Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) is a private liberal-arts university in Quito, Ecuador, the country's first fully private self-financed university, and it is placed in the 771-780 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.基多圣弗朗西斯科大学（USFQ）是厄瓜多尔基多的一所私立文理大学，为该国第一所完全私立、自筹资金的高等学府，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 771-780 区间。

Physicist Santiago Gangotena González founded the university on 16 August 1988 through the non-profit Corporación de Promoción Universitaria, transplanting the American liberal-arts model of credits, honour codes and broad undergraduate curricula to the Andes.物理学家圣地亚哥·冈戈特纳·冈萨雷斯通过其创办的非营利机构「大学促进公司」（CPU），于 1988 年 8 月 16 日创建该校，把美国文理学院的学分制、荣誉准则与通识本科模式移植到安第斯山。

The university enrols about 9,000 students, its OpenAlex record lists 12,164 research works and 367,037 citations, and it operates field campuses in the Galápagos Islands and the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.该校学生约 9,000 名，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 12,164 项、被引 367,037 次，并在加拉帕戈斯群岛与亚苏尼生物圈保护区设有野外校区。

History

• Santiago Gangotena, an Ecuadorian physicist trained in the United States, conceived the university during his doctoral years and raised private capital for a self-financed institution in the years before 1988, when Ecuador's private higher education was still embryonic.在美国受训的厄瓜多尔物理学家圣地亚哥·冈戈特纳在攻读博士期间孕育了办校构想，并在 1988 年以前厄瓜多尔私立高等教育尚在萌芽之时为自筹资金的学府募集了私人资本。

• Through the non-profit Corporación de Promoción Universitaria founded for the purpose, the university received legal authorisation on 16 August 1988 and opened classes on 1 September 1988 in rented Quito premises before its own campus was ready.为此专门设立的非营利机构「大学促进公司」为学校于 1988 年 8 月 16 日取得法定授权，1988 年 9 月 1 日先在基多租用的校舍开学，此后才迁入自有校园。

• It was the first totally private, self-financed university in Ecuador, receiving no government funding by design and relying on tuition and endowment income.它是厄瓜多尔第一所完全私立、自筹资金的大学，制度上不领政府拨款，依靠学费与基金收益运转。

• USFQ was also the first liberal-arts institution in the Andean region from its 1988 founding, offering breadth across humanities, sciences and social sciences before specialisation.自 1988 年建校起，该校也是安第斯地区第一所文理学院式大学，在分科深造之前先提供人文、科学与社会科学的通识教育。

• Its teaching model imported American campus customs, with credit transfer, an honour code and a student culture in which professors are addressed by their first names, all codified in the founding regulations of 1988.其教学模式输入了美国校园习俗，包括学分互认、荣誉准则，以及学生直呼教授名字的校园文化——这些都写进了 1988 年的建校章程。

• The main campus was developed at Cumbayá in the valley outside Quito, consolidating classrooms, laboratories, libraries and student services on one suburban site that grew with the university through the 1990s and 2000s.主校区建在基多城外谷地的昆巴亚，把教室、实验室、图书馆与学生服务集中在一处城郊园区，并在 1990 与 2000 年代随学校一同扩张。

• In the 2000s the university acquired a campus in the Galápagos Islands at Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz island, dedicated to island ecology and conservation teaching.2000 年代，该校在加拉帕戈斯群岛圣克鲁斯岛的阿约拉港设立校区，专事岛屿生态与保护教学。

• The Tiputini Biodiversity Station deep in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador's Amazon became the university's third campus, one of Earth's most biodiverse research sites.位于厄瓜多尔亚马孙亚苏尼生物圈保护区深处的蒂普蒂尼生物多样性站成为该校第三个校区，是全球生物多样性最丰富的研究地点之一。

• USFQ is the only university in the world that owns and operates campuses in both the Galápagos Islands and the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, a distinction central to its biological sciences identity.该校是世界上唯一同时拥有加拉帕戈斯群岛与亚苏尼生物圈保护区两处校区的大学，这一定位是其生物科学身份的核心。

• The Ecuadorian Council of Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education (CEAACES) has ranked USFQ among the three top universities of category A in the country since the first evaluation cycle of 2013, the only totally private university to qualify for the highest category.自 2013 年首轮评估以来，厄瓜多尔高等教育评估与认证委员会（CEAACES）一直将该校列入全国 A 类前三，是唯一获得最高类别的完全私立大学。

• In 2009 USFQ was ranked first in Ecuador for the number of peer-reviewed scientific publications, confirming its research productivity in the regional context.2009 年，该校以同行评议科学论文数量位居厄瓜多尔第一，印证了其区域内的科研产出力。

• The Galápagos programme extended USFQ research into evolutionary biology and conservation, fields associated in Ecuador with Charles Darwin's 1835 visit to the archipelago.加拉帕戈斯项目把该校研究拓展到演化生物学与保护领域，这一领域在厄瓜多尔与达尔文 1835 年的群岛之行相联系。

• Gangotena served as Chancellor from the founding, and Diego Quiroga served as Rector in the university's later decades.冈戈特纳自建校起出任校监，迭戈·基罗加在后续岁月中出任校长。

• Gangotena's death in January 2018 closed the founder's era, and the university continued its expansion under the Corporación de Promoción Universitaria governance.2018 年 1 月冈戈特纳去世，创始人时代落幕，学校在「大学促进公司」治理下继续扩张。

• The university's biology and ecology field schools institutionalised Ecuadorian biodiversity research that had previously depended on foreign stations.该校的生物与生态野外课程把此前依赖外国研究站的厄瓜多尔生物多样性研究制度化。

• USFQ joined the Asia-Pacific Rim university network APRU in 2019 and hosts a Confucius Institute on the Cumbayá campus, extending its international ties across the Pacific.2019 年该校加入环太平洋大学联盟（APRU），并在昆巴亚校区设孔子学院，把国际联系延伸到太平洋彼岸。

• The university takes its name from San Francisco de Quito, the name recorded when Spanish founders established the city on 6 December 1534 at the foot of the Pichincha volcano.校名取自「基多的圣方济各」——1534 年 12 月 6 日西班牙建城者在皮钦查火山脚下落城时记录的城市之名。

• In 1994 the university established the Tiputini Biodiversity Station deep in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, opening one of Earth's most biodiverse research sites to long-term teaching.1994 年，学校在亚苏尼生物圈保护区深处设立蒂普蒂尼生物多样性站，把地球上生物多样性最丰富的研究地点之一开放为长期教学基地。

• In August 1988 the Corporación de Promoción Universitaria was formalised as the founding trust that still governs the university's private assets.1988 年 8 月，「大学促进公司」正式确立为创校信托，至今仍治理着这所大学的私人资产。

• Affiliations with the Berklee International Network, UNIGIS and the Institut Paul Bocuse brought specialised music, geographic information and culinary programmes to Quito.与伯克利国际网络、UNIGIS 与保罗·博古塞学院的合作，为基多带来了音乐、地理信息与烹饪的专业课程。

• Indigenous scholarship programmes begun in the 2000s award full scholarships to top graduates of public high schools across Ecuador, about 100 indigenous students each year.2000 年代启动的原住民奖学金计划向全国公立中学的优秀毕业生提供全额奖学金，每年约 100 名原住民学生受惠。

• By the 2020s USFQ had grown to about 9,000 students with roughly 8,700 undergraduates and 300 postgraduates, supported by 300 full-time faculty.到 2020 年代，该校学生增至约 9,000 名（本科约 8,700 名、研究生约 300 名），由 300 名全职教师支撑。

• The university's medical school and affiliated hospitals made it a regional reference for Andean health education, anchored in Quito's metropolitan medical community.该校医学院与附属医院使其成为安第斯健康教育在区域内的参照，扎根于基多都会的医学界。

Academics

• Teaching follows the American liberal-arts structure, with general education before declared majors across the colleges of arts, sciences, communication, business, medicine and engineering.教学遵循美国文理学院结构，先修通识课程再进入艺术、科学、传播、商科、医学与工程的专业方向。

• Full-time faculty number about 300, and USFQ's faculty is said to comprise half of all people in Ecuador who hold a doctorate.全职教师约 300 名，据称厄瓜多尔全国持有博士学位者中有半数在该校任教。

• Approximately 1,000 international students join USFQ academic programmes each year, the largest inbound mobility of any Ecuadorian institution.每年约 1,000 名国际学生进入该校课程，规模居厄瓜多尔各高校之首。

• About 100 indigenous students enrol annually under the full-scholarship programme for graduates of Ecuador's public high schools.每年约 100 名原住民学生通过面向全国公立中学毕业生的全额奖学金计划入学。

• Biology and ecology are the flagship sciences, drawing on the Galápagos campus and the Tiputini Biodiversity Station for field teaching and research.生物与生态是旗舰学科，依托加拉帕戈斯校区与蒂普蒂尼生物多样性站开展野外教学与研究。

• The Colegio de Ciencias y Artes organises the undergraduate core, while specialised institutes cover medicine, business and engineering.科学与艺术学院组织本科核心课程，专门研究所覆盖医学、商科与工程。

• A Confucius Institute on the Cumbayá campus delivers Chinese language and culture programmes, one of the early such institutes in the Andean region.昆巴亚校区的孔子学院开设汉语与中国文化课程，是安第斯地区较早设立的此类学院之一。

• Music students access the Berklee International Network affiliation, and culinary programmes draw on the Institut Paul Bocuse partnership.音乐专业学生可使用伯克利国际网络的资源，烹饪课程依托与保罗·博古塞学院的合作。

• Geographic information science is taught through the UNIGIS international network, linking coursework to mapping and conservation practice.地理信息科学通过 UNIGIS 国际网络授课，把课程与测绘和保护实践相连。

• The medical programme runs teaching affiliations with Quito hospitals, forming Ecuador's largest private medical education base.医学专业与基多各医院建立教学合作，构成厄瓜多尔最大的私立医学教育基地。

• Graduate offerings are compact, about 300 postgraduates against 8,700 undergraduates, keeping the institution's identity undergraduate-centred.研究生体量精干，约 300 名对 8,700 名本科生，学校身份始终以本科为中心。

• Its OpenAlex record lists 12,164 research works and 367,037 citations, concentrated in biology, ecology, medicine and social sciences.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 12,164 项、被引 367,037 次，成果集中于生物、生态、医学与社会科学。

• The peer-reviewed publication count ranked first in Ecuador in 2009, and research productivity has remained high for the Andean region.2009 年其论文数量居厄瓜多尔首位，科研产出力至今在安第斯地区保持高位。

• Admission is competitive and tuition-based, with the 2026-2027 undergraduate tuition about 10,590 dollars a year, funding the self-financed model.录取竞争性录取、学费制办学，2026-2027 学年本科年学费约 10,590 美元，支撑自筹资金模式。

• Libraries, laboratories and seven campus restaurants serve the Cumbayá community, in keeping with the American campus-services model.图书馆、实验室与七座校园餐厅服务昆巴亚社区，与美国式校园服务模式一致。

• Exchange agreements with North American and European universities bring field courses to the Galápagos and Tiputini campuses each semester.与北美及欧洲大学的交换协议每学期把野外课程带到加拉帕戈斯与蒂普蒂尼校区。

Campus

• The main campus lies at Cumbayá in the valley northeast of Quito, with coordinates at 0.22985 degrees south and 78.52495 degrees west in the Pichincha province highlands.主校区位于基多东北谷地的昆巴亚，坐标为南纬 0.22985、西经 78.52495，地处皮钦查省高原。

• The Cumbayá campus houses classrooms, education and research laboratories, a library, student services and seven restaurants.昆巴亚校区设有教室、教学科研实验室、图书馆、学生服务设施与七座餐厅。

• The Galápagos campus at Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz island supports island biology teaching beside the Charles Darwin Research Station's operations.加拉帕戈斯校区位于圣克鲁斯岛阿约拉港，与达尔文研究站的运作相邻，支撑岛屿生物学教学。

• The Tiputini Biodiversity Station sits beside the Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a campus accessible only by river transport.蒂普蒂尼生物多样性站位于厄瓜多尔亚马孙亚苏尼国家公园旁，只能经水路抵达。

• Quito's Mariscal Sucre international airport connects Cumbayá to the Galápagos by daily flights via Guayaquil, binding the three campus sites into one academic system despite a thousand kilometres of separation.基多苏克雷国际机场经瓜亚基尔的每日航班把昆巴亚与加拉帕戈斯相连，三处校区相隔千里仍结为一个学术体系。

• Cumbayá's valley location places the campus about forty minutes from Quito's historic centre by the highway through the Tumbaco valley.昆巴亚地处谷地，经通贝科谷地高速约四十分钟可达基多历史中心。

• The red colour of the university identifies its sports teams and campus signage across all three sites.红色是该校的标识色，三处校区的运动队与标识系统均以此为基色。

• Student housing concentrates in Cumbayá's residential district, walking distance from campus gates.学生住宿集中于昆巴亚居住区，距校门步行可达。

• Laboratory infrastructure includes molecular biology and genetics facilities on the main campus feeding the Galápagos and Tiputini field programmes.实验基础设施包括主校区的分子生物学与遗传学设施，为加拉帕戈斯与蒂普蒂尼野外项目提供支撑。

• The Andean setting at about 2,400 metres elevation in the valley shapes campus life, with Quito's equatorial highland climate keeping temperatures spring-like year-round.校区地处海拔约 2,400 米的谷地安第斯山地，基多赤道高原气候四季如春，塑造了校园生活。

Reputation

• USFQ is placed in the 771-780 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.基多圣弗朗西斯科大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 771-780 区间。

• THE World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1201-1400 band.2027 年度 THE 世界大学排名将其列于 1201-1400 区间。

• The 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities survey ranks it 975th worldwide, and it did not enter the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 main list.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名将其列于世界第 975，未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

• Within Ecuador it ranks among the three top universities of category A under the national evaluation council, the only fully private institution in the top category.在厄瓜多尔国内，它位列国家评估委员会 A 类三强，是最高类别中唯一的完全私立学府。

• It was ranked first in Ecuador for peer-reviewed publications in 2009, and remains a national leader in biology and ecology research output.2009 年其论文数居厄瓜多尔第一，至今仍是全国生物与生态研究产出的领跑者。

• Its OpenAlex record lists 12,164 research works and 367,037 citations, a corpus strong in biodiversity science.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 12,164 项、被引 367,037 次，在生物多样性科学方面尤为突出。

• Membership of the Asia-Pacific Rim universities network APRU places it in a select Pacific-basin cohort alongside much larger research systems.环太平洋大学联盟（APRU）的成员身份，使其与规模远大于己的研究体系同列一个精选的环太平洋群体。

• Its unique Galápagos and Yasuni campuses give it an international teaching reputation in field ecology unmatched by peers.独一无二的加拉帕戈斯与亚苏尼校区，使其野外生态教学的国际声誉无可匹敌。

• In Ecuadorian public perception it is associated with the country's professional and business elites, a reputation dating to its tuition-funded private model of 1988.在厄瓜多尔的公众认知中，它与该国的职业与商业精英相联系，这一声誉可追溯到 1988 年学费制的私立模式。

Student life

• The university motto is Studium, Progressus, Labor, Latin for study, progress and work.校训为「Studium，Progressus，Labor」，拉丁文意为求知、进步与劳作。
• Student life follows American campus customs, from the honour code to first-name address of professors, transplanted at the 1988 founding.校园生活遵循美国校园习俗，从荣誉准则到直呼教授名字，皆自 1988 年建校时移植。

• Indigenous scholarship students and about 1,000 annual international students share the Cumbayá campus, making it one of Ecuador's most diverse student bodies.原住民奖学金生与每年约 1,000 名国际学生同处昆巴亚校区，构成厄瓜多尔最多元的学生群体之一。

• Seven campus restaurants and the valley's suburban setting anchor a social life centred on the campus rather than the city centre.七座校园餐厅与城郊环境使社交生活以校园而非市中心为中心。

• Field trips to the Galápagos Islands and the Tiputini station are signature experiences of science and general education courses.加拉帕戈斯群岛与蒂普蒂尼站的野外实习是科学与通识课程的招牌体验。

• Student clubs span music through the Berklee affiliation, culinary arts through the Bocuse partnership, and outdoor programmes for the field campuses.学生社团从伯克利体系的音乐、博古塞体系的烹饪艺术延伸到野外校区的户外项目。

• Sports teams in red compete in Quito's university leagues, and the high-altitude setting favours endurance athletics.红色运动队参加基多大学联赛，高原环境有利于耐力项目。

• Commemorative events around the 16 August founding date structure the academic year, alongside convocations at the Cumbayá campus.围绕 8 月 16 日建校日的纪念活动与昆巴亚校区的毕业典礼构成学年节点。

• Quito's historic centre, a UNESCO World Heritage city, provides cultural excursions within an hour of the Cumbayá campus.基多历史中心这座世界遗产城市距昆巴亚校区约一小时，是学生的文化游览目的地。

Notable people

• Santiago Gangotena González, physicist and founder, served as Chancellor from 1988 until his death in January 2018, having built the first fully private university in Ecuador.圣地亚哥·冈戈特纳·冈萨雷斯，物理学家与创办人，1988 年起任校监直至 2018 年 1 月去世，一手缔造了厄瓜多尔第一所完全私立大学。

• Diego Quiroga, anthropologist and Rector, led the university's academic programmes through its expansion decades.迭戈·基罗加，人类学家、校长，在其扩张年代主持学校的教学科研。

• Carlos Montúfar, biologist and academic leader, was among the founding team that designed the liberal-arts curriculum of 1988 and served in senior academic administration for decades.卡洛斯·蒙图法尔，生物学家与学术领导人，是 1988 年设计文理课程体系的创始团队成员，此后数十年担任高级学术管理职务。

• Kelly Swing, professor of biology, led the establishment of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in 1994 and directs its Amazonian research programme.凯利·斯温，生物学教授，1994 年主持在亚苏尼生物圈保护区设立蒂普蒂尼生物多样性站，并主持其亚马孙研究计划。

• Faculty in ecology run the Tiputini Biodiversity Station's long-term research on Amazonian vertebrates, work published with international coauthors since the station's founding in 1994.生态学教师主持蒂普蒂尼生物多样性站对亚马孙脊椎动物的长期研究，自 1994 年建站起与国际合作者共同发表成果。

• Alumni lead Ecuador's environmental ministries, conservation organisations and private firms, a cohort produced by the country's first fully private university.毕业生执掌厄瓜多尔的环境部门、保护组织与私营企业，是这所全国第一所完全私立大学造就的群体。

• Graduates in medicine staff Quito's private hospital network, extending the teaching affiliations of the medical programme.医学毕业生服务于基多的私立医院网络，延续着医学专业的教学合作。

• Indigenous scholarship alumni return to public service in their home provinces, completing the access mission of the scholarship programme begun in the 2000s.原住民奖学金的毕业生回到家乡省份从事公共服务，完成了 2000 年代启动的奖学金计划的普惠使命。

• Visiting faculty from Berkeley and other partner universities teach at the Galápagos campus each term, sustaining the international character of the field programme.来自伯克利等伙伴大学的客座教师每学期在加拉帕戈斯校区授课，维系野外项目的国际色彩。
• The university takes its name from San Francisco de Quito, the name recorded when Spanish founders established the city on 6 December 1534 at the foot of the Pichincha volcano.校名取自「基多的圣方济各」——1534 年 12 月 6 日西班牙建城者在皮钦查火山脚下落城时记录的城市之名。
• Its Galápagos Semester draws international undergraduates to the Puerto Ayora campus for island ecology courses run alongside local conservation agencies.其「加拉帕戈斯学期」把国际本科生吸引到阿约拉港校区，与当地保护机构合办岛屿生态课程。
• Teaching within the Engineering College and the Science College covers biology, environmental engineering, geology and applied physics, with field components at the two natural campuses.Engineering College 与 Science College 的教学覆盖生物、环境工程、地质与应用物理，野外环节设在两处自然校区。
• Music students study through the Berklee College of Music international network, and culinary programmes follow the curriculum of the Bocuse Institute of Lyon.音乐专业依托伯克利音乐学院（Berklee College of Music）国际网络授课，烹饪课程则遵循里昂博古塞学院的教学大纲。
• The private Medical School trains physicians for Ecuador's hospital network, and the Business School serves the country's corporate sector with administration and economics degrees.私立 Medical School 为厄瓜多尔的医院网络培养医师，Business School 则以管理与经济学学位服务本国的企业界。
• Quito sits at 2,850 metres above sea level, while the Cumbayá valley campus enjoys a warmer subtropical climate a few hundred metres lower than the colonial centre.基多海拔 2,850 米，昆巴亚谷地校区比殖民老城低数百米，气候更暖，属亚热带。