University of Illinois Chicago

The University of Illinois Chicago, commonly known as UIC, is a public research university in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, and it is the largest university in the Chicago metropolitan area, with more than 35,000 students enrolled across sixteen colleges.伊利诺大学芝加哥分校（University of Illinois Chicago，简称 UIC）是美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥近西区的一所公立研究型大学，也是芝加哥大都市区规模最大的大学，在校学生超过 35,000 名，分布于 16 个学院。

It grew out of a group of health colleges founded in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, was consolidated as the University of Illinois at Chicago in September 1982, and dropped the word "at" from its name in 2020 to become the University of Illinois Chicago.该校起源于 19 世纪后期在芝加哥创办的一批医学类学院，1982 年 9 月合并组建为伊利诺大学芝加哥校区（University of Illinois at Chicago），并于 2020 年去掉名称中的介词，正式定名为伊利诺大学芝加哥分校。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 370th, in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands 272nd, in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is 252nd, and in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 301-400 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 370；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 272；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 252；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 301 至 400 区间。

History

• UIC traces its origins to three health colleges founded in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, namely the Chicago College of Pharmacy, which opened in 1859, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, founded in 1882, and the Columbian College of Dentistry, established in 1893.该校的渊源可追溯至 19 世纪后期在芝加哥创办的三所医学类学院，即 1859 年开办的芝加哥药学院、1882 年创立的医师与外科学院，以及 1893 年设立的哥伦比亚牙科学院。

• The University of Illinois was chartered in 1867 in Champaign-Urbana as the state's land-grant university, and in exchange for agreeing to that location Chicago-area legislators were promised that a polytechnical branch would open in Chicago.伊利诺大学于 1867 年在香槟—厄巴纳设校，并获颁为该州的赠地大学；作为接受这一选址的交换条件，芝加哥地区的议员得到了在芝加哥开设一所理工分部的承诺。

• The Chicago-based health colleges affiliated with the university in 1896-97 and were fully incorporated into the University of Illinois in 1913 as the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy on the west side of Chicago.这些位于芝加哥的医学类学院于 1896 至 1897 年间与该校建立附属关系，并于 1913 年作为医学院、牙科学院与药学院完全并入伊利诺大学，坐落在芝加哥西城。

• In 1936 the first act of newly elected state representative Richard J. Daley was to introduce a resolution calling for the establishment of an undergraduate Chicago campus of the University of Illinois.1936 年，新当选的州众议员理查德·戴利（Richard J. Daley）提出的第一项议案，就是呼吁在芝加哥设立伊利诺大学的本科校区。

• As the Second World War drew to a close, Congress passed the G.I. Bill of 1944, which provided educational funding and made college degrees far more attainable to a much wider selection of the American public.第二次世界大战接近尾声时，美国国会于 1944 年通过《退伍军人权利法案》，为退伍军人提供教育资助，使大学学位对更广泛的美国公众变得可以负担。

• In 1945 Richard J. Daley, then a state senator, introduced four bills calling for a university in Chicago, and in 1946 the university opened a temporary branch campus called the Chicago Undergraduate Division on Navy Pier.1945 年，时任州参议员的理查德·戴利提出四项议案，呼吁在芝加哥设立大学；1946 年，校方在海军码头开办了一个临时分校，名为芝加哥本科部。

• Classes at the Chicago Undergraduate Division began in October 1946, with approximately 4,000 students enrolled each semester, and the campus was nicknamed "Harvard on the rocks".芝加哥本科部于 1946 年 10 月开始授课，每学期约有 4,000 名学生注册，这座校区也因此被戏称为「建在礁石上的哈佛」。

• Three-quarters of the students at the Navy Pier campus were veterans funded by the G.I. Bill, many of them immigrants, and most worked part-time jobs while they studied.海军码头校区的学生中有四分之三是依靠《退伍军人权利法案》资助的退伍军人，其中许多是移民，而且大多数人在求学期间还要做兼职工作。

• In 1951 Daley secured the passage of a state senate bill calling for a Chicago campus, and after he became mayor of Chicago in 1955 he pressed the university to upgrade the centre into a full four-year institution.1951 年，戴利推动州参议院通过了一项要求在芝加哥设立校区的议案；1955 年他出任芝加哥市长后，又力促校方将该中心升格为完整的四年制高等学府。

• In 1961 Mayor Daley offered the Harrison and Halsted Streets site for the new campus, and in December of the same year the final decision was made to establish a four-year university in Chicago.1961 年，戴利市长为新校区提供了哈里森街与哈尔斯特德街交汇处的地块；同年 12 月，在芝加哥建立一所四年制大学一事最终拍板。

• Also in 1961 the Chicago Professional Colleges became the University of Illinois at the Medical Center, a West Side institution that was later consolidated with the new Chicago campus of the university.同在 1961 年，芝加哥职业学院改称伊利诺大学医学中心校区，这所位于西城的机构后来与该校新建的芝加哥校区合并。

• Florence Scala led the fight against Mayor Richard J. Daley's plan to demolish her Italian-American neighbourhood, and in 1963 the trustees of Hull House accepted an offer of 875,000 dollars for the settlement building.弗洛伦斯·斯卡拉（Florence Scala）领导了反对戴利市长拆除其意大利裔社区计划的抗争；1963 年，赫尔馆的理事们接受了 875,000 美元的出价，以出让这座社区会堂。

• Jessie Binford and Scala took the case to the Supreme Court, the settlement was closed on 28 March 1963, and during construction of the 100-acre campus 200 businesses and 800 homes were bulldozed in Little Italy, displacing 5,000 residents.杰西·宾福德（Jessie Binford）与斯卡拉将案件上诉至最高法院，该会堂于 1963 年 3 月 28 日关闭；在占地 100 英亩的校区施工期间，小意大利区有 200 家商户与 800 户住宅被推平，5,000 名居民被迫迁离。

• In 1963 construction began on the new Chicago campus at Harrison and Halsted Streets south of the Greektown neighbourhood, designed in the brutalist style by Walter Netsch of the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.1963 年，新芝加哥校区在希腊城以南的哈里森街与哈尔斯特德街动工，其设计出自芝加哥建筑事务所斯基德莫尔、奥因斯与梅里尔（Skidmore Owings and Merrill）的沃尔特·内奇（Walter Netsch）之手，属粗野主义风格。

• In February 1965 the new campus opened as the University of Illinois at Congress Circle, and shortly before its opening it was renamed the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle after a nearby expressway interchange was renamed.1965 年 2 月，新校区以伊利诺大学国会环校区的名义启用；就在启用前不久，因附近一处高速公路立交更名，该校随之改称伊利诺大学芝加哥环校区。

• Unlike the Navy Pier division, the Chicago Circle campus was a degree-granting institution, and within five years of opening virtually every department offered graduate degrees as well as undergraduate degrees.与海军码头本科部不同，芝加哥环校区是一所可授予学位的机构；启用后五年之内，几乎每个系都既能授予本科学位，也能授予研究生学位。

• In September 1982 the University of Illinois system consolidated the Chicago Circle campus and the Medical Center campus to form the University of Illinois at Chicago.1982 年 9 月，伊利诺大学系统将芝加哥环校区与医学中心校区合并，组建为伊利诺大学芝加哥校区。

• In 2000 the university began developing its south campus, and the expansion south of Roosevelt Road increased on-campus living space and research facilities, an investment of about 550 million dollars.2000 年，该校着手开发南校区；罗斯福路以南的扩建增加了校内住宿空间与研究设施，投资规模约 5.5 亿美元。

• In 2015 the university held its first university-wide winter commencement ceremonies, adding that as a permanent option going forward.2015 年，该校首次举办全校性的冬季毕业典礼，并将其确立为往后的一项固定安排。

• In 2019 the John Marshall Law School, founded in 1899 and named for the American jurist John Marshall, became affiliated with the university as its law school.2019 年，创办于 1899 年、以美国法学家约翰·马歇尔命名的约翰·马歇尔法学院并入该校，成为其法学院。

• In 2021 the trustees voted to rename the UIC John Marshall Law School as the UIC School of Law, and by 2020 the university had already shortened its own name to University of Illinois Chicago.2021 年，校董事会表决将 UIC 约翰·马歇尔法学院更名为 UIC 法学院；而在 2020 年，该校本身已先行把校名简化为伊利诺大学芝加哥分校。

Academics

• UIC offers more than ninety bachelor's degrees, one hundred master's degrees and sixty doctoral degrees through its sixteen colleges, along with a specialised honours college and an omnibus graduate college.该校通过 16 个学院提供 90 多个学士学位、100 个硕士学位与 60 个博士学位项目，此外还设有一所专门荣誉学院与一所统筹性的研究生院。

• Those colleges include the College of Medicine, the College of Dentistry, the College of Pharmacy, the College of Nursing, the College of Applied Health Sciences and the School of Public Health on the West Campus.这些学院包括西校区内的医学院、牙科学院、药学院、护理学院、应用健康科学学院，以及公共卫生学院。

• Other units include the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Business Administration, the College of Education and the Jane Addams College of Social Work.其他单位还包括工程学院、文理学院、工商管理学院、教育学院，以及简·亚当斯社会工作学院。

• The university is governed by a chancellor who is supported by seven vice chancellors, one chief executive for administrative functions and fifteen college deans.该校由一位校监主持校务，其下有七位副校长、一位负责行政事务的执行主管，以及十五位学院院长。

• UIC merged with the John Marshall Law School in 2019 to create the UIC School of Law, which is the first public law school in the city of Chicago.2019 年，该校与约翰·马歇尔法学院合并，组建 UIC 法学院，这是芝加哥市的第一所公立法学院。

• One in ten Chicagoans with a college degree is a UIC alumnus, and roughly one in eight Illinois physicians graduated from the College of Medicine, which is the nation's largest medical school.在拥有大学学位的芝加哥市民中，每十人就有一位是该校校友；伊利诺伊州每八名医生中约有一名毕业于该医学院，而这是全美规模最大的医学院。

• About one in three Illinois pharmacists is a graduate of the College of Pharmacy, and half of all the dentists in Illinois are graduates of the College of Dentistry.伊利诺伊州每三名药剂师中约有一名毕业于药学院，该州半数牙医则是牙科学院的毕业生。

• According to the National Science Foundation, UIC spent 361 million dollars on research and development in 2018, which ranked it 69th among American institutions.据美国国家科学基金会统计，该校 2018 年的研发支出为 3.61 亿美元，在全美机构中位列第 69。

• The College of Medicine offers a four-year programme leading to the M.D. degree at three sites in Illinois, namely Chicago, Peoria and Rockford.医学院在伊利诺伊州的三个地点提供四年制医学博士培养项目，即芝加哥、皮奥里亚与罗克福德。

• The university is a major part of the Illinois Medical District, which contributes 3.3 billion dollars to the local economy and supports 50,000 jobs.该校是伊利诺伊医学区的重要组成部分，该医学区为当地经济贡献 33 亿美元，并支撑着 50,000 个就业岗位。

• UIC is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, a designation held by only a minority of American universities.该校被列为最高研究活跃度的 R1 类博士授予大学，这一评级在美国高校中只有少数机构获得。

• The university operates its College of Nursing on five additional campuses in central and northern Illinois, at Peoria, the Quad Cities, Rockford, Springfield and Urbana.该校还在伊利诺伊州中部与北部另设五个校区开办护理学院课程，分别位于皮奥里亚、四城地区、罗克福德、斯普林菲尔德与厄巴纳。

• UIC offers eleven inter-college programmes, some of which are organised as centres, alongside its honours college and its graduate college.该校设有十一个跨学院项目，其中一些以研究中心的形式组织，与荣誉学院和研究生院并行。

• The university library system includes the Richard J. Daley Library and the Library of the Health Sciences, which together support the humanities, the social sciences and the health professions.该校的图书馆体系包括理查德·戴利图书馆与健康科学图书馆，共同支撑人文、社会科学与医疗卫生各专业。

• Admission is selective, and the university enrols more than 30,000 students, of whom nearly 21,000 are undergraduates.该校录取具有选拔性，在校学生超过 30,000 名，其中本科生近 21,000 名。

• UIC is a federally designated Hispanic-serving institution and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution, and it counts among the most ethnically diverse universities in the United States.该校是联邦政府认定的拉美裔服务型院校，以及亚裔美国人与美洲原住民及太平洋岛民服务型院校，也是美国族裔最为多元的大学之一。

• The university maintains a Survey Research Laboratory and the Great Cities Institute, two units that support applied social science research in the Chicago region.该校设有调查研究实验室与大都市研究所，这两个单位共同支撑芝加哥地区的社会科学应用研究。

Campus

• The East Campus, designed in the brutalist style by Walter Netsch, lies on the Near West Side just south of Greektown and about a fifteen-minute walk from downtown Chicago.东校区由沃尔特·内奇以粗野主义风格设计，位于近西区、希腊城以南，步行约十五分钟即可抵达芝加哥市中心。

• Netsch's plan, based on his idea of field theory, included second-storey walkways that connected all of the buildings, and these walkways were removed in phases during the early 1990s to make the campus more welcoming.内奇的方案以其「场域理论」理念为基础，设有连接所有建筑的二层步道；为了让校园更具亲和力，这些步道在 20 世纪 90 年代初被分批拆除。

• The West Campus is much older and includes some buildings in the collegiate gothic style, and it houses the colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Applied Health Sciences and Public Health.西校区历史更为悠久，包含一些学院哥特式风格的建筑，医学院、药学院、护理学院、牙科学院、应用健康科学学院与公共卫生学院均设于此。

• Credit Union 1 Arena, formerly the UIC Pavilion, was added in 1982 as a sports arena, and the Academic and Residential Complex was opened in response to rising enrolment at the university.原名 UIC 体育馆的信用合作社一号竞技场于 1982 年落成，用作体育场馆；而为应对学生人数增长，校方又启用了学术与住宿综合楼。

• UIC offers ten residence halls for its students, with five on the East Campus, three on the South Campus and two on the West Campus.该校为学生提供十座宿舍楼，其中东校区五座、南校区三座、西校区两座。

• Nearly 6,000 students live within one and a half miles of the campus, and 3,800 students, including more than half of all freshmen, live in the university's residence halls.近 6,000 名学生居住在距校园一英里半的范围内；另有 3,800 名学生住在校内宿舍楼中，其中包括全体新生中超过一半的人。

• James Stukel Towers opened in the autumn of 2007 with suite-style rooms, and the Student Recreation Facility opened in spring 2006 with a three-storey climbing wall and a pool.詹姆斯·斯图克尔大楼于 2007 年秋季启用，提供套房式房间；学生康乐中心于 2006 年春季开放，内设三层攀岩墙与游泳池。

• The Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line runs through the median of the Eisenhower Expressway along the north side of the campus, and the UIC-Halsted, Racine and Illinois Medical District stations serve the university.芝加哥交通管理局的蓝线地铁沿校园北侧的艾森豪威尔高速路中段穿行，UIC—哈尔斯特德站、拉辛站与伊利诺伊医学区站均服务于该校。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings UIC is placed 370th, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands 272nd in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 370；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位居全球第 272。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is placed 252nd, and in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 301-400 band.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 252；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 301 至 400 区间。

• In the 2023 U.S. News ranking of colleges and universities, UIC was ranked 82nd among national universities and 40th among national public universities.在 2023 年 US News 全美高校排名中，该校位列全国性大学第 82、公立全国性大学第 40。

• In the 2018 Washington Monthly ranking of national universities UIC ranked 26th in the United States, and Forbes placed it 131st out of 500 in its 2025 list of America's Top Colleges.在 2018 年《华盛顿月刊》全国性大学排名中，该校位列全美第 26；《福布斯》则在其 2025 年全美最佳大学榜单中将其列为 500 所高校中的第 131。

• In 2016-17 the Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed UIC 200th in the world, and the 2014-15 QS rankings placed it 186th worldwide.在 2016 至 2017 年度泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位居全球第 200；2014 至 2015 年度 QS 排名则将其列为全球第 186。

• UIC was placed 13th in the world in the 2014 Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 ranking, which compares universities less than fifty years old.在 2014 年泰晤士高等教育「建校五十年以下百强」排名中，该校位居全球第 13，该榜单专门比较建校不足五十年的大学。

• According to OpenAlex, the university has produced 186,079 research works, reflecting the productivity of its medical, engineering and health sciences disciplines.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 186,079 项研究成果，反映出其医学、工程与健康科学各学科的产出能力。

• The Liautaud Graduate School of Business was ranked 92nd for its full-time M.B.A. programme in the 2015 U.S. News ranking of best business schools.在 2015 年 US News 最佳商学院排名中，该校的廖托研究生商学院全日制工商管理硕士项目位列第 92。

• In the 2012 ranking by the Institute of Higher Education in Shanghai, UIC tied for 51st-75th in the social sciences and 76th-100th in medicine.在上海一家高等教育研究机构发布的 2012 年排名中，该校在社会科学领域并列第 51 至 75，在医学领域位列第 76 至 100。

Student life

• The university provides a wide range of amenities through two student centres, one on the east side of the campus and one on the west side.该校通过东、西两侧的两座学生中心提供类型丰富的服务设施。

• Spark in the Park is an annual music festival held on Harrison Field during the second week of classes in the autumn, and its first edition took place in 2010 with Kid Cudi as the headliner.「公园火花」音乐节每年秋季在哈里森球场举办，通常在开学第二周举行；首届于 2010 年登场，压轴艺人为卡迪小子（Kid Cudi）。

• Later headliners of the festival have included Lupe Fiasco in 2011, Childish Gambino in 2012, Kendrick Lamar in 2013 and J. Cole in 2014.此后几年音乐节的压轴艺人先后包括 2011 年的卢佩·菲亚斯科（Lupe Fiasco）、2012 年的幼稚甘比诺（Childish Gambino）、2013 年的肯德里克·拉马尔（Kendrick Lamar），以及 2014 年的「J. Cole」。

• In 2015 the band Twenty One Pilots headlined the festival, and in 2019 the rapper 21 Savage performed at the event.2015 年由乐队二十一名飞行员（Twenty One Pilots）压轴，2019 年说唱歌手 21 Savage 登台演出。

• UIC houses twenty-seven social fraternities and sororities, including both general and culturally based organisations.该校设有二十七个社交型兄弟会与姐妹会，既有一般性组织，也有以文化背景为基础的组织。

• The university sits near the neighbourhoods of Taylor Street, Greektown and Pilsen, and downtown Chicago is a ten-minute walk or a short train ride away.该校毗邻泰勒街、希腊城与皮尔森等社区，步行十分钟或乘一小段地铁即可到达芝加哥市中心。

• The chancellor operates six diversity-related committees that address Asian Americans, Black students, Latinos, LGBT issues, persons with disabilities and women.校监下设六个多元事务委员会，分别关注亚裔、黑人学生、拉美裔、LGBT 议题、残障人士与女性。

• The UIC Flames, whose name recalls the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, compete in eighteen intercollegiate varsity sports at the NCAA Division I level.该校运动队名为「火焰」（Flames），得名于 1871 年芝加哥大火，参加美国大学体育协会第一级别的十八个校际代表队项目。

Notable people

• Richard J. Daley, who as a state representative in 1936 introduced the resolution that led to a Chicago campus and later served as Mayor of Chicago from 1955, is closely identified with the university's founding.理查德·戴利（Richard J. Daley）于 1936 年以州众议员身份提出促成芝加哥校区的议案，后于 1955 年起出任芝加哥市长，与该校的创办关系密切。

• Florence Scala was a community activist who led the fight against the demolition of her Italian-American neighbourhood to make way for the campus in the early 1960s.弗洛伦斯·斯卡拉（Florence Scala）是一位社区活动家，在 20 世纪 60 年代初领导了反对为兴建校区而拆除其意大利裔社区的斗争。

• Walter Netsch, an architect with the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, designed the brutalist East Campus and shaped its distinctive field-theory layout.斯基德莫尔、奥因斯与梅里尔事务所的建筑师沃尔特·内奇（Walter Netsch）设计了粗野主义的东校区，并塑造了其别具一格的「场域理论」布局。

• Robert Pirsig, the author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", taught freshman English at the university's temporary Navy Pier campus.《禅与摩托车维修艺术》的作者罗伯特·皮尔西格（Robert Pirsig）曾在海军码头临时校区教授大学一年级英语。

• James R. Thompson, a graduate, served as Governor of Illinois from 1977 to 1991 and was the longest-serving chief executive in the state's history.该校毕业生詹姆斯·汤普森（James R. Thompson）于 1977 年至 1991 年任伊利诺伊州州长，是该州历史上任职时间最长的行政首长。

• Adrian Smith, who graduated in 1969, became an architect known for designing the Burj Khalifa, Trump Tower, Central Park Tower and Jin Mao Tower.1969 年毕业的阿德里安·史密斯（Adrian Smith）成为知名建筑师，其代表作包括哈利法塔、特朗普大厦、中央公园塔与金茂大厦。

• Carol Moseley Braun, who earned a bachelor's degree in 1969, became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate.1969 年获学士学位的卡罗尔·莫斯利·布劳恩（Carol Moseley Braun）后来成为美国参议院首位非裔女性议员。

• Bing Liu, a 2011 graduate, directed the documentary "Minding the Gap", which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2019.2011 年毕业的刘冰（Bing Liu）执导了纪录影片《滑板少年》，该片于 2019 年获得奥斯卡奖提名。

• Kelly Cheung, a Hong Kong actress and television presenter, is among the university's graduates from the Chinese-speaking world.香港女演员及电视主持人张曦雯（Kelly Cheung）是该校来自中文世界的毕业生之一。

• Yu Yu-lan, a member of the tenth Legislative Yuan of Taiwan, also studied at the university and is counted among its alumni in public affairs.台湾第十届立法委员游毓兰（Yu Yu-lan）也曾在该校就读，是其公共事务领域的校友之一。