Universidad Icesi

Universidad Icesi is a private, non-profit university in Cali, Colombia, founded in 1979 by business leaders of the Valle del Cauca and named after the initials of the Instituto Colombiano de Estudios Superiores de Incolda.伊塞西大学（Universidad Icesi）是哥伦比亚卡利的一所私立非营利大学，1979 年由考卡山谷省的企业界人士创办，校名取自哥伦比亚因科尔达高等研究院（Instituto Colombiano de Estudios Superiores de Incolda）的首字母缩写。

It teaches 7,462 students on a 141,334 square metre campus in Pance, in the south of Cali, through four faculties and a school of education that together offer 27 undergraduate programmes, 35 master's degrees, two doctorates and 31 medical-surgical specialisations.该校在卡利南部潘塞（Pance）占地 141,334 平方米的校园里培养 7,462 名学生，设有四个学院和一个教育学院，共开设 27 个本科专业、35 个硕士项目、2 个博士项目与 31 个医学外科专科。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Icesi sits in the 1201-1400 band, Times Higher Education placed it in 1401-1600 for 2027, U.S. News listed it as unranked in its 2026-2027 global table and it did not enter the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，伊塞西大学位列 1201-1400 区间；泰晤士高等教育将其列入 2027 年榜单的 1401-1600 区间；《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球大学榜单将其列为未获名次；该校也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• In 1979 a group of entrepreneurs from Cali and the surrounding Valle del Cauca founded the institution as the Instituto Colombiano de Estudios Superiores de Incolda, intending to supply the region with professionals trained to the standards of its growing industries.1979 年，卡利及周边考卡山谷省的一批企业家创办了哥伦比亚因科尔达高等研究院（Instituto Colombiano de Estudios Superiores de Incolda），旨在为当地不断壮大的产业培养达到相应标准的专业人才。
• The acronym ICESI, which eventually displaced the full institutional name, was coined from that founding title and is still the name by which Colombians usually refer to the university.缩写 ICESI 即由这一最初校名缩合而成，后来逐渐取代了全称，至今仍是哥伦比亚人称呼该校的常用名称。
• The founders were owners and managers of regional firms rather than a religious order or the state, and the university remains a private, not-for-profit foundation governed by a board drawn largely from the business community.创办者是当地企业的所有者与管理者，而非宗教团体或政府；该校至今仍为私立非营利基金会，董事会成员多来自企业界。
• Teaching began with business administration and economics, the subjects closest to the founders' own experience, and the Faculty of Business and Economics still anchors the university's identity in 2027.学校最初以工商管理与经济学起家，这两门学科最贴近创办者自身的经验；时至 2027 年，商业与经济学院仍是该校的身份根基。
• Colombia's 1991 Constitution and Law 30 of 1992 gave private universities legal autonomy and created the national quality-assurance system, the framework through which Icesi later sought institutional accreditation.1991 年哥伦比亚宪法与 1992 年第 30 号法律赋予私立大学法律自治权，并建立了国家质量保障体系，伊塞西大学其后正是依据这一框架申请机构认证。
• During the 1990s the institute widened its portfolio from management into engineering, law, design and the health sciences, acquiring the profile of a comprehensive university rather than a business school.1990 年代，该校从管理学扩展至工程、法律、设计与健康科学，逐渐具备综合性大学的格局，而不再只是一所商学院。
• In 1998 Icesi opened its medical programme in alliance with the Valle del Lili Foundation (Fundación Valle del Lili), the private hospital in southern Cali that became the main clinical campus for its medical students and residents.1998 年，伊塞西大学与卡利南部的私立医院利利山谷基金会（Fundación Valle del Lili）合作开设医学专业，该医院此后成为其医学生与住院医师的主要临床教学基地。
• The university eventually consolidated its academic life on the Pance campus, replacing the scattered buildings it had used in central Cali during its first decades.该校后来把教学活动集中到潘塞校区，取代了前几十年分散在卡利市中心的各处校舍。
• In 2010 Icesi became the first private university in south-western Colombia to receive High Quality Institutional Accreditation from the National Accreditation Council of the Ministry of National Education.2010 年，伊塞西大学成为哥伦比亚西南部第一所获得国家教育部国家认证委员会“高质量机构认证”的私立大学。
• The ministry renewed that accreditation in 2015 for a period running to 2021, a decision that covered all of its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes rather than individual degrees.2015 年，教育部将该认证续期至 2021 年，此次续期覆盖该校全部本科与研究生项目，而非逐个专业认证。
• Esteban Piedrahíta, an economist who had directed Colombia's National Planning Department, took over the rectorate in 2018 and has led the university's push for international accreditation and research visibility.2018 年，曾任哥伦比亚国家计划署署长的经济学家埃斯特班·彼德拉伊塔（Esteban Piedrahíta）出任校长，推动学校争取国际认证并提升科研能见度。
• In 2019 the university marked the fortieth anniversary of its 1979 foundation with a programme of academic and cultural events that reviewed its growth from a small institute into a university of more than 7,000 students.2019 年，该校举行建校四十周年纪念活动，通过一系列学术与文化活动回顾其从一所小型研究院发展为拥有七千余名学生的大学的历程。
• The 2020 lockdown forced Icesi to move teaching online within weeks, and the experience accelerated the digital components of its active-learning model and of its continuing-education offerings.2020 年的封控迫使伊塞西大学在数周内把教学转到线上，这一经历加快了其“主动学习”模式与继续教育项目的数字化进程。
• When the 2015 accreditation cycle expired in 2021 the university entered a new self-assessment, presenting evidence on research groups, graduate outcomes and international partnerships to the national accreditor.2015 年认证周期于 2021 年到期后，该校启动新一轮自我评估，向国家认证机构提交有关研究团队、毕业生表现与国际合作的证据。
• By the second semester of 2024 enrolment stood at 7,462 students, a figure that includes undergraduates, master's students and medical residents spread across the four faculties and the school of education.截至 2024 年第二学期，该校注册学生为 7,462 人，涵盖本科生、硕士生与医学住院医师，分布于四个学院和教育学院。
• The current programme portfolio lists 27 undergraduate degrees, 35 master's programmes, two doctorates, 18 specialisations and 31 medical-surgical specialisations, all approved by the Ministry of National Education.该校目前的专业目录包括 27 个本科专业、35 个硕士项目、2 个博士项目、18 个专业方向与 31 个医学外科专科，全部经国家教育部批准。
• Icesi has kept a deliberately urban identity: its campus sits inside Cali rather than in a suburban science park, and its clinics, internships and research partners are embedded in the city's hospital and business networks.伊塞西大学刻意保持城市型大学的定位：校园位于卡利市内而非郊外的科学园区，其诊所、实习与研究伙伴也深植于城市的医院与企业网络之中。
• The university's 2027 profile is that of a mid-sized private institution whose reputation rests on business education, applied engineering and medicine rather than on the scale of its basic-science research.2027 年的伊塞西大学是一所中等规模的私立高校，其声誉主要建立在商科教育、应用工程与医学之上，而非基础科学研究的规模。
• Its history has been shaped less by mergers than by programme-building, with each faculty added in response to demands from the Valle del Cauca's sugar, manufacturing, health and service sectors.该校的历史更多由专业建设而非合并塑造，每设一个学院，都是对考卡山谷省制糖、制造、医疗与服务业需求的回应。
• The 1979 founding charter, the 1998 medical alliance and the 2010 accreditation are the three dates the university itself treats as its defining institutional milestones.1979 年的创办章程、1998 年的医学合作与 2010 年的机构认证，是校方自认的三个决定性历史节点。
• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Icesi appears in the 1201-1400 band, alongside universities of very different sizes and research profiles.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，伊塞西大学进入 1201-1400 区间，与规模和研究取向各异的大学同处一段。

Academics

• Icesi is organised into four faculties, Business and Economics, Engineering, Design and Applied Sciences, Human Sciences, and Health Sciences, together with the Icesi School of Education, which trains teachers for primary and secondary schools.伊塞西大学设有四个学院，即商业与经济学院、工程设计与应用科学学院、人文学院、健康科学学院，另设一个为中小学培养师资的教育学院。
• The Faculty of Business and Economics runs the Icesi MBA, a joint Global MBA with Tulane University's Freeman School of Business, master's degrees in marketing, finance, economics and health management, and a doctorate in economic and administrative sciences.商业与经济学院开设伊塞西 MBA、与杜兰大学弗里曼商学院（Freeman School of Business）合办的全球 MBA、营销、金融、经济与健康管理等硕士项目，以及经济与管理科学博士项目。
• Its Business School holds AACSB accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and AMBA accreditation from the Association of MBAs, two of the three international labels used to benchmark management education.其商学院持有国际商学院协会（AACSB）认证与英国工商管理硕士协会（AMBA）认证，这两项是衡量管理教育水平的三大国际认证中的两项。
• The Faculty of Engineering, Design and Applied Sciences, named Barberi, teaches systems, industrial, telematic, biochemical and intelligent-energy engineering alongside industrial design, interactive media design, biology, chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry.工程设计与应用科学学院（冠名“巴尔贝里”）开设系统、工业、远程信息、生物化学与智能能源等工程专业，以及工业设计、互动媒体设计、生物学、化学与药物化学。
• Three of its engineering programmes, systems, industrial and telematic engineering, are accredited by ABET, the United States-based engineering accreditor, which also reviews the faculty's laboratories and design courses.该学院的系统、工业与远程信息工程三个专业获得美国工程与技术认证委员会（ABET）认证，该机构同时审查学院的实验室与设计课程。
• The Faculty of Human Sciences brings together law, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, music, digital communication and modern-language teaching degrees, and runs a law clinic for low-income clients.人文学院汇集法律、政治学、社会学、人类学、心理学、音乐、数字传播与现代语言教学等专业，并设有面向低收入当事人的法律援助诊所。
• The Faculty of Health Sciences awards the MD through a six-year medicine and surgery programme, teaches bacteriology and clinical laboratory science, and offers 31 medical-surgical specialisations taught largely inside Fundación Valle del Lili.健康科学学院通过六年制医学与外科学项目授予医学博士学位，开设细菌学与临床检验专业，并提供 31 个医学外科专科，主要在本地的利利山谷基金会医院内授课。
• Research at Icesi is organised around 13 groups classified by Colciencias, seven of them in category A1, two in A, three in B and one in C, a concentration of high-rated groups unusual for a private university of its size.该校科研以 13 个获哥伦比亚科学院（Colciencias）评级的研究团队为核心，其中 7 个属 A1 类、2 个属 A 类、3 个属 B 类、1 个属 C 类；对这样规模的私立大学而言，高评级团队的比例相当突出。
• Faculty strength stood at 937 teachers according to the QS institutional profile, while the student body reached 7,462 in 2024 and included 179 international students from Latin America, Europe and North America.根据 QS 的院校资料，该校有 937 名教师；2024 年学生规模达 7,462 人，其中包括 179 名来自拉丁美洲、欧洲与北美的国际学生。
• Internationalisation runs through more than 870 agreements with partner universities, covering exchange semesters, internships abroad, summer programmes and joint degrees in the Americas, Europe and Asia.该校国际化依托 870 多个合作院校协议，涵盖交换学期、海外实习、暑期项目与联合学位，合作网络遍及美洲、欧洲与亚洲。
• The university's learning model is branded as active learning, with small classes, problem-based projects and a curriculum that lets students combine two degrees or change programme by validating credits.该校的教学模式以“主动学习”为品牌，采用小班授课、问题导向项目，并允许学生同时修读两个学位或通过学分认定转换专业。
• The Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje, known as CREA, combines the library, digital databases, writing support and group-study space in a single building on the Pance campus.学习资源中心（Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje，简称 CREA）把图书馆、数字数据库、写作辅导与小组学习空间集中于潘塞校区的一栋建筑内。
• The university press, Editorial Universidad Icesi, publishes monographs on regional history, management and education, including a 2006 study of the institution's own critical-thinking project.伊塞西大学出版社（Editorial Universidad Icesi）出版地区史、管理学与教育学专著，其中包括 2006 年关于该校自身批判性思维项目的研究。
• Its Graduate School concentrates classes in the evenings and on Fridays and Saturdays, a format designed for working professionals in Cali's corporate and hospital sectors.其研究生院的课程主要安排在晚间及周五、周六，这一安排专为卡利企业界与医疗界的在职专业人士设计。
• Admission to undergraduate programmes is selective and uses the national Saber 11 examination together with school records and an institutional assessment of written and quantitative reasoning.本科招生具有选拔性，依据全国 Saber 11 考试、中学成绩记录以及校方对书面与数量推理能力的评估综合录取。
• The university also runs continuing-education and corporate-training programmes, which connect its faculty to the productivity and innovation agendas of Valle del Cauca firms.该校还开设继续教育与企业培训项目，把教师资源与考卡山谷省企业的生产力及创新议程连接起来。
• Teaching is delivered in Spanish, with English required as a second language and a growing number of courses taught in English in the business and engineering faculties.教学以西班牙语进行，英语为必修第二语言，商业与工程学院开设的英语授课课程逐年增加。

Campus

• The main campus occupies 141,334 square metres in Pance, a green sector in southern Cali at the foot of the Western Cordillera, and is reached from the city centre by the Avenida Cañasgordas corridor.主校区位于卡利南部、西科迪勒拉山脚下的潘塞绿地区域，占地 141,334 平方米，经卡尼亚斯戈达斯大道（Avenida Cañasgordas）与市中心相连。
• Its postal address, Calle 18 No. 122-135, places the campus in the Pance district, close to the Pance river and to the road that climbs towards the Farallones de Cali national park.校址为第 18 街 122-135 号，位于潘塞区，邻近潘塞河以及通往卡利法亚罗内斯国家公园的上山道路。
• The campus was planned as a single academic city rather than a collection of separate schools, with the faculties, the library, the cafeterias and the sports areas within walking distance of one another.校园按“单一学术城”而非分散校区的理念规划，各学院、图书馆、食堂与运动场地彼此步行可达。
• Teaching buildings are organised around landscaped courtyards and covered walkways, a design that responds to Cali's tropical climate and to the university's preference for outdoor circulation.教学楼围绕景观庭院与有顶步道布置，这一设计既适应卡利的热带气候，也符合学校偏好室外通行的习惯。
• The CREA building houses the central library, with collections in law, management, engineering, health and the social sciences, and provides 24-hour study space during examination periods.CREA 大楼内设中央图书馆，馆藏覆盖法律、管理、工程、健康与社会科学，并在考试期间提供 24 小时学习空间。
• Clinical teaching takes place off campus at Fundación Valle del Lili and its affiliated clinics, which give medical students access to transplant, oncology, intensive-care and emergency services.临床教学在校外的利利山谷基金会及其附属诊所进行，医学生因此可以接触移植、肿瘤、重症监护与急诊等科室。
• The campus has sports fields, a gymnasium and multipurpose courts, and its green edges are used for jogging and for the outdoor events that mark the academic calendar.校园内设有运动场、体育馆与多功能球场，校园边缘的绿地则用于慢跑以及学年日程中的户外活动。
• Because the campus lies south of the city centre, most students commute by bus or car along Calle 18 and the Cañasgordas avenue, and the university runs shuttle services for staff and visitors.由于校园位于市中心以南，多数学生乘公交或驾车沿第 18 街与卡尼亚斯戈达斯大道通勤，校方亦为教职工与访客提供班车服务。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Icesi is placed in the 1201-1400 band, sharing the interval with universities of very different sizes and research profiles.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，伊塞西大学被列入 1201-1400 区间，与规模和研究取向各异的大学同处一段。
• Times Higher Education ranked it in the 1401-1600 band of its 2027 world ranking, a placement based on teaching, research environment, citations, international outlook and industry income.泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名将其列入 1401-1600 区间，该排名依据教学、研究环境、引用、国际视野与产业收入等指标。
• U.S. News listed Icesi in its 2026-2027 global universities table but did not assign it a numerical rank, which the university reports as an unranked position rather than an absence from the list.《美国新闻与世界报道》将伊塞西大学列入 2026-2027 年度全球大学榜单，但未给出具体名次；校方将这种情况表述为“未获名次”，而非“未进入榜单”。
• Icesi did not enter the main table of the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities, which selects its universities largely on Nobel prizes, highly cited researchers and papers in Nature and Science.伊塞西大学未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜主要依据诺贝尔奖、高被引学者以及在《自然》与《科学》上发表的论文遴选高校。
• In the QS Latin America and the Caribbean ranking the university holds a position around 101, placing it among the upper tier of Colombian private universities outside Bogotá.在 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区排名中，该校位居第 101 名左右，属于波哥大以外哥伦比亚私立大学的上层梯队。
• QS also places Icesi in the 501-550 band of its World University Rankings by Subject, reflecting the strength of its business and management offerings rather than its overall research volume.QS 学科排名还把伊塞西大学列入 501-550 区间，这反映的是其商业与管理学科的实力，而非整体科研体量。
• The Icesi MBA was ranked eighth in Latin America in the QS full-time MBA ranking, the university's strongest single subject result and the one most often cited in its promotional material.伊塞西 MBA 在 QS 全日制 MBA 排名中位列拉丁美洲第八，这是该校最强的单项学科成绩，也是其宣传材料中最常引用的排名。
• OpenAlex records 6,581 works and 107,778 citations for Icesi, figures that place it in the middle range of Colombian universities and well below the country's largest public institutions.OpenAlex 记录伊塞西大学有 6,581 项成果与 107,778 次引用，这一体量处于哥伦比亚大学的中游，明显低于该国规模最大的公立高校。
• The university's 13 Colciencias-rated research groups, seven of them in A1, give it a higher proportion of top-rated groups than its overall publication count would suggest.该校有 13 个获哥伦比亚科学院评级的研究团队，其中 7 个为 A1 类，其顶级团队比例高于其论文总量所显示的水平。
• Its reputation rests on three credentials that are rare among Colombian private universities: AACSB and AMBA accreditation for business, ABET accreditation for engineering and a 2010 institutional accreditation from the Ministry of National Education.该校声誉建立在哥伦比亚私立大学中少见的三项资质之上：商科的 AACSB 与 AMBA 认证、工程的 ABET 认证，以及 2010 年获得的教育部机构认证。

Student life

• The university motto is Llega más lejos, usually translated as Go further, and it is printed on the institutional seal and repeated in the opening address of each academic year.该校校训为“Llega más lejos”，通常译为“走得更远”，印在校徽上，并在每学年开学典礼的致辞中反复提及。
• Beca Icesos, the university's flagship scholarship programme, funds tuition and living costs for students from low-income families, while other students rely on the Colombian Institute for Educational Credit and Technical Studies Abroad, known as ICETEX, and a 2020 volume published by the university press documents the scholarship.“伊塞索斯奖学金”（Beca Icesos）是该校的旗舰资助项目，为低收入家庭学生提供学费与生活费；其他学生则依靠哥伦比亚教育信贷与海外技术研究学院（ICETEX）的贷款，大学出版社 2020 年出版的专著记录了该奖学金。
• Students sit on the faculty councils and on the university's governing bodies, a right guaranteed by Colombian law and exercised through elected representatives rather than through a single central student union.学生依法享有参与院务委员会与校务机构的权利，通过选举产生的代表行使，而非依托单一的中央学生会。
• With 179 international students and more than 870 exchange destinations, the campus runs orientation programmes, language tandems and a buddy system that pairs incoming exchange students with Icesi undergraduates.校园有 179 名国际学生和 870 多个交换目的地，学校为此开设迎新项目、语言互助与“学伴”制度，把交换生与本校本科生结对。
• Music is a visible part of campus life because Icesi awards a professional degree in music, and student ensembles perform in the courtyards and at the university's cultural calendar events.音乐是校园生活中显眼的一部分：该校授予音乐专业学位，学生乐团常在庭院与学校文化活动日程中演出。
• The campus's position in Pance gives students access to cycling routes, running trails and the Pance river, while salsa venues and the restaurants of southern Cali lie a short bus ride away.校园所在的潘塞为学生提供了骑行路线、跑步小径与潘塞河，而萨尔萨舞厅与卡利南部的餐馆也只需短程公交即可到达。

Notable people

• Jaime Orozco, one of the co-founders of 1979, is the businessman most often named by the university when it recounts the group of Cali entrepreneurs who created ICESI.海梅·奥罗斯科（Jaime Orozco）是 1979 年的共同创办人之一，校方在讲述创建 ICESI 的卡利企业家群体时，最常提到他的名字。
• Francisco Piedrahita Plata served as rector for nearly three decades and gave the speeches collected in Sociedad del conocimiento, published by the university press in 2021.弗朗西斯科·彼德拉伊塔·普拉塔（Francisco Piedrahita Plata）担任校长近三十年，其演讲结集为《知识社会》（Sociedad del conocimiento），由大学出版社于 2021 年出版。
• Esteban Piedrahíta, rector since 2018, is an economist who previously directed Colombia's National Planning Department and has represented the university in national discussions on higher-education funding.埃斯特班·彼德拉伊塔（Esteban Piedrahíta）自 2018 年起任校长，是一位经济学家，曾任哥伦比亚国家计划署署长，并代表学校参与全国高等教育经费讨论。
• Carlos Enrique Ramírez Robledo, dean of the business school in 2019, led a delegation of 30 MBA students and faculty to Beijing, where the school signed teaching and exchange agreements with Chinese partners.卡洛斯·恩里克·拉米雷斯·罗夫莱多（Carlos Enrique Ramírez Robledo）2019 年任商学院院长，曾率 30 名 MBA 师生访问北京，并与中方伙伴签署教学与交换协议。
• José Hipólito González Z. wrote Discernimiento, the 2006 study of how Icesi built its critical-thinking curriculum, which remains the standard internal account of the university's educational project.何塞·伊波利托·冈萨雷斯（José Hipólito González Z.）撰写了 2006 年的《辨别力》（Discernimiento），研究伊塞西如何构建批判性思维课程，该书至今仍是该校教育项目的标准内部记述。
• Angélica Burbano Collazos edited Las profes, a 2019 collection of testimonies by women teachers at Icesi that documents the role of female faculty in the university's growth.安赫莉卡·布尔巴诺·科利亚索斯（Angélica Burbano Collazos）主编了 2019 年的《女教师们》（Las profes），收录伊塞西女教师的证言，记录了女性教师在学校发展中的作用。
• Wendi Yolani López Duque and Óscar Ortega García co-edited the same volume, part of a university-press series on the social history of the institution and of south-western Colombia.温迪·约拉尼·洛佩斯·杜克（Wendi Yolani López Duque）与奥斯卡·奥尔特加·加西亚（Óscar Ortega García）共同主编了这部文集，该书属于大学出版社关于该校及哥伦比亚西南部社会史的丛书。
• The university counts its medical graduates among its most visible alumni, since the 1998 alliance with Fundación Valle del Lili sends them into Cali's hospital network and into specialist practice across Colombia.该校把医学毕业生视为最具能见度的校友群体之一，1998 年与利利山谷基金会合作后，他们进入卡利的医院网络乃至哥伦比亚各地的专科执业。