University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow, known in Scottish Gaelic as Oilthigh Ghlaschu, is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland, founded by a papal bull of Pope Nicholas V in 1451 at the suggestion of King James II格拉斯哥大学（苏格兰盖尔语：Oilthigh Ghlaschu）是位于苏格兰格拉斯哥的公立研究型大学，1451 年经教皇尼古拉五世颁布教谕、在国王詹姆斯二世的建议下创办

It is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities, was part of the Scottish Enlightenment, is the second-largest university in Scotland by enrolment and was placed 80th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2027它是英语世界第四古老的大学，也是苏格兰四所古典大学之一，曾是苏格兰启蒙运动的一部分，按在校生计是苏格兰第二大大学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 80 位

History

• The university was founded in 1451 by a charter or papal bull from Pope Nicholas V at the suggestion of King James II, which gave Bishop William Turnbull, a graduate of the University of St Andrews, permission to add a university to the city's cathedral该校由教皇尼古拉五世在国王詹姆斯二世的建议下于 1451 年以教谕形式创办，授权圣安德鲁斯大学毕业生、主教威廉·特恩布尔在这座城市的大教堂旁增设一所大学。
• It is the second-oldest university in Scotland after St Andrews and the fourth-oldest in the English-speaking world, and it is one of only eight institutions to award undergraduate master's degrees in certain disciplines它是继圣安德鲁斯之后苏格兰第二古老的大学、英语世界第四古老的大学，也是仅有的八所在某些学科授予本科学位层次硕士的高校之一。
• The university has been without its original bull since the mid-sixteenth century, when the chancellor Archbishop James Beaton fled to France during the unrest of the Scottish Reformation and took the university's archives and valuables with him该校自十六世纪中叶起便失去了原始的教谕，当时校监詹姆斯·比顿大主教在苏格兰宗教改革的动乱中逃往法国，把大学的档案与贵重物品一并带走。
• In 1690 the principal told the parliamentary commissioners that he had seen the bull at the Scots College in Paris, but by 1738 the college could no longer find the original foundation records, and the bull remains the authority by which the university awards degrees1690 年校长向议会视察专员表示他曾在巴黎的苏格兰学院见过这份教谕，但到 1738 年该学院已找不到原始创校记录，而这份教谕至今仍是大学授予学位的依据。
• Teaching began in the chapter house of Glasgow Cathedral and later moved to Rottenrow in a building known as the Auld Pedagogy, before the university received thirteen acres of Black Friars land on High Street from Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1563教学最初在格拉斯哥大教堂的议事厅进行，后迁至罗滕罗一栋被称为「老教育学舍」的建筑，1563 年苏格兰女王玛丽又把高街上属于黑衣修士会的十三英亩土地授予大学。
• By the late seventeenth century the university centred on two courtyards with walled gardens and a 140-foot clock tower, and fragments of that Scottish Renaissance building were later carried to the new campus as the Pearce Lodge and the Lion and Unicorn Staircase到十七世纪末，校园以两座围墙花园围绕的院落与一座高 140 英尺的钟楼为中心，这座苏格兰文艺复兴建筑的残件后来被移往新校区，成为皮尔斯门楼与狮与独角兽楼梯。
• In 1460 the university received a grant of land from James, Lord Hamilton, on the east side of the High Street, and in the mid-seventeenth century the Hamilton Building was replaced by a grand two-court building called the Nova Erectio, widely considered one of the finest seventeenth-century buildings in Scotland1460 年大学获得汉密尔顿勋爵詹姆斯在高街东侧赠予的土地，十七世纪中叶汉密尔顿楼被一座宏伟的双院建筑「新楼」取代，它被普遍视为苏格兰最精美的十七世纪建筑之一。
• In Sir Walter Scott's 1817 novel Rob Roy, the lead character fights a duel in the New Building grounds before the contest is broken up by Rob Roy MacGregor, a detail that shows the building's place in Scottish memory在沃尔特·司各特 1817 年的小说《罗布·罗伊》中，主人公在新楼场地上与人决斗，直到被罗布·罗伊·麦格雷戈打断，这一细节可见该建筑在苏格兰记忆中的地位。
• In 1757 the university built the Macfarlane Observatory and later Scotland's first public museum, the Hunterian, becoming a centre of the Scottish Enlightenment and subsequently of the Industrial Revolution1757 年大学建成麦克法兰天文台，后又创办苏格兰第一座公共博物馆亨特里安博物馆，成为苏格兰启蒙运动乃至工业革命的中心之一。
• In 1769 James Watt's work at Glasgow led to a stable steam engine and helped to set off the Industrial Revolution, and engineering has been taught at the university since 1840, when Queen Victoria founded the first chair of engineering in the United Kingdom1769 年詹姆斯·瓦特在格拉斯哥的研究促成了稳定的蒸汽机并助推工业革命，而工程学自 1840 年起在该校开设，当年维多利亚女王设立了英国第一个工程学教席。
• John Anderson, professor of natural philosophy, pioneered vocational education for working men and women during the Industrial Revolution, and in his will founded Anderson's College, which later became the University of Strathclyde in 1964自然哲学教授约翰·安德森在工业革命期间开创了面向工人男女的职业教育，并在遗嘱中创办安德森学院，该学院后来于 1964 年发展为斯特拉斯克莱德大学。
• In 1870 the university moved about three miles west to a greenfield site on Gilmorehill in the West End of the city, enclosed by a large meander of the River Kelvin, and the old High Street site was sold to the City of Glasgow Union Railway1870 年大学西迁约三英里，迁至城市西端克莱德河大弯道环绕的吉尔莫希尔荒地，原高街校址则出售给格拉斯哥市联合铁路公司。
• The new campus was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style, its largest building echoing the twin-quadrangle layout of the old High Street campus on a far grander scale and possibly inspired by the cloth hall of Ypres新校区由乔治·吉尔伯特·斯科特爵士以哥特复兴风格设计，其中最大的建筑以远为宏大的尺度呼应旧高街校区的双院布局，可能还受到伊普尔中世纪布厅的启发。
• In 1879 Scott's son Oldrid completed the design by adding an open undercroft forming two quadrangles with the grand Bute Hall above it, named after its donor the third Marquess of Bute, and in 1887 he added a spire bringing the tower to about 278 feet1879 年斯科特之子奥尔德里德完成设计，加建敞廊形成两座方院，其上是大厅布特堂，以捐赠者布特侯爵三世命名，1887 年他又加建尖顶，使塔楼总高约 278 英尺。
• The main building is the second-largest example of Gothic revival architecture in Britain after the Palace of Westminster, and although clad in local blond sandstone it rests on a cutting-edge riveted iron frame supporting a lightweight timber roof主楼是英国仅次于威斯敏斯特宫的哥特复兴建筑，虽以本地浅色砂岩为外饰，其结构却是当时最前沿的铆接铁框架，支撑轻质木梁屋顶。
• The School of Veterinary Medicine, founded in 1862, moved to a new campus at the leafy Garscube Estate about two miles west of the main campus in 1954, taking the sports ground and some student halls with it创办于 1862 年的兽医学院于 1954 年迁往主校区以西约两英里、绿树环绕的加尔斯丘贝庄园新校区，运动场与部分学生宿舍也一并迁往那里。
• In October 2001 the century-old Bower Building was gutted by fire, its interior and roof largely destroyed although the main façade survived, and after a refit costing 10.8 million pounds it reopened in November 20042001 年 10 月，有百年历史的鲍尔楼在大火中被烧毁，内部与屋顶大部分损毁，但主立面得以保存，经 1,080 万英镑翻修后于 2004 年 11 月重新开放。
• In 1973 Delphine Parrott became its first female professor, as Gardiner Professor of Immunology, and in October 2014 the university became the first academic institution in Europe to divest from the fossil fuel industry after a campaign by over 1,300 students1973 年德尔芬·帕罗特成为该校首位女教授，出任加德纳免疫学教授；2014 年 10 月，在 1,300 多名学生发起的运动推动下，该校成为欧洲首家从化石燃料行业撤资的学术机构。
• In 2017 the Mathematics Building was demolished to make way for a learning hub built at a cost of 90.6 million pounds, which opened in April 2021 and is named for James McCune Smith, the first African American to earn a degree in medicine and a Glasgow alumnus2017 年数学楼被拆除，为耗资 9,060 万英镑的学习中心让路，该中心于 2021 年 4 月启用，以首位取得医学学位的非裔美国人、该校校友詹姆斯·麦丘恩·史密斯命名。

Academics

• The university is organised into four colleges, each containing a number of schools: Arts and Humanities, Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Science and Engineering, and Social Sciences学校设有四个学院，各含若干学系，分别是人文与艺术学院、医学兽医与生命科学学院、科学与工程学院以及社会科学学院。
• The College of Science and Engineering includes chemistry, computing science, the James Watt School of Engineering, geographical and earth sciences, mathematics and statistics and physics and astronomy科学与工程学院包括化学、计算机科学、詹姆斯·瓦特工程学院、地理与地球科学、数学与统计以及物理与天文等学系。
• The College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences contains schools of biodiversity and veterinary medicine, cancer sciences, cardiovascular and metabolic health, health and wellbeing, infection and immunity, medicine, dentistry and nursing, molecular biosciences and psychology and neuroscience医学兽医与生命科学学院设有生物多样性与兽医学、癌症科学、心血管与代谢健康、健康与福祉、感染与免疫、医学牙科与护理、分子生物科学以及心理学与神经科学等学系。
• The College of Social Sciences is home to the Adam Smith Business School, the School of Education, the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability at the Crichton campus in Dumfries, the School of Law and the School of Social and Political Sciences社会科学学院下设亚当·斯密商学院、教育学院、位于邓弗里斯克里克顿校区的社会与环境可持续性学院、法学院以及社会与政治科学学院。
• At its foundation in 1451 the university had four faculties, arts, divinity, law and medicine, although formal teaching in medicine did not begin until 1714 with the revival of the chair in the practice of medicine1451 年创校时大学设有文学、神学、法律与医学四个学院，不过医学的正式教学直到 1714 年随临床医学教席的恢复才开始。
• The Faculty of Science was formed in 1893 from chairs removed from arts and medicine, the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1977, and in 2010 the former faculties were replaced by the present system of four larger colleges to encourage interdisciplinary research理学院于 1893 年由从文学院与医学院析出的教席组成，社会科学学院成立于 1977 年，2010 年原有学院改为如今的四大学院制，以鼓励跨学科研究。
• The annual income of the university for 2024-25 was 1.05 billion pounds, of which 241.1 million came from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of 982.8 million pounds该校 2024 至 2025 年度收入为 10.5 亿英镑，其中 2.411 亿英镑来自科研拨款与合同，支出为 9.828 亿英镑。
• Its endowment of 283.1 million pounds in 2025 is the fifth-largest of any university in the United Kingdom, and its net assets reached 1.409 billion pounds其 2025 年捐赠基金为 2.831 亿英镑，在英国各大学中位列第五，净资产达 14.09 亿英镑。
• Glasgow University Library occupies a twelve-storey building on Hillhead Street, opened in 1968, and holds about 2.5 million books and journals together with more than fifty thousand electronic journals and important special collections格拉斯哥大学图书馆位于希尔黑德街一座 1968 年启用的十二层建筑中，藏书与期刊约 250 万册，另有五万多种电子期刊与重要的特藏。
• Subject libraries exist for medicine, chemistry, dental medicine, veterinary medicine, education, law, history of art and the social sciences, while the university archives maintain records created since the foundation in 1451学校另设医学、化学、牙医学、兽医学、教育、法律、艺术史与社会科学等分馆，大学档案室则保存着自 1451 年创校以来形成的各类记录。
• The Hunterian, Scotland's first public museum, and the related Hunterian Gallery are housed in and beside the Main Building, and the gallery includes the Mackintosh House, rebuilt and furnished after the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh苏格兰第一座公共博物馆亨特里安博物馆及相关美术馆设于主楼内外，美术馆另包含按建筑师查尔斯·雷尼·麦金托什原貌重建与布置的麦金托什故居。
• The university has fifteen Regius Professorships, more than any other university in the United Kingdom, and it is a member of the Russell Group and a founding member of Universitas 21学校拥有十五个钦定教授席位，数量超过英国任何其他大学，同时是罗素集团成员与 Universitas 21 的创始成员。
• Admission is highly selective: for 2025 the university received 37,925 undergraduate applications and accepted 6,360, an offer rate of 68.9 per cent, and its average entrant achieved 215 tariff points, the highest in the United Kingdom录取竞争激烈：2025 年学校收到 37,925 份本科申请、录取 6,360 人，录取率为 68.9%，其新生平均入学分达 215 分，为全英最高。
• In the 2008 research assessment exercise almost seventy per cent of research was placed in the top two categories, eighteen subject areas were rated in the United Kingdom top ten and fourteen were rated the best in Scotland在 2008 年的科研评估中，近七成研究进入最高两档，十八个学科领域进入全英前十、十四个被评为苏格兰最佳。
• The university's institutional repository records and makes available research output in the form of publications and theses, and its research system holds data on all institutional research including financial and personnel information大学的机构仓储以出版物与学位论文的形式记录并公开研究成果，其科研信息系统则保存包括经费与人员信息在内的校内全部科研数据。
• The Glasgow Coma Scale, a standard measure of consciousness widely used in medicine, was developed at the university in 1974 by the professors Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett在医学上广泛使用的意识评估标准格拉斯哥昏迷量表，由格雷厄姆·蒂斯代尔与布赖恩·詹尼特两位教授于 1974 年在该校开发。
• The university's four colleges teach across the Gilmorehill campus and its partner sites, and the Crichton campus in Dumfries offers modular liberal arts degrees and the region's only access to postgraduate study学校四大学院的教学分布于吉尔莫希尔校区及其合作地点，邓弗里的克里克顿校区提供模块化的人文科学学位，也是该地区唯一的研究生教育入口。

Campus

• The main campus has been at Gilmorehill in the city's West End since 1870, and further buildings stand elsewhere, including the veterinary school at Garscube, the dental school in the city centre and the Crichton campus in Dumfries主校区自 1870 年起位于城市西端的吉尔莫希尔，另有建筑分布于其他地点，包括加尔斯丘贝的兽医学院、市中心的牙科学校以及邓弗里的克里克顿校区。
• The Gothic revival Main Building, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and clad in Bishopbriggs blond sandstone, is the second-largest Gothic revival building in Britain and once appeared on the reverse of Clydesdale Bank hundred-pound notes哥特复兴风格的主楼由乔治·吉尔伯特·斯科特爵士设计、以毕晓普布里格斯浅色砂岩为外饰，是英国第二大哥特复兴建筑，其图像曾出现在克莱兹代尔银行百镑纸币背面。
• Bute Hall, above the undercroft that forms the two quadrangles of the Main Building, is used for examinations and graduation ceremonies and is named after its donor John Crichton-Stuart, the third Marquess of Bute位于形成主楼两座方院的敞廊之上的布特堂，用于考试与毕业典礼，以捐赠者约翰·克里顿-斯图尔特、布特侯爵三世命名。
• The round Reading Room of the 1930s is now a category-A listed building, and the university in that decade acquired several terraces of Victorian houses and joined them internally to house psychology, computing science and much of the arts faculty二十世纪三十年代建成的圆形阅览室如今是 A 类保护建筑，同一时期大学购得多排维多利亚式联排住宅并在内部连通，用于安置心理学、计算机科学与大部分文学院系。
• The James Watt Engineering Building was completed in 1959 on the eastern flank of the Main Building, and the 1960s brought a wave of modernist and brutalist buildings including the Adam Smith Building of 1967 and the Rankine Building of 1970詹姆斯·瓦特工程楼于 1959 年在主楼东侧建成，二十世纪六十年代又兴建了一批现代主义与粗野主义建筑，包括 1967 年的亚当·斯密楼与 1970 年的兰金楼。
• The University Chapel was built as a memorial to the 755 sons of the university who died in the First World War, was designed by Sir John Burnet, was completed in 1929 and was dedicated on 4 October of that year大学礼拜堂是为纪念一战中阵亡的 755 名大学子弟而建，由约翰·伯内特爵士设计，1929 年建成并于当年 10 月 4 日祝圣。
• Tablets behind the communion table list the names of the First World War dead, while further tablets record the 405 members of the university community who gave their lives in the Second World War圣餐桌后的铭牌列出了一战阵亡者姓名，另有铭牌记录二战中捐躯的 405 名大学成员。
• The university has halls of residence in and around the north-west of the city accommodating about 3,500 students, including the Murano Street Student Village in Maryhill, Wolfson halls at Garscube and Queen Margaret halls in Kelvinside学校在城市西北部及其周边设有可容纳约 3,500 名学生的宿舍，包括马里希尔的穆拉诺街学生村、加尔斯丘贝的沃尔夫森宿舍与凯尔文赛德的玛格丽特女王宿舍。
• The Stevenson Building on Gilmorehill, opened in 1961, provides a fitness suite, squash courts, a sauna and a six-lane twenty-five metre swimming pool, and the university also runs a large sports complex on the Garscube Estate1961 年启用的吉尔莫希尔史蒂文森楼设有健身房、壁球场、桑拿房与六泳道 25 米泳池，学校还在加尔斯丘贝庄园设有大型运动综合设施。
• The Imaging Centre of Excellence opened at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on 29 March 2017, including a clinical innovation zone of eleven thousand square feet for collaboration between researchers and industry卓越影像中心于 2017 年 3 月 29 日在伊丽莎白女王大学医院启用，其中包括 11,000 平方英尺供研究者与产业合作的临床创新区。
• The university partners with Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Life and the National Library of Scotland in the transformed Kelvin Hall, which since September 2016 has housed the Hunterian Collections and Study Centre学校与格拉斯哥市议会、格拉斯哥生活机构以及苏格兰国家图书馆合作改造凯尔文厅，该建筑自 2016 年 9 月起容纳亨特里安收藏与研究中心。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Glasgow is placed 80th in the world, one of the strongest positions held by a Scottish university and a recovery from its peak of 51st in 2013在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，格拉斯哥大学位列世界第 80 位，是苏格兰高校中的领先位置，也是对其 2013 年第 51 位峰值的一种回稳。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places the university 83rd in the world, and the U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks it 77th and among the leading British universities in that table2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为世界第 83 位，2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将其列为第 77 位，在该榜单中位居英国高校前列。
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2025 the university stands in the 101 to 150 band, and in the national tables it has ranked fifteenth in The Times and The Sunday Times and twenty-first in The Guardian在 2025 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位于 101 至 150 区间，在国内榜单中则位列《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》第 15 位、《卫报》第 21 位。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 199,956 works to the university with 25,901,081 citations, and its income of 1.05 billion pounds in 2024-25 places it among the largest universities in the United Kingdom by turnoverOpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 199,956 篇成果、被引 25,901,081 次，其 2024 至 2025 年度 10.5 亿英镑的收入使其成为英国营业额最大的大学之一。
• Eight Nobel laureates are associated with the university, among them the chemists William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy, the physicist Lord Kelvin, the pharmacologist John Boyd Orr and the astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered radio pulsars与该校相关的诺贝尔奖得主有八位，其中包括化学家威廉·拉姆齐与弗雷德里克·索迪、物理学家开尔文勋爵、药理学家约翰·博伊德·奥尔以及发现射电脉冲星的天文学家乔斯林·贝尔·伯内尔。
• Three prime ministers of the United Kingdom studied at Glasgow, William Lamb, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Bonar Law, and three Scottish First Ministers, Donald Dewar, Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, are also alumni三位英国首相——威廉·兰姆、亨利·坎贝尔-班纳曼爵士与博纳·劳——曾在格拉斯哥就读，苏格兰的三位首席部长唐纳德·杜瓦、尼古拉·斯特金与胡姆扎·优素福同样是该校校友。
• The economist Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, and the philosopher Francis Hutcheson, a founder of the Scottish Enlightenment, both taught at the university《国富论》作者、经济学家亚当·斯密与苏格兰启蒙运动奠基人之一、哲学家弗朗西斯·哈奇森都曾在该校任教。
• The engineer James Watt, whose improvements to the steam engine powered the Industrial Revolution, the physicist Lord Kelvin, who gave his name to the absolute temperature scale, and the surgeon Joseph Lister, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, were all associated with Glasgow改良蒸汽机以推动工业革命的工程师詹姆斯·瓦特、以绝对温标留名的物理学家开尔文勋爵，以及防腐外科的先驱、外科医生约瑟夫·利斯特都与格拉斯哥相关。
• James Wilson, a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, and Albert Einstein, who delivered the first Gibson Lecture in June 1933 and later received an honorary degree, are also linked to the university签署美国《独立宣言》的詹姆斯·威尔逊，以及 1933 年 6 月作首场吉布森讲座、后来获授名誉学位的阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦，也与该校有所关联。
• Glasgow is a member of the Russell Group and of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, and in national rankings it places within the top thirty in the United Kingdom and third in Scotland for graduate employability as judged by recruiters格拉斯哥是罗素集团与欧洲研究型大学协会成员，在全国排名中其毕业生就业力位居英国前三十、苏格兰第三，这一评价来自各大企业的招聘方。

Student life

• The motto of the university is the Latin phrase Via, Veritas, Vita, meaning the way, the truth, the life, and its colours are black and gold学校校训为拉丁语「Via、Veritas、Vita」，意为「道路、真理与生命」，其校色为黑与金。
• Unlike other Scottish universities Glasgow has no single students' association, but instead a Students' Representative Council, two independent students' unions, the Glasgow University Union and the Queen Margaret Union, and a sports association与苏格兰其他大学不同，格拉斯哥没有统一的学生会，而是设有学生代表委员会、两个独立的学生会即格拉斯哥大学学生会与玛格丽特女王学生会，以及一个体育协会。
• The two unions exist because the university was once male-only: the Glasgow University Union was founded before the admission of women, while the Queen Margaret Union began as the union of Queen Margaret College, a women's college that merged with the university in 1892两个学生会的并存源于该校曾只招男生：格拉斯哥大学学生会在招收女性之前就已成立，而玛格丽特女王学生会最初是 1892 年并入大学的女子学院玛格丽特女王学院的学生会。
• The Queen Margaret Union is one of Glasgow's music venues and has played host to Nirvana, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biffy Clyro and Franz Ferdinand, while the Glasgow University Union is known for debating玛格丽特女王学生会是格拉斯哥的音乐演出场地之一，曾接待涅槃乐队、红辣椒乐队、比菲·克莱罗与弗朗茨·斐迪南，格拉斯哥大学学生会则以辩论见长。
• The Glasgow University Union won the Observer Mace in 1955 and has won the debating championship fourteen more times than any other university, as well as the World Universities Debating Championships five times, more than any other club in the series格拉斯哥大学学生会 1955 年赢得《观察家报》权杖，此后又十四次夺得该辩论冠军，次数超过任何其他大学，还五度赢得世界大学辩论锦标赛，参赛机构中无人能及。
• None of the university's student bodies is affiliated to the National Union of Students, since membership has been rejected several times, most recently in November 2006 when a student-run campaign won a campus referendum with more than ninety per cent of the vote该校的学生组织均不隶属于英国全国学生联合会，会籍问题多次被否决，最近一次是在 2006 年 11 月，学生发起的反对运动在全校公投中以逾九成票数胜出。
• The Students' Representative Council, recognised by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889 as the legal representative body for students, funds around 130 clubs and societies and organises Media Week, Rag Week and Welfare Week学生代表委员会依 1889 年《苏格兰大学法》被认定为学生的法定代表机构，资助约 130 个社团，并组织媒体周、慈善募捐周与福祉周。
• Student media include the newspaper Glasgow University Guardian, Glasgow University Magazine, Glasgow University Student Television and Subcity Radio, all editorially independent of the Students' Representative Council学生媒体包括报纸《格拉斯哥大学卫报》、《格拉斯哥大学杂志》、格拉斯哥大学学生电视台与 Subcity 电台，在编辑上均独立于学生代表委员会。
• The Glasgow University Sports Association regulates sporting affairs and works with the Sport and Recreation Service, and its varied clubs compete regularly in British Universities and Colleges Sport competitions格拉斯哥大学体育协会负责管理体育事务并与体育与休闲服务部门协作，其各类社团定期参加英国高校体育联赛。

Notable people

• Bishop William Turnbull, a graduate of St Andrews, was granted permission by the papal bull of 1451 to found the university beside Glasgow Cathedral, and his foundation made Glasgow the second-oldest university in Scotland圣安德鲁斯毕业生威廉·特恩布尔主教依 1451 年的教谕获准在格拉斯哥大教堂旁创办大学，这一创举使格拉斯哥成为苏格兰第二古老的大学。
• Adam Smith, the economist whose Wealth of Nations of 1776 founded modern economics, taught at Glasgow, as did Francis Hutcheson, whose moral philosophy shaped the Scottish Enlightenment1776 年以《国富论》奠定现代经济学的经济学家亚当·斯密曾在格拉斯哥任教，其道德哲学塑造了苏格兰启蒙运动的弗朗西斯·哈奇森亦然。
• James Watt, whose separate condenser made the steam engine efficient and helped to launch the Industrial Revolution, worked at the university, and Lord Kelvin, the physicist who gave his name to the absolute scale of temperature, was a student and later a professor there以分离冷凝器使蒸汽机高效、助推工业革命的詹姆斯·瓦特曾在该校工作，以绝对温标留名的物理学家开尔文勋爵先在此求学、后任教授。
• Joseph Lister, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery who taught at Glasgow, introduced carbolic acid to sterilise wounds here, and William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy both received Nobel Prizes in Chemistry for their work on gases and radioactivity在格拉斯哥任教的防腐外科先驱约瑟夫·利斯特在此引入石炭酸为伤口消毒，威廉·拉姆齐与弗雷德里克·索迪则因气体与放射性研究先后获得诺贝尔化学奖。
• John Boyd Orr, who took the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949 for his work on nutrition and world food supply, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, were both associated with the university因营养学与世界粮食供给研究于 1949 年获诺贝尔和平奖的约翰·博伊德·奥尔，以及 1967 年发现首批射电脉冲星的乔斯林·贝尔·伯内尔，都与该校相关。
• James Wilson, a graduate, was one of the signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence and later an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States毕业生詹姆斯·威尔逊是美国《独立宣言》签署人之一，后来还出任美国最高法院大法官。
• William Lamb, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Bonar Law, three prime ministers of the United Kingdom, studied at the university, and Donald Dewar, Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, three Scottish First Ministers, are also alumni威廉·兰姆、亨利·坎贝尔-班纳曼爵士与博纳·劳三位英国首相曾在该校就读，苏格兰的三位首席部长唐纳德·杜瓦、尼古拉·斯特金与胡姆扎·优素福同样是该校校友。
• John Logie Baird, a graduate, gave the world's first public demonstration of a working television, and David Livingstone, the missionary and explorer of Africa, studied medicine at Glasgow毕业生约翰·洛吉·贝尔德完成了世界上第一次可工作电视的公开演示，非洲传教士与探险家戴维·利文斯通则在该校学医。
• Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett, professors at the university, developed the Glasgow Coma Scale in 1974, a standard measure of consciousness that is still used in hospitals worldwide该校教授格雷厄姆·蒂斯代尔与布赖恩·詹尼特于 1974 年开发了格拉斯哥昏迷量表，这一意识评估标准至今仍为世界各地的医院使用。
• Fazle Hasan Abed, who founded the world's largest non-governmental development organisation, BRAC, graduated from the university, and the actor Gerard Butler and the musicians Emeli Sandé and Simon Neil are also alumni创办全球最大非政府发展组织 BRAC 的法兹勒·哈桑·阿贝德毕业于该校，演员杰拉德·巴特勒与音乐人艾梅丽·桑德、西蒙·尼尔同样是该校校友。
• Katherine Grainger, Britain's most decorated female Olympian in rowing and chair of UK Sport, became the university's first woman chancellor, having earlier taken a master's degree in medical law and medical ethics at Glasgow英国获奖最多的女子赛艇奥运选手、英国体育主席凯瑟琳·格兰杰成为该校首位女校监，她早年曾在格拉斯哥取得医疗法与医疗伦理硕士学位。
• Albert Einstein delivered the first Gibson Lecture at the university in June 1933 on his general theory of relativity and later received an honorary degree, a mark of the university's scientific standing in the twentieth century阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦于 1933 年 6 月在该校作首场吉布森讲座、讲述广义相对论，此后获授名誉学位，这体现了该校在二十世纪的科学地位。