University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England, and a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities.诺丁汉大学（University of Nottingham）是位于英格兰诺丁汉的一所公立研究型大学，也是英国以研究为主导的罗素集团成员。

It grew out of an adult education school founded in 1798 and University College Nottingham of 1881, and was granted a royal charter as a university in 1948.学校源自 1798 年创办的成人教育学校与 1881 年成立的诺丁汉大学学院，并于 1948 年获得皇家特许状成为大学。

Together with its campuses in Malaysia and China it has more than 46,000 students and 7,000 staff, with an income of 845 million pounds in 2024-25, and it placed 97th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.连同马来西亚与中国校区，学校共有超过 46000 名学生与 7000 名教职员，2024 至 2025 年度收入为 8.45 亿英镑，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 97。

History

• The university traces its origins to an adult education school founded in 1798 and to the University Extension Lectures launched at Nottingham in 1873 by the University of Cambridge.学校的渊源可追溯到 1798 年创办的成人教育学校，以及剑桥大学 1873 年首先在诺丁汉开办的大学推广讲座。

• In 1875 an anonymous donor gave 10,000 pounds to put the adult education work on a permanent footing, and the Corporation of Nottingham agreed to build and maintain a college building.1875 年，一位匿名捐赠者捐出 1 万英镑，使成人教育工作得以长久维持，诺丁汉市政当局则同意建造并维护一座学院大楼。

• The foundation stone of the college was laid in 1877 by the former prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.学院奠基仪式于 1877 年由前首相威廉·格莱斯顿主持。

• The college's neo-Gothic building on Shakespeare Street was opened on 30 July 1881 by Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and admitted its first students that autumn.学院位于莎士比亚街的新哥特式大楼由奥尔巴尼公爵利奥波德王子于 1881 年 7 月 30 日主持启用，并于当年秋季招收首批学生。

• In 1881 it had four professors, of literature, physics, chemistry and natural science, and new chairs followed quickly, in engineering in 1884, classics with philosophy in 1893, French in 1897 and education in 1905.1881 年学院仅有文学、物理、化学与自然科学四位教授，此后迅速增设讲席：1884 年工程学、1893 年古典学与哲学、1897 年法语、1905 年教育学。

• Further departments were added in the early twentieth century, including English and mining in 1911, economics in 1912, history in 1914, adult education in 1923 and pharmacy in 1925.二十世纪初又陆续增设学系，包括 1911 年的英语与采矿、1912 年的经济学、1914 年的历史学、1923 年的成人教育与 1925 年的药学。

• University College Nottingham was incorporated by royal charter in 1903, though the city council and the court of governors remained closely intertwined.诺丁汉大学学院于 1903 年依皇家特许状取得法人地位，但市议会与校董会在人员上几乎完全重叠。

• After the First World War the college proposed a federal East Midlands University including the colleges of Leicester, Loughborough, Lincoln, Derby and Northampton, but the plan was dropped in 1927 after Leicester objected to Nottingham's dominance.一战后学院曾提议组建涵盖莱斯特、拉夫堡、林肯、德比与北安普顿各学院的东米德兰兹联邦大学，但因莱斯特反对诺丁汉的主导地位，该方案于 1927 年放弃。

• In the 1920s the college moved from central Nottingham to a large new campus on the city's edge, after Sir Jesse Boot, later Lord Trent, gave 35 acres to the city in 1921, and University Park was completed in 1928 with a lake and public park.二十世纪二十年代，学院从诺丁汉市中心迁往城市边缘的大型新校区：杰西·布特爵士（后封特伦特勋爵）于 1921 年向本市捐出 35 英亩土地，大学公园校区连同湖泊与公园于 1928 年建成。

• The Trent Building, a white limestone structure with a clock tower designed by Morley Horder, was formally opened by King George V on 10 July 1928 and remains the university's signature image.由莫利·霍德设计的白色石灰岩建筑特伦特楼，带有一座钟塔，于 1928 年 7 月 10 日由国王乔治五世主持启用，至今仍是学校的标志性形象。

• In its early decades the college attracted visiting speakers including Albert Einstein, H. G. Wells and Mahatma Gandhi, and Einstein's blackboard is still kept in the physics department.建校初期学院曾邀请爱因斯坦、威尔斯与甘地等名流演讲，爱因斯坦用过的黑板至今保存于物理系。

• Between the wars the Department of Slavonic Languages was established in 1933, and a 1938 supplemental charter widened representation on the governing body.两次大战之间，斯拉夫语言学系于 1933 年设立，1938 年的补充特许状则扩大了治理机构的代表范围。

• During the Second World War some 350 to 400 students from Goldsmiths' College and 120 from the Institute of Education were evacuated from London to Nottingham.第二次世界大战期间，戈德史密斯学院约 350 至 400 名学生与教育学院 120 名学生从伦敦疏散至诺丁汉。

• Until 1948 University College Nottingham students sat examinations and received degrees from the University of London, until the royal charter gave Nottingham the power to confer its own degrees.1948 年之前，诺丁汉大学学院的学生参加伦敦大学的考试、由伦敦大学授予学位，直到皇家特许状赋予诺丁汉自行授予学位的权力。

• In the 1940s the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College at Sutton Bonington merged with the university as its School of Agriculture.二十世纪四十年代，位于萨顿博宁顿的米德兰农业与乳业学院并入学校，成为其农学院。

• In 1970 the university established the first new medical school in the United Kingdom of the twentieth century, based at the Queen's Medical Centre.1970 年学校设立了英国二十世纪第一所新建医学院，设在女王医疗中心。

• In 1999 the Jubilee Campus opened on the former site of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, a mile from University Park, and the university began to expand overseas.1999 年禧年校区在原罗利自行车公司厂址启用，距大学公园校区一英里，学校也由此开始海外扩张。

• International campuses followed in Malaysia in 2000 and in Ningbo, China, in 2004, and the King's Meadow Campus opened in 2005.海外校区随后于 2000 年在马来西亚、2004 年在中国宁波设立，国王草甸校区则于 2005 年启用。

• In 2008 a member of staff and a postgraduate student, known as the Nottingham Two, were detained under terrorism legislation after the university reported an edited al-Qaeda manual the student was using for research.2008 年，一名教职员与一名研究生因学校举报该生用于研究的删改版基地组织手册，依据反恐法律被捕，史称「诺丁汉两人案」。

• In 2016 the student rag Karnival was suspended to comply with the Charities Act over the safeguarding of fundraising participants, and repeated breaches of safety rules later led the students' union to ban its rag raids.2016 年，学生慈善募捐活动「狂欢节」因筹款参与者的保护问题而依《慈善法》暂停，其后多次违反安全规定，促使学生会禁止了相关的募捐募集行为。

• In November 2023 the university became the first in the United Kingdom to receive an institutional Athena SWAN Gold Award for advancing gender equality.2023 年 11 月，学校成为英国首个获机构级雅典娜天鹅金奖的大学，以表彰其在推进性别平等方面的工作。

• From 2025 the university faced a financial crisis, announcing the sale of campuses, the suspension of 16 courses including modern languages and music, and in 2026 over 560 job cuts and a reorganisation into three colleges by August 2027.自 2025 年起学校面临财政危机，宣布出售校区、停开包括现代语言与音乐在内的 16 门课程，并在 2026 年裁员逾 560 人，计划到 2027 年 8 月前重组为三个学院。

Academics

• The UK university is organised into five faculties: arts, engineering, medicine and health sciences, science, and social sciences.英国本部设有五个学部：文学、工程、医学与健康科学、理学与社会科学。

• Its schools range from English, history and modern languages to chemistry, computer science, pharmacy, physics and astronomy, veterinary medicine, law, economics and the Nottingham University Business School.其学院涵盖英语、历史与现代语言，以及化学、计算机科学、药学、物理与天文、兽医学、法学、经济学与诺丁汉大学商学院等。

• The Nottingham University Business School and schools of computer science and education are based on the Jubilee Campus.诺丁汉大学商学院以及计算机科学与教育学院设在禧年校区。

• In 2024-25 the university had an income of 845 million pounds, including 140.3 million pounds from research grants and contracts, and an endowment of 82.5 million pounds.2024 至 2025 年度学校收入为 8.45 亿英镑，其中科研拨款与合同收入 1.403 亿英镑，捐赠基金为 8250 万英镑。

• It is a high-tariff institution, with the average undergraduate entrant recently achieving between 143 and 146 UCAS tariff points, equivalent to AAA at A-level.学校属于高录取门槛院校，近年本科新生的平均大学招生分数为 143 至 146 分，相当于高考 A-level 的 AAA。

• In 2024 the university made offers to 70.1 per cent of its undergraduate applicants, and in 2016-17 about 20 per cent of its undergraduates had been privately educated.2024 年学校向 70.1% 的本科申请者发出录取通知，2016 至 2017 学年约 20% 的本科生接受过私立教育。

• In 2023-24 about 15,925 students were from outside the United Kingdom, and the university draws students from Britain, the European Union and many other countries.2023 至 2024 学年约有 15925 名学生来自英国以外，学校生源涵盖英国、欧盟及许多其他国家。

• In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework Nottingham ranked joint 25th by grade point average and seventh for research power among UK institutions.在 2021 年英国研究卓越框架评估中，诺丁汉大学按平均绩点并列第 25，按研究实力位列英国第 7。

• The GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory on the Jubilee Campus was the first carbon-neutral laboratory in the United Kingdom.禧年校区的葛兰素史克碳中和实验室是英国首座碳中和实验室。

• The university's medical school is based at the Queen's Medical Centre, with additional sites at the Royal Derby Hospital and Nottingham City Hospital.其医学院设在女王医疗中心，并在皇家德比医院与诺丁汉市立医院设有教学点。

• The Sutton Bonington Campus houses the schools of biosciences and veterinary medicine and the main university farm, with further farm land at Bunny Park and Clifton.萨顿博宁顿校区设有生物科学学院、兽医学院与学校主体农场，另在兔子公园与克利夫顿拥有农场用地。

• Nottingham is a member of the Russell Group, the Universitas 21 network and the Midlands Innovation partnership, and its graduates are among the most sought-after in the British job market.学校是罗素集团、Universitas 21 网络与米德兰兹创新联盟的成员，其毕业生在英国就业市场上也属于最受欢迎之列。

• The Malaysia campus has faculties of arts and social sciences and of science and engineering, and the China campus has business, humanities and social sciences, and science and engineering units.马来西亚校区设有文学与社会科学、科学与工程两个学院，中国校区则设商学院、人文与社会科学学院以及科学与工程学院。

• The university's libraries and manuscript collections include Manuscripts and Special Collections, which remains at the King's Meadow Campus.学校的图书馆与手稿收藏包括「手稿与特藏」，该部门仍设在国王草甸校区。

• The university runs the National College for School Leadership and the UK's first new medical school of the twentieth century.学校承办国家学校领导力学院，并设有英国二十世纪第一所新建医学院。

• Its school of veterinary medicine and science is one of only a few in the United Kingdom, and its pharmacy and biosciences schools are long established.其兽医与科学学院是英国仅有的几所兽医学院之一，药学院与生物科学学院则历史悠久。

• The university has won two Queen's Anniversary Prizes, in 2000 and 2011, and a Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education in 2025.学校曾两度获得女王周年奖（2000 年与 2011 年），并于 2025 年获伊丽莎白女王教育奖。

Campus

• University Park, to the west of Nottingham city centre, is the 330-acre main campus, set around a lake and clock tower with extensive parkland.大学公园校区位于诺丁汉市中心以西，占地 330 英亩，为校园主体，围绕湖泊与钟塔而建，园林绿地广阔。

• University Park won seven Green Flag Awards and was described in 2009 as the greenest campus in the country.大学公园校区曾七获绿旗奖，2009 年更被称为全英最绿意盎然的校园。

• The Lakeside Arts Centre and the D. H. Lawrence Pavilion on the campus provide theatres, galleries and performance spaces, including a 225-seat theatre.校内的湖畔艺术中心与劳伦斯馆设有剧场、画廊与表演空间，其中包括一座 225 座的剧场。

• The Jubilee Campus, designed by Sir Michael Hopkins, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999 and houses the schools of education and computer science.由迈克尔·霍普金斯爵士设计的禧年校区于 1999 年由女王伊丽莎白二世启用，设有教育学院与计算机科学学院。

• The Jubilee Campus is distinguished by Aspire, a 60-metre structure that was once the tallest freestanding work of art in the United Kingdom.禧年校区以「Aspire」雕塑著称，这座高 60 米的建筑曾是全英最高的独立艺术品。

• The King's Meadow Campus was established in 2005 on the former Central Independent Television studios site, and in 2025 the university announced plans to sell it.国王草甸校区于 2005 年在原中央独立电视台演播室场址设立，2025 年学校宣布计划将其出售。

• The Castle Meadow Campus, a 3.75-hectare site below Nottingham Castle, was bought from HM Revenue and Customs in 2021 but is also to be sold.城堡草甸校区是诺丁汉城堡下方一块 3.75 公顷的土地，2021 年购自英国税务海关总署，如今也计划出售。

• The Sutton Bonington Campus lies about twelve miles south of Nottingham and includes halls of residence and the university farm.萨顿博宁顿校区位于诺丁汉以南约十二英里，设有学生宿舍与学校农场。

• The David Ross Sports Village on University Park has a 25-metre swimming pool and a 20-court sports hall, and the Highfields Sports Complex adjoins the campus.大学公园校区的戴维·罗斯体育村设有 25 米泳池与 20 片场地体育馆，海菲尔德体育综合设施则紧邻校区。

• The Malaysia campus occupies a purpose-built 101-acre site in Semenyih, 30 kilometres south of Kuala Lumpur, and the Ningbo campus includes a replica of the Trent Building.马来西亚校区位于吉隆坡以南 30 公里的士毛月，占地 101 英亩；宁波校区则仿建了诺丁汉的特伦特楼。

• Florence Boot Hall is the oldest hall of residence, and the university offers a mix of catered and self-catered accommodation.弗洛伦斯·布特楼是最古老的宿舍，学校提供含餐与自理伙食两类住宿。

Reputation

• The University of Nottingham ranks 97th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, tied 157th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 155th in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities.诺丁汉大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 97，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 157，2026 至 2027 年度美国新闻全球最佳大学排名第 155。^[1]

• In national rankings it was placed joint 26th by the Complete University Guide, 51st by the Guardian and 30th by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide for 2026.在国内排名中，2026 年《完全大学指南》将其列为并列第 26，《卫报》第 51，《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》优秀大学指南第 30。

• It was named Times Higher Education University of the Year in 2006 and Entrepreneurial University of the Year in 2008.学校曾于 2006 年获评泰晤士高等教育「年度大学」，2008 年获评「年度创业型大学」。

• The High Fliers Research UK graduate market report for 2026 placed Nottingham third among universities targeted by the largest number of top employers.High Fliers 研究发布的 2026 年英国毕业生就业市场报告把诺丁汉列为顶尖雇主最青睐高校的第三位。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 190,403 works cited 14,618,570 times.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计发表论著 190403 篇，被引用 14618570 次。

• Its alumni, staff and former staff have won three Nobel Prizes and a Fields Medal.其校友、教职员与前教职员共获得三项诺贝尔奖与一枚菲尔兹奖。

• Sir Peter Mansfield shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for contributions to magnetic resonance imaging, and Sir Clive Granger won the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.彼得·曼斯菲尔德爵士因对磁共振成像的贡献分享 2003 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，克莱夫·格兰杰爵士获 2003 年诺贝尔经济学奖。

• Andre Geim won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of graphene, and Caucher Birkar won a 2018 Fields Medal for his work on Fano varieties.安德烈·海姆因发现石墨烯获 2010 年诺贝尔物理学奖，考切尔·比尔卡尔因法诺簇研究获 2018 年菲尔兹奖。

• The university is a member of the Russell Group and Universitas 21 and is regarded as one of Britain's leading research-led institutions.学校是罗素集团与 Universitas 21 成员，被视为英国领先的研究型大学之一。

• Nottingham is one of the most selective universities in the United Kingdom, and its business school and pharmacy, engineering and biosciences departments are especially competitive.诺丁汉大学是英国录取竞争激烈的大学之一，其商学院以及药学、工程与生物科学等院系尤为热门。

Student life

• The university motto is Sapientia urbs conditur, Latin for A city is built on wisdom.学校校训为拉丁语「Sapientia urbs conditur」，意为「城市建于智慧之上」。

• The University of Nottingham Students' Union is based in the Portland Building and has more than 200 societies and 70 sports clubs.诺丁汉大学学生会设于波特兰楼，拥有 200 多个学生社团与 70 个体育俱乐部。

• The union publishes the magazine Impact five times a year and runs University Radio Nottingham and the Nottingham New Theatre.学生会每年出版五期《影响》杂志，并运营诺丁汉大学电台与诺丁汉新剧院。

• The union's rag, Karnival, set a European record for student fundraising in 2012, raising 1.6 million pounds for charity.学生会的慈善募捐活动「狂欢节」于 2012 年创下学生募捐的欧洲纪录，为慈善筹得 160 万英镑。

• Nottingham was named the Times and Sunday Times sports university of the year in 2019, 2021 and 2024.诺丁汉大学曾于 2019、2021 与 2024 年获评《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》年度体育大学。

• The university contests the annual Varsity Series against local rivals Nottingham Trent University across several sports.学校每年与本地对手诺丁汉特伦特大学在多个项目上举行「校际对抗赛」。

• Its intramural sport programme involves about 4,000 students, and Nottingham intramural teams compete against Loughborough in the annual Inter Mural Sports Varsity.其校内体育项目约有 4000 名学生参与，诺丁汉校内队伍每年与拉夫堡进行校际体育对抗。

• Beyond the students' union, students take part in volunteering and a wide range of cultural societies across the university's UK, China and Malaysia campuses.除学生会外，学生在英国、中国与马来西亚各校区参与志愿服务与丰富多样的文化社团。

Notable people

• William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister of the United Kingdom, laid the foundation stone of the college in 1877.英国首相威廉·格莱斯顿于 1877 年为学院奠基。

• Sir Jesse Boot, the founder of the Boots pharmacy chain, donated the land for University Park and was a major benefactor in the 1920s.博姿药妆连锁创始人杰西·布特爵士捐出大学公园校区用地，是二十世纪二十年代的主要捐助人。

• Sir Peter Mansfield, a physicist, shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to magnetic resonance imaging.物理学家彼得·曼斯菲尔德爵士因对磁共振成像的贡献分享 2003 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Sir Clive Granger, an economist, won the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on time series analysis.经济学家克莱夫·格兰杰爵士因时间序列分析研究获 2003 年诺贝尔经济学奖。

• Andre Geim, who worked at Nottingham, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of graphene, and Caucher Birkar won a 2018 Fields Medal.曾在诺丁汉工作的安德烈·海姆因发现石墨烯获 2010 年诺贝尔物理学奖，考切尔·比尔卡尔获 2018 年菲尔兹奖。

• Frederick Kipping, professor of chemistry from 1897 to 1936, discovered silicone polymers at Nottingham.1897 至 1936 年任化学教授的弗雷德里克·基平在诺丁汉发现了硅酮聚合物。

• The surgeon Angus Wallace refined the brace position used in aircraft following the 1989 Kegworth air disaster.外科医生安格斯·华莱士在 1989 年凯格沃斯空难后改良了飞机上使用的防冲击姿势。

• The Assemble collective, including the architecture tutor Joseph Halligan, won the Turner Prize for art in 2015.包含建筑系兼职导师约瑟夫·哈利根在内的「装配」团体于 2015 年获得特纳艺术奖。

• The novelist D. H. Lawrence studied at University College Nottingham before the First World War, and the campus arts pavilion is named after him.小说家劳伦斯在第一次世界大战前曾就读于诺丁汉大学学院，校园内的艺术馆即以他命名。

• The chancellor is Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, and the president and vice-chancellor has been Jane Norman since January 2025.校监为霍恩西的杨女男爵洛拉·扬，校长兼校监一职自 2025 年 1 月起由简·诺曼担任。