Universidad del Valle

Universidad del Valle (Univalle), or Valle University, is a public departmental university based in Cali, the capital of Colombia's Valle del Cauca department, created by ordinance in 1945 and now the largest higher education institution in south-western Colombia.山谷大学（Universidad del Valle，简称 Univalle）是哥伦比亚考卡山谷省首府卡利的一所公立省立大学，1945 年依省议会法令创设，现为哥伦比亚西南部规模最大的高等教育机构。

It enrols about 35,000 students across eight faculties, two institutes and nine regional campuses, and it sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, in the 2001+ band of the Times Higher Education ranking 2027, 1,642nd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table and outside the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list.该校在八个学院、两个研究所与九个地区校区中拥有约 3.5 万名学生，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 2001+ 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 1,642 位，未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• From the late nineteenth century the elites of Cali and the Valle del Cauca department campaigned for a university of their own, since the only higher education in the region was offered by the Santa Librada College in Cali and the Academic College of Buga, both focused on liberal arts.从 19 世纪末起，卡利与考卡山谷省的上层人士便争取建立自己的大学，因为当地唯一的高等教育由卡利的圣利夫拉达学院与布加学术学院提供，两者都以人文科目为主。
• The demand became urgent in the 1940s, when the department's sugar, coffee and manufacturing economy needed chemists, engineers and managers whom the two colleges could not supply.到 1940 年代，这一需求变得迫切，因为该省的制糖、咖啡与制造业经济需要化学家、工程师与管理者，而这两所学院无法提供。
• On 11 June 1945 the Departmental Assembly passed ordinance 12 creating the Universidad Industrial del Valle del Cauca, or Industrial University of Valle del Cauca, with Tulio Ramírez Rojas and the departmental education secretary Severo Reyes Gamboa as its driving figures.1945 年 6 月 11 日，省议会通过第 12 号法令，创设考卡山谷工业大学，图利奥·拉米雷斯·罗哈斯与该省教育厅长塞韦罗·雷耶斯·甘博亚是主要推动者。
• Teaching began that year in a small house in downtown Cali with faculties of agronomy, business and nursing, a vocational profile that matched the department's rural and commercial economy.同年，学校在卡利市中心一栋小楼里开课，设农学、商业与护理三个学院，这一职业化定位与该省农业与商业经济相契合。
• Chemistry followed in 1946, architecture in 1947 and electrical engineering in 1948, the last renamed electromechanical engineering in 1949 as the programme widened.1946 年增设化学，1947 年增设建筑，1948 年增设电气工程，随着专业范围扩大，后者于 1949 年更名为机电工程。
• The early expansion outran the university's finances, and the dismissal of rector Ramírez for political reasons in 1949 was followed by a crisis that nearly closed the institution in 1950.早期扩张超出了学校的财力，1949 年校长拉米雷斯因政治原因被免职，随后爆发的危机几乎使学校在 1950 年关闭。
• A medical faculty was created in 1950 and began teaching in 1951 on the campus of the Santa Librada college, the first step towards the university's later dominance in health education.1950 年设立医学院，1951 年在圣利夫拉达学院校园内开始授课，这是该校日后在健康教育领域占据优势的第一步。
• In 1954 work began on the San Fernando campus, which still houses the health sciences, and ordinance 10 of that year renamed the institution Universidad del Valle and created an Academic Council and an Administrative Council with community representation.1954 年，圣费尔南多校区动工，该校区至今仍是健康科学的教学基地，同年第 10 号法令把校名改为山谷大学，并设立学术委员会与有社区代表参加的行政委员会。
• Under rector Mario Carvajal the university opened a Graduate School of Medicine in 1955 and founded its publishing house under the name University of Valle Library.在马里奥·卡瓦哈尔校长任内，学校于 1955 年开设医学研究生院，并以「山谷大学文库」之名创立了自己的出版社。
• Technical training arrived in 1957 with schools for medical laboratory technicians and for engineering auxiliaries in topography and roads, extending the university's reach beyond professional degrees.1957 年，学校设立医学实验室技术员学校以及地形与道路工程辅助人员学校，把办学范围扩展到职业学位之外的技术培训。
• By the end of the 1950s the university had five faculties, three schools, 556 students, 174 professors and 159 administrative staff, a scale that made a new campus unavoidable.到 1950 年代末，该校已有五个学院、三所学校、556 名学生、174 名教授与 159 名行政人员，这样的规模使新校区成为必需。
• A university planning office created in 1962 designed the Meléndez campus in southern Cali and a regional system of satellite campuses in the department's intermediate cities.1962 年设立的大学规划办公室设计了位于卡利南部的梅伦德斯校区，并在该省中等城市布局地区分校体系。
• In 1964 the faculties and schools were reorganised into divisions and departments, producing five divisions in architecture, economics, engineering, health and sciences plus new ones in education and humanities.1964 年，学院与学校被重组为学部与系，形成建筑、经济、工程、健康与科学五个学部，并新增教育与人文两个学部。
• Internationalisation and postgraduate growth came in 1968 with donations from foreign foundations, and by the end of the 1960s the university had 5,302 students and 453 full-time professors, nine per cent of them with doctorates.1968 年，在外国基金会捐助下，学校推进国际化并扩大研究生教育，到 1960 年代末已有 5,302 名学生与 453 名全职教授，其中 9% 拥有博士学位。
• On 15 February 1971 students occupied the rectory after an unconsulted election of a dean, and on 26 February police retook the campus, leaving 11 students and four soldiers dead.1971 年 2 月 15 日，学生因院系主任任命未经协商而占领校长办公楼，2 月 26 日警察夺回校园，事件造成 11 名学生与 4 名军人死亡。
• The university closed from February to April 1971 and reopened only after a new rector was appointed, an episode that shaped its later tradition of student representation.该校在 1971 年 2 月至 4 月间停课，直到新任校长任命后才复课，这一事件塑造了其日后重视学生代表制的传统。
• In 1975 the divisions became faculties again and new programmes in social communication, journalism and social work were created in the humanities faculty.1975 年，学部重新改为学院，人文学院新设社会传播、新闻学与社会工作专业。
• A professorial career system based on academic, research and administrative merit was introduced in 1977 to stop the departure of full-time staff.1977 年，学校引入以教学、科研与行政绩效为依据的教授职级制度，以遏止全职教师的流失。
• The Socio-Economic Research Centre, created in 1976, prepared the ground for a sociology programme that opened in 1978.1976 年创立的社会经济研究中心为 1978 年开设的社会学专业奠定了基础。
• The Faculty of Administration Sciences separated from engineering in 1983, and in 1985 the university signed its first joint research agreements with the national education ministry, COLCIENCIAS, UNESCO and the OAS.1983 年，管理科学学院从工学院中独立，1985 年学校与哥伦比亚教育部、COLCIENCIAS、联合国教科文组织及美洲国家组织签署了首批联合研究协议。
• A revenue stamp approved by Congress in the 1980s financed the regional campuses, which until 1995 taught only foundation courses and required students to finish their degrees in Cali.1980 年代国会批准的一项印花税收入为地区校区提供了资金，这些校区在 1995 年之前只教授基础课程，学生须回卡利完成学位。
• The 1990s brought the Institute of Education and Pedagogy and a psychology school in 1994 and the Faculty of Integrated Arts in 1995, formed from architecture, social communication, drama and music.1990 年代，学校于 1994 年设立教育与教学研究所与心理学系，1995 年由建筑、社会传播、戏剧与音乐合并组成综合艺术学院。
• Mismanaged surpluses and rising pension costs produced a financial crisis that closed the university in the second semester of 1998 and suspended all salary payments.管理不善的盈余与不断上升的养老金成本引发财政危机，使学校在 1998 年第二学期关闭，并暂停发放全部薪资。
• Operations resumed in early 1999, a retirement fund was created in 2000 with the finance ministry and the departmental government, and in 2001 the research system was launched and the publishing house reopened.1999 年初学校恢复运转，2000 年与财政部及省政府共同设立退休基金，2001 年启动科研体系并重开出版社。
• In 2005 the national education ministry granted the university high-quality institutional accreditation for eight years, one of the longest periods awarded at the time.2005 年，哥伦比亚教育部授予该校为期八年的高质量机构认证，这是当时获批最长的期限之一。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in eight faculties and two institutes, among them engineering, health, sciences, humanities, integrated arts, social sciences and economics, and administration sciences.教学由八个学院与两个研究所组织，其中包括工程、健康、科学、人文、综合艺术、社会科学与经济学以及管理科学。
• The university offers 258 academic programmes, of which 181 are undergraduate and 94 postgraduate, including eight doctoral degrees by research.该校开设 258 个学术项目，其中 181 个为本科项目、94 个为研究生项目，包括 8 个研究型博士学位。
• In 2024 it enrolled approximately 35,000 students, about 30,000 of them undergraduates and 3,000 in specialisations, master's and doctoral programmes.2024 年，该校注册学生约 3.5 万人，其中约 3 万名本科生、3,000 名攻读专业进修、硕士与博士项目的研究生。
• That year it admitted 5,481 students across two academic periods, an acceptance rate of about 88 per cent, high by Colombian public university standards.同年，学校在两个学期共录取 5,481 名学生，录取率约为 88%，以哥伦比亚公立大学的标准衡量属于较高水平。
• In 2023 it awarded 5,106 degrees, including 3,016 bachelor's degrees, 923 technologist titles, 551 master's degrees, 510 specialisations and 106 doctorates.2023 年，该校授予 5,106 个学位，其中包括 3,016 个学士学位、923 个技师资格、551 个硕士学位、510 个专业进修证书与 106 个博士学位。
• QS records 33,529 students and 1,995 faculty for the university, a ratio of roughly seventeen students per academic, typical of Colombia's large public universities.QS 记录该校有 33,529 名学生与 1,995 名教师，约为每名教师对十七名学生，这在哥伦比亚大型公立大学中属于常见水平。
• Research is organised around one excellence centre, six research centres, three research institutes and 204 recognised research groups.科研围绕一个卓越研究中心、六个研究中心、三个研究所与 204 个获认可的研究团队组织。
• Health and engineering are the university's traditional strengths, and its Medical School, founded in 1950, trains doctors for the whole south-west of the country.健康与工程是该校的传统强项，1950 年创立的医学院为整个哥伦比亚西南部培养医生。
• Engineering programmes cover civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical, industrial, systems and topographical engineering, several of them accredited by the national quality system.工程类专业涵盖土木、电气、机械、化学、工业、系统与地形测量工程，其中若干专业通过了国家质量体系认证。
• The Faculty of Sciences teaches chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics and geology, and its doctoral programme in chemistry is one of the university's eight doctorates.理学院教授化学、物理、生物、数学与地质学，其化学博士项目是该校八个博士项目之一。
• The humanities and social sciences faculties teach philosophy, history, sociology, social work, journalism and economics, with the economics department among the oldest in the country.人文与社会科学各学院教授哲学、历史、社会学、社会工作、新闻学与经济学，其中经济系是全国历史最久的同类院系之一。
• The Faculty of Integrated Arts brings together architecture, music, drama and social communication, a structure created in 1995 from four previously separate programmes.综合艺术学院把建筑、音乐、戏剧与社会传播汇集在一起，这一结构于 1995 年由四个原本独立的专业合并而成。
• Administration sciences, taught at the San Fernando campus, cover business administration, public accounting and economics-related management programmes.管理科学在圣费尔南多校区授课，涵盖工商管理、公共会计以及与经济学相关的管理项目。
• The university press, founded in 1955 and reopened in 2001, publishes academic books and the results of regional research that commercial houses rarely handle.该校出版社创立于 1955 年、2001 年重开，出版学术著作与商业出版社很少涉猎的地区研究成果。
• Its library system comprises 12 libraries and four archive centres, and the Meléndez campus also holds an archaeological centre and a university cinema.其图书馆体系包括 12 座图书馆与 4 个档案中心，梅伦德斯校区还设有考古中心与大学电影院。
• Admission is based on the national Saber 11 school-leaving examination, and the university publishes cut-off scores by programme each semester.录取以全国「 Saber 11 」中学毕业考试成绩为依据，学校每学期公布各专业的录取分数线。
• The university belongs to the Association of Colombian Universities, the Ibero-American Association of Postgraduate Universities and the Universia network, and it exchanges staff with universities across the region.该校是哥伦比亚大学协会、伊比利亚美洲研究生大学协会与 Universia 网络的成员，并与区域内多所大学开展教师交流。

Campus

• The main campus, the University City of Meléndez, lies in the Meléndez neighbourhood of southern Cali, bounded by Calle 13 or Pasoancho Avenue and Calle 16, and by Carrera 86 and Carrera 100.主校区梅伦德斯大学城位于卡利南部的梅伦德斯街区，边界为第 13 大道（帕索安乔大道）与第 16 街，以及第 86 大道与第 100 大道。
• The land was donated by the Garcés Giraldo brothers, and the campus plan won the national architecture prize in 1972.校址土地由加塞斯·希拉尔多兄弟捐出，校区规划于 1972 年获得国家建筑奖。
• During the 1971 Pan American Games the half-built campus served as the athletes' village, which is why its sports facilities were completed before most academic buildings.1971 年泛美运动会期间，尚未完工的校区被用作运动员村，这也是其体育设施比大多教学楼更早建成的原因。
• The developed northern section is enclosed by Avenida Tulio Ramírez and contains more than 30 buildings, among them the Mario Carvajal Library and the faculties of science and engineering.已开发的北部区域由图利奥·拉米雷斯大道环绕，包含 30 多栋建筑，其中有马里奥·卡瓦哈尔图书馆以及理学院与工学院。
• The southern section holds the sports centre, with a stadium seating 3,020 spectators, eight football pitches, four basketball and volleyball courts, the Alberto León Betancourt arena, an Olympic pool and four tennis courts.南部区域为体育中心，设有一座可容纳 3,020 名观众的体育场、八块足球场、四块篮球与排球场、阿尔韦托·莱昂·贝坦库尔体育馆、一座奥运规格泳池与四片网球场。
• The landscape was designed by the architects Lyda Caldas and Harold Borrero to imitate the savanna of the Cauca river valley, and the campus holds 4,250 trees from 182 species, some of them endangered.校园景观由建筑师莉达·卡尔达斯与哈罗德·博雷罗设计，模仿考卡河谷的稀树草原，校内种有 182 个树种的 4,250 棵树，其中一些属于濒危物种。
• The San Fernando campus in central Cali, built in 1954, was the university's main site until 1962 and shares its grounds with the Evaristo García university hospital.位于卡利市中心的圣费尔南多校区建于 1954 年，在 1962 年之前一直是主校区，并与埃瓦里斯托·加西亚大学医院共用场地。
• The Palmira campus at La Carbonera was built on land donated by the Manuelita sugar company, with construction beginning in June 2007 and inauguration in June 2009.帕尔米拉校区位于拉卡尔博内拉，建在曼努埃利塔糖业公司捐赠的土地上，2007 年 6 月动工，2009 年 6 月落成。
• Its first building has three storeys, a library, five laboratories for chemistry, biology, electronics, physics and food analysis, a 150-seat auditorium and 27 classrooms.其首栋建筑为三层，设有图书馆、化学、生物、电子、物理与食品分析五个实验室、一座 150 座礼堂以及 27 间教室。
• Beyond Cali the university runs regional campuses in Buenaventura, Buga, Caicedonia, Cartago, Palmira, Tuluá, Yumbo, Zarzal and Santander de Quilichao, the last in the neighbouring Cauca department.在卡利之外，该校在布埃纳文图拉、布加、凯塞多尼亚、卡塔戈、帕尔米拉、图卢阿、尤博、萨尔萨尔以及邻省考卡的圣坦德尔-德基利乔设有地区校区。

Reputation

• Univalle appears in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a step below its positions in the 801-1000 band that it held from 2018 to 2023.山谷大学进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1201-1400 区间，较其 2018 至 2023 年间所处的 801-1000 区间有所下滑。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 2001+ band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table it ranks 1,642nd.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 2001+ 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 1,642 位。
• It is absent from the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, which rewards Nobel laureates and highly cited researchers rather than regional teaching capacity.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜单奖励的是诺贝尔奖得主与高被引学者，而非地区教学能力。
• QS places Univalle 61st in its Latin America and Caribbean ranking, making it one of the five highest-ranked Colombian universities in that table.在 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区大学排名中，该校位列第 61 位，是该榜单中排名最高的五所哥伦比亚大学之一。
• The same provider ranks one of its subject areas in the 301-350 band worldwide and places the university in the 1201-1250 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 301-350 区间，并在可持续发展排名中把该校列入 1201-1250 区间。
• OpenAlex records 34,026 works and 567,128 citations under the university's name, the largest research output of any institution in south-western Colombia.OpenAlex 以该校名义收录 34,026 篇成果与 567,128 次引用，是哥伦比亚西南部科研产出最大的机构。
• Its eight-year accreditation, granted in 2005, was one of the longest periods awarded to a Colombian public university at the time.该校 2005 年获得的八年期认证，是当时哥伦比亚公立大学获批的最长期限之一。
• Together with the National University of Colombia and the University of Antioquia, or Antioquia University, Univalle forms what Colombian commentators call the golden triangle of public higher education.山谷大学与哥伦比亚国立大学、安蒂奥基亚大学一起，被哥伦比亚评论者称为公立高等教育的「金三角」。
• In the 2024 Saber Pro examinations the education ministry ranked the university eighth nationally, with 35 of its students among the top scorers.在 2024 年 Saber Pro 考试中，教育部把该校列为全国第八，其 35 名学生进入最高分名单。
• Its citation count of 567,128 is high for a regional university, reflecting a research base built in chemistry, health sciences and engineering since the 1960s.对一所地区性大学而言，567,128 次引用属于较高水平，反映其自 1960 年代以来在化学、健康科学与工程领域积累的研究基础。

Student life

• The university has no Latin motto, and its public identity rests on the 1945 ordinance that created it as a departmental institution serving the Valle del Cauca.该校没有拉丁文校训，其公共形象建立在 1945 年将其设为服务考卡山谷省的省立机构的法令之上。
• Students elect representatives to the Academic Council and to the University Council, a form of co-governance that dates from the 1971 crisis and the 1975 reforms.学生选举代表进入学术委员会与大学委员会，这种共同治理形式可追溯到 1971 年的危机与 1975 年的改革。
• The sports centre built for the 1971 Pan American Games remains the focus of student athletics, with its stadium, pool and courts used by university teams and by local clubs.为 1971 年泛美运动会修建的体育中心至今仍是学生体育的核心，其体育场、泳池与球场既供校队使用，也向本地俱乐部开放。
• The university cinema and its cultural broadcasting service give Cali a public programme of films, concerts and lectures that extends beyond the campus community.大学电影院与文化广播服务为卡利提供面向公众的电影、音乐会与讲座节目，其影响超出校园社群。
• A student health centre offering mental, medical and dental care is part of the welfare system run by the vice-rectorate for university welfare.提供心理、医疗与牙科服务的学生健康中心，是大学福祉副校长管辖的福利体系的一部分。
• Canteens and restaurants on the Meléndez campus serve a student body that commutes from across Cali and from neighbouring municipalities.梅伦德斯校区的食堂与餐厅服务于从卡利各处及邻近市镇通勤而来的学生群体。
• The regional campuses let students in Buenaventura, Tuluá and the other provincial cities complete degrees locally instead of migrating to Cali.地区校区使布埃纳文图拉、图卢阿及其他省辖城市的学生能够就地完成学位，而不必迁往卡利。
• The memory of the 1971 student protest is kept alive in campus murals and commemorations, and it remains a reference point for student politics at the university.1971 年学生抗议的记忆通过校园壁画与纪念活动延续下来，至今仍是该校学生政治的参照点。

Notable people

• Tulio Ramírez Rojas, a physician and politician from La Unión, was the first rector and led the campaign that produced the 1945 ordinance.来自拉乌尼翁的医生与政治家图利奥·拉米雷斯·罗哈斯是首任校长，并领导了促成 1945 年建校法令的运动。
• Severo Reyes Gamboa, the department's secretary of education in 1945, co-sponsored the founding ordinance and organised the university's first budget.1945 年担任该省教育厅长的塞韦罗·雷耶斯·甘博亚联署了建校法令，并筹组了学校的第一份预算。
• Mario Carvajal, a poet and rector in the 1950s, opened the graduate school of medicine and founded the press that still carries his name in the main library.1950 年代担任校长的诗人马里奥·卡瓦哈尔开设了医学研究生院，并创办了出版社，主图书馆至今以他的名字命名。
• Emilio Aljure Nasser, rector at the end of the 1990s, helped negotiate the retirement fund that resolved the pension liabilities behind the 1998 closure.1990 年代末任校长的埃米利奥·阿尔胡雷·纳塞尔参与谈判设立退休基金，解决了导致 1998 年停校的养老金负债。
• Oscar Rojas Rentería, who shared the rectorship during the recovery, oversaw the reopening of the university in 1999 and the resumption of salary payments.在复苏期共同主持校务的奥斯卡·罗哈斯·伦特里亚负责 1999 年学校复课与薪资发放的恢复工作。
• Iván Enrique Ramos Calderón became rector in 2003 and was re-elected in 2007, a period in which the research system and the accreditation agenda were consolidated.伊万·恩里克·拉莫斯·卡尔德隆于 2003 年出任校长并于 2007 年连任，其任内科研体系与认证议程得到巩固。
• The Garcés Giraldo brothers donated the land for the Meléndez campus, and their name survives in the avenue that divides the university city.加塞斯·希拉尔多兄弟捐出梅伦德斯校区的土地，他们的姓氏保留在分隔大学城的那条大道之名中。
• Evaristo García, a nineteenth-century Colombian physician and public health reformer, is remembered in the name of the university hospital adjoining the San Fernando campus.19 世纪哥伦比亚医生与公共卫生改革者埃瓦里斯托·加西亚，因与圣费尔南多校区相邻的大学医院以他命名而被铭记。