University of Antioquia

The University of Antioquia, written Universidad de Antioquia in Spanish and known by the short form UdeA, is a public research university whose main campus lies in Medellín, the capital of the Antioquia department of Colombia, and it is placed in the 851-900 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.安蒂奥基亚大学（西班牙语写作 Universidad de Antioquia，简称 UdeA）是一所公立研究型大学，主校区位于哥伦比亚安蒂奥基亚省首府麦德林，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列入第 851-900 位。

Founded in 1803 by royal decree of the Spanish crown, it is one of the oldest universities of the region and, together with the University of the Andes, holds the second-longest institutional history in Colombia behind only the National University of Colombia.该校 1803 年由西班牙王室敕令创办，是本地最古老的大学之一，与安第斯大学并列，校史在哥伦比亚仅次于哥伦比亚国立大学。

It teaches through 25 academic divisions at its flagship campus and runs 11 regional campuses across the department, and in 2024 its publications recorded more than 272 research groups and over 5,000 faculty and students working on some 1,200 collaborative projects.该校旗舰校区设 25 个学术分部、全省另办 11 所地方校区，2024 年公布的材料显示有 272 个课题组、5,000 余名师生正参与约 1,200 项协作研究计划。

History

• The University of Antioquia was preceded by the Franciscan College, called Colegio de Franciscanos in Spanish, which was founded after King Charles IV of Spain issued the Royal Decree of 9 February 1801 authorising a college in the town.安蒂奥基亚大学的前身是方济各学院（Colegio de Franciscanos），其设立源出于西班牙国王卡洛斯四世 1801 年 2 月 9 日颁下的王室敕令。

• The Royal Decree permitted the establishment of a college-convent in the Villa de la Candelaria, the settlement that would become Medellín, and the new institution opened there for teaching in 1803.这道王室敕令准许在「坎德拉里亚镇」（Villa de la Candelaria）设立一所学院—修道院，这处聚落即日后麦德林的前身，新机构于 1803 年在此开学。

• The first classes were held in March 1803, when the college offered programmes in Latin and philosophy as the higher-education options available to the province of Antioquia.首批课程于 1803 年 3 月开讲，学院当时以拉丁语与哲学两科作为安蒂奥基亚省所能提供的高等教育。

• On 20 June 1803 the council of Medellín bought the land for the main building, and construction began the following month on the structure still known as the San Ignacio building.1803 年 6 月 20 日，麦德林市政会购得主校舍用地，次月动工兴建那座至今仍称「圣伊格纳西奥楼」的建筑。

• In 1822, once independence from Spain was consolidated, Francisco de Paula Santander, then vice president of the republic, promoted a new educational plan for the institution.1822 年脱离西班牙的独立大业落定后，时任共和国副总统的弗朗西斯科·德保拉·桑坦德为该机构推动了一项新的教学计划。

• Five years later, in 1827, the president Simón Bolívar authorised instruction in law, extending the college beyond its original Latin and philosophy curriculum.五年后的 1827 年，总统西蒙·玻利瓦尔批准讲授法学，使学院的课程由最初的拉丁语与哲学扩展到法律。

• For much of the nineteenth century Colombia endured political upheaval and armed conflict, and the university was repeatedly closed and occupied by belligerents, an interruption that stalled its development.十九世纪大部分时间哥伦比亚政局动荡、战乱频仍，该校屡遭关闭并被交战方占用，发展因此受阻。

• Once the Thousand Days' War, a conflict that lasted from 1899 to 1902, came to an end, the country settled into stability and the university began to grow again.1899 至 1902 年的「千日战争」结束后，国家归于稳定，该校重又开始发展。

• In the first thirty years of the twentieth century the university reorganised its curriculum, redesigned several of its buildings, acquired new bibliographic material and employed renowned professors.二十世纪初的前三十年间，该校重组课程、改建数栋校舍、采购新的图书资料，并延聘知名教授。

• University City, the Ciudad Universitaria that is the present main campus, was built in the 1960s with funds raised through debt and international aid.「大学城」（Ciudad Universitaria），即今日的主校区，于 20 世纪 60 年代依靠举债与国际援助兴建而成。

• The opening of University City in the 1960s allowed simultaneous increases in the number of students and professors and led to the creation of new faculties and academic programmes.大学城在 60 年代启用后，学生与教师人数同步增长，新的学院与学术项目随之创设。

• In the late twentieth century the university began a regionalization programme, opening campuses and facilities in several regions of Antioquia and establishing a dedicated research headquarters.二十世纪晚期该校启动「地方化」计划，在安蒂奥基亚多个地区开设校区与设施，并设立专门的研究总部。

• From the mid-1990s the regionalization plan extended higher education into other municipalities of the department, eventually reaching 11 regional campuses beyond Medellín.自 1990 年代中期起，地方化计划把高等教育推向省内其他市镇，最终在麦德林之外办成 11 所地方校区。

• In 2004 the university established the University Research Headquarters, the Sede de Investigación Universitaria or SIU, a project meant to transform both the quality and the scale of its research system.2004 年该校设立「大学研究总部」（Sede de Investigación Universitaria，简称 SIU），旨在从质量与规模两方面改造其科研体系。

• The historic San Ignacio building on which the college was founded was declared a national monument in 1982, protecting the oldest standing structure of the university.学院最初赖以建立的圣伊格纳西奥楼于 1982 年被宣布为国家纪念建筑，使该校最古老的地面建筑获得保护。

• In 2011 the Ministry of National Education gave the university an award for the best regionalization experience in Colombian higher education, recognising the expansion of its 11 regional campuses.2011 年国家教育部授予该校「哥伦比亚高等教育最佳地方化经验」奖，肯定其 11 所地方校区的扩展成效。

• The investment in research scaled up through the 2000s, and in 2006 the university reported spending about 145 billion Colombian pesos on research in a single year.2000 年代该校科研投入持续加大，2006 年其年度报告称一年之内即于科研投入约 1,450 亿哥伦比亚比索。

• By 2024 the university documented that more than 272 groups and over 5,000 faculty and students were active on some 1,200 collaborative projects, a snapshot of its mature research system.至 2024 年该校已记录 272 个以上课题组、逾 5,000 名师生活跃于约 1,200 项协作计划，显示其科研体系已趋成熟。

• The institution has kept its accreditation from the Ministry of National Education continuously for more than two centuries, a legal continuity that dates from its 1803 founding.该校自 1803 年创办起，两个多世纪以来持续保由国家教育部的办学资格，这一法律上的延续从未中断。

• Along with the Tecnológico de Antioquia it carries the largest number of study seats in the department of Antioquia, the two institutions absorbing most regional demand for places.该校与安蒂奥基亚理工大学共同承担安蒂奥基亚省最多的入学名额，两校吸纳了全省绝大部分的就学需求。

• Its membership in the Association of Colombian Universities, the Iberoamerican Association of Postgraduate Universities and the network Universia ties its modern growth to national and Iberoamerican cooperation.该校是哥伦比亚大学协会、伊比美洲研究生大学协会及 Universia 网络的成员，现代发展由此与国家及伊比美洲合作相连。

• From a single colonial college-convent in 1803 the university grew into a multi-campus public system, an expansion carried out across two centuries of intermittent peace and conflict.从 1803 年一所殖民时期的学院—修道院，该校成长为多校区公立体系，其扩展历经两个世纪时断时续的和平与战乱。

Academics

• Teaching at the flagship Medellín campus is organised into 25 academic divisions, spanning faculties, schools and institutes across the sciences, medicine, engineering, agriculture and the arts.麦德林旗舰校区的教学划分为 25 个学术分部，涵盖理、医、工、农与艺术等学院、学系与研究所。

• In Medellín the university offers 87 undergraduate degrees, 48 specialisations, 41 medical specialisations, 53 master's degrees and 22 doctoral degrees, one of the widest catalogues in Colombia.该校在麦德林开设 87 个本科专业、48 个专业方向、41 个医学专科、53 个硕士项目与 22 个博士项目，其学科目录在哥伦比亚名列前茅。

• Across its 11 regional campuses the university adds another 126 undergraduate degrees and two master's programmes, extending degree access well beyond the metropolitan area.在其 11 所地方校区，该校另设 126 个本科专业与 2 个硕士项目，把学位机会扩展到都会区之外。

• Health teaching is grouped into nursing, dentistry, medicine and public health faculties located in the Health Area, adjacent to the St Vincent de Paul University Hospital.医学教学集中于护理、口腔、医学与公共卫生四个学院，设于卫生区，紧邻圣樊尚德保罗大学医院。

• Agricultural teaching is concentrated at Citadel Robledo, which hosts the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the School of Nutrition, veterinary clinics and the Institute of Physical Education.农学教学集中于罗布莱多城堡校区，这里设有农业科学学院、营养学系、兽医诊所与体育学院。

• Undergraduate admission is conducted through a general knowledge test held twice a year, an instrument that measures basic skills and knowledge acquired in secondary school.本科入学以每年两次的通识知识测验选拔，该测验衡量学生在中学阶段获得的基础技能与知识。

• The entrance examination consists of a Reading Proficiency component and a Logical Reasoning component, a test identical for all programmes except those of the Faculty of Arts.入学考试由阅读理解与逻辑推理两部分组成，除艺术学院外，各专业所用试卷完全相同。

• Selectivity is high, since to be admitted an applicant must clear a minimum cutoff score and fall within the seats available for the programme, with the admitted share below 10 percent in some cases.录取竞争激烈：考生须越过最低分数线并位于该专业名额之内，某些专业实际录取比例不足 10%。

• Postgraduate admission is comparably complex, and at all levels the programme requires mastery of a foreign language besides exams, interviews, research proposals and prior academic records.研究生入学同样复杂，各专业除考试、面试、研究计划与本科成绩外，一律要求掌握一门外语。

• The university holds a number of international partnerships that offer student exchange and some double degrees with foreign institutions, among them the Polytechnic University of Turin and the Polytechnic University of Milan.该校与多所海外院校建立合作关系，提供交换生与部分双学位项目，合作对象包括都灵理工大学与米兰理工大学。

• Its international links also include the University of São Paulo, with whom the university runs collaborative academic programmes alongside its European partners.该校的国际联系也包括圣保罗大学，学校与其同欧洲伙伴一并开展协作学术项目。

• Research is organised into 228 groups classified by Colciencias into the categories A1, A, B, C and D, with the majority of excellence groups concentrated at the SIU research headquarters.科研由 228 个课题组承担，按哥伦比亚国家科技局 Colciencias 分为 A1、A、B、C、D 五类，多数优秀组群集中于 SIU 研究总部。

• The SIU currently supports 36 research groups classified by Colciencias as categories A and B, working in biotechnology, chemistry, materials science, genetics, environment, immunology and infectious and tropical diseases.SIU 现支持 36 个被 Colciencias 列为 A、B 类的课题组，从事生物技术、化学、材料、遗传、环境、免疫及传染病与热带病研究。

• The Faculty of Arts follows its own entrance examination, the one programme at the university whose admission instrument differs from the general reading and logic test.艺术学院沿用单独的入学考试，是该校唯一在选拔工具上不采用通用阅读与逻辑测验的专业。

• Specialised postgraduate teaching includes 41 medical specialisations, a count that reflects the weight the university places on clinical training through its Health Area faculties.研究生专业教育含 41 个医学专科，这一数字反映该校借卫生区各学院强化临床培训的取向。

• Its academic calendar and catalogue are coordinated under the Academic Council, the highest academic body, formed by the rector, four vice-rectors, deans and elected faculty and student representatives.其学术历与课程体系由学术委员会这一最高学术机构统筹协调，委员会由校长、四名副校长、各学院院长以及教师、学生代表组成。

• Administrative and academic decisions flow from the Superior University Council, whose president is the Governor of Antioquia and whose members include delegates of the national government.行政与学术决策出自大学最高理事会，该会主席由安蒂奥基亚省省长担任，成员还包括中央政府的代表。

Campus

• The university spreads across Medellín, with University City as its main campus at latitude 6.25184 and longitude 75.56359 west, while other sites sit in Robledo, the Health Area and the downtown centre.该校在麦德林市内多点办学，主校区「大学城」位于北纬 6.25184、西经 75.56359，另有罗布莱多、卫生区与市中心等校区。

• University City, built in the 1960s over an area of 23.75 hectares or 58.7 acres, is the seat of eight faculties, three schools, three institutes and the Administrative Building.「大学城」建于 20 世纪 60 年代，占地 23.75 公顷（约 58.7 英亩），容纳八个学院、三所学系、三个研究所以及行政大楼。

• Within University City are the University Museum, the University Theater, the Central Library and a Sport Unit, so the campus combines academic, cultural and athletic facilities in one precinct.大学城内设有大学博物馆、大学剧场、中央图书馆与体育中心，故其学术、文化与体育设施集中于一处。

• Citadel Robledo covers 89 hectares or 220 acres and hosts the agricultural, nutrition, veterinary and physical-education units, with a library noted for veterinary medicine and zootechnics collections.「罗布莱多城堡」校区占地 89 公顷（约 220 英亩），容纳农业、营养、兽医与体育教学单位，其图书馆以兽医与畜牧学藏书著称。

• Robledo also provides a sport unit equipped with two football pitches, a swimming pool, two basketball and futsal courts and a handball court for students and athletes.罗布莱多还设有体育中心，配有 2 块足球场、1 座泳池、2 片篮球与室内足球场以及 1 片手球场，供学生与运动员使用。

• The Health Area clusters the nursing, dentistry, medicine and public health faculties close to the St Vincent de Paul University Hospital, integrating teaching with clinical service.「卫生区」将护理、口腔、医学与公共卫生四个学院聚集于圣樊尚德保罗大学医院旁，使教学与临床服务一体衔接。

• The historic San Ignacio Building in downtown Medellín, declared a national monument in 1982, contains seven exhibition halls, ten lecture rooms, a cinema, two computer labs, a restaurant, a multipurpose room and an auditorium.位于麦德林市中心、1982 年被定为国家纪念建筑的圣伊格纳西奥老楼，内有 7 个展厅、10 间教室、1 座影院、2 间机房、1 间餐厅、1 个多功能厅与 1 座礼堂。

• Eleven regional campuses operate outside Medellín, in Amalfi, Andes, Caucasia, Carmen de Viboral, Envigado, Puerto Berrío, Santa Fe de Antioquia, Segovia, Sonsón, Turbo and Yarumal, covering all the subregions of the department.另有 11 所地方校区设于麦德林之外的阿马尔菲、安德斯、考卡西亚、卡门·德维博拉尔、恩维加多、普埃尔托贝里奥、圣菲德安蒂奥基亚、塞戈维亚、松松、图尔沃与亚鲁马，覆盖全省各分区。

• Access to University City is secured at each entrance and open to visitors who register at the front office, so researchers, journalists and the public may tour its historical and artistic relics.大学城各入口设有安保，访客在前台登记后即可进入，研究者、记者与公众因此可参观其中的历史与艺术遗存。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Antioquia is placed in the 851-900 band, the ranking position for which this entry is written.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，安蒂奥基亚大学列入第 851-900 位，本条目即据此档位收录。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university appears in the 1401-1600 band, a range that places it below its standing in Latin American regional tables.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校列入第 1401-1600 档，这一位置低于其在拉美地区榜单中的声誉。

• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities ranking the university is placed at number 651 worldwide, a strong numerical position compared with its other international tables.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校名列全球第 651 位，较其在其他国际榜单中的位次更为靠前。

• In the 2026 Shanghai Ranking Academic Ranking of World Universities the university is placed in the 801-900 band of the main table, the standing recorded for its natural-sciences and medical research base.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜中，该校列入第 801-900 档，此位置反映其自然科学与医学研究基础。

• No subject-band position is recorded for the university in the four world ranking tables used for this entry, so its subject-level standing must be read from its Colciencias research-group categories rather than from a global subject rank.本条目所依据的四大世界榜单均未记该校的学科档位，其学科维度声誉只能从 Colciencias 课题组分类而非全球学科名次来解读。

• Measurable research output is quantified by its 228 Colciencias-registered groups, the 36 A and B categories supported at the SIU, and the 2006 report of about 145 billion pesos spent on research in one year.可计量的科研产出以 228 个 Colciencias 注册课题组、SIU 支持的 36 个 A、B 类组群，以及 2006 年约 1,450 亿比索年度科研投入来量化。

• Its academic scale offers another measurable indicator, since the university runs 87 undergraduate, 53 master's and 22 doctoral programmes in Medellín alone, beside a further 126 undergraduate degrees across the regions.学术规模亦提供可测指标：该校仅在麦德林即开设 87 个本科、53 个硕士与 22 个博士项目，地方校区另有 126 个本科专业。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded for the university, and its hardest honors are institutional, resting on two centuries of ministry accreditation and the 2011 national award for its regionalization programme.该校未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级关联，其最硬的荣誉均属机构层面，即两个多世纪的国家办学认证与 2011 年国家地方化计划奖。

Student life

• University athletes compete in the West division of ASCUN-Deportes alongside 24 other institutions from Antioquia, with division-phase games qualifying teams for national competition.该校运动员在哥伦比亚大学体育协会（ASCUN-Deportes）西部赛区与来自安蒂奥基亚的另外 24 所院校同场竞技，赛区赛事可晋级全国比赛。

• The university fields varsity teams in a very wide range of sports, from aikido, judo, karate and taekwondo to athletics, basketball, cycling, climbing, football, gymnastics, swimming, rugby, tennis, volleyball and underwater rugby.该校设有多项校队，项目从合气道、柔道、空手道、跆拳道延伸至田径、篮球、自行车、攀岩、足球、体操、游泳、橄榄球、网球、排球乃至水下橄榄球。

• Three cultural groups are administered directly by the university, namely the Folk Dances Group, the Traditional Student Music Group and the Club of Singers, beside groups run by individual divisions.由校方直辖的文艺团体有三支，即民间舞蹈团、传统学生音乐团与歌唱者俱乐部，各学术分部亦可另设自己的团体。

• Student life is organised around academic, artistic, ecological, social and sporting activity, with the university formally supporting groups and organisations in each of these fields.学生生活围绕学术、艺术、生态、社会与体育展开，校方对上述各领域团体与组织均给予正式支持。

• The Central Library at University City and the specialist Robledo library anchor student study, the latter widely known across Colombia for its collections in veterinary medicine and zootechnics.大学城的中央图书馆与罗布莱多的专题图书馆构成学生自习的核心，后者因兽医与畜牧学藏书在哥伦比亚广为人知。

• Its regional campuses give students in eleven outlying municipalities the same access to organised student life, an extension of campus culture carried out under the regionalization programme begun in the 1990s.其地方校区让 11 个外围市镇的学生同样享有有组织的校园生活，这正是 1990 年代地方化计划把校园文化向省外延伸的结果。

• Admission to the university is twice yearly through a general knowledge test, a rhythm that sets the annual calendar of preparation, examination and enrolment for incoming students.该校入学每年两次，经由通识知识测验进行，这一节奏为新生划定了备考、应考与报到的年度历法。

Notable people

• The college that became the university was established under authority of King Charles IV of Spain, whose Royal Decree of 9 February 1801 gave the legal basis for the institution founded two years later.这所日后升格为大学的学院，其设立依据来自西班牙国王卡洛斯四世 1801 年 2 月 9 日的王室敕令，为两年后的正式创办提供了法律基础。

• Francisco de Paula Santander, then vice president of the republic, reshaped the institution's teaching plan in 1822, and Simón Bolívar authorised its law faculty five years later in 1827.时任共和国副总统的桑坦德于 1822 年改造该校教学计划，玻利瓦尔则于五年后的 1827 年批准设立其法学院。

• Five presidents of Colombia were formed at the university, among them Carlos Restrepo, Mariano Ospina Pérez and Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, as well as Álvaro Uribe Vélez and the early leader Liborio Mejia.该校走出五位哥伦比亚总统，包括卡洛斯·雷斯特雷波、玛丽亚诺·奥斯皮纳·佩雷斯、玛丽亚诺·奥斯皮纳·罗德里格斯、阿尔瓦罗·乌里韦·贝卢瓦以及早期领袖利博里奥·梅希亚。

• Carlos Gaviria Diaz, an alumnus, became one of Colombia's most prominent jurists and politicians, founding a left-wing movement and later presiding over the country's Constitutional Court.校友卡洛斯·加维里亚·迪亚斯是哥伦比亚最著名的法学家与政治人物之一，创立左翼运动并出任该国宪法法院院长。

• Fabio Valencia Cossio, an alumnus, served repeatedly as a senior minister and as president of both chambers of the Colombian Congress across the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.校友法比奥·巴伦西亚·科西奥在二十世纪末至二十一世纪初多次出任高级部长，并两度执掌哥伦比亚国会两院。

• In letters the university is claimed by the writers Tomas Carrasquilla, Fernando Gonzalez and Gonzalo Arango, figures central to Antioquian literature and to the Nadaista avant-garde movement.在文学领域，托马斯·卡拉斯基利亚、费尔南多·冈萨雷斯与冈萨洛·阿兰戈三位作家均出自该校，是安蒂奥基亚文学与「虚无主义」（Nadaísmo）先锋运动的核心人物。

• Its scholarly record is carried by the faculty of its Health Area, whose clinicians teach beside the St Vincent de Paul University Hospital and lead the 36 research groups hosted at the SIU.该校学术成就由其卫生区教师承担，这些临床医师在圣樊尚德保罗大学医院旁执教，并主持 SIU 的 36 个课题组。

• Alumni leadership extends beyond politics into the regional economy, since the graduates of the university and of the Tecnológico de Antioquia together supply most of the trained workforce in the department of Antioquia.该校校友的影响力延伸到地方经济，安蒂奥基亚大学与安蒂奥基亚理工大学的毕业生共同构成该省大部分受过专业训练的劳动力。

• Its institutional biography is inseparable from the council of Medellín that bought the first building site on 20 June 1803, a civic act by local officials recorded as the physical start of the university.该校的机构史与麦德林市政会密不可分，正是后者于 1803 年 6 月 20 日购得首处校舍用地，这一地方官府的举动被记作大学的实体开端。