University of Amsterdam

The University of Amsterdam, abbreviated UvA, is a public research university in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is the largest university in the country by enrolment.阿姆斯特丹大学（简称 UvA）是荷兰阿姆斯特丹的一所公立研究型大学，按在校人数计是荷兰规模最大的大学。

It was established in 1632 as the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam and was elevated to full university status in 1877, making it the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlands.该校于 1632 年以阿姆斯特丹显学馆起步，1877 年升格为完整大学，是荷兰历史第四悠久的高等学府。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed 60th in the world, and its OpenAlex record lists 223,490 works with 26,645,554 citations.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校位列全球第 60 位，其 OpenAlex 记录收录 223,490 篇成果、被引 26,645,554 次。

History

• In January 1632 the municipal authorities of Amsterdam founded the Athenaeum Illustre, a school devoted mainly to medicine and the classical languages for the city's elite.1632 年 1 月阿姆斯特丹市政当局创办显学馆，一所主要面向城市精英、教授医学与古典语言的学习机构。
• The first two professors were Gerardus Vossius and Caspar Barlaeus, whose inaugural lectures in 1632 marked the beginning of higher teaching in the city.首两位教授是赫拉尔杜斯·沃西乌斯与卡斯帕·巴拉厄斯，他们 1632 年的就职演讲开启了这座城市的高等教学。
• Rembrandt's painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp of 1632 depicts a lecture tied to the early medical teaching associated with the Athenaeum.伦勃朗 1632 年的画作《尼古拉斯·杜尔博士的解剖课》描绘了与显学馆早期医学教学相关的一堂课。
• In 1815 the institution received the statutory duty to disseminate taste, civilisation and learning, a formal recognition of its public role in the city.1815 年该机构被赋予传播趣味、文明与学识的法定义务，是对其城市公共角色的正式承认。
• The Athenaeum could not confer doctoral degrees, so its students completed their education at another university before the school was raised to university rank.显学馆无权授予博士学位，因此学生须赴其他大学完成学业，直到该校升格为大学。
• In 1877 the institution was elevated to a full university and renamed the Municipal University of Amsterdam, ending two centuries as a civic Athenaeum.1877 年该机构升格为完整大学并更名为阿姆斯特丹市立大学，结束了作为市政显学馆的两个世纪。
• The alumnus Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, often called the father of physical chemistry, won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901.常被称为物理化学之父的校友雅各布斯·亨里克斯·范特霍夫，于 1901 年获首届诺贝尔化学奖。
• The professor Pieter Zeeman won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for the discovery of the Zeeman effect of magnetised light.教授彼得·塞曼因发现磁化光的塞曼效应，于 1902 年与亨德里克·洛伦兹共获诺贝尔物理学奖。
• The alumnus Tobias Asser was awarded the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in founding the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.校友托比亚斯·阿塞尔因参与创立海牙常设仲裁法院，荣获 1911 年诺贝尔和平奖。
• In 1961 the institution dropped the word Municipal from its name and became simply the University of Amsterdam, reflecting its national standing.1961 年该校从校名中去掉「市立」二字，简化为阿姆斯特丹大学，体现出其全国性的地位。
• The alumnus Frits Zernike, inventor of the phase-contrast microscope, won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics for that optical method.发明相差显微镜的校友弗里茨·泽尔尼克因该光学方法荣获 1953 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Student protests in the late 1960s and the 1980s reshaped governance at the university, expanding the voice of students and junior staff in its boards.二十世纪六十年代末与八十年代的学生抗议重塑了该校治理，扩大了学生与初级教师在委员会中的声音。
• In 2007 the university became a member of the League of European Research Universities, the alliance of leading research-intensive institutions on the continent.2007 年该校加入欧洲研究型大学联盟，这一联盟汇聚欧洲大陆领先的研究密集型院校。
• The faculty member Edsger Dijkstra received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to programming languages and the science of computing.教师埃兹赫尔·戴克斯特拉因对编程语言与计算科学的根本贡献，荣获 1972 年图灵奖。
• In 2015 the university co-located the faculties of humanities and social and behavioural sciences at the Roeterseiland campus on a former industrial site by the canal.2015 年该校将人文与社会行为科学学部迁至运河边原工业用地的罗特斯岛校区，集中布局。
• The Amsterdam Science Park became the home of the Faculty of Science, gathering physics, chemistry, mathematics and computing around a national research cluster.阿姆斯特丹科学园成为理学院所在地，将物理、化学、数学与计算汇聚于一个国家研究集群周围。
• In 2024 Edith Hooge became President of the Executive Board, leading the university alongside the Rector Magnificus Peter-Paul Verbeek.2024 年伊迪丝·胡赫出任执行董事会主席，与校长彼得-保罗·费尔贝克共同领导该校。
• Civil unrest linked to the war in the Middle East led to protests and occupations in 2024, prompting the university to revise its framework for external collaboration.2024 年与中东战争相关的民间动荡引发抗议与占领，促使该校修订对外合作的评估框架。
• Over nearly four centuries the institution has grown from a small civic Athenaeum into a comprehensive university with more than 44,000 students and seven faculties.在近四个世纪中，该校从一所小型市政显学馆发展为拥有四万余名学生与七个学部的综合性大学。
• Amsterdam University College, a joint liberal-arts and sciences college run with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, was founded in 2009 and offers English-taught honours degrees in the city.阿姆斯特丹大学学院是该校与阿姆斯特丹自由大学合办的文理学院，创立于 2009 年，在城市中提供英语授课的荣誉学位课程。
• The Allard Pierson, the university's heritage museum and special-collections library, holds collections on archaeology, history and the book arts and is open to the public on the Oude Turfmarkt.阿拉德·皮尔逊博物馆是该校的遗产博物馆兼特藏图书馆，收藏考古、历史与书籍艺术方面的藏品，位于旧泥炭市场并向公众开放。

Academics

• The university is organised into seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Science, Law, Medicine and Dentistry.该校设有七个学部：人文学部、社会与行为科学学部、经济与商学部、理学部、法学部、医学部与牙医学部。
• In the academic year 2024 the university enrolled 44,015 students, making it the largest university in the Netherlands by number of enrolments.2024 年该校共有 44,015 名学生，按在校人数计为荷兰规模最大的大学。
• The institution employed about 6,405 staff in 2024 and conferred 635 doctorates during the calendar year, sustaining a broad base of doctoral training.2024 年该校聘用约 6,405 名员工，并在该日历年授予 635 个博士学位，维持广泛的博士培养基础。
• The university has produced six Nobel laureates and one Turing Award winner, and has educated five prime ministers of the Netherlands.该校培养了六位诺贝尔奖得主与一位图灵奖得主，并曾教育五位荷兰首相。
• It is a member of the League of European Research Universities, the UNICA network of capital-city universities, the EUA and Universitas 21.该校是欧洲研究型大学联盟、首都大学 UNICA 网络、欧洲大学协会与二十一大学联盟的成员。
• The Amsterdam Business School within the faculty of Economics and Business holds the triple accreditation of AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, a mark held by few schools worldwide.经济与商学部内的阿姆斯特丹商学院拥有 AACSB、EQUIS 与 AMBA 三重认证，全球获此认证的学院寥寥无几。
• The Faculty of Science is based at the Amsterdam Science Park, a national hub for physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science research and startups.理学院设于阿姆斯特丹科学园，这是物理、化学、数学与计算机科学研究及初创企业的国家级枢纽。
• The Amsterdam University Medical Centers, especially the AMC, are among the largest teaching hospitals in the Netherlands and a centre for clinical research.阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心（尤其是 AMC）是荷兰最大的教学医院之一，也是临床研究中心。
• The University Library holds rich special collections, including early printed books and archival material on the city of Amsterdam and its trade.该校图书馆藏有丰富的特藏，包括早期印刷书籍以及关于阿姆斯特丹市与其贸易的档案资料。
• A large and growing share of master's programmes are taught in English, attracting international students who make up about a fifth of the student body.英语授课的硕士项目占比越来越大，吸引了国际学生，其约占学生总数的五分之一。
• The university runs interdisciplinary research institutes in logic, language, brain and cognition that draw on several of the seven faculties.该校设有逻辑、语言、脑与认知等领域的跨学科研究所，依托七个学部中的数个展开。
• Admission to selective programmes such as medicine and psychology is competitive, with numerus fixus places set by the national government each year.医学、心理学等热门专业的招生竞争激烈，其固定名额由荷兰政府每年核定。
• The annual budget of the university is around 1.3 billion euros, funding teaching, research and its two academic medical centres.该校年度预算约为 13 亿欧元，用于教学、研究以及两所学术医学中心。
• The university collaborates with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on shared facilities and doctoral schools, the two large public universities of the same city.该校与同城的另一所公立大学阿姆斯特丹自由大学共享设施与博士学院，开展合作。
• Public engagement takes the form of lectures, museums and the university's heritage sites, linking the institution to the civic life of Amsterdam.公共参与体现为讲座、博物馆与该校遗产场所，将机构与阿姆斯特丹的城市生活相连。
• Research at the university is supported by national bodies such as the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), whose membership includes many of its professors.该校的研究得到荷兰科学研究组织（NWO）与荷兰皇家艺术与科学院（KNAW）等国家级机构的支持，其院士中包括该校许多教授。
• The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics and the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment are among the interdisciplinary research institutes that bring together staff from several of the seven faculties.逻辑、语言与计算研究所、科特韦赫-德弗里斯数学研究所与阿姆斯特丹生命与环境研究所是其跨学科研究机构之一，汇聚来自七个学部中多个学部的科研人员。
• The university partners with Wageningen University, Delft University of Technology and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in joint research and doctoral training programmes across the Netherlands.该校与瓦赫宁根大学、代尔夫特理工大学以及阿姆斯特丹自由大学在遍及荷兰的联合研究与博士培养项目中合作。

Campus

• The university has no single enclosed campus but is spread across buildings in central Amsterdam, at the Science Park and around the AMC medical campus.该校没有单一的封闭校园，而是分布于阿姆斯特丹市中心、科学园以及 AMC 医学校区的建筑中。
• The campus is centred at geographic coordinates 52.37403 degrees north and 4.88969 degrees east, within the province of North Holland.校区中心位于北纬 52.37403 度、东经 4.88969 度，处于北荷兰省。
• The Roeterseiland campus by the canal houses the faculties of Humanities and of Social and Behavioural Sciences in modern red-brick buildings.运河边的罗特斯岛校区以现代红砖建筑容纳人文与社会行为科学两个学部。
• The Agnietenkapel, a fifteenth-century former chapel, is the university's ceremonial heart and one of the few historic buildings it retains.阿赫尼特小礼拜堂是一座十五世纪旧礼拜堂，是该校的典礼核心，也是其少数保留的历史建筑之一。
• The Amsterdam Science Park in the east of the city hosts the Faculty of Science and dozens of research institutes and technology companies.位于城东的阿姆斯特丹科学园容纳理学院以及数十个研究所与科技企业。
• The Amsterdam University Medical Centers, centred on the AMC in the southeast, provide clinical teaching and research space for the Faculty of Medicine.以东南郊 AMC 为中心的阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心，为医学部提供临床教学与研究空间。
• The University Library on the Singel canal occupies a former church and stores the special collections that document Amsterdam's scholarly past.辛赫尔运河畔的大学图书馆设于一座旧教堂内，收藏记录阿姆斯特丹学术过往的特藏。
• Because the university is embedded in the city, students move between sites by bicycle and tram, and housing is sought across the Amsterdam metropolitan area.由于大学嵌入城市，学生骑自行车与电车往返各处，并在阿姆斯特丹都会区各处寻找住宿。
• Teaching and research are spread across four city clusters, the City Centre, Roeterseiland, the Amsterdam Science Park and the Amsterdam UMC site, rather than a single walled campus.教学与研究分布于市中心的四个片区，即城中心、罗特斯岛、阿姆斯特丹科学园与阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心院区，而非一处有围墙的校园。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Amsterdam is placed 60th in the world and is the highest-ranked Dutch university.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中阿姆斯特丹大学位列全球第 60 位，是荷兰排名最高的大学。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places the university 62nd in the world, reflecting its strength in research and teaching.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列于全球第 62 位，体现出其在研究教学上的实力。
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 the university stands in the 101 to 150 band, a table that weights Nobel laureates and highly cited research.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中该校位居 101 至 150 区间，该榜以诺贝尔奖得主与高被引研究为重。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks the University of Amsterdam 39th in the world, its strongest showing among the four tables.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻最佳全球大学排名将阿姆斯特丹大学列于全球第 39 位，是其在四榜中最佳名次。
• The university's six Nobel laureates and one Turing Award winner span physics, chemistry, peace and computer science across four centuries of scholarship.该校六位诺贝尔奖得主与一位图灵奖得主横跨物理、化学、和平与计算机科学，贯穿四个世纪的学术。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 223,490 works to the university and records 26,645,554 citations, a measure of its large and widely referenced scholarship.OpenAlex 数据库为该校归属 223,490 篇成果并记录 26,645,554 次引用，显示其规模庞大且被广泛引用的学术产出。
• As a member of the League of European Research Universities, the university ranks among the leading research-intensive institutions on the continent.作为欧洲研究型大学联盟成员，该校位居欧洲大陆研究密集型院校的最前列。
• Subject strengths include communication and media studies, geography, the social sciences and the humanities, several of which rank among the world's best by discipline in the QS subject tables.学科优势包括传播与媒体研究、地理学、社会科学与人文学科，其中若干学科在 QS 学科排名中位居世界最佳之列。
• Its role as the largest Dutch university and its location in a global city give it a strong position in both national and European research networks.作为荷兰最大大学且坐落于全球城市，该校在荷兰与欧洲研究网络中均占据强势地位。
• The Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Netherlands Cancer Institute are major partners in its medical research and clinical training, reinforcing its standing in the biomedical sciences.阿姆斯特丹大学医学中心与荷兰癌症研究所是其医学研究与临床培养的重要伙伴，强化了其在生物医学领域的地位。

Student life

• The motto of the university is the Latin phrase De gloria virtutis umbra, rendered as fame is the shadow of virtue, adopted from a humanist tradition.该校校训为拉丁文「De gloria virtutis umbra」，意为「声誉乃德行之余荫」，承自人文主义传统。
• The official colours of the university are red, black, white and grey, which appear on banners, sports kit and institutional branding.该校的官方色彩为红、黑、白、灰，见于旗帜、运动装备与机构标识。
• The student newspaper Folia has appeared since 1948 and remains one of the oldest independent student publications in the Netherlands.学生报纸《福利亚》自 1948 年发行，仍是荷兰历史最悠久的独立学生刊物之一。
• The students' union ASVA represents undergraduates and postgraduates in university governance and runs services such as advice and a weekly café.学生会 ASVA 在大学治理中代表本研学生，并运营咨询与每周咖啡馆等服务。
• The sports federation ACLO offers clubs in rowing, football, basketball and cycling, and uses the city's parks and waterways for training.体育联合会 ACLO 提供赛艇、足球、篮球与自行车等俱乐部，并借城市的公园与水道训练。
• The introductory week known as the Intro welcomes new students each September and is organised by the faculties and student associations.名为「迎新」的导引周每年九月迎接新生，由各学部与学生社团组织。
• Traditional student societies and a wide range of committees cover debate, music, international relations and charity work across the city.传统学生社团与形形色色的委员会涵盖辩论、音乐、国际关系与慈善，遍及全城。
• Housing is a well-known challenge in Amsterdam, and the university advises students to seek rooms early because of the tight private market.住房是阿姆斯特丹众所周知的难题，该校建议学生因私营市场紧张而尽早寻找房间。
• Because the campus is the city itself, students treat Amsterdam's museums, theatres and canals as the everyday setting of university life.由于校园即城市本身，学生把阿姆斯特丹的博物馆、剧院与运河当作大学生活的日常场景。
• The university marks its Dies Natalis each January to commemorate the founding of the Athenaeum Illustre in 1632, with an academic ceremony, lectures and awards.该校每年一月举行校庆日（Dies Natalis），以学术典礼、讲座与颁奖纪念 1632 年显学馆的创立。

Notable people

• The municipal authorities of Amsterdam founded the Athenaeum Illustre in 1632 and gave the institution its civic character that still defines it.阿姆斯特丹市政当局于 1632 年创办显学馆，赋予该校至今仍鲜明的市民特质。
• Gerardus Vossius, one of the two founding professors in 1632, was a classical scholar whose lectures launched university teaching in the city.1632 年两位创校教授之一的赫拉尔杜斯·沃西乌斯是古典学者，其授课开启了这座城市的高等教学。
• Caspar Barlaeus, the other founding professor of 1632, was a philosopher and historian who shaped the humanist ethos of the early Athenaeum.另一位 1632 年的创校教授卡斯帕·巴拉厄斯是哲学家与史家，塑造了早期显学馆的人文精神。
• Frits Zernike, an alumnus, won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the phase-contrast microscope used in biology and medicine.校友弗里茨·泽尔尼克因发明生物与医学所用的相差显微镜，荣获 1953 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, an alumnus, won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901 for his work on chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure.校友雅各布斯·亨里克斯·范特霍夫因化学动力学与渗透压的研究，获 1901 年首届诺贝尔化学奖。
• Tobias Asser, an alumnus, was awarded the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to establish the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.校友托比亚斯·阿塞尔因协助创立海牙常设仲裁法院，荣获 1911 年诺贝尔和平奖。
• Pieter Zeeman, a professor at the university, shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the effect of magnetism on light.该校教授彼得·塞曼因发现磁对光的作用，共获 1902 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Edsger Dijkstra, a faculty member, received the 1972 Turing Award for foundational work in programming languages and the science of computing.教师埃兹赫尔·戴克斯特拉因编程语言与计算科学的奠基性工作，荣获 1972 年图灵奖。
• Guido van Rossum, an alumnus, created the Python programming language and became one of the most influential figures in open-source software.校友吉多·范罗苏姆创造了 Python 编程语言，成为开源软件最具影响力的人物之一。
• Charles Michel, an alumnus, served as Prime Minister of Belgium and later as President of the European Council.校友夏尔·米歇尔曾任比利时首相，其后出任欧洲理事会主席。
• Joop den Uyl, an alumnus, served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 to 1977 during a period of economic difficulty.校友约普·登厄伊尔于 1973 至 1977 年担任荷兰首相，时值经济困难时期。
• Wim Kok, an alumnus, served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 to 2002 and was a leading figure of the Dutch labour movement.校友维姆·科克于 1994 至 2002 年担任荷兰首相，是荷兰劳工运动的领军人物。
• Max Euwe, an alumnus who earned his doctorate at the university, was a mathematician and the world chess champion from 1935 to 1946.在校取得博士学位的校友马克斯· Euwe 是数学家，并于 1935 至 1946 年担任国际象棋世界冠军。