University of Fribourg

The University of Fribourg, in French Université de Fribourg and in German Universität Freiburg, is a public university in Fribourg, Switzerland, founded in 1889 by the canton of Fribourg.弗里堡大学（法语：Université de Fribourg，德语：Universität Freiburg）是瑞士弗里堡州的公立大学，由弗里堡州于 1889 年创办。

It is Switzerland's only bilingual university, offering full curricula in both French and German, and traces its roots to the Jesuit College St. Michel founded in 1580 by Peter Canisius.该校是瑞士唯一的双语大学，以法语和德语提供完整课程，其源头可追溯到 1580 年由彼得·卡尼修斯创办的圣米歇尔耶稣会学院。

It enrols about 10,000 students taught by more than 200 professors from some 100 countries, is placed 670th in the QS World University Rankings 2027, and is organised into six faculties.该校在校学生约 1 万人、教师中有来自约 100 个国家的 200 多位教授；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 670 位，学校设六个学院。

History

• The university's earliest origin is the Jesuit College St. Michel, founded on Belze Hill in Fribourg in 1580 by Peter Canisius at the invitation of the city government.该校最早的源头是 1580 年由彼得·卡尼修斯应弗里堡市政府之邀，在贝尔兹山上创办的圣米歇尔耶稣会学院。
• In 1763 an academy of law was founded by the state of Fribourg, housed in the Albertinium, and it formed the nucleus of the present Faculty of Law.1763 年，弗里堡州创办法律学院，院址设于阿尔贝蒂尼乌姆，它后来成为今日法学院的核心。
• In 1834 the cantonal library was formed from works brought to Fribourg from Catholic monasteries for safekeeping.1834 年，州立图书馆由从各天主教修道院运抵弗里堡保存的书籍汇集而成。
• The College St. Michel was closed after the Jesuits were expelled from Fribourg following the canton's defeat in the Sonderbund war of 1847.1847 年弗里堡州在分离同盟战争中战败后，耶稣会士被逐出弗里堡，圣米歇尔学院随之关闭。
• In 1886 Georges Python, founder of the cantonal bank and a State Counsellor, became Director of Public Education and began to raise funds for a university, collecting money through a lottery.1886 年，州立银行创办人、州参事乔治·皮托恩出任公共教育总监，开始为筹办大学募款，并以发行彩票的方式筹措资金。
• The canton of Fribourg granted about 2,500,000 Swiss francs for the project, the cantonal library was integrated with that of the new university, and the academy became the Faculty of Law.弗里堡州为此拨出约 250 万瑞士法郎，州立图书馆并入新大学的图书馆，法律学院也随之升格为法学院。
• The University of Fribourg was finally created in 1889 by an Act of the parliament of the Swiss canton of Fribourg.弗里堡大学最终于 1889 年由瑞士弗里堡州议会的一项法案正式创建。
• The university seal, showing a cross and a bishop's ring on a black and white shield, reflects its Catholic ethos and the colours of the canton of Fribourg.该校校徽以黑白盾牌上的十字架与主教戒指为图案，体现其天主教底蕴与弗里堡州的色彩。
• Although many lectures were originally given in Latin, the university became the only French and German bilingual university in the world, with roughly 45 per cent French and 55 per cent German in its student body.尽管最初许多课程以拉丁语讲授，该校后来成为全球唯一的法语与德语双语大学，其学生中约 45% 用法语、55% 用德语。
• In 1939 the university moved to a new campus built on the former cemetery of Misericorde, handing over St. Michel to a Fribourg gymnasium that took the name College St. Michel.1939 年，该校迁入建于原米泽里科尔德公墓之上的新校区，把圣米歇尔交予一所弗里堡中学，该校遂以「圣米歇尔学院」为名。
• The Misericorde building was constructed between 1939 and 1942 to designs by the architects Honegger and Dumas, who had studied under the Swiss architect Le Corbusier.米泽里科尔德大楼建于 1939 至 1942 年，由建筑师奥内格与迪马设计，二人曾是瑞士建筑师勒·柯布西耶的学生。
• During the Second World War the university set up "university camps", together with the University of Zürich and the Handels-Hochschule in St. Gallen, to educate Polish prisoners of war.二战期间，该校与苏黎世大学、圣加仑商科高校一道设立「大学营」，为波兰战俘提供教育。
• The Pérolles campus was constructed on the site of a former wagon factory, expanding the university's facilities beyond the Misericorde site.佩罗勒校区建于原马车工厂的旧址之上，把该校的设施扩展至米泽里科尔德之外。
• To commemorate the centenary of the university, La Poste issued a stamp in 1989 depicting the figures Science and Sagesse.为纪念建校一百周年，瑞士邮政于 1989 年发行了一枚印有「科学」与「智慧」形象的邮票。
• In 2005 the university inaugurated its Pérolles 2 campus, to which the Faculty of Economics and Social Science relocated.2005 年该校启用佩罗勒 2 校区，经济与社会科学学院随之迁入。
• The Faculty of Science and Medicine was founded in 1896 and today comprises seven departments, including biology, chemistry, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine and physics.科学与医学院成立于 1896 年，今日下设生物、化学、地球科学、计算机科学、数学、医学与物理七个系。
• For the 2009 to 2010 academic year the university launched a Master of Laws in Cross-Cultural Business Practice, an LL.M taught entirely in English.自 2009 至 2010 学年起，该校开设「跨文化商务实践法学硕士」，全部以英语授课。
• On 1 August 2025 the Faculty of Education was formed through a merger with the Haute école pédagogique of Fribourg, giving the university a sixth faculty.2025 年 8 月 1 日，该校与弗里堡高等师范学院合并组建教育学院，使学校拥有第六个学院。
• Katharina Fromm became rector of the university in February 2024, leading an institution with six faculties and about 10,000 students.卡塔琳娜·弗洛姆于 2024 年 2 月出任该校校长，领导这所拥有六个学院、约 1 万名学生的高校。
• The town itself is about 70 per cent French-speaking and 30 per cent German-speaking, which explains why French has long remained dominant in university administration.弗里堡市本身约 70% 人口讲法语、30% 讲德语，这也解释了为何法语长期在大学管理中占据主导。

Academics

• The university is divided into six faculties: theology, law, humanities, management and economics and social sciences, science and medicine, and education.该校分六个学院：神学院、法学院、人文学院、管理与经济及社会科学学院、科学与医学学院以及教育学院。
• The Faculty of Humanities is the largest, with about 4,600 students studying philosophy, history, languages, literature, education, psychology and social sciences.人文学院规模最大，约有 4600 名学生修读哲学、历史、语言、文学、教育、心理学与社会科学。
• The Faculty of Law has about 1,900 students, and its programme covers national and international law, both of which can be followed bilingually.法学院约有 1900 名学生，其课程涵盖国内法与国际法，两者都可以双语修读。
• The Faculty of Theology is the largest and most international in Switzerland, and with Lucerne it is one of only two state faculties of Catholic theology in the country.神学院是瑞士规模最大、国际化程度最高的神学院，与卢塞恩的同类学院并列为该国仅有的两所国立天主教神学院。
• About 1,400 students are enrolled in the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, which groups business management, economics, computer science and media and communication.管理与经济及社会科学学院约有 1400 名学生，下设工商管理、经济学、计算机科学以及媒体与传播等方向。
• The Faculty of Science and Medicine, founded in 1896, covers fourteen fields including biochemistry, biology, chemistry, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, pharmacy and physics.科学与医学学院成立于 1896 年，涵盖生物化学、生物学、化学、地球科学、计算机科学、数学、医学、药学与物理学等十四个领域。
• The Adolphe Merkle Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute of the Faculty of Science, focuses on soft nanomaterials.阿道夫·默克尔研究所是理学院的跨学科研究机构，专注于软纳米材料。
• The university has developed FriMat, a centre of excellence in nanotechnology, and maintains the international institute of management in technology within its economics faculty.该校建有纳米技术卓越中心 FriMat，并在其经济学院内设有国际技术管理研究所。
• Students number about 10,000, taught by more than 200 tenured professors and around 700 other academic teaching and research staff.该校学生约 1 万人，由 200 多位终身教授以及约 700 名其他学术教学与研究人员承担教学。
• Women make up a large majority of the student body, reaching 67.5 per cent in 2025, although they remain underrepresented among professors.女性在学生中占多数，2025 年达到 67.5%，但在教授群体中仍占比偏低。
• The university offers more than 50 bachelor's programmes and more than 50 master's and specialised master's programmes across 14 academic disciplines.该校在 14 个学科门类下开设 50 多个本科项目以及 50 多个硕士与专业硕士项目。
• As part of the BeNeFri association with the universities of Berne and Neuchâtel, students may take courses at another member university and still receive credit at their home institution.作为与伯尔尼大学、纳沙泰尔大学组成的 BeNeFri 联盟成员，学生可在联盟内其他大学修课并在母校获得学分。
• The Department of Classical Philology and the Faculty of Theology have produced leading scholarship, and the university holds the third largest collection of Biblical antiquities in the world, after the British Museum and the Cairo Museum.其古典语文学系与神学院产出领先的学术成果，学校还收藏有仅次于大英博物馆与开罗博物馆、位居世界第三的圣经文物藏品。
• Fribourg follows the requirements of the Bologna process, and its degrees include the bachelor's, master's and doctorate in place of the former licence and DEA qualifications.弗里堡大学遵循博洛尼亚进程的要求，其学位包括学士、硕士与博士，取代了此前的文凭与高等研究文凭资格。
• The university's academic staff is international, drawing professors and researchers from around the world and hosting students from every part of Switzerland.该校教师队伍国际化，教授与研究人员来自世界各地，学生则来自瑞士各个地区。
• The Adolphe Merkle Institute and FriMat carry out research on soft nanomaterials, and the university also works with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology on nanotechnology.阿道夫·默克尔研究所与 FriMat 开展软纳米材料研究，该校还与瑞士联邦理工学院在纳米技术方面开展合作。
• The Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences also hosts the Verbandsmanagement Institute, which researches the management of associations and non-profit organisations.管理与经济及社会科学学院还设有协会管理研究所，专门研究协会与非营利组织的管理。

Campus

• Fribourg has no central campus, and its buildings are dispersed throughout the city, so that the university is woven into the urban fabric of Fribourg.弗里堡大学没有中心校园，其建筑散布于全城，因此学校深深融入弗里堡的城市肌理之中。
• The Misericorde site houses the humanities and the central administration, including the university's famous Senate room.米泽里科尔德园区设有人文学科与校方中央行政机构，其中包括该校著名的参议院厅。
• The Pérolles site accommodates the science departments, while the Pérolles 2 campus, inaugurated in 2005, houses economics and social sciences.佩罗勒园区容纳理科各系，而 2005 年启用的佩罗勒 2 校区则设经济与社会科学。
• The Regina Mundi building houses psychology, and the Bonnesfontaines site is used for pedagogy and teacher education.雷吉娜·蒙迪大楼设心理学，博讷丰丹园区则用于教育学与教师教育。
• The Cantonal and University Library of Fribourg, known as the BCU, occupies the central library building and serves both the university and the public.弗里堡州立与大学图书馆（简称 BCU）设于中央图书馆大楼，同时服务大学与公众。
• The Pierre Aeby building accommodates the Department of Classical Philology, and the Stade St. Léonard serves as the university stadium.皮埃尔·阿埃比大楼设古典语文学系，圣莱奥纳尔体育场则作为该校的大学体育场。
• The Misericorde campus was built between 1939 and 1942 to designs by Honegger and Dumas, former students of Le Corbusier.米泽里科尔德校区建于 1939 至 1942 年，由勒·柯布西耶的前学生奥内格与迪马设计。
• The Pérolles campus stands on the site of a former wagon factory, reflecting the university's reuse of industrial land as it grew.佩罗勒校区位于原马车工厂的旧址，体现该校在扩张过程中对工业用地的再利用。
• The city of Fribourg lies on the Sarine river on the linguistic border between French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland, and the university buildings line the old town and the newer districts.弗里堡市位于萨林河畔，地处瑞士法语区与德语区的语言分界上，该校建筑沿老城与较新城区分布。
• The university's logo is a blue stylised letter F with triangles echoing the facade of the Misericorde building and symbolising the Alps, beside the university name in Latin.该校标识是一个蓝色风格化字母 F，其三角形既呼应米泽里科尔德大楼的立面，又象征阿尔卑斯山，旁边配以拉丁文的校名。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Fribourg is placed 670th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，弗里堡大学位列世界第 670 位。 ^[1]
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 401 to 450 band worldwide.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列于世界第 401 至 450 区间。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026 to 2027 the university is placed 682nd in the world.2026 至 2027 年版《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳全球大学排名将该校列为世界第 682 位。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, compiled by ShanghaiRanking, places it in the 901 to 1000 band worldwide.上海软科编制的 2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列于世界第 901 至 1000 区间。
• OpenAlex attributes 39,740 works and 2,138,614 citations to the university, reflecting a research output spread across the humanities, sciences and medicine.OpenAlex 为该校收录 39,740 篇成果、被引用 2,138,614 次，体现出其横跨人文、自然科学与医学的科研产出。
• The university is known across Switzerland and beyond for its bilingual teaching and for the international character of its Faculty of Theology.该校以其双语教学及其神学院的国际化特色，在瑞士国内外都颇具知名度。
• Its research strengths include nanotechnology through FriMat and the Adolphe Merkle Institute, biblical studies, law and the social sciences.其科研优势包括依托 FriMat 与阿道夫·默克尔研究所的纳米技术、圣经研究、法学以及社会科学。
• Fribourg's biblical antiquities collection, the third largest in the world after the British Museum and the Cairo Museum, is a distinctive scholarly asset.弗里堡的圣经文物收藏仅次于大英博物馆与开罗博物馆、位居世界第三，是该校独特的学术资产。
• As a mid-sized Swiss university, Fribourg combines a comfortable scale with a wide range of courses, allowing close interdisciplinary and personal contact between students and staff.作为一所中等规模的瑞士大学，弗里堡兼具舒适的规模与广泛的课程，使师生之间能够保持紧密的跨学科与个人接触。
• Its research is supported by competitive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the university collaborates within the BeNeFri network of Berne, Neuchâtel and Fribourg.其研究获得瑞士国家科学基金会的竞争性资助，该校并在伯尔尼、纳沙泰尔与弗里堡组成的 BeNeFri 网络内开展合作。

Student life

• The university's motto, Partager les savoirs – gemeinsam Wissen schaffen, expresses its commitment to sharing knowledge in both French and German.该校校训以法语与德语表达其共享知识的承诺，其意为「分享知识，共同创造知识」。
• Dies Academicus is held each November, when no lectures take place, and includes a Mass in the Chapel of the College St. Michel followed by a procession to the Aula Magna.每年 11 月举行「学术日」，当日不安排课程，先在圣米歇尔学院小堂举行弥撒，随后列队前往大礼堂。
• At Dies Academicus the rector and a prominent guest speaker give addresses and honorary degrees are awarded, while student guilds attend in ceremonial dress including swords.在「学术日」上，校长与知名嘉宾发表演讲并授予荣誉学位，学生行会则身着包括佩剑在内的礼服出席。
• Student corporations, similar to the German Studentenverbindungen, meet weekly around a Stammtisch to socialise and sing, and are organised largely along linguistic lines.学生行会类似德国的学生社团，每周围绕「固定餐桌」聚会社交与歌唱，其组织多按语言划分。
• The Day of Welcomes, or Jour d'Accueil, resembles a freshers' week, at which new students are greeted at the Aula Magna by the rector and the mayor of Fribourg.「欢迎日」类似新生周，新学生在礼堂受到校长与弗里堡市长的欢迎。
• During the Day of Welcomes a meal is provided by the city in the university mensa, and new students are expected to dine with the faculty to which they have been admitted.「欢迎日」当天由市政府在大学食堂提供餐食，新生须与其被录取的学院成员一同用餐。
• Fribourg Sunday is an annual collection held throughout Switzerland during Catholic masses, and the funds raised are mainly used to award scholarships to foreign priests by the Faculty of Theology.「弗里堡主日」是每年在全瑞士天主教弥撒中举行的募捐，所得款项主要交由神学院用于资助外国神职人员。
• Student life is closely interwoven with the bilingual city of Fribourg, whose French and German traditions shape the university's cultural calendar.学生生活与双语城市弗里堡紧密交织，其法语与德语传统塑造了这所大学的文化日程。
• The student body is organised through the AGEF, the general association of Fribourg students, which has historically been dominated by French-speaking students.学生群体通过「弗里堡学生总会」（AGEF）组织起来，该组织历史上以法语学生为主。
• Student corporations such as AV Fryburgia belong to the formerly Catholic Schweizerischer Studentenverein, one of Switzerland's oldest student associations.AV Fryburgia 等学生行会隶属于昔日天主教的瑞士学生联合会，后者是瑞士历史最悠久的学生团体之一。

Notable people

• Peter Canisius founded the Jesuit College St. Michel in 1580, the forerunner of the university, and is a saint of the Catholic Church.彼得·卡尼修斯于 1580 年创办圣米歇尔耶稣会学院，即该校的前身，他也是天主教会的圣人。
• Georges Python, founder of the cantonal bank and State Counsellor of Fribourg, directed public education and raised the funds that made the university possible in 1889.州立银行创办人、弗里堡州参事乔治·皮托恩主管公共教育，并筹得使该校得以在 1889 年成立所需的资金。
• Lionel Groulx, the Québécois priest and historian, studied at the university and became a leading figure in French-Canadian nationalism.魁北克神父与历史学家莱昂内尔·格鲁克斯曾在该校求学，后来成为法裔加拿大民族主义的重要人物。
• Eleanor Purdie, who earned a doctorate at Fribourg, was the first woman to obtain a doctorate from the university.在该校取得博士学位的埃莉诺·珀迪，是该校首位获得博士学位的女性。
• Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel, studied at the University of Fribourg and later led the World Zionist Organization.以色列首任总统哈伊姆·魏茨曼曾在弗里堡大学求学，后来领导世界犹太复国主义组织。
• Ignacy Mościcki, who studied at Fribourg, served as President of Poland from 1926 to 1939.曾在弗里堡求学的伊格纳齐·莫希齐茨基于 1926 至 1939 年担任波兰总统。
• Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, studied at the University of Fribourg before ascending the throne.西班牙国王胡安·卡洛斯一世在登基前曾就读于弗里堡大学。
• Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and a driving force behind European integration, was educated at Fribourg.卢森堡首相、欧洲一体化的主要推动者约瑟夫·贝赫曾在弗里堡接受教育。
• Klaus Martin Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, was a professor at the University of Fribourg.世界经济论坛创办人兼执行主席克劳斯·马丁·施瓦布曾任弗里堡大学教授。
• Simonetta Sommaruga, a member of the Swiss Federal Council and President of the Confederation in 2015, is an alumna of the university.瑞士联邦委员会委员、2015 年联邦主席西蒙内塔·索马鲁加是该校校友。
• Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, studied law at the University of Fribourg.国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺曾在弗里堡大学攻读法律。
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello, a United Nations diplomat who served as High Commissioner for Human Rights and was killed in Iraq in 2003, studied at Fribourg.曾任联合国人权事务高级专员、2003 年在伊拉克遇难的联合国外交官塞尔吉奥·维埃拉·德梅洛曾就读于弗里堡。
• Corina Casanova, Federal Chancellor of Switzerland from 2008 to 2015, graduated from the university.2008 至 2015 年任瑞士联邦秘书长的科琳娜·卡萨诺瓦毕业于该校。
• Jean Zermatten, who chaired the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, is associated with the university as an academic.曾任联合国儿童权利委员会主席的让·泽尔马滕以学者身份与该校相关联。