University of Chile

The University of Chile (Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile, founded by law on 19 November 1842 and inaugurated on 17 September 1843 as the continuation of the colonial Royal University of San Felipe of 1738.智利大学（Universidad de Chile）是位于智利首都圣地亚哥的公立研究型大学，1842 年 11 月 19 日依法创立、1843 年 9 月 17 日正式开学，其前身可追溯至 1738 年殖民地时期的圣费利佩皇家大学。

It is the oldest university in the country, taught 47,307 students as of 2024 in sixteen faculties and three interdisciplinary institutes, counts two Nobel laureates in literature and twenty-one Chilean presidents among its alumni, and is placed joint 185th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校是全国最古老的大学，2024 年在校学生达 47307 人，设 16 个学院与三个跨学科研究所，校友中有两位诺贝尔文学奖得主与 21 位智利总统，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 185。

History

• Its earliest predecessor was the University of Santo Tomás de Aquino, founded on 19 August 1622 in colonial Chile.学校最早的源头是 1622 年 8 月 19 日创立于殖民地时期的圣托马斯·阿奎那大学。

• On 28 July 1738 it was renamed the Royal University of San Felipe in honour of King Philip V of Spain.1738 年 7 月 28 日，为纪念西班牙国王腓力五世，学校改名圣费利佩皇家大学。

• In 1841 Manuel Montt, the minister of public education, conceived a corporation for the advancement and development of the sciences and humanities, and the Venezuelan poet and humanist Andrés Bello formulated the project.1841 年，教育部长 Manuel Montt 提出设立一个致力于科学与人文进步发展的机构，委内瑞拉诗人、人文学者安德烈斯·贝略拟定了具体方案。

• The project became law on 19 November 1842, creating the University of Chile, and Bello served as its first rector from 1843 to 1865.该方案于 1842 年 11 月 19 日成为法律，智利大学由此创立，贝略于 1843 至 1865 年出任首任校长。

• The university formally opened on 17 September 1843 with five faculties: humanities and philosophy, physical and mathematical sciences, law and political sciences, medicine, and theology.大学于 1843 年 9 月 17 日正式开学，设人文与哲学、物理与数学、法律与政治学、医学与神学五个学院。

• In its first decades it supported national institution building, contributing to the Civil Code, a model for the Americas, to the road network joining the territory and to energy and production infrastructure.建校头数十年，学校助力国家制度建设，参与制定堪称美洲范本的《民法典》，并服务于贯通全境的公路网与能源生产基础设施。

• Eloísa Díaz Insunza graduated as a doctor in 1887, the first woman to attend university not only in Chile but in all of South America.1887 年 Eloísa Díaz Insunza 以医生身份毕业，她不仅是智利、也是整个南美第一位进入大学学习的女性。

• Other firsts followed: Matilde Throup became the country's first woman lawyer in 1892, Griselda Hinojosa its first woman pharmaceutical chemist in 1899, Justicia Espada its first woman engineer in 1919 and Victoria Tagle its first woman agronomist in 1922.此后捷报频传：Matilde Throup 于 1892 年成为全国第一位女律师，Griselda Hinojosa 于 1899 年成为第一位女药学化学家，Justicia Espada 于 1919 年成为第一位女工程师，Victoria Tagle 于 1922 年成为第一位女农学家。

• The University of Chile Student Federation (FECH), the first and oldest student organisation in the country, was founded in 1906.1906 年，全国第一个、也是最古老的学生组织智利大学学生会（FECH）成立。

• In 1922 Amanda Labarca, then thirty-six years old, was appointed extraordinary professor at the Faculty of Humanities, becoming the first woman to hold such a post in the country.1922 年，36 岁的 Amanda Labarca 获聘人文学院特聘教授，成为全国首位获聘教授职务的女性。

• Gabriela Mistral, who had not formally studied at the university, was awarded the title of Spanish Teacher in 1923 and a Doctor Honoris Causa in 1954, while Pablo Neruda entered the Pedagogical Institute in 1921.未曾正式就读的加夫列拉·米斯特拉尔于 1923 年获授西班牙语教师称号、1954 年获荣誉博士学位，巴勃罗·聂鲁达则于 1921 年进入师范学院（Pedagogical Institute）学习。

• By 1931 the faculties had grown to six: philosophy and education sciences, legal and social sciences, biology and medical sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, agronomy and veterinary medicine, and fine arts.到 1931 年，学院增至六个：哲学与教育科学、法律与社会科学、生物与医学、物理与数学科学、农学与兽医以及美术。

• In 1966 the university's Clinical Hospital performed the country's first renal transplantation, and the first weather satellite image of Chile was obtained there in the same year.1966 年，学校临床医院完成全国首例肾移植手术，同年全国首张气象卫星云图也在学校获得。

• During the military regime, decree number 50 of 2 October 1973 put the appointment of rectors into the hands of the regime.军政府时期，1973 年 10 月 2 日的第 50 号法令将校长任命权收归军政权。

• A further decree of 3 January 1981 completely restructured the university, separating all its provincial campuses and merging them with campuses of the State Technical University into new universities such as Talca, Valparaíso, Antofagasta, Tarapacá, La Frontera, La Serena and the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences, while some faculties were privatised.1981 年 1 月 3 日的另一项法令对学校进行彻底重组，全部地方校区被分离，并与国立技术大学的地方校区合并为塔尔卡、瓦尔帕莱索、安托法加斯塔、塔拉帕卡、拉弗兰特拉、拉塞雷纳及教育科学都市大学等新学府，部分学院则被私有化出售。

• In 1985 the Department of Computer Science sent the first email in Chile, addressed to the computer engineering department of the University of Santiago.1985 年，学校计算机科学系向圣地亚哥大学计算机工程系发出了智利第一封电子邮件。

• The university registered Chile's first internet domain in 1987, www.uchile.cl.1987 年学校注册了智利第一个互联网域名 www.uchile.cl。

• It became the first university in the country to have a senate, which has worked since 2006.学校是全国第一所设立大学评议会的大学，该评议会自 2006 年起运作。

• Rosa Devés Alessandri, a biochemist of the Faculty of Medicine, took office in 2022 as the first woman rector in the university's history.2022 年，医学院生物化学家 Rosa Devés Alessandri 就任校长，成为校史上首位女校长。

• In 2025 the university was reaccredited for the maximum period of seven years, 2025 to 2032, and in June 2026 the economist Alejandra Mizala Salces, formerly vice rector, became the second woman to hold the rectorship.2025 年学校再度获得最长七年期（2025 至 2032 年）认证，2026 年 6 月经济学家 Alejandra Mizala Salces 接任校长，成为校史上第二位女性校长。

Academics

• The university is organised into sixteen faculties and three interdisciplinary institutes distributed over five campuses in Santiago and experimental stations elsewhere in Chile.学校设 16 个学院与三个跨学科研究所，分布于圣地亚哥的五个校区及智利各地的实验站点。

• The faculties are architecture and urbanism, arts, agricultural sciences, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences, communications and image, dentistry, economy and business, forestry sciences, government, law, medicine, philosophy and humanities, physical and mathematical sciences, sciences, social sciences, and veterinary and animal sciences.这些学院包括建筑与城市主义、艺术、农业科学、化学与药物科学、传播与图像、牙科学、经济与商业、林业科学、政府学、法学、医学、哲学与人文、物理与数学科学、理学、社会科学以及兽医与动物科学。

• The interdisciplinary institutes cover advanced studies in education, international studies, and the Nutrition and Food Technology Institute.三个跨学科研究所分别为教育高级研究所、国际研究所与营养与食品技术研究所（INTA）。

• The university offers sixty-nine study programs, fifty-five of them leading to professional degrees and fourteen to terminal degrees.学校开设 69 个学习项目，其中 55 个通向专业学位，14 个为终极学位项目。

• Its postgraduate system, the largest in the country, comprises thirty-six doctoral programs, one hundred and sixteen master's programs, thirty-eight graduate programs and sixty-nine specialised courses.学校的研究生体系为全国最大，含 36 个博士项目、116 个硕士项目、38 个研究生项目与 69 个专门化课程。

• It enrolled 47,307 students in 2024, and a 2025 university factsheet records 37,084 undergraduate and 10,304 graduate students.2024 年学校注册学生为 47307 人，2025 年校方概况显示本科生 37084 人、研究生 10304 人。

• The rector is elected by the academics for a four-year term, and the University Senate, the first in Chile, has thirty-six members, namely twenty-seven academics, seven students and two staff representatives.校长由学术人员选举产生，任期四年；全国第一所设立的大学评议会有 36 名成员，其中学术人员 27 名、学生 7 名、职工代表 2 名。

• Admission runs through the national selection test, supplemented since 2012 by the priority equity admission system, which reserves places for students of the public school system.招生通过全国选拔考试进行，2012 年起增设优先公平入学制度，为公立学校学生保留名额。

• The Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences launched a gender equity program in 2014 with special vacancies for the first forty women on its waiting lists.物理与数学科学学院于 2014 年推出性别平等项目，为候补名单上前四十位女性申请人保留名额。

• The university is accredited by the National Accreditation Commission in all areas for the maximum period of seven years, covering 2025 to 2032, a status it shares only with the Catholic University of Chile.学校获国家认证委员会全部领域的最高七年期认证（2025 至 2032 年），全国仅与智利天主教大学共享这一等级。

• The university is the country's main institution for scientific and technological research, responsible for a third of its scientific publications and thirty-seven per cent of its ISI-standard journals.学校是全国科技研究的主力军，承担全国约三分之一的科学论文产出，并占全国 ISI 标准期刊的 37%。

• Between 2010 and 2016 its researchers published 12,037 papers in international ISI journals, and in 2016 alone they ran 105 projects financed by the national fund FONDECYT.2010 至 2016 年间学校学者在国际 ISI 期刊发表论文 12037 篇，仅 2016 年就主持了 105 项由国家科技发展基金 FONDECYT 资助的项目。

• It has been awarded four Millennium Institutes in fields such as ecology and biodiversity, cell dynamics and biotechnology, seven centres of the national priority areas fund FONDAP, and thirty ongoing FONDEF applied research projects.学校先后获得四个千年研究所（涵盖生态与生物多样性、细胞动力学与生物技术等领域）、七个国家优先领域基金 FONDAP 中心，并承担 30 个进行中的 FONDEF 应用研究项目。

• Research platforms include the Center for Mathematical Modeling, the National Laboratory for High Performance Computing, the Materials Research Institute IDIEM, the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology and the Institute of Public Affairs.研究平台包括数学建模中心、国家高性能计算实验室、材料研究所 IDIEM、营养与食品技术研究所以及公共事务研究所。

• The university also runs national services such as the National Astronomical Observatory, functioning since 1852, and the official seismological and volcanic surveillance service, operating since 1908.学校还运营多项全国性服务机构，包括 1852 年开始运作的国家天文台，以及 1908 年起运行的官方地震与火山监测服务。

• Two hundred and fifteen national prizes have been awarded to its alumni, professors and researchers as of 2025.截至 2025 年，已有 215 项国家奖授予学校的校友、教授与研究人员。

• The university belongs to the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the International Forum of Public Universities, the CDIO initiative and the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.学校是环太平洋大学联盟、国际公立大学论坛、CDIO 倡议与 McDonnell 国际学者学院的成员。

Campus

• The university's five campuses cover more than 3.1 square kilometres of research buildings, health care centres, museums, theatres, observatories and sports infrastructure in the Santiago metropolitan area.学校五个校区在圣地亚哥都市区占地超过 3.1 平方公里，容纳科研楼宇、医疗中心、博物馆、剧院、天文台与体育设施。

• The Main House, the emblematic seat of the university, opened in 1872 with a neoclassical frontage along the Alameda Bernardo O'Higgins in downtown Santiago, designed by Lucien Ambroise Hénault and built under Fermín Vivaceta.学校的象征性建筑主楼于 1872 年启用，正面为新古典风格，耸立在圣地亚哥市中心的 Bernardo O'Higgins 大街，由 Lucien Ambroise Hénault 设计、Fermín Vivaceta 主持建造。

• The Andrés Bello Campus in downtown Santiago and Providencia hosts the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, the Institute of Public Affairs, the Faculty of Economics and Business and the house of the students federation.位于市中心与 Providencia 区的 Andrés Bello 校区设有法学院、建筑与城市主义学院、公共事务研究所、经济与商业学院以及学生会会所。

• The North Campus, also called the Dr. Eloísa Díaz Campus, lies in the Independence district and groups the faculties of chemical sciences and pharmacy, medicine and dentistry together with the University of Chile Clinical Hospital, the largest in the country.北校区（又称 Eloísa Díaz 博士校区）位于独立区，集中了化学与药物科学、医学与牙科学院以及全国最大的智利大学临床医院，是全国健康学科与生物医学研究的重镇。

• The Juan Gómez Millas Campus in Ñuñoa houses the faculties of arts, sciences, social sciences, philosophy and humanities and communications and image, and is being modernised under the Bicentennial Initiative.位于 Ñuñoa 区的 Juan Gómez Millas 校区设有艺术、理学、社会科学、哲学与人文以及传播与图像学院，目前正按两百周年计划推进现代化改建。

• The Beauchef Campus has housed the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences since 1922, and its Beauchef Poniente building, inaugurated in 2014, offers 50,000 square metres over seven floors above ground and six below.Beauchef 校区自 1922 年起为物理与数学科学学院所在地，2014 年启用的 Beauchef Poniente 大楼拥有 50000 平方米面积，地上七层、地下六层。

• The South Campus, established in 1999, spreads over more than three million square metres in La Pintana and groups the faculties of veterinary and animal sciences, agricultural sciences and forestry sciences, while the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology sits in Macul.南校区于 1999 年设立，在 La Pintana 区占地超过三百万平方米，集中了兽医与动物科学、农业科学与林业科学学院，营养与食品技术研究所则设在 Macul 区。

• Forty-eight libraries hold a catalog of more than three million books, journals and theses across 27,536 square metres with 5,278 reading places, and the digital library gives access to over fifty million documents.48 座图书馆的目录收录超过三百万种图书、期刊与论文，分布在 27536 平方米的馆舍中，设有 5278 个阅览座位，数字图书馆更提供逾五千万份文献的访问。

• Cultural venues on the campuses include the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of American Popular Art founded in 1947, the University of Chile Theater and the Antonio Varas Theater.校园内的文化场所包括当代艺术博物馆、1947 年创立的美国民间艺术博物馆、智利大学剧院与 Antonio Varas 剧院。

Reputation

• The University of Chile is placed joint 185th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 801-1000 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 501-600 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.智利大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 185，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 801 至 1000 区间，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 501 至 600 区间。

• The 2025 QS edition placed it 139th worldwide, and the QS Latin America ranking of 2023 put it third in the region.2025 年 QS 榜单将其列为世界第 139，2023 年 QS 拉美排名则将其列为地区第三。

• The SCImago Institutions Rankings of 2017 placed it first in Chile, tenth in Latin America and 424th worldwide, and Webometrics ranks it first in the country and sixth in Latin America.2017 年 SCImago 机构排名将学校列为智利第一、拉美第十、世界第 424，Webometrics 排名则列全国第一、拉美第六。

• OpenAlex records 118,356 works by the university that have drawn 5,076,940 citations.OpenAlex 收录学校论文 118356 篇，被引 5076940 次。

• The university remains Chile's most prestigious institution in research, applicant preference and social impact, and the AméricaEconomía ranking of 2016 placed it first in the country.就科研、考生偏好与社会影响而言，学校仍是全国最有声望的学府，《美洲经济》2016 年排名亦将其列为全国第一。

• Two of its members have won the Nobel Prize in Literature: Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971.与学校相关的两位成员获得过诺贝尔文学奖：1945 年的加夫列拉·米斯特拉尔与 1971 年的巴勃罗·聂鲁达。

• Research on supernovae by the Department of Astronomy underpinned the work for which Brian P. Schmidt received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011.学校天文系关于超新星的研究，为 Brian P. Schmidt 2011 年获得诺贝尔物理学奖的工作提供了基础。

• The university holds the country's highest institutional accreditation for the maximum period of seven years, 2025 to 2032, granted by the National Accreditation Commission.学校持有国家认证委员会授予的全国最高机构认证，期限为最长七年（2025 至 2032 年）。

• Alejandro Maass, principal investigator at the Center for Mathematical Modeling, received Chile's 2025 National Prize for Exact Sciences.数学建模中心首席研究员 Alejandro Maass 获 2025 年智利国家精确科学奖。

Student life

• The university's motto is Donde todas las verdades se tocan, Spanish for Where all truths touch.学校的校训为「Donde todas las verdades se tocan」，意为「所有真理交汇之处」。

• Its mascot is the Chuncho, an Austral pygmy owl native to Chile.学校的吉祥物是「Chuncho」，一种智利特有的侏儒猫头鹰。

• The University of Chile Student Federation, founded in 1906, is the oldest student organisation in the country and keeps its house on the Andrés Bello Campus.1906 年创立的智利大学学生会（FECH）是全国最古老的学生组织，其会所设在 Andrés Bello 校区。

• Through the Extension Center for Arts and Culture Domingo Santa Cruz the university maintains the National Chilean Ballet, the Chile Symphony Orchestra and Choir, the Vocal Camerata, the Antumapu Folkloric Ballet and the Chilean National Theater.学校通过 Domingo Santa Cruz 艺术与文化推广中心维系着智利国家芭蕾舞团、智利交响乐团与合唱团、Vocal Camerata 室内合唱团、Antumapu 民族芭蕾舞团与智利国家剧院。

• Students of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences built the Eolian in 2007, the first Chilean solar car.2007 年，物理与数学科学学院的学生造出了智利第一辆太阳能汽车 Eolian。

• Pablo Neruda donated his collection of shells, the caracolas, together with a library of about 3,500 works, to the Central Archive Andrés Bello.巴勃罗·聂鲁达将其贝壳收藏连同约 3500 册藏书一并捐赠给学校的 Andrés Bello 中央档案馆。

• The Center for Mathematical Modeling takes part in the Congreso Futuro, the country's leading science outreach event organised with the Chilean Academy of Sciences, whose 2026 edition drew about 65,000 registered participants nationwide.数学建模中心每年参加与智利科学院合办的全国最重要科学普及活动「未来大会」，2026 年第十五届吸引了约 65000 名全国注册参与者。

Notable people

• Andrés Bello, the Venezuelan poet, humanist and jurist who founded the university, served as its first rector from 1843 to 1865.委内瑞拉诗人、人文学者与法学家安德烈斯·贝略是学校的创立者，1843 至 1865 年任首任校长。

• Ignacio Domeyko, the Polish scientist and mineralogist, was rector from 1867 to 1883 and taught geology at the university.波兰科学家、矿物学家 Ignacio Domeyko 于 1867 至 1883 年任校长，并在学校教授地质学。

• Gabriela Mistral, the 1945 Nobel laureate in literature, was granted the title of Spanish Teacher in 1923 and a Doctor Honoris Causa in 1954, and after her death in 1957 her remains lay in state for three days in the Hall of Honor of the Main House.1945 年诺贝尔文学奖得主加夫列拉·米斯特拉尔于 1923 年获授西班牙语教师称号、1954 年获荣誉博士学位，1957 年去世后其灵柩在主楼荣誉厅停灵三日。

• Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel laureate in literature, entered the Pedagogical Institute in 1921, was made an academic member by the Faculty of Education in 1962 and donated his library and shell collection to the university.1971 年诺贝尔文学奖得主巴勃罗·聂鲁达 1921 年进入师范学院学习，1962 年获教育学院授予的学术成员身份，并将藏书与贝壳收藏捐给学校。

• Salvador Allende, Ricardo Lagos, Michelle Bachelet and the incumbent Gabriel Boric are among the twenty-one Chilean presidents who studied at the university.萨尔瓦多·阿连德、里卡多·拉戈斯、米歇尔·巴切莱特与现任总统加夫列尔·博里奇等 21 位智利总统均曾就读于学校。

• Pedro Aguirre Cerda and Arturo Alessandri are further presidents of Chile among its alumni.智利前总统佩德罗·阿吉雷·塞尔达与阿图罗·亚历山德里亦是学校校友。

• Two presidents of other countries also graduated here: José López Portillo of Mexico and Camilo Ponce Enríquez of Ecuador.另有两位外国总统毕业于学校：墨西哥总统 José López Portillo 与厄瓜多尔总统 Camilo Ponce Enríquez。

• The Argentine educator Domingo Faustino Sarmiento taught education and humanities at the university in the nineteenth century.阿根廷教育家 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 19 世纪曾在学校教授教育与人文课程。

• Other notable professors include the sociologist Alain Touraine, the economic historian Andre Gunder Frank, the microbiologist Albert Schatz and the seismologist Cinna Lomnitz.其他知名教授还包括社会学家 Alain Touraine、经济史学家 Andre Gunder Frank、微生物学家 Albert Schatz 与地震学家 Cinna Lomnitz。

• Eloísa Díaz Insunza, who graduated as a doctor in 1887, was the first woman in Chile and South America to earn a university degree.1887 年毕业的 Eloísa Díaz Insunza 是智利及南美第一位获得大学学位的女性。

• Alejandro Maass of the Center for Mathematical Modeling received the 2025 National Prize for Exact Sciences, the country's highest recognition in the field.数学建模中心的 Alejandro Maass 获 2025 年智利国家精确科学奖，这是该国在该领域的最高荣誉。

• Alejandro Jodorowsky, the filmmaker, studied at the university but left before graduating.电影人 Alejandro Jodorowsky 曾就读于学校，后中途退学。