Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC)

The Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC), known in English as the Central American Technological University, is a private coeducational university in Honduras, founded on 22 August 1987 and headquartered in the Jacaleapa district of Tegucigalpa.中美洲科技大学（Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana，简称 UNITEC）是洪都拉斯的一所私立男女同校大学，1987 年 8 月 22 日创办，主校区位于首都特古西加尔巴的哈卡莱阿帕区。

It runs campuses in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula and a CEUTEC teaching presence in La Ceiba, enrolling more than 17,000 students in 26 undergraduate programmes, 23 master's courses and two doctorates centred on business, engineering and the health sciences.该校在特古西加尔巴与圣佩德罗苏拉设有校区，并通过 CEUTEC 在拉塞瓦开展教学，开设 26 个本科专业、23 个硕士项目和 2 个博士项目，在校生超过 1.7 万人，学科重心为商科、工程与健康科学。

UNITEC sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, is listed as a Reporter in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and is absent from the 2026-27 U.S. News global ranking and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 并列区间，进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名榜单但未获名次，未进入 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• Honduran higher education was long dominated by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, founded in 1847, and private institutions only began to multiply in the 1980s as the economy diversified beyond coffee and bananas.洪都拉斯高等教育长期由 1847 年创办的洪都拉斯国立自治大学主导，直到 20 世纪 80 年代经济在咖啡与香蕉之外走向多元，私立院校才开始增多。
• The national university gained autonomy in 1957, but its single main campus in Tegucigalpa could not absorb the growing demand from the industrial north, where the garment and manufacturing economy was expanding.洪都拉斯国立自治大学于 1957 年获得自治，但其位于特古西加尔巴的唯一主校区无法吸纳工业北部不断增长的就学需求，而当地服装与制造业经济正在扩张。
• On 22 August 1987 a group of Honduran businessmen and professors of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, including William Chong Wong, founded UNITEC as a private institution devoted to science teaching without neglecting the humanities.1987 年 8 月 22 日，一批洪都拉斯企业家与洪都拉斯国立自治大学教授在威廉·钟·黄等人的带领下创办了中美洲科技大学，将其定位为既重视科学教育又不偏废人文学科的私立高校。
• The founders chose the name Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana to signal a regional rather than purely national ambition, and the first classes were held at the Jacaleapa site on the eastern edge of Tegucigalpa.创办者选用中美洲科技大学这一校名，以表明其超越一国范围的中美洲抱负，首批课程在特古西加尔巴东侧哈卡莱阿帕校区开讲。
• The original academic model combined a common core in mathematics, science and communication with professional courses in business administration and engineering, a structure that still shapes the first two years of most degrees.最初的课程模式把数学、自然科学与传播学的共同基础同工商管理与工程专业课程结合起来，这一结构至今仍决定多数专业前两年的安排。
• In 1989 Honduras enacted a higher education law that created the Consejo Nacional de Educación and set common rules for private universities, a framework under which UNITEC consolidated its degree programmes.1989 年洪都拉斯颁布高等教育法，设立全国教育委员会并为私立大学制定共同规则，中美洲科技大学在此框架下巩固了学位项目。
• During the 1990s the university opened its San Pedro Sula campus in the Sula Valley, the country's industrial heartland, so that students in the north no longer had to move to the capital for a private degree.20 世纪 90 年代，该校在工业腹地苏拉谷地开设圣佩德罗苏拉校区，使北部学生不必再为攻读私立学位而迁往首都。
• Distance education began in 1995, when UNITEC studied the experience of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional and the national university and drew on advice from Spain's Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.远程教育始于 1995 年，当时该校研究了洪都拉斯国立教育大学与洪都拉斯国立自治大学的经验，并借鉴西班牙国立远程教育大学的建议。
• Teaching by distance was initially confined to the Jacaleapa and San Pedro Sula campuses, whose libraries, laboratories and classrooms could guarantee the instructional support that the model required.远程教学最初仅限于哈卡莱阿帕与圣佩德罗苏拉两个校区，因为只有这两处的图书馆、实验室与教室能够保障该模式所需的教学支持。
• In 2005 UNITEC created CEUTEC, the Centro Universitario Tecnológico, to offer technical and undergraduate programmes in the evenings and at urban teaching centres for working adults.2005 年，该校创立大学技术中心（CEUTEC），面向在职成年人，在夜间与城市教学点提供技术类与本科课程。
• Also in 2005 UNITEC joined Laureate International Universities, then the world's largest private university network, gaining access to dual-degree arrangements and faculty exchange across its member institutions.同样在 2005 年，该校加入当时全球最大的私立大学网络劳瑞德国际大学联盟，得以与成员院校开展双学位与师资交流。
• In mid-2006 the university launched the Programa Séneca for young working adults, a mass-access model developed with support from the LASPAU programme of Harvard University.2006 年年中，该校推出面向青年在职者的塞内卡计划，这一大规模入学模式在哈佛大学 LASPAU 项目的支持下开发。
• A 25 February 2014 feature in the Honduran newspaper La Prensa described UNITEC as having marked an educational era in the country, by then the most visible private alternative to the national university.2014 年 2 月 25 日，洪都拉斯《新闻报》刊文称中美洲科技大学开创了该国的一个教育时代，当时它已是国立大学之外最受关注的私立选择。
• In the QS University Rankings for Latin America 2016-17 the university entered the top 250 of the regional table, its first strong showing in an international ranking.在 2016 至 2017 年度 QS 拉丁美洲大学排名中，该校进入地区前 250 名，这是其首次在国际榜单上取得突出位置。
• The affiliation with Laureate ended in 2021, and UNITEC returned to independent ownership while keeping its international agreements at programme level rather than through a network.与劳瑞德的隶属关系于 2021 年结束，该校恢复独立办学，其国际合作也从网络层面转为以项目协议为主。
• On 16 May 2023 UNITEC signed a cooperation agreement with the Universidad Isabel I of Spain, covering joint degrees, research projects, student mobility and short specialist courses.2023 年 5 月 16 日，该校与西班牙伊莎贝尔一世大学签署合作协议，涵盖联合学位、研究项目、学生流动与短期专业课程。
• The agreement was signed by UNITEC rector Rosalpina Rodríguez Guevara and her Isabel I counterpart Alberto Gómez Barahona, and it built on shared degrees in business administration, law, computer engineering, psychology and nutrition.协议由该校校长罗萨尔皮娜·罗德里格斯·格瓦拉与伊莎贝尔一世大学校长阿尔韦托·戈麦斯·巴拉奥纳签署，依据的是两校在工商管理、法律、计算机工程、心理学与营养学上的共同专业。
• By the mid-2020s the university described an offer of 26 undergraduate degrees, 23 master's programmes and two doctorates, taught across its faculties of administrative and social sciences, engineering, and health sciences.到 2020 年代中期，该校开设 26 个本科专业、23 个硕士项目与 2 个博士项目，教学分布于管理与社会科学院、工程学院与健康科学学院。
• Its two doctorates, in business administration and in project management, are aimed at senior managers and are taught in a modular format that allows students to keep working while they study.该校的两个博士项目分别设于工商管理与项目管理领域，面向高级管理者，采用模块化授课，使学生能够边工作边学习。
• In the 2027 admissions cycle UNITEC presents itself as a teaching-intensive private university rather than a research university, with employability and international mobility as its stated priorities.在 2027 年招生周期中，该校将自身定位为教学密集型私立大学而非研究型大学，并把就业能力与国际流动列为明确优先事项。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into four faculties, administrative and social sciences, engineering, health sciences, and postgraduate studies, the last of which coordinates master's and doctoral programmes across the other three.教学分为四个学院，即管理与社会科学院、工程学院、健康科学学院与研究生院，后者统筹其余三院开设的硕士与博士项目。
• The Faculty of Administrative and Social Sciences offers degrees in business administration, industrial administration, finance and economics, marketing, international relations, law and hospitality and tourism management.管理与社会科学院开设工商管理、工业管理、金融与经济、市场营销、国际关系、法律以及酒店与旅游管理等专业。
• Engineering degrees cover civil, industrial and systems, computer systems, mechatronics, telecommunications and electronics, biomedical, energy, architecture and data science and artificial intelligence.工程类专业涵盖土木、工业与系统、计算机系统、机电一体化、电信与电子、生物医学、能源、建筑以及数据科学与人工智能。
• The Faculty of Health Sciences teaches medicine and surgery, dentistry and nutrition, and its programmes include clinical practice in Honduran hospitals and health centres.健康科学学院开设医学与外科学、牙医学与营养学，其课程包含在洪都拉斯医院与卫生中心的临床实践。
• Postgraduate provision includes master's degrees in public accounting, business management, finance, project management, marketing management and structural engineering, several of them available online through Moodle.研究生教育包括公共会计、企业管理、金融、项目管理、营销管理与结构工程等硕士项目，其中若干项目通过 Moodle 平台在线授课。
• A separate Global MBA is marketed to executives and taught with international partner institutions, and the Centro de Formación Permanente offers short professional courses outside the degree structure.另设面向高管的全球工商管理硕士项目，并与国际伙伴院校联合授课；终身培训中心则在学位体系之外提供短期职业课程。
• CEUTEC, the university's technical arm, offers shorter degrees in marketing, business administration, accounting, graphic design, psychology, law, economics, nursing, journalism and human resources.该校的技术教育分支 CEUTEC 开设市场营销、工商管理、会计、平面设计、心理学、法律、经济学、护理、新闻学与人力资源等较短学制的学位。
• CEUTEC also runs technical university qualifications in nursing assistance, surgical instrumentation, emergency medicine, bilingual call-centre work, tourism, civil works, web development and network installation.CEUTEC 还开设护理助理、手术器械、急救医学、双语呼叫中心、旅游、土木施工、网络开发与网络安装等技术大学资格课程。
• Total enrolment is reported at more than 17,000 students nationwide, while the QS institutional profile lists 7,680 students and 436 faculty, a discrepancy that reflects different counting years and definitions.该校公布的全国在校生超过 1.7 万人，而 QS 机构档案列出 7680 名学生与 436 名教师，这一差异反映了统计年份与口径的不同。
• The faculty is predominantly part-time, drawn from professional practice in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, and the university presents this as a link between classrooms and employers.教师以兼职为主，多来自圣佩德罗苏拉与特古西加尔巴的职业实践一线，校方将此视为课堂与雇主之间的纽带。
• International cooperation predates the Laureate years and includes agreements with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Universidad de Buenos Aires.该校的国际合作早于劳瑞德时期，协议对象包括蒙特雷理工学院、墨西哥国立自治大学与布宜诺斯艾利斯大学。
• European partners include the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and the Universidad de Huelva, mainly for exchange and joint teaching.欧洲伙伴包括马德里理工大学、瓦伦西亚理工大学、巴塞罗那自治大学与韦尔瓦大学，合作以交换与联合教学为主。
• In the United States and Canada the university has worked with the University of Miami, Louisiana State University, Calvin College, Rochester Institute of Technology and Tompkins Cortland Community College.在美国与加拿大，该校与迈阿密大学、路易斯安那州立大学、卡尔文学院、罗切斯特理工学院及汤姆普金斯·科特兰社区学院开展合作。
• Asian partners include National Tsing Hua University and Tamkang University in Taiwan, and Latin American links extend to Universidad Central and Universidad Diego Portales in Chile and Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina.亚洲伙伴包括台湾的国立清华大学与淡江大学，拉美合作则延伸至智利中央大学、迭戈波塔莱斯大学与阿根廷托尔夸托·迪特拉大学。
• QS describes UNITEC as accredited by the Association of Private Universities of Honduras and the Latin American Network of University Cooperation, and the university is recognised by the Honduran education ministry.QS 称该校获得洪都拉斯私立大学协会与拉丁美洲大学合作网络的认证，并得到洪都拉斯教育部的承认。
• The university's own quality assurance system tracks graduate employment, and employability is one of the categories in which QS Stars awards it the maximum five stars.该校自设的质量保障体系追踪毕业生就业，而就业能力正是 QS 星级评定中授予其最高五星的类别之一。
• Research is applied rather than discipline-building, concentrated in engineering projects, health-service studies and business cases produced with Honduran companies and public agencies.该校的科研以应用为主而非学科建构，集中于与洪都拉斯企业和公共机构合作的工程项目、卫生服务研究与商业案例。
• The library network serves the Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula campuses, and CEUTEC centres maintain smaller collections oriented to technical and evening programmes.图书馆网络服务于特古西加尔巴与圣佩德罗苏拉校区，CEUTEC 各中心则保有面向技术与夜间课程的小型馆藏。

Campus

• The main campus occupies the Jacaleapa site on Bulevar Kennedy in eastern Tegucigalpa, in the department of Francisco Morazán, at coordinates 14.0493 north and 87.1738 west.主校区位于弗朗西斯科·莫拉桑省特古西加尔巴东部肯尼迪大道旁的哈卡莱阿帕地块，坐标为北纬 14.0493 度、西经 87.1738 度。
• Its postal address, Bulevar Kennedy V-782 in front of Residencial Honduras, places the university on one of the capital's main arterial roads, close to residential and commercial districts.其通信地址为肯尼迪大道 V-782 号、洪都拉斯住宅区对面，使学校坐落在首都主要干道之一，邻近住宅与商业区。
• The Jacaleapa complex combines classrooms, engineering and computer laboratories, a library, administrative offices and postgraduate teaching space within a single academic site.哈卡莱阿帕校区把教室、工程与计算机实验室、图书馆、行政办公室及研究生教学空间集中在同一教学地块内。
• Its buildings are numbered from one to five, with Building 1 housing central teaching rooms, Buildings 2 and 3 administrative and academic offices, Building 4 laboratories and Building 5 the postgraduate school.校区建筑以一至五号楼编号，一号楼为中央教室，二号与三号楼为行政及教学办公室，四号楼为实验室，五号楼为研究生院。
• The CRAI, the university's centre for learning and research resources, serves as the main library, while a chemistry laboratory, a renewable-energy laboratory and the ABFlab support science and engineering teaching.该校的学习与研究资源中心（CRAI）充当主图书馆，化学实验室、可再生能源实验室与 ABFlab 则支撑科学与工程教学。
• A FabLab gives students access to digital fabrication equipment, and the health-sciences building contains practice rooms for medicine, dentistry and nutrition.校园内的创客实验室（FabLab）为学生提供数字制造设备，健康科学楼则设有医学、牙医学与营养学的练习室。
• Recreational facilities include a swimming pool, tennis courts, multi-use courts, a football pitch and a gym, all within the Jacaleapa site.体育休闲设施包括游泳池、网球场、多功能球场、足球场与健身房，均位于哈卡莱阿帕校区内。
• The San Pedro Sula campus serves the Sula Valley, Honduras's manufacturing and export-processing region, and offers business, engineering and health programmes attuned to local employers.圣佩德罗苏拉校区服务洪都拉斯制造业与出口加工区所在的苏拉谷地，开设贴合当地雇主需求的商科、工程与健康类专业。
• UNITEC's own material also lists a presence in La Ceiba on the Caribbean coast, while QS describes two campuses, in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, and the La Ceiba activity is now delivered through CEUTEC.该校自有材料还列出加勒比海岸拉塞瓦的教学点，而 QS 只描述特古西加尔巴与圣佩德罗苏拉两个校区，拉塞瓦的教学现由 CEUTEC 承担。
• CEUTEC operates urban teaching centres designed for students who work during the day, with evening classes, modular schedules and locations closer to city transport routes than the main campuses.CEUTEC 运营面向日间在职学生的城市教学中心，提供夜间课程与模块化课表，其位置比主校区更靠近城市交通线路。
• Laboratory provision follows the degree portfolio, with mechatronics, telecommunications, energy, biomedical and civil engineering benches alongside computer rooms and health-science practice rooms.实验室配置与专业结构相对应，除计算机房与健康科学练习室外，还设有机电一体化、电信、能源、生物医学与土木工程实验台。
• The university has expanded its virtual campus alongside its physical sites, and Moodle-based classrooms now carry a substantial share of postgraduate and CEUTEC teaching.该校在实体校区之外扩展虚拟校园，基于 Moodle 的课堂目前承担了研究生与 CEUTEC 教学的相当一部分。
• Campus life is oriented to commuting students, and the university's sites are designed around access by road, with the Jacaleapa campus facing the Bulevar Kennedy traffic corridor.校园生活以通勤学生为中心，各教学点均围绕公路可达性设计，哈卡莱阿帕校区正对肯尼迪大道交通走廊。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 UNITEC is placed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final group of the table rather than a single numeric position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校被列入 1401+ 区间，这是榜单末端的不设上限并列组，而非单一具体名次。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 list UNITEC as a Reporter, meaning that it appears in the ranking but is not assigned an individual position.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列为 Reporter，意为进入榜单但未获单独名次。
• UNITEC does not appear in the 2026-27 U.S. News global ranking or in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and the university's public material does not claim a place in either table.该校未进入 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，校方公开材料亦未宣称进入这两项榜单。
• Its strongest international result came in the QS University Rankings for Latin America 2016-17, when it reached the top 250 of the regional table.其最突出的国际成绩出现在 2016 至 2017 年度 QS 拉丁美洲大学排名，当时进入地区前 250 名。
• In more recent QS regional editions the university has been grouped in the 251-300 and 301-350 bands, reflecting fiercer competition from Brazilian and Mexican institutions.在近年的 QS 地区榜单中，该校处于 251 至 300 与 301 至 350 区间，反映出巴西与墨西哥院校带来的更激烈竞争。
• QS Stars awards UNITEC four stars overall and five stars in teaching, employability and online learning, the categories in which the university invests most visibly.QS 星级评定给予该校总体四星，并在教学、就业能力与在线学习三项授予五星，这正是该校投入最明显的领域。
• The QS Sustainability Ranking 2025 placed UNITEC in the 1501+ band, its first appearance in that environmental and social impact table.2025 年 QS 可持续发展排名将该校列入 1501+ 区间，这是其首次进入该项环境与社会影响榜单。
• Within Honduras, UNITEC is regularly described as one of the leading private universities alongside the Universidad Tecnológica de Honduras and the Universidad Católica de Honduras.在洪都拉斯国内，该校常与洪都拉斯理工大学、洪都拉斯天主教大学并称为主要私立大学。
• Its employability rating and its network of company agreements, including the Programa Unidos work-study scheme, underpin its claim to be the private university most closely tied to Honduran employers.其就业能力评级以及与企业的协议网络，包括工读结合的团结计划，支撑了它作为与洪都拉斯雇主联系最紧密的私立大学的说法。

Student life

• UNITEC's mascot is Howie, a stylised figure used at open days, graduation ceremonies and inter-university sporting events.该校的吉祥物是豪伊，这一风格化形象出现在开放日、毕业典礼与校际体育活动中。
• The anniversary of the university is celebrated on 22 August, the date of its founding in 1987, with academic ceremonies and alumni reunions on the Jacaleapa campus.该校以 1987 年创办日 8 月 22 日为校庆，在哈卡莱阿帕校区举行学术典礼与校友聚会。
• The Programa Unidos allows students to work part-time in companies such as Corporación Flores and private banks, with the university receiving a half-scholarship of about 4,000 lempiras per student.团结计划允许学生在弗洛雷斯集团与私立银行等企业兼职，校方每名学生可获得约 4000 伦皮拉的半额奖学金。
• International mobility includes internships in the Walt Disney World parks in Florida and summer courses at partner universities in the United States, Spain, Taiwan, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru.国际流动包括在佛罗里达州华特迪士尼世界各主题公园的实习，以及在美国、西班牙、台湾、墨西哥、阿根廷、智利与秘鲁合作院校的暑期课程。
• Student organisations form around each faculty, with engineering societies, business clubs and health-science groups organising competitions, guest lectures and community service days.学生组织按学院组建，工程学会、商业俱乐部与健康科学团体举办竞赛、讲座与社区服务日活动。
• CEUTEC students, many of them working adults, follow evening and weekend schedules and use the urban centres for group work rather than living on or near a traditional campus.CEUTEC 学生多为在职成年人，按夜间与周末课表学习，把城市教学中心当作小组作业场所，而非在传统校园内或附近住宿。
• The university does not operate residential colleges, and most students commute from family homes in Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and neighbouring municipalities.该校不设住宿学院，多数学生从特古西加尔巴、圣佩德罗苏拉及邻近市的家中通勤上学。
• Campus life is closely tied to the two host cities, with students drawn into the commercial, industrial and public-sector networks that surround the Bulevar Kennedy and the Sula Valley.校园生活与两座所在城市紧密相连，学生进入肯尼迪大道与苏拉谷地周边的商业、工业与公共部门网络。
• Inter-faculty tournaments in football, basketball and swimming use the pool, courts and pitch on the Jacaleapa campus, and the mascot Howie appears at their opening ceremonies.足球、篮球与游泳的院际比赛使用哈卡莱阿帕校区的游泳池、球场与足球场，吉祥物豪伊会出现在开幕式上。

Notable people

• William Chong Wong, a Honduran businessman, was the most visible figure among the founders of 1987 and gave the institution its initial commercial and engineering orientation.洪都拉斯企业家威廉·钟·黄是 1987 年创办者中最具代表性的人物，为学校奠定了最初的商业与工程取向。
• The founding group also included professors of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, who supplied the early academic staff and the link to the country's public university tradition.创办群体还包括洪都拉斯国立自治大学的教授，他们提供了早期师资，并维系了与本国公立大学传统的联系。
• Rosalpina Rodríguez Guevara served as rector in the 2020s and represented UNITEC at the signing of the 2023 agreement with the Universidad Isabel I.罗萨尔皮娜·罗德里格斯·格瓦拉在 2020 年代担任校长，并代表该校签署了 2023 年与伊莎贝尔一世大学的协议。
• Alberto Gómez Barahona, rector of the Universidad Isabel I, became a visible partner of UNITEC through that agreement on joint degrees and research.伊莎贝尔一世大学校长阿尔韦托·戈麦斯·巴拉奥纳通过这项联合学位与研究协议，成为该校对外合作中的知名伙伴。
• UNITEC does not publish a comprehensive list of distinguished alumni, and its public profiles emphasise graduate employment rather than individual biographies.该校并未公布完整的杰出校友名录，其公开介绍更强调毕业生就业而非个人传记。
• Its graduates are concentrated in Honduran banking, retail, manufacturing, construction, law and health services, and the university tracks them through employer surveys rather than a formal alumni register.该校毕业生集中于洪都拉斯的银行、零售、制造、建筑、法律与卫生服务领域，学校通过雇主调查而非正式校友登记来追踪他们。
• The university's reputation for employability rests on these employer links, and QS Stars recognises the institution in that category with five stars.该校的就业声誉建立在这些雇主联系之上，QS 星级评定也在该类别给予其五星认可。
• Among the international academics who have shaped its programmes are visiting professors from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and the University of Miami, who teach short courses and supervise projects.参与塑造其课程的国际学者包括来自蒙特雷理工学院与迈阿密大学的访问教授，他们讲授短期课程并指导项目。