University College London

University College London, generally called UCL, is a public research university in London, England, and the third oldest institution of higher education in England.伦敦大学学院（University College London），通称 UCL，是一所位于英国伦敦的公立研究型大学，也是英格兰第三古老的高等教育机构。

Founded in 1826 as London University, it was the first university in England to admit students regardless of their religion, and it ranks joint eighth in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校于 1826 年以「伦敦大学」之名创办，是英格兰第一所不设宗教限制招收学生的大学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列全球第八。

History

• UCL was founded on 11 February 1826 by the poet Thomas Campbell and the lawyer Henry Brougham, both Scots, who were inspired by the idea of a university open to students of any faith.学校由诗人托马斯·坎贝尔与律师亨利·布鲁厄姆两位苏格兰人于 1826 年 2 月 11 日创办，二人受一所向所有信仰开放之大学的理念启发。

• Campbell had visited the University of Bonn and admired its religious freedom, and his letter to Brougham proposing a similar institution in London was published in The Times in 1825.坎贝尔曾到访波恩大学并赞赏其宗教自由，他于 1825 年致信布鲁厄姆建议在伦敦建立类似学府，此信刊载于《泰晤士报》。

• The philosopher Jeremy Bentham did not take part in founding the college, but his ideas on education shaped its founders, and he is often described as its spiritual father.哲学家杰里米·边沁并未参与创校，但他关于教育的理念影响了创办者，因此常被称作学校的精神之父。

• Because none of its council members was a religious leader, the institution was criticised as a godless college, and it was modelled in part on the Scottish universities, especially Edinburgh.由于理事会成员中没有宗教领袖，学校被批评为一所无神学院校；其办学模式部分效仿苏格兰的大学，尤其是爱丁堡大学。

• The college received a royal charter in 1831, and in 1836 it joined with King's College to form the University of London, at which point London University was renamed University College London.学校于 1831 年获得皇家特许状；1836 年它与国王学院合并组成伦敦大学，原本的「伦敦大学」遂更名为伦敦大学学院。

• UCL pioneered the teaching of many subjects in England, including geography, English, German, Italian, chemistry and civil engineering, and England's first student union was formed there in 1893.学校在英格兰开创了地理、英文、德文、意大利文、化学与土木工程等多个学科的教学，英格兰第一个学生会也于 1893 年在此成立。

• In 1878 it became the first university in England to admit women on equal terms with men, and in 1973 it became the first node of the ARPANET outside the United States.1878 年，学校成为英格兰第一所与男性同等招收女性的大学；1973 年又成为美国以外接入阿帕网的第一个节点。

• Although a constituent college of the University of London, UCL gained the power to award its own degrees in 2005 and marks its 200th anniversary in 2026.尽管是伦敦大学的成员学院，学校在 2005 年获得自主授予学位的权力，并于 2026 年迎来建校两百周年。

Academics

• UCL is organised into eleven faculties, including arts and humanities, built environment, brain sciences, engineering, education, laws, life sciences, mathematical and physical sciences, medical sciences, population health sciences, and social and historical sciences.学校设有十一个学术学院，包括人文艺术、建筑环境、脑科学、工程、教育、法律、生命科学、数学与物理科学、医学、人口健康科学，以及社会与历史科学。

• Across those faculties UCL runs more than one hundred departments, institutes and research centres and teaches a very wide range of subjects.在这些学院之下，学校设有一百多个学系、研究所与研究中心，开设的学科门类极为广泛。

• As of 2024/25 the university had 51,315 students, among them 25,705 undergraduates and 25,610 postgraduates, supported by some 10,400 academic staff.截至 2024 至 2025 学年，学校共有学生 51315 人，其中本科生 25705 人、研究生 25610 人，另有约 10400 名学术人员。

• Its medical school grew out of mergers with a number of London medical schools and is associated with University College Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital.其医学院由多所伦敦医学院合并而来，并与伦敦大学学院附属医院及皇家自由医院相关联。

• UCL is a founding member of the Francis Crick Institute, opened in 2016, and of the Alan Turing Institute, established in 2015.学校是 2016 年启用的弗朗西斯·克里克研究所与 2015 年成立的艾伦·图灵研究所的创始成员。

• With Imperial College London it founded the London Centre for Nanotechnology, and it has a long-standing partnership with Yale University, particularly in medicine.学校与帝国理工学院共同创办了伦敦纳米技术中心，并与耶鲁大学保持长期合作，尤其在医学领域。

• Its research funding has long been among the highest of any university in England, and its annual budget was 2.163 billion pounds in 2024/25.学校获得的科研经费长期位居英格兰各大学前列，其 2024 至 2025 年度预算为 21.63 亿英镑。

• The university's holdings include seventeen libraries and nine museums and collections, covering a wide range of academic fields.学校拥有十七座图书馆与九处博物馆及收藏区，涵盖广泛的学术领域。

Campus

• The main campus is in Bloomsbury in central London, near Gower Street, and contains most of the university's departments, its main library and University College Hospital.主校区位于伦敦市中心的布卢姆茨伯里，靠近高尔街，学校大部分院系、主图书馆与附属医院都在此处。

• The central part of the main building, known as the Wilkins Building, houses the main library, the Flaxman Gallery and the Octagon, and is the oldest part of the structure.主楼的中央部分称为威尔金斯楼，内有主图书馆、弗拉克斯曼画廊与八角厅，是这座建筑最古老的部分。

• The preserved body of Jeremy Bentham, known as his auto-icon, is kept in the university and remains one of its best-known features.杰里米·边沁经防腐处理的遗体即所谓「自动圣像」，保存在校内，是学校最广为人知的特色之一。

• Other UCL facilities are spread across central London, and there is an east campus at Stratford opened as UCL East.学校其他设施散布于伦敦市中心各处，并在斯特拉特福德设有东校区 UCL East。

• UCL also operates satellite campuses abroad, one in Adelaide in Australia and one in Doha in Qatar, the latter focused on archaeology and museum studies.学校还在海外设有卫星校区，一个位于澳大利亚阿德莱德，一个位于卡塔尔多哈，后者以考古与博物馆学为主。

• The main building was damaged during the Second World War and the extended parts enclosing the quadrangle were completed only in 1985.主楼曾在第二次世界大战中受损，围合方庭院的延伸部分直到 1985 年才建成。

Reputation

• UCL ranks joint eighth in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint seventeenth in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, seventeenth in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities and ninth in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.伦敦大学学院在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列全球第八，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第十七，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名第十七，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第九。^[1]

• It is placed among the top ten universities worldwide in the QS and U.S. News tables and among the top five in the United Kingdom.在 QS 与 US News 榜单中，学校位居全球前十，在英国国内则位列前五。

• Its staff, students and researchers have included 34 Nobel laureates, three Fields medallists, and a number of political leaders and cultural figures.其教职员、学生与研究人员中包括 34 位诺贝尔奖得主、3 位菲尔兹奖得主，以及多位政治领袖与文化名人。

• UCL's medical and biomedical research, carried out with its partner hospitals, is among the largest concentrations of biomedical research in the United Kingdom.学校与伙伴医院共同开展的医学与生物医学研究，是英国规模最大的生物医学研究集群之一。

• The university is a member of the Russell Group, the League of European Research Universities and the G5 group of elite British universities.学校是罗素集团、欧洲研究型大学联盟以及英国 G5 精英大学集团的成员。

• It ranks consistently high on measures of research intensity and international collaboration, reflecting its large postgraduate population and global partnerships.在研究强度与国际合作等指标上，学校排名长期靠前，这与其庞大的研究生群体和全球合作关系相符。

• Its 2025 endowment was 175 million pounds, modest in size but supplemented by substantial research income and annual expenditure.2025 年学校捐赠基金为 1.75 亿英镑，规模不大，但另有可观的科研收入与年度支出作为支撑。

Student life

• UCL Union, one of the oldest student unions in England, supports hundreds of clubs and societies across academic, cultural and sporting interests.UCL 学生会是英格兰历史最悠久的学生会之一，支持数百个涵盖学术、文化与体育兴趣的社团。

• The university's location in central London gives students easy access to museums, theatres, libraries and the wider cultural life of the capital.学校地处伦敦市中心，学生可以方便地前往博物馆、剧院、图书馆以及首都更广阔的文化生活场所。

• Students publish their own newspapers and run a range of media and performance groups.学生自办报刊，并运营多种媒体与表演团体。

• Sport at UCL is organised through a large number of clubs, and the university competes in British Universities and Colleges Sport competitions.学校的体育事务由众多俱乐部组织，并参加英国高校体育协会的各项赛事。

• The Bloomsbury campus is close to the British Museum and the University of London's Senate House, and the area has long been associated with writers and thinkers.布卢姆茨伯里校区靠近大英博物馆与伦敦大学议事大楼，这一带长期与作家和思想家联系在一起。

• With more than fifty thousand students from over 150 countries, UCL has one of the most international student bodies of any university in the world.学校拥有来自一百五十多个国家的五万余名学生，是全球学生构成最国际化的大学之一。

Notable people

• Although Jeremy Bentham did not found the college, his utilitarian philosophy and his writings on education strongly influenced its founders.尽管杰里米·边沁并非创校者，但他的功利主义哲学与教育著述深刻影响了学校的创办者。

• Among those who have studied or taught at UCL are the writers Rabindranath Tagore and G. K. Chesterton and the film director Christopher Nolan.曾在学校学习或任教的人包括作家拉宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔与 G. K. 切斯特顿，以及电影导演克里斯托弗·诺兰。

• Its scientific associates include Francis Crick, a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, and the physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the Higgs boson.学校的科学界相关人士包括脱氧核糖核酸结构的发现者之一弗朗西斯·克里克，以及以希格斯玻色子命名的物理学家彼得·希格斯。

• The telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell studied at UCL, and the university has counted Mahatma Gandhi among its students.电话发明者亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔曾在此求学，圣雄甘地也是学校的校友之一。

• Politically, the university has educated leaders and officials from many countries, including former Japanese prime ministers and members of the British government.在政治领域，学校培养了多国的领导人与官员，其中包括日本前首相与英国政府成员。

• The economist and philosopher John Stuart Mill, and the novelist and social critic H. G. Wells, are both associated with the intellectual tradition of the college.经济学家兼哲学家约翰·斯图尔特·密尔，以及小说家兼社会评论家赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯，都与这所学校的思想传统相关。