University of Lleida

The University of Lleida (Universitat de Lleida, UdL) is a public university in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, which traces its origin to the Estudi General de Lleida founded by King James II of Aragon in 1300, the first university in Catalonia and in the Crown of Aragon, and it remains the only public university in the province of Lleida.莱里达大学（University of Lleida，加泰罗尼亚语 Universitat de Lleida，简称 UdL）是西班牙加泰罗尼亚自治区莱里达市的一所公立大学，其源头可追溯至阿拉贡国王海梅二世于 1300 年创办的莱里达通学，这是加泰罗尼亚与阿拉贡王冠领地的第一所大学，也是莱里达省唯一的公立大学。

After Philip V closed the medieval university in 1717, the institution was not restored until the Parliament of Catalonia passed the re-establishment law on 12 December 1991, and its statutes were approved on 27 October 1994.1717 年腓力五世关闭这所中世纪大学后，该校长期中断，直至 1991 年 12 月 12 日加泰罗尼亚议会通过重建法案才得以恢复，其章程于 1994 年 10 月 27 日获批。

In 2024/25 the UdL enrolled 11,376 bachelor's, master's and doctoral students, employed 1,503 teaching and research staff and offered 50 bachelor's and double degrees and 32 master's degrees on a budget of 118.8 million euros, and it sits in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2024/25 学年，莱里达大学共有 11 376 名本科、硕士与博士生，1 503 名教研人员，开设 50 个本科与双学位项目、32 个硕士项目，预算为 1.188 亿欧元；2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将其列入 1001-1200 区间。

History

• On 1 April 1297 Pope Boniface VIII issued a bull authorising the creation of a university in the Crown of Aragon, the legal foundation on which Lleida's studium generale would rest.1297 年 4 月 1 日，教宗博义八世颁布诏书，授权在阿拉贡王冠领地内设立大学，这为莱里达通学的建立提供了教会法依据。
• King James II of Aragon used that authorisation to grant Lleida its founding privilege on 1 September 1300, creating the Estudi General de Lleida with the right to award degrees.阿拉贡国王海梅二世依据这项授权，于 1300 年 9 月 1 日向莱里达颁发建校特许状，正式创立可授予学位的莱里达通学。
• The new studium was financed jointly by the city of Lleida and the cathedral chapter, an arrangement that tied the university to both municipal government and the Church.这所新通学由莱里达市政府与大教堂教士会共同出资，这一安排使大学同时依附于市政机构与教会。
• As the only university in the Crown of Aragon, Lleida attracted students from across the kingdom and beyond, and the presence of scholars helped the city prosper during the 14th and 15th centuries.作为阿拉贡王冠领地内唯一的大学，莱里达吸引了来自全境乃至更远地区的学生，学者云集也使这座城市在 14 与 15 世纪持续繁荣。
• The founding of the University of Valencia in 1499 and of Zaragoza in 1542 broke that monopoly, and Lleida began to lose the prestige it had enjoyed as the region's sole studium generale.1499 年巴伦西亚大学与 1542 年萨拉戈萨大学相继成立，打破了莱里达的垄断地位，它作为全境唯一通学所享有的声望开始流失。
• During the 17th century the university entered a long decline, with falling enrolments and weaker finances, while the city itself suffered from war, plague and the displacement of trade.17 世纪，该校进入长期衰落，招生减少、财政拮据，莱里达城本身也饱受战争、瘟疫与贸易转移之苦。
• Lleida sided with the Archduke Charles in the War of the Spanish Succession, while the town of Cervera supported the victorious Philip V, a division that decided the fate of the university.西班牙王位继承战争中，莱里达支持查理大公，而塞尔韦拉镇站在最终获胜的腓力五世一边，这一分野决定了大学的命运。
• By a royal decree of 9 October 1717 Philip V ordered the closure of the Estudi General de Lleida together with the other Catalan universities, as punishment for Catalonia's opposition.1717 年 10 月 9 日，腓力五世颁布王令，关闭莱里达通学及加泰罗尼亚其他大学，以惩罚该公国在战争中的反对立场。
• Cervera was chosen for the single new university of Catalonia in May 1717, and the older institutions were suppressed so that their resources and students would move there.1717 年 5 月，塞尔韦拉被选为加泰罗尼亚唯一新大学的所在地，原有各校被撤销，其资源与学生被集中到该城。
• The modern revival began in 1841 with the creation of a teacher training school in Lleida, the first step towards restoring higher education in the city.现代意义上的复兴始于 1841 年：莱里达创办师范学校，这是该市恢复高等教育的第一个步骤。
• In 1968 law studies were revived in Lleida as an extension of the University of Barcelona, the first step in rebuilding a local academic community after two centuries without a university.1968 年，莱里达以巴塞罗那大学校外延伸的形式恢复法学教育，这是在中断两个多世纪后重建本地学术共同体的第一步。
• Between 1968 and 1977 agricultural engineering, arts, philosophy and medicine were added as further extensions, each depending administratively on a Barcelona university.1968 至 1977 年间，农业工程、文学、哲学与医学又相继以校外延伸形式设立，各学院在行政上均隶属于巴塞罗那的大学。
• These scattered extensions depended on Barcelona until the Parliament of Catalonia passed the law of 12 December 1991 that brought them together as the Universitat de Lleida.这些分散的校外学院一直依附于巴塞罗那，直至 1991 年 12 月 12 日加泰罗尼亚议会通过法案，将它们整合为莱里达大学。
• Víctor Siurana i Zaragoza was appointed director of the new university in 1991 and led the merger of the inherited schools into a single institution.维克托·休拉纳·萨拉戈萨于 1991 年出任新大学的负责人，主持把继承下来的各校整合为单一大学。
• The Statutes of the Universitat de Lleida, approved on 27 October 1994, defined its governance, its Catalan-language policy and its threefold mission of teaching, research and knowledge transfer.1994 年 10 月 27 日通过的《莱里达大学章程》确立了该校治理结构、加泰罗尼亚语语言政策，以及教学、科研与知识转移三重使命。
• The 1990s brought the Cappont campus on the left bank of the Segre, which allowed the growing student body to be taught outside the historic building on the Rambla d'Aragó.1990 年代，塞格雷河左岸的卡蓬校区建成，使不断扩大的学生规模得以在兰布拉·德阿拉贡历史建筑之外授课。
• Joan Viñas Salas served as rector from 2003 to 2011, a period in which the health sciences faculties were consolidated and the university's doctoral school took shape.霍安·维尼亚斯·萨拉斯于 2003 至 2011 年任校长，任内健康科学各学院得到整合，大学博士学院初具规模。
• Roberto Fernández Díaz was rector from 2011 to 2019 and prepared the institution for the international accreditation and ranking exercises that followed.罗伯托·费尔南德斯·迪亚斯于 2011 至 2019 年任校长，为该校其后参与国际认证与排名评估奠定了基础。
• Jaume Puy i Llorens, professor of physical chemistry, was rector from 2019 to 2025 and later received the Medalla Estudi General and an honorary doctorate from the University of Tolima.物理化学教授豪梅·普伊·略伦斯于 2019 至 2025 年任校长，卸任后获颁「通学勋章」，并被托利马大学授予名誉博士学位。
• Maria Àngels Balsells took office as rector in 2025, leading a university that had by then reached 11,376 students and a budget of 118.8 million euros.玛丽亚·安赫尔斯·巴尔塞尔斯于 2025 年就任校长，此时该校学生规模已达 11 376 人，预算为 1.188 亿欧元。
• In 2024/25 the university offered 50 bachelor's and double degrees and 32 master's degrees across 14 fields, and it awarded 1,428 bachelor's degrees in the 2023-24 academic year.2024/25 学年，该校在 14 个学科领域开设 50 个本科与双学位项目及 32 个硕士项目；2023-24 学年共授予 1 428 个学士学位。
• The UdL marked its 725th anniversary in 2025, counting from the privilege of 1300, and it presents itself as the heir of a continuous academic tradition interrupted only by the closure of 1717.2025 年，该校以 1300 年特许状为起点纪念建校七百二十五周年，并将自身定位为仅因 1717 年关闭而中断的学术传统的继承者。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in seven faculties and schools, namely Law and Economics, the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering (ETSEA), Arts, Education Sciences, the Polytechnic School, Medicine and Nursing.教学由七个学院与学校组织，分别是法律与经济学院、农业工程高等技术学校（ETSEA）、艺术学院、教育科学学院、高等理工学院、医学院与护理学院。
• The university offers 50 bachelor's and double degrees across 14 fields, from agriculture and forestry to natural sciences and mathematics, and engineering and technology alone accounts for seven bachelor's degrees.该校在 14 个领域开设 50 个本科与双学位项目，覆盖从农林到自然科学与数学的门类，其中工程与技术领域单独提供七个本科学位。
• Agronomy, food technology and forestry form the university's strongest research and teaching cluster, and the UdL is the only university in Catalonia to offer the full forestry services degree.农学、食品技术与林学构成该校最强的教学与研究集群；莱里达大学也是加泰罗尼亚唯一开设完整林学服务学位的高校。
• Postgraduate provision includes 32 master's degrees in 12 fields, with education and training offering seven master's programmes, the largest single group.研究生教育包括分布于 12 个领域的 32 个硕士项目，其中教育与培训方向开设七个硕士项目，是规模最大的一组。
• The 1,503 teaching and research staff of 2024/25 are supported by 550 administrative and service staff, a ratio of roughly one support post for every three academic posts.2024/25 学年，该校有 1 503 名教研人员，另有 550 名行政与服务人员，约合每三名教研人员配备一名支持人员。
• Of the 11,376 students, 9,247 were enrolled on bachelor's degrees, 917 on master's degrees and 798 on doctoral programmes, and women made up 60 per cent of the student body.在 11 376 名学生中，本科生 9 247 人、硕士生 917 人、博士生 798 人，女生占全校学生的 60%。
• Students passed 84 per cent of the ECTS credits they attempted in 2023-24, and 88 per cent of graduates completed their degrees on the scheduled time or within one extra year.2023-24 学年，学生通过了自己所选学分的 84%；88% 的毕业生按学制如期或延后一年内完成学业。
• The university awarded 124 doctoral degrees in 2023-24, 27 per cent of them with an international mention, and 21.1 per cent of its doctoral students came from abroad.2023-24 学年，该校授予 124 个博士学位，其中 27% 带有国际联合培养标注；博士生中 21.1% 为国际学生。
• Three affiliated research centres anchor applied work: AGROTECNIO in agronomy, IRB Lleida in biomedical sciences and the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) in forestry.三个附属研究中心支撑该校的应用研究：农学领域的 AGROTECNIO、生物医学领域的莱里达生物医学研究所（IRB Lleida），以及林学领域的加泰罗尼亚森林科学中心（CTFC）。
• The university maintains 2,632 internship agreements with companies and institutions and spends 605,326 euros a year on its own scholarships and grants.该校与企业和机构签有 2 632 份实习协议，每年自设奖学金与助学金的支出为 605 326 欧元。
• The 2024/25 budget of 118.8 million euros funds teaching, research and the five campuses, and the university also receives competitive research income from Catalan and Spanish programmes.2024/25 学年 1.188 亿欧元的预算用于教学、科研与五个校区运营；该校同时从加泰罗尼亚与西班牙国家级竞争性项目获取科研经费。
• Affiliated provision includes the Escola Universitària de Relacions Laborals (EURL), the Ostelea School of Tourism and Hospitality and the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (INEFC).附属办学机构包括劳动关系学院（EURL）、奥斯特莱亚旅游与酒店管理学院，以及加泰罗尼亚国家体育学院（INEFC）。
• The UdL has awarded honorary doctorates to figures including Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, John Elliott, Václav Havel, Alícia de Larrocha, Joan Oró and Theodore C. Hsiao, the last invested on 9 November 2005.该校曾向多位知名人士授予名誉博士学位，包括哈维尔·佩雷斯·德奎利亚尔、约翰·埃利奥特、瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔、阿莉西亚·德·拉罗查、霍安·奥罗与西奥多·C. 萧（Theodore C. Hsiao），其中后者于 2005 年 11 月 9 日受聘。
• The UdL belongs to the Compostela Group of Universities and the European Life Sciences Universities network (ICA), and participates in Erasmus exchanges with partners across Europe.该校是孔波斯特拉大学集团与欧洲生命科学大学联盟（ICA）成员，并参与面向欧洲伙伴的伊拉斯谟交流项目。
• OpenAlex indexes 21,284 works with a UdL affiliation and 1,400,213 citations to them, an average of about 66 citations per paper that reflects the impact of its agricultural and biomedical research.OpenAlex 收录该校署名论文 21 284 篇，累计被引 1 400 213 次，篇均约 66 次，反映其农业与生物医学研究的引用影响。
• The university appears in 17 QS subject rankings, with its strongest positions in agriculture and forestry, food science and veterinary science, fields tied to the agro-food economy of the Lleida plain.该校进入 17 个 QS 学科排名，其中农业与林学、食品科学、兽医学位次最好，这些学科与莱里达平原的农食经济紧密相关。

Campus

• The historic seat occupies the building on the Rambla d'Aragó in central Lleida, a short walk from the old town and the Segre river.该校历史校舍位于莱里达市中心的阿拉贡林荫大道，步行可达老城与塞格雷河。
• The Rambla d'Aragó building is known as the Rectorat campus and houses the rectorate, the governing offices and the ceremonial hall used for honorary doctorates.阿拉贡林荫大道校舍被称为「校长校区」，容纳校部、行政办公机构以及举行名誉博士授予仪式的礼堂。
• The Cappont campus, developed from the 1990s on the left bank of the Segre, houses law, economics, education and part of the social sciences.卡蓬校区自 1990 年代起在塞格雷河左岸建设，容纳法学、经济学、教育学与部分社会科学学科。
• The ETSEA campus concentrates agricultural engineering, food technology, forestry and veterinary teaching around experimental fields and greenhouses.ETSEA 校区围绕试验田与温室布局，集中了农业工程、食品技术、林学与兽医教学。
• A health sciences campus supports the Faculty of Medicine and Nursing and their clinical teaching in Lleida's hospitals, including the University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova.健康科学校区支撑医学与护理学院的教学，临床课程在莱里达的医院开展，其中包括阿瑙·德·维拉诺瓦大学医院。
• The university counts five campuses, one of them in Igualada, a town about 100 kilometres east of Lleida where nursing and health programmes are taught, reached by regional train from Lleida.该校共有五个校区，其中一个位于莱里达以东约 100 公里的伊瓜拉达，主要开设护理与健康类课程，师生多乘区域列车往返莱里达。
• Teaching and research are distributed among 26 departments, and the affiliated centres add provision in labour relations, tourism and physical education.教学与研究分布于 26 个系，附属中心则补充了劳动关系、旅游与体育教育等办学内容。
• The city's Municipal Archive holds the founding privilege granted by James II on 1 September 1300, the document from which the university dates its history.莱里达市立档案馆收藏着海梅二世于 1300 年 9 月 1 日颁发的建校特许状，该校即以此文件作为校史起点。
• Lleida lies about 160 kilometres west of Barcelona and has been connected to the high-speed rail network since 2003, putting the Catalan capital within roughly an hour.莱里达位于巴塞罗那以西约 160 公里，自 2003 年起接入高速铁路网，到加泰罗尼亚首府约需一小时。
• The compact centre and the campus network allow most students to walk or cycle between lectures, while the city's bus and regional train services link the outlying sites.紧凑的市中心与校园网络使多数学生可以步行或骑车往返课堂，城市公交与区域列车则连接外围校区。

Reputation

• The UdL is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列 1001-1200 区间。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it in the 801-1000 band, its strongest result among the four global tables.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入 801-1000 区间，这是它在四大全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• U.S. News ranks the university 1,375th in its Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, a position driven mainly by research reputation and citation impact.《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第 1 375 位，这一位次主要由科研声誉与引用影响决定。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places the UdL in the 801-900 band, its second consecutive year in that bracket.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将该校列入 801-900 区间，这是它连续第二年处于该档。
• In Europe the university ranked 391st in the QS Europe University Rankings 2026 and 613th in the QS Sustainability Rankings 2026.在欧洲范围内，该校 2026 年 QS 欧洲大学排名第 391 位，2026 年 QS 可持续发展排名第 613 位。
• THE Young University Rankings 2024 placed the UdL 198th among institutions under fifty years old, although its academic lineage reaches back to 1300.2024 年 THE 年轻大学排名将该校列为建校五十年以下高校第 198 位，尽管其学术谱系可上溯至 1300 年。
• The university is listed in 17 QS subject rankings, with agriculture and forestry, food science and veterinary science among its highest-placed subjects.该校进入 17 个 QS 学科排名，农业与林学、食品科学、兽医学是其中位次最高的学科。
• OpenAlex records 21,284 works and 1,400,213 citations, and the citation count is unusually high relative to output because of the long half-life of agronomic and biomedical papers.OpenAlex 记录该校 21 284 篇论文与 1 400 213 次引用；由于农学与生物医学论文的引用半衰期较长，其引用总量相对产出规模偏高。
• THE's 2026 institutional profile records a student-staff ratio of 17.0 to 1, 9 per cent international students and a female-to-male ratio of 59 to 41, consistent with a teaching-intensive public university.THE 2026 年的机构档案记录该校生师比为 17.0 比 1，国际学生占 9%，女生与男生比例为 59 比 41，符合一所以教学为重的公立大学特征。
• Within Spain the UdL is recognised as the reference university for agronomy, food technology and forestry, and it is the only Catalan university offering the forestry services degree.在西班牙国内，该校被视为农学、食品技术与林学的标杆院校，也是加泰罗尼亚唯一开设林学服务学位的高校。

Student life

• The UdL has no formal Latin motto, and its institutional identity rests instead on the 1300 Estudi General, the 1991 re-establishment law and the statutes of 1994.莱里达大学没有正式的拉丁文校训，其机构认同建立在 1300 年通学、1991 年重建法案与 1994 年章程之上。
• The university celebrates its anniversary on 12 December, the date on which the Parliament of Catalonia approved its re-establishment in 1991.该校以 12 月 12 日为校庆日，1991 年的这一天加泰罗尼亚议会通过了重建法案。
• About 55 per cent of bachelor's students come from the Lleida area, which gives the campus a strongly regional character, and women make up 60 per cent of enrolment.约 55% 的本科生来自莱里达周边地区，使校园带有浓厚的地域色彩；女生占在校生的 60%。
• Beyond degree study, 3,678 students were enrolled in continuing education and 7,086 in university extension courses in 2024/25, many of them working adults from the province.2024/25 学年，除学位教育外，还有 3 678 人攻读继续教育课程、7 086 人参加大学延伸课程，其中不少是来自全省的在职成年人。
• International students make up about 9 per cent of enrolment, and the doctoral schools attract a higher share, with 21.1 per cent of doctoral students coming from abroad.国际学生约占在校生的 9%，博士阶段比例更高，博士生中有 21.1% 来自国外。
• The university does not operate residential colleges, and most students rent flats in Lleida or commute from nearby towns such as Mollerussa, Balaguer and Tàrrega.该校不设住宿学院，多数学生在莱里达市区租房，或从莫列鲁萨、巴拉格尔、塔雷加等周边市镇通勤。
• Catalan is the university's own language and the normal medium of administration, while teaching is offered in Catalan and Spanish and some master's programmes are taught in English.加泰罗尼亚语是该校的校本语言与日常行政语言，教学以加泰罗尼亚语和西班牙语进行，部分硕士项目以英语授课。
• Student life is shaped by a small city of about 140,000 people, where the university's cultural programme, the annual Festa Major and the agro-food fairs of the Lleida plain overlap.校园生活深受这座约 14 万人口的小城影响，大学的文化活动、一年一度的主保节庆与莱里达平原的农食展销会相互交织。

Notable people

• James II of Aragon granted the founding privilege of the Estudi General on 1 September 1300, making him the institutional founder of higher education in Lleida.阿拉贡国王海梅二世于 1300 年 9 月 1 日颁发建校特许状，是莱里达高等教育的制度性创办人。
• Pope Boniface VIII issued the bull of 1 April 1297 that authorised a university in the Crown of Aragon, the canonical basis for Lleida's foundation three years later.教宗博义八世于 1297 年 4 月 1 日颁布诏书，授权在阿拉贡王冠领地设立大学，为三年后莱里达建校提供了教会法基础。
• Philip V ordered the closure of the Estudi General by royal decree on 9 October 1717, an act that ended the medieval university for more than two centuries.腓力五世于 1717 年 10 月 9 日以王令关闭莱里达通学，使这所中世纪大学中断了两个多世纪。
• Víctor Siurana i Zaragoza directed the newly created Universitat de Lleida from 1991 and oversaw the integration of the Barcelona-dependent schools.维克托·休拉纳·萨拉戈萨自 1991 年起主持新成立的莱里达大学，负责整合原先依附巴塞罗那的各类学院。
• Jaume Puy i Llorens, professor of physical chemistry and rector from 2019 to 2025, received the Medalla Estudi General and an honorary doctorate from the University of Tolima in 2025.物理化学教授豪梅·普伊·略伦斯于 2019 至 2025 年任校长，2025 年获颁「通学勋章」及托利马大学名誉博士学位。
• Maria Àngels Balsells became rector in 2025 and leads the university's agenda on teacher training, social inclusion and the internationalisation of doctoral studies.玛丽亚·安赫尔斯·巴尔塞尔斯于 2025 年出任校长，主导教师培养、社会包容与博士教育国际化等议程。
• Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991 and recipient of the 1987 Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, holds an honorary doctorate from the UdL.哈维尔·佩雷斯·德奎利亚尔于 1982 至 1991 年任联合国秘书长，1987 年获阿斯图里亚斯亲王国际合作奖，并持有莱里达大学名誉博士学位。
• John H. Elliott, the historian of Habsburg Spain and recipient of the 1996 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, is among the university's honorary doctors.约翰·H. 埃利奥特是研究哈布斯堡西班牙的历史学家，1996 年获阿斯图里亚斯亲王社会科学奖，也是该校名誉博士之一。
• Václav Havel, playwright and President of Czechoslovakia and later of the Czech Republic, received an honorary doctorate from the UdL in recognition of his defence of civil society.瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔是剧作家，曾任捷克斯洛伐克及后来的捷克共和国总统，因捍卫公民社会而获该校名誉博士学位。
• Alícia de Larrocha, the Catalan pianist and 1994 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts laureate, was also honoured with a UdL honorary doctorate.阿莉西亚·德·拉罗查是加泰罗尼亚钢琴家、1994 年阿斯图里亚斯亲王艺术奖得主，同样获授莱里达大学名誉博士学位。
• Miquel Pueyo, professor at the UdL since 1979 and Mayor of Lleida from 2019 to 2023, combined an academic career in Catalan sociolinguistics with municipal politics.米格尔·普埃约自 1979 年起在莱里达大学任教，2019 至 2023 年任莱里达市长，把加泰罗尼亚社会语言学的学术生涯与市政政治结合起来。