Universidad del Rosario

Universidad del Rosario, fully Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, is a private university in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 1653 by Cristóbal de Torres, Archbishop of Santa Fe, under the authorization of King Philip IV of Spain.罗萨里奥大学（全称 Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario）是哥伦比亚波哥大的一所私立大学，1653 年由圣菲大主教 Cristóbal de Torres 在西班牙国王腓力四世授权下创办。

It is the oldest higher-education institution in Colombia and is nicknamed "the Cradle of the Republic" because of its place in national history, and at least 28 presidents of Colombia have studied there.它是哥伦比亚历史最悠久的高等教育机构，因在本国历史上的地位而被称为「共和国摇篮」，至少有 28 位哥伦比亚总统曾在此就读。

Today it teaches from five faculties and four schools, most of them around the Cloister, its main campus in the historic and geographical centre of Bogotá, where a bronze statue of the founder was raised in 1909.该校今天由 5 个学院与 4 个学部授课，多数院系设在主校区回廊（Claustro）一带，这座创始人的青铜像于 1909 年立起的建筑群正位于波哥大的历史与地理中心。

History

• Archbishop Cristóbal de Torres opened the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in 1653 with the written backing of King Philip IV, organising studies on the model of the archiepiscopal college of Salamanca.圣菲大主教 Cristóbal de Torres 于 1653 年在西班牙国王腓力四世的书面支持下创办 Rosario 大学学院，教学组织仿照萨拉曼卡的大主教书院。

• The oldest paper kept in the university's Historic Archive dates from 1646 and is the reply of King Philip IV to Cristóbal de Torres on the plan to found the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario.该校历史档案馆（Archivo Histórico）藏有年代最早的文书可追溯到 1646 年，即腓力四世就 Cristóbal de Torres 筹办 Rosario 大学学院的计划所作的批复。

• By the Royal Decree of 1768 King Charles III recognised the institution as a college ranking among the six halls of Spain, which tied it formally to the tradition of the University of Salamanca.1768 年御令（Real Cédula de 1768）确认该校为西班牙六大学院之一，令其与萨拉曼卡大学的学术传统正式接轨。

• Its Constitutions were drafted by the founder himself and published by Cristóbal de Araque Ponce de León, then chancellor of the college, and they remain the governing documents of the university.该校《宪章》（Constituciones）由创办人亲定、时任校长 Cristóbal de Araque Ponce de León 刊行，至今仍是学校的治理文件。

• Cristóbal de Torres chose the Cross of Calatrava as the emblem of the college and built it on the idea of a universitas scholarium, a community established from and for its students.Cristóbal de Torres 以卡拉特拉瓦十字（Cruz de Calatrava）为校徽，并把学院建立在「学生共同体」（universitas scholarium）之上，即由学生而成、也为学生而设。

• From 13 March 1762 the priest and scientist José Celestino Mutis taught astronomy at the college, remaining on the staff until 1767 and lecturing on mathematics and the physical and natural sciences in Latin.神父兼科学家 José Celestino Mutis 自 1762 年 3 月 13 日起在该院讲授天文学，直到 1767 年离任，期间用拉丁语讲授数学与物理、自然科学。

• After several failed attempts to consolidate medical teaching, physician Vicente Cancino Román was appointed to head the medicine programme in 1790, and the institution became the first medical school in Colombia.在多次整编医学教学未果之后，医生 Vicente Cancino Román 于 1790 年被任命主持医学课程，该校由此成为哥伦比亚第一所医学院。

• Juan Bautista Vargas, one of the first disciples of Vicente Cancino Román, completed the medical course and is recorded as an early graduate of the first medical school in Colombia.Juan Bautista Vargas 是 Vicente Cancino Román 的早期弟子之一，完成医学课程，被记为哥伦比亚第一所医学院的早期毕业生。

• In 1819, when General Morillo moved to reconquer Colombian territory for Spain, the college was used as a prison and several future leaders of the republic were held inside its walls.1819 年西班牙将领 Morillo 出兵收复哥伦比亚领土期间，学院被充作监狱，多位日后共和国的重要人物曾被关押在其中。

• The independence generation is inseparable from its classrooms, counted among them Camilo Torres Tenorio, Francisco José de Caldas y Tenorio and Joaquín Camacho Lago, all precursors and martyrs of independence.独立一代与它的课堂密不可分，其中 Camilo Torres Tenorio、Francisco José de Caldas y Tenorio 与 Joaquín Camacho Lago 都被列为独立的先驱与殉道者。

• Under the school's own account its instruction was interrupted only for those two years around 1819, across almost 360 years of continuous teaching.按该校自身的说法，在将近 360 年的持续办学中，只有 1819 年前后那两年教学一度中断。

• The colonial college was closed in 1826 during the early republican reshaping of higher education in New Granada, and its corporate body, archives and buildings survived the suppression.1826 年，新格拉纳达高等教育在共和国初期改组，这座殖民时代学院随之关闭，但其法人团体、档案与建筑在停办期间保存下来。

• Instruction was re-established in 1870, when the reopened institution adopted the name Universidad del Rosario that it still carries today.1870 年该校复校重建，复校后的机构改用沿用至今的名称（Universidad del Rosario）。

• In 1909 a bronze statue of the founder, cast by the Catalan sculptor Renart Dionisio Garcia, was set up inside the Cloister of the university.1909 年，加泰罗尼亚雕塑家 Renart Dionisio Garcia 铸造的创办人青铜像立于校内回廊之中。

• Nineteenth-century graduates of the Faculty of Jurisprudence shaped the republic's institutions, and Salvador Camacho Roldán, a jurist trained there, was designated to the presidency of Colombia.19 世纪法学院（Faculty of Jurisprudence）的毕业生塑造了共和国的制度，在该院受教的法学家 Salvador Camacho Roldán 曾被指定为哥伦比亚总统人选。

• By 1936 the Supreme Court of Colombia, sitting under the Constitution of 1886 and remembered as the "golden court", was made up in the main of lawyers from the Faculty of Jurisprudence.到 1936 年，在 1886 年宪法体制下审判的哥伦比亚最高法院（后人称为「黄金法庭」）主要由法学院的法学家组成。

• In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries the re-founded college expanded from law and medicine into five faculties and four schools, adding economics, political and international studies, creative studies, administration, human sciences and engineering.在 20 世纪与 21 世纪，复校后的学院从法学、医学扩展到 5 个学院与 4 个学部，新增经济学、政治与国际研究、创意研究、管理、人文以及工程学科。

• Universidad del Rosario took part in the transitional processes of Colombian public life, including the drafting of the Political National Constitution of 1991.该校参与哥伦比亚公共生活的多次转型进程，其中包括 1991 年国家政治宪法的起草。

Academics

• The university has five faculties, the Faculty of Jurisprudence, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of International, Political and Urban Studies and the Faculty of Creative Studies.学校设 5 个学院，即法学院、自然科学学院、经济学院、国际政治与城市研究学院以及创意研究学院。

• It also runs four schools, the Administration School, the Human Sciences School, the Medicine and Health Sciences School and the Engineering, Science and Technology School, each offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.另设 4 个学部，即管理学部、人文科学学部、医学与健康科学学部、工程科学与科技学部，各学部均授本科与研究生学位。

• The Rosario School of Medicine and Health Sciences descends directly from the medicine programme created in 1790, the first formal medical teaching in Colombia.医学与健康科学学部直接承自 1790 年设立的医学课程，那是哥伦比亚有组织的医学教学之始。

• The Faculty of Jurisprudence remains the historical core of the university and has supplied judges to every senior court, among them Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra and Mauricio González Cuervo of the Constitutional Court of Colombia.法学院仍是该校历史上的核心单位，为各级高等法院输送法官，其中包括哥伦比亚宪法法院的 Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra 与 Mauricio González Cuervo。

• Political science is taught by the Faculty of Political Science and Government and International Relations, whose research group, the Center for Political and International Studies (CEPI), was directed from 2002 to 2011 by Stéphanie Lavaux.政治学与政府及国际关系学院负责政治学教学，其研究团队政治与国际研究中心（CEPI）曾在 2002 至 2011 年由 Stéphanie Lavaux 主持。

• Stéphanie Lavaux, vice rector of the university, trained as a political scientist at the Toulouse Institute of Political Studies and holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Social Sciences of Toulouse, where she also pursued doctoral work.该校副校长 Stéphanie Lavaux 在图卢兹政治学院（Toulouse Institute of Political Studies）受训为政治学者，获图卢兹社会科学大学（University of Social Sciences of Toulouse）政治学硕士，并在该校续读博士课程。

• The supreme governing body is the Consiliatura, chaired by the rector and made up of five members called Consiliarios, who oversee university assets and approve the annual budget of revenues and expenses.学校最高治理机构为校务评议会（Consiliatura），由校长主持、含 5 名评议委员（Consiliarios），负责监管校产并审批年度收支预算。

• Consiliarios serve four-year terms with no limit on re-election and are chosen by an electoral body formed by the rector together with fifteen Colegiales, the holders of the colonial scholarships of the college.评议委员任期 4 年、可连选连任不限次，由校长与 15 名Colegiales（沿袭殖民时代奖学金身份的成员）组成的选举团选出。

• The Consiliatura in office includes Andrés Cadena Venegas, Alberto Fergusson Bermúdez, Andrés López Valderrama, Víctor Hugo Malagón Basto and Ann Mason.现任评议委员为 Andrés Cadena Venegas、Alberto Fergusson Bermúdez、Andrés López Valderrama、Víctor Hugo Malagón Basto 与 Ann Mason。

• José Manuel Restrepo Abondano was elected rector on 22 September 2014, after graduating in economics at the same university and completing a specialisation in finance there.José Manuel Restrepo Abondano 于 2014 年 9 月 22 日当选校长，他本人即毕业于该校经济专业并在此完成金融方向的专业课程。

• Restrepo holds a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a doctorate in the management of higher-education institutions from the University of Bath, and has served as minister of finance and of commerce in Colombia.Restrepo 拥有伦敦政治经济学院（London School of Economics）经济学硕士与巴斯大学（University of Bath）高等教育管理博士学位，并曾出任哥伦比亚财政部长与商业部长。

• The Consiliatura also appoints the Síndico, or trustee, who manages university resources and assets and reports annually to that body. Miguel Francisco Diago Arbeláez holds the office.校务评议会还任命监察人（Síndico），负责管理学校资源与资产并每年向其述职，现任监察人为 Miguel Francisco Diago Arbeláez。

• The Secretaría General certifies institutional acts, acts as notary, guarantees the legality of the decisions taken by university authorities and safeguards the historical heritage of the university. Catalina Lleras Figueroa is secretary general.秘书处（Secretaría General）证明学校各项行为、行使公证职能、保证校方决定的合法性并维护学校历史遗产，现任秘书长为 Catalina Lleras Figueroa。

• Each faculty and school confers both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, so the same institution covers law, medicine, engineering, economics, administration, political studies, creative studies and human sciences.各学院与学部都同时开设本科与研究生学位，因此同一所学校涵盖法学、医学、工程、经济、管理、政治研究、创意研究与人文诸学科。

• The Faculty of Creative Studies and the School of Human Sciences mark the modern widening of a curriculum that was built on jurisprudence in 1653 and added medicine only in 1790.创意研究学院与人文科学学部标志课程的现代扩展，而这所学校的课程根基是 1653 年的法学，医学直到 1790 年才设立。

Campus

• Most faculties sit in the Cloister, the main campus in the historic centre of Bogotá, standing on 14th Street and Old Town Street and separated from Avenida Jimenez de Quesada by the Plazoleta del Rosario.多数学院位于回廊（Claustro），即波哥大历史城区的主校区，坐落在第 14 街与老城街之间，与 Avenida Jimenez de Quesada 之间隔着 Rosario 小广场（Plazoleta del Rosario）。

• The Cloister was raised in the colonial period in the Spanish seventeenth-century style associated with the founder and has been declared a national architectural and cultural heritage monument of Colombia.回廊建于殖民时期，采用与创办人同时代的 17 世纪西班牙式样，已被列为哥伦比亚国家建筑与文化遗产纪念物。

• Experts classify its street as the oldest in the city, and the building is listed as a National Heritage Monument of the Republic of Colombia.专家认定回廊所在的街道是全城最古老的街道，这栋建筑被登记为哥伦比亚共和国的国家遗产纪念物。

• Inside stands the Aula Máxima, where protocolary ceremonies are held and which counts among the country's finest art galleries, hung with paintings dating from 1700.内部的大礼堂（Aula Máxima）举行礼仪性典礼，也是全国最好的画廊之一，悬挂着可追溯到 1700 年的画作。

• A bronze statue of the founder, Cristóbal de Torres, sculpted by Renart Dionisio Garcia, has stood in the Cloister since 1909, and the chapel holds the tomb of José Celestino Mutis.自 1909 年起，Renart Dionisio Garcia 所铸的创办人 Cristóbal de Torres 青铜像立于回廊内，礼拜堂中则有 José Celestino Mutis 的墓。

• The university's patroness is the Virgin known as "La Bordadita", whose name is given to the campus chapel and who remains one of the official symbols of the institution.该校的守护主保是被称为「La Bordadita」的圣母，校园礼拜堂以她命名，她也是学校的正式象征之一。

• The Historic Archive preserves the papers of the university since 1646, with documentary series of royal ballots, proofs of nobility and purity of blood, decrees on education, textbooks and medieval tuition books.历史档案馆保存自 1646 年以来的校本文件，藏有王室选票、血统贵族审查记录、教育法令、教科书以及中世纪学费簿等系列档案。

• The campus lies at about 4.61 degrees north and 74.08 degrees west in the centre of Bogotá, close to the Plaza de Bolívar and the oldest civic buildings of the city.校园位于波哥大市中心约北纬 4.61 度、西经 74.08 度处，邻近玻利瓦尔广场与该市最古老的市政建筑。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, Universidad del Rosario is placed in the 901-950 band worldwide.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，罗萨里奥大学位列全球 901-950 位区间。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 1601-1800 band worldwide, a weaker position than its QS result because of different research and reputation weightings.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校置于全球 1601-1800 位区间，因研究与声誉权重不同，位置低于其 QS 名次。

• In the US News global ranking for 2026-2027 the institution is listed at 1457 in the world.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列世界第 1457 位。

• The university does not appear in the ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, whose list is dominated by large science and engineering producers.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，该榜单以大规模自然科学与工程产出为主。

• OpenAlex records 16,771 scholarly works and 335,957 citations attributed to the institution, an output weighted towards law, medicine, public health and social sciences rather than laboratory science.OpenAlex 记录该校署名学术产出 16771 项、被引 335957 次，其结构偏向法学、医学、公共卫生与社会科学，而非实验科学。

• Colombia's national ratings agency, the Colombian Institute for Educational Evaluation, known as ICFES, classifies the university at its highest level, "Very Superior", and it is the only Colombian university to have completed an accreditation process supported by the European University Association.哥伦比亚国家评价机构哥伦比亚教育评价学院（Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación，简称 ICFES）把该校评为最高等级「极优」（Very Superior），它也是唯一完成欧洲大学协会（European University Association）所支持认证程序的哥伦比亚大学。

• Its disciplinary strength is concentrated in law and political sciences, the field that supplied the majority of the "golden court" Supreme Court of 1936 and most of the country's constitutional judges.该校的学科强项集中于法学与政治学，正是这一领域提供了 1936 年「黄金法庭」最高法院的多数法官以及全国多数宪法法官。

• No Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal laureate is recorded among its students or staff, and the university's equivalent honour is its historic designation as "the Cradle of the Republic".其师生中未查到诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，该校可与之等效的荣誉是「共和国摇篮」这一历史性称号。

• On the image of the 200 Colombian peso banknote, now out of circulation, the reverse carries the Cloister and the chapel of La Bordadita while the obverse carries the portrait of teacher José Celestino Mutis.已退出流通的 200 哥伦比亚比索纸币背面印有回廊与 La Bordadita 礼拜堂，正面印有教师 José Celestino Mutis 的肖像。

Student life

• Founded on Roman Catholic principles in 1653, the university today is organised on secular ideas, yet keeps its religious symbols, the Cross of Calatrava and the Virgin "La Bordadita", in its ceremonies.该校 1653 年以天主教理念创办，如今按世俗原则办学，但礼仪中仍保留卡拉特拉瓦十字与「La Bordadita」圣母这些宗教象征。

• Protocolary ceremonies, including graduations and academic openings, are held in the Aula Máxima of the Cloister, the hall whose paintings date from 1700.包括毕业典与开学典在内的礼仪性活动在回廊的大礼堂（Aula Máxima）举行，该厅的画作可追溯到 1700 年。

• Students who hold the college's traditional scholarships form the body of fifteen Colegiales, which still takes part in electing the Consiliarios and the rector of the university.获得学院传统奖学金的学生构成 15 名Colegiales 的团体，至今仍参与选举评议委员与校长。

• Plaza Capital is a digital magazine developed by students of journalism and public opinion at the university and covers topics related to the city of Bogotá.该校舆论与新闻专业的学生创办了数字杂志 Plaza Capital，内容围绕波哥大城市议题。

• An all-male primary and secondary school carrying the same name, Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, was founded as part of the university and continued under its roof until 2008.与大学同名、只收男生的中小学 Rosario 大学学院（Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario）原本附设于大学，直到 2008 年不再隶属。

• Around the Cloister, student life shares the streets of the historic centre with the Plazoleta del Rosario, the chapel of La Bordadita and the tomb of José Celestino Mutis.回廊周边的学生生活与波哥大历史城区共用街道， Rosario 小广场、La Bordadita 礼拜堂和 José Celestino Mutis 之墓都在步行范围之中。

• Alumni networks dominate national public life, since at least 28 presidents of Colombia have been students, and no government in Colombian history has been formed without at least one graduate of the university.校友网络主导全国公共生活，至少有 28 位哥伦比亚总统曾在此就读，哥伦比亚历史上没有一届政府不含至少一名该校毕业生。

• The vice rectorate has long been filled by academics with foreign training, and Stéphanie Lavaux, who led the Center for Political and International Studies from 2002 to 2011, came to the post from research on international relations.副校长一职长期由有海外经历的学者出任，曾在 2002 至 2011 年主持政治与国际研究中心的 Stéphanie Lavaux 即凭国际关系研究背景上任。

Notable people

• Fray Cristóbal de Torres, Archbishop of Santa Fe, founded the college in 1653, wrote its Constitutions and chose the Cross of Calatrava as its symbol.修士 Cristóbal de Torres 身为圣菲大主教，于 1653 年创办学院、撰写《宪章》并选定卡拉特拉瓦十字为校徽。

• José Celestino Mutis, who began teaching astronomy there on 13 March 1762, is the best known scientific figure of the university's colonial period and is buried in its chapel.José Celestino Mutis 于 1762 年 3 月 13 日起在此讲授天文学，是该校殖民时代最著名的科学人物，死后葬于校内礼拜堂。

• Camilo Torres Tenorio, a precursor and martyr of Colombian independence, and Francisco José of Caldas y Tenorio, scientist, journalist and martyr, both came from its classrooms.哥伦比亚独立的先驱与殉道者 Camilo Torres Tenorio，以及科学家、报人兼殉道者 Francisco José de Caldas y Tenorio，都出自这所学校的课堂。

• Among the 28 presidents who studied there are Carlos Holguín Mallarino, Ramón González Valencia, Miguel Abadía Méndez, Eduardo Santos, Alberto Lleras Camargo, Alfonso López Michelsen and Andrés Pastrana Arango.在此就读过的 28 位总统包括 Carlos Holguín Mallarino、Ramón González Valencia、Miguel Abadía Méndez、Eduardo Santos、Alberto Lleras Camargo、Alfonso López Michelsen 与 Andrés Pastrana Arango。

• Germán Vargas Lleras served as vice president of Colombia, Rafael Uribe Uribe led the Liberal Party, and Samuel Moreno Rojas was mayor of Bogotá, all products of the university.Germán Vargas Lleras 曾任哥伦比亚副总统，Rafael Uribe Uribe 是自由党领袖，Samuel Moreno Rojas 曾任波哥大市长，皆出自该校。

• Its legal alumni include Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra, former president of both the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Colombia, and Viviane Morales Hoyos, former attorney general.其法律校友包括曾任美洲人权委员会与哥伦比亚宪法法院主席的 Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra，以及曾任总检察长的 Viviane Morales Hoyos。

• Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez presided over the Senate of Colombia, Jaime Castro Castro served as minister of government, senator and mayor of Bogotá, and Néstor Osorio Londoño was permanent representative of Colombia to the United Nations.Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez 曾任哥伦比亚参议院主席，Jaime Castro Castro 历任内政部长、参议员与波哥大市长，Néstor Osorio Londoño 曾任哥伦比亚驻联合国常驻代表。

• Novelist and poet Álvaro Mutis and journalist Daniel Coronell were both educated at the attached secondary school, Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, before its separation in 2008.小说家兼诗人 Álvaro Mutis 与记者 Daniel Coronell 都在附设的 Rosario 大学学院中学部就读，该校 2008 年才与大学分离。

• José Manuel Restrepo Abondano combined the rectorate of the university with ministerial office in Colombia, having been minister of finance and public credit and minister of commerce, industry and tourism.José Manuel Restrepo Abondano 同时担任该校校长与哥伦比亚阁员，历任财政与公共信贷部长、工商与旅游部长。