University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury (Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha) is a public research university in Christchurch, New Zealand, founded on 16 June 1873 as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand and the second-oldest university in the country.坎特伯雷大学（毛利语：Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha）是新西兰基督城的一所公立研究型大学，1873 年 6 月 16 日以坎特伯雷学院之名创立，是新西兰大学的首个成员学院，也是该国第二古老的大学。

It moved out of its original neo-Gothic buildings in the city centre, which became the Christchurch Arts Centre, to a 76-hectare campus in the suburb of Ilam, completing the relocation on 1 May 1975.学校从市中心原先的新哥特式建筑群（今基督城艺术中心）迁往伊拉姆郊区一片 76 公顷的校园，并于 1975 年 5 月 1 日完成搬迁。

At 31 December 2024 the university enrolled 26,433 students, including 2,587 Māori students, with 2,484 staff members, and it is placed 257th in the QS World University Rankings 2027.截至 2024 年 12 月 31 日，该校在读学生 26433 人，其中毛利学生 2587 人，员工 2484 人；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 257 名。

History

• The university was founded on 16 June 1873 in the centre of Christchurch as Canterbury College, funded by the Canterbury Provincial Council.1873 年 6 月 16 日，学校在基督城市中心创立，名为坎特伯雷学院，经费来自坎特伯雷省议会。
• It became the second institution in New Zealand to provide tertiary education, after the University of Otago established in 1869, and the fourth in Australasia.它成为新西兰第二所提供高等教育的机构，仅次于 1869 年设立的奥塔哥大学，在澳大拉西亚地区居第四位。
• The college was founded on the basis of the Oxbridge college system but, unlike Oxford and Cambridge at the time, admitted women students from its foundation.该学院以牛津剑桥的学院制为蓝本建立，但与当时的牛津、剑桥不同，它自创办起就招收女生。
• Foundation professors arrived in 1874, namely Charles Cook in mathematics, Alexander Bickerton in chemistry and physics, and John Macmillan Brown.1874 年，创校教授到任，分别是数学教授查尔斯·库克、化学与物理教授亚历山大·比克顿，以及约翰·麦克米伦·布朗。
• The first lectures and the first graduations both took place in 1875, and Helen Connon became the first woman to graduate from the college in 1880.首次授课与首次毕业典礼均在 1875 年举行；1880 年，海伦·康农成为该学院首位女毕业生。
• Āpirana Ngata became the first Māori-born student to graduate with a degree in 1894 and is regarded as the foremost Māori politician of his generation.阿皮拉纳·恩加塔于 1894 年成为首位获得学位的毛利裔学生，被视为那一代最重要的毛利政治人物。
• The School of Art was founded in 1882, the faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce and Law followed in 1921, and mental, moral and social sciences were added in 1924.1882 年设立艺术学院；1921 年设立文学、理学、商学与法学四个学院；1924 年增设精神、道德与社会科学。
• The Students' Union, now the University of Canterbury Students' Association, was founded in 1929, and the first edition of the student magazine Canta appeared in 1930.学生会（今坎特伯雷大学学生会）成立于 1929 年，学生杂志《Canta》创刊于 1930 年。
• The name changed to Canterbury University College in 1933 and to the University of Canterbury in 1957.1933 年更名为坎特伯雷大学学院，1957 年更名为坎特伯雷大学。
• Until 1961 the university formed part of the University of New Zealand and awarded degrees in its name, becoming independent with its own degrees when that federal system was dissolved.1961 年之前，该校隶属新西兰大学并以其名义授予学位；联邦制解体后，学校独立并自行授予学位。
• On the dissolution of the federal system Canterbury Agricultural College became a constituent college of the university as Lincoln College, which became independent in 1990 and is now Lincoln University.联邦制解体时，坎特伯雷农学院以林肯学院之名成为该校的成员学院；林肯学院于 1990 年独立，即今天的林肯大学。
• Over the period from 1961 to 1974 the university moved from the city centre to its much larger site at Ilam, and the relocation was completed on 1 May 1975.1961 至 1974 年间，学校从市中心迁往面积大得多的伊拉姆校址，搬迁于 1975 年 5 月 1 日完成。
• At the centenary in 1973 the neo-Gothic buildings of the old campus were gifted to the City of Christchurch and became the Christchurch Arts Centre.1973 年百年校庆时，老校区的新哥特式建筑被赠予基督城市，成为基督城艺术中心。
• The James Hight Library opened in 1974 as the largest university building in New Zealand at the time, the three halls of residence were renamed University Hall, and the hall served as the athletes village for the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.1974 年启用的詹姆斯·海特图书馆是当时新西兰最大的大学建筑；三处学生宿舍同年改称大学堂，并用作 1974 年英联邦运动会的运动员村。
• College House, the oldest residential college in New Zealand, separated from Christ's College in 1957 and moved to Ilam in 1966 as a hall of residence of the university.新西兰历史最悠久的住宿学院书院馆于 1957 年从基督学院分离，1966 年迁至伊拉姆，成为该校的一处学生宿舍。
• In 2004 the university was restructured into four colleges and a school of law, and a full merger with the Christchurch College of Education on 1 January 2007 added a fifth college.2004 年，学校重组为四个学院与一个法学院；2007 年 1 月 1 日与基督城教育学院全面合并，增设第五个学院。
• An earthquake of moment magnitude 7.1 struck the South Island on 4 September 2010, followed on 22 February 2011 by a magnitude 6.3 shock that caused far greater damage in Christchurch.2010 年 9 月 4 日，南岛发生矩震级 7.1 级地震；2011 年 2 月 22 日又发生 6.3 级地震，给基督城造成远为严重的破坏。
• The library closed for months while shelves were repaired and half a million books were replaced, and the Student Volunteer Army of around 10,000 students worked for months to clear liquefaction.图书馆闭馆数月以修复书架并重新上架 50 万册图书；约一万名学生组成的学生志愿军连续数月清理液化泥沙。
• Following the earthquakes the university lost 25 per cent of its first-year students and 8 per cent of continuing students, enrolments of fee-paying international students fell by 30 per cent, and by 2013 it had lost 22 per cent of its students.震后，学校一年级新生减少 25%、在读学生减少 8%，缴纳高额学费的国际学生减少 30%；到 2013 年，学生总数已比震前减少 22%。
• The New Zealand Government agreed in 2013 to provide 260 million dollars for the university's rebuild programme, and in January 2017 the university released a master plan of 50 building and landscape projects to 2045 that could cost more than two billion dollars.2013 年，新西兰政府同意为学校重建计划提供 2.6 亿新西兰元；2017 年 1 月，学校发布总体规划，提出到 2045 年分三期实施 50 项建筑与景观工程，造价可能超过 20 亿新西兰元。

Academics

• As of 2026 the university is divided into seven faculties covering its main departments of teaching and research.截至 2026 年，学校分为七个学院，涵盖其主要教学与研究系科。
• It offers 147 undergraduate majors and 61 graduate degrees across fields including arts, commerce, education, fine arts, forestry, health sciences, law, criminal justice, music, social work, speech and language pathology, and sports coaching and teaching.学校提供 147 个本科主修方向与 61 个研究生学位，涵盖文学、商学、教育、美术、林业、健康科学、法学、刑事司法、音乐、社会工作、言语语言病理学与运动训练与教学等领域。
• In the 2020 academic year the university granted 2,257 bachelor's degrees, 1,003 graduate degrees and 384 honours degrees.2020 学年，学校授予学士学位 2257 个、研究生学位 1003 个、荣誉学位 384 个。
• Undergraduates normally take four courses per semester to finish a degree in three years, while honours usually requires an extra year and professional degrees such as law, engineering and forestry science take four years.本科生通常每学期修四门课以三年完成学位；荣誉学位一般需再加一年，而法学、工程与林业科学等专业学位学制四年。
• The UC Library was established at Canterbury College in 1879 and now comprises three libraries on the Ilam campus covering different subject areas.该校图书馆 1879 年建于坎特伯雷学院，如今在伊拉姆校园设有三所分馆，覆盖不同学科领域。
• The Central Library, Māori name Te Puna Mātauraka o Waitaha, holds over two million physical items and is the largest university library in New Zealand.中央图书馆（毛利语名 Te Puna Mātauraka o Waitaha）藏有 200 余万件实体资料，是新西兰最大的大学图书馆。
• The Central Library occupies the eleven-storey Puaka-James Hight Building, the tallest building on the campus, designed in the brutalist style and renamed in 2014 after the brightest star in the Matariki cluster.中央图书馆位于十一层的普阿卡—詹姆斯·海特楼，这是校园最高的建筑，采用粗野主义风格；2014 年，该楼以昴星团中最明亮的星普阿卡重新命名。
• The EPS Library supports engineering, forestry and the sciences, and the Macmillan Brown Library is a research library and art gallery holding over 100,000 published items and more than 5,000 works of art.工程与自然科学图书馆服务工程、林业与理学；麦克米伦·布朗图书馆则是研究型图书馆兼美术馆，藏有 10 万余种出版物与 5000 余件艺术品。
• The university has more field stations than any other New Zealand university, with the Field Facilities Centre administering Cass, established in 1914, together with Harihari, Westport and Kaikōura.该校的野外台站数量居新西兰各大学之首，野外设施中心管理着 1914 年建立的卡斯站，以及哈里哈里、西港与凯库拉三站。
• The university and its partners also operate a field station at the Ngel Nyaki forest edge in Nigeria under the Nigerian Montane Forests Project.学校与合作伙伴还在尼日利亚恩格尔尼亚基森林边缘设有野外站，隶属尼日利亚山地森林项目。
• The Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences runs the Mount John University Observatory at Lake Tekapo, radar facilities at Birdlings Flat and Scott Base, and the ring laser facility at Cracroft Caverns.物理与化学科学系运营蒂卡波湖畔的约翰山大学天文台、伯德灵斯弗拉特与斯科特基地的雷达设施，以及克拉克罗夫特洞穴的环形激光设施。
• The department is involved in the Southern African Large Telescope and is a member of the IceCube collaboration installing a neutrino telescope at the South Pole.该系参与南部非洲大望远镜项目，并是正在南极建设冰立方中微子望远镜的 IceCube 合作组成员。
• The Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities opened in May 2017 to display the James Logie Memorial Collection of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern artefacts, established in 1957 by the classics teacher Marion Steven.蒂斯古典文物博物馆于 2017 年 5 月开放，展出詹姆斯·洛吉纪念收藏中的希腊、罗马、埃及与近东文物；该收藏由古典学教师马里恩·史蒂文于 1957 年建立。
• Although enrolments fell after the earthquakes, a record 886 PhD students were enrolled at the university as of 2013.尽管震后注册人数下降，截至 2013 年该校仍有创纪录的 886 名博士生在读。
• At 31 December 2024 the university reported 26,433 students, equal to 18,319 equivalent full-time students and up 9 per cent on the previous year, with 2,484 staff.截至 2024 年 12 月 31 日，学校报告学生 26433 人，折合 18319 个全时当量学生，比上年增长 9%，员工 2484 人。
• OpenAlex attributes 52,173 works and 2,624,868 citations to the university.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 52173 篇、被引 2624868 次。

Campus

• The university has three campuses in Christchurch, the main Ilam campus of 76 hectares about five kilometres from the city centre, the 11-hectare Dovedale campus and a City Campus.该校在基督城有三个校区：距市中心约五公里、面积 76 公顷的伊拉姆主校区，11 公顷的多夫代尔校区，以及市中心校区。
• The Ilam campus hosts the faculties of education, health, science, engineering, business, law and arts, along with cafes, a pharmacy, a bookshop, the UC recreation centre and the UC health centre.伊拉姆校区设有教育、健康、理学、工程、商学、法学与文学等学院，并配有餐饮店、药房、书店、康乐中心与健康中心。
• The Dovedale campus, off Dovedale Avenue, joined the university with the Christchurch College of Education in 2007 and retains the Henry Field Library, the Christchurch College of English and the Hayashi and Sonoda residences.位于多夫代尔大道旁的多夫代尔校区随 2007 年基督城教育学院并入，保留亨利·菲尔德图书馆、基督城英语学院与林、早稻田两处学生公寓。
• The City Campus comprises the Christchurch Arts Centre, where music and classics are taught in the old chemistry building, and the Manawa building used by the Faculty of Health.市中心校区包括基督城艺术中心（音乐与古典学在老化学楼内授课）与健康学院使用的马纳瓦楼。
• The university also maintains small campuses in Nelson, Tauranga and Timaru, teaching centres in Greymouth, New Plymouth, Rotorua and Timaru, and regional offices in Nelson, Timaru and Auckland.学校还在纳尔逊、陶朗加与提马鲁设有小型校区，在格雷茅斯、新普利茅斯、罗托鲁瓦与提马鲁设有教学中心，并在纳尔逊、提马鲁与奥克兰设有地区办事处。
• The University of Canterbury Students' Association is based in Haere-roa, the student union building rebuilt and completed in 2019 after the original was damaged in the earthquakes and demolished.坎特伯雷大学学生会设于哈埃雷罗阿楼；原楼在地震中受损并被拆除，新楼于 2019 年建成。
• Haere-roa houses the student bar The Foundry and the Ngaio Marsh Theatre, named after the crime writer and former student of the same name.哈埃雷罗阿楼内设有学生酒吧铸炉与恩盖奥·马什剧院，后者以同名的犯罪小说家、该校校友命名。
• There are ten student residences, five catered halls for first-year undergraduates named Arcady, College House, Rochester and Rutherford, Tupuānuku and University Hall, and five self-catered houses.学校共有十处学生宿舍，其中五处面向一年级本科生的供餐制宿舍名为阿卡迪、书院馆、罗切斯特与拉瑟福德、图普阿努库与大学堂，另有五处自炊式住宿。
• Ilam Apartments, the largest residence, houses 831 students during the academic year, and a further hall named Tupuārangi with an ensuite in every room was planned for completion in 2026.规模最大的伊拉姆公寓在学年内容纳 831 名学生；另有一处每间带独立卫浴的图普阿朗伊宿舍原计划于 2026 年建成。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Canterbury is placed 257th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，坎特伯雷大学位列全球第 257 名。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 551-600 band.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位于 551 至 600 名区间。
• U.S. News and World Report ranked the university 543rd in the world in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list.在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列全球第 543 名。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places the university in the 501-600 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位于 501 至 600 名区间。
• In the 2026 QS rankings published in 2025 the university stood 261st in the world and fifth nationally, and in the Times Higher Education 2026 rankings it was placed 601-800 in the world and eighth nationally.在 2025 年发布的 2026 年 QS 排名中，该校位列全球第 261 名、全国第 5 名；在 2026 年泰晤士高等教育排名中位于全球 601 至 800 名区间、全国第 8 名。
• The 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities placed it 401-500 in the world, tied for second to fourth nationally, and the 2025-2026 U.S. News ranking placed it 542nd in the world and fourth nationally.2025 年软科排名将其列为全球 401 至 500 名区间、全国并列第二至第四；《美国新闻与世界报道》2025 至 2026 年度排名将其列为全球第 542 名、全国第 4 名。
• In the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2024 the university attained 927th place worldwide and fourth nationally, and the 2024 Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities placed it 360th in the world and fourth in New Zealand.在 2024 年 CWTS 莱顿排名中，该校位列全球第 927 名、全国第 4 名；2024 年世界大学综合排名将其列为全球第 360 名、新西兰第 4 名。
• Ernest Rutherford, who studied at Canterbury, received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances.曾就读于坎特伯雷的欧内斯特·卢瑟福因研究元素衰变与放射性物质化学而获 1908 年诺贝尔化学奖。
• Roy Kerr, also educated at Canterbury, discovered the Kerr solution, an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity.同样受教于坎特伯雷的罗伊·克尔发现了克尔解，这是广义相对论爱因斯坦场方程的一个精确解。
• OpenAlex credits the university with 52,173 works and 2,624,868 citations, and the university reported 26,433 students at the end of 2024.OpenAlex 记录该校论文 52173 篇、被引 2624868 次；学校报告 2024 年底在校学生 26433 人。

Student life

• Two main student organisations operate on the campus, the University of Canterbury Students' Association and Te Akatoki Māori Students' Association.校园内有两大学生组织，即坎特伯雷大学学生会与毛利学生协会 Te Akatoki。
• Students publish the magazine Canta, established in 1930, which appears in twelve issues a year distributed around the campus every second Monday of the academic year.学生出版 1930 年创刊的《Canta》杂志，每年 12 期，在学年内每隔一个周一在校园分发。
• The student radio station began broadcasting as RDU in 1976, moved to FM in 1986 and acquired its present frequency of 98.5 in 2003.学生电台于 1976 年以 RDU 之名开播，1986 年转为调频广播，2003 年启用现在的 98.5 频率。
• The university has over 140 academic, sporting, recreational and cultural clubs, among them the Engineering Society, the Law Society and the Commerce Society.学校有 140 多个学术、体育、休闲与文化社团，其中包括工程学会、法律学会与商学会。
• The Canterbury University Snow Sports Club is the only university club in New Zealand to own a ski field lodge, located at Temple Basin.坎特伯雷大学滑雪运动俱乐部是新西兰唯一拥有滑雪场小屋的大学社团，其小屋位于坦普尔盆地。
• The Student Volunteer Army was founded in 2011 by the student Sam Johnson after the earthquakes, has grown into the largest club on the campus and supported vulnerable residents with shopping during the 2020 pandemic lockdown.学生志愿军由学生萨姆·约翰逊于 2011 年震后创立，现已发展成校园最大的社团，并在 2020 年疫情封控期间为弱势居民代购生活物资。
• Lads without Labels, a charity for men's mental health, ran a 72-hour relay on the campus from 5 to 8 October 2021 that raised 12,000 dollars, and a 24-hour backyard cricket marathon that raised 45,000 dollars.关注男性心理健康的慈善社团「Lads without Labels」于 2021 年 10 月 5 日至 8 日在校园举办 72 小时接力，筹得 12000 新西兰元；其 24 小时后院板球马拉松筹得 45000 新西兰元。
• The Undie 500 was an annual car rally from Christchurch to Dunedin requiring a road-legal car costing under 500 dollars and a sober driver, and after rioting at the 2007 event the 2008 run was cancelled and the Roundie 500 replaced it in 2011.内衣 500 是一项从基督城到达尼丁的年度汽车拉力赛，要求使用价格低于 500 新西兰元的合法上路车辆并由清醒驾驶员驾驶；2007 年赛事爆发骚乱后，2008 年赛事取消，2011 年由环行 500 取代。
• The university's unofficial Latin motto, Ergo tua rura manebunt, means that the lands shall remain yours, and its coat of arms shows a fleece, a plough, a bishop's pall, a cross flory and an open book but no helmet, crest or mantling.该校非正式的拉丁文校训意为「因此这土地仍将归你所有」；校徽上有羊毛、犁、主教披肩、鸢尾十字与翻开的书本，但没有头盔、顶饰与垂幔。

Notable people

• Ernest Rutherford, described as the father of nuclear physics and depicted on the New Zealand one-hundred-dollar note, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and split the atom in 1917.被誉为核物理学之父、头像印在新西兰百元钞上的欧内斯特·卢瑟福获 1908 年诺贝尔化学奖，并于 1917 年实现分裂原子。
• Roy Kerr discovered the exact solution of the Einstein field equations now known as the Kerr solution, and Beatrice Tinsley proved through her research in the 1960s and 1970s that the universe would expand forever.罗伊·克尔发现了今称克尔解的爱因斯坦场方程精确解；比阿特丽斯·廷斯利通过 20 世纪六七十年代的研究证明宇宙将永远膨胀。
• Richard Barrer was a founding figure of zeolite science and gave his name to the zeolite barrerite and to the barrer, a unit of gas permeability.理查德·巴勒是沸石科学的奠基者之一，沸石矿物巴勒石与气体渗透率单位巴勒均以他命名。
• Bill Pickering, an aerospace engineer educated at Canterbury, headed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena for 22 years.在坎特伯雷接受教育的航空航天工程师比尔·皮克林曾主管帕萨迪纳的喷气推进实验室达 22 年。
• John Britten designed the Britten motorcycle, which won races and set numerous speed records on international circuits, and Ian Axford became one of the country's leading space scientists.约翰·布里滕设计的布里滕摩托车在国际赛道上夺冠并创造多项速度纪录；伊恩·阿克斯福德则成为该国顶尖的空间科学家之一。
• Four New Zealand prime ministers attended the university, Christopher Luxon, John Key, Bill Rowling and Jenny Shipley, the last of whom attended the Christchurch Teachers College now merged with it.四位新西兰总理曾就读该校，分别是克里斯托弗·拉克森、约翰·基、比尔·罗林与珍妮·希普利，其中希普利就读的基督城师范学院今已并入该校。
• International leaders educated at Canterbury include Feleti Sevele, prime minister of Tonga, Feleti Teo, prime minister of Tuvalu, and Anote Tong, president of Kiribati.在坎特伯雷接受教育的国家领导人包括汤加首相费莱蒂·塞韦莱、图瓦卢总理费莱蒂·特奥与基里巴斯总统阿诺特·汤。
• Āpirana Ngata, the first Māori to receive a degree, features on the New Zealand fifty-dollar note and is known for promoting and protecting Māori culture and language.首位获得学位的毛利人阿皮拉纳·恩加塔的头像印在新西兰五十元钞上，他以倡导和保护毛利文化与语言著称。
• Helen Connon was the first woman to graduate from the college in 1880, and Marion Steven, a classics teacher, founded the James Logie Memorial Collection in 1957.海伦·康农于 1880 年成为该学院首位女毕业生；古典学教师马里恩·史蒂文于 1957 年创建詹姆斯·洛吉纪念收藏。
• Among its alumni in the law are Supreme Court justices Andrew Tipping, New Zealand's longest-serving judge with 25 years on the bench, and William Young, and the former President of the Court of Appeal Ivor Richardson.法学界的校友包括新西兰任职时间最长、在任 25 年的最高法院法官安德鲁·蒂平、最高法院法官威廉·杨，以及前上诉法院院长艾弗·理查森。
• Dame Ngaio Marsh, the crime writer, directed Shakespeare productions for the university drama society between 1942 and 1969, and the campus theatre is named after her.犯罪小说家恩盖奥·马什女爵士于 1942 至 1969 年间为学校戏剧社执导莎士比亚剧目，校园剧院即以她命名。
• Professor David Teece and his wife Leigh Teece donated a substantial sum for earthquake recovery, and the classical antiquities museum opened in 2017 bears their name.戴维·蒂斯教授与夫人利·蒂斯为震后重建捐赠巨款，2017 年开放的古典文物博物馆即以两人命名。