University of Neuchâtel

The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE, Université de Neuchâtel) is a French-speaking public university in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, founded as an academy in 1838 and raised to university status by cantonal decree in 1909.纳沙泰尔大学（University of Neuchâtel，法文 Université de Neuchâtel，简称 UniNE）是瑞士纳沙泰尔的一所法语公立大学，1838 年以学院形式创办，1909 年经州议会法令升格为大学。

It is organised into four faculties, letters and human sciences, science, law and economics, and enrolled 4,514 students in the 2024-25 academic year, with a staff of roughly 1,100.该校设人文与社会科学、理学、法学、经济学四个学院，2024-25 学年在校生 4,514 人，员工约 1,100 人。

UniNE sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 601-650 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and 1,388th place in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027.该校位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 1201-1400 区间、2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名第 601-650 区间、《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名第 1,388 位。

History

• In 1701 the pastor and theologian Jean-Frédéric Ostervald began training future ministers of the Reformed church, a course of instruction that continued without interruption until a Faculty of Theology was created in 1833.1701 年，牧师兼神学家让—弗雷德里克·奥斯特瓦尔开始培养改革宗教会的未来牧师，这一教学延续不断，直至 1833 年神学院成立。
• The city founded a chair of philosophy in 1732 for Louis Bourguet, a correspondent of Leibniz and Réaumur, and soon added a chair of belles-lettres held by Frédéric-Guillaume de Montmollin, later an opponent of Rousseau.1732 年，市府为路易·布尔盖设立哲学教席，他是莱布尼茨与雷奥米尔的通信者；不久又增设文学教席，由后来成为卢梭论敌的弗雷德里克—纪尧姆·德·蒙莫兰担任。
• The Compagnie des pasteurs, the body of Neuchâtel ministers, created two chairs of theology in 1833 and thereby founded the Faculty of Theology, which was later absorbed into the university.1833 年，纳沙泰尔牧师团设立两个神学教席，由此创办神学院，该院后来并入大学。
• On 24 May 1837 the cantonal government sent a memorandum to King Frederick William III of Prussia asking him to fund an academy, since Neuchâtel was then a Prussian principality.1837 年 5 月 24 日，州政府向普鲁士国王腓特烈·威廉三世递交备忘录，请求拨款创办一所学院，因为纳沙泰尔当时仍是普鲁士治下的公国。
• The royal cabinet granted the endowment by decision of 17 March 1838, and the Academy of Neuchâtel was founded that year with the Prussian crown as its sovereign patron.1838 年 3 月 17 日，王室内阁作出决定拨付基金，纳沙泰尔学院于同年成立，普鲁士王室为其最高庇护者。
• Teaching began in the academic year 1840, and the academy was formally inaugurated on 18 November 1841, three years after the royal foundation.学院于 1840 学年开始授课，1841 年 11 月 18 日正式举行落成典礼，距王室批准建校已有三年。
• The first degree, a licence in letters, was awarded in 1843, the point at which the academy began producing its own graduates rather than sending students to German or French universities.1843 年，学院颁授第一个学位即文学「学士衔」，自此开始自行培养毕业生，而不再把学生送往德国或法国大学。
• On 17 June 1848 the Grand Council ordered the academy closed for political, financial and educational reasons, weeks after the republican revolution that ended monarchical rule in the canton.1848 年 6 月 17 日，大议会以政治、财政与教育为由下令关闭学院，此时距结束本州君主统治的共和革命仅数周。
• A law on higher education in 1866 created a second academy with faculties of letters, science and law, and a faculty of theology was added in 1873.1866 年，一部高等教育法促成了第二所学院的建立，设文学、理学与法学三个学院，1873 年又增设神学院。
• A Grand Council decree of 18 May 1909 turned the academy into a university empowered to award doctorates, with a rector as its head.1909 年 5 月 18 日，大议会颁布法令，将学院升格为有权授予博士学位的大学，并以校长为最高负责人。
• A further law in 1910 authorised a section of commercial sciences and opened the doctorate in every faculty, widening the institution's reach beyond the classical disciplines.1910 年的又一部法律批准设立商业科学部，并在各学院开放博士学位，使学校的影响超出传统学科。
• Sophie Piccard, a mathematician, became the first woman in French-speaking Switzerland to hold an ordinary professorship at a university when she was appointed in 1943.1943 年，数学家索菲·皮卡尔获聘正教授，成为瑞士法语区首位在大学担任常任教授的女性。
• Enrolment passed 500 students in 1962, and a new university law the following year strengthened the rectorate against the traditionally autonomous faculties.1962 年在校生突破 500 人，次年颁布的新大学法强化了校长职权，以制衡历来高度自治的各学院。
• Students demonstrated on 14 May 1968, part of the protest wave that reached Swiss campuses, and the episode is recorded in the university's own chronology.1968 年 5 月 14 日，学生举行示威，这是波及瑞士校园的抗议浪潮的一部分，此事被记入校方编纂的大事记。
• A 1971 law on the reorganisation of university authorities ended faculty autonomy and made the university a single organic unit with a central administration.1971 年关于大学管理机构重组的法律终结了学院自治，使大学成为设有中央行政的统一机构。
• The Cité universitaire, a residence built for the growing student body, was inaugurated in 1972 and remains the main source of university housing.为安置不断增长的学生而建的大学城学生宿舍于 1972 年落成，至今仍是学校主要的住宿来源。
• In 1986 the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences moved into a new building at Jeunes-Rives on the lake shore, which remains its home.1986 年，人文与社会科学学院迁入湖畔「青年岸」的新楼，该处至今仍是其院址。
• Neuchâtel formed the BeNeFri network with Bern and Fribourg in 1993, and in 1995 it founded the International Centre for Sport Studies, the body behind the FIFA Master.1993 年，纳沙泰尔与伯尔尼、弗里堡组建 BeNeFri 网络；1995 年又创办国际体育研究中心，该中心正是国际足联硕士项目的承办机构。
• A 1996 revision of the university law gave the rectorate budget envelopes to allocate freely to faculties and their divisions, and in 1998 the whole university community gained access to email and the Internet.1996 年修订的大学法赋予校长可自由分配给各学院及其下属单位的预算额度；1998 年，全校师生均可用上电子邮件与互联网。
• UniMail, a new building for the Faculty of Sciences on rue Émile-Argand, opened in 2001 and brought laboratories in chemistry, physics and biology onto a single modern site.2001 年，理学院位于埃米尔—阿尔冈街的新楼 UniMail 启用，化学、物理与生物实验室由此集中于一处现代化场地。
• A 2002 revision of the university law introduced a performance mandate and a professionalised rectorate, and the same year brought the NCCR Plant Survival and the Triangle Azur network with Geneva and Lausanne.2002 年修订的大学法引入绩效委托并推动校长职位专业化，同年学校获批「植物生存」国家研究能力中心，并与日内瓦、洛桑组建「蔚蓝三角」网络。
• The first bachelor's degrees under the Bologna structure were awarded in 2004 and the first master's degrees in 2005, completing the shift away from the French licence model.2004 年颁授首批博洛尼亚体系学士学位，2005 年颁授首批硕士学位，完成了对法国「学士衔」模式的取代。
• In 2005 the university also opened an Euresearch office for the cantons of Neuchâtel and Jura, giving its researchers a local point of contact with European framework programmes.2005 年，学校又为纳沙泰尔州与侏罗州设立「欧洲研究」办事处，为本校科研人员对接欧洲框架计划提供本地窗口。
• Martine Rahier took office as rector in 2008, the first woman to head a university in French-speaking Switzerland, and she served until 2016.2008 年，马丁·拉希耶就任校长，成为瑞士法语区首位领导大学的女性，任职至 2016 年。
• Nine interdisciplinary centres were created in 2013, and in 2014 the university opened a second National Centre of Competence in Research, on the move, devoted to migration and mobility.2013 年学校设立九个跨学科中心；2014 年又启动第二个国家研究能力中心「迁移」，专注移民与流动性研究。
• The Faculty of Theology closed in 2015 after 182 years, and its teaching passed to Geneva and Lausanne, leaving the university with four faculties.2015 年，创办 182 年的神学院关闭，其教学转由日内瓦与洛桑承担，学校自此仅余四个学院。
• Deniz Gyger Gaspoz was designated rector in 2025 and took office on 1 February 2026, succeeding Kilian Stoffel at the head of the university.德尼兹·吉热·加斯波于 2025 年获任命为校长，2026 年 2 月 1 日正式就职，接替基利安·施托费尔执掌学校。

Academics

• The Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences is the largest, with 1,716 students in 2024, and teaches the languages and civilisations of antiquity and the Middle Ages, archaeology, history, art history and museology.人文与社会科学学院规模最大，2024 年有 1,716 名学生，教授古代与中世纪语言文明、考古学、历史学、艺术史与博物馆学。
• The same faculty covers philosophy, logic, speech therapy and sport sciences, and its social-science arm, the Maison d'analyse des processus sociaux, groups institutes of ethnology, geography, sociology, psychology and education.该院还涵盖哲学、逻辑学、言语治疗与体育科学；其社会科学部分「社会过程分析之家」整合了民族学、地理学、社会学、心理学与教育学研究所。
• The Swiss Migration Forum is attached to that group, giving the faculty a policy-facing research unit alongside its historical and philological departments.瑞士移民论坛亦附设于该团队，使学院在历史与语文学系之外拥有面向政策的研究单位。
• The Faculty of Sciences, with 1,066 students in 2024, teaches biology, biogeosciences, hydrogeology, geothermal science, mathematics, chemistry, physics and information technology.理学院 2024 年有 1,066 名学生，教授生物学、生物地球科学、水文地质学、地热科学、数学、化学、物理学与信息技术。
• It is the leading house of Plant Survival, a National Centre of Competence in Research funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which gives the faculty a national role in plant biology.该院是瑞士国家科学基金会资助的国家研究能力中心「植物生存」的牵头单位，在植物生物学领域承担全国性角色。
• The Faculty of Law, with 906 students in 2024, offers six master's orientations: business law, international and European law, public law, health and biotechnology law, sports law and the judiciary professions.法学院 2024 年有 906 名学生，硕士阶段设六个方向：商法、国际法与欧洲法、公法、卫生与生物技术法、体育法以及司法职业。
• The Faculty of Economics, with 826 students in 2024, runs master's programmes in financial analysis, international business development, public economics, public policy, labour psychology, statistics and information systems.经济学院 2024 年有 826 名学生，硕士项目包括财务分析、国际商务发展、公共经济学、公共政策、劳动心理学、统计学与信息系统。
• Its Academy of Journalism and Media is described by the university as unique in Switzerland, an integrated master's designed with newsroom and publishing professionals.其新闻与媒体学院被校方称为瑞士独有，是与新闻编辑室及出版业界人士共同设计的整合型硕士项目。
• The university states that a national evaluation ranked its bachelor's programme in economics first in Switzerland, ahead of the University of St. Gallen.校方称，在一次全国性评估中，其经济学学士项目位居瑞士第一，领先于圣加仑大学。
• With De Montfort University in Leicester and SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan, UniNE delivers the FIFA Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport through the International Centre for Sport Studies.该校与莱斯特的德蒙福特大学、米兰的博科尼管理学院合作，通过国际体育研究中心开设「国际足联体育管理、法律与人文硕士」。
• The Institute of Health Law and the International Centre for Sport Studies are attached to the law faculty, giving it a specialised profile unusual among Swiss law schools.卫生法研究所与国际体育研究中心附设于法学院，使其在瑞士法学院中具有罕见的专业特色。
• The Institut de langue et civilisation françaises teaches French to non-native speakers, trains teachers of French as a foreign language and runs summer courses that draw international students.法语与文明学院面向非母语者教授法语，培养法语外语教师，并开设吸引国际学生的暑期课程。
• The university's budget was CHF 139.9 million in 2024-25, with an annual research fund of about CHF 40 million and a staff of roughly 1,100.该校 2024-25 年度预算为 1.399 亿瑞士法郎，年度研究经费约 4,000 万瑞士法郎，员工约 1,100 人。
• Research output indexed by OpenAlex totals 27,255 works and 1,359,185 citations, with particular weight in biology, geosciences, economics and social psychology.OpenAlex 收录的研究成果共 27,255 项、引用 1,359,185 次，在生物学、地球科学、经济学与社会心理学方面尤为集中。
• Doctoral training runs through about a dozen doctoral schools, several shared with Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg under the CUSO framework, and the 2021 annual report counted 619 doctoral candidates at the university.博士培养通过十余个博士学校组织，其中多所与洛桑、日内瓦、弗里堡在瑞士西部大学会议框架下共享；2021 年年度报告记录该校有 619 名博士生。
• It awards more than 600 diplomas, master's degrees, doctorates and certificates each year, and its degrees follow the bachelor, master and doctorate structure introduced between 2004 and 2005.学校每年颁授 600 多个文凭、硕士学位、博士学位与证书，其学位遵循 2004 至 2005 年间引入的学士、硕士、博士三级结构。

Campus

• The university's seat is at Avenue du 1er-Mars 26 in Neuchâtel, capital of the canton of the same name, a few minutes' walk from the lake shore.学校校部位于纳沙泰尔州首府纳沙泰尔市三月一日大道 26 号，距湖岸步行仅数分钟。
• Its buildings are split between two sites, one on the lakeside and one on the upper slopes of the town, and there is no walled campus or single gate.校舍分为湖畔与城市高地两个片区，没有围墙式校园，也没有统一校门。
• The Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences occupies the Jeunes-Rives building opened in 1986, a low lakeside block with lecture halls, seminar rooms and the humanities library.人文与社会科学学院使用 1986 年启用的「青年岸」大楼，这座湖畔低层建筑内设阶梯教室、研讨室与人文学科图书馆。
• The Faculty of Sciences works from UniMail on rue Émile-Argand, opened in 2001, where teaching laboratories, research institutes and large lecture theatres share one building.理学院在埃米尔—阿尔冈街的 UniMail 楼办公，该楼 2001 年启用，教学实验室、研究所与大型阶梯教室共处一座建筑。
• The Faculty of Law sits in the main building on Avenue du 1er-Mars, together with the rectorate and the central administration.法学院设于三月一日大道的主楼，与校长办公室及中央行政机构同处一地。
• The Faculty of Economics occupies the Breguet site, a separate cluster of teaching and research rooms a short distance from the main building.经济学院使用布雷盖校区，这是一组独立的教学与研究用房，距主楼不远。
• The university library and the historic Bibliothèque des Pasteurs hold the canton's print heritage, including Reformation-era theology and regional archives.大学图书馆与历史悠久的「牧师图书馆」共同收藏本州的印刷遗产，包括宗教改革时期的神学著作与地方档案。
• The Cité universitaire, inaugurated in 1972, provides student rooms within walking distance of the faculties and remains the main residential option for out-of-town students.1972 年落成的大学城宿舍提供步行可达各学院的房间，至今仍是外地学生的主要住宿选择。
• Neuchâtel stands on the north shore of Lake Neuchâtel below the Jura ridge, and students reach vineyards, hiking trails and the Chaumont funicular within the city boundary.纳沙泰尔位于纳沙泰尔湖北岸、侏罗山脊之下，学生可在市界内抵达葡萄园、步道与绍蒙缆车。
• Swiss Federal Railways runs the Jura foot line through the town, putting Lausanne about 40 minutes away and Bern and Zurich within two hours.瑞士联邦铁路的侏罗山麓线穿城而过，到洛桑约 40 分钟，到伯尔尼与苏黎世在两小时以内。

Reputation

• QS places UniNE in the 1201-1400 band of its World University Rankings 2027, an interval shared by several hundred institutions of comparable size.QS 将纳沙泰尔大学列入 2027 年世界大学排名第 1201-1400 区间，这一区间涵盖数百所规模相近的高校。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 601-650 band, a result that reflects strong citation impact relative to a small faculty.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入第 601-650 区间，这一结果反映出相对于其较小师资的较强引用影响力。
• U.S. News ranks it 1,388th in the Best Global Universities 2026-2027, a list weighted towards research reputation and bibliometric indicators.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名将其列为第 1,388 位，该榜单侧重科研声誉与文献计量指标。
• UniNE does not appear in the main table of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, and no ARWU placement is claimed for it.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，校方也未主张任何软科名次。
• OpenAlex records 27,255 works and 1,359,185 citations, a volume that stands out for an institution of 4,500 students and no medical or engineering faculty.OpenAlex 记录 27,255 项成果与 1,359,185 次引用，对一所仅有 4,500 名学生、且无医学与工程学院的学校而言，这一体量相当突出。
• The CHF 139.9 million budget and CHF 40 million research fund support a research intensity that is high per capita but small in absolute terms.1.399 亿瑞士法郎预算与 4,000 万瑞士法郎研究经费，支撑了人均强度高、绝对规模小的科研格局。
• As leading house of the National Centre of Competence in Research Plant Survival, the university holds a national mandate in plant biology that extends beyond its own laboratories.作为国家研究能力中心「植物生存」的牵头单位，该校在植物生物学领域承担了超出自身实验室的国家任务。
• The FIFA Master run through CIES is among the best-known sport-management qualifications in Europe, drawing students from dozens of countries each year.通过国际体育研究中心开设的国际足联硕士，是欧洲最知名的体育管理资格之一，每年吸引数十个国家的学生。
• Within Switzerland the university is known for law, economics and the sport-governance niche rather than for engineering or medicine, which it does not teach.在瑞士国内，该校以法学、经济学与体育治理特色见长，而非工程或医学，这两个领域它并不开设。
• Its membership of BeNeFri and Triangle Azur lets it share doctoral training and library access with Bern, Fribourg, Geneva and Lausanne, compensating for its small scale, and it belongs to swissuniversities and the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie.借助 BeNeFri 与「蔚蓝三角」成员身份，它与伯尔尼、弗里堡、日内瓦和洛桑共享博士培养与图书馆资源，以弥补规模之限；学校同时是瑞士高校协会与法语大学联盟成员。

Student life

• The Fédération des étudiants neuchâtelois, the cantonal students' federation, was constituted in 1919 and remains the oldest continuous student body of the university.纳沙泰尔州学生联合会于 1919 年成立，至今仍是该校历史最悠久、延续不断的学生组织。
• Teaching is in French at all levels, though master's programmes and doctoral schools increasingly run courses and reading seminars in English.各层次教学以法语进行，但硕士项目与博士学校越来越多地用英语开设课程与研讨课。
• The Institut de langue et civilisation françaises runs summer courses that bring several hundred foreign students to the city each July and August.法语与文明学院开设暑期课程，每年七八月为城市带来数百名外国学生。
• The university holds a Dies academicus each year, an occasion for awarding honorary doctorates and for the rector to report on the institution's finances and academic results.学校每年举行「学术日」，届时颁授荣誉博士学位，并由校长报告学校的财务与学术成果。
• The student body is small enough that most disciplines form a single cohort, and student associations are organised by faculty rather than by residential college.学生规模之小使大多数学科只有一届学生，学生协会按学院而非住宿学院组织。
• Because there is no campus, student life is interwoven with the town's cafés, the lakeshore and the vineyards that climb the slope towards Chaumont.由于没有集中校园，学生生活与城中的咖啡馆、湖岸以及向绍蒙方向攀升的葡萄园交织在一起。
• Swiss university sport is organised through the national federation, and UniNE students compete in inter-university championships in skiing, rowing and team sports.瑞士大学体育由全国性联合会组织，纳沙泰尔大学学生参加滑雪、赛艇与团队项目的校际锦标赛。
• The FIFA Master cohort forms its own international community within the university, attending modules in Neuchâtel, Leicester and Milan during a single academic year.国际足联硕士班在校内构成独立的国际社群，在一个学年内先后于纳沙泰尔、莱斯特与米兰上课。
• Neuchâtel's position in the Jura arc gives students access to hiking, climbing and winter sports within an hour of the lecture halls.纳沙泰尔地处侏罗山弧形地带，学生从教室出发一小时内即可徒步、攀岩或参与冬季运动。

Notable people

• Louis Agassiz taught natural history at the Neuchâtel academy from 1832, developed his ice-age theory in the surrounding Jura and later founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.路易·阿加西自 1832 年起在纳沙泰尔学院教授博物学，在侏罗山一带提出冰期理论，后来在哈佛大学创办比较动物学博物馆。
• Arnold Henri Guyot, Agassiz's colleague at Neuchâtel, went on to teach geology and physical geography at Princeton University and to map the Appalachians.阿诺德·亨利·居约是阿加西在纳沙泰尔的同事，后赴普林斯顿大学教授地质学与自然地理学，并测绘阿巴拉契亚山脉。
• Jean Piaget studied natural sciences at Neuchâtel, took his doctorate there in 1918 and returned as professor of psychology between 1925 and 1929 before moving to Geneva.让·皮亚杰在纳沙泰尔攻读自然科学，1918 年在该校获博士学位，1925 至 1929 年回校任心理学教授，此后前往日内瓦。
• Denis de Rougemont, the essayist and European federalist who founded the Centre européen de la culture in Geneva, studied literature at Neuchâtel.散文家、欧洲联邦主义者德尼·德·鲁热蒙曾在纳沙泰尔攻读文学，后来在日内瓦创办欧洲文化中心。
• Pierre Aubert, a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1978 to 1987 and president of the Confederation in 1983, trained in law at the university.皮埃尔·奥贝尔在 1978 至 1987 年间任瑞士联邦委员，1983 年出任联邦主席，曾在该校学习法律。
• Alain Berset, a Federal Council member from 2012 to 2023 and twice president of the Confederation, studied political science at Neuchâtel.阿兰·贝尔塞在 2012 至 2023 年间任瑞士联邦委员，两度出任联邦主席，曾在纳沙泰尔攻读政治学。
• Elisabeth Baume-Schneider, elected to the Federal Council in 2023, is counted among the university's graduates from the Jura canton.伊丽莎白·鲍默—施奈德于 2023 年当选瑞士联邦委员，被列为该校来自侏罗州的毕业生之一。
• Dick Marty, the Swiss senator and Council of Europe rapporteur on rendition and human rights, took his law degree at Neuchâtel.瑞士参议员、欧洲委员会引渡与人权问题报告人迪克·马蒂在纳沙泰尔取得法学学位。
• Yadolah Dodge, a statistician known for robust methods and for building a statistics programme in Neuchâtel, taught at the university for three decades.统计学家亚多拉·道奇以稳健统计方法著称，并在纳沙泰尔创建统计学项目，在该校任教三十年。