University of Concepción

University of Concepción (UdeC), known in Spanish as the Universidad de Concepción and founded on 14 May 1919 in the city of Concepción in Chile's Biobío Region, is the third-oldest university in the country and the first one created outside Santiago.康塞普西翁大学（西班牙语：Universidad de Concepción，简称 UdeC）1919年5月14日创办于智利比奥比奥大区康塞普西翁市，是智利第三古老的大学，也是首都圣地亚哥之外建立的第一所大学。

A private, secular and pluralist institution administered by the non-profit Corporación Universidad de Concepción, it belongs to the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities and to both the Cruz del Sur University Network and the G9 group of traditional universities.该校是一所由非营利的康塞普西翁大学法人（Corporación Universidad de Concepción）管理的私立、世俗而多元的大学，隶属智利大学校长委员会、南方十字大学联盟以及由传统大学组成的 G9 集团。

It enrols more than 30,000 students across three campuses at Concepción, Chillán and Los Ángeles, offers over 90 undergraduate and about 150 postgraduate programmes, and ranked 662nd in the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校在康塞普西翁、奇廉与洛斯安赫莱斯三个校区共有学生逾3万名，开设逾90个本科课程与约150个研究生课程，并在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列第662名。

History

• By 1900 scholars in Concepción had begun pressing for a university that would allow young people of southern Chile to study professional degrees without travelling to the capital, Santiago.到1900年，康塞普西翁的学者已开始呼吁创办一所大学，使智利南部的青年无需远赴首都圣地亚哥即可攻读专业学位。

• In February 1917 the newspaper El Sur reported that the plan could not yet proceed because of what it called the lack of organisation of those who wished to create the university.1917年2月，《南方报》（El Sur）报道称，由于它所说的「创办者缺乏组织」，这一计划尚无法推进。

• On 23 March 1917 the first official meeting of the pro-university committee was held, pursuing two linked goals for the citizens of Concepción, namely a clinical hospital and a university.1917年3月23日，支持创办大学的委员会举行首次正式会议，为康塞普西翁市民谋求两项相互关联的目标，即一所临床医院与一所大学。

• The two projects were treated as inseparable because the projected hospital was to become the clinical base of the new university's medical school, an arrangement that shaped the institution's early planning.两个项目被视为不可分割，因为规划中的医院将成为新大学医学院的临床基地，这一安排塑造了该校早期的筹建思路。

• The founding committee included the educator and lawyer Enrique Molina Garmendia together with Pedro Nolasco, Edmundo Larenas and Virginio Gómez, figures who drove the civic campaign for a university in the south.创办委员会成员包括教育家兼律师恩里克·莫利纳·加门迪亚，以及佩德罗·诺拉斯科、埃德蒙多·拉雷纳斯与维尔希尼奥·戈麦斯等推动南部兴学运动的市民代表。

• Once the founding documentation had been submitted to and approved by Congress, the university was founded on 14 May 1919 by Enrique Molina Garmendia, who became its first rector.在创办文件提交国会并获批准后，该校于1919年5月14日由恩里克·莫利纳·加门迪亚创立，他本人出任首任校长。

• Its first degree programmes were dentistry, English pedagogy, pharmacy and industrial chemistry, the founding courses offered to the earliest cohorts of students in Concepción.该校最早开设的学位课程为牙医学、英语师范、药学与工业化学，这是康塞普西翁首批学生所读的创校专业。

• Established as a private-law corporation rather than a state institution, the university was funded partly by civic bodies such as the city's lottery, which helped to finance its early growth.该校以私法法人而非国立机构的身份设立，并由城市彩票等市民机构部分出资，为其早期发展提供了经费。

• In 1920 the lawyer Edmundo Larenas became the first dean of the university's Faculty of Sciences, then the institution's only such faculty, after he had helped lead the founding committee.1920年，律师埃德蒙多·拉雷纳斯出任该校理学院首任院长——当时该校唯一的一个学院，此前他曾参与领导创办委员会。

• During the 1950s and 1960s the university expanded beyond the city, opening a campus at Chillán in 1954 that grew out of the Escuela de Agronomía created under the so-called Plan Chillán.20世纪50至60年代，该校向市外拓展，于1954年在奇廉开设校区，其源头是「奇廉计划」之下创办的农学院。

• The Chillán campus was made possible by a 1954 agreement between the university, Chile's Ministry of Agriculture and the United States Institute of Inter-American Affairs, with support from the United Nations and the OAS.奇廉校区依托1954年该校与智利农业部及美国美洲事务研究所签署的协议而得以设立，并得到联合国与美洲国家组织的支持。

• Eight years later, in 1962, a third campus opened at Los Ángeles at the request of the province, during the rectorship of David Stitchkin Branover, widening access for students of the Biobío interior.八年后的1962年，在校长戴维·斯蒂奇金·布拉诺韦任内，应省方请求又在洛斯安赫莱斯开设第三校区，为比奥比奥内陆的学生拓宽了求学机会。

• In 1968 the University of Concepción became the first Chilean university to approve the University Reform, granting students a formal voice in university governance and management.1968年，康塞普西翁大学成为智利第一所通过「大学改革」的大学，在治理与管理层面给予学生正式发言权。

• Student activism at Concepción, first organised as the Movimiento Universitario de Izquierda, preceded the creation of Chile's MIR by roughly a year and supplied some of its early leaders.康塞普西翁的学生运动最早以「左翼大学运动」之名组织，比智利革命左翼运动（MIR）的成立早约一年，并为其输送了部分早期骨干。

• Students occupied university buildings and marched on campus during the 1960s to demand democratic change, and the university ultimately conceded voting power on its board and over hiring.20世纪60年代，学生通过占领校舍、在校园游行等方式争取民主改革，最终校方在董事会与人事聘任方面让渡了学生的投票权。

• In 2010 the Concepción campus received the Obra Bicentenario award, which recognises works that changed the face of Chile's cities and improved the quality of life of their inhabitants.2010年，康塞普西翁校区荣获「两百周年工程」奖，该奖表彰改变了智利城市面貌、提升了居民生活质量的建筑作品。

• In 2016 the Concepción campus was declared a National Historic Monument by Chile's Council of National Monuments, the first and only Chilean university campus to receive that protection.2016年，康塞普西翁校区被智利国家纪念物委员会宣布为国家历史纪念物，成为智利首个、也是唯一获此保护的高校校园。

• The decision followed recognition of the architectural coherence of the campus landscape, whose Campanil bell tower had been inaugurated in early 1944 at the initiative of the founding rector.此项认定源于对该校园景观建筑整体性的认可，其钟楼「钟塔」（Campanil）早在1944年初即由创校校长倡议落成。

• In 2021 the university adopted a strategic plan running to 2030, setting out priorities for teaching, research and infrastructure in the Biobío Region over the following decade.2021年，该校通过一份延续至2030年的战略规划，为今后十年在比奥比奥地区的教学、科研与基础设施明确了优先方向。

Academics

• The university is organised into faculties and departments spanning engineering, medicine and health, the natural and ocean sciences, agriculture, law, education, the social sciences and the arts, taught through a Medical School, an Engineering School, a Law School, a Dental School and an Agricultural School.该校按学院与系所组织，涵盖工程、医学与健康、自然科学与海洋科学、农业、法律、教育、社会科学与人文学科，并通过医学院、工程学院、法学院、牙医学院与农学院开展教学。

• It offers more than 90 undergraduate programmes and roughly 150 postgraduate programmes, including 41 doctoral programmes, 73 master's programmes and 47 medical and professional specialities.该校开设逾90个本科课程与约150个研究生课程，其中包括41个博士项目、73个硕士项目与47个医学及专业专科项目。

• In the 2024 and 2025 period it enrolled more than 30,000 students, of whom some 2,166 were in graduate study, and it graduated 116 doctoral students between August 2025 and September 2026.在2024至2025年间，该校在读学生逾3万名，其中约2166人攻读研究生；2025年8月至2026年9月间共有116名博士生毕业。

• Teaching is delivered by about 1,400 academics, and roughly 72 per cent of its professors hold a doctorate or a master's degree, reflecting a strong research orientation.该校教学由约1400名教师承担，约72%的教授拥有博士或硕士学位，体现出浓厚的研究导向。

• Its named research centres, coordinated through the research and development office known as VRID, include centres for environmental sciences, biotechnology, agro-industry and ocean sciences.该校实名研究中心由名为 VRID 的研发办公室统筹，包括环境科学、生物技术、农产工业与海洋科学等研究中心。

• In 2025 its laboratories occupied 36,560 square metres, its classrooms 23,614 square metres and its libraries 14,107 square metres within a total built area of 267,976 square metres.2025年，该校实验室面积达36560平方米，教室23614平方米，图书馆14107平方米，总建筑面积为267976平方米。

• The library network comprises eleven libraries, whose main library occupies about 10,000 square metres and holds around 100,000 volumes, serving the three campuses and their institutes.该校图书馆体系共十一座图书馆，主馆面积约1万平方米，藏书约10万册，服务于三个校区及其附属机构。

• The Casa del Arte on the Concepción campus houses the university's Pinacoteca, presented as the most complete collection of Chilean art in the country and used in art teaching.康塞普西翁校区的「艺术之家」（Casa del Arte）设有该校美术馆，被称为智利最完整的本国艺术收藏，并用于艺术教学。

• The university runs its own clinical hospital in Concepción, which supports the medical school's clinical teaching and provides specialist care to the surrounding regional population.该校在康塞普西翁运营自有临床医院，为医学院的临床教学提供支撑，并为周边地区居民提供专科诊疗。

• Its Chillán campus concentrates on agricultural sciences and holds one of the most complete agricultural libraries in Latin America, established in 1955 with international support.其奇廉校区专注农业科学，拥有拉丁美洲最完整的农业图书馆之一，该馆于1955年在国际支持下建立。

• Engineering, medicine, the ocean sciences, law and education are among its established strengths, and its marine biology programme and oceanography department are the oldest of their kind in Chile.工程、医学、海洋科学、法律与教育是该校的传统优势；其海洋生物学专业与海洋学系在智利同类学科中历史最久。

• Doctoral training is organised within the faculties and through 41 doctoral programmes, and graduates receive the UdeC Doctoral Medal at an annual ceremony in the city.博士生培养在各学院内并通过41个博士项目开展，毕业生在康塞普西翁举行的年度典礼上获颁康大博士奖章。

• Undergraduate admission is selective and based on Chile's national PAES university admission examination together with secondary school records, with cut-off scores varying by programme.本科招生实行选拔制，依据智利全国大学入学考试（PAES）成绩与中学成绩综合评定，各专业的录取分数线不同。

• Tuition and enrolment fees are fixed each year by decree of the rector, and many students study with state gratuidad funding, which supported 15,667 UdeC students in 2025.学费与注册费每年由校长令确定；许多学生依靠国家免费教育资助就读，2025年该校有15667名学生获得该资助。

• The university belongs to the Cruz del Sur University Network and to the G9 group, and it participates in the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities, coordinating policy with other traditional institutions.该校隶属南方十字大学联盟与 G9 集团，并参与智利大学校长委员会，与其他传统大学协调办学政策。

• Members of its academic staff include figures elected to Chile's national learned bodies, among them the botanist Lohengrin Cavieres of the Faculty of Natural and Oceanographic Sciences.其师资中包括当选智利国家级学术团体的学者，例如自然科学与海洋科学学院的植物学家洛恩格林·卡维耶雷斯。

• The university pursues international cooperation through student exchanges and joint research, and it takes part in networks linking Chile's traditional universities to partners in Europe, North America and Asia.该校通过学生交换与联合研究推进国际合作，并参与将智利传统大学与欧洲、北美及亚洲伙伴联系起来的网络。

• Its strengths in oceanography, marine biology and environmental science are supported by coastal field stations and research facilities along Chile's long Pacific coastline.其海洋学、海洋生物学与环境科学的优势，依托智利漫长太平洋海岸线上的野外站与科研设施得以支撑。

Campus

• The main Concepción campus lies in the city's University District and forms a Ciudad Universitaria of about 45 hectares with 145,000 square metres built, set among parks and gardens open to the whole community.康塞普西翁主校区位于该市大学区，构成一片约45公顷、建筑145000平方米的大学城，坐落于向全体市民开放的公园与绿地之间。

• The Campanil bell tower, inaugurated in 1944 and designed by the architect Enrique San Martín Sepúlveda, stands at the centre of the campus polygon protected as a National Historic Monument since 2016.钟塔「Campanil」于1944年落成，由建筑师恩里克·圣马丁·塞普尔韦达设计，矗立于自2016年起受国家历史纪念物保护的校园核心区。

• The Casa del Arte holds the mural Presencia de América Latina, painted by the Mexican artist Jorge González Camarena, a large work that has become one of the campus's best-known landmarks.「艺术之家」藏有墨西哥艺术家豪尔赫·冈萨雷斯·卡马雷纳绘制的壁画「拉丁美洲的在场」（Presencia de América Latina），已成为校园最知名的地标之一。

• Beyond teaching buildings the campus contains museums, sculptures and parks, and the Biobío science and technology park known as PACYT lies close to the campus edge除教学楼外，校园内还有博物馆、雕塑与公园；名为 PACYT 的比奥比奥科技园紧邻校园边缘。

• The Chillán campus, opened in 1954, focuses on agriculture and has around 2,200 undergraduates, 85 postgraduates, 182 academics and 326 administrative staff.1954年启用的奇廉校区以农业为主，约有2200名本科生、85名研究生、182名教师与326名行政人员。

• The Los Ángeles campus, opened in 1962, serves the province of Biobío to the south and in its early decades had about 1,300 students and 35 full-time teachers.1962年启用的洛斯安赫莱斯校区服务于南部的比奥比奥省，在其早期数十年间约有1300名学生与35名全职教师。

• The university also maintains a unit in Santiago and a nature campus, extending its teaching and research presence well beyond its three main cities.该校还在圣地亚哥设有教学单位，并拥有一处自然校区，使其教学与研究影响力远超三个主要城市。

• Across the estate its buildings totalled 267,976 square metres in 2025, including 14,107 square metres of library space and 36,560 square metres of laboratories.至2025年，全校建筑面积合计267976平方米，其中图书馆14107平方米、实验室36560平方米。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Concepción is placed 662nd in the world, the position given by the publisher's official league table.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，康塞普西翁大学位列世界第662名，此为发布方官方榜单所给名次。^[1]

• Times Higher Education places the university in the 1401-1600 band of its 2027 World University Rankings, after a 1201-1500 placing in its 2026 edition.泰晤士高等教育将其列入2027年世界大学排名1401-1600档，此前在2026年版中位于1201-1500档。

• The U.S. News & World Report 2026-2027 Best Global Universities ranking places the university 821st in the world among several thousand institutions assessed.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027年全球最佳大学排名将该校列为世界第821名，评估对象为数千所院校。

• The university does not appear in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking, and no earlier edition of that table is used in its place.该校未进入软科发布的2026年世界大学学术排名，正文亦不以任何旧年榜单替代。

• Domestically the university is regularly listed among Chile's leading institutions, ranking third in several national comparisons of the country's traditional universities.在智利国内，该校长期位居领先高校之列，在多项本国传统大学比较中排名第三。

• In machine-readable bibliographic data the university is credited with about 41,291 scholarly works and some 1,619,328 citations, evidence of a substantial research record.在机器可读的文献计量数据中，该校约有41291项学术成果与约1619328次被引，显示其具有相当规模的研究积淀。

• It has held the maximum seven-year institutional accreditation from Chile's National Accreditation Commission, renewed for a second consecutive time across all evaluation areas.该校持有智利国家认证委员会授予的最长七年期机构认证，并在全部评估领域连续第二次获得续期。

• The Concepción campus received the Obra Bicentenario award in 2010, recognising it as one of Chile's most important architectural works of the first half of the twentieth century.康塞普西翁校区于2010年获「两百周年工程」奖，被认定为智利20世纪上半叶最重要的建筑作品之一。

• A citizen survey carried out in 2012 chose the university as the symbol that most identified the people of Concepción, underlining its standing in the city and region.2012年一项市民调查将该校选为最能代表康塞普西翁市民的象征，凸显其在该市与周边地区的地位。

• In national subject evaluations its oceanography and marine sciences are repeatedly recognised as strengths, reflecting the university's century-long coastal research tradition.在全国学科评估中，其海洋学与海洋科学屡被视为优势学科，体现该校延续百余年的海岸研究传统。

Student life

• The university presents itself as a secular and pluralist institution whose mission is the creation, transmission and preservation of knowledge, the arts and cultures in their diverse forms.该校自我定位为一所世俗而多元的大学，其使命是创造、传播与保存知识、艺术与文化的多样形态。

• It uses no formal Latin motto, instead promoting the institutional phrase "knowledge that transforms from the south of the world" as its public expression of purpose.该校没有正式的拉丁校训，而以「来自世界之南、改变现实的知识」这一机构口号表达其办学宗旨。

• Student life is anchored in the Concepción campus, where museums, sculptures, parks and sports facilities converge in the Ciudad Universitaria in the centre of the city.学生生活以康塞普西翁校区为核心，博物馆、雕塑、公园与体育设施在市中心这片「大学城」中融为一体。

• Students are represented by the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Concepción, known as the FEC, which has been historically active in Chilean student politics.学生由康塞普西翁大学学生联合会（简称 FEC）代表，该组织在智利学生政治中历来活跃。

• In the 1960s the campus was a cradle of the student reform movement that helped to reshape the governance of Chilean universities, including student representation on governing boards.20世纪60年代，该校园是学生改革运动的摇篮，这场运动推动了智利高校治理的重塑，包括学生进入校务董事会。

• The university fields sports teams and maintains sports centres, including facilities on the Concepción campus, sustaining a broad sporting tradition and inter-faculty competition.该校组建运动队并运营体育中心，包括康塞普西翁校区的场地，延续着广泛的体育传统与院际赛事。

• Cultural life is centred on the Casa del Arte and the campus's concert and exhibition venues, which stage events open to the wider Concepción community.文化生活以「艺术之家」及校园的音乐演出与展览场所为中心，面向康塞普西翁更广大的社区开放。

• Its close identification with the city, confirmed when residents voted the university their foremost symbol in 2012, frames student life as part of the civic identity of Concepción.该校与城市的紧密联系在2012年市民投票中被确认为首要象征，这使学生生活成为康塞普西翁城市认同的一部分。

• Since the founding era the university has maintained a public cultural role, opening its parks, museums and the Casa del Arte to residents of Concepción and to visitors alike.自创校时期起，该校即承担公共文化职能，将公园、博物馆与「艺术之家」开放给康塞普西翁市民与来访者。

• Its sports centres and representative teams take part in Chile's national university competitions, complementing a long tradition of student athletics on the Concepción campus.其体育中心与校队参加智利全国大学赛事，延续康塞普西翁校区悠久的学生竞技传统。

Notable people

• Enrique Molina Garmendia, an educator and lawyer, founded the university in 1919 and served as its first rector after leading the civic committee that campaigned for its creation.教育家兼律师恩里克·莫利纳·加门迪亚于1919年创办该校，并在领导推动建校的市民委员会后出任首任校长。

• Edmundo Larenas Guzmán, a lawyer who sat on the founding committee and led its board, became in 1920 the first dean of the university's Faculty of Sciences.律师埃德蒙多·拉雷纳斯·古斯曼曾为创办委员会成员并领导其理事会，1920年成为该校理学院首任院长。

• Pedro Nolasco and Virginio Gómez were among the Concepción citizens on the pro-university committee of 1917 whose lobbying produced the institution two years later.佩德罗·诺拉斯科与维尔希尼奥·戈麦斯是1917年支持创办大学的委员会成员，他们的奔走促成两年后该校的诞生。

• David Stitchkin Branover, rector of the university, oversaw the opening of the Los Ángeles campus in 1962 at the request of the province's residents.该校校长戴维·斯蒂奇金·布拉诺韦在1962年应省民请求，主导了洛斯安赫莱斯校区的开设。

• Carlos Saavedra Rubilar is the university's rector in the 2020s, signing its 2026 tuition decree and leading the institution through its most recent accreditation cycle.卡洛斯·萨阿韦德拉·鲁比拉尔是该校2020年代的校长，签署了2026年学费令，并带领学校完成最近一轮认证。

• Víctor Ariel Gallardo, a Chilean oceanographer, pioneered marine science at the university and helped to create its marine biology programme and its oceanography department.智利海洋学家维克托·阿列尔·加利亚多在该校开创海洋科学研究，并参与创建其海洋生物学专业与海洋学系。

• Lohengrin Cavieres, a botanist in the Faculty of Natural and Oceanographic Sciences, was invested as a corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.自然科学与海洋科学学院的植物学家洛恩格林·卡维耶雷斯获颁智利科学院通讯院士称号。

• Gina Pecchi Sánchez, the university's director of research and artistic creation, became the first Chilean to receive a senior distinction in an Ibero-American research recognition scheme.该校研究与艺术创作主任希娜·佩基·桑切斯成为首位获得伊比利亚美洲科研表彰体系高级别荣誉的智利人。

• Jorge González Camarena, the Mexican muralist, painted the mural Presencia de América Latina in the university's Casa del Arte, a work central to its cultural identity.墨西哥壁画家豪尔赫·冈萨雷斯·卡马雷纳在该校「艺术之家」绘制了壁画「拉丁美洲的在场」，该作是其文化认同的核心。

• Enrique San Martín Sepúlveda designed the Campanil bell tower inaugurated in 1944, which became the emblem of the university and the city of Concepción.恩里克·圣马丁·塞普尔韦达设计了1944年落成的钟塔 Campanil，它成为该校与康塞普西翁城的象征。

• Among its graduates are physicians, engineers and teachers who have staffed the health, education and industrial institutions of the Biobío Region and southern Chile for more than a century.该校毕业生包括医生、工程师与教师，一个多世纪以来为比奥比奥大区及智利南部的卫生、教育与工业机构输送人才。