University of Bergen

The University of Bergen (Norwegian: Universitetet i Bergen, abbreviated UiB) is a public research university in Bergen, the second-largest city in Norway and its historic cultural centre.卑尔根大学（挪威语 Universitetet i Bergen，缩写 UiB）是一所公立研究型大学，位于挪威第二大城市、历史悠久的文教中心卑尔根。

Established by an act of parliament in 1946, it is Norway's second-oldest university and one of the four institutions authorised by law to award degrees in medicine and law.学校由议会立法于 1946 年创办，是挪威第二古老的大学，也是法律授权可授予医学与法学学位的四所院校之一。

As of 2021 it employed more than 4,000 staff and enrolled 19,000 students, and it places joint 283rd in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and joint 273rd in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.截至 2021 年，学校有教职员工 4000 余人、在读学生 19000 人；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 283，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 273。

History

• Academic activity in Bergen stretches back to the founding of Bergen Cathedral School in 1153, followed by the Seminarium Fredericianum in 1750 and the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy in 1817.卑尔根的学术活动可追溯至 1153 年创办的卑尔根主教座堂学校，其后是 1750 年的弗雷德里克神学院与 1817 年的挪威皇家海军学院。

• Bergen Museum was established in 1825 by Wilhelm Frimann Christie and Jacob Neumann, and it became the venue for the natural-science research and teaching that later underpinned the university.卑尔根博物馆由威廉·弗里曼·克里斯蒂与雅各布·诺伊曼于 1825 年创办，日后成为支撑大学的自然科学科研与教学场所。

• Researchers active at the museum included the biologist Michael Sars, the zoologist Daniel Cornelius Danielssen and the explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.在博物馆从事研究的学者包括生物学家米凯尔·萨斯、动物学家丹尼尔·科尔内利乌斯·丹尼尔森，以及 1922 年获诺贝尔和平奖的探险家弗里乔夫·南森。

• By the early twentieth century Bergen had several arenas of higher education, among them the Geophysical Institute established in 1917, the Chr. Michelsen Institute in 1930 and the Norwegian School of Economics in 1936.到二十世纪初，卑尔根已拥有若干高等教育机构，包括 1917 年成立的地球物理研究所、1930 年的克里斯·米切尔森研究所与 1936 年的挪威经济学院。

• The University of Bergen itself was established by an act of parliament in 1946 as Norway's second university, consolidating the city's earlier scientific institutions.卑尔根大学本身则由议会立法于 1946 年正式成立，成为挪威第二所大学，整合了该市此前的各科研机构。

• It opened with three faculties, Medicine, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Arts, the last of which later became the Faculty of Humanities.学校创办时设三个学院，即医学院、数学与自然科学院以及艺术学院，后者后来演变为人文学院。

• Enrolment expanded steeply after 1946, rising from about 1,000 students in 1960 to roughly 8,000 in 1975 and 17,800 by 1995.1946 年之后学生规模迅速扩大，从 1960 年的约 1000 人增至 1975 年的约 8000 人，到 1995 年达到 17800 人。

• A Faculty of Dentistry and a Faculty of Social Sciences were created in 1970, extending the university beyond its founding three faculties.1970 年增设牙医学院与社会科学学院，使学校超越了最初的三个学院。

• In 1980 the university added two more faculties, the Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Law, reaching much of its present structure.1980 年学校再增两个学院，即心理学院与法学院，接近当今的院系格局。

• Legal studies had been taught at Bergen since 1969 before the Faculty of Law became a separate faculty in 1980, joining the law faculties of the University of Oslo and the University of Tromsø.法学院于 1980 年独立成院之前，法学教学自 1969 年起便已在卑尔根开展，使其得以与奥斯陆大学、特罗姆瑟大学的法学院并列。

• The Faculty of Psychology, established in 1980, is the only one in the Nordic countries where the study of psychology is organised within its own faculty.1980 年成立的心理学院，是北欧各国中唯一将心理学研究单独设为学院的机构。

• The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design was established on 1 January 2017, bringing together the Grieg Academy and the Bergen Academy of Art and Design.美术、音乐与设计学院于 2017 年 1 月 1 日成立，合并了格里格音乐学院与卑尔根艺术设计学院。

• The Faculty of Humanities revised its structure and departmental names in August 2007, regrouping its language, history and philosophy units.人文学院于 2007 年 8 月调整结构与系名，重组了其语言、历史与哲学等单元。

• The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was reorganised on 1 January 2023 into seven departments, among them Earth Science, Informatics and the Geophysical Institute.数学与自然科学学院于 2023 年 1 月 1 日重组为七个系，其中包括地球科学系、信息学系与地球物理研究所。

• The Faculty of Medicine has been organised since January 2013 into departments that include Clinical Medicine, Clinical Dentistry and Global Public Health and Primary Care.医学院自 2013 年 1 月起按系组建，包括临床医学系、临床牙科学系以及全球公共卫生与初级保健系。

• Margareth Hagen took office as rector on 1 August 2021, elected to a four-year term after serving as interim rector.玛格丽特·哈根于 2021 年 8 月 1 日就任校长，此前担任临时校长，经选举获得四年任期。

• The University Museum of Bergen, descended from the 1825 Bergen Museum, holds the university's natural-history and cultural-history collections and enjoys a faculty-like status.卑尔根大学博物馆承袭 1825 年的卑尔根博物馆，收藏学校的自然史与文化史藏品，享有类同学院的独立地位。

• The University of Bergen Library likewise holds a faculty-like status within the university's organisation.卑尔根大学图书馆同样在学校架构内享有类同学院的独立地位。

• Bergen Cathedral School, founded in 1153, is the oldest school in Norway and the earliest institution in the academic lineage the university claims.1153 年创办的卑尔根主教座堂学校是挪威最古老的学校，也是该校所追溯的学术谱系中最早的机构。

• The university has signed bilateral agreements with more than 100 universities and research institutions, and holds priority partnerships with the University of Washington, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Makerere University.学校已与 100 多所大学与研究机构签署双边协议，并与华盛顿大学、纽芬兰纪念大学及马凯雷雷大学建立重点合作关系。

Academics

• The university is organised into seven faculties: Fine Art, Music and Design, Humanities, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Medicine, Psychology, and Social Sciences.学校下设七个学院，即美术、音乐与设计学院，人文学院，法学院，数学与自然科学学院，医学院，心理学院以及社会科学学院。

• Across those faculties sit more than 60 departments, centres and research institutes covering the full range of disciplines of a classical university.在这些学院之下设有 60 多个系、中心与研究所，涵盖古典大学应有的完整学科门类。

• Three strategic research areas steer its work, marine research, climate and energy transition, and global challenges.学校以三大战略研究领域为方向，即海洋研究、气候与能源转型，以及全球性挑战。

• The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is organised into seven departments, including Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth Science, Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics and Technology.数学与自然科学学院下设七个系，包括生物科学系、化学系、地球科学系、信息学系、数学系以及物理与技术系。

• Attached to that faculty are the Michael Sars Centre for marine molecular biology and the Geophysical Institute, along with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.隶属该学院的机构包括从事海洋分子生物学的米凯尔·萨斯中心、地球物理研究所以及卑尔根气候研究中心。

• Research centres of the science faculty include the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS), the Sea Lice Research Centre and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research.该理科学院的科研中心包括卑尔根伦理与优先排序中心（BCEPS）、海虱研究中心以及 K.G. 杰布森深海研究中心。

• Since January 2013 the Faculty of Medicine has comprised departments of Biomedicine, Clinical Medicine, Clinical Science, Clinical Dentistry, and Global Public Health and Primary Care.自 2013 年 1 月起，医学院由生物医学系、临床医学系、临床科学系、临床牙科学系以及全球公共卫生与初级保健系组成。

• The Faculty of Psychology includes departments of Psychosocial Science, Health Promotion and Development, Clinical Psychology, and Biological and Medical Psychology.心理学院下设心理社会科学系、健康促进与发展系、临床心理学系以及生物与医学心理学系。

• The Faculty of Humanities hosts two Norwegian Centres of Research Excellence, the Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE) and the Centre for Digital Narrative (CDN).人文学院设有两个挪威卓越研究中心，即早期智人行为研究中心（SapienCE）与数字叙事中心（CDN）。

• The Faculty of Law offers a five-year integrated master's degree in law and a three-year doctoral programme, and it enrols approximately 1,900 students.法学院提供五年制法学硕士一体化课程与三年制博士课程，在读学生约 1900 人。

• The Faculty of Social Sciences covers Comparative Politics, Economics, Geography, Social Anthropology, Sociology, and Information Science and Media Studies.社会科学学院涵盖比较政治学、经济学、地理学、社会人类学、社会学以及信息科学与媒体研究。

• The Grieg Academy and the Art Academy sit within the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, which is named after the Bergen-born composer Edvard Grieg, who lived from 1843 to 1907.格里格音乐学院与艺术学院隶属美术、音乐与设计学院，该院以卑尔根出生的作曲家爱德华·格里格命名，其生卒年为 1843 年至 1907 年。

• The Faculty of Humanities teaches foreign languages including Arabic, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and German, with single courses in Chinese.人文学院教授阿拉伯语、英语、法语、意大利语、日语、俄语、西班牙语与德语等外语，并开设汉语单科课程。

• The Centre for International Health and the Laboratory Animal Facility are units of the Faculty of Medicine.国际健康中心与实验动物设施是医学院的下属单位。

• The Faculty of Psychology runs the university's pedagogic education and houses SLATE, the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology.心理学院负责学校的教育学培养，并设有 SLATE，即学习与技术科学中心。

• The Norwegian Competence Center for Gambling and Gaming Research is one of the specialist units within the Faculty of Psychology.挪威博彩与游戏研究能力中心是心理学院内的专门研究单位之一。

• The university also hosts the Centre for Women and Gender Research and the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities within its Faculty of Humanities.学校还在人文学院内设有妇女与性别研究中心以及科学与人文研究中心。

• The Faculty of Social Sciences hosts the Centre for Development Studies, the Centre for Gender Studies and the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, which work on global development, gender research and the study of the Middle East and Islam.社会科学学院设有发展研究中心、性别研究中心与中东及伊斯兰研究中心，分别从事全球发展、性别研究以及中东与伊斯兰研究。

• Departments of the Faculty of Humanities include Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, and Linguistics, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, covering fields from Nordic literature and art history to digital culture and classics.人文学院的系包括考古学、历史、文化研究与宗教系，以及语言学、文学与美学研究系，涵盖从北欧文学、艺术史到数字文化与古典学等领域。

• The Norwegian Ocean Observation Laboratory and the Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture Innovations are among the specialist units of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.挪威海洋观测实验室与可持续水产养殖创新中心是数学与自然科学学院内的专门机构之一。

Campus

• Most of the university's teaching, research and administration is concentrated in the Nygård neighbourhood of central Bergen, an area known as Nygårdshøyden or simply Høyden, meaning the hill.学校的教学、科研与行政大多集中于卑尔根市中心的尼加德街区，这一带被称为尼加德高地（Nygårdshøyden），简称高地（Høyden）。

• The campus is distributed over several sites in and around Bergen rather than gathered on a single out-of-town estate.校园分布在卑尔根市区及周边的多处地块，而非集中于城外的一整片园区。

• The University Museum of Bergen, successor to the 1825 Bergen Museum, stands on the Nygårdshøyden campus and holds the university's natural-history collections.承袭 1825 年卑尔根博物馆的卑尔根大学博物馆坐落在尼加德高地校园内，收藏学校的自然史藏品。

• The University Library serves the faculties from central Bergen, and it holds a faculty-like status alongside the University Museum.大学图书馆在卑尔根市中心为各学院提供服务，与大学博物馆同样享有类同学院的独立地位。

• The university maintains an Arboretum and Botanical Garden at Milde, south of the city centre, for teaching and research in botany and ecology.学校在市中心以南的米尔德设有树木园与植物园，用于植物学与生态学的教学与研究。

• The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, formed in 2017 from the Grieg Academy and the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, occupies premises within the city rather than a greenfield campus.2017 年由格里格音乐学院与卑尔根艺术设计学院合并而成的美术、音乐与设计学院，其场所位于市区之内，而非城郊的新建园区。

• Student housing and welfare are provided largely by Sammen, the Bergen student organisation, across the city rather than in a walled residential campus.学生住宿与福利主要由卑尔根学生组织 Sammen 在全市范围内提供，而非集中于封闭式住宿园区。

• The Nygårdshøyden campus lies a short walk from the UNESCO-listed Bryggen wharf and the harbour, tying the university to Bergen's medieval core.尼加德高地校园距列入联合国教科文组织名录的布吕根码头与海港步行可达，使学校与卑尔根的中世纪城市核心区相连。

• The university museum and library buildings, together with the Faculty of Humanities, cluster on the Nygårdshøyden hill, the historic university quarter of central Bergen, which has been the academic heart of the city since the nineteenth century.大学博物馆与图书馆建筑，连同人文学院，聚集在卑尔根市中心历史悠久的大学区尼加德高地上，这一带自十九世纪以来便是该市的学术心脏。

• Teaching facilities also extend to the Årstadvollen site, which houses parts of the Faculty of Medicine, including its clinical departments and the university's health-related research.教学设施还延伸至奥尔斯塔沃伦（Årstadvollen）院区，医学院及其临床各系与学校的健康相关研究的一部分设于此处。

Reputation

• The University of Bergen places joint 283rd in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and joint 273rd in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.卑尔根大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 283，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 273。

• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranking it is placed 275th, while in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it appears in the 301-400 band.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，学校位列第 275；在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，则位于 301 至 400 区间。

• Within Norway the university is consistently ranked second, behind the older and larger University of Oslo.在挪威国内，学校长期位居第二，仅次于历史更久、规模更大的奥斯陆大学。

• Its strongest subject dimension is earth and marine science, in which it has been counted among the world's best 10 or best 50 universities.学校最强的学科维度是地球与海洋科学，在该领域曾跻身世界前十或前五十大学之列。

• According to OpenAlex, the university has produced 209,230 research works that have drawn 9,530,970 citations in total.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计产出 209,230 项研究成果，共获 9,530,970 次引用。

• Two Nobel laureates are associated with the university: the 2023 literature laureate Jon Fosse, an alumnus, and the 1922 peace laureate Fridtjof Nansen, a researcher at Bergen Museum.与学校相关的诺贝尔奖得主有两位，即 2023 年文学奖得主、校友约恩·福瑟，以及 1922 年和平奖得主、曾在卑尔根博物馆从事研究的弗里乔夫·南森。

• Its historical peak placings include 135th in the Times Higher Education ranking of 2010, 181st in the QS table of 2015-2016, 148th in the 2010 Webometrics ranking and 219th in the 2014-2015 URAP table.学校的历史最佳名次包括 2010 年泰晤士高等教育排名第 135、2015 至 2016 年 QS 榜单第 181、2010 年世界大学网络排名第 148，以及 2014 至 2015 年 URAP 榜单第 219。

• It belongs to the Coimbra Group of historic European universities and to the U5 group of Norway's oldest and highest-ranked universities.学校是历史悠久的欧洲大学联盟科英布拉集团成员，也是挪威最古老、排名最高的大学组成的 U5 团体成员。

• Major ranking tables have repeatedly placed it within the world's top 200 or top one per cent of universities.多份主要排名榜单屡次将其列入世界前 200 或前百分之一之列。

• It is one of Norway's four 'established universities', a status that carries the exclusive legal right, shared with Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø, to award degrees in medicine and law.学校是挪威四所「既定大学」之一，与奥斯陆、特隆赫姆、特罗姆瑟的同侪共享授予医学与法学学位的专属法定权利。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto, and it expresses its identity instead through the three strategic areas of marine research, climate and energy transition, and global challenges.学校没有正式的拉丁文校训，其身份认同改由海洋研究、气候与能源转型、全球性挑战这三大战略领域来表达。

• Students from Norway, the EU and the EEA pay no tuition fees, while students from outside the EEA are charged tuition.来自挪威、欧盟与欧洲经济区的学生免缴学费，欧洲经济区以外的学生则须缴纳学费。

• As of August 2026 the semester fee payable to Sammen Bergen is 600 kroner, about 64 US dollars, with an optional 50-kroner donation to the student charity SAIH.截至 2026 年 8 月，缴给卑尔根学生组织 Sammen 的学期费为 600 挪威克朗，约合 64 美元，另可自愿向学生慈善机构 SAIH 捐款 50 克朗。

• Sammen Bergen is the student welfare organisation that provides housing, sports facilities, health services and childcare for the university's students.卑尔根学生组织 Sammen 是为该校学生提供住宿、体育设施、医疗与托儿服务的学生福利机构。

• First-year students take the Examen philosophicum, an introductory course in philosophy and scientific method that has been part of Norwegian university study at Bergen since its founding in 1946.新生须修读「哲学考试」（Examen philosophicum），这门哲学与科学方法的入门课程自 1946 年建校以来一直是卑尔根大学生活的一部分。

• Through the University of the Arctic and its north2north programme, students can take exchange places at member institutions across the circumpolar North.借助北极大学（University of the Arctic）的「north2north」交换项目，学生可在环北极地区的成员院校取得交换名额。

• Exchange options run across Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania under bilateral agreements with more than 100 partner institutions.在面向 100 多所伙伴机构的双边协议下，交换机会遍及欧洲、北美、拉美、非洲、亚洲与大洋洲。

• The university's libraries, headed by the University of Bergen Library, provide study places, collections and digital resources across the city for undergraduates, graduate students and researchers.学校以卑尔根大学图书馆为首的各级图书馆，在全市范围内为本科生、研究生与研究人员提供学习座位、馆藏与数字资源。

• Through its membership of the Coimbra Group and its bilateral agreements, the university hosts visiting students and scholars from partner universities in Europe and beyond.借由科英布拉集团成员身份与各项双边协议，学校接待来自欧洲及其他地区伙伴大学的交换生与访问学者。

Notable people

• Jon Fosse, a Norwegian author and dramatist who studied at the university, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023.约恩·福瑟是曾在该校就读的挪威作家与剧作家，2023 年获诺贝尔文学奖。

• Fridtjof Nansen, a researcher at Bergen Museum and later an Arctic explorer, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.弗里乔夫·南森曾是卑尔根博物馆的研究者，后成为北极探险家，1922 年获诺贝尔和平奖。

• Erna Solberg, an alumna, served as Prime Minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021.校友埃尔娜·索尔伯格于 2013 年至 2021 年担任挪威首相。

• Monica Mæland, an alumna, has served as Norway's Minister of Trade and Industry and earlier as Mayor of Bergen.校友莫妮卡·梅兰曾任挪威贸易与工业大臣，更早前担任卑尔根市长。

• Karl Ove Knausgård, an alumnus, is the author of the six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle (Min Kamp).校友卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高是六卷本自传体小说《我的奋斗》（Min Kamp）的作者。

• Michael Sars, a nineteenth-century biologist at Bergen Museum, was a founding figure of Norwegian marine zoology.米凯尔·萨斯是十九世纪在卑尔根博物馆工作的生物学家，为挪威海洋动物学的奠基人之一。

• Wilhelm Frimann Christie and Jacob Neumann founded Bergen Museum in 1825, the institution from which the university descends.威廉·弗里曼·克里斯蒂与雅各布·诺伊曼于 1825 年创办卑尔根博物馆，学校即由此机构发展而来。

• Stein Rokkan, a professor of comparative politics at the university, shaped the study of European party systems and political cleavage.该校比较政治学教授斯坦·罗坎深刻影响了欧洲政党体系与政治分野的研究。

• Fredrik Barth, a professor of social anthropology at Bergen, developed the transactional theory of ethnic boundaries.该校社会人类学教授弗雷德里克·巴斯提出了族群边界的交易理论。

• Tong Shijun, an alumnus, is a philosopher and a professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai.校友童世骏是哲学家，也是上海华东师范大学的教授。