University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, part of the University System of Ohio, and it occupies the 741-750 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.辛辛那提大学是一所位于美国俄亥俄州辛辛那提的公立研究型大学,隶属俄亥俄大学系统,在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 741-750 区间。
Founded in 1819 and chartered by the Ohio legislature in 1870, it is the second-largest university in Ohio, and it invented the co-operative education model in 1906.该校创办于 1819 年,1870 年获俄亥俄州议会颁发特许状,是俄亥俄州规模第二大的大学,并于 1906 年首创合作教育模式。
Its OpenAlex record lists 164,853 research works and 15,000,002 citations, it spent 739 million dollars on research and development in 2024, and it enrolled more than 53,000 students the same year.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 164,853 项、被引 15,000,002 次;2024 年其研发支出为 7.39 亿美元,同年注册学生超过 53,000 人。
History
- In 1819 Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio were founded in Cincinnati, the first attempt to establish higher education in the young city.1819 年,辛辛那提学院与俄亥俄医学院在该市创办,这是这座年轻城市建立高等教育的首次尝试。
- The local benefactor Daniel Drake founded and funded the Medical College of Ohio, while William Lytle of the Lytle family donated land and money for Cincinnati College and its law school and served as its first president.当地慈善家丹尼尔·德雷克创办并资助了俄亥俄医学院;莱特尔家族的威廉·莱特尔则为辛辛那提学院及其法学院捐地捐资,并出任首任校长。
- Cincinnati College survived only six years before financial difficulties forced it to close, and in 1835 Daniel Drake re-established the institution, which eventually joined with the Cincinnati Law School.辛辛那提学院仅维持六年便因经费困难关闭;1835 年丹尼尔·德雷克重建该校,其后它与辛辛那提法学院合并。
- In 1858 Charles McMicken died of pneumonia and left most of his estate to the City of Cincinnati for the purpose of founding a university.1858 年,查尔斯·麦克米肯因肺炎去世,把大部分遗产留给辛辛那提市,用于创办一所大学。
- The University of Cincinnati was chartered by the Ohio legislature in 1870, after delays caused by livestock and veal lobbyists angered by its liberal arts curriculum and its lack of agricultural and manufacturing emphasis.辛辛那提大学于 1870 年获俄亥俄州议会颁发特许状;此前因课程偏重人文学科、未突出农业与制造业,招致畜牧与肉牛业游说者的阻挠而延宕。
- By 1893 the university had outgrown its site on Clifton Avenue and moved to its present location in the Heights neighbourhood of the city.到 1893 年,该校已超出现有校址的容量,遂迁往现今位于该市高地社区的校址。
- The board of rectors merged the institution with the Cincinnati Law School, creating the University of Cincinnati College of Law and consolidating legal education in the city.校董会将该校与辛辛那提法学院合并,成立辛辛那提大学法学院,从而整合了本市的法律教育。
- In 1896 the Ohio Medical College joined the Miami Medical College to form the Ohio-Miami Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati, which took its place in the university in 1909.1896 年,俄亥俄医学院与迈阿密医学院合并为辛辛那提大学俄亥俄—迈阿密医学部,并于 1909 年正式并入该校。
- As movements for temperance and women's suffrage grew, the university established the Teachers College in 1905 and a graduate school in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1906.随着禁酒运动与妇女参政运动的发展,该校于 1905 年设立师范学院,1906 年又在文理学院内设立研究生院。
- The Queen City College of Pharmacy, acquired from Wilmington College in Ohio, became the present James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.该校从俄亥俄州威尔明顿学院接手的「女王城药学院」,成为如今的詹姆斯·温克尔药学院。
- In 1906 Herman Schneider, dean of the College of Engineering, invented co-operative education at Cincinnati, alternating classroom study with paid work in industry.1906 年,工程学院院长赫尔曼·施奈德在辛辛那提首创合作教育,使学生交替进行课堂学习与在企业的带薪工作。
- In 1962 the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music was acquired by the university, adding a leading conservatory to its academic range.1962 年,辛辛那提大学接收了辛辛那提学院—音乐学院,从而把一所顶尖音乐学院纳入其学科体系。
- In 1968 the Ohio legislature declared the university a municipally sponsored and state-affiliated institution, and it was at that time the second oldest and second largest municipal university in the United States.1968 年,俄亥俄州议会将该校定为由市政资助、州政府附属的院校;当时它是美国历史第二久、规模第二大的市立大学。
- In 1971 the university became one of the first institutions in the United States to offer a women's studies course, taught by Monika Triest and Sylvia Tucker.1971 年,该校成为美国最早开设妇女研究课程的院校之一,课程由莫妮卡·特里斯特与西尔维娅·塔克讲授。
- By an act of the Ohio legislature the university became a state institution in 1977, ending its municipal status after more than a century.依俄亥俄州议会法案,该校于 1977 年成为州立院校,结束了历时一个多世纪的市立身份。
- In 1989 President Joseph A. Steger released a master plan for a stronger academy, and the university invested nearly 2 billion dollars in construction, renovation and expansion.1989 年,校长约瑟夫·斯特格发布旨在打造更强学府的总体规划,学校在建设、翻新与扩建上投入近 20 亿美元。
- The plan included Sigma Sigma Commons, completed in 1998 for the centenary of the Sigma Sigma organisation, together with a campus forest and a university promenade.该规划包含 1998 年为「西格玛西格玛」组织百年而建成的西格玛西格玛广场,以及校园林地与大学漫步道。
- On her inauguration in 2005 President Nancy L. Zimpher developed the UC21 plan to redefine Cincinnati as a leading urban research university and to increase research funding.2005 年就任的南希·津弗校长制定「UC21」计划,旨在于把辛辛那提重新塑造为领先的城市研究型大学并增加科研经费。
- In 2009 Gregory H. Williams became the twenty-seventh president and expanded the university's accreditation and property across Ohio, focusing on the academic master plan.2009 年,格雷戈里·威廉姆斯成为第二十七任校长,把学校的认证范围与资产扩展到俄亥俄各地,并专注于学术总体规划。
- Neville Pinto is the current and thirtieth president, and under recent administrations enrollment grew to more than 53,000 in 2024, the second largest in Ohio.内维尔·平托是现任的第三十任校长;在近几届校方治理下,2024 年在校生增至 53,000 余人,居俄亥俄州第二。
- During the racial-justice protests of 2020 the university received demands from the Black Round Table and its student government, and in 2022 it removed the name of the slave owner Charles McMicken from campus.2020 年种族正义抗议期间,该校收到「黑人圆桌会议」与学生会的诉求;2022 年,学校把奴隶主查尔斯·麦克米肯的姓名从校园中移除。
- In 2025 the university announced it would preserve its diversity, equity and inclusion programmes after a dispute over campus signage and state legislation.2025 年,在校园标识与州立法引发争议之后,该校宣布将继续保留其多元、公平与包容项目。
Academics
- The university has 14 constituent colleges, with programmes in architecture, business, education, engineering, humanities, the sciences, law, music and medicine.该校设有 14 个组成学院,项目涵盖建筑、商科、教育、工程、人文、理学、法学、音乐与医学。
- Its colleges include the College of Allied Health Sciences, the School of Social Work, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Carl H. Lindner College of Business.其学院包括联合健康科学学院、社会工作学院、文理学院以及卡尔·林德纳商学院。
- Further colleges are the College-Conservatory of Music, the College of Cooperative Education and Professional Studies and the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.其他学院还有学院—音乐学院、合作教育与专业研究学院以及设计、建筑、艺术与规划学院。
- Also among the fourteen are the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the Graduate College and the Donald P. Klekamp College of Law.这十四个学院还包括教育、刑事司法与人类服务学院,工程与应用科学学院,研究生院以及唐纳德·克莱坎普法学院。
- The remaining colleges are the College of Medicine, the College of Nursing and the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, which together form the academic health centre.其余学院为医学院、护理学院与詹姆斯·温克尔药学院,三者共同组成学术医学中心。
- The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest college, with 21 departments, eight co-operative programmes and several interdisciplinary programmes.文理学院是规模最大的学院,下设 21 个系、八个合作教育项目以及若干跨学科项目。
- The College of Medicine includes a leading teaching hospital and several biomedical research laboratories, and it established the first emergency medicine residency programme in the United States.医学院拥有领先的教学医院与若干生物医学研究实验室,并在美国首创急诊医学住院医师培训项目。
- In the 1950s Albert Sabin developed the live oral polio vaccine at the College of Medicine, and George Rieveschl developed diphenhydramine there in 1946.1950 年代,阿尔伯特·萨宾在医学院研制出口服脊髓灰质炎活疫苗;1946 年,乔治·里夫施尔在此研制出苯海拉明。
- In 2008 the College of Medicine became the first medical school in the country to adopt the multiple mini interview system for admissions.2008 年,医学院成为全美第一所采用「多站迷你面试」招生制度的医学院。
- Co-operative education, invented at Cincinnati in 1906 by Herman Schneider, is still required in all engineering and applied science programmes, in architecture, in design programmes and in information technology.1906 年由赫尔曼·施奈德在辛辛那提首创的合作教育,至今仍是工程与应用科学、建筑、设计各项目以及信息技术专业的必修环节。
- Each year the University Honors Program admits about 375 students, usually the top 5 to 8 per cent, who must complete at least five approved experiences before graduation.大学荣誉项目每年录取约 375 名学生,通常为成绩前 5% 至 8% 者,他们毕业前须完成至少五项获认可的经历。
- The university library system holds more than 4 million volumes and 70,000 periodicals in 13 libraries housed in 11 facilities, and it belongs to the Association of Research Libraries and the OhioLINK consortium.其图书馆系统在 11 处馆舍的 13 座图书馆中藏有 400 余万册图书与 7 万种期刊,并加入研究图书馆协会与 OhioLINK 联盟。
- The university is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, and the National Science Foundation recorded 739 million dollars of research and development spending in 2024, ranking it fiftieth in the nation.该校属「R1:极高研究活动型」博士大学;美国国家科学基金会记录其 2024 年研发支出为 7.39 亿美元,居全美第五十位。
- Admission is classified as selective, with offers extended to 87.7 per cent of applicants after holistic review, an average high school GPA of 3.7 and an ACT interquartile range of 24 to 29.其招生被列为「择优型」,在综合评估后向 87.7% 的申请者发出录取通知,录取者高中平均绩点为 3.7,ACT 成绩四分位区间为 24 至 29。
- The Institute for Policy Research, opened in 1971, conducts surveys and polls on public opinion across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.1971 年成立的政策研究所,在俄亥俄、肯塔基与印第安纳各地开展民意调查与民调研究。
- OpenAlex records 164,853 research works and 15,000,002 citations for the university, one of the largest research outputs in Ohio.OpenAlex 记录该校研究成果 164,853 项、被引 15,000,002 次,是俄亥俄州科研产出规模最大的高校之一。
- UC Online offers more than 120 graduate, undergraduate and certificate programmes through distance education, extending the university beyond its physical campuses.辛辛那提在线通过远程教育提供 120 多个研究生、本科与证书项目,把学校延伸到实体校区之外。
Campus
- The Uptown campus includes the West campus, the Medical campus and the Victory Parkway campus, all within the Heights and Corryville neighbourhoods of Cincinnati.上城校区包括西校区、医学校区与胜利公园大道校区,均位于辛辛那提的高地与科里维尔社区。
- The West campus is the main campus, with 62 buildings on 137 acres, and the university moved to this location in 1893.西校区是主校区,占地 137 英亩、有 62 栋建筑,该校于 1893 年迁至此处。
- The Medical campus contains nineteen buildings on 57 acres in Corryville and houses the Colleges of Allied Health Sciences, Nursing, Medicine and Pharmacy.医学校区位于科里维尔,占地 57 英亩、有 19 栋建筑,容纳联合健康科学、护理、医学与药学各学院。
- The hospitals on the medical campus include the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Cincinnati VA Medical Center.医学校区内的医院包括辛辛那提大学医学中心、辛辛那提儿童医院医学中心以及辛辛那提退伍军人医学中心。
- Numerous buildings on campus were designed by notable architects, and the university has drawn attention from architects and campus planners for the beauty of its design.校园内许多建筑出自著名建筑师之手,该校也因其设计之美而受到建筑师与校园规划者的关注。
- The Victory Parkway campus, about three miles from the main campus in Walnut Hills, was formerly home to the College of Applied Science and overlooks the Ohio River.胜利公园大道校区位于核桃山,距主校区约三英里,曾是应用科学学院的所在地,可俯瞰俄亥俄河。
- Blue Ash College, founded in 1967, was the university's first regional campus, and Clermont College in Batavia opened in 1972.1967 年成立的蓝灰学院是该校第一个地区校区,1972 年巴达维亚的克莱蒙特学院开办。
- Off-campus facilities include the Center Hill Research Facility, the UC Reading Campus and Metabolic Diseases Institute, the Cincinnati Center for Field Studies and the Cincinnati Observatory.校外设施包括森特希尔研究设施、雷丁校区与代谢疾病研究所、辛辛那提野外研究中心以及辛辛那提天文台。
- The university was named one of 286 Green Colleges by the Princeton Review in 2010, a distinction it has held every year since, and it has added six LEED-certified buildings since 2005.2010 年,该校被《普林斯顿评论》列入 286 所「绿色院校」,此后年年保持;自 2005 年以来还新增了六座 LEED 认证建筑。
- The campus lies about five kilometres north of downtown Cincinnati, served by the city's bus network, and is linked to the medical campus by Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.校园位于辛辛那提市中心以北约五公里,由城市公交网络连接,并经马丁·路德·金大道与医学校区相通。
Reputation
- In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the University of Cincinnati is placed in the 741-750 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中,辛辛那提大学处于 741-750 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。[1]
- It is 213th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, one of the strongest positions held by any Ohio institution in that table.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中,该校位列第 213,是俄亥俄州各院校在该榜中的最好座次之一。
- It is placed in the 301-400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.该校处于软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名 301-400 区间。
- In its 2026 national rankings U.S. News placed the university in a tie for 179th among 428 national universities and tied for 91st among public national universities.在 US News 2026 年全国排名中,该校在 428 所全国性大学中并列第 179 位,在公立全国性大学中并列第 91 位。
- U.S. News also ranks Cincinnati third in the United States for co-operative education and internships, reflecting the programme begun in 1906.US News 还把辛辛那提的合作教育与实习项目列为全美第三,这正是 1906 年开创的这一传统。
- Among global universities U.S. News placed it 213th out of 2,604 institutions considered, and among national universities it appeared in the top 200.在全球范围内,US News 在纳入评估的 2,604 所院校中将该校列为第 213 位,在全国性大学中则进入前 200。
- OpenAlex attributes 164,853 works and 15,000,002 citations to the university, a research record led by medicine, engineering and the physical sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校成果 164,853 项、被引 15,000,002 次,科研记录以医学、工程与物理科学为主。
- Its College of Medicine's record includes the live polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin and the first emergency medicine residency programme in the country.其医学院的成就包括阿尔伯特·萨宾研制的脊髓灰质炎活疫苗,以及全美首个急诊医学住院医师项目。
- The university's design and architecture programmes, taught in a college whose buildings by noted architects have won national attention, are among its distinctive strengths.其设计与建筑类专业设于一个以名家建筑而广受关注的学院之中,是该校的特色优势之一。
- It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and classified among the nation's leading research universities.该校获高等教育委员会认证,并被归入全美领先研究型大学之列。
Student life
- The university does not promote a single formal motto, and its public identity rests on co-operative education and on its Bearcats athletics.该校不宣扬单一的正式校训,其公共形象依托合作教育与其「熊猫猫」体育传统。
- About 6,500 students live on campus in ten residence halls offering traditional and suite-style rooms, and nearly 80 per cent of Uptown first-year students live on campus.约 6,500 名学生住在校内的十座宿舍楼中,房型包括传统式与套房式;上城校区近 80% 的一年级学生住校。
- The university's largest residence hall, Calhoun, was renovated and finished in January 2023, while Siddall Hall closed for renovation in December 2023.该校最大的宿舍楼卡尔霍恩楼于 2023 年 1 月完成翻新,西达尔楼则于 2023 年 12 月因翻修而停用。
- Student Activities and Leadership Development oversees more than 550 registered student organisations, housed in the Steger Student Life Center.学生活动与领导力发展办公室管理 550 多个注册学生组织,办公地点设在斯特格学生生活中心。
- Fraternities and sororities have existed at the university since 1840, and more than 2,500 students, about 11 per cent of the undergraduate population, take part in 39 social chapters.该校自 1840 年起便有兄弟会与姐妹会,现有 2,500 多名学生(约占本科生 11%)参加 39 个社交类分会。
- The student newspaper, The News Record, has been published for more than 130 years and took its present name in 1936.学生报纸《新闻记录》已出版 130 余年,并于 1936 年改用现名。
- A student-run online radio station named Bearcast operates from the College-Conservatory of Music, and a student television station called UCast also serves the campus.由学生运营的网络电台「Bearcast」设在学院—音乐学院内,另有一家名为 UCast 的学生电视台服务校园。
- Each year the 48-hour Cindependent Film Festival screens work by student and professional actors, directors, editors and composers at the MainStreet Cinema.每年举办的 48 小时「Cindependent」电影节,在 MainStreet 影院放映学生与专业演员、导演、剪辑师和作曲者的作品。
- The Bearcats compete in 19 NCAA Division I sports, and since 1 July 2023 the university has been a member of the Big 12 Conference.「熊猫猫」队参加 19 项 NCAA 一级运动项目,自 2023 年 7 月 1 日起该校成为十二大联盟成员。
- The Bearcats won the NCAA men's basketball championship in 1961 and 1962, and the university dance team holds four national titles won between 2004 and 2009.「熊猫猫」队于 1961 与 1962 年两夺 NCAA 男子篮球冠军,学校舞蹈队则在 2004 至 2009 年间四获全国冠军。
Notable people
- William Howard Taft, the twenty-seventh president of the United States and tenth chief justice, was an alumnus of the College of Law and served as its dean when it merged with the university in 1896.美国第二十七任总统、第十任首席大法官威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱是该校法学院校友,并在 1896 年法学院并入大学时担任院长。
- Daniel Drake, who founded the Medical College of Ohio in 1819 and re-established Cincinnati College in 1835, is the founding figure of the institution.1819 年创办俄亥俄医学院、1835 年重建辛辛那提学院的丹尼尔·德雷克,是该校的奠基人物。
- Charles McMicken, whose bequest to the City of Cincinnati made the university possible, is honoured in the institution's early history, although his name was removed from campus in 2022.把遗产捐给辛辛那提市从而促成大学成立的查尔斯·麦克米肯,在该校早期历史中受到纪念,但其姓名已于 2022 年从校园移除。
- Herman Schneider, dean of the College of Engineering, invented co-operative education at Cincinnati in 1906, a model later adopted by universities worldwide.工程学院院长赫尔曼·施奈德于 1906 年在辛辛那提首创合作教育,此模式后来被世界各地大学采用。
- Albert Sabin developed the live oral polio vaccine at the College of Medicine in the 1950s, one of the university's most consequential research achievements.阿尔伯特·萨宾于 1950 年代在医学院研制出口服脊髓灰质炎活疫苗,这是该校影响最深远的科研成果之一。
- George Rieveschl, a chemist at the university, developed diphenhydramine, marketed as Benadryl, in 1946.该校化学家乔治·里夫施尔于 1946 年研制出苯海拉明,商品名为「苯那君」。
- Sandy Koufax, the Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, and Oscar Robertson, the basketball Hall of Famer, both attended the University of Cincinnati.棒球名人堂投手桑迪·库法克斯与篮球名人堂球员奥斯卡·罗伯逊都曾就读于辛辛那提大学。
- Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce, both Super Bowl-winning American football players, played for the Bearcats during their college careers.两度夺得超级碗的美式橄榄球球员特拉维斯·凯尔西与贾森·凯尔西,大学时期都曾为「熊猫猫」队效力。
- Kenyon Martin, the basketball forward who played in the National Basketball Association, and Tony Trabert, the tennis champion, are also counted among its alumni.曾在美国职业篮球联赛效力的前锋肯扬·马丁与网球冠军托尼·特拉伯特,也被列为该校校友。
- Joseph A. Steger and Nancy L. Zimpher, presidents in the 1980s and 2000s, drove the master plan and the UC21 strategy that reshaped the campus.1980 与 2000 年代任校长的约瑟夫·斯特格与南希·津弗,推动了重塑校园的总体规划和「UC21」战略。
- Monika Triest and Sylvia Tucker taught one of the first women's studies courses in the United States at the university in 1971.1971 年,莫妮卡·特里斯特与西尔维亚·塔克在该校讲授了美国最早的妇女研究课程之一。