Universidad de las Américas Puebla

The Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) is a private university in San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, founded in 1940 as Mexico City College by Henry L. Cain and Paul V. Murray and moved to its present campus near Cholula in 1970.拉斯美洲普埃布拉大学（Universidad de las Américas Puebla，简称 UDLAP）是墨西哥普埃布拉州圣安德烈斯乔卢拉的私立大学，1940 年由亨利·L·凯恩与保罗·V·默里以「墨西哥城学院」之名创办，1970 年迁至乔卢拉附近的现址。

It teaches through five schools and a graduate school, enrols about 9,800 students on a 180-acre campus of 38 buildings, and has been accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools since 1959, one of the few Latin American universities whose credits transfer to United States institutions.该校通过五个学院与一个研究生院教学，在占地 180 英亩、由 38 座建筑组成的校园内约有 9,800 名学生，并自 1959 年起获得美国南方院校协会（Southern Association of Colleges and Schools）认证，是少数其学分可转往美国院校的拉美大学之一。

It sits in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, was ranked 1,118th by QS in 2025 as the best-placed university in Puebla, and did not enter the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，2025 年被 QS 排在第 1,118 位，为普埃布拉州排名最高的大学，但未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名。

History

• Mexico City College opened in 1940 with Henry L. Cain and Paul V. Murray as founders, offering associate degrees in arts and sciences to a small student body in the Mexican capital and teaching in English to Mexican and foreign students alike.墨西哥城学院于 1940 年开办，创办人为亨利·L·凯恩与保罗·V·默里，在首都面向少量学生开设文科与理科副学士课程，并以英语授课，招生对象兼含墨西哥与外国学生。
• In 1946 the United States Veterans Administration added the college to its list of approved institutions, allowing American veterans to study there with federal funding under the G.I. Bill.1946 年，美国退伍军人管理局把该校列入认可院校名单，使美国退伍军人得以依据《退伍军人权利法案》以联邦资助在此就读。
• A Graduate School was created in 1947, giving the institution its first postgraduate programmes while it was still a small bilingual college for foreign and Mexican students.1947 年设立研究生院，使该校在仍是一所面向外国与墨西哥学生的小型双语学院时，就有了首批研究生项目。
• The Texas Association of Colleges accepted it as an overseas institution in 1951, an early recognition that tied its degrees to United States academic standards.1951 年，德克萨斯州院校协会接纳其为海外成员院校，这一早期认可把该校学位与美国学术标准挂钩。
• In 1959 the college joined the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, becoming at that moment the only institution in Mexico holding membership of the regional accreditor.1959 年，该校加入美国南方院校协会，当时是墨西哥唯一持有该地区认证机构会籍的院校。
• The institution changed its name to the University of the Americas in 1963 and was divided into three units, Mexico City College, the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School.1963 年，该校更名为「美洲大学」，并划分为墨西哥城学院、文理学院与研究生院三个单位。
• In 1967 the Mary Street Jenkins Foundation, together with the International Development Agency, provided the funds to build a new campus in San Andrés Cholula, Puebla.1967 年，玛丽·斯特里特·詹金斯基金会与国际开发署共同出资，在普埃布拉州圣安德烈斯乔卢拉兴建新校区。
• The following year the university adopted the Spanish form of its name, Universidad de las Américas, a change that anticipated the move away from the capital.次年，该校改用西班牙语校名「Universidad de las Américas」，这一变化预示了其迁离首都的方向。
• The university moved to the Cholula campus in 1970, leaving Mexico City behind and settling on the former Hacienda de Santa Catarina Mártir with views of the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes.1970 年，该校迁入乔卢拉校区，离开墨西哥城，落户于原圣卡塔琳娜·马尔蒂尔庄园，可眺望波波卡特佩特与伊斯特西瓦特尔两座火山。
• The Institute of Technology, which became the School of Engineering, was created in 1971 to train engineers for the industrial belt around Puebla and Cholula.理工学院于 1971 年创设，后发展为工程学院，为普埃布拉与乔卢拉一带的工业带培养工程师。
• The School of Economics and Business Sciences was added in 1978, giving the university a third professional school alongside arts and sciences and engineering.1978 年增设经济与商业科学学院，使该校在文理与工程之外拥有第三个专业学院。
• The Institute of Advanced Studies was founded in 1986 as a postgraduate research unit, extending the university beyond undergraduate teaching for the first time.1986 年成立高级研究所，作为研究生科研单位，首次把该校的办学范围拓展到本科教学之外。
• In 1988 the School of Humanities and Social Sciences was divided into two separate academic units, a recognition that the two fields had outgrown a single faculty.1988 年，人文与社会科学学院拆分为两个独立学术单位，反映两个领域已无法由单一学院承载。
• The School of Sciences was created in 1989, completing the five-school structure that still defines the university's academic organisation.1989 年设立理学院，形成至今仍界定该校学术架构的五大学院格局。
• New science laboratories and a humanities building were added in 1990, and in 1994 the campus became one of the first in Mexico with networked voice and data connections.1990 年新建理科实验室与人文楼；1994 年，该校区成为墨西哥最早实现语音与数据网络连接的校园之一。
• The library was remodelled in 1997 and opened digital access to students, while the Institute of Public Policies and the Center for Regional Development were created in 2002.1997 年图书馆完成改造并向学生开放数字资源；2002 年成立公共政策研究所与区域发展中心。
• The Language Learning and Research Complex (CAIL) was completed in 2005, the same year the university hosted the third Real Madrid youth soccer school opened outside Spain.语言学习与研究综合体（CAIL）于 2005 年落成；同年，该校承办了皇家马德里在西班牙以外开设的第三所青少年足球学校。
• In 2006 the university launched 11 new bachelor's degrees and nine master's programmes, including nanotechnology, molecular engineering and culinary arts, which the university presented as innovative Mexican firsts.2006 年，该校推出 11 个新本科专业与 9 个硕士项目，其中包括纳米技术、分子工程与烹饪艺术，三者均为墨西哥最早开设的同类学位之一。
• Programmes in medicine, dentistry and nursing were announced for 2007, extending the university into clinical education and requiring new health-science laboratories.2007 年宣布开设医学、牙科与护理专业，使该校进入临床教育领域，并需要新建健康科学实验室。
• A wastewater treatment plant was inaugurated in 2011, part of the environmental infrastructure installed as the campus expanded its laboratory and residential buildings.2011 年建成污水处理厂，这是该校在校园内就地处理水与废弃物、而非排入周边含水层政策的一部分。
• Twenty years after the move to Cholula the university had consolidated five schools, a graduate school and a residential college system modelled explicitly on Yale and Harvard.迁址乔卢拉二十年后，该校已整合五个学院、一个研究生院，以及明确仿照耶鲁与哈佛建立的住宿学院体系。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into five schools, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Engineering, Science, and Business and Economics, together with a School of Graduate Studies and Research.教学分为社会科学、艺术与人文、工程、理学、商业与经济学五个学院，另设研究生与研究学院。
• In December 2005 the School of Social Sciences merged with Arts and Humanities, and Engineering merged with Science, in a restructuring intended to give students a broader education.2005 年 12 月，社会科学学院与艺术人文学院合并、工程学院与理学院合并，这次重组旨在为学生提供更宽广的教育。
• The Department of International Affairs sits outside the five schools and manages exchange, dual degrees and the university's agreements with foreign institutions.国际事务系不隶属于五大学院，负责交换、双学位以及该校与海外院校的协议。
• About 25 per cent of professors belong to Mexico's National System of Researchers, an unusually high share for a private university in a system where research is concentrated in public institutions.约 25% 的教授隶属墨西哥国家研究者系统；在以公立机构为科研主力的墨西哥体系中，这一比例对私立大学而言相当高。
• The faculty numbered 763 members, 44 per cent of them full-time, with the rest employed as contract lecturers across the undergraduate programmes.该校教师共 763 人，其中 44% 为全职，其余以合约讲师身份承担本科课程。
• Between 2009 and 2011 the university produced 364 research works, including 330 publications comprising refereed articles, conference papers, book chapters and theses.2009 至 2011 年间，该校产出 364 项研究成果，其中 330 项为出版物，包括同行评议论文、会议论文、专著章节与学位论文。
• The graduate school runs two doctorates, in economics and in computer science, created in the 2000s when very few Mexican private universities offered research degrees.研究生院开设经济学与计算机科学两个博士项目，均创设于 2000 年代，当时墨西哥私立大学中提供研究型学位的极少。
• Undergraduate enrolment stands at roughly 9,800, and about 40 per cent of students receive financial aid from the university in the form of scholarships or fee reductions.本科与研究生合计约 9,800 人，其中约 40% 的学生以获得奖学金或学费减免的形式接受校方资助。
• In 2004 the university admitted 1,647 new students, 250 of them international, a ratio that reflects its long reliance on foreign recruitment.2004 年该校录取新生 1,647 人，其中 250 人为国际学生，这一比例反映其长期依赖海外招生的特点。
• International study is offered at more than 300 partner universities in 30 countries, and 1,114 international exchange students came to the Cholula campus in a single recent year.该校在 30 个国家的 300 余所合作院校提供海外学习机会；最近一年有 1,114 名国际交换生来到乔卢拉校区。
• Beyond federal recognition by the Secretariat of Public Education, programmes are accredited by SACS, ABET for engineering, FIMPES, CACEI, COMAEM for medicine, CONAED for law, ACCECISO for social sciences, COMAEF for pharmacy and CNEIP for psychology.除获得公共教育部认可外，该校项目还分别通过 SACS、工程领域的 ABET、FIMPES、CACEI、医学领域的 COMAEM、法学领域的 CONAED、社会科学领域的 ACCECISO、药学领域的 COMAEF 与心理学领域的 CNEIP 认证。
• The CAIL complex, finished in 2005, concentrates language teaching and research, and most undergraduate degrees require students to reach a set level of English before graduation.2005 年落成的 CAIL 综合体集中承担语言教学与研究；该校多数本科专业要求学生达到英语能力标准方可毕业。
• Research facilities include chemistry laboratories, an optical communications laboratory attached to the Research Center on Automation Technology, and laboratories for food science and nanotechnology.科研设施包括化学实验室、隶属自动化技术研究中心的光通信实验室，以及食品科学与纳米技术实验室。
• The main library was remodelled in 1997 to add digital catalogues and online journals, and it now serves as the study hub of the campus together with the Student Center.主图书馆于 1997 年改造，增设数字目录与在线期刊，现与学生中心一同构成校园的学习枢纽。
• The university runs the UDLAP Nobel Conference twice a year, inviting Nobel laureates to lecture on their research and on the experience of working at that level.该校每年举办两次「UDLAP 诺贝尔讲座」，邀请诺贝尔奖得主就其研究与获奖经历作报告。
• Since the summer of 2007 it has hosted a Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth programme for eighth to tenth graders, bringing school pupils onto the campus for accelerated courses.自 2007 年夏季起，该校承办约翰斯·霍普金斯大学「天才青少年中心」项目，让初中生进入校园修读加速课程。
• The business and economics school teaches finance, accounting, international business and economics, and the university is best known in Mexico for its finance and engineering programmes.商业与经济学院开设金融、会计、国际商务与经济学；在墨西哥，该校最知名的领域是金融与工程类项目。

Campus

• The campus covers 180 acres, about 728,000 square metres, and comprises 38 buildings located 12 miles west of downtown Puebla and less than two miles south of Cholula's centre.校园占地 180 英亩、约 728,000 平方米，由 38 座建筑组成，位于普埃布拉市中心以西 12 英里、乔卢拉中心以南不足 2 英里。
• It was built on the Hacienda de Santa Catarina Mártir, a former estate whose name survives in the campus address, Ex Hacienda Santa Catarina Mártir, Cholula 72810, and in the university's official documents.校园建于原圣卡塔琳娜·马尔蒂尔庄园（Hacienda de Santa Catarina Mártir）之上，庄园之名保留在校址（Ex Hacienda Santa Catarina Mártir，Cholula 72810）与学校正式文件中。
• The 38 buildings include six classroom blocks, two laboratory buildings, three on-campus dormitories, one off-campus dormitory, two soccer fields, an American football field, a baseball field, two gymnasiums, tennis courts, two cafeterias, a library, a Student Center, an auditorium and housing for professors.38 座建筑包括 6 栋教学楼、2 栋实验楼、3 座校内宿舍、1 座校外宿舍、2 个足球场、1 个美式橄榄球场、1 个棒球场、2 座体育馆、网球场、2 个食堂、1 座图书馆、1 个学生中心、1 座礼堂与教师住宅。
• The site lies on the plain between Puebla and Cholula, and the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl are visible from the campus on clear days.校址位于普埃布拉与乔卢拉之间的平原上，晴朗时可从校园望见波波卡特佩特与伊斯特西瓦特尔火山。
• Unique in Mexico, the university runs four residential colleges named Cain Murray, Ray Lindley, Ignacio Bernal and José Gaos, modelled on the Yale and Harvard house systems.该校设有四所住宿学院，分别名为凯恩-默里、雷·林德利、伊格纳西奥·贝尔纳与何塞·加奥斯，仿照耶鲁与哈佛的住宿学院制，在墨西哥颇为独特。
• The colleges house students across years and disciplines and each has its own dining room and common rooms, in the manner of the American house systems they copy.住宿学院跨年级、跨学科混住，各院自设餐厅、公共活动室与导师制，而非按年级分层住宿。
• In the historic centre of Puebla the university operates the Capilla del Arte, a gallery and auditorium housed in a 1910s Art Nouveau building built for the La Ciudad de México department store.该校在普埃布拉历史中心运营「艺术礼拜堂」（Capilla del Arte），其画廊与礼堂设于 1910 年代为「墨西哥城百货」建造的新艺术风格建筑内。
• The same building later housed the Fábricas de Francia department store before the university converted it into a cultural venue for music, dance, theatre, film and literature.该建筑后来曾为「法兰西工厂」百货所用，之后由校方改建为涵盖音乐、舞蹈、戏剧、电影与文学的文化场所。
• The Casa del Caballero Águila, a second university museum in Puebla, hosts concerts, art exhibitions and lectures alongside the Capilla del Arte.位于普埃布拉的「鹰骑士之家」是该校第二座博物馆，与艺术礼拜堂一同举办音乐会、艺术展览与讲座。

Reputation

• UDLAP is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval in the global table.拉斯美洲普埃布拉大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，这是全球榜单中的并列区间。
• In the 2025 QS table it was ranked 1,118th, the highest position among the three Puebla universities listed, ahead of BUAP at 1,213 and UPAEP at 1,477 in an edition that assessed 1,503 institutions worldwide.在 2025 年 QS 榜中该校位列第 1,118 位，是普埃布拉三所上榜高校中的最高位次，高于第 1,213 位的 BUAP 与第 1,477 位的 UPAEP；该版共评估全球 1,503 所院校。
• Its QS trajectory peaked in the 751-800 band in 2019 and 2020, fell to 951-1000 in 2024 and settled in the 1001-1200 band from 2025 to 2027.其 QS 位次在 2019 与 2020 年达到 751-800 区间的高点，2024 年降至 951-1000，2025 至 2027 年稳定在 1001-1200 区间。
• It did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and it did not appear in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 main table either.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未出现在 US News 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学主榜中。
• It also stayed outside the main table of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, so QS remains its only global ranking reference.该校同样未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，因此 QS 仍是其唯一的全球排名参照。
• In the annual El Universal ranking of Mexican universities it was graded the best in the Puebla metropolitan area, above UPAEP, BUAP and the Puebla campus of the Ibero-American University.在《宇宙报》年度墨西哥高校评估中，该校获评普埃布拉都会区最佳，领先于 UPAEP、BUAP 与伊比利亚美洲大学普埃布拉校区。
• The same study placed it fourth among private universities nationally and ninth overall, while employers ranked it second in Mexico after UNAM.同一项研究把该校列为全国私立大学第四、全部高校第九；在雇主评价中，它位列墨西哥第二，仅次于墨西哥国立自治大学。
• In the teaching evaluation of that ranking it came third nationally, behind UNAM and ITAM, a result the university cites in its own promotional material.在该榜的教学评估中，该校位列全国第三，仅次于墨西哥国立自治大学与 ITAM，校方在宣传材料中引用这一结果。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 5,131 works and 142,049 citations, a small output in absolute terms but high for a Mexican private university without a medical research base.OpenAlex 收录该校 5,131 项研究成果与 142,049 次引用，绝对数量不大，但对一所没有医学研究基础的墨西哥私立大学而言已属可观。
• Its SACS accreditation, held since 1959, remains its principal international differentiator, allowing credits and degrees to be recognised by universities in the United States.自 1959 年持有的 SACS 认证仍是其最主要的国际差异点，使学分与学位能为美国高校所承认。

Student life

• The university's teams are the Aztecas, and the American football team has won three National League (ONEFA) championships and now plays in the CONADEIP Premier League.该校运动队名为「阿兹特克人」，其美式橄榄球队曾三夺全国联赛（ONEFA）冠军，现参加 CONADEIP 超级联赛。
• The Real Madrid youth soccer school opened on campus on 7 February 2005, the third such school the club had established outside Spain.皇家马德里青少年足球学校于 2005 年 2 月 7 日在校园开学，是该俱乐部在西班牙以外设立的第三所同类学校。
• The men's basketball team was Puebla state champion in 2006, and the university fields teams in football, volleyball, track and field and taekwondo in national competitions.男子篮球队于 2006 年获普埃布拉州冠军；该校在全国赛事中派出足球、排球、田径与跆拳道队伍。
• Herman Adam, the university's best-known track athlete, competed at the Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992 Olympics and ran 10.39 seconds for 100 metres in CONADEIP competition.赫尔曼·亚当是该校最著名的田径运动员，曾参加 1988 年首尔与 1992 年巴塞罗那奥运会，并在 CONADEIP 比赛中跑出 100 米 10.39 秒。
• Residential life follows the four colleges, each named after a figure in the university's history, and students take meals and tutorial sessions within their college.住宿生活以四所学院为单位，各院均以校史上的重要人物命名，学生在所属学院用餐并参加导师课。
• The UDLAP Nobel Conference, held twice a year, brings laureates to lecture and meet students, and has become the university's signature academic event.每年举办两次的「UDLAP 诺贝尔讲座」邀请诺奖得主演讲并与学生交流，已成为该校的标志性学术活动。
• Each summer since 2007 the campus has hosted the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, filling laboratories and classrooms with secondary-school pupils from Mexico and abroad.自 2007 年起，每年夏季校园都承办约翰斯·霍普金斯「天才青少年中心」项目，来自墨西哥及海外的中学生进入实验室与课堂。
• International students come from more than 30 countries, and a student group called Amigos Internacionales pairs them with Mexican students during their first weeks.国际学生来自 30 多个国家；名为「Amigos Internacionales」的学生组织在开学头几周为他们安排墨西哥伙伴。
• Capilla del Arte and the Casa del Caballero Águila give students exhibition, concert and lecture space in central Puebla, linking campus culture to the city's historic centre.艺术礼拜堂与鹰骑士之家为学生提供位于普埃布拉市中心的展览、音乐会与讲座空间，把校园文化与该市历史中心连接起来。

Notable people

• Henry L. Cain, an American educator, co-founded Mexico City College in 1940 and shaped its bilingual, liberal-arts curriculum in its first decades.美国教育家亨利·L·凯恩于 1940 年参与创办墨西哥城学院，并在最初数十年塑造其双语博雅课程。
• Paul V. Murray, Cain's co-founder, served as the institution's early academic leader and helped secure its first American accreditation.保罗·V·默里与凯恩共同创办该校，早期主持学术事务，并推动其获得最初的美国认证。
• Ray Lindley, a former president of the institution, is commemorated in one of the four residential colleges that carry the names of figures from its history.曾任该校校长的雷·林德利，其名字被用于四所住宿学院之一，以纪念校史上的重要人物。
• Ignacio Bernal, the Mexican archaeologist who directed excavations at Monte Albán, is honoured in the name of a residential college.主持蒙特阿尔班遗址发掘的墨西哥考古学家伊格纳西奥·贝尔纳，其名字被用于一所住宿学院。
• José Gaos, the Spanish philosopher who taught in Mexican exile after 1938, is also commemorated in a college name.1938 年后流亡墨西哥任教的西班牙哲学家何塞·加奥斯，同样以一栋住宿学院的名字受到纪念。
• Luis Ernesto Derbez, Mexico's secretary of economy from 2000 to 2002 and foreign minister from 2003 to 2006, later served as rector of the university.路易斯·埃内斯托·德尔贝斯于 2000 至 2002 年任墨西哥经济部长、2003 至 2006 年任外交部长，其后出任该校校长。
• Mario Molina, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone depletion, received an honorary doctorate from the university.因氯氟烃与平流层臭氧耗损研究分享 1995 年诺贝尔化学奖的马里奥·莫利纳，获该校授予荣誉博士学位。
• Enrique V. Iglesias, president of the Inter-American Development Bank from 1988 to 2005, was awarded an honorary doctorate for his work on Latin American development.1988 至 2005 年任美洲开发银行行长的恩里克·V·伊格莱西亚斯，因拉美发展研究获该校荣誉博士学位。
• William Richardson, governor of New Mexico, received an honorary doctorate that reflected the university's ties with the south-western United States.美国新墨西哥州州长威廉·理查森获该校荣誉博士学位，体现学校与美国西南部的联系。
• José Julián Sidaoui, deputy governor of the Bank of Mexico, was honoured for his work on monetary policy and financial stability.墨西哥银行副行长何塞·胡利安·西道维因其在货币政策与金融稳定方面的研究获该校荣誉学位。
• Roy R. Rubottom Jr., a former United States assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, served as the university's president from 1971 to 1973.曾任美国负责美洲事务的助理国务卿的罗伊·R·鲁博顿二世，于 1971 至 1973 年出任该校校长。
• Nora Lustig, a specialist on inequality and poverty in Latin America, taught at the university and later became a professor at Tulane University.拉美不平等与贫困问题专家诺拉·卢斯蒂格曾在该校任教，后成为杜兰大学教授。