Universidad del Norte (Colombia)

Universidad del Norte (Uninorte), the University of the North, is a private, non-profit university in Barranquilla on Colombia's Caribbean coast, founded in 1966 by a group of regional businessmen led by the industrialist Karl C. Parrish Jr.北方大学（Universidad del Norte，简称 Uninorte）是哥伦比亚加勒比海岸巴兰基亚的一所私立非营利大学，1966 年由工业家卡尔·帕里什二世（Karl C. Parrish Jr.）领衔的一批地区企业家创办。

It enrols about 11,730 students with 787 academic staff across ten academic divisions, and it sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1601-1800 band of the Times Higher Education ranking 2027, 1,784th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table and outside the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list.该校设有十个学术学部，约有 11,730 名学生与 787 名专任教师，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 1601-1800 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 1,784 位，未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• On 15 December 1965 a provisional board registered the Fundación Universidad del Caribe, the legal shell from which the university would emerge five weeks later.1965 年 12 月 15 日，一个临时董事会注册了加勒比大学基金会，这一法律外壳在五周后孕育出北方大学。
• In January 1966 the founders renamed the entity Fundación Universidad del Norte and on 24 January 1966 signed the founding charter that created the university itself.1966 年 1 月，创办者把该机构更名为北方大学基金会，并于 1966 年 1 月 24 日签署创校章程，正式建立这所大学。
• The charter was signed by Karl C. Parrish Jr. and businessmen linked to the National Association of Industrialists, the Colombian Institute of Administration and the Barranquilla Foundation, later the Mario Santo Domingo Foundation.章程由卡尔·帕里什二世以及来自全国工业家协会、哥伦比亚管理学院和巴兰基亚基金会（后称马里奥·圣多明戈基金会）的商人共同签署。
• The governor of Atlántico granted legal status through Resolution 149 of 14 February 1966, giving the new institution a public charter before it had a single classroom.大西洋省省长于 1966 年 2 月 14 日以第 149 号决议授予其法人资格，使这所新机构在一间教室都还没有时就获得了公共许可。
• Uninorte belonged to a wave of regional universities that Colombian business elites founded in the 1960s, when import-substituting industrialisation created demand for accountants, engineers and managers outside Bogotá and Medellín.北方大学属于哥伦比亚商界在 1960 年代创办的一批地区性大学，当时进口替代工业化在波哥大与麦德林之外制造了对会计、工程师与管理人才的需求。
• Barranquilla, founded in 1813 and for much of the twentieth century Colombia's principal river and sea port, supplied the merchants, shipping agents and importers who became the university's first students and its earliest donors.巴兰基亚建于 1813 年，在 20 世纪的大部分时间里是哥伦比亚主要的河海港口，正是这里的商人、船务代理与进口商构成了该校最早的学生与最初的捐助者。
• Teaching began on 11 July 1966 in the El Prado neighbourhood at Carrera 53 No. 82-135, with 58 students and ten professors covering business administration and engineering.1966 年 7 月 11 日，学校在埃尔普拉多区第 53 大道 82-135 号开始授课，当时只有 58 名学生和 10 名教授，开设工商管理与工程的基础课程。
• Julio Muvdi Abufhele, a Barranquilla engineer, served as first rector from 1966 to 1970 and organised the university around the two professional programmes it had launched.巴兰基亚工程师胡利奥·穆夫迪·阿布夫莱莱在 1966 至 1970 年担任首任校长，围绕最初开设的两个职业专业搭建了学校的基本架构。
• In 1970 the Colombian Institute for the Evaluation of Education approved a psychology programme that was among the first of its kind in the country.1970 年，哥伦比亚教育评估研究所批准该校开设心理学专业，这是全国最早的一批心理学项目之一。
• On 20 November 1971 the cornerstone of the present campus was laid at Puerto Colombia during the presidency of Misael Pastrana, when the university had 1,027 students and was led by the economist José Tcherassi Guzmán.1971 年 11 月 20 日，在米萨埃尔·帕斯特拉纳总统任内，现校区在波多黎各哥伦比亚奠基，当时学校已有 1,027 名学生，由经济学家何塞·切拉西·古斯曼主持校务。
• The same year the education ministry's evaluation institute approved industrial and mechanical engineering, the programmes that would become the university's engineering core.同年，教育部的评估研究所批准了工业工程与机械工程专业，这两个专业后来成为该校工程学科的核心。
• Cementos del Caribe, now part of the Argos group, donated six hectares for the site, and other regional companies contributed materials and funds for the first buildings.加勒比水泥公司（现属阿尔戈斯集团）捐出 6 公顷土地，其他地区企业则为第一批建筑提供材料与资金。
• The campus was inaugurated on 25 January 1973 with its first three buildings, and on 22 February 1973 Resolution 263 of the national government formalised the university's recognition.1973 年 1 月 25 日，校区随首批三栋建筑落成启用，同年 2 月 22 日国民政府的第 263 号决议正式确认了该校的地位。
• Civil engineer Boris Rosanía Salive became rector in December 1973 and served until 1980, launching the La Playa project that later became the Atlantic Coast Project.土木工程师鲍里斯·罗萨尼亚·萨利韦于 1973 年 12 月出任校长并任职至 1980 年，启动了后来演变为「大西洋海岸计划」的拉普拉亚项目。
• The Atlantic Coast Project that grew out of La Playa sent faculty and students to towns along the Caribbean coast to study health, education and infrastructure needs, tying the university's research agenda to regional development.由拉普拉亚项目发展而来的「大西洋海岸计划」把教师与学生派往加勒比沿岸城镇，研究健康、教育与基础设施需求，使该校的研究议程与区域发展紧密相连。
• Under Rosanía the university opened medicine and nursing and created the University of the North Research Centre, known by its Spanish initials CIUN.在罗萨尼亚任内，学校开设了医学与护理专业，并创建了以西班牙语缩写 CIUN 闻名的北方大学研究中心。
• The philosopher Jesús Ferro Bayona was rector from 1980 to 2018, a 38-year tenure in which the university expanded undergraduate provision and added master's and doctoral programmes.哲学家赫苏斯·费罗·巴约纳在 1980 至 2018 年担任校长，长达 38 年的任期内学校扩大了本科规模并增设硕士与博士项目。
• The economist Adolfo Meisel Roca took office as rector in 2018 after a career at the Bank of the Republic, Colombia's central bank, and at the Universidad de los Andes.经济学家阿道夫·迈塞尔·罗卡在哥伦比亚中央银行与洛斯安第斯大学任职多年后，于 2018 年就任校长。
• Engineering teaching was submitted to ABET, the United States accreditor, and the university states that its engineering college was the third in Latin America to accredit all of its programmes.该校的工程教学接受了美国认证机构 ABET 的评估，校方称其工学院是拉美第三所实现全部工程专业认证的学院。
• The university now describes itself as a wireless campus with laboratories in every field, and its ten divisions cover engineering, health, law, business, basic sciences, humanities and design.该校如今自称是拥有各领域实验室的无线网络校园，其十个学部涵盖工程、健康、法律、商业、基础科学、人文与设计。
• In the 2020s Uninorte consolidated a doctoral portfolio of 15 programmes, a shift from the professional-school model with which it opened in 1966.进入 2020 年代，北方大学已形成 15 个博士项目的培养体系，与 1966 年创校时的职业院校模式形成明显转变。
• Its growth mirrored Barranquilla's own trajectory from an industrial river port to a service economy in which universities, logistics and health care employ a growing share of the workforce.该校的成长也映照着巴兰基亚从工业河港转向服务经济的轨迹，在这一转型中大学、物流与医疗保健吸纳了越来越多的劳动力。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in ten academic divisions, among them engineering, administrative sciences, humanities and social sciences, health sciences, legal sciences and basic sciences.教学以十个学术学部组织，其中包括工程、管理科学、人文与社会科学、健康科学、法律科学与基础科学。
• The university lists 29 undergraduate programmes, 62 professional specialisations, 50 master's degrees and 15 doctorates across its divisions.该校各学部的专业目录列出 29 个本科专业、62 个专业进修项目、50 个硕士项目与 15 个博士项目。
• Engineering degrees cover industrial, mechanical, systems and computing, civil, electrical, electronic and biomedical engineering, the broadest cluster in the university.工程类学位涵盖工业、机械、系统与计算、土木、电气、电子与生物医学工程，是该校规模最大的学科集群。
• Every engineering programme is accredited by ABET, an external validation that Colombian employers use as a signal of curriculum quality, and the accreditation covers industrial, mechanical, systems, civil, electrical, electronic and biomedical engineering.所有工程专业均获得 ABET 认证，这一外部认证被哥伦比亚雇主视为课程质量的标志，覆盖工业、机械、系统、土木、电气、电子与生物医学工程各专业。
• Health sciences include medicine, nursing and dentistry, and the division works with teaching hospitals in Barranquilla for clinical placements.健康科学学部包括医学、护理与牙科，并与巴兰基亚的教学医院合作安排临床实习。
• The law and political science division teaches law, political science and international relations, fields in which the university draws on Barranquilla's diplomatic and port economy.法律与政治学学部教授法律、政治学与国际关系，这些领域得益于巴兰基亚的外交与港口经济。
• The Business School offers international business, business administration and public accounting, and it runs specialisation programmes in Santa Marta and Cartagena.商学院开设国际商务、工商管理与公共会计专业，并在圣玛尔塔与卡塔赫纳开设专业进修项目。
• The humanities division teaches economics, philosophy, psychology, music and social communication and journalism, a combination that reflects the university's liberal-arts ambitions.人文学部教授经济学、哲学、心理学、音乐以及社会传播与新闻学，这一组合体现了该校的文理教育抱负。
• Architecture, urban planning and design are grouped in a school that teaches architecture, graphic design and industrial design.建筑、城市规划与设计设在同一学院，教授建筑学、平面设计与工业设计。
• Basic sciences cover mathematics, geology and data science, the last added to serve the analytics needs of regional firms and public agencies.基础科学部涵盖数学、地质学与数据科学，其中数据科学是为满足地区企业与公共机构的分析需求而增设。
• The Institute of Educational Studies trains early childhood teachers, and the Institute of Languages provides English and other language teaching across the university.教育研究所培养幼儿教育师资，语言研究所则为全校提供英语及其他语言教学。
• With 11,730 students and 787 academic staff, the university works at roughly fifteen students per teacher, a ratio typical of Colombian private universities.该校有 11,730 名学生与 787 名专任教师，师生比约为十五比一，属于哥伦比亚私立大学的常见水平。
• Some 126 students are international, and the university recruits mainly from the Caribbean basin and from Colombian students returning from abroad.该校有 126 名国际学生，招生主要面向加勒比海盆地国家以及从海外回流的哥伦比亚学生。
• The research centre CIUN coordinates externally funded projects, and OpenAlex records 10,796 works and 175,547 citations under the university's name.研究中心 CIUN 统筹外部资助项目，OpenAlex 以该校名义收录了 10,796 篇成果与 175,547 次引用。
• The university holds high-quality institutional accreditation from Colombia's National Accreditation Council, the seal that allows Colombian universities to market degrees nationally.该校持有哥伦比亚国家认证委员会颁发的高质量机构认证，这一认证使哥伦比亚大学能够在全国范围内授予并推广学位。
• Doctoral training is concentrated in engineering, education, psychology and health, and postgraduate admissions are administered by the Graduate School, which also runs the university's specialisation portfolio.博士培养集中在工程、教育、心理学与健康领域，研究生招生由研究生院统一管理，专业进修项目也由其统筹。
• The university is governed by a board drawn from its founding foundation, with a rector appointed by that board, and each of the ten divisions is led by a director who reports to the rector.该校由创校基金会产生的董事会治理，校长由董事会任命，十个学部各由一名主任领导并向校长汇报。
• As a non-profit foundation, Uninorte reinvests its surplus in laboratories, libraries and scholarships rather than distributing it to owners, and it reports annually to the Colombian ministry of education.作为非营利基金会，北方大学把盈余投入实验室、图书馆与奖学金，而不是分配给所有者，并每年向哥伦比亚教育部报告。

Campus

• The main campus lies at kilometre 5 of the Vía Puerto Colombia, in the municipality of Puerto Colombia, about fifteen kilometres north of central Barranquilla.主校区位于波多黎各哥伦比亚市境内的「波多黎各哥伦比亚公路」第 5 公里处，距巴兰基亚市中心约十五公里。
• The site was assembled after Cementos del Caribe donated six hectares in 1971, and the first three buildings opened there in January 1973.1971 年加勒比水泥公司捐出 6 公顷土地后，校址得以成形，首批三栋建筑于 1973 年 1 月在那里落成。
• The university describes the campus as fully wireless, with laboratories for every programme and a library named after Karl C. Parrish, the founder.校方把校园描述为全无线网络覆盖，各专业均配有实验室，图书馆以创办人卡尔·帕里什命名。
• The graduate building, known as Edificio G, houses postgraduate classrooms and the offices of the university's specialisation programmes.研究生楼被称为 G 号楼，内设研究生教室与专业进修项目的办公空间。
• The campus sits on the Caribbean coastal plain, a short drive from the beaches of Puerto Colombia and from the port terminals that handle much of Colombia's foreign trade.校区位于加勒比海沿岸平原，距波多黎各哥伦比亚的海滩以及承担哥伦比亚大量外贸业务的港口码头都只有很短的车程。
• Classroom blocks, laboratories and sports fields are laid out on the same site, so students move between lectures and practical work on foot.教学楼、实验室与运动场布置在同一片场地上，学生可以步行往返于课堂与实践教学之间。
• Barranquilla's historic El Prado district, where teaching began in 1966, remains the university's urban address for continuing education and events.1966 年开始授课的巴兰基亚历史街区埃尔普拉多，至今仍是该校举办继续教育与活动的城区地址。
• The Puerto Colombia campus grew building by building after 1973, so its layout reflects successive decades of architecture rather than a single master plan, and the graduate building known as Edificio G is one of the later additions.波多黎各哥伦比亚校区自 1973 年起一栋接一栋地扩建，因此其布局呈现的是连续几个年代的建筑，而不是单一总体规划，被称为 G 号楼的研究生楼属于较晚的增建。
• The move from El Prado to Puerto Colombia followed the pattern of Colombian universities that left city centres in the 1970s for larger greenfield sites.从埃尔普拉多迁往波多黎各哥伦比亚，延续了哥伦比亚大学在 1970 年代撤离市中心、迁往更大绿地校址的普遍路径。

Reputation

• Uninorte appears in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, alongside several other Colombian and Latin American universities.北方大学进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1201-1400 区间，与多所哥伦比亚及拉美大学同处一档。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 1601-1800 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table it ranks 1,784th.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1601-1800 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 1,784 位。
• It is absent from the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, a ranking weighted towards 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，该榜单的权重偏向诺贝尔奖得主与高被引学者。
• QS places Uninorte 52nd in its Latin America and Caribbean ranking, the strongest position of any university on Colombia's Caribbean coast.在 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区大学排名中，该校位列第 52 位，是哥伦比亚加勒比沿岸排名最高的大学。
• The same provider ranks one of its subject areas in the 451-500 band worldwide and places the university in the 911-920 band of its sustainability ranking.同一评级机构把该校的一个学科领域排在全球 451-500 区间，并在可持续发展排名中把该校列入 911-920 区间。
• OpenAlex records 10,796 works and 175,547 citations for the university, a research profile led by engineering, health sciences and social sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校 10,796 篇成果与 175,547 次引用，其研究结构以工程、健康科学与社会科学为主。
• Colombian consulting firm BOT SAS has placed Uninorte among the country's five best universities, a result the institution cites in its own profiles.哥伦比亚咨询公司 BOT SAS 曾把北方大学列入该国五所最佳大学，校方在自身简介中引用这一结果。
• QS describes the university as the most outstanding higher education institution in Colombia's Atlantic region, a judgement based on its academic and employer reputation surveys, and in national comparisons it is usually set against the National University of Colombia and Los Andes University.QS 把该校描述为哥伦比亚大西洋地区最杰出的高等教育机构，这一判断基于其学术声誉与雇主声誉调查，在国内比较中它通常被拿来与哥伦比亚国立大学、洛斯安第斯大学并列讨论。
• Its engineering accreditation by ABET is unusual in Colombia, where most programmes rely on national accreditation alone, and it signals the university's orientation towards United States academic practice.该校工程专业获得 ABET 认证，这在哥伦比亚并不常见，因为大多数项目只依赖国家认证，这也显示其面向美国学术惯例的取向。
• Its regional standing rests less on citation counts than on the employability of its graduates in Barranquilla's port, energy and health sectors, which is why employer reputation carries particular weight in its QS scores.该校的地区声望更多来自毕业生在巴兰基亚港口、能源与医疗行业的就业能力，而非引用数量，这也是雇主声誉在其 QS 评分中分量较重的原因。; zh:该校工程专业获得 ABET 认证在哥伦比亚并不常见，当地多数专业仅依赖本国认证。;}-

Student life

• Uninorte does not present a Latin motto, and its public identity rests instead on the values of its 1966 founding charter and on the figure of Karl C. Parrish.北方大学没有使用拉丁文校训，其公共形象更多依托 1966 年创校章程所载的价值观以及卡尔·帕里什这一人物。
• University teams compete in Colombian university sport under the Uninorte name, with football, basketball and volleyball the most followed disciplines.校队在哥伦比亚大学体育赛事中以北方大学的名义参赛，其中足球、篮球与排球最受关注。
• Bienestar Universitario, the student welfare office, runs health services, psychological support and scholarships for students from the Atlántico department.学生事务部门「大学福祉」为来自大西洋省的学生提供医疗服务、心理支持与奖学金。
• Because the campus lies outside the city, student life revolves around the site during the week and around Barranquilla at weekends.由于校区位于城区之外，学生的工作日生活围绕校园展开，周末则回到巴兰基亚市区。
• The Barranquilla Carnival, recognised by UNESCO in 2003 as a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage, draws student groups into its comparsas and street dances each February.巴兰基亚狂欢节于 2003 年被联合国教科文组织列为口头与非物质遗产代表作，每年二月吸引学生团体加入其游行队伍与街头舞蹈。
• The academic year runs from January to November with a mid-year break, so the February Carnival falls inside the first semester and shapes the rhythm of the coastal campus.学年从 1 月持续到 11 月，中间设有年中假期，因此二月的狂欢节落在第一学期之内，塑造了这座海滨校园的生活节奏。; zh:巴兰基亚狂欢节于 2003 年被联合国教科文组织列为人类口头与非物质遗产代表作，每年二月都有学生团体加入其中的游行队伍与街头舞蹈。;}-
• Religious and cultural associations, music ensembles and the university's own choir give students outlets that are not organised around sport.宗教与文化社团、音乐团体以及校合唱团为学生提供了体育之外的活动渠道。
• The university's location on the Caribbean gives it a student culture oriented towards the sea, with beaches and the port area within a short bus ride.校区位于加勒比海岸，使学生文化带有明显的海洋色彩，海滩与港区都在短途公交可达范围内。
• International students, though few in number, are integrated into regular programmes rather than taught in separate cohorts, which keeps classes bilingual in practice.国际学生人数虽少，却被纳入常规项目而非单独编班，这使课堂在实践中保持双语环境。
• Most students commute from Barranquilla's northern districts or from nearby municipalities, since the campus was planned as a day university rather than a residential one.多数学生从巴兰基亚北部各区或邻近市镇通勤上学，因为这座校园当初是按走读大学而非住宿大学规划的。; zh:国际学生人数虽少，却被编入常规班级而非单独编班，这使课堂在实践中保持双语环境。;}-

Notable people

• Karl C. Parrish Jr., an American-born industrialist based in Barranquilla, led the business group that founded the university and gave it its first endowment and premises.出生于美国、长期在巴兰基亚经营的工业家卡尔·帕里什二世，领导创办该校的企业家群体，并提供了最初的捐赠与校舍。
• Julio Muvdi Abufhele, an engineer, was the first rector and shaped the university's original two-programme structure between 1966 and 1970.工程师胡利奥·穆夫迪·阿布夫莱莱是首任校长，在 1966 至 1970 年间塑造了学校最初的两个专业结构。
• José Tcherassi Guzmán, an economist, led the university from 1970 to 1973 and oversaw the decision to build the Puerto Colombia campus.经济学家何塞·切拉西·古斯曼在 1970 至 1973 年主持校务，并主导了在波多黎各哥伦比亚兴建校区的决定。
• Boris Rosanía Salive, a civil engineer, was rector from 1973 to 1980 and founded both the medical school and the CIUN research centre.土木工程师鲍里斯·罗萨尼亚·萨利韦在 1973 至 1980 年任校长，创办了医学院与 CIUN 研究中心。
• Jesús Ferro Bayona, a philosopher, served as rector for 38 years until 2018 and is the figure most associated with the university's modern expansion.哲学家赫苏斯·费罗·巴约纳任校长长达 38 年直至 2018 年，是该校现代扩张时期最具代表性的人物。
• Adolfo Meisel Roca, an economist and former member of the board of the Bank of the Republic, has been rector since 2018.经济学家、哥伦比亚中央银行董事会前成员阿道夫·迈塞尔·罗卡自 2018 年起担任校长。
• Alejandro Char Chaljub, a civil engineer and three-time mayor of Barranquilla, is among the university's best-known alumni in public life.土木工程师、三度出任巴兰基亚市长的亚历杭德罗·查尔·查卢布，是该校在公共事务领域最知名的校友之一。
• Eduardo Verano de la Rosa, a business administration graduate, served as Colombia's minister of the environment and as governor of Atlántico.工商管理专业毕业的爱德华多·贝拉诺·德·拉罗萨曾任哥伦比亚环境部长与大西洋省省长。
• Karen Abudinen, an alumna, served as Colombia's minister of information and communications technologies between 2020 and 2021.校友卡伦·阿布迪嫩在 2020 至 2021 年出任哥伦比亚信息技术与通信部长。
• Daniella Álvarez, a social communication graduate, was crowned Miss Colombia in 2012 and later represented the country internationally.社会传播专业毕业的丹妮拉·阿尔瓦雷斯于 2012 年当选哥伦比亚小姐，此后代表国家参加国际赛事。
• Marcela Pérez, a journalism graduate, has won four Emmy Awards as a television presenter for Univision in the United States.新闻学专业毕业的玛塞拉·佩雷斯在美国环视电视台担任主持人，四次获得艾美奖。