证其作为西语美洲领先高校的地位。

• The OpenAlex database attributes 118,350 works to the University of Chile with 5,077,428 citations, a substantial research record for a national public university.OpenAlex 数据库为智利大学收录 118,350 篇成果、被引 5,077,428 次，对于一所国立公立大学而言，其研究记录相当可观。

• Two of the university's members became Nobel laureates in literature, Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971, the only Chilean winners of the prize.该校有两位成员获得诺贝尔文学奖，分别是 1945 年的加夫列拉·米斯特拉尔与 1971 年的巴勃罗·聂鲁达，他们是仅有的智利获奖者。

• Twenty-one presidents of Chile studied at UChile, among them Salvador Allende, Ricardo Lagos, Michelle Bachelet and Gabriel Boric.有二十一位智利总统曾就读于智利大学，其中包括萨尔瓦多·阿连德、里卡多·拉戈斯、米歇尔·巴切莱特与加夫列尔·博里奇。

• By 2025 the university counted 215 National Prizes awarded to distinguished alumni, professors and researchers across the arts, sciences and humanities.截至 2025 年，该校的杰出校友、教授与研究人员共获得 215 项国家奖，涵盖艺术、科学与人文各领域。

• In the QS World University Rankings of 2025 UChile was placed 139th in the world, its best recent result before the position of 185th recorded in the 2027 edition.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列世界第 139 位，是其在 2027 年榜单录得第 185 位之前的近期最佳成绩。

Student life

• The university's motto is Donde todas las verdades se tocan, meaning where all truths touch, expressing the ideal of a university in which different branches of knowledge meet and inform one another.该校校训为「Donde todas las verdades se tocan」，意为「一切真理在此交汇」，表达各门知识彼此相遇、相互启发的大学理想。

• The university is affectionately known as the Casa de Bello, the house of Bello, in honour of its founder and first rector Andrés Bello.该校被亲切地称为「贝略之家」，以纪念其创办人兼首任校长安德烈斯·贝略。

• UChile's mascot is the chuncho, or austral pygmy owl, a small owl associated with the university and with its football club.该校的吉祥物是「chuncho」，即南方侏儒鸮，这种小型猫头鹰与学校及其足球俱乐部相关联。

• The professional football club Club Universidad de Chile, founded in 1927 and nicknamed La U, grew out of the university community and remains one of the country's most popular clubs.创立于 1927 年、昵称「La U」的职业足球俱乐部智利大学队脱胎于大学社群，至今仍是全国最受欢迎的俱乐部之一。

• Students are represented by federations and associations that take part in university governance and organise cultural, sporting and social activities across the campuses.学生通过联合会与社团参与大学治理，并在各校区组织文化、体育与社交活动。

• The university's cultural ensembles and venues, including its symphony orchestra, ballet and national theatre, give students and the public access to a rich programme of performances.该校的交响乐团、芭蕾舞团与国家剧院等文化团体与场馆，为学生与公众提供丰富的演出节目。

• Because UChile is an urban institution spread across Santiago, student life is closely interwoven with the life of the capital, its neighbourhoods and its public transport.由于智利大学是一所散布于圣地亚哥的城市型大学，其学生生活与首都及各区的生活、公共交通紧密交织。

• Public service remains a defining feature of campus culture, reflected in the university's ethos of training professionals and researchers to address the country's social and economic challenges.服务公众仍是该校校园文化的鲜明特征，体现在其培养专业人才与研究人员以应对国家社会经济挑战的理念之中。

Notable people

• Andrés Bello, the Venezuelan poet, jurist and humanist who founded the university and served as its first rector from 1843 to 1865, also drafted Chile's Civil Code of 1855.创立该校并于 1843 至 1865 年担任首任校长的委内瑞拉诗人、法学家与人文主义者安德烈斯·贝略，还起草了 1855 年的智利民法典。

• Ignacio Domeyko, the Polish scientist and mineralogist who served as the university's second rector from 1867 to 1883, advanced the study of geology and mining in Chile.担任该校第二任校长（1867 至 1883 年）的波兰科学家、矿物学家伊格纳西奥·多梅伊科，推动了智利地质学与采矿学的发展。

• Gabriela Mistral, a poet and teacher associated with the university, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Latin American to receive it.与该校相关的诗人、教师加夫列拉·米斯特拉尔获得 1945 年诺贝尔文学奖，成为首位获此奖的拉丁美洲人。

• Pablo Neruda, the poet and diplomat who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, was educated in the university's lecture halls and remained closely linked to it.获得 1971 年诺贝尔文学奖的诗人、外交家巴勃罗·聂鲁达曾在该校课堂受教育，并与学校保持密切联系。

• Nicanor Parra, the physicist and poet who studied and later taught at the university, was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2011, the most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world.在该校就读并后任教的物理学家、诗人尼卡诺尔·帕拉于 2011 年获得米格尔·德·塞万提斯奖，这是西班牙语世界最具声望的文学奖项。

• Claudio Bunster, a theoretical physicist and alumnus of the university, received Chile's National Prize for Exact Sciences in 1995 for his work in gravitation and field theory.该校校友、理论物理学家克劳迪奥·本斯特因在引力与场论方面的研究，于 1995 年获得智利国家精确科学奖。

• Salvador Allende, who studied medicine at the university and served as President of Chile from 1970 to 1973, is among its most prominent political alumni.在该校攻读医学、并于 1970 至 1973 年担任智利总统的萨尔瓦多·阿连德，是其最著名的政治校友之一。

• Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile from 2000 to 2006, graduated in law from UChile, and Michelle Bachelet, President in 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, studied medicine there.2000 至 2006 年任智利总统的里卡多·拉戈斯毕业于该校法学院；2006 至 2010 年及 2014 至 2018 年两度任总统的米歇尔·巴切莱特则在该校攻读医学。

• Gabriel Boric, who became President of Chile in 2022, studied law at the university and began his political career in its student movement.2022 年就任智利总统的加夫列尔·博里奇在该校攻读法律，并从该校的学生运动中开始其政治生涯。

• Amanda Labarca, an educator and writer who was among the first women to teach at the university, was a leading advocate of women's access to higher education in Chile.教育工作者、作家阿曼达·拉巴尔卡是该校最早任教的女教师之一，也是智利女性接受高等教育的主要倡导者。

• Elena Caffarena, a lawyer and feminist who studied at the university, was a central figure in the campaign that won Chilean women the right to vote.在该校就读的律师、女权主义者埃莱娜·卡法雷纳，是促成智利妇女获得投票权运动的核心人物。

• José Victorino Lastarria, a writer, politician and early professor at the university, was one of the intellectual founders of the Chilean republic's liberal tradition.作家、政治家、该校早期教授何塞·维克托里诺·拉斯塔里亚，是智利共和国自由主义传统的思想奠基人之一。