Universidad del Desarrollo

Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), rendered in English as the University of Development, is a private, non-profit Chilean university founded in Concepción in 1990, with its main teaching campus at San Carlos de Apoquindo in the Las Condes district of Santiago and a second academic base in Concepción.智利发展大学（Universidad del Desarrollo，简称 UDD）是智利一所私立非营利大学，1990 年在康塞普西翁创校，主教学区位于圣地亚哥拉斯孔德斯区的圣卡洛斯·阿波金多，并在康塞普西翁设有第二基地。

With about 17,060 students and 1,179 academic staff, it sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, places 1401-1600 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and 1,449th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table, and remains outside the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list.该校约有 17,060 名学生和 1,179 名专任教师，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 1401-1600，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单中位列第 1,449 位，未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• Chile's 1981 higher education reform, decreed under the military government, allowed private groups to create universities without direct state funding, and that legal opening is the direct background to UDD's foundation nine years later.1981 年，智利军政府颁布高等教育改革法令，允许私人团体在没有直接财政拨款的情况下创办大学，这一法律空间正是九年后智利发展大学得以创立的直接背景。
• The reform split Chilean higher education into three tiers, universities, professional institutes and technical training centres, and UDD was founded in the first of them, the only tier allowed to award academic degrees.这次改革把智利高等教育划分为大学、专业学院与技术培训中心三个层级，智利发展大学属于其中的第一层级，也是唯一有权授予学术学位的层级。
• Private universities multiplied through the 1990s as the new rules took effect, and UDD grew with a sector that moved from a marginal position to roughly half of Chilean higher education enrolment.随着新规则生效，私立大学在 1990 年代大量涌现，智利发展大学随着这一部门一同成长，而私立部门也从边缘位置扩展到约占智利高等教育入学人数的一半。
• The university was founded in 1990 in a family residence on Calle Trinitarias in downtown Concepción by Joaquín Lavín, Carlos Délano, Ernesto Silva Bafalluy, Cristián Larroulet, Hernán Büchi and Federico Valdés, a mixture of entrepreneurs and academics.1990 年，华金·拉文、卡洛斯·德尔阿诺、埃内斯托·席尔瓦·巴法卢伊、克里斯蒂安·拉鲁莱特、埃尔南·比奇和费德里科·巴尔德斯等企业家与学者在康塞普西翁市中心特里尼塔里亚斯街的一处家族宅邸中创办了这所大学。
• Its first academic year coincided with Chile's return to elected government, since Patricio Aylwin took office on 11 March 1990 after the plebiscite that ended military rule.该校的第一个学年恰逢智利恢复民选政府，帕特里西奥·艾尔文在结束军政府统治的全民公决之后于 1990 年 3 月 11 日就任总统。
• Teaching began with a single degree, Ingeniería Comercial, and the founders described the project as a way of training professionals for southern Chile rather than reproducing the Santiago model.教学以唯一的商业工程专业起步，创办者把这一项目描述为为智利南部培养专业人才的途径，而不是复制圣地亚哥的办学模式。
• Architecture and journalism were added in 1991 and a law school opened in the same year, so the young institution held three professional fields beyond business within two years of its foundation.1991 年，学校增设建筑学与新闻学，并在同年开办法学院，使这所年轻大学在建校两年内就拥有了商业之外的三个职业领域。
• The main Concepción campus was inaugurated in 1993, and the following year the university opened programmes in industrial engineering and the social sciences.康塞普西翁主校区于 1993 年落成，次年学校又开设了工业工程与社会科学专业。
• UDD gained autonomy from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, or Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, in 1997, ending the period in which its degrees were examined and validated by the older university.1997 年，智利发展大学脱离智利天主教大学的学术监护取得自治，结束了由后者审核并认可其学位的阶段。
• In 1999 it absorbed the Universidad de Las Condes, taking over both its student body and its campus buildings in the Las Condes district of Santiago.1999 年，学校兼并了拉斯孔德斯大学，接收了后者的学生以及在圣地亚哥拉斯孔德斯区的校舍。
• The San Carlos de Apoquindo campus opened in 2001 at the eastern edge of Santiago, and most faculties moved there while medicine and drama stayed in the former Las Condes house.2001 年，位于圣地亚哥东部的圣卡洛斯·阿波金多校区启用，多数学院迁入新址，医学院与戏剧学院则留在原拉斯孔德斯大学的旧舍。
• A health sciences building opened in Concepción in 2006 less than a block from the original campus, concentrating medical and dental teaching in the city where the university began.2006 年，康塞普西翁校区旁不足一个街区处落成健康科学大楼，把医学与牙科教学集中到创校城市。
• UDD obtained its first institutional accreditation in 2006 for five years, covering institutional management, undergraduate teaching, outreach and continuing education.2006 年，学校首次获得为期五年的机构认证，覆盖机构管理、本科教学、社会联系与继续教育四个领域。
• That same year Chile enacted Law 20.129, which created a national quality assurance system and turned accreditation from a voluntary exercise into the organising framework of Chilean higher education.同年，智利颁布第 20.129 号法律，建立国家质量保障体系，使认证从自愿行为转变为智利高等教育的组织框架。
• Law 21.091 of 2018 made institutional accreditation compulsory for every Chilean university, formalising a status that UDD had maintained voluntarily since 2006.2018 年第 21.091 号法律把机构认证变为所有智利大学的强制要求，使智利发展大学自 2006 年起自愿维持的认证地位制度化。
• According to its own institutional statement the university now holds accreditation for six years across all areas, and it displays that credential on its homepage, where the accreditor's resolution is also linked.根据校方公告，该校目前在全部认证领域获得六年期认证，并把这一资质列在官网首页，同时提供认证机构决议的链接。
• Postgraduate teaching expanded into four doctorates, 24 master's degrees and 71 specialisation courses, including medical and dental specialties taught with clinical partners.研究生教育扩展至 4 个博士项目、24 个硕士项目和 71 个专业进修课程，其中包括与临床机构合作开设的医学与牙科专科。
• A Faculty of Government teaches political science and public policy, a field that ties the university to the policy networks from which several of its founders came.学校设有政府学院，教授政治学与公共政策，这一领域把大学与多位创办者出身的政策网络联系在一起。
• One of its Santiago campuses bears the name of Ernesto Silva Bafalluy, the founding rector, and its Aula Magna hosts the university's principal academic ceremonies.该校在圣地亚哥的一处校区以创校校长埃内斯托·席尔瓦·巴法卢伊命名，校内的主礼堂用于举行学校的主要学术典礼。
• Between 1990 and 2026 the institution grew from a single Concepción programme into a university with 25 undergraduate degrees, six campuses and more than 17,000 students.从 1990 年到 2026 年，这所学校从康塞普西翁的一个专业发展为拥有 25 个本科专业、6 个校区和逾 1.7 万名学生的大学。
• The 2001 Santiago campus and the 2006 Concepción health building together define a two-city model that the university has kept for a quarter of a century.2001 年的圣地亚哥校区与 2006 年的康塞普西翁健康大楼共同确立了该校延续四分之一世纪的双城办学模式。

Academics

• UDD organises its teaching in 11 faculties covering architecture and design, communications, law, business and economics, humanities and social studies, government, engineering, health, medicine, psychology and education.学校以 11 个学院组织教学，涵盖建筑与设计、传播、法律、商业与经济、人文与社会研究、政府、工程、健康、医学、心理学和教育。
• It offers 25 undergraduate degrees on its Santiago and Concepción campuses, in a Chilean system where professional programmes such as law and medicine run for five to seven years.学校在圣地亚哥与康塞普西翁两个校区开设 25 个本科专业，在智利学制中，法律与医学等职业学位通常需要五至七年。
• Postgraduate provision comprises four doctorates, 24 master's programmes and 71 specialisation and diploma courses, with medicine and dentistry accounting for a large share of the clinical specialties.研究生层面包括 4 个博士项目、24 个硕士项目和 71 个专业进修与文凭课程，其中医学与牙科的临床专科占据相当比重。
• The medical school occupies the former Universidad de Las Condes building and combines preclinical teaching there with clinical training in affiliated hospitals.医学院设在原拉斯孔德斯大学的旧舍，把基础医学教学与在附属医院的临床训练结合起来。
• Health teaching also covers odontology, kinesiology, nutrition and dietetics, speech-language pathology and medical technology, a cluster that gives the university a broad health profile.健康类教学还涵盖牙科、运动机能学、营养与饮食学、言语治疗与医学技术，这一集群使该校拥有相当完整的健康学科布局。
• Engineering degrees include industrial, civil, mining and geology programmes, the last two reflecting Chile's copper and mineral economy.工程类学位包括工业工程、土木工程、采矿工程与地质学，后两者呼应智利的铜矿与矿产经济。
• The Business School teaches Ingeniería Comercial, the degree with which the university opened in 1990, and runs MBA and executive programmes through its Graduate School.商学院开设商业工程专业，这也是该校 1990 年创校时的第一个专业，并通过研究生院开设工商管理硕士与高管课程。
• The Law School, opened in 1991, is one of UDD's oldest units and follows the Chilean five-year licenciatura en derecho route into professional practice.法学院开办于 1991 年，是该校历史最悠久的单位之一，按智利五年制法学学士的路径培养执业律师。
• Communications teaching spans journalism, advertising, cinema and drama, and the drama programme remains based in the Las Condes house rather than at San Carlos de Apoquindo.传播类教学涵盖新闻学、广告学、电影与戏剧，戏剧专业仍设在拉斯孔德斯旧舍而非圣卡洛斯·阿波金多校区。
• The Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design teaches architecture, graphic design, digital design and the design of environments and objects.建筑、艺术与设计学院教授建筑学、平面设计、数字设计以及环境与器物设计。
• The Faculty of Government offers political science and public policy, and the Faculty of Education trains primary and preschool teachers.政府学院开设政治学与公共政策，教育学院培养小学与学前教育教师。
• Psychology is taught as a separate faculty, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies runs bachelor's programmes in science and in humanities and social studies.心理学设有独立学院，人文与社会研究学院则开设理学与人文学科的通识学士项目。
• Three institutional seals, public responsibility, entrepreneurship and innovation, are described by the university as the framework of its undergraduate formation.校方把公共责任、创业精神与创新这三项「制度印记」描述为本科培养的框架。
• The university employs 1,179 academic staff for about 17,060 students, a ratio close to one teacher for every fourteen students.该校为约 17,060 名学生配备 1,179 名专任教师，师生比约为一名教师对十四名学生。
• Some 356 of its students are international, a modest share by OECD standards for a country that attracts comparatively few degree-seeking foreign students.该校有 356 名国际学生，以经合组织国家的标准衡量比例不高，这与智利吸引学位留学生较少的整体状况一致。
• Research recorded by OpenAlex amounts to 9,381 works and 308,602 citations, a profile built mainly on medicine, engineering and the social sciences, and one that remains far smaller than the output of Chile's two largest universities.OpenAlex 收录该校 9,381 篇研究成果与 308,602 次引用，其研究结构主要由医学、工程与社会科学构成，体量仍远小于智利两所最大的大学。
• QS classifies the university's research output as high in its institutional profile, a category that measures publication volume rather than citation impact.QS 在该校的机构档案中把其研究成果列为「高」档，这一档位衡量的是论文数量而非引用影响力。
• Eleven faculties deliver 25 degrees, which means that most faculties run two or three programmes rather than a broad catalogue of dozens of majors.11 个学院承担 25 个学位项目，这意味着多数学院只开设两三个专业，而不是拥有数十个专业的庞大目录。
• UDD is a private non-profit institution and does not belong to Chile's Council of Rectors, the body that coordinates the traditional public and Catholic universities.智利发展大学是一所私立非营利机构，不属于智利大学校长理事会，该理事会负责协调传统的公立大学与天主教大学。

Campus

• The main campus, San Carlos de Apoquindo, occupies a site on Avenida La Plaza in the Las Condes district at the eastern edge of Santiago, close to the Andean foothills.主校区圣卡洛斯·阿波金多位于圣地亚哥东部拉斯孔德斯区的拉普拉萨大道，紧邻安第斯山麓。
• The Concepción campus stands at Ainavillo 456, a few blocks from the historic centre where the university was founded in 1990.康塞普西翁校区位于艾纳维略街 456 号，距 1990 年创校所在的老城中心只有几个街区。
• In total UDD operates six campuses in Santiago and Concepción, a two-city structure that dates from the 2001 opening of San Carlos de Apoquindo.该校在圣地亚哥与康塞普西翁共运营 6 个校区，这一双城结构始于 2001 年圣卡洛斯·阿波金多校区的启用。
• The former Universidad de Las Condes house, or Las Condes University, still accommodates the Medical School and the Drama School, the two units that did not move to Apoquindo in 2001.原拉斯孔德斯大学的旧舍仍容纳医学院与戏剧学院，这两个单位在 2001 年没有迁往阿波金多。
• Santiago carries the larger share of students and programmes, while Concepción remains the seat of the founding faculties and of the health sciences building opened in 2006.圣地亚哥承担了较多的学生与专业，康塞普西翁则仍是创校学院与 2006 年落成的健康科学大楼所在地。
• Avenida La Plaza links the Apoquindo campus to the Las Condes commercial axis, and the site lies close to the eastern terminus of Santiago's Line 1 metro.拉普拉萨大道把阿波金多校区与拉斯孔德斯商业轴线连接起来，校区距圣地亚哥地铁 1 号线东端终点站不远。
• A health sciences building opened in Concepción in 2006 less than a block from the main campus, adding teaching space for dentistry, kinesiology and nutrition.2006 年，康塞普西翁主校区旁不足一个街区处落成健康科学大楼，为牙科、运动机能学与营养学增加教学空间。
• One Santiago campus carries the name of Ernesto Silva Bafalluy, the founding rector, and contains the Aula Magna used for graduations and public lectures.圣地亚哥的一处校区以创校校长埃内斯托·席尔瓦·巴法卢伊命名，校内设有用于毕业典礼与公开讲座的主礼堂。
• The Santiago buildings sit inside the Las Condes business and residential district, which lets the law, business and government faculties draw part-time lecturers from nearby firms and professional practices, and the district itself houses the headquarters of several Chilean banks and retailers.圣地亚哥的校舍位于拉斯孔德斯的商业与住宅区，使法律、商业与政府学院能够聘请附近企业与专业机构的兼职教师，该区本身也是多家智利银行与零售企业总部所在地。
• Each campus maintains its own library and computer laboratories, and students on both sites use a shared digital catalogue and virtual classroom system.各校区均设有图书馆与计算机实验室，两地学生共用同一套数字馆藏目录与虚拟课堂系统。

Reputation

• UDD appears in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the band shared by several Chilean and Latin American private universities.智利发展大学进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1201-1400 区间，该区间同时容纳了多所智利与拉美私立大学。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 1401-1600 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table it ranks 1,449th.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1401-1600 区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单中位列第 1,449 位。
• It is absent from the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, a ranking that rewards Nobel laureates and highly cited researchers.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜单的指标偏重诺贝尔奖得主与高被引学者。
• QS places UDD 90th in its Latin America and Caribbean university ranking, inside the regional top hundred.在 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区大学排名中，该校位列第 90 位，进入该地区前一百名。
• The same provider ranks one of its subject areas in the 151-200 band worldwide and places the university 809th in its Sustainability Ranking.同一评级机构把该校的一个学科领域排在全球 151-200 区间，并在可持续发展排名中把该校列在第 809 位。
• OpenAlex attributes 9,381 works and 308,602 citations to the university, figures that place it among Chile's mid-sized private research producers.OpenAlex 记录该校 9,381 篇成果与 308,602 次引用，这一体量使其处于智利中等规模的私立科研产出者之列。
• América Economía ranked UDD's MBA faculty first in Latin America and its MBA programme 12th among Latin American business schools, as the university recounts the survey.据校方转述的调查结果，《美洲经济》杂志把该校工商管理硕士项目的师资列为拉美第一，并把该项目排在拉美商学院第 12 位。
• UDD's medical school placed second in Chile in the national medical examination in 2017, ahead of several universities with longer medical traditions.2017 年，该校医学院在全国医学考试中位列智利第二，超过若干医学传统更久的大学。
• Chilean accreditation bodies have described UDD as the country's strongest private university and fifth overall, a claim the institution repeats in its own materials.智利认证机构曾把该校描述为该国最强的私立大学、全国第五，校方在自己的材料中反复引用这一说法。
• Its citation count of 308,602 is modest for an institution of 17,000 students, reflecting a teaching-intensive profile rather than a research-intensive one.对一所拥有 1.7 万名学生的大学而言，308,602 次引用并不算多，反映其偏重教学而非研究的定位。
• Within Chile the university competes for students with Diego Portales University and Adolfo Ibáñez University, two private rivals that also grew out of the 1981 reform.在智利国内，该校与迭戈·波塔莱斯大学、阿道夫·伊巴涅斯大学争夺生源，这两所私立对手同样源自 1981 年的改革。

Student life

• UDD has no Latin motto, and instead defines three institutional seals, public responsibility, entrepreneurship and innovation, that shape its student formation and appear in its mission statement and accreditation reports.该校没有拉丁文校训，而是以公共责任、创业精神与创新这三项「制度印记」塑造学生培养，它们出现在学校的使命陈述与认证报告之中。
• América Economía ranked the university first in Latin America for developing entrepreneurship and leadership among its students, an assessment the university uses to promote its seal.《美洲经济》杂志曾把该校评为拉美第一的创业与领导力培养高校，校方以此推广其创业印记。
• Team sport is organised around football, hockey, volleyball, basketball and tennis squads that compete in higher education leagues and championships.校际体育以足球、曲棍球、排球、篮球与网球队为核心，参加高等教育系统的联赛与锦标赛。
• UDD also fields a rodeo team, a reminder that the Chilean national sport developed in the rural centre-south from which many of its first students came.该校还组建了牛仔竞技队，智利这项民族运动正是从该校早期学生来源的中南部乡村发展起来的。
• A debate team competes in university tournaments, and debate is one of the activities the university lists alongside its sports teams.学校设有辩论队参加大学赛事，辩论与各支运动队并列出现在校方列出的学生活动之中。
• Student life is split between two cities, with Concepción students living in a compact southern campus culture and Santiago students spread across the eastern districts.学生生活分布在两座城市，康塞普西翁的学生处于紧凑的南部校园文化中，圣地亚哥的学生则分散在东部各区。
• Graduation ceremonies are held in the Aula Magna, and the university uses the same hall for public lectures by politicians and business figures.毕业典礼在主礼堂举行，学校也用同一座礼堂举办政治家与商界人士的公开讲座。
• Because UDD sits outside Chile's traditional public university circuit, its students compete in private higher education leagues rather than in the older inter-university championships.由于该校不属于智利传统的公立大学体系，其学生参加的是私立高等教育联赛，而不是历史更久的校际锦标赛。
• The academic year runs from March to December on the southern hemisphere calendar, with a mid-year break in July and a summer recess that overlaps the Chilean holiday season.学年按南半球日历从 3 月持续到 12 月，7 月有年中假期，夏季假期则与智利的度假季重叠。
• Concepción, one of Chile's oldest cities, gives the university's southern students a smaller and more traditional university town than the Santiago campuses offer.康塞普西翁是智利最古老的城市之一，为该校南部的学生提供的是一座比圣地亚哥各校区更小、更传统的大学城。

Notable people

• Joaquín Lavín, one of the six founders, later served as Chile's minister of education and as mayor of Las Condes, ran for the presidency in 1999 and 2005, and remained a national political figure for three decades.六位创办者之一的华金·拉文后来出任智利教育部长与拉斯孔德斯区区长，并在 1999 年与 2005 年两度竞选总统，在此后三十年间一直是全国性政治人物。
• Hernán Büchi, another founder, was Chile's finance minister from 1985 to 1989 and ran for the presidency in 1989 as the candidate of the right.另一位创办者埃尔南·比奇在 1985 至 1989 年担任智利财政部长，并于 1989 年作为右翼候选人竞选总统。
• Cristián Larroulet, an economist among the founders, served as minister of the presidency from 2010 to 2014 and shaped the university's early economics curriculum.创办者之一的经济学家克里斯蒂安·拉鲁莱特在 2010 至 2014 年担任总统府部长，并参与塑造了该校早期的经济学课程。
• Federico Valdés, a businessman and founder, led the university as rector for much of its history and represented it before Chilean accreditation bodies.商人出身的创办者费德里科·巴尔德斯在该校大部分历史中担任校长，并代表学校对接智利认证机构。
• Ernesto Silva Bafalluy, a lawyer and founder, was the university's first rector, and a Santiago campus now carries his name.律师出身的创办者埃内斯托·席尔瓦·巴法卢伊是该校首任校长，圣地亚哥的一处校区如今以他的名字命名。
• Carlos Délano, the sixth founder, came from the Concepción business community that provided the university's first premises and its earliest donors.第六位创办者卡洛斯·德尔阿诺来自康塞普西翁商界，正是这一群体提供了该校最初的校舍与最早的捐助。
• Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, an economist who has taught at UDD, was chief economist of the Central Bank of Chile and later worked on pension and fiscal policy reform.曾在智利发展大学任教的经济学家克劳斯·施密特-赫贝尔曾任智利中央银行首席经济学家，后来从事养老金与财政政策改革研究。
• Ignacio Lira Montes, an architecture graduate of the Santiago campus, won the Chilean Archiprix prize in 2019 for a housing project in Tierra del Fuego.毕业于圣地亚哥校区的建筑学学生伊格纳西奥·利拉·蒙特斯凭一项火地岛住宅设计获得 2019 年智利 Archiprix 奖。