University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the urban research institution of the University of North Carolina system.北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校（UNC Charlotte）是北卡罗来纳州夏洛特的一所公立研究型大学，也是北卡罗来纳大学系统的城市研究型院校。

It began in 1946 as an evening extension centre for veterans, became Charlotte College in 1949 and joined the UNC system as its fourth campus in 1965.该校于 1946 年作为面向退伍军人的夜校推广中心起步，1949 年成为夏洛特学院，1965 年作为北卡罗来纳大学系统第四校区加入该系统。

It enrols 32,207 students on a 1,000-acre wooded campus about ten miles from Uptown Charlotte, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it sits in the 1201-1400 band.该校在距夏洛特市中心约十英里的 1000 英亩林地上拥有 32207 名学生；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，它位列 1201-1400 区间。

History

• In the late 1880s Charlotte bid for what became North Carolina State University, but lost to Raleigh after a local farmer offered to donate land for the campus.19 世纪 80 年代末，夏洛特曾争取后来成为北卡罗来纳州立大学的院校落户，但一位当地农场主提出捐地建校，使该校最终设在罗利。
• In 1946, to absorb the surge of applicants created by the G.I. Bill, the Consolidated University of North Carolina opened twelve extension centres, and the Charlotte Center opened on 23 September 1946 with 278 students.1946 年，为吸纳《退伍军人权利法案》带来的申请潮，北卡罗来纳联合大学开设了十二个推广中心，夏洛特中心于 1946 年 9 月 23 日开学，共有 278 名学生。
• The centre held night classes at Central High School in present-day Uptown Charlotte under the city school system, and its first director was the doctoral student Charles Bernard.该中心由市立学校系统管理，在如今夏洛特市中心的中央高中开设夜校课程，首任主任是博士生查尔斯·伯纳德。
• Bernard resigned in 1947 to resume his studies, and Bonnie Ethel Cone, a mathematics teacher at the centre, was named director and added sophomore-level courses in response to demand.伯纳德于 1947 年辞职继续学业，中心数学教师邦妮·埃塞尔·科恩被任命为主任，并应需求增设了二年级课程。
• By 1948 only four extension centres remained, and the Consolidated University announced that they would close on 1 July 1949.到 1948 年，只剩四个推广中心仍在运作，联合大学宣布它们将于 1949 年 7 月 1 日关闭。
• On 4 April 1949, after local campaigning led by Cone, the North Carolina General Assembly created the Charlotte Community College System, which opened Charlotte College and Carver College later that year.1949 年 4 月 4 日，在科恩领导的本地争取下，北卡罗来纳州议会创立夏洛特社区学院系统，并于同年晚些时候开办夏洛特学院与卡弗学院。
• Charlotte College served white students and Carver College served black students, and in 1950 the state recognised Charlotte College as a standard junior college whose credits could transfer to senior colleges.夏洛特学院招收白人学生，卡弗学院招收黑人学生；1950 年州政府认定夏洛特学院为标准初级学院，其学分可转入四年制学院。
• The college was desegregated after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, while Carver College later merged into what became Central Piedmont Community College.1954 年最高法院就布朗诉教育委员会案作出裁决后，该校取消种族隔离；卡弗学院后来并入中皮德蒙特社区学院。
• Enrolment reached 492 by 1957, prompting a search for a permanent site, and the college became state-supported in 1958 when it joined the new North Carolina Community College System.1957 年学生人数达到 492 人，促使校方寻找永久校址；1958 年该校加入新成立的北卡罗来纳社区学院系统，获得州政府支持。
• The college moved to its present location in 1961, added a junior year in 1963 and a senior year in 1964, completing the transition to a four-year institution.该校于 1961 年迁至现址，1963 年增设三年级、1964 年增设四年级，完成了向四年制院校的转变。
• On 3 March 1965 the General Assembly designated Charlotte College the fourth campus of the University of North Carolina, under its current name, effective 1 July.1965 年 3 月 3 日，州议会指定夏洛特学院为北卡罗来纳大学第四校区，并采用现名，自 7 月 1 日生效。
• On 29 May 1966, 81 students became the first graduating class of the university as a UNC campus.1966 年 5 月 29 日，81 名学生成为该校作为北卡罗来纳大学校区后的首届毕业生。
• The first dormitory opened in 1969 with room for about 600 students, and the university also began offering programmes leading to master's degrees that year.首座宿舍于 1969 年启用，可容纳约 600 名学生；同年该校开始开设通往硕士学位的课程。
• The first graduate degree, a master of education, was awarded in May 1970, and by 1973 enrolment had grown to 6,123 students, including 853 graduate students.首个研究生学位教育硕士于 1970 年 5 月授予；到 1973 年，学生人数增至 6123 人，其中研究生 853 人。
• In 1992 UNC Charlotte was authorised to offer doctoral degrees, completing its evolution from junior college to research university within four decades.1992 年，该校获准开设博士学位，在四十年间完成了从初级学院到研究型大学的演变。
• On 18 September 2008 Chancellor Dubois recommended adding a Division I FCS football programme, and the board of trustees voted 8-0 in favour on 13 November, with play beginning five years later.2008 年 9 月 18 日，杜波依斯校长建议增设一级 FCS 橄榄球项目，董事会于 11 月 13 日以 8 比 0 表决通过，球队在五年后开始比赛。
• Football kicked off on 31 August 2013 with a 52-7 victory over Campbell University, and the programme moved to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2015.橄榄球项目于 2013 年 8 月 31 日开赛，以 52 比 7 战胜坎贝尔大学；该项目于 2015 年升入橄榄球碗赛分区。
• On 30 April 2019 a mass shooting in the Woodford A. Kennedy Building killed two students and injured four others, and the university subsequently added security measures and memorial events.2019 年 4 月 30 日，伍德福德·A·肯尼迪楼发生枪击案，两名学生死亡、四人受伤；此后校方加强了安保措施并举行纪念活动。
• Sharon L. Gaber became chancellor in 2020, arriving from the University of Toledo, and has presided over record enrolment and the expansion of the university's research profile.莎伦·L·加伯于 2020 年从托莱多大学来校出任校长，任内学生人数创下新高，学校的研究实力也得到扩展。

Academics

• UNC Charlotte offers 171 majors leading to 79 bachelor's degrees, 66 master's programmes and 24 doctoral programmes through ten colleges.该校通过十个学院开设 171 个主修方向，可授予 79 个学士学位、66 个硕士项目与 24 个博士项目。
• The colleges are Humanities and Earth and Social Sciences, Klein College of Science, Arts and Architecture, Cato College of Education, Health and Human Services, William States Lee College of Engineering, Computing and Informatics, Belk College of Business, University College and the Honors College.十个学院包括人文、地球与社会科学学院，克莱因科学学院，艺术与建筑学院，卡托教育学院，健康与人类服务学院，威廉·斯泰茨·李工程学院，计算与信息学院，贝尔克商学院，大学学院与荣誉学院。
• The university is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research spending and doctorate production, a designation it has held as its research portfolio expanded.该校被列为研究支出与博士培养水平极高的 R1 类博士大学，随着研究规模扩大而保持这一认定。
• In the autumn of 2025 it enrolled 32,207 students drawn from 99 of North Carolina's 100 counties, all 50 states and 128 countries.2025 年秋，该校注册学生 32207 人，来自北卡罗来纳州 100 个县中的 99 个、全美 50 个州以及 128 个国家。
• J. Murrey Atkins Library holds more than 3.3 million volumes, including 930,000 e-books, over 400 databases and about 75,000 journals, most of them available electronically.J·默里·阿特金斯图书馆藏有逾 330 万册文献，包括 93 万种电子书、400 多个数据库与约 75000 种期刊，其中大部分可在线获取。
• The Belk College of Business was established in 1965, became the College of Business Administration in 1971 and took its present name in 1990 in honour of the Belk family, and it is organised into departments of accounting, business information systems and operations management, economics, finance, management and marketing, and it offers three undergraduate degrees, five master's programmes and a doctorate in business administration.贝尔克商学院创办于 1965 年，1971 年改为工商管理学院，1990 年为纪念贝尔克家族而采用现名；学院下设会计、商务信息系统与运营管理、经济学、金融、管理与市场营销等系，开设三个本科学位、五个硕士项目以及工商管理博士学位。
• The College of Computing and Informatics, as of April 2021, was the largest computing college in North Carolina and the leading producer of computer science graduates in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.截至 2021 年 4 月，计算与信息学院是北卡罗来纳州规模最大的计算学院，也是北卡罗来纳、南卡罗来纳与弗吉尼亚三州计算机科学毕业生最多的学院。
• The Leon Levine Family Foundation gave 9.3 million dollars in 2009 to create the Levine Scholars programme, which funds tuition, fees, books, room, four summer experiences and an 8,000-dollar service grant.莱昂·莱文家族基金会于 2009 年捐赠 930 万美元创立莱文学者项目，资助学费、杂费、书籍、住宿、四次暑期实践以及 8000 美元的社区服务补助。
• The university offers fifteen degree and certificate programmes by distance education, ranging from 25 to 100 per cent online, alongside eleven other merit scholarship programmes.该校通过远程教育开设十五个学位与证书项目，在线比例从 25% 到 100% 不等，另设十一个其他择优奖学金项目。
• Research activity is concentrated in the northern part of the main campus, formerly branded as the Charlotte Research Institute, whose operations were folded into the Office of Research Partnerships in 2019.科研活动集中于主校区北部，该区域原以“夏洛特研究所”为品牌，其业务于 2019 年并入研究合作办公室。
• The adjacent University Research Park is counted among the five largest research parks in the United States and hosts companies working with university laboratories.毗邻的大学研究园跻身美国五大研究园之列，入驻企业与校内实验室开展合作。
• U.S. News ranked the undergraduate programme 152nd among national universities in its 2025 edition, while Forbes placed the university 225th out of 500.《美国新闻与世界报道》2025 年版把该校本科项目列为全国性大学第 152 名，《福布斯》则把该校列为 500 所院校中的第 225 名。
• The Honors College offers a liberal arts college experience within the larger university, with small seminars and a thesis requirement for its graduates.荣誉学院在这所大型大学内提供文理学院式的教育体验，开设小班研讨课并要求毕业生完成学位论文。
• University College advises undergraduates who have not yet declared a major, while the Graduate School coordinates master's and doctoral programmes across the colleges.大学学院为尚未确定主修方向的本科生提供指导，研究生院则协调各学院的硕士与博士项目。
• The College of Health and Human Services houses the School of Nursing and programmes in public health, health administration, social work and kinesiology.健康与人类服务学院下设护理学院，并开设公共卫生、健康管理、社会工作与运动机能学等专业。
• The William States Lee College of Engineering teaches civil, environmental, mechanical, electrical, computer, systems and construction engineering, with a strong applied and industry-facing emphasis.威廉·斯泰茨·李工程学院教授土木、环境、机械、电气、计算机、系统与建筑工程，强调应用与产业导向。

Campus

• The main campus covers just under 1,000 acres of rolling, heavily wooded land between U.S. Route 29 and North Carolina Highway 49, about ten miles from Uptown Charlotte.主校区占地略少于 1000 英亩，位于美国 29 号公路与北卡罗来纳州 49 号公路之间起伏且林木茂密的地带，距夏洛特市中心约十英里。
• The campus is self-contained, with no major roads running through it, several man-made lakes and two gardens that attract more than 300,000 visitors a year.校园自成一体，没有主要道路穿行其间，园内有数个人工湖与两座花园，每年吸引逾 30 万访客。
• The oldest buildings are precast concrete and utilitarian because they were built with limited state funds in the 1960s and 1970s, and a renovation programme began in 2014.最古老的建筑采用预制混凝土与实用主义风格，因 1960 与 1970 年代州政府拨款有限；2014 年起校方启动了翻新计划。
• Newer buildings, funded by state bonds, use brick and neoclassical forms, and concrete sidewalks have largely been replaced by brick paving and landscaped medians.由州债券资助的新建筑采用砖砌与新古典形式，混凝土人行道大多已换成砖铺路面，道路也增设了景观中央分隔带。
• The Center City campus occupies a 12-storey, 143,000-square-foot building at 320 East 9th Street, completed in 2011 at a cost of 50.4 million dollars to designs by KieranTimberlake.市中心校区位于东九街 320 号一栋 12 层、14.3 万平方英尺的建筑内，该楼于 2011 年建成，造价 5040 万美元，由基兰·廷伯莱克事务所设计。
• The building's cantilevered multi-storey blocks resemble a stack of books, and the campus houses the School of Professional Studies and 23 academic programmes.该建筑悬挑的多层体块形似一摞书；校区内设专业研究学院与 23 个学术项目。
• The Lynx Blue Line reached campus in 2018, connecting students to 25 other stations including the Charlotte Transportation Center in Uptown, and all students receive a CATS All-Access pass.轻轨“猞猁蓝线”于 2018 年通至校园，把学生与包括市中心夏洛特交通中心在内的另外 25 个车站连接起来，所有学生均可获得夏洛特地区交通系统的全通卡。
• On campus, six Niner Transit routes, including the Green, Silver, Red Express and Gold lines, link residence halls, parking areas and academic buildings.校园内六条“49人”公交线路，包括绿线、银线、红色快线与金线，连接宿舍、停车场与教学楼。
• Jerry Richardson Stadium, opened for the 2013 football season, holds about 15,000 spectators and can be expanded to 40,000 for major events.杰里·理查森体育场于 2013 年橄榄球赛季启用，可容纳约 15000 名观众，重大赛事时可扩建至 40000 人。
• The J. Murrey Atkins Library tower rises ten storeys at the centre of campus, with special collections on the top floor and the millionth volume, a copy of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, received in April 2007.J·默里·阿特金斯图书馆塔楼高十层，位于校园中心，顶层设特藏部；其第一百万册藏书为 T·S·艾略特《荒原》的一个版本，于 2007 年 4 月入藏。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 UNC Charlotte is placed in the 1201-1400 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校位列 1201-1400 区间。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 651-700 band, its strongest result among the four major global tables.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校列入 651-700 区间，这是其在四大全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027, the university is placed 727th.在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中，该校位列第 727 名。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places UNC Charlotte in the 801-900 band.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把该校列入 801-900 区间。
• In the 2026 QS ranking, published in 2025, the university stood in the 1001-1200 band, before moving into the 1201-1400 band the following year.在 2025 年发布的 2026 年 QS 排名中，该校处于 1001-1200 区间，次年则进入 1201-1400 区间。
• OpenAlex records 40,849 works and 1,797,593 citations for the university, a research base that has grown alongside its doctoral programmes since 1992.OpenAlex 记录该校论文 40849 篇、引用 1797593 次，其研究基础自 1992 年设立博士项目以来持续扩大。
• UNC Charlotte was the fastest-growing institution in the UNC system in the late 2000s and early 2010s, a period that reshaped its academic and residential capacity.在 2000 年代末至 2010 年代前期，该校是北卡罗来纳大学系统中增长最快的院校，这一时期重塑了其学术与住宿容量。
• The university presents itself as North Carolina's urban research university, a positioning that links its research agenda to Charlotte's banking, energy and technology economy.该校以“北卡罗来纳州的城市研究型大学”自居，这一定位把其研究议程与夏洛特的银行、能源与技术经济联系起来。
• Its College of Computing and Informatics is the largest computing college in North Carolina and the leading producer of computer science graduates in three states.其计算与信息学院是北卡罗来纳州最大的计算学院，也是三州范围内计算机科学毕业生最多的学院。
• Charlotte competes in the American Athletic Conference, a move that raised the university's athletic profile after the 2022-23 season.夏洛特分校自 2022-23 赛季后加入美国体育联盟，这一变动提升了该校的体育知名度。

Student life

• UNC Charlotte has no formal Latin motto and uses the tagline The Difference Is Charlotte in its institutional communications.北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校没有正式的拉丁语校训，其机构宣传中使用“不同之处在于夏洛特”这一标语。
• The athletics nickname, the 49ers, commemorates 1949, the year Charlotte College was saved from permanent closure, and the mascot is Norm the Niner, a gold miner.体育队昵称“49人”纪念 1949 年夏洛特学院免于永久关闭，吉祥物是淘金者“诺姆·奈纳”。
• The school colours are green and white, with gold and black featured in the logo and uniforms, and the athletics department has used the simple name Charlotte since 23 August 2000.校色为绿色与白色，标志与队服中另用金色与黑色；体育部门自 2000 年 8 月 23 日起使用简称“夏洛特”。
• The department sponsors nineteen varsity teams in NCAA Division I, and the university became a full member of the American Athletic Conference after the 2022-23 season.该部门运营 19 支全美大学生体育协会一级联赛校队，学校在 2022-23 赛季后成为美国体育联盟正式成员。
• Football began in 2013 with a 52-7 win over Campbell, and the 49ers played their first bowl game in the 2019 Bahamas Bowl against Buffalo.橄榄球项目于 2013 年以 52 比 7 战胜坎贝尔大学开局；49 人队于 2019 年巴哈马碗对阵布法罗大学，首次参加碗赛。
• Men's basketball has reached the NCAA tournament eleven times, including the 1977 Final Four, and produced NBA players such as Cedric Maxwell and DeMarco Johnson.男子篮球曾十一次进入全美大学生体育协会锦标赛，包括 1977 年的四强赛，并培养了塞德里克·马克斯韦尔与德马科·约翰逊等美职篮球员。
• Men's soccer reached the College Cup in 1996 and 2011, finishing as national runner-up in 2011, and has won eight conference titles.男子足球于 1996 年与 2011 年打入大学杯，2011 年获得全国亚军，并八次夺得联盟冠军。
• The men's golf team reached the ranking of top-rated golf team in the nation in September 2007.男子高尔夫球队于 2007 年 9 月曾登上全美排名第一。
• Baseball has made six NCAA tournament appearances, most recently in 2021, with four conference tournament titles and eight regular-season championships, and its alumni include major leaguers Bryan Harvey and John Maine.棒球队六次进入全美大学生体育协会锦标赛，最近一次为 2021 年，并四夺联盟锦标赛冠军、八次获得常规赛冠军，校友中包括大联盟球员布莱恩·哈维与约翰·缅因。
• Greek life includes more than ten sororities and fourteen fraternities, alongside student organisations covering academic, cultural, political, religious and service interests.希腊生活体系包括十个以上姐妹会与十四个兄弟会，另有涵盖学术、文化、政治、宗教与服务等领域的学生组织。
• The light rail link and the ten-mile distance from Uptown shape student life, giving students access to Charlotte's internships, banking sector and professional sports while keeping campus residential.轻轨连接以及与市中心十英里的距离塑造了学生生活，使学生既能接触夏洛特的实习机会、银行业与职业体育，又保留了校园的住宿氛围。

Notable people

• Bonnie Ethel Cone, known as Miss Bonnie, led the institution from 1947, served as president of Charlotte College from 1949 to 1965 and was acting chancellor until 1966.被称为“邦妮小姐”的邦妮·埃塞尔·科恩自 1947 年起领导该校，1949 至 1965 年任夏洛特学院院长，并担任代理校长至 1966 年。
• Dean W. Colvard, formerly president of Mississippi State University, was UNC Charlotte's first chancellor from 1966 to 1978, grew enrolment from about 1,700 to more than 8,000 and oversaw the university's accreditation, the first residence halls, the first graduate programmes and the research park that became one of the five largest in the country.曾任密西西比州立大学校长的迪恩·W·科尔瓦德于 1966 至 1978 年担任该校首任校长，使学生人数从约 1700 人增至 8000 多人，任内完成学校认证，建成首批宿舍，创办首批研究生项目，并推动建立了跻身全美五大的研究园。
• E. K. Fretwell, chancellor from 1979 to 1989, saw enrolment rise from 8,000 to over 12,000, created the Graduate School, put the library catalogue online in 1983, raised academic grants above 6.1 million dollars and later served as interim president of the University of Massachusetts system.E·K·弗雷特韦尔于 1979 至 1989 年任校长，任内学生人数从 8000 人增至 12000 多人，创立研究生院，于 1983 年把图书馆目录接入互联网，使学术拨款增至 610 万美元以上，后来还担任马萨诸塞大学系统的临时校长。
• James H. Woodward, chancellor from 1989 to 2005, added doctoral programmes, saw enrolment pass 19,000 and presided over the largest building boom in the university's history, with six buildings under construction at once in the summer of 2005.詹姆斯·H·伍德沃德于 1989 至 2005 年任校长，增设博士项目，学生人数突破 19000 人，并主持了该校历史上规模最大的建设潮，2005 年夏同时有六座建筑在建。
• Philip L. Dubois, chancellor from 2005 to 2020, led the creation of the Center City campus, added football and pursued the goal of making UNC Charlotte the state's fourth research-extensive university, and he was the first chancellor to live in the Bissell House completed in 2005.菲利普·L·杜波依斯于 2005 至 2020 年任校长，主导市中心校区的创建，增设橄榄球项目，并推动学校成为该州第四所研究密集型大学；他是首位入住 2005 年建成的比塞尔宅邸的校长。
• Cedric Maxwell, a forward on the 1977 Final Four team, won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics and was named MVP of the 1981 NBA Finals.塞德里克·马克斯韦尔是 1977 年四强赛球队的前锋，随波士顿凯尔特人两夺美职篮总冠军，并当选 1981 年总决赛最有价值球员。
• DeMarco Johnson, a 1998 conference player of the year, played in the NBA after a standout career at Charlotte.德马科·约翰逊于 1998 年当选联盟年度最佳球员，在夏洛特打出出色表现后进入美职篮。
• Larry Ogunjobi, a defensive tackle, became the first Charlotte player selected in the NFL Draft in 2017 and has played for Cleveland, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.防守截锋拉里·奥贡乔比于 2017 年成为该校首位在国家橄榄球联盟选秀中被选中的球员，先后效力于克利夫兰、辛辛那提与匹兹堡。
• Alex Highsmith, a linebacker drafted in 2020, became a starting pass rusher for the Pittsburgh Steelers.亚历克斯·海史密斯于 2020 年被选中，成为匹兹堡钢人队的首发冲传手。
• Lee Rose coached the 49ers basketball team to the 1977 Final Four and later coached at Purdue and South Florida.李·罗斯曾率领 49 人篮球队打入 1977 年四强赛，后执教普渡大学与南佛罗里达大学。
• Leon Levine, founder of the Family Dollar chain, and his wife Sandra created the Levine Scholars programme through a 9.3 million-dollar gift in 2009.家庭美元连锁店创始人莱昂·莱文与妻子桑德拉于 2009 年通过 930 万美元捐赠创立了莱文学者项目。
• Rodney White, a lottery pick in the 2001 NBA draft, played for Detroit, Denver and other clubs after starring at Charlotte.罗德尼·怀特在夏洛特打出明星表现后，于 2001 年美职篮选秀中成为乐透秀，先后效力底特律、丹佛等球队。