University of Gothenburg

The University of Gothenburg, in Swedish Göteborgs universitet and usually abbreviated GU, is a public university in Gothenburg, Sweden, founded in 1891 and the third-oldest of the universities operating in the country today.哥德堡大学瑞典语作「Göteborgs universitet」，通常简称 GU，是位于瑞典哥德堡的公立大学，1891 年创办，为今日瑞典在办大学中第三古老者。

It is placed 225th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 219th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 177th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, while it is not listed in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 225，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 219，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 177，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未收录该校。

The university is organised into eight faculties and 38 departments, and its 2024 figures record 57,779 students, 30,309 full-time equivalent students, 1,946 doctoral students and 6,692 employees.学校下设 8 个学院与 38 个系，2024 年数据记录学生 57,779 人、全日制当量学生 30,309 人、博士生 1,946 人、雇员 6,692 人。

History

• The idea of a free academy in Gothenburg was raised by prominent local citizens in the late nineteenth century, and in 1864 the proposal was put before the public in the Gothenburg Trade and Shipping Gazette.在哥德堡创办一所自由学院的构想由当地头面人物在十九世纪后期提出，1864 年该设想被刊登在《哥德堡贸易与航运报》上公开讨论。

• Gothenburg University College was founded in 1891 with substantial private donations from Fredrik Lundgren, Eduard Magnus, Oscar Ekman and the Carnegie family, and it gradually came to cover the philosophical faculties of humanities, social science and part of the natural sciences.哥德堡大学学院于 1891 年靠弗雷德里克·伦德格伦、爱德华·马格努斯、奥斯卡·埃克曼与卡内基家族的巨额私人捐款创办，其后逐步覆盖人文、社会科学与部分自然科学的哲学类学科。

• The college awarded its first doctorate in 1902, a milestone that showed how quickly the young institution had moved beyond undergraduate teaching.1902 年，学院颁发了第一张博士学位文凭，这一节点显示这所年轻机构已迅速超越本科教学阶段。

• In 1904 the college expanded its humanities provision, creating an English department, separating the arts faculty from the earlier Germanic philology faculty and setting up a classical languages faculty for Greek and Latin.1904 年学院扩充人文学科，设立英语系，把文学院从原先的日耳曼语文学科中分出，并成立分管古希腊语与拉丁语的古典语言学院。

• In 1907 the Swedish government granted the college the same status as Uppsala University and Lund University, turning it into an independent university college and in effect the third university of the country.1907 年瑞典政府授予该学院与乌普萨拉大学、隆德大学同等的地位，使其成为独立的大学学院，实际上也就是瑞典的第三所大学。

• The new home of the college in Vasaparken, completed in 1907, was the third building in Sweden erected for the use of a university institution, after those of Uppsala University and Lund University.学院位于瓦萨公园的新校舍于 1907 年建成，是瑞典继乌普萨拉大学与隆德大学之后第三座专为大学机构建造的校舍。

• The Gothenburg School of Economics was founded as an independent institution in 1923, and the Gothenburg Medical College was established in 1949 and began to admit and teach students in that year.哥德堡商学院于 1923 年作为独立机构成立，哥德堡医学院则于 1949 年成立并自当年起招生授课。

• The University of Gothenburg was formally founded in 1954 through the amalgamation of Gothenburg University College with the Gothenburg Medical College, after which the Swedish government conferred full university rights on the merged institution.哥德堡大学于 1954 年由哥德堡大学学院与哥德堡医学院合并而正式成立，瑞典政府随后授予合并后的机构完整的大学资格。

• During the 1950s and 1960s the university expanded rapidly, its student body rising from about 500 in the late 1940s to roughly 21,000 by the late 1960s as higher education became more widely available after the war.1950 与 1960 年代学校急速扩张，随着战后高等教育日益普及，学生总数由 1940 年代末的约 500 人增至 1960 年代末的约 21,000 人。

• In the 1930s the college became a place of refuge for scholars driven out of Nazi Germany, most notably the philosopher Ernst Cassirer, who taught in Gothenburg from 1935.1930 年代学院成为被纳粹德国驱逐的学者的避居之所，其中最著名的是自 1935 年起在哥德堡任教的哲学家恩斯特·卡西尔。

• In 1964 the university's faculty of philosophy was divided into separate faculties, among them the natural sciences and the social sciences, as the old unity of the philosophical faculty was dissolved.1964 年学校的哲学院被拆分为数个独立学院，其中包括自然科学与社会科学，旧有的哲学学院统一体由此解体。

• The School of Economics was absorbed into the university in 1971 and placed under the Faculty of Social Sciences.商学院于 1971 年被并入哥德堡大学，归入社会科学学院管辖。

• Under Sweden's higher education reform of 1977 the university absorbed more than ten previously independent institutions, among them the music teacher training college, the conservatory, the journalism school and the art industry school.在 1977 年瑞典高等教育改革的推动下，学校并入十余所此前独立的机构，包括音乐师范学院、音乐学院、新闻传播学院与艺术产业学校。

• In 2001 the university and Chalmers University of Technology jointly founded the IT University in Gothenburg, a collaboration that still shapes information technology teaching in the city.2001 年，哥德堡大学与查尔摩斯工学院联合创办了哥德堡 IT 大学，这一合作至今仍塑造着该市的信息技术教学。

• The previously independent School of Business, Economics and Law became part of the university in 2005, and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital was linked to the university as its teaching hospital.此前独立办学的商业经济与法律学院于 2005 年成为哥德堡大学的组成部分，萨爾格林斯卡大学医院则作为教学医院与学校建立联系。

• Over the years the university has continuously merged with independent higher education institutions in the city and widened its study profile, turning itself step by step into a comprehensive research university.多年来学校不断合并市内独立的高教机构并拓宽学科设置，逐步转型为一所综合性研究型大学。

• Malin Broberg took office as vice-chancellor on 1 July 2023, succeeding Eva Wiberg, who had held the post from 2017 and before her Pam Fredman from 2006.马林·布罗贝里于 2023 年 7 月 1 日就任校长，接替 2017 年起任职的埃娃·维贝里，而在此之前自 2006 年起任校长的是帕姆·弗雷德曼。

• The university has always defined itself as an urban institution, and in the 2010s and 2020s it concentrated its departments ever more tightly around the centre of Gothenburg instead of building a single self-contained campus.这所大学始终以城市型学府自我定位，并在 2010 与 2020 年代把各系愈加紧密地集中于哥德堡市中心，而非建造单一自足的校园。

Academics

• The university is a comprehensive public institution organised into eight academic faculties and 38 departments, and collaboration across faculty and subject boundaries is emphasised in its research and education strategies.学校是一所综合性公立大学，下设 8 个学院与 38 个系，其科研与教学战略强调跨学院、跨学科的协作。

• Its eight faculties are the Artistic Faculty, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Humanities, the IT Faculty, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Sahlgrenska Academy for medicine, the School of Business, Economics and Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences.8 个学院分别是艺术学院、教育科学学院、人文学院、信息技术学院、自然科学学院、医学领域的萨爾格林斯卡学院、商业经济与法律学院以及社会科学学院。

• For 2024 the university recorded 57,779 students, of whom 66 per cent were women, 30,309 full-time equivalent students and 7,541 degrees issued at undergraduate and advanced levels.2024 年学校记录在册学生 57,779 人，其中女性占 66%，全日制当量学生 30,309 人，在本科与高级层次共颁发学位 7,541 个。

• Doctoral education in 2024 involved 1,946 doctoral students, 40 per cent of them men, and produced 274 doctoral degrees.2024 年攻读博士学位者 1,946 人，其中男性占 40%，全年授予博士学位 274 个。

• The university employed 6,692 staff in 2024, equal to 5,607 full-time posts, of whom 60 per cent were women.2024 年学校雇员 6,692 人，折合 5,607 个全日制岗位，其中女性占 60%。

• Its total income in 2024 was 8,261 million Swedish kronor, of which 61 per cent came from direct government grants and 39 per cent from external funding.2024 年学校总收入为 82.61 亿瑞典克朗，其中 61% 来自政府直接拨款，39% 来自外部经费。

• The Sahlgrenska Academy has an annual turnover of about 3 billion kronor and 2,148 employees, of whom 744 are researchers and teachers, and research accounts for roughly 75 per cent of its turnover.萨爾格林斯卡学院年营业额约 30 亿克朗，雇员 2,148 人，其中研究员与教师 744 人，科研约占其营业额的 75%。

• OpenAlex attributes 155,662 works and 15,109,512 citations to the university, an output concentrated in the life sciences, medicine, information technology and earth sciences.OpenAlex 收录与该校关联的成果 155,662 项、被引 15,109,512 次，其产出集中于生命科学、医学、信息技术与地球科学等领域。

• The university's recognised strengths lie in medicine and health sciences through the Sahlgrenska Academy, in business and law through its School of Business, Economics and Law, and in the natural sciences and humanities.学校的公认优势在于萨爾格林斯卡学院的医学与健康科学、商业经济与法律学院的商科与法学，以及自然科学与人文学科。

• The Faculty of Humanities comprises cultural studies, history, literature, history of ideas, religion, archaeology, modern languages, philosophy, linguistics and Swedish language and literature.人文学院涵盖文化研究、历史、文学、思想史、宗教、考古学、现代语言、哲学、语言学与瑞典语言文学。

• The Faculty of Social Sciences offers peace and development studies, public administration, journalism, psychology, social anthropology, social work, sociology, political science and European studies.社会科学学院开设和平与发展研究、公共行政、新闻学、心理学、社会人类学、社会工作、社会学、政治学与欧洲研究。

• The Faculty of Natural Sciences covers botany, cell and molecular biology, physics, earth sciences, chemistry, marine ecology, mathematics, environmental science and zoology.自然科学学院涵盖植物学、细胞与分子生物学、物理学、地球科学、化学、海洋生态学、数学、环境科学与动物学。

• The Artistic Faculty teaches design and crafts, film studies, photography, stage, music and fine arts, taught through the Academy of Music and Drama at Artisten.艺术学院开设设计与手工艺、电影研究、摄影、舞台、音乐与美术等方向，由 Artisten 内的音乐与戏剧学院承担教学。

• The Faculty of Education is responsible for teacher training in various subjects, while the IT Faculty offers programmes in applied information technology, computer science and engineering.教育科学学院负责多个学科的师资培养，信息技术学院则开设应用信息技术、计算机科学与工程类课程。

• There are 38 departments in all, many of which rent premises in old stone buildings and other properties in the centre of Gothenburg, so that teaching and research are interwoven with the life of the city.全校共 38 个系，其中不少租用哥德堡市中心的旧石砌建筑与其他物业办公，使教学科研与城市生活交织在一起。

• The university cooperates closely with Chalmers University of Technology, a partnership that increases the total scope of the academic environment in Gothenburg, and it is a member of the EUTOPIA alliance of European universities.学校与查尔摩斯工学院紧密合作，这一伙伴关系扩大了哥德堡整体学术环境的规模，它同时是欧洲 EUTOPIA 大学联盟的成员。

• Research and doctoral training are organised within the faculties, while the vice-chancellor, supported by the central administration, heads the day-to-day management and implements the decisions of the university board.科研与博士生培养在各学院内部组织，校长在中枢行政机构支持下负责日常管理，并执行大学董事会的决定。

Campus

• The University of Gothenburg is a pronounced urban university, since most of its facilities, including the main building and most faculties, lie in the central part of Gothenburg rather than on a single enclosed campus.哥德堡大学是一所典型的城市型大学，包括主楼与多数学院在内的设施都位于哥德堡市中心，而非集中在单一围合的校园之内。

• The main building by Vasaparken, chosen through an architectural competition announced in 1902 and designed by Ernst Torulf and Erik Hahr, was inaugurated on 18 September 1907 by Crown Prince Gustaf.瓦萨公园旁的主楼经 1902 年公布的建筑设计竞赛选出，由恩斯特·托鲁尔夫与埃里克·哈尔设计，1907 年 9 月 18 日由王储古斯塔夫主持落成。

• The Vasaparken main building is marked by square granite pillars and a monumental flight of steps flanked by two bronze lions, has been declared a historic landmark by the National Heritage Board and now houses public events held under the auspices of the university.瓦萨公园主楼以方形花岗岩柱与两侧各一头铜狮的宏伟台阶为特征，已被瑞典国家文物局列为历史保护建筑，如今用于举办由校方主持的公共活动。

• The Humanisten campus, a stone's throw from Götaplatsen beside the Näckrosdammen pond and Renström Park, brings together the Faculty of Humanities, the Humanities Library and the Artisten building at Fågelsången 1, which houses the Academy of Music and Drama.人文学院所在的 Humanisten 校区距约塔广场仅一步之遥，毗邻内克罗斯水塘与伦斯特伦公园，集中了人文学院、人文图书馆以及位于 Fågelsången 1 号、容纳音乐与戏剧学院的 Artisten 楼。

• The Humanities Library holds the national library for gender studies known as KvinnSam, donated collections and rarities, old prints, manuscripts and audio and video recordings.人文图书馆藏有名为 KvinnSam 的全国性别研究图书馆、各方捐赠的特藏与珍本、古籍、手稿以及音像资料。

• The university library system comprises seven libraries with 1,632 study places and holds about 2,900,000 printed books, 684,673 e-books, 3,453 current printed periodicals and 528 databases.大学图书馆体系由 7 座图书馆组成，设 1,632 个阅览座位，藏有纸质图书约 290 万册、电子书 684,673 种、现刊 3,453 种以及数据库 528 个。

• Its special collections include more than 400 manuscript archives, among them the archives of the Swedish East India Company, a collection of ancient papyri and a group of medieval parchment manuscripts.其特藏包括 400 余个手稿档案，其中含瑞典东印度公司档案、一批古代纸草文献以及一批中世纪羊皮纸手稿。

• The Sahlgrenska Academy and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital form the medical cluster at Medicinareberget, while the Faculty of Social Sciences is spread over the Campus Linné and Campus Haga sites.萨爾格林斯卡学院与萨爾格林斯卡大学医院构成 Medicinareberget 的医学校区，社会科学学院则分布于 Campus Linné 与 Campus Haga 两个片区。

• The IT Faculty occupies the Lindholmen campus on the island of Hisingen, where teaching is shared with Chalmers University of Technology in the former shipyard district of the north bank.信息技术学院设于希辛岛上的 Lindholmen 校区，在北岸由旧造船区改造的区域里与查尔摩斯工学院共用教学空间。

• Swedish universities are not permitted by law to own student housing, so Gothenburg students queue with SGS Studentbostäder, the city's largest student housing company with just over 8,000 residences, whose oldest property is a brick building at Viktor Rydbergsgatan from 1951 with 108 single rooms.瑞典法律不允许大学持有学生宿舍，因此哥德堡的学生需向本市最大的学生住房公司 SGS Studentbostäder 排号申请，该公司拥有略多于 8,000 套住房，其最老的物业是 1951 年建于 Viktor Rydbergsgatan 的砖砌楼，内有 108 间单人房。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the university is placed 225th, in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it is joint 219th and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is 177th, the fourth-highest position among Swedish universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校位列第 225，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 219，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 177，为瑞典高校中第四高的位次。

• The university is not listed in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, although it appeared in the 101-150 band of the 2024 edition of that ranking.该校未列入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，但在 2024 年版中曾处于第 101 至 150 区间。

• Earlier editions placed it 194th in the 2025 QS ranking, in the 201-250 band of the 2025 Times Higher Education ranking and 160th in the 2025 U.S. News global ranking.更早的版本中，该校在 2025 年 QS 排名第 194，2025 年泰晤士高等教育排名处于第 201 至 250 区间，2025 年 US News 全球排名第 160。

• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2025 the university appears on 33 of the 60 subject lists and reaches 10th in the world for dentistry and the 51-100 band for archaeology.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校进入 60 个学科榜单中的 33 个，其中牙医学位列全球第 10，考古学进入第 51 至 100 区间。

• The Shanghai subject ranking places its dentistry and oral sciences programme 46th in the world, and its Institute of Odontology records the highest citations per paper among Swedish universities.软科学科排名把该校的牙医学与口腔科学列为全球第 46，其牙医学研究所的篇均被引数在瑞典各高校中最高。

• Independent research metrics record 155,662 works and 15,109,512 citations attributable to the university, a scale that reflects the weight of its medical and life science research.独立科研指标记录与该校关联的成果 155,662 项、被引 15,109,512 次，这一体量反映出其医学与生命科学研究的份量。

• The university counts one Nobel laureate, the pharmacologist Arvid Carlsson, who was professor of pharmacology at Gothenburg from 1959 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000.该校与 1 位诺贝尔奖得主相关，药理学家阿尔维德·卡尔松自 1959 年起任哥德堡的药理学教授，并于 2000 年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• The university was placed 50th in the 2026 QS Sustainability Rankings, and its Sahlgrenska Academy generates about three quarters of its research turnover.该校在 2026 年 QS 可持续发展排名中位列第 50，其萨爾格林斯卡学院的科研约占学校科研营业额的七成半。

Student life

• The university's motto is the Latin phrase Tradita innovare innovata tradere, rendered in English as Renew our heritage and pass it on renewed, and its colours are blue and white.学校的校训是拉丁文「Tradita innovare innovata tradere」，英译为「承继传统并加以更新后传承下去」，校色为蓝色与白色。

• The student movement in Gothenburg dates from the late nineteenth century, the first student association was formed in 1891, the same year as the university, and in 1907 the student union became the University of Gothenburg Student Union, the direct ancestor of today's Göta studentkår.哥德堡的学生运动始于十九世纪后期，第一个学生社团与学校同在 1891 年成立，1907 年学生联合会改称哥德堡大学学生会，即今日约塔学生自治会的直系前身。

• The university's student body is organised through the confederation Göteborgs universitets studentkårer, known as GUS, whose member unions at the time of writing are the artistic union KK, the Sahlgrenska union SAKS, the business union HHGS and the Göta union.学生自治通过名为「Göteborgs universitets studentkårer」（简称 GUS）的联合组织实现，其成员自治会在当时包括艺术学院自治会 KK、萨爾格林斯卡学院自治会 SAKS、商学院自治会 HHGS 与约塔自治会。

• When the compulsory union membership known as kårobligatoriet was abolished on 1 July 2010, GUS was extensively reorganised, merging the previous ten member unions into four.2010 年 7 月 1 日，被称为「kårobligatoriet」的强制入会制度被废除，GUS 随之大规模改组，把此前的十个成员自治会整合为四个。

• Gothenburg students have celebrated Walpurgis Night in the Trädgårdsföreningen park since 1935, gathering on 30 April after a student parade that sets out from Götaplatsen.哥德堡的学生自 1935 年起在 Trädgårdsföreningen 公园庆祝瓦尔普吉斯之夜，4 月 30 日从约塔广场出发的学生游行结束后在此聚集。

• The oldest Gothenburg student radio station, K103 Göteborgs Studentradio, still broadcasts, while the student media grant known as Studentmediabidraget, or Smaug, is coordinated by GUS.哥德堡历史最久的学生电台 K103 Göteborgs Studentradio 至今仍在播音，而称为 Studentmediabidraget（简称 Smaug）的学生媒体资助由 GUS 统筹。

• Music and choral singing are central to student life, with ensembles including the Akademiska kören, Stella academica and Corus acusticus performing at the annual spring celebration.音乐与合唱在学生生活中居于核心，「Akademiska kören」、「Stella academica」与「Corus acusticus」等合唱团体每年都在春季庆典上演出。

• At doctoral conferment ceremonies only doctors of philosophy wear the laurel wreath, while myrtle was formerly used in the bridal crown which women had to give up if they pursued an academic career.在博士授位典礼上只有哲学博士佩戴月桂花环，而桃金娘过去用于新娘花冠，女性若选择学术生涯便须放弃这一装饰。

Notable people

• Arvid Carlsson, professor of pharmacology at Gothenburg from 1959 and later professor emeritus at the Sahlgrenska Academy, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000.阿尔维德·卡尔松自 1959 年起任哥德堡的药理学教授，后为萨爾格林斯卡学院荣休教授，于 2000 年共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• The founding generation includes Axel Kock, who served as the first vice-chancellor in 1891, Hjalmar Edgren, vice-chancellor from 1891 to 1893, and the donors Oscar Ekman and Fredrik Lundgren who financed the college.创办一代人物包括 1891 年出任首任校长的阿克塞尔·科克、1891 至 1893 年任校长的亚尔马·埃德格伦，以及出资兴学的奥斯卡·埃克曼与弗雷德里克·伦德格伦。

• Bernhard Karlgren, the sinologist who served as vice-chancellor from 1931 to 1936, was a member of the Swedish Academy and one of the founders of modern Chinese phonology.汉学家高本汉于 1931 至 1936 年出任校长，是瑞典学院院士，也是现代汉语音韵学的奠基人之一。

• Ernst Cassirer, the German philosopher of symbolic forms, taught at Gothenburg from 1935 until 1941 after leaving Nazi Germany.提出符号形式哲学的德国哲学家恩斯特·卡西尔在离开纳粹德国后，于 1935 至 1941 年间在哥德堡任教。

• Eli Heckscher, the political economist and economic historian who helped found the Stockholm School of Economics, studied at Gothenburg and is counted among its alumni.政治经济学家兼经济史学家伊莱·赫克歇尔是斯德哥尔摩经济学院的创办人之一，曾就读于哥德堡，被列为该校校友。

• Jan Eliasson, an alumnus who served as President of the United Nations General Assembly and as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, also an alumna, who served as a European Commissioner, and Maria Wetterstrand, likewise an alumna, who was spokesperson for the Swedish Green Party, are among its best-known public figures.校友扬·埃利亚松曾任联合国大会主席与瑞典外交大臣，同为校友的塞西莉亚·马尔姆斯特伦曾任欧盟委员，同为校友的玛丽亚·韦特斯特兰德曾任瑞典绿党发言人，三人是该校最知名的公共人物。

• Sture Allén, the computer linguist who graduated from Gothenburg, was permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1986 to 1999, and the writer Lotta Lotass was also a member of that academy.毕业于哥德堡的计算机语言学家斯图雷·阿伦在 1986 至 1999 年间任瑞典学院常务秘书，作家洛塔·洛塔斯也曾是该院院士。

• Percy Barnevik, an alumnus, was chief executive of Asea Brown Boveri, while Ann-Sofie Johansson, also an alumna, was head of design at H&M.校友佩尔西·巴内维克曾任阿西亚·布朗·勃法瑞公司首席执行官，同为校友的安妮-索菲·约翰松曾任 H&M 设计主管。

• Nick Bostrom, the philosopher and futurist who directs the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, took his doctorate at Gothenburg, and the author Jonas Jonasson and the singer José González are likewise alumni.执导牛津大学人类未来研究所的哲学家兼未来学家尼克·博斯特罗姆在哥德堡取得博士学位，作家约纳斯·约纳松与歌手何塞·冈萨雷斯亦为校友。

• Nils Kock, an alumnus, developed the continent ileostomy known as the Kock pouch, and Agnes Wold, a professor of clinical bacteriology at Gothenburg, is a prominent public communicator on medicine.校友尼尔斯·科克发明了被称为 Kock 储袋的控便回肠造口术，哥德堡的临床细菌学教授阿格奈斯·沃尔德则是一位知名的医学科普人士。