Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), or University of the Valley of Guatemala, is a private, non-profit and secular university at 18 Avenida 11-95 in Zone 15 of Guatemala City, founded on 29 January 1966 by a private foundation, the Valley of Guatemala Foundation, that had previously run the American School of Guatemala.危地马拉山谷大学（Universidad del Valle de Guatemala，简称 UVG）是危地马拉城第 15 区第 18 大道 11-95 号一所私立、非营利且世俗的大学，1966 年 1 月 29 日由一家此前管理危地马拉美国学校的基金会创办。

It is the only Guatemalan university in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and 2027, where it sits in the 1201-1400 band, and it also appears in the 161-170 band of the QS Latin America and Caribbean ranking, while remaining outside the Times Higher Education, U.S. News and ShanghaiRanking tables.该校是 2026 与 2027 年度 QS 世界大学排名中唯一上榜的危地马拉大学，处于 1201-1400 区间，同时在 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区排名中位列 161-170 区间，但未进入泰晤士高等教育、《美国新闻与世界报道》与软科的榜单。

History

• For more than three centuries higher education in Guatemala meant a single institution, the Royal and Pontifical University of San Carlos, founded in 1676 and for long periods the only university in the country.在三个多世纪里，危地马拉的高等教育只意味着一所机构，即 1676 年创立的圣卡洛斯皇家与宗座大学，它在很长时期内是该国唯一的大学。
• Private universities appeared only in the second half of the twentieth century, beginning with Rafael Landívar University in 1961, followed by UVG in 1966 and Francisco Marroquín University in 1971.私立大学直到 20 世纪下半叶才出现，先是 1961 年的拉斐尔·兰迪瓦尔大学，随后是 1966 年的危地马拉山谷大学与 1971 年的弗朗西斯科·马罗金大学。
• UVG was created on 29 January 1966 by a private foundation that had spent two decades running the American School of Guatemala, a bilingual school for Guatemalan and foreign families in the capital.危地马拉山谷大学于 1966 年 1 月 29 日由一家私立基金会创立，该基金会此前已用二十年时间管理危地马拉美国学校，这是一所面向首都危地马拉与外国家庭的双语学校。
• The school had been founded in 1945, and the foundation that ran it drew its trustees from the business and professional families who wanted a university that would not depend on the state or on a religious order.这所学校创建于 1945 年，管理它的基金会由商界与专业人士家庭组成，他们希望建立一所不依赖国家、也不从属于宗教修会的大学。
• The name refers to the highland valley in which Guatemala City lies, a basin ringed by volcanoes, rather than to an administrative department, since no Guatemalan department carries the name Valle de Guatemala.校名指的是危地马拉城所在的高地山谷，一个被火山环绕的盆地，而不是某个行政区，因为危地马拉没有任何省份以「危地马拉山谷」为名。
• From its statutes the university was non-profit and secular, without a religious order behind it, which distinguished it from the public San Carlos University and from the Jesuit Rafael Landívar University.根据章程，该校为非营利且世俗的机构，背后没有宗教修会，这使它有别于公立的圣卡洛斯大学与耶稣会创办的拉斐尔·兰迪瓦尔大学。
• Its founders wanted an institution that would train engineers, technicians and applied scientists for a country whose economy was moving from coffee and bananas towards manufacturing, construction and services.创办者希望建立一所培养工程师、技术人员与应用科学家的机构，因为当时该国经济正从咖啡与香蕉种植转向制造业、建筑业与服务业。
• UVG describes itself as the first private university in Guatemala to give a strong emphasis to technology and technical training, a claim repeated in its official history and in its QS profile.危地马拉山谷大学自称是危地马拉第一所高度重视技术与技术训练的私立大学，这一说法在其官方校史与 QS 简介中均有重复。
• Teaching began in 1966 with a small staff and a curriculum that combined a liberal arts core with specialised work in the sciences, engineering and education.学校于 1966 年开始授课，师资规模很小，课程把博雅教育核心与科学、工程及教育领域的专业训练结合起来。
• The university was founded during the armed conflict that ran from 1960 to 1996, a period in which higher education remained heavily concentrated in the capital and in the public sector.该校创立于 1960 至 1996 年的武装冲突期间，这一时期危地马拉的高等教育仍高度集中于首都与公共部门。
• Between 1970 and 1989 it added programmes in civil, mechanical, industrial, electronic and computer engineering, and in chemistry, biology and mathematics.在 1970 至 1989 年间，学校陆续增设土木、机械、工业、电子与计算机工程，以及化学、生物与数学等专业。
• Its campus in Vista Hermosa III, Zone 15, on the eastern side of the capital, became the base for its laboratories, libraries and administrative offices.位于首都东侧第 15 区维斯塔埃尔莫萨三期的校园，逐渐成为其实验室、图书馆与行政办公的基地。
• In 1992 the .gt country-code top-level domain was delegated to the university, which has operated the registry ever since, an unusual responsibility for a private university.1992 年，国家代码顶级域名 .gt 被委托给该校管理，此后它一直运营这一注册机构，这对一所私立大学而言是不同寻常的职责。
• The registry made UVG one of the first Guatemalan institutions to manage internet infrastructure and gave its computing staff a practical link with the emerging network economy.这一注册机构使该校成为危地马拉最早管理互联网基础设施的机构之一，也让其计算技术人员与新兴的网络经济建立了实际联系。
• Postgraduate teaching expanded from the 1990s onward, and the university now lists 33 master's programmes alongside its 46 undergraduate degrees.研究生教育自 1990 年代起不断扩大，如今学校在 46 个本科学位之外还开设 33 个硕士项目。
• In 2004 its teacher-training centre was designated a Centre of Excellence by the United States Agency for International Development, a status it has retained in the years since.2004 年，其教师培训中心被美国国际开发署指定为卓越中心，此后多年一直保持这一地位。
• Two regional campuses extended the university beyond the capital, one on the Pacific coastal plain and one in the western highlands, both created to serve students who could not move to Guatemala City.两个地区校区把学校延伸到首都之外，一个位于太平洋沿岸平原，一个位于西部高地，二者都是为了服务无法迁居危地马拉城的学生。
• Campus Sur opened at Kilometre 92.5 of the Carretera a Mazatenango in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, department of Escuintla, at the heart of the country's sugar belt.南方校区设在埃斯昆特拉省圣卢西亚科苏马尔瓜帕的马萨特南戈公路 92.5 公里处，地处该国甘蔗种植带的核心。
• Campus Altiplano stands at Kilometre 137 near the village of Xolbé in Sololá, serving Maya communities around Lake Atitlán that had little access to university education.高原校区位于索洛拉省霍尔贝村附近的 137 公里处，服务阿蒂特兰湖周边此前难以获得大学教育的玛雅社区。
• The university later obtained institutional accreditation from Hcéres, the French evaluation body, the only such international accreditation held by a Guatemalan university according to its QS profile.该校后来获得法国评估机构 Hcéres 的机构认证，按其 QS 简介所述，这是危地马拉大学中唯一的此类国际认证。
• When the COVID-19 pandemic closed classrooms in 2020, UVG moved its courses online and later adopted a blended model that combined face-to-face laboratories with remote lectures.2020 年新冠疫情使课堂关闭时，该校把课程转为线上，随后采用把线下实验室与远程授课相结合混合模式。
• It partnered with Coursera to embed online courses in credit-bearing programmes, a response to students who could not travel to the capital from the highlands or the coast.学校与 Coursera 合作，把在线课程纳入计学分的项目，以回应那些无法从高地或沿海地区前往首都的学生。
• In the 2026 edition of the QS World University Rankings the university appeared for the first time, becoming the only Guatemalan institution in that table.在 2026 年版 QS 世界大学排名中，该校首次上榜，成为该榜单中唯一的危地马拉院校。
• The 2027 edition kept UVG in the 1201-1400 band, and the university marked its sixtieth anniversary in 2026 with the same emphasis on applied science and teaching.2027 年版排名把该校继续列入 1201-1400 区间，学校于 2026 年迎来建校六十周年，依然强调应用科学与教学。
• Its foundation remains the owner of the university, and surpluses are reinvested in laboratories, scholarships and campus buildings rather than distributed to shareholders.其基金会仍是大学的所有者，盈余被再投资于实验室、奖学金与校园建筑，而不是分配给股东。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in eight faculties: Engineering, Education, Social Studies, Science and Humanities, Design Innovation and Arts, Global Management and Business Intelligence, Colegio Universitario, and Architecture.教学由八个学院组织，分别是工程、教育、社会研究、科学与人文、设计创新与艺术、全球管理与商业智能、大学学院以及建筑。
• The university lists 46 undergraduate licenciaturas and 33 master's degrees, taught across more than 1,500 courses in the sciences, humanities, engineering and education.该校设有 46 个本科专业与 33 个硕士学位，在科学、人文、工程与教育领域开设超过 1,500 门课程。
• Its model combines a liberal arts foundation with specialised training in science, technology, innovation, education and business, according to the university's own description of its programmes.根据学校对其项目的描述，其模式把博雅教育基础与科学、技术、创新、教育和商业领域的专业训练结合起来。
• QS records 4,492 students, 468 faculty members and 97 international students, a ratio of roughly ten students per academic and one of the smallest student bodies among ranked Central American universities.QS 记录该校有 4,492 名学生、468 名教师与 97 名国际学生，约为每名教师对十名学生，其学生规模在中美洲上榜大学中属于最小之列。
• Undergraduates make up 89 per cent of the student body and postgraduates 11 per cent, while 24 of the 468 faculty members come from outside Guatemala.本科生占学生总数的 89%，研究生占 11%，468 名教师中有 24 人来自危地马拉以外。
• Engineering is the largest faculty and covers civil, mechanical, industrial, electronic, mechatronic, chemical, food and computer engineering.工程学院是规模最大的学院，涵盖土木、机械、工业、电子、机电一体化、化学、食品与计算机工程。
• The science programmes include biology, physics, chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology, pharmaceutical chemistry and nutrition, several of them linked to laboratory research.理学项目包括生物、物理、化学、生物化学与微生物学、药物化学以及营养学，其中若干与实验室研究相连。
• The Faculty of Education trains schoolteachers and school leaders and works with the teacher-training centre that USAID designated a Centre of Excellence in 2004.教育学院培养中小学教师与学校管理者，并与 2004 年被美国国际开发署指定为卓越中心的教师培训中心合作。
• Psychology sits with the social sciences and education, and its programmes combine clinical training with community practice in Guatemala City and on the regional campuses.心理学与社会科学及教育并列，其项目把临床训练与在危地马拉城及各地区校区开展的社区实践结合起来。
• The Faculty of Global Management and Business Intelligence teaches business administration, management and data-driven decision-making for an economy dominated by family firms and foreign trade.全球管理与商业智能学院教授工商管理、管理学与数据驱动的决策，服务于一个由家族企业和对外贸易主导的经济体。
• Design Innovation and Arts and the Faculty of Architecture run studio-based programmes in architecture, industrial design, graphic design and the arts.设计创新与艺术学院以及建筑学院开设以工作室为基础的建筑、工业设计、平面设计与艺术项目。
• Colegio Universitario, the eighth academic unit and glossed as University College, carries a name that recalls the collegiate institutions from which Latin American universities grew.大学学院是第八个学术单位，其名称让人想起拉丁美洲大学由之发展而来的学院传统，负责学校部分通识教学。
• Research is applied rather than purely theoretical, oriented towards technology transfer, public health, education and the management of natural resources.该校科研偏重应用而非纯理论，面向技术转移、公共卫生、教育以及自然资源管理。
• QS classifies the university's research output as high for its size, a rating based on publications relative to the number of academic staff.QS 把该校的科研产出按其规模评为「高」，这一评级依据的是相对于教师人数的论文发表量。
• The university's laboratories serve undergraduate teaching and contract work for industry, particularly in food analysis, water quality and materials testing.学校实验室既服务本科教学，也承接工业界的合同检测，尤其在食品分析、水质与材料测试方面。
• Master's programmes concentrate on applied sciences, education, business and design, and most are taught in the evening or in blended format for working professionals.硕士项目集中于应用科学、教育、商业与设计，大多在晚间或以混合形式授课，方便在职专业人士。
• Admission is selective and based on entrance examinations, and the independent uniRank directory puts the acceptance rate at 70 to 79 per cent.录取具有选择性并以入学考试为依据，独立排名机构 uniRank 估计其录取率在 70% 至 79% 之间。
• The academic year runs in two semesters, and the university accepts IELTS scores from applicants whose first language is not Spanish.学年分为两个学期，学校接受第一语言非西班牙语的申请者提交雅思成绩。

Campus

• The central campus occupies 18 Avenida 11-95 in Vista Hermosa III, Zone 15, Guatemala City, at coordinates 14.605 north and 90.49 west.主校区位于危地马拉城第 15 区维斯塔埃尔莫萨三期的第 18 大道 11-95 号，坐标为北纬 14.605 度、西经 90.49 度。
• Zone 15 lies in the eastern part of the capital along the Carretera a El Salvador, a district of residential colonias, offices and shopping centres built in the second half of the twentieth century.第 15 区位于首都东部、沿萨尔瓦多公路展开，是 20 世纪下半叶建成的住宅社区、办公楼与购物中心组成的城区。
• Guatemala City was founded in 1776, after earthquakes destroyed Santiago de los Caballeros, and it fills a highland basin at about 1,500 metres surrounded by the volcanoes Agua, Fuego and Pacaya.危地马拉城建于 1776 年，此前地震摧毁了圣地亚哥-德洛斯卡瓦列罗斯，城市坐落于海拔约 1,500 米的高地盆地，四周是阿瓜、富埃戈与帕卡亚火山。
• Campus Sur stands at Kilometre 92.5 of the Carretera a Mazatenango in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Escuintla, on the hot Pacific coastal plain among sugar cane fields.南方校区位于埃斯昆特拉省圣卢西亚科苏马尔瓜帕的马萨特南戈公路 92.5 公里处，地处炎热的太平洋沿海平原，四周是甘蔗田。
• Campus Altiplano is at Kilometre 137 near Xolbé, Sololá, in the western highlands above Lake Atitlán, a region of Maya villages and terraced hillsides.高原校区位于索洛拉省霍尔贝附近的 137 公里处，在阿蒂特兰湖上方的西部高地，那里是玛雅村落与梯田山坡构成的地区。
• The three sites place the university in the capital, the coastal economy and the indigenous highlands, the three settings from which most of its students come.这三个校区把大学置于首都、沿海经济与土著高地之中，而这正是其大多数学生来源的三种环境。
• The central campus houses laboratories, computer rooms, libraries, auditoriums and sports facilities, and it is the base for the university's research institutes.主校区设有实验室、计算机房、图书馆、礼堂与体育设施，也是学校各研究所的基地。
• The university's dragon mascot, Jack, appears at sports events and graduation ceremonies and gives the campus a symbol that is unusual among Guatemalan universities.该校的龙形吉祥物「杰克」出现在体育赛事与毕业典礼上，为校园提供了在危地马拉大学中颇为独特的象征。
• The .gt registry and the university's network operations are run from the capital campus, tying the institution's infrastructure to the country's internet..gt 注册机构与学校的网络运营都在首都校区进行，把该校的基础设施与国家的互联网联系在一起。

Reputation

• UVG appears in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, its second appearance in the global table after entering in the 2026 edition.危地马拉山谷大学进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1201-1400 区间，这是它自 2026 年版首次上榜后第二次出现在全球榜单中。
• Its first appearance, in the 2026 edition, made it the only Guatemalan university in the QS global ranking, a point the university highlighted in its own announcement.它首次上榜是在 2026 年版，成为 QS 全球排名中唯一的危地马拉大学，学校在自身的公告中特别强调了这一点。
• QS places the university in the 161-170 band of its Latin America and Caribbean ranking, and UVG says it held first place among Guatemalan private universities in that regional table for several years.QS 把该校列入拉丁美洲与加勒比地区排名的 161-170 区间，该校称自己曾连续多年在这一地区榜单中位居危地马拉私立大学首位。
• The university did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and it is not listed in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未收录于 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单。
• It is absent from the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, which selects universities on Nobel prizes, highly cited researchers and publications in Nature and Science.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜单依据诺贝尔奖、高被引学者以及在《自然》与《科学》上的论文来遴选大学。
• Hcéres, the French high council for the evaluation of research and higher education, has accredited the university institutionally, the only international accreditation of this kind held by a Guatemalan university.法国研究与高等教育评估高级委员会 Hcéres 对该校进行了机构认证，这是危地马拉大学中唯一的此类国际认证。
• QS rates the university's research output as high, a classification that reflects its publication volume relative to a student body of fewer than 5,000.QS 把该校的科研产出评为「高」，这一分类反映的是相对于不足 5,000 名学生规模的论文发表量。
• OpenAlex records 1,916 works and 70,267 citations under the university's name, a modest total that is nevertheless among the largest for Guatemalan institutions.OpenAlex 以该校名义收录 1,916 篇成果与 70,267 次引用，这一总量不算大，但在危地马拉各机构中仍属最多之列。
• The Nature Index tracks research articles published by UVG authors, listing the university among Guatemalan institutions with output in the natural sciences.《自然》指数追踪该校作者发表的科研论文，将其列为在自然科学领域有产出的危地马拉机构之一。
• Its QS profile stresses a good reputation with employers and a record of successful graduates, and the university cites these links when presenting its case to applicants.其 QS 简介强调良好的雇主声誉与校友的成功记录，学校在向申请者介绍自身时也引用这些联系。
• For a country of about 17 million people with few internationally ranked universities, UVG's position in the 1201-1400 band gives it visibility that its size alone would not command.对于一个拥有约 1,700 万人口、国际上榜大学寥寥的国家而言，该校身处 1201-1400 区间所带来的能见度，远超其规模本身所能获得。

Student life

• The university has 15 student associations, one for most degree programmes, among them physics, biology, civil engineering, food engineering, computer science, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering and psychology.该校有 15 个学生协会，多数专业各有其一，包括物理、生物、土木工程、食品工程、计算机科学、工业工程、机械工程与心理学。
• Other associations group students of nutrition, education, biochemistry and microbiology, electronic engineering, mechatronics and chemical engineering, and each organises talks, visits and social events.其他协会汇集营养学、教育学、生物化学与微生物学、电子工程、机电一体化与化学工程的学生，各协会组织讲座、参观与社交活动。
• Clubs for art, music, theatre, volleyball, chess and lectures give students activities that are not tied to a single degree programme.艺术、音乐、戏剧、排球、国际象棋与读书俱乐部为学生提供了不局限于某一专业项目的活动。
• The dragon mascot Jack appears at inter-university sports fixtures, and the university fields teams in volleyball, football, basketball and athletics.龙形吉祥物「杰克」出现在校际体育赛事中，学校在排球、足球、篮球与田径项目上派队参赛。
• With 4,492 students, of whom 97 are international, the campus has the scale of a small liberal arts college rather than a mass university.该校有 4,492 名学生，其中 97 人为国际学生，校园规模更像一所小型文理学院，而非大规模大学。
• Students on the capital campus eat in nearby cafeterias and restaurants in Zone 15 and commute from across Guatemala City and its suburbs.首都校区的学生在第 15 区附近的食堂与餐馆就餐，并从危地马拉城各处及郊区通勤上学。
• The regional campuses allow students in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa and Sololá to study locally, and the university runs transport and scholarship schemes to keep those routes open.地区校区让圣卢西亚科苏马尔瓜帕与索洛拉的学生能够就地求学，学校还提供交通与奖学金安排以维持这些求学通道。
• Blended learning, introduced during the pandemic and continued through the Coursera partnership, lets students combine remote coursework with laboratory sessions on campus.疫情期间引入并借助 Coursera 合作延续的混合教学，使学生能够把远程课程与校园实验室课程结合起来。
• The university describes its students as agents of change, a phrase that appears in its mission and in the welcome it gives to each new cohort.学校把学生称为「变革的推动者」，这一表述出现在其使命宣言以及对每一届新生的欢迎辞中。

Notable people

• Roberto Moreno Godoy is the university's rector, the academic head named in its institutional profile and public statements.罗伯托·莫雷诺·戈多伊是该校校长，也是其机构简介与公开声明中列出的学术负责人。
• Karin Herrera, vice-president of Guatemala since January 2024, took a master's degree in environmental studies at UVG after graduating as a biologist from the University of San Carlos.卡琳·埃雷拉自 2024 年 1 月起担任危地马拉副总统，她在圣卡洛斯大学获得生物学学位后，于危地马拉山谷大学取得环境研究硕士学位。
• Daniel Ariano-Sánchez, a biologist at the university's Centre for Environmental Studies and Biodiversity, leads research on Guatemalan reptiles and amphibians and has described species new to science.丹尼尔·阿里亚诺·桑切斯是该校环境研究与生物多样性中心的生物学家，主持危地马拉爬行动物与两栖动物研究，并描述过科学上新发现的物种。
• Gert Rosenthal, the Guatemalan diplomat who presided over the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 2003, holds an honorary doctorate in social sciences from the university.曾于 2003 年主持联合国经济及社会理事会的危地马拉外交官格特·罗森塔尔，拥有该校授予的社会科学荣誉博士学位。
• Luis von Ahn, the Guatemalan computer scientist who co-invented CAPTCHA and founded Duolingo, attended the American School of Guatemala, the school long overseen by the foundation that created UVG, and later took a degree in mathematics at Duke University and a doctorate in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.共同发明验证码并创办多邻国的危地马拉计算机科学家路易斯·冯·安，曾就读于危地马拉美国学校，而这所学校长期由创办危地马拉山谷大学的基金会管理。
• Brian Uzzi of the Kellogg School of Management gave the university's distinguished lecture in leadership in 2023, one of several foreign academics invited to its public programme.凯洛格管理学院的布莱恩·乌齐于 2023 年在该校发表领导力杰出讲座，他是受邀参加其公共讲座项目的多位外国学者之一。
• Jack, the university's dragon mascot, is the best-known figure of its campus culture and appears at sports events, fairs and graduation ceremonies.该校的龙形吉祥物「杰克」是其校园文化中最知名的形象，出现在体育赛事、集市与毕业典礼上。