Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

Universidad de los Andes (Spanish: Universidad de los Andes), commonly called Uniandes, is a private nonsectarian research university in the historic centre of Bogotá, Colombia.哥伦比亚安第斯大学（西班牙文：Universidad de los Andes，简称 Uniandes）是哥伦比亚首都波哥大历史城区的一所私立、非宗教派别研究型大学。

It was founded in 1948 by a group of young Colombian intellectuals led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, becoming the first university in the country established as nonsectarian and independent of any political party or religious institution.该校由马里奥·拉斯尔纳·平松（Mario Laserna Pinzón）等一批年轻知识人士于 1948 年创办，成为哥伦比亚第一所不属于任何政党与宗教机构的非宗教派别大学。

As of 2026 it enrols about 20,632 students and employs 671 full-time-equivalent professors, and the QS World University Rankings 2027 place it joint 233rd in the world and first in Colombia.截至 2026 年，该校在校学生约 2.06 万人，全职当量专任教师 671 人；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 233 位（并列），居哥伦比亚第一。

History

• In 1930 a Liberal electoral victory ended nearly half a century of Conservative control of the Colombian presidency and opened a period of state-led modernisation in which universities became instruments of national development.1930 年自由党赢得大选，结束了保守党对哥伦比亚总统职位近半个世纪的掌控，开启了以国家主导现代化建设、并把大学当作发展工具的时期。
• Under the Liberal Republic the administration of Alfonso López Pumarejo (1934-1938 and 1942-1946) restructured the National University of Colombia in 1935 and carried out an agrarian reform in 1936.在「自由共和国」时期，阿方索·洛佩斯·普马雷霍政府（1934 至 1938 年、1942 至 1946 年）于 1935 年改组哥伦比亚国立大学，并于 1936 年推行土地改革。
• Rapid industrial growth followed, and some estimates hold that around half of the Colombian corporations existing in 1945 had been founded between 1940 and 1945, creating an urban middle class with international ambitions.此后工业化迅速推进，有估计认为 1945 年时哥伦比亚约半数企业创立于 1940 至 1945 年间，由此形成一个具有国际视野的城市中产阶级。
• In 1946 the Colombian Minister of Education told Congress that the country lacked engineers, architects, physicians, chemists and even lawyers in sufficient numbers, so that enlarging the universities was the only remedy.1946 年哥伦比亚教育部长在国会指出，全国严重缺乏工程师、建筑师、医生、化学家乃至律师，扩大大学规模是唯一的出路。
• The assassination of the Liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on 9 April 1948 set off the Bogotazo riots, an upheaval that the founders took as the strongest argument for creating a new university.1948 年 4 月 9 日自由党领袖豪尔赫·埃利塞尔·盖坦遇刺，引发「波哥大事件」骚乱；创办者把这场动荡视为创建一所新大学最有力的理由。
• The university was legally constituted in February 1948 as a non-profit corporation of public utility, and classes began on 29 March 1949 with only 80 students.该校于 1948 年 2 月依法登记为公益性质的非营利法人，并于 1949 年 3 月 29 日开课，首批仅有 80 名学生。
• Mario Laserna Pinzón, newly returned from Columbia University, founded the university in November 1948 together with intellectuals from both traditional parties and modelled it on the American university.马里奥·拉斯尔纳·平松刚从哥伦比亚大学归来，于 1948 年 11 月与两大传统政党的知识人士共同创办该校，并以美国式大学为蓝本。
• Its aim was to give Colombia professionals whose technical knowledge would drive national development and who would lead the country in the post-war world, as set out in the Declaration of the Principles of the Founders.据《创办人原则宣言》，其目标是培养以专门知识推动国家发展、并在战后世界担当领导的人才。
• By the second academic year, 1950, the university drew about 400 applications for 110 places, and a small Colegio de Estudios Superiores modelled on the American college taught humanities and sciences to first-year students.到第二个学年即 1950 年，学校收到约 400 份申请竞争 110 个名额；仿照美国大学本科学院的「高等研究学院」为一年级学生讲授人文与科学课程。
• From 1950 a so-called three-two programme let students spend three years at Los Andes and then transfer to an American university such as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Vanderbilt University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or the University of Pittsburgh.自 1950 年起，学校设立「三二制」，学生先在安第斯大学就读三年，再转入伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校、范德堡大学、麻省理工学院或匹兹堡大学等美国高校完成本科学业。
• The cost of study in the United States was met by Colombian industry such as Avianca and the Paz del Río Steelworks, by the Rockefeller Foundation and by private donors, and was administered through the government agency ICETEX.赴美学习费用由哥伦比亚企业（如哥伦比亚航空、帕斯德里奥钢铁公司）、洛克菲勒基金会与私人捐赠者承担，并通过政府机构 ICETEX 管理。
• In the early 1950s the university experimented with new units and recruited professors from the National University of Colombia and the Normal Superior School, while a Cultural Extension Section invited speakers such as the mathematician John von Neumann and the physicist Hideki Yukawa.1950 年代初学校尝试设立新的单位，并从哥伦比亚国立大学与高等师范学校延聘教授；其文化推广部门还邀请数学家约翰·冯·诺伊曼与物理学家汤川秀树等前来演讲。
• In 1953 the university created a Female Section, which grew out of the extension lectures and offered courses without conferring professional degrees.1953 年学校设立「女生部」，其前身是文化推广讲座，开设课程但不授予专业学位。
• Political neutrality was preserved through the violent 1950s, and the presence of Conservative and Liberal figures on the board, among the rectors and in the staff kept good relations with successive governments.在政治暴力频仍的 1950 年代，学校始终维持政治中立；董事会、校长与行政人员中兼有保守党与自由党人士，使其与历届政府保持良好关系。
• In 1956 a metallic cylindrical structure nicknamed La Caneca was installed on campus and became the university's sports centre, with a gym, a pool and courts for tennis, squash and football.1956 年校园内建成一座被戏称为「垃圾桶」的金属圆柱建筑，后成为学校体育中心，内有健身房、游泳池以及网球、壁球与足球场地。
• The Colombian government recognised the university's legal personality by Resolution 28 of 23 February 1949 and granted it full university status by Decree 1297 of 30 May 1964.政府先于 1949 年 2 月 23 日以第 28 号决议承认其法人资格，又于 1964 年 5 月 30 日以第 1297 号法令授予其正式大学地位。
• As of 2022 the governance arrangements defined by the statutes had last been amended and ratified in 2009, and the university is governed by a Board of Trustees whose 30 to 45 members include professors and students.截至 2022 年，章程所定的治理架构最近一次修订与批准在 2009 年；学校由董事会治理，其 30 至 45 名成员中包含教授与学生代表。
• On 26 January 2015 the National Ministry of Education granted Los Andes Institutional Accreditation of High Quality for ten years, the country's highest recognition of a university.2015 年 1 月 26 日哥伦比亚国家教育部授予安第斯大学为期十年的「高质量机构认证」，这是该国对大学的最高认定。
• Raquel Bernal Salazar became rector in April 2022, the first woman to lead the university, succeeding the economist Alejandro Gaviria.2022 年 4 月，拉克尔·贝尔纳尔·萨拉萨尔出任校长，成为该校首位女性掌门人，接替经济学家亚历杭德罗·加维里亚。
• A reform of general education approved in the 2020s entered into force in the second semester of 2026, rebuilding the undergraduate curriculum around a common interdisciplinary core.学校在 2020 年代批准的本科通识教育改革自 2026 年第二学期起生效，围绕跨学科的公共核心重构本科课程。

Academics

• Los Andes is composed of nine schools plus three special academic entities, namely the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government, the Center for Research and Training in Education (CIFE) and the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies (CIDER).安第斯大学由 9 个学院及 3 个专门学术单位组成，即阿尔贝托·列拉斯·卡马戈政府学院、教育研究与培训中心（CIFE）与跨学科发展研究中心（CIDER）。
• It also runs a joint academic venture with the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, one of Colombia's leading medical institutions, through the Santa Fe Foundation teaching hospital in the north of the city.学校还与哥伦比亚著名医疗机构圣菲波哥大基金会合作，在城北的圣菲基金会教学医院开展联合办学。
• As of 2026 the university offered 192 academic programmes spanning medicine, engineering, science, law and the humanities, with 31 undergraduate, 18 doctoral and 38 graduate degree programmes.截至 2026 年，学校开设 192 个学术项目，涵盖医学、工程、理学、法学与人文学等领域，含 31 个本科、18 个博士与 38 个研究生学位项目。
• Its faculty numbers 671 full-time-equivalent professors as of 2026, and about 73 per cent of its full-time teaching staff hold a doctorate.截至 2026 年，学校有全职当量专任教师 671 人，其专任教师中约 73% 拥有博士学位。
• The university reported 1,725 academic products in 2025 in the Academia and OpenAlex databases, part of a research output of 36,832 works and 1,931,371 citations attributed to it by OpenAlex.据 Academia 与 OpenAlex 数据库，学校 2025 年产出 1725 项学术成果；OpenAlex 为其累计收录 36832 项成果、被引 1931371 次。
• Its students comprise about 14,300 undergraduates and some 2,800 postgraduate and doctoral students in recent university statistics, a student body that is roughly 55 per cent male and 45 per cent female.据学校近年统计，其学生中约 1.43 万名为本科生、约 2800 名为研究生与博士生，学生性别比例大致为男 55%、女 45%。
• Teaching is organised in four cycles covering basic professional subjects, a common socio-humanistic elective cycle of about 180 courses, the main professional cycle and a complementary cycle.教学分为四个阶段：基础专业课程、约 180 门课程构成的通识选修（社会人文）模块、专业核心阶段与专业补充阶段。
• Undergraduate students may take courses from any programme at the university, an interdisciplinary design that lets them build individual curricula with academic advisers.本科生可选修校内任何专业的课程，这种跨学科设计使其能在学业导师帮助下量身定制个人课程。
• At least three of its fields, engineering, medicine and the social sciences, are nationally recognised and underpin its standing as one of the strongest universities in Colombia.其工程学、医学与社会科学至少三个领域获全国性认可，支撑其作为哥伦比亚最强大学之一的地位。
• The Medical School and its partner hospital, the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, form a major centre of clinical education and biomedical research in the capital.医学院及其合作医院圣菲波哥大基金会，构成首都临床教学与生物医学研究的重要中心。
• The university library system holds 681,717 volumes ranging from medieval manuscripts to contemporary works and runs a central library with five specialised satellite libraries.学校图书馆系统藏有 681717 册文献，涵盖从中世纪手稿到当代著作；设有 1 座中心馆与 5 座按领域划分的分馆。
• Academic life is supported by more than 143 accredited research groups spread across ten faculties and the School of Government.学校学术生活依托 143 个以上经认证的研究团队，分布于 10 个学院与政府学院。
• Los Andes maintains exchange agreements with more than 119 universities in 34 countries and operates the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government as its flagship school of public affairs.学校与 34 个国家的 119 所以上高校签订交换协议，并设有作为其公共事务旗舰的阿尔贝托·列拉斯·卡马戈政府学院。
• International students attend either as visiting students taking at least three courses per semester or as exchange students taking between two and six courses.国际学生或以访问生身份每学期至少修读 3 门课程，或以交换生身份每学期修读 2 至 6 门课程。
• The university belongs to Colombian and international academic networks and is accredited by the National Ministry of Education, whose Registro Calificado qualification its programmes hold.学校加入哥伦比亚及国际学术网络，并获国家教育部认证，其项目持有「注册资质」。

Campus

• The main campus occupies about 9.7 hectares in the historic centre of Bogotá, close to the city's cultural buildings, government offices, banks and theatres.主校区占地约 9.7 公顷，位于波哥大历史城区，毗邻该市的文化建筑、政府机关、银行与剧院。
• Uniandes began in 1948 on land rented from the Community of the Good Shepherd and stayed there for about five years before buying its first plots, including a convent and a former women's prison.1948 年学校在向「善牧会」租用的土地上开办，约五年后才购入第一批地产，其中包括一座修道院与一座旧女子监狱。
• The campus mixes renovated industrial and religious buildings with new facilities and covers 205,360 square metres of construction, including about 116 classrooms and 219 laboratories.校园将翻新的工业与宗教建筑与新设施融为一体，建筑面积 205360 平方米，含约 116 间教室与 219 间实验室。
• Its library system, with a central library and five satellite libraries, offers students more than 445,000 books, and the campus has about 3,019 computers available for student use.其图书馆系统含 1 座中心馆与 5 座分馆，为学生提供逾 44.5 万册图书；校园内约有 3019 台供学生使用的计算机。
• La Caneca, the cylindrical sports centre installed in 1956, houses a gym, a swimming pool and courts for tennis, squash and football on the main campus.1956 年建成的圆柱形体育中心 La Caneca 位于主校区，内有健身房、游泳池以及网球、壁球与足球场地。
• On campus there are cafeterias, health services and study areas, and the site sits within a district of libraries, museums, theatres and scientific and literary centres.校内有食堂、医疗服务与自习区；校区所在城区遍布图书馆、博物馆、剧院以及科学与文学机构。
• Besides the central campus the university runs a medical internships centre at the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, in the northern part of the city.除中心校区外，学校还在城北的圣菲波哥大基金会设有医学实习中心。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Los Andes joint 233rd in the world and first in Colombia, among the leading universities of Latin America.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将安第斯大学列为世界第 233 位（并列）、哥伦比亚第 1 位，位居拉丁美洲领先高校之列。^[1]
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 801-1000 band, a placement that reflects the different weighting of research and teaching reputation used by that table.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列 801 至 1000 区间，这一名次反映了该榜单对科研与教学声誉的不同权重口径。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2022, its most recent appearance in that table, placed it in the 901-1000 band, a reminder that research-intensive rankings weight universities differently.2022 年世界大学学术排名（该校最近一次入榜）将其列入 901 至 1000 区间，说明以科研为重的榜单与其它口径的差异。
• Within Colombia Los Andes is consistently ranked first, ahead of the National University of Colombia, in the QS and other global tables.在哥伦比亚国内，安第斯大学在 QS 等全球榜单中通常领先于哥伦比亚国立大学，位居第一。
• OpenAlex attributes 36,832 works and 1,931,371 citations to the university, and its h-index of 451 reflects a large and heavily cited research base.OpenAlex 为该校收录 36832 项成果、被引 1931371 次，其 h 指数 451 反映出庞大且被高度引用的科研基础。
• In 2024 the university was named among the strongest research universities in Latin America in fields such as development studies, engineering and the social sciences, and it has long ranked first in Colombia.2024 年该校在发展研究、工程学与社会科学等领域获评为拉丁美洲最强研究型大学之一，并长期位居哥伦比亚第一。
• The university is a member of networks such as Universia and the Colombian Association of Universities, linking it to peer institutions in the Spanish-speaking world.学校是 Universia 与哥伦比亚大学协会等网络的成员，把自身与西语世界的同侪院校联结起来。
• Its Institutional Accreditation of High Quality, granted in 2015 for ten years, is the strongest official endorsement a Colombian university can hold.其 2015 年获授、有效期十年的「高质量机构认证」，是哥伦比亚大学所能获得的最高官方背书。
• At least 143 accredited research groups and dozens of doctoral programmes support its claim to be the country's leading research university.至少 143 个经认证的研究团队与数十个博士项目，支撑其作为该国领先研究型大学的主张。

Student life

• Los Andes has no official motto, and instead states its purpose through the Declaration of the Principles of the Founders and its statutes on pluralism and academic freedom.安第斯大学没有正式校训，而是通过《创办人原则宣言》以及关于多元与学术自由的章程来申明其办学宗旨。
• The goat Seneca, named after the Roman Stoic philosopher, has been the university mascot since a goat wandered the campus in the late 1940s, and the original animal died in 1966.学校吉祥物是以罗马斯多葛哲学家命名的山羊「塞内卡」；这一传统始于 1940 年代后期一只在校园游荡的山羊，它于 1966 年死去。
• Every year a live goat is brought to the campus for Students' Day, and the wireless network spots are named after Seneca in memory of the original mascot.每年「学生日」学校都会把一只活山羊带到校园，无线网络节点也以「塞内卡」命名，以纪念最初的那只山羊。
• Students organise a wide range of societies and cultural activities, and the campus in the historic centre places them close to the city's museums, theatres and libraries.学生组织种类繁多的社团与文化活动；位于历史城区的校园使他们就近接触城市的博物馆、剧院与图书馆。
• About 30 per cent of students come from outside Bogotá, and 95 per cent of undergraduates were among the top one per cent of high-school students in the country.约 30% 的学生来自波哥大以外地区，95% 的本科生属于全国成绩前 1% 的高中毕业生。
• The university colours are black and yellow, and inter-faculty sports and recreational programmes are run through La Caneca and other campus facilities.学校校色为黑与黄；院际体育与文娱活动在 La Caneca 等校园设施中开展。
• The university runs exchange and summer programmes and an alumni network that keeps graduates connected across Colombia and abroad.学校设有交换与暑期项目，并以校友网络把遍布哥伦比亚与海外的毕业生联结起来。

Notable people

• Mario Laserna Pinzón, the founder of the university in 1948, was a mathematician and politician who had studied at Columbia University in New York.马里奥·拉斯尔纳·平松是 1948 年该校的创办人，曾就读于纽约哥伦比亚大学，是一位数学家与政治家。
• Gabriel Betancourt, a founder and early rector who served as Minister of Education, created the ICETEX student-credit agency that funded Colombians studying abroad.加布里埃尔·贝坦库尔特是创办人兼早期校长、曾任教育部长，创办了资助哥伦比亚人海外求学的 ICETEX 学生信贷机构。
• César Gaviria, a Los Andes alumnus, was President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994 and oversaw the 1991 constitution.塞萨尔·加维里亚是安第斯大学校友，1990 至 1994 年任哥伦比亚总统，主持了 1991 年制宪。
• Alejandro Gaviria, an economist and former rector of the university, later served as Minister of Health and then as Minister of National Education.亚历杭德罗·加维里亚是经济学家、该校前校长，后任卫生部长，随后又任国家教育部长。
• María Ángela Holguín, a graduate, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia and as the country's permanent representative to the United Nations.玛丽亚·安赫拉·奥尔金是该校毕业生，曾任哥伦比亚外交部长及该国常驻联合国代表。
• Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría, an alumnus, was Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia and had earlier directed the university's development research centre CIDER.毛里西奥·卡德纳斯·桑塔马里亚是校友、曾任哥伦比亚财政与公共信贷部长，并早先执掌该校发展研究中心 CIDER。
• Luis Caballero, a painter and alumnus of Los Andes, was one of the leading Colombian artists of the twentieth century.路易斯·卡巴列罗是该校校友与画家，为 20 世纪哥伦比亚重要艺术家之一。
• Ana María Rey, a Colombian theoretical physicist who earned her degree at Los Andes, became a leading researcher in quantum physics and a MacArthur Fellow in 2013.安娜·玛丽亚·雷伊是哥伦比亚理论物理学家，在安第斯大学取得学位，成长为量子物理领域的领先研究者，并于 2013 年当选麦克阿瑟学者。
• Fernando Botero Zea, an alumnus, served as Minister of National Defense of Colombia, as did Gabriel Silva Luján and Rafael Pardo Rueda.校友费尔南多·博特罗·塞亚曾任哥伦比亚国防部长，加布里埃尔·席尔瓦·卢汉与拉斐尔·帕尔多·鲁埃达也曾任该职。
• Gustavo De La Vega, an alumnus, became an entrepreneur and investor, and Fidel Cano Correa, another graduate, became chief executive of the newspaper El Espectador.校友古斯塔沃·德拉维加成为企业家与投资人，另一位毕业生菲德尔·卡诺·科雷亚出任《观察家报》首席执行官。
• Gabriela Tafur, who studied law at Los Andes, was Miss Colombia in 2018, and the actress Paola Turbay, also an alumna, was Miss Colombia in 1992.在安第斯大学攻读法律的加布里埃拉·塔富尔当选 2018 年哥伦比亚小姐，同为校友的演员保拉·图尔拜则是 1992 年哥伦比亚小姐。
• Simón Vélez, an architect and alumnus, is known internationally for pioneering the use of bamboo as a structural building material.建筑师、校友西蒙·贝莱斯以开创性地将竹子用作建筑结构材料而闻名国际。