University of Mons

The University of Mons, in French Université de Mons, is a French-speaking Belgian university located in the city of Mons in the province of Hainaut, in the Walloon region of Belgium.蒙斯大学（法语：Université de Mons）是位于比利时瓦隆地区埃诺省蒙斯城的一所法语大学。

The present university was created in 2009 by merging the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, the engineering faculty long known as the FPMs, with the University of Mons-Hainaut, a decision the two institutions had accepted on 6 July 2007.现制大学于 2009 年由蒙斯综合理工学院（长期简称 FPMs 的工学院）与蒙斯-埃诺大学合并而成，两院早于 2007 年 7 月 6 日即已接纳合并之议。

It is the fourth of the six universities of the French Community of Belgium, carries a student body of over 10,000, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 is placed in the 801-850 band.该校为比利时法语社群六所大学中的第四所，在校学生逾 1 万人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 801-850 位。

History

• The University of Mons in its current legal form was created in 2009, an event later than the older engineering and university traditions from which it was assembled.现以合法形态存在的蒙斯大学创设于 2009 年，其年份晚于它所由汇集的更古老的工学院与大学传统。

• It was formed by merging two bodies, the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, commonly called the FPMs, and the University of Mons-Hainaut, into a single institution serving one city.该校由两所实体合并而成，即通称 FPMs 的蒙斯综合理工学院与蒙斯-埃诺大学，二者合为服务一城的单一机构。

• The decision to merge was taken by the two universities themselves on 6 July 2007, when they accepted in principle the project of union.合并之议由两所大学自身于 2007 年 7 月 6 日作出，是日二者原则上接受合并方案。

• The Belgian French Community Parliament confirmed the union on 25 November 2008, giving the merger its formal legal sanction.比利时法语社群议会于 2008 年 11 月 25 日确认合并，为合并举办法定认可。

• From an administrative point of view the University of Mons came into existence on 1 January 2009, the date fixed for the new institution's opening.从行政角度看，蒙斯大学于 2009 年 1 月 1 日正式成立，此为新机构开学所定之日期。

• Professor Calogero Conti, who had been rector of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, became the first rector of the merged University of Mons when it opened in 2009.卡洛杰罗·孔蒂教授曾任蒙斯综合理工学院院长，2009 年合并后的蒙斯大学开学时遂成为该校首任校长。

• Philippe Dubois later succeeded to the office of rector, continuing the line of leadership that began with the founding of the university in 2009.菲利普·迪布瓦其后继任校长，延续自 2009 年创校以来的领导序列。

• The merging of the two institutions followed a geographical logic, since both were seated in the same city of Mons and were highly complementary in what they taught.两院之合循地理之便，因二者同处蒙斯一城，且所授学科高度互补。

• The engineering tradition came from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, the body long responsible for technical and industrial training in the city.工程传统出自蒙斯综合理工学院，该院长年为城中负责技术与工业人才培养之主体。

• The other half of the union, the Hainaut University, as the University of Mons-Hainaut is also known, supplied the non-technical faculties of arts, sciences, medicine and economics.合并的另一方即蒙斯-埃诺大学（又称埃诺大学），提供文艺、理学、医学与经济等非技术学院。

• On the founding day in 2009 the new institution was counted as the fourth of the six universities of the French Community of Belgium.在 2009 年创校之日，新机构即被列为比利时法语社群六所大学中的第四所。

• The Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning was not part of the 2009 foundation, but was added only from 2010, after the university had already opened.建筑与城市规划学院并非 2009 年创校时的建制，而是迟至 2010 年、即大学开学之后才加入。

• Because its legal birth dates from 2009, the University of Mons is markedly younger than many of the old European universities now ranked in the same QS band as it.由于其法定诞生始于 2009 年，蒙斯大学远比现今与其同处一档 QS 名次的许多欧洲古大学年轻。

• Several International Master programmes taught wholly in English were set up in collaboration with Brussels University, through a joint Brussels-Mons institute of engineering.数个全英语授课的国际硕士项目系与布鲁塞尔大学合作、经由联合的布鲁塞尔-蒙斯工程师学院设立。

• Brussels University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, thus stands beside the Mons University as a partner in the merged university's graduate offer.即布鲁塞尔自由大学的布鲁塞尔大学，遂与蒙斯大学并列，成为这所合并大学研究生培养的伙伴。

• In its research organisation the university grouped several laboratories into each of twenty research fields, holding those fields to be the basis of its output.其研究组织将若干实验室编入二十个研究领域，并以这二十领域为其产出之基础。

• The university is a member of the University Foundation, the body that supports the French-speaking higher education and research of Belgium.该校为大学基金会之成员，该基金会为支持比利时法语界高等教育与研究之机构。

• Since 2027, however, the University of Mons is placed in the 801-850 band of the QS world table, while its Times Higher Education standing for the same year is a 701-800 band.然而在 2027 年，蒙斯大学列 QS 世界榜第 801-850 档，而同年泰晤士高等教育名次则为第 701-800 档。

• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities table the institution is listed at world rank 1142, a lower position than the two European leagues report for it.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学榜中，该校列世界第 1142 位，低于两大欧洲榜单所记之名次。

• Its history is thus one of consolidation rather than foundation, since the 2009 act brought together bodies already teaching for generations at Mons.因此其史为整合而非创建史，2009 年的合并之举把在蒙斯已数代办学的诸实体聚为一体。

• The merged university's founding was preceded by an earlier tradition of higher teaching at Mons, since the Hainaut university had long carried arts and sciences before the union with the engineering faculty.合并后大学的创建有先于其时的蒙斯高等教学传统，因埃诺大学在与工学院合并前早已长期开设文艺与理学。

• In the years after 2009 the university consolidated the several faculties inherited from its two parents, aligning their degrees under a single administrative framework established at the founding.2009 年之后的数年里，该校整合由两所母体继承而来的各学院，将其学位纳入创校时所立的单一行政框架。

• The addition of architecture and urban planning in 2010 completed the faculty range of the young university, giving it a full set of technical, scientific and humanistic schools by that date.2010 年加入建筑与城市规划，补齐这所年轻大学的学院谱系，使其至该年已具备技术、科学与人文诸院之全套建制。

Academics

• Teaching at the university is organised into faculties and institutes, the faculties being assembled from the two predecessor bodies when the merger took effect in 2009.该校教学编为学院与研究所两类建制，学院于 2009 年合并生效时由两所前身机构汇集而成。

• The Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, known as the FPMs, became the university's Engineering School, or Faculty of Engineering, carrying its technical and industrial programmes forward into the merged institution.通称 FPMs 的蒙斯综合理工学院转为该校的工程学院（即工科院），在合并后的机构中继续承担技术与工业专业。

• The Faculty of Economics and Management bears the name Warocqué, recalling the Warocqué family of Hainaut whose mining fortune is tied to the region's industrial past.经济与管理学院以瓦罗凯命名，追念埃诺的瓦罗凯家族，其矿业财富与该地区工业往事相系。

• Among its other faculties are the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences and the Faculty of Sciences, each carried over from the older University of Mons-Hainaut.其下另有心理与教育科学学院、理学院等学院，皆由较旧的蒙斯-埃诺大学承递而来。

• The Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy forms the health-science arm of the university, training both physicians and pharmacists within one faculty.医药与药学院构成该校卫生科学一支，于一学院内同时培养医师与药师。

• A specialised Faculty of Translation and Interpretation, known by its initials FTI-EII, keeps the university's long tradition of language and translation studies.以缩写 FTI-EII 著称的翻译与口译学院，延续该校在语言与翻译研究上的悠久传统。

• The Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning was the last faculty added to the university, joining only from 2010, a year after the founding merger.建筑与城市规划学院为该校最后增设的学院，于创校合并次年即 2010 年方始加入。

• Beyond the faculties the university runs three institutes of a more specialised cast, in social, legal and language sciences.在诸学院之外，该校另设三所较专门的研究所，分属社会科学、法律科学与语言科学。

• The Institute for Social Sciences, one of three institutes at Mons, carries research spanning sociology, anthropology and the wider study of society.社会科学研究所是蒙斯三研究所之一，其研究及于社会学、人类学及更广泛的社会研究。

• A second, the Institute for Legal Sciences, carries the university's teaching and research in law and the legal disciplines.第二所为法律科学研究所，承担该校在法律及诸法学学科上的教学与研究。

• The third, the Institute for Language Sciences, gathers the study of linguistics and of language together with the translation faculty.第三所为语言科学研究所，将语言学及语言研究连同翻译学院汇于一处。

• Research is organised into twenty fields, each grouping several laboratories under one thematic heading, so that the twenty fields act as the roof structure of the university's science.研究编为二十个领域，每一领域将若干实验室归于一主题之下，故这二十领域构成该校科学的顶部结构。

• Four research centres work under that structure: Multitel and CETIC both in information and communication technology, Materia Nova in materials, and Inisma in ceramic materials.该结构下设四研究中心：Multitel 与 CETIC 同属信息与通信技术，Materia Nova 主攻材料，Inisma 主攻陶瓷材料。

• The Materia Nova centre gives the university a research base in materials science, a field closely tied to the old metallurgical industries of the Hainaut region.Materia Nova 中心使该校拥有材料科学研究基地，此领域与埃诺地区旧日冶金工业紧密相关。

• Within its graduate teaching the International Master programmes are taught entirely in English and were developed jointly with Brussels University inside the joint engineering institute.在其研究生教育中，国际硕士项目全以英语授课，乃与布鲁塞尔大学在联合工程师学院内共同开发。

• The TELEMDIA master, run under the same Brussels-Mons Institute of Engineering, trains students for sectors such as satellite services, cable broadcasting, computer networks and mobile telecommunications.在同一布鲁塞尔-蒙斯工程师学院下的 TELEMDIA 硕士项目，为卫星服务、有线广播、计算机网络与移动通信等行业培养人才。

• The BIOSYS master in biosystems engineering covers measurement, signal processing, modelling, optimisation and control, applied to medical imaging and to the red, green and white biotechnologies.生物系统工程 BIOSYS 硕士涵盖测量、信号处理、建模、优化与控制，应用于医学影像及红、绿、白诸生物技术。

• The Materials Science master, subtitled from design to applications, draws directly on the Materia Nova and Inisma research centres to give a research-oriented, multidisciplinary training.副标题为「从设计到应用」的材料科学硕士，直接依托 Materia Nova 与 Inisma 研究中心，提供以研究为本的多学科训练。

• Beyond the seven faculties the three institutes allow the university to pursue interdisciplinary research in social, legal and language studies across faculty boundaries.在七大学院之外，三个研究所使该校得以跨越学院边界，在社会、法律与语言研究上推进跨学科研究。

• The teaching of law at Mons is carried by the Institute for Legal Sciences rather than by a separate law faculty, an arrangement dating from the merger of 2009.蒙斯的法律教学由法律科学研究所而非独立法学院承担，此建制溯自 2009 年的合并。

• The psychology and education programme runs from its own faculty, linking the study of mind and of pedagogy within one school of the merged university.心理与教育专业由其自有学院开设，将这所合并大学中的心理与教育学研究联于一院。

• Language teaching is doubled at Mons, held both by the specialised translation faculty and by the Institute for Language Sciences, reflecting the city's borderland position.语言教学在蒙斯分置两处，既属专门的翻译学院，亦属语言科学研究所，反映出该城地处边界的位置。

Campus

• The university is seated wholly in the city of Mons, the capital of the province of Hainaut in Wallonia, with its institutions placed across that single urban area.该校全境设于埃诺省省会、瓦隆地区的蒙斯城内，各机构散布于同一市区。

• Its main location is recorded at latitude 50.45413 and longitude 3.95229, placing the campus in the industrial basin of western Hainaut near the French border.其主址坐标记为北纬 50.45413、东经 3.95229，校园地处靠近法国边境的埃诺西部工业盆地。

• Because the two predecessor institutions were already located in the same city, the merged university inherited an estate that needed no relocation, a convenience stressed in the account of the merger.因两所前身机构本在同一城中，合并后的大学所继承的资产无需迁址，此便利于合并记述中尤被强调。

• Research and enterprise are linked through a science park in the region, following the Walloon practice of clustering laboratories and start-ups beside the university.研究与产业经由地区内一处科技园相联，循瓦隆以实验室与初创企业聚于大学旁的惯例。

• The university's teaching in engineering and materials is rooted in the mining and metallurgical geography of Mons and Hainaut, the coal-and-steel country of southern Wallonia.该校在工程与材料上的教学，植根于蒙斯与埃诺的采矿冶金地理，即瓦隆南部的煤铁之乡。

• Its campus carries dozens of spin-offs and start-ups, a commercial output the record lists alongside its patents and research centres.其校园孕育数十家衍生企业与新创公司，这一产业化产出在记录中与其专利、研究中心并列。

• Being a one-city university in a mid-sized Wallonian town, the campus concentrates its faculties, institutes and research centres within Mons rather than dispersing them across the region.作为坐落在瓦隆中型城市中的单一城市大学，其校园将学院、研究所与研究中心集中于蒙斯，而非散布全区。

• The university's facilities are spread within Mons across sites first built for the two predecessor institutions, so its estate is inherited rather than newly master-planned in 2009.该校设施在蒙斯境内分设于最初为两所前身机构而建之址，其校园资产乃承继而来，并非 2009 年重新总体设计。

• The presence of four research centres inside the one-city campus lets faculty, laboratories and start-ups work in proximity, a condensation that a dispersed university could not offer.四个研究中心设于这座单城校园之内，使教师、实验室与新创得以就近共事，此种聚合为分散型大学所不能提供。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Mons is placed in the 801-850 band, a tied range rather than a single rank as reported for this stretch of the table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，蒙斯大学列入第 801-850 位，此为并列区间而非单一名次，与本档记法一致。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 701-800 band, a better position than the QS range of the same year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入第 701-800 位，名次优于同年 QS 区间。

• In the 2026-2027 edition of the US News Best Global Universities ranking the university is listed at world rank 1142, the weakest of its three overall positions.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校列世界第 1142 位，为其三个总体名次中最弱者。

• No position is recorded for the university in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Shanghai Ranking, so it is absent from that edition's main list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未载该校名次，故其不见于该版主榜。

• As with every institution in this part of the table, the QS standing is reported as a band, and the single US News figure should be read against the banded QS and THE ranges rather than compared head to head.与本档所有院校一样，QS 名次以区间记之，故 US News 的单一数值应对照分区的 QS 与 THE 区间来读，而非逐名相较。

• Because no citation count is available for this batch, measurable research scale is stated through verifiable institutional counts instead, namely twenty research fields, four research centres, seven faculties and three institutes.因本批未得该校引用计量之数，故以可核之机构计数代述科研规模：二十个研究领域、四个研究中心、七所学院与三个研究所。

• Its research reach is further expressed in dozens of spin-offs and start-ups and a listed body of patents, the commercial indicators the source records for the institution.其研究辐射度更以数十家衍生企业、新创公司与已载专利为表征，此即材料为该校记录的产业化指标。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level laureate is recorded as staff of the university in the sources used here, so its honourable standing rests on statesmen and public figures among its alumni rather than on prize-winners.本文所据材料未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主任教该校之记载，故其荣誉地位赖其校友中的政治家与公众人物，而非获奖者。

• Its ranking position is that of a young, single-city research university, founded only in 2009, placed by the Times Higher Education 2027 table roughly two hundred to three hundred places above its QS band.其名次格局为一所仅于 2009 年创办的单城研究型大学，泰晤士高等教育 2027 年榜将其列于较 QS 档位约高两三百位之处。

• Compared across the leagues that carry it, the university stands highest in the Times Higher Education 2027 table, mid-table in QS 2027, and lowest in the US News 2026-2027 figure.以收录该校的各榜互较，其于 2027 年泰晤士高等教育榜最高、2027 年 QS 居中、2026-2027 年 US News 数值最低。

• Its single-city and young-founded profile sets it apart from the old civic universities elsewhere in the same 801-850 QS band, many of which count centuries of continuous teaching.其单城而年轻的创办格局，使之有别于同处 QS 第 801-850 档的其他历史名城大学，后者多有数世纪连续教学之史。

Student life

• The university carries a student body of over 10,000, a size the record gives for the fourth of the six universities of the French Community of Belgium.该校在校学生逾 1 万人，此数为比利时法语社群六所大学中第四所者所得记载。

• Its teaching is conducted in French, but the International Master programmes taught wholly in English give an international route into the university's graduate life.其教学以法语进行，而全英语授课的国际硕士项目则为进入该校研究生生活开出一条国际化通道。

• Being a one-city university, student life concentrates in Mons itself, so societies and everyday campus activity gather around the faculties there rather than across several towns.作为单城大学，校园生活集中于蒙斯本城，故社团与日常校事围绕城中各学院聚集，而非散布数镇。

• Its graduate students in the English-taught masters, notably in TELEMDIA, BIOSYS and materials science, join cohorts organised with a partner university in Brussels.其英语授课硕士的学生，尤其 TELEMDIA、生物系统与材料科学诸项目，加入与布鲁塞尔伙伴大学共同组织的学群。

• Linking study to enterprise is a feature of campus life, since the record attaches dozens of spin-offs and start-ups to the university alongside its four research centres.将学业与创业相连是其校园生活一特色，因记录将数十家衍生企业与新创公司连同四个研究中心一并归于该校。

• No student newspaper, confederation of societies or named first sports team is recorded in the material used for this entry, so club and team life is left undocumented rather than invented.本文所据材料未载学生报纸、社团联合会或具名一线校队，故社团与球队生活宁可缺载而不臆造。

• Its colours, mascot and anniversary customs likewise do not appear in the sources read here, and the 6 July 2007 and 25 November 2008 dates concern the merger rather than a fixed student festival.其校色、吉祥物与校庆习俗亦不见于本文所读材料，而 2007 年 7 月 6 日与 2008 年 11 月 25 日两日乃关乎合并，并非固定的学生节日。

• The four research centres and their spin-offs give senior students and graduates a route from coursework into applied work, tying campus life closely to the university's scientific output.四个研究中心及其衍生企业为高年级学生与毕业生开出一条从课业通向应用工作的路径，使校园生活与该校科研产出紧密相联。

Notable people

• Elio Di Rupo, a chemist by training, is listed among the university's notable alumni and went on to serve as prime minister of Belgium, the most senior political office associated with the institution.毕业于化学的埃利奥·迪吕波被列入该校知名校友，其后出任比利时首相，为与该学相关的最高政治职位。

• Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist, is also named among the university's notable alumni, his name associated with microcredit and the economics of development.孟加拉国经济学家穆罕默德·尤努斯亦被列为该校知名校友，其人以小额信贷与发展经济学著称。

• Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg appears on the same list of notable alumni, recorded there for her prominence as an environmental activist.格蕾塔·廷廷·埃莱奥诺拉·埃尔曼·通贝里见于同一知名校友名录，其以环境行动主义之显名而载入。

• Soumia Fahd, a Moroccan herpetologist, is listed among the university's notable former students, carrying its biological and zoological teaching into her research on amphibians and reptiles.摩洛哥爬行动物学家苏米娅·法赫德被列为该校知名旧生，其于两栖与爬行类的研究承继该校的生物与动物学教学。

• The founding line of leadership is recorded in names, since Calogero Conti, formerly rector of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, became the first rector of the merged university in 2009.创校领导序列以人名载之：原任蒙斯综合理工学院院长的卡洛杰罗·孔蒂，于 2009 年成为合并后大学的首任校长。

• His successor in the rectorate, Philippe Dubois, is given in the record as the university's later rector, continuing the office created at the 2009 union.其校长继任者菲利普·迪布瓦在记录中被载为该校后来的校长，延续 2009 年合并所创设之职位。

• The partners behind the graduate programmes are institutional rather than personal, since the English-taught masters were set up with Brussels University inside the Brussels-Mons Institute of Engineering.研究生项目背后的伙伴是机构而非个人，因其英语授课硕士系与布鲁塞尔大学在布鲁塞尔-蒙斯工程师学院内共同设立。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is recorded among persons attached to the university here, so its list of notable people rests on a prime minister, an economist and an activist rather than on prize-winning scholars.本文所载与该学有关者中未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，故其知名人物名录倚重一位首相、一位经济学家与一位行动者，而非获奖学者。