University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public research university in Melbourne, Victoria, and the second oldest university in Australia.墨尔本大学（The University of Melbourne）是一所位于澳大利亚维多利亚州墨尔本的公立研究型大学，也是澳大利亚历史第二悠久的大学。

Founded in 1853 and a member of the Group of Eight, it is known for medicine, law, the social sciences and business and ranks joint 22nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校创办于 1853 年，是澳大利亚八校联盟成员，以医学、法律、社会科学与商学见长，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列全球第 22。

In 2025 it had 58,142 equivalent full-time students, 29,308 of them undergraduates, taught by 5,731 academic staff in full-time equivalents, with an endowment of 1.445 billion Australian dollars.2025 年学校有全日制当量学生 58142 人，其中本科生 29308 人，学术人员 5731 人（全职当量），捐赠基金为 14.45 亿澳元。

History

• In 1852 Hugh Childers, then auditor-general of Victoria, proposed a university for the colony and donated ten thousand pounds of his own money towards it.1852 年，时任维多利亚审计长的休·切尔德斯提议为殖民地设立一所大学，并个人捐出一万英镑作为经费。

• The University of Melbourne was established by act of the Victorian legislature on 22 January 1853 and empowered to grant degrees in arts, medicine, law and music.墨尔本大学于 1853 年 1 月 22 日依维多利亚殖民地立法正式成立，并获授权授予文学、医学、法律与音乐学位。

• The foundation stone was laid on 3 July 1854, and teaching began in 1855 with three professors and six students, four of whom graduated.奠基石于 1854 年 7 月 3 日安放，1855 年正式开课，当时仅有三位教授与六名学生，其中四人毕业。

• The early buildings were designed in Gothic Revival style by the Melbourne architect Joseph Reed, and the mix of styles on the campus dates from this period.早期建筑由墨尔本建筑师约瑟夫·里德以哥特复兴风格设计，校园今日的混合风格即始于这一时期。

• The law school opened in 1857, and engineering and medicine followed in 1860, the three faculties that came to define the university.法学院于 1857 年开课，工程学院与医学院于 1860 年相继开办，这三个学院后来成为学校的支柱。

• The university was intended from the outset to serve the whole colony rather than a single denomination, and it was founded without religious tests for students or staff.学校自创办之初即旨在服务整个殖民地而非某一教派，其师生入学与任职均不设宗教限制。

• In 1881 Melbourne admitted its first woman student, at the same time as the University of Sydney, making it one of the earliest universities in the world to do so.1881 年，墨尔本大学与悉尼大学同时录取了各自的第一名女学生，成为世界上最早接纳女性的大学之一。

• In 1923 a council drawn more from business than from the professoriate took control, in a period when the university was described as an institution of the wealthy.1923 年，一个以商界人士为主而非教授组成的理事会取得管理权，这一时期学校被形容为一所面向富裕阶层的学府。

• Raymond Priestley became the first full-time vice-chancellor in 1936, replacing a part-time arrangement in which the office had been held alongside a professorship.1936 年雷蒙德·普里斯特利出任首任全职校长，此前该职位一直由教授兼任。

• After the Second World War, federal funding brought a large increase in student numbers and shifted the university away from its earlier elite character.第二次世界大战后，联邦拨款使入学人数大幅增加，学校逐渐摆脱了此前的精英色彩。

• In the 1950s and 1960s the university added new faculties and buildings, including the Baillieu Library, to accommodate the expansion.二十世纪五六十年代，学校增设新的学院与建筑，其中包括贝利厄图书馆，以适应规模扩张。

• From 2007 the university adopted the Melbourne Model, moving from the traditional Australian specialist degree towards a broad undergraduate education followed by professional graduate degrees.自 2007 年起，学校推行墨尔本模式，由澳大利亚传统的专才学位转向先接受广博本科教育、再攻读专业研究生学位的结构。

• The Melbourne Model made the university's professional degrees, in law and medicine among others, graduate-entry programmes requiring a prior bachelor's degree.墨尔本模式使学校的法律、医学等专业学位改为研究生入学项目，要求申请者先取得本科学位。

• In 2013 the university opened the Melbourne School of Design building and in 2016 the Arts West building, two of its largest recent teaching projects.2013 年学校启用墨尔本设计学院大楼，2016 年启用文学院西楼，这是其近年最大的两个教学建设项目。

• It has grown through mergers and affiliations, including the incorporation of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music into its faculty of fine arts and music.学校经由合并与联合不断扩展，其中包括把维多利亚艺术学院与墨尔本音乐学院并入其艺术与音乐学院。

• The university's Southbank campus houses its fine arts and music programmes in the arts precinct of central Melbourne.其南岸校区位于墨尔本市中心艺术区，承载艺术与音乐类课程。

• Melbourne sends a large share of its students on exchange and has partnerships with universities across Asia, Europe and North America.学校相当比例的学生参加交换项目，并与亚洲、欧洲与北美的高校建立合作。

• Its governing council includes members elected by graduates and staff as well as members appointed by the state governor, following the pattern of British civic universities.其校务委员会成员既有毕业生与教职员选出的代表，也有州总督任命的成员，沿用了英国城市大学的模式。

• In the twenty-first century the university has concentrated on research quality and on graduate outcomes, ranking at the top of Australian universities in several employability measures.进入二十一世纪，学校把重心放在研究质量与毕业生出路上，在多项就业力指标中位居澳大利亚高校前列。

• In 1855 the university appointed three professors, in classics, mathematics and natural philosophy, who taught the first intake of six students.1855 年学校聘任三位教授，分别讲授古典学、数学与自然哲学，为最初入学的六名学生授课。

• It opened its degrees to women in 1881, and Bella Guerin became the first woman to graduate from an Australian university when she took her degree at Melbourne in 1883.学校于 1881 年向女性开放学位；1883 年贝拉·盖林在墨尔本取得学位，成为澳大利亚大学的第一位女性毕业生。

• In 1923 a council drawn mainly from business took control of the university and reorganised its finances, a change that shaped its development between the wars.1923 年一个以商界人士为主的理事会取得学校管理权并重整财务，这一变化影响了两次大战之间学校的发展。

Academics

• The university teaches across a wide range of disciplines, and its strengths include medicine, the social sciences, education, law, business, engineering and the arts and humanities.学校学科门类齐全，强项包括医学、社会科学、教育学、法律、商学、工程以及艺术与人文学科。

• Its faculties include architecture, building and planning, arts, business and economics, education, engineering, law, medicine, dentistry and health sciences, science, and fine arts and music.其学院包括建筑建造与规划、人文、商业与经济、教育、工程、法律、医学牙医与健康科学、理学，以及艺术与音乐。

• The Melbourne Law School and the Melbourne Medical School are among the strongest in Australia, and the Melbourne Business School is one of the country's leading business schools.墨尔本法学院与墨尔本医学院在澳大利亚实力最强之列，墨尔本商学院也是该国顶尖的商学院之一。

• The Melbourne School of Government brings together research on public policy and governance, and the Graduate School of Education trains teachers and education researchers.墨尔本政治学院汇集公共政策与治理研究，教育研究生院则培养教师与教育研究人员。

• As of 2025 the university had 58,142 equivalent full-time students, including 29,308 undergraduates and 28,834 postgraduate coursework and research students.截至 2025 年，学校全日制当量学生为 58142 人，其中本科生 29308 人，修课式与研究式研究生合计 28834 人。

• It employs 5,731 academic staff in full-time equivalents and has a total staff of 11,142, and its endowment was 1.445 billion Australian dollars in 2024.学校拥有 5731 名全职当量学术人员，教职员总数为 11142 人，2024 年捐赠基金为 14.45 亿澳元。

• It operates seven campuses in and around Melbourne, including specialist sites for the performing arts, business, horticulture, veterinary science, forestry and agriculture.学校在墨尔本市区及周边设有七个校区，其中包括面向表演艺术、商学、园艺、兽医学、林业与农业的专门校区。

• The university maintains thirteen residential colleges in the older European collegiate tradition, with their own crests, traditions and student societies.学校设有十三所住宿学院，沿袭欧洲传统的学院制，各学院拥有自己的院徽、传统与学生社团。

• Its medical and dental schools are supported by teaching hospitals in Melbourne and across Victoria, and the university is a member of Universitas 21 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.其医学院与牙科学院依托墨尔本及维多利亚州各地的教学医院，学校并是 Universitas 21 与环太平洋大学联盟的成员。

• Research at the university is supported by partnership with hospitals, industry and government, and it holds accreditation from the Australian tertiary quality agency.学校的研究得到医院、产业界与政府的合作支持，并通过澳大利亚高等教育质量机构的认证。

• The university operates the Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute and research centres in neuroscience, cancer and population health.学校运营 Bio21 分子科学与生物技术研究所以及神经科学、肿瘤与人群健康领域的多个研究中心。

• Its library system, with the Baillieu Library at its centre, supports teaching across the campuses and holds extensive digital collections.其图书馆系统以贝利厄图书馆为核心，支撑各校区的教学，并拥有大量数字馆藏。

• The university's engineering faculty covers civil, chemical, electrical, mechanical and biomedical engineering and works with Victorian industry.其工学院涵盖土木、化学、电气、机械与生物医学工程，并与维多利亚州产业界合作。

• The faculty of veterinary and agricultural sciences, based at Werribee and Dookie, teaches animal medicine and agricultural science with working farms.其兽医与农业科学学院以韦里比与杜基为基地，依托自有农场教授动物医学与农业科学。

• It is a member of the Group of Eight and admits students from Australia and more than 150 countries, with a large international enrolment at graduate level.学校是八校联盟成员，学生来自澳大利亚及一百五十多个国家，研究生阶段国际学生比例很高。

• As of 2024 its alumni, staff and researchers included eight Nobel laureates, and its graduates have won more than 120 Rhodes Scholarships.截至 2024 年，其校友、教职员与研究人员中包括八位诺贝尔奖得主，毕业生获得的罗德奖学金超过 120 项。

• The university's graduate schools include the Melbourne Business School, the Melbourne Law School and the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, each awarding professional and research degrees.其研究生院包括墨尔本商学院、墨尔本法学院与墨尔本教育研究生院，各自授予专业与研究型学位。

• Its dental school and its school of health sciences train dentists, physiotherapists and nurses, and its clinical teaching takes place in hospitals including the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Royal Children's Hospital.其牙科学院与健康科学学院培养牙医、物理治疗师与护士，临床教学则在皇家墨尔本医院与皇家儿童医院等医院进行。

Campus

• The main campus is at Parkville, on the northern edge of the central business district, and covers about 35 hectares.主校区位于墨尔本中央商务区北缘的帕克维尔，占地约 35 公顷。

• The campus combines the historic quadrangle and clock tower with modern teaching buildings, and the South Lawn is a focus of student life.校园将历史悠久的方庭院与钟楼同现代教学楼并置，南草坪则是学生生活的中心。

• The colleges, mostly in Victorian Gothic style, are scattered along the northern side of the campus and provide residence, dining and pastoral care.各住宿学院多采用维多利亚哥特风格，散布在校园北侧，提供住宿、膳食与生活辅导。

• Beyond Parkville, the university has sites at Southbank for the performing arts, Hawthorn for business, Werribee for veterinary science and several rural campuses.除帕克维尔之外，学校还在南岸设有表演艺术校区、霍桑设有商学校区、韦里比设有兽医学校区，并在乡村地区设有若干校区。

• The university is served by tram, bus and train services, and the city campus is within walking distance of Melbourne's central attractions.学校由电车、巴士与铁路服务连接，市区校区步行即可到达墨尔本的市中心各处。

• Its endowment is among the largest of any Australian university, and the Parkville campus is known for its mix of heritage and contemporary architecture.其捐赠基金在澳大利亚各大学中名列前茅，帕克维尔校区则以兼具遗产建筑与当代建筑著称。

• Landmarks on the campus include the clock tower of the Old Quadrangle, the Baillieu Library and the University Square redevelopment.校内地标包括旧方庭院的钟楼、贝利厄图书馆与大学广场改造项目。

• The Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music occupy the Southbank campus, next to the city's arts centre and concert hall.维多利亚艺术学院与墨尔本音乐学院位于南岸校区，紧邻市内的艺术中心与音乐厅。

• The university's colours are a deep blue and white, and the mascot is a bear named Barry.学校代表色为深蓝色与白色，吉祥物是一只名为巴里的熊。

• Student housing is provided both by the residential colleges and by university apartments on and near the Parkville campus.学生住宿由各住宿学院以及帕克维尔校区内外的大学公寓提供。

• The Southbank campus lies next to the Arts Centre Melbourne and the National Gallery of Victoria, and the university's fine arts and music students work in studios and rehearsal rooms there.南岸校区紧邻墨尔本艺术中心与维多利亚国家美术馆，学校的艺术与音乐学生在其中的工作室与排练厅活动。

• The residential colleges include Trinity College, Ormond College and Queen's College, several of them founded in the nineteenth century with their own chapels, dining halls and sporting clubs.住宿学院包括三一学院、奥蒙德学院与王后学院，其中数所创办于十九世纪，拥有各自的礼拜堂、餐厅与体育俱乐部。

Reputation

• Melbourne ranks joint 22nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 34th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 28th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.墨尔本大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列全球第 22，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 34，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 28。^[1]

• It is consistently the highest ranked or among the highest ranked universities in Australia, together with the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales.学校长期位列澳大利亚排名最高或最高的行列，与悉尼大学和新南威尔士大学比肩。

• Its alumni, staff and researchers include eight Nobel laureates, and its graduates have won more than 120 Rhodes Scholarships.其校友、教职员与研究人员中包括八位诺贝尔奖得主，毕业生获得的罗德奖学金超过 120 项。

• In the QS Graduate Employability Rankings of 2020 the university was placed seventh in the world and second in Australia.在 2020 年 QS 毕业生就业能力排名中，学校位列全球第七、澳大利亚第二。

• The university is a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, and it belongs to the group known as the sandstone universities.学校是八校联盟、Universitas 21 与环太平洋大学联盟的成员，并属于所谓砂岩学府之列。

• Its research output is among the largest in Australia, and it has particular strength in the biomedical, environmental and social sciences.其科研产出在澳大利亚位居前列，在生物医学、环境科学与社会科学方面尤具实力。

• The university's medical research has produced advances in fields such as immunology and cancer, and its graduates include prime ministers, governors-general and leading scientists.学校在免疫学与肿瘤等领域的医学研究取得进展，毕业生中包括总理、总督与杰出科学家。

• The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research produces widely cited work on Australian economic and social policy.其墨尔本应用经济与社会研究所就澳大利亚的经济与社会政策发表了被广泛引用的研究成果。

• Its law school and business school are among the most selective in the country, and their graduates are prominent in Australian public life and industry.其法学院与商学院在国内录取竞争最为激烈之列，其毕业生在澳大利亚公共生活与产业界颇具影响。

Student life

• The university motto, Postera Crescam Laude, means I shall grow in the esteem of future generations.学校校训意为「我将在后世的赞誉中成长」。

• Students belong to residential colleges or live in the surrounding suburbs, and the colleges run their own dining halls, societies and sports teams.学生分属各住宿学院或居住在周边街区，各学院自设餐厅、社团与运动队。

• The university has a large number of clubs and societies covering sport, the arts, culture, academic disciplines and community service.学校有大量社团，涵盖体育、艺术、文化、学术与社区服务。

• The South Lawn and the Union building are social centres, and the university holds an orientation festival at the start of each academic year.南草坪与学生会大楼是社交中心，学校每学年开始时举办迎新节。

• Sport is organised through university clubs and the inter-university competitions of Australian tertiary sport, with strong traditions in rowing and Australian rules football.体育事务由校内俱乐部与澳大利亚高校的校际赛事组织，在赛艇与澳式橄榄球方面传统深厚。

• The university's Parkville location gives students access to the cultural life of central Melbourne, including museums, theatres and music venues, and the campus is within walking distance of the State Library of Victoria.学校地处帕克维尔，学生可以方便地接触墨尔本市中心的博物馆、剧院与音乐场所等文化生活，校区距维多利亚州立图书馆亦在步行范围之内。

• Student media and the students' union operate independently and provide publications, radio and events across the campus, including the long-running student newspaper Farrago.学生媒体与学生会独立运作，在校园内提供刊物、广播与活动，其中包括历史悠久的校报《Farrago》。

• The Victorian College of the Arts and the conservatorium give the university an unusually strong performing and visual arts community for a comprehensive university.维多利亚艺术学院与音乐学院使这所综合性大学拥有异常活跃的表演与视觉艺术社群。

• Because professional degrees are graduate-entry under the Melbourne Model, the university has a large and diverse graduate student community.由于在墨尔本模式下专业学位属研究生入学项目，学校拥有规模庞大且多元的研究生社群。

Notable people

• Hugh Childers proposed the university and gave it funds, and the architect Joseph Reed left lasting marks on its early buildings.休·切尔德斯提议创建学校并提供经费，建筑师约瑟夫·里德则为其早期建筑留下了深远影响。

• John Eccles, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for work on the synapse, was a graduate of the university.因神经突触研究于 1963 年分享诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的约翰·埃克尔斯，是该校毕业生。

• Frank Macfarlane Burnet, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960 for work on acquired immune tolerance, studied at Melbourne.因获得性免疫耐受研究于 1960 年分享诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的弗兰克·麦克法兰·伯内特，曾在墨尔本求学。

• Elizabeth Blackburn, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for work on telomeres, took her first degree at Melbourne.因端粒研究于 2009 年分享诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的伊丽莎白·布莱克本，在墨尔本取得第一个学位。

• Peter Doherty, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996, also studied at the university.1996 年分享诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的彼得·多尔蒂也曾在此求学。

• The philosopher Peter Singer and the writer Germaine Greer both studied at Melbourne.哲学家彼得·辛格与作家杰梅茵·格里尔都曾就读于墨尔本大学。

• The university has educated several Australian prime ministers, among them Alfred Deakin, Robert Menzies and Julia Gillard.学校培养了多位澳大利亚总理，其中包括阿尔弗雷德·迪金、罗伯特·孟席斯与朱莉娅·吉拉德。

• Its graduates include governors-general, chief justices and leading figures in medicine, law and business in Australia and abroad.其毕业生中包括澳大利亚及海外的总督、首席大法官，以及医学、法律与商界的杰出人物。

• The university's medical faculty has produced researchers who shaped immunology and public health in Australia.学校医学院培养的研究人员塑造了澳大利亚的免疫学与公共卫生研究。

• Alumni of the Melbourne Law School and the Melbourne Business School hold senior positions in Australian courts, government and corporations.墨尔本法学院与墨尔本商学院的校友在澳大利亚的法院、政府与企业中担任高级职务。