University of Northern British Columbia

The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is a public research university in Prince George, British Columbia, and the main university of the province's northern interior, with regional campuses in Terrace, Quesnel, Fort St. John and Prince Rupert.北英属哥伦比亚大学（UNBC）是位于不列颠哥伦比亚省乔治王子城的一所公立研究型大学，也是该省北部内陆地区的主要大学，在特勒斯、克内尔、圣约翰堡与鲁珀特王子港设有地区校区。

Prince George, the largest city in northern British Columbia, stands at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers about 700 kilometres north of Vancouver, and the university draws students from across the north.乔治王子城是不列颠哥伦比亚省北部最大的城市，位于弗雷泽河与内查科河交汇处，距温哥华约 700 公里，该校的学生来自整个北部地区。

It was created by a provincial act in 1990, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994, enrolled 4,253 students in 2020-21 and counted 2,422 full-time equivalent students in 2024-25.该校依据 1990 年的省法案创立，1994 年由伊丽莎白二世女王主持启用，2020-21 学年有 4253 名学生，2024-25 学年折合全日制学生 2422 人。

It has held the trademark Canada's Green University since 2007, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 1201-1400 band.该校自 2007 年起持有“加拿大绿色大学”这一商标，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间。

History

• In the 1980s communities across northern British Columbia, organised through the Interior University Society, campaigned for a university of their own.20 世纪 80 年代，北部各地社区通过“内陆大学协会”组织起来，争取创办属于自己的大学。
• The campaign argued that young people from the north otherwise had to leave for Vancouver, Victoria or Alberta to earn a degree, since the nearest universities, Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria, lay far to the south, and that the region's resource economy needed home-grown professionals.这场运动指出，北部的年轻人若想读学位只能前往温哥华、维多利亚或阿尔伯塔，最近的大学西蒙弗雷泽大学与维多利亚大学也远在南方，而当地的资源型经济需要本土培养的专业人才。
• The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia responded by passing Bill 40, the University of Northern British Columbia Act, on 22 June 1990, creating the first university in the province outside the Vancouver and Victoria regions.不列颠哥伦比亚省议会随后于 1990 年 6 月 22 日通过第 40 号法案《北英属哥伦比亚大学法》，建立了该省温哥华与维多利亚地区之外的第一所大学。
• The act copied the bicameral model of Ontario's University of Toronto Act of 1906, giving academic policy to a Senate of faculty and financial control to a Board of Governors drawn from the community.该法案照搬 1906 年安大略省《多伦多大学法》的两院制模式，把学术政策交给教师组成的评议会，把财政控制权交给来自社区的理事会。
• A president appointed by the board was to link the two bodies and lead the institution, and the founding president, Geoffrey R. Weller, held office until 1995.由理事会任命的校长负责连接两个机构并领导学校，首任校长杰弗里·R·韦勒任职至 1995 年。
• Before the campus existed UNBC offered a limited number of courses in rented office space in 1992 and again in 1993, while construction continued on Cranbrook Hill.在校区建成之前，该校于 1992 年并在 1993 年再次在租来的办公空间开设少量课程，同时克兰布鲁克山上的工程继续进行。
• Two years of building work produced a hilltop complex overlooking Prince George, and Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, opened the campus officially on 17 August 1994.经过两年施工，一座俯瞰乔治王子城的山顶建筑群落成，加拿大女王伊丽莎白二世于 1994 年 8 月 17 日正式为校区揭幕。
• About 1,500 students enrolled in 1994, and the university adopted the mission usually summarised as in the North, for the North.1994 年约有 1500 名学生入学，学校确立了通常概括为“在北方、为北方”的办学使命。
• The Northern Medical Program, delivered with the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine, attracted academic physicians to Prince George and helped build a medical community in the city, and it was designed to train doctors who would stay and practise in the region.该校与不列颠哥伦比亚大学医学院共同开设的“北方医学项目”把学术医师吸引到乔治王子城，帮助这座城市建立起医学共同体，其目标是培养愿意留在本地区行医的医生。
• Medical students began training in Prince George in 2004, part of a provincial effort to reduce the shortage of physicians in northern and rural communities, and the first cohort marked the arrival of medical education in the north.2004 年，医学生开始在乔治王子城接受培训，这是全省缓解北部与乡村社区医生短缺努力的一部分，首批学生标志着医学教育正式进入北方。
• In 2007 the university registered the trademark Canada's Green University, a phrase it has used ever since to frame its environmental teaching and research.2007 年，该校注册了“加拿大绿色大学”商标，此后一直用这一说法概括其环境教学与研究。
• A bioenergy plant commissioned in 2011 heats the core buildings with gas made from wood pellets, which are produced from pine trees killed by the mountain pine beetle, and it cut fossil fuel use for heating by about 85 per cent.2011 年投用的生物能源厂以木屑颗粒制气为核心建筑供热，颗粒原料来自被山松甲虫杀死的松树，使供暖的化石燃料消耗减少约 85%。
• The project helped UNBC share the Campus Sustainability Leadership Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education on 13 October 2010.该项目帮助该校于 2010 年 10 月 13 日共同获得高等教育可持续发展协会的“校园可持续发展领导奖”。
• Because of its high latitude the university joined the University of the Arctic, a circumpolar network of more than 200 institutions, and takes part in the network's north2north exchange.由于纬度高，该校加入了由 200 多个机构组成的环极网络“北极大学”，并参与该网络的“北向北”交换项目。
• The hilltop campus was planned as one interconnected complex, with separate buildings joined by an agora that runs partly below ground so that students can move between classes indoors through northern winters.山顶校区被规划为一个相互连通的建筑群，各栋建筑由部分位于地下的中庭相连，使学生能在北方冬季于室内往来上课。
• Over the following two decades the university added regional campuses at Fort St. John, Terrace, Quesnel and Prince Rupert to bring degree programmes to communities that had none.此后二十年间，该校在圣约翰堡、特勒斯、克内尔与鲁珀特王子港增设地区校区，把学位课程送到原本没有大学的社区。
• Enrolment has stayed deliberately small, reaching 2,927 undergraduates and 730 postgraduates in 2024-25, and the university presents that scale as a condition for close teaching and undergraduate research.该校规模有意保持较小，2024-25 学年有本科生 2927 人与研究生 730 人，校方把这一规模视为实现紧密教学与本科生科研的条件。
• Darlene McIntosh, an Elder of the Lheidli T'enneh Nation, became the eighth chancellor on 21 October 2022 and the first holder of the office from that nation.2022 年 10 月 21 日，莱德利·特内赫民族的老人达琳·麦金托什就任第八任校监，成为首位来自该民族的校监。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into five faculties, covering Indigenous studies, social sciences and humanities, human and health sciences, environment, science and engineering, and business and economics, alongside a Division of Medical Sciences.教学由五个学院组织，分别涵盖原住民研究、社会科学与人文学科，人类与健康科学，环境，科学与工程，以及商业与经济学，另设医学科学部。
• Research is grouped into four interdisciplinary areas, namely First Nations and Indigenous peoples, environment and natural resources, community development, and northern, rural and environmental health.研究集中在四个跨学科领域：原住民与第一民族，环境与自然资源，社区发展，以及北方、乡村与环境健康。
• The university offers about 55 undergraduate programmes, 27 master's programmes and three doctoral programmes, with a stronger emphasis on professional master's degrees than on PhD production, and graduate offerings include a master of natural resources and environmental studies, a master of business administration and a master of social work.该校开设约 55 个本科项目、27 个硕士项目与 3 个博士项目，相比博士培养更侧重专业型硕士，研究生项目包括自然资源与环境研究硕士、工商管理硕士与社会工作硕士。
• Classes are small by Canadian standards, with most undergraduate seminars and laboratories capped well below the lecture-hall sizes common at larger universities, and transfer pathways from the College of New Caledonia in Prince George bring students into its upper years.按加拿大标准，该校班级规模较小，多数本科研讨课与实验室的人数远低于大型大学常见的讲堂规模，乔治王子城新喀里多尼亚学院的转学通道也把学生送入高年级。
• The Northern Medical Program allows students of the University of British Columbia's medical school to complete their clinical years in Prince George and other northern communities.“北方医学项目”使不列颠哥伦比亚大学医学院的学生能在乔治王子城及其他北部社区完成临床阶段的学习。
• Nursing, biomedical studies, community and population health and environmental health are taught in the Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, which also prepares teachers and social workers.护理、生物医学、社区与人口健康以及环境健康等专业设在人类与健康科学学院，该院还培养教师与社会工作者。
• The Faculty of Environment covers forestry, wildlife and fisheries, outdoor recreation and conservation, environmental science and geography, fields tied to the forests and rivers of the north.环境学院涵盖林业、野生动物与渔业、户外游憩与保护、环境科学与地理学，这些领域都与北方的森林和河流紧密相关。
• Environmental engineering is offered as an applied science degree, and planning students can specialise in environmental planning, Indigenous planning, natural resource planning or northern and rural community planning.学校开设环境工程应用科学学位，规划专业的学生可选择环境规划、原住民规划、自然资源规划或北方与乡村社区规划方向。
• The Faculty of Business and Economics teaches accounting, finance, international business, marketing, human resources and economics, and offers a master of business administration.商业与经济学院教授会计、金融、国际商务、市场营销、人力资源与经济学，并开设工商管理硕士项目。
• Arts and social sciences programmes include anthropology, English, history, geography, political science, international studies, northern studies, First Nations studies and women's studies.文科与社会科学项目包括人类学、英语、历史、地理、政治学、国际研究、北方研究、第一民族研究与妇女研究。
• Science programmes span biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, psychology and integrated science.理科项目涵盖生物学、生物化学与分子生物学、化学、计算机科学、数学、物理、心理学与综合科学。
• The Faculty of Human and Health Sciences also runs the bachelor of education and a master of education with specialisations in counselling, special education and multi-disciplinary leadership.人类与健康科学学院还开设教育学学士与教育硕士，后者设咨询、特殊教育与多学科领导等方向。
• Social work is taught at bachelor's and master's level, with placements in northern agencies that serve small and remote communities.社会工作专业设有本科与硕士层次，并在服务小型与偏远社区的北部机构安排实习。
• The Geoffrey R. Weller Library, named for the founding president, holds the main collection and archives, including material on the history and peoples of northern British Columbia, and serves as the main study space on the hilltop campus.杰弗里·R·韦勒图书馆以首任校长命名，收藏主要文献与档案，其中包括不列颠哥伦比亚省北部历史与各民族的材料，也是山顶校区的主要自习空间。
• The I.K. Barber Enhanced Forestry Laboratory supports research on silviculture, forest ecology and the management of beetle-killed pine across the region.I·K·巴伯强化林业实验室支持造林、森林生态以及区域内甲虫枯松管理的研究。
• Co-operative education places students in paid work terms with governments, First Nations, health authorities and resource companies, and many programmes offer a four- or eight-month placement.合作教育把学生安排到政府、第一民族、卫生机构与资源型企业进行带薪实习，许多项目提供四个月或八个月的实习期。
• Canada Research Chairs and provincial research grants support work in climate, forest health, Indigenous governance and rural health, areas in which the university claims particular strength.加拿大首席科学家项目与省级研究经费支持气候、森林健康、原住民治理与乡村健康等领域的研究，校方称这些方向为其专长。

Campus

• The main campus stands on Cranbrook Hill on the western edge of Prince George, about fifteen minutes from the city centre, and looks east over the valley towards the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.主校区位于乔治王子城西缘的克兰布鲁克山，距市中心约十五分钟车程，向东俯瞰河谷与落基山脉的山麓。
• Prince George is the largest city in northern British Columbia and a hub for forestry, transport and health services, which gives the university a working laboratory on its doorstep.乔治王子城是不列颠哥伦比亚省北部最大的城市，也是林业、交通与医疗服务中心，这使该校在门口就拥有一座天然的实验场。
• The buildings were designed to represent the northern landscape rather than to form a single classical quadrangle, and they are linked by an underground agora.这些建筑的设计意在表现北方景观，而非围合成单一的新古典方院，并通过地下中庭相互连接。
• In the Canfor Winter Garden a flowing blue staircase rises beneath a ceiling of wooden lattices, a composition meant to evoke the rain forests of the west coast.在坎福冬季花园，一道流动的蓝色楼梯在木质格栅顶棚下升起，这一构图意在唤起西海岸雨林的意象。
• The cafeteria takes the form of a lighthouse, standing for the rugged coastline of northern British Columbia, while a pair of triangular glass peaks above the bookstore represents mountains and doubles as skylights.自助餐厅取灯塔之形，象征不列颠哥伦比亚省北部崎岖的海岸线，书店上方的一对三角形玻璃尖顶代表群山，同时用作天窗。
• A district heating system links every core building to a boiler that gasifies clean-burning wood pellets, and the fuel comes from waste pine killed by the mountain pine beetle epidemic.区域供热系统把每栋核心建筑连接到气化清洁木屑颗粒的锅炉，燃料来自被山松甲虫疫情杀死的废弃松木。
• The system was built to supply about 85 per cent of the university's heating needs and won international attention as a model of biomass heating in a cold climate.该系统按满足学校约 85% 供暖需求设计，并作为寒地生物质供热的范例受到国际关注。
• In downtown Prince George the university uses the Wood Innovation and Design Centre, designed by Michael Green Architecture, which was the world's tallest modern all-timber structure when it was completed.在乔治王子城市中心，该校使用由迈克尔·格林建筑事务所设计的木创新与设计中心，该建筑落成时是世界上最高的现代全木结构建筑。
• The Wood Innovation Research Lab applies Passive House design to a northern climate, testing how very low energy buildings perform in severe winters.木创新研究实验室把被动式房屋设计应用于北方气候，检验超低能耗建筑在严冬中的表现。
• Residences on the hill, including the Neyoh building, house several hundred students within walking distance of laboratories, the library and the sports centre.山上的宿舍包括内约楼，可容纳数百名学生，步行即可到达实验室、图书馆与体育中心。
• The University Hospital of Northern British Columbia, a Level III trauma centre for the region run with Northern Health, supports clinical teaching and placements for health programmes and serves a wide catchment across northern British Columbia.北英属哥伦比亚大学医院是该地区的三级创伤中心，由北方卫生局运营，为健康类专业的临床教学与实习提供支持，服务范围覆盖不列颠哥伦比亚省北部的广大地区。
• Regional campuses carry the university's name across the north: Peace River-Liard in Fort St. John, Northwest in Terrace, South-Central in Quesnel and a campus in Prince Rupert, and the Peace River-Liard site shares Fort St. John with Northern Lights College.地区校区把该校的名字带到北方各地：圣约翰堡的和平河—利亚德校区、特勒斯的西北校区、克内尔的中南部校区，以及鲁珀特王子港校区，其中和平河—利亚德校区与北极光学院同处圣约翰堡。
• The address is 3333 University Way, and the campus edge gives directly onto trails, lakes and forest used for field courses in biology, forestry and geography.校址为大学路 3333 号，校园边缘直接连接步道、湖泊与森林，供生物学、林业与地理学的野外课程使用。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 UNBC is placed in the 1201-1400 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，北英属哥伦比亚大学位列 1201-1400 区间。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 also place it in the 1201-1400 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名同样把该校列入 1201-1400 区间。
• It appears in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027 without receiving a numerical position and is absent from the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校进入 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单，但未获名次，同时未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• Maclean's ranked UNBC first in the primarily undergraduate category in 2015, 2016 and 2022, a category that compares universities concentrating on undergraduate teaching and awarding relatively few doctorates.《麦克林》杂志在 2015、2016 与 2022 年把该校列为“以本科为主”类别第一名，该类别比较的是专注本科教学、授予博士学位较少的大学。
• In 2026 the magazine placed it second, continuing a record of routine top-three finishes in that category.2026 年该杂志把该校列为第二，延续了其在该类别中长期稳居前三的纪录。
• The claim to be Canada's Green University has been a registered trademark since 2007 and shapes how the university presents its environmental programmes to prospective students.“加拿大绿色大学”的说法自 2007 年起成为注册商标，并影响着该校向潜在学生推介环境类项目的方式。
• OpenAlex records 12,198 works and 363,712 citations for the university, modest totals that reflect its small faculty and specialised research profile.OpenAlex 记录该校论文 12198 篇、引用 363712 次，这一总量不算大，反映其师资规模较小、研究取向专门。
• Its reputation rests less on global standings than on northern and Indigenous research, environmental science and the training of physicians, nurses, teachers and social workers for the region, and like Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops it serves a vast interior with a small student body.该校的声誉更多建立在北方与原住民研究、环境科学，以及为本地区培养医生、护士、教师与社会工作者之上，而非全球排名，与坎卢普斯的汤普森河大学一样，它以一种很小的学生规模服务着辽阔的内陆地区。
• As a member of the University of the Arctic and a partner in the Northern Medical Program, it is regularly cited in provincial debates about rural health and northern development.作为北极大学成员与北方医学项目的合作方，该校经常出现在有关乡村健康与北方发展的省级讨论中。

Student life

• The Northern Undergraduate Student Society, known as NUGSS, is a non-profit that represents undergraduates on every campus, runs student clubs and provides the health and dental plan.北方本科生协会（NUGSS）是一个非营利组织，代表各校区的本科生，管理学生社团并提供健康与牙科保险计划。
• NUGSS also advocates for students on public transit and stages annual events such as the Backyard BBQ, Jump Back to NYE and the Final Affair.该协会还在公共交通问题上为学生发声，并举办“后院烧烤”“跳回新年”与“终场盛会”等年度活动。
• The Northern British Columbia Graduate Student Society, founded in 1997, represents about 750 full-time and part-time graduate students and belongs to the British Columbia Federation of Students.北英属哥伦比亚研究生会成立于 1997 年，代表约 750 名全日制与非全日制研究生，并隶属于不列颠哥伦比亚省学生联合会。
• Its year includes winter and semi-formal dances, a ski trip and a summer trip, and it negotiates services for a graduate body that is small but spread across several campuses.该会全年组织冬季与半正式舞会、滑雪旅行与夏季旅行，并为分布在不同校区、规模不大的研究生群体争取服务。
• The Student Life department, led by student ambassadors, runs orientation, Weeks of Welcome, workshops and volunteer placements for students on all campuses.学生生活部由学生大使带头，为各校区学生组织迎新、欢迎周、工作坊与志愿服务岗位。
• The First Nations Centre offers support for Indigenous students, bringing in elders, providing counselling and holding talking circles and sweat lodges.第一民族中心为原住民学生提供支持，邀请老人参与，提供咨询，并举行谈话圈与汗屋仪式。
• The Northern Pride Centre provides a safe space and resources for LGBTQ students and allies and runs a Positive Space Campaign designed at UNBC.北方骄傲中心为性少数学生及其支持者提供安全空间与资源，并开展由该校设计的“正面空间”活动。
• Over the Edge, a bi-weekly student newspaper, has been published since 1994, while CFURadio 88.7 FM is the independent campus and community radio station, carrying music, talk programmes and coverage of local events.学生报纸《边缘之外》自 1994 年起每两周出版一期，CFURadio 88.7 调频则是独立的校园与社区广播电台，播出音乐、谈话节目与本地活动报道。
• Pulpmill Fiction is a student-led creative writing anthology that publishes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction by undergraduates, graduates and alumni.《纸浆厂小说》是由学生主导的创意写作选集，刊载本科生、研究生与校友的诗歌、小说与创意非虚构作品。
• The Timberwolves compete in Canada West within U Sports, fielding men's and women's teams in soccer and basketball, and the mascot is Alpha, a wolf.“伐木狼”队参加加拿大西部大学体育协会的比赛，设男子与女子足球和篮球队，吉祥物是名为“阿尔法”的狼。
• The motto 'En cha huná comes from Dakelh elders, belongs to the Nak'azdli dialect of the Carrier language, translates as that person also lives and is interpreted in English as respecting all forms of life.校训“En cha huná”源自达克尔族老人，属于卡里尔语的那卡兹德利方言，直译为“那个人也活着”，英文释义为“尊重一切生命形式”。

Notable people

• Geoffrey R. Weller, the founding president, served until 1995 and is commemorated in the name of the Geoffrey R. Weller Library.首任校长杰弗里·R·韦勒任职至 1995 年，杰弗里·R·韦勒图书馆即以他的名字命名。
• Shirley Bond, a long-serving member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia who represented the Prince George region, studied at UNBC and has held several provincial cabinet portfolios.雪莉·邦德是长期任职的不列颠哥伦比亚省议会议员，代表乔治王子城地区，曾在北英属哥伦比亚大学就读，并担任过多个省级内阁职务。
• James Moore, a former federal minister of industry and of Canadian heritage, is a UNBC graduate.詹姆斯·摩尔曾任联邦工业部长与加拿大遗产部长，是该校毕业生。
• Currie Dixon, who became the twelfth premier of Yukon, studied at the university before entering territorial politics.柯里·狄克逊后成为育空地区第十二任总理，他在进入地区政坛前曾在该校学习。
• Kady Dandeneau, a wheelchair basketball player who represented Canada, is among the university's notable athletes.卡迪·丹德诺是代表加拿大出赛的轮椅篮球运动员，也是该校知名运动员之一。
• Jocelyn Joe-Strack, a microbiologist and hydrologist from the Aishihik First Nations, has worked on northern water and climate questions.乔斯林·乔-斯特拉克是来自艾希希克第一民族的微生物学家与水文学家，从事北方水资源与气候问题研究。
• Lynda Price, chief of the Ulkatcho First Nation, is a Dakelh leader and UNBC alumna.琳达·普赖斯是乌尔卡乔第一民族的酋长，也是达克尔族领袖与该校校友。
• Rheanna Robinson, a Métis professor, has written on Indigenous identity and education in northern British Columbia.里安娜·罗宾逊是梅蒂斯族教授，撰写了关于不列颠哥伦比亚省北部原住民身份与教育的著述。
• Sonya Salomaa, an actress known for Canadian television and film roles, studied at UNBC.索尼娅·萨洛马是活跃于加拿大影视界的女演员，曾在该校学习。
• Robin Austin, a businessman and former member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, is also counted among the university's alumni.罗宾·奥斯汀是商人、前不列颠哥伦比亚省议会议员，也被列为该校校友。