University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, founded in 1890 while the region was still Oklahoma Territory, and it is placed in the 771-780 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.俄克拉何马大学（OU）是位于美国俄克拉何马州诺曼的公立研究型大学，1890 年创立时该地区尚为俄克拉何马领地，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 771-780 区间。

Fall 2024 enrolment reached 34,523 students across 174 baccalaureate, 199 master's, 101 doctoral and 88 certificate programmes, and its OpenAlex record lists 93,119 research works and 7,090,581 citations.2024 年秋季注册学生 34,523 名，课程涵盖 174 个本科、199 个硕士、101 个博士与 88 个证书项目，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 93,119 项、被引 7,090,581 次。

Classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, it reported more than 416 million dollars in research expenditures across three campuses in 2022.该校属「R1」极高研究活跃度博士大学，2022 年三个校区的科研支出超过 4.16 亿美元。

History

• On 18 December 1890 the Oklahoma Territorial legislature, with the support of Governor George Washington Steele, established three universities, the state university at Norman, the agricultural and mechanical college at Stillwater and a normal school at Edmond.1890 年 12 月 18 日，俄克拉何马领地立法会在总督乔治·华盛顿·斯蒂尔的支持下设立三所大学：诺曼的州立大学、斯蒂尔沃特的农工学院与埃德蒙的师范学校。

• The Norman institution, founded 17 years before Oklahoma statehood in 1907, grew up beside Indian Territory in the era of the territorial frontier, its first students arriving by horse and rail across the open prairie.诺曼的这所学府比俄克拉何马 1907 年建州早 17 年诞生，成长于领地拓荒时代的印第安领地之侧，首批学生骑马或乘火车穿越旷野而来。

• David Ross Boyd arrived as the first president in 1892, planting thousands of trees on the treeless prairie campus and opening the first classes that year with three faculty members.1892 年，首任校长大卫·罗斯·博伊德到任，在寸草不生的草原校园种下数千棵树，并于同年与三位教师一起开课。

• Enrollment grew from a handful of preparatory students in the 1890s into a comprehensive university of more than 34,000 as the territory moved toward statehood and the oil economy reshaped the region.随着领地走向建州、石油经济重塑区域，学生从 1890 年代寥寥数名预科生成长为逾 34,000 人的综合性大学。

• The university awarded its first degrees in 1898 to a graduating class of six, marking the start of a degree-conferring tradition that now produces more than 9,000 graduates a year.1898 年该校授予首届学位，毕业生共六人；这一学位授予传统如今每年产出逾九千名毕业生。

• President George Lynn Cross, in office from 1943 to 1968, drove the postwar expansion of research and graduate education, famously quipping that he hoped to build a university of which the football team could be proud.1943 至 1968 年在任的校长乔治·林恩·克罗斯推动了战后研究与研究生教育的扩张，并留下名言——希望建成一所让橄榄球队引以为豪的大学。

• The Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City consolidated medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health and allied health under the university during the twentieth century, forming one of the South Central region's largest academic medical complexes.二十世纪中，俄克拉何马城健康科学中心把医学、护理、药学、公共卫生与健康相关专业归于大学旗下，形成中南部最大的学术医学综合体之一。

• A campus in Tulsa, later renamed the Schusterman Center through the Schusterman family's philanthropy, extended graduate and professional programmes to northeastern Oklahoma in the early 2000s.2000 年代初，图尔萨校区（经舒斯特曼家族捐赠后命名舒斯特曼中心）把研究生与职业教育延伸到俄州东北部。

• David Boren, a former governor and United States senator and himself an OU alumnus, served as president from 1994 to 2018 and raised the endowment to record levels.前州长、联邦参议员兼本校校友戴维·博伦 1994 至 2018 年任校长，把捐赠基金推至历史高位。

• Joseph Harroz Jr., an alumnus and former law dean, became president in 2020, guiding the university into the Southeastern Conference era.校友、前法学院院长小约瑟夫·哈罗兹 2020 年出任校长，引领大学进入东南联盟时代。

• The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, opened through the mid-twentieth century, specialises in French Impressionism and Native American artwork.二十世纪中叶开放的弗雷德·琼斯小艺术博物馆，以法国印象派与印第安艺术为专长。

• The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, opened in its present building in 2000, holds the state's natural history collections on the Norman campus.萨姆·诺贝尔俄克拉何马自然史博物馆 2000 年在现址开放，收藏全州自然史标本，坐落于诺曼校区。

• The Sooners won 47 team national championships across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, led by football, gymnastics and softball, with women's gymnastics alone claiming more than a dozen titles.「抢先者」队（Sooners）在二十与二十一世纪累计赢得 47 项全队全国冠军，以橄榄球、体操与垒球为首——仅女子体操就拿下十余冠。

• Olympic participation beginning with the 1932 Summer Games has brought more than 90 Sooner appearances and 23 medals across wrestling, gymnastics and track and field.自 1932 年夏季奥运会起，「抢先者」已有逾 90 人次参赛，在摔跤、体操与田径项目上斩获 23 枚奖牌。

• In 2024 the Sooners left the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference together with archrival Texas, reshaping the university's national athletic profile.2024 年，「抢先者」与宿敌得克萨斯一同离开十二大联盟转投东南联盟，重塑了大学的全国体育版图。

• The land for the Norman campus was provided by civic donation in 1892, part of the boom-town competition among territorial cities that also contested the capital and the railway junctions.诺曼校区的土地来自 1892 年的市民捐赠，是领地城市竞逐大学落户的一部分——它们同样在竞逐州府与铁路枢纽。

• Research expenditure surpassed 416 million dollars in 2022 across the Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa campuses combined, much of it channelled through weather, energy and health research.2022 年，诺曼、俄克拉何马城与图尔萨三校区合计科研支出超过 4.16 亿美元，其中相当部分投向气象、能源与健康研究。

• The university adopted the motto Civi et Reipublicae, meaning for the citizen and for the republic, framing its public mission.校训为「Civi et Reipublicae」，意为「为了公民与共和国」，框定了它的公立使命。

• Storm meteorology education and research grew into a national reference, leveraging Oklahoma's position in Tornado Alley and the radar legacy built since the 1950s.风暴气象学的教学与研究成长为全国标杆，得利于俄克拉何马「龙卷风走廊」的位置与 1950 年代以来积累的雷达遗产。

• The National Weather Center on the south campus, opened in 2006, co-locates federal and university weather agencies.2006 年在南校区启用的国家气象中心，把联邦与大学的气象机构安置在同一屋檐下。

Academics

• Teaching spans colleges including arts and sciences, business, engineering, atmospheric and geographic sciences, education, law and medicine.教学涵盖文理、商学、工程、大气与地理科学、教育、法学与医学等学院。

• The university offers 174 baccalaureate, 199 master's, 101 doctoral and 88 certificate programmes, employing nearly 4,000 faculty members.学校开设 174 个本科、199 个硕士、101 个博士与 88 个证书项目，聘任近 4,000 名教师。

• The School of Meteorology, housed in the National Weather Center, is among the leading storm meteorology programmes in the United States, drawing students into field research across Tornado Alley each spring.设于国家气象中心的气象学院，是美国风暴气象学的顶尖项目之一，每年春天带领学生横跨「龙卷风走廊」开展野外研究。

• The College of Engineering supports petroleum, aerospace and electrical engineering programmes tied to Oklahoma's energy and aerospace industries.工程学院的石油、航空与电气工程项目，与俄克拉何马的能源和航空产业相连。

• The College of Law, founded in 1909, anchors legal education for the state with the Donald Pray Law Library.1909 年设立的法学院，以唐纳德·普拉法律图书馆为支柱，承担全州法律教育。

• The OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City runs the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Allied Health.俄克拉何马城的健康科学中心设有医学、护理、药学、公共卫生与健康相关专业学院。

• The Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication operates student media and broadcast facilities named for the Gaylord family's gifts, including the professional television studio complex.盖洛德新闻与大众传播学院运营以盖洛德家族捐赠命名的学生媒体与广播设施，其中含专业级电视演播楼群。

• Research classification stands at R1, the Carnegie tier of very high research activity, with 2022 expenditures over 416 million dollars.研究分级为「R1」（极高研究活跃度），2022 年支出超 4.16 亿美元。

• Enrollment of 34,523 in fall 2024 makes OU among the largest universities in the South Central United States.2024 年秋季 34,523 名学生的规模，使俄大跻身美国中南部最大大学之列。

• The Bizzell Memorial Library anchors a library system holding millions of volumes, with the History of Science Collections preserving rare works by Copernicus, Galileo and Newton.比泽尔纪念图书馆为馆藏核心，系统藏书数百万卷，其科学史专藏保存哥白尼、伽利略与牛顿的珍本。

• The university's museums, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, serve teaching across disciplines.弗雷德·琼斯小艺术博物馆与萨姆·诺贝尔自然史博物馆两馆为跨学科教学服务。

• Honors education runs through the Honors College with dedicated residence halls and seminar programmes.荣誉教育通过荣誉学院开展，配设专用宿舍与研讨项目。

• Study abroad and the Oklahoma-led international energy partnerships bring exchange students to the Norman campus each year.海外学习与俄州主导的国际能源伙伴关系每年为诺曼校区带来交换学生。

• The Price College of Business ranks among the leading business schools of the South Central region for energy-focused MBA training.普莱斯商学院的能源方向 MBA 培训，位居美国中南部商学院前列。

• Its OpenAlex record lists 93,119 works with 7,090,581 citations, concentrated in meteorology, petroleum engineering and medicine.其 OpenAlex 记录列有 93,119 项成果、被引 7,090,581 次，集中于气象学、石油工程与医学。

• Aviation programmes at the university train pilots and air traffic managers for the national aviation industry, operating a flight school at Max Westheimer Airport beside the Norman campus.大学的航空项目为全国民航业培养飞行员与空中交通管理人才，飞行学校就设在诺曼校区旁的马克·韦斯特海默机场。

Campus

• The main campus lies in Norman at coordinates of 35.22257 degrees north and 97.43948 degrees west, about 30 kilometres south of Oklahoma City.主校区位于诺曼，坐标为北纬 35.22257、西经 97.43948，在俄克拉何马城以南约 30 公里。

• Consistent Cherokee Gothic architecture, brick buildings with pointed arches, defines the Norman campus core planned in the 1890s.诺曼校园核心以「切罗基哥特」风格著称，砖砌尖拱建筑源于 1890 年代的规划。

• Evans Wall on the North Oval and Bizzell Memorial Library anchor the central campus ensemble.北椭圆广场的埃文斯墙与比泽尔纪念图书馆构成中央校园的骨架。

• The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art stands on the campus's eastern edge beside the academic core.弗雷德·琼斯小艺术博物馆位于校园东缘，紧邻学术核心。

• The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History occupies the campus's southern side with dinosaur halls drawing statewide visitors.萨姆·诺贝尔自然史博物馆在校园南侧，其恐龙展厅吸引全州访客。

• Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium hosts football on the campus's east side, and Lloyd Noble Center hosts basketball to the south.盖洛德家族俄克拉何马纪念体育场承办东侧的橄榄球赛，劳埃德·诺布尔中心承办南侧的篮球赛。

• The National Weather Center of 2006 on the south campus co-locates the School of Meteorology with federal weather agencies.2006 年落成的南校区国家气象中心，把气象学院与联邦气象机构安置在一处。

• The Oklahoma City Health Sciences Center sits in the state capital, about 30 kilometres north of Norman, with a Tulsa campus serving the northeast.俄克拉何马城健康科学中心位于州首府，在诺曼以北 30 公里，图尔萨校区服务东北部。

• Campus bus transit and the Amtrak Heartland Flyer link Norman to Oklahoma City and Fort Worth.校园巴士与美铁「心脏地带号」把诺曼与俄克拉何马城、沃斯堡连接起来。

• Residential colleges introduced in the 2010s add living-learning communities to the traditional dormitory system.2010 年代引入的住宿学院制，为传统宿舍体系增加了住学结合社区。

Reputation

• The University of Oklahoma is placed in the 771-780 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.俄克拉何马大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 771-780 区间。

• It is absent from the THE World University Rankings 2027, a genuine omission after the annual cull of institutions that did not submit data, and should not be substituted with older-year positions.该校未进入 2027 年度 THE 世界大学排名，属未提交数据高校被剔除后的真实缺席，不应以旧年份名次顶替。

• The 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities survey ranks it 514th worldwide.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名将其列于世界第 514。

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places it in the 401-500 band.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名（ARWU）将其列于 401-500 区间。

• Carnegie classification places it among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, with 2022 research expenditures over 416 million dollars.卡内基分级将其列为「R1」极高研究活跃度博士大学，2022 年科研支出超 4.16 亿美元。

• Its OpenAlex record lists 93,119 research works and 7,090,581 citations, led by meteorology, engineering and medicine.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 93,119 项、被引 7,090,581 次，以气象学、工程与医学为首。

• The School of Meteorology and the National Weather Center give it national leadership in storm and severe-weather research.气象学院与国家气象中心使其在全国风暴与极端天气研究中居于领导地位。

• Athletic prestige includes 47 team national championships and a 2024 move to the Southeastern Conference, the nation's premier athletic league.体育声望包括 47 项全队全国冠军，以及 2024 年转投全国竞技水平最高的东南联盟。

• Within Oklahoma it stands as one of the state's two comprehensive research universities alongside Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, a pairing that dates to the 1890 territorial act.在俄克拉何马州内，它与斯蒂尔沃特的俄克拉何马州立大学并列为全州仅有的两所综合研究型大学，这一格局源自 1890 年的领地立法。

Student life

• The university motto is Civi et Reipublicae, Latin for for the citizen and for the republic.校训为「Civi et Reipublicae」，拉丁文意为「为了公民与共和国」。

• The athletic teams compete as the Sooners, a name from the 1889 land run settlers who staked claims before the official starting signal.运动队名为「抢先者」（Sooners），取自 1889 年土地竞赛中抢在发令前圈地的拓荒者。

• The Crimson and Cream colour scheme, the Boomer Sooner fight song and the Sooner Schooner covered-wagon mascot, drawn by two ponies across the field after scores, anchor game-day traditions.深红与奶油色系、《Boomer Sooner》战歌与由双驹牵引、得分后驰过球场的「抢先者篷车」吉祥物，构成比赛日传统。

• Football Saturdays at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium draw the largest crowds in the state, an 80,000-seat tradition since the 1920s.盖洛德家族纪念体育场的橄榄球周六吸引全州最多观众，八万人座席的传统自 1920 年代延续。

• The student newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily, has published since 1916 from offices in the Oklahoma Memorial Union, with the Yearbook retaining the historic title Sooner.学生报《俄克拉何马日报》自 1916 年起在俄克拉何马纪念联合会大楼出版，年刊沿用「Sooner」的历史刊名。

• Residential colleges founded in the 2010s created cross-year learning communities inside the dormitory system, pairing faculty fellows with undergraduates in living-learning halls.2010 年代创办的住宿学院在宿舍体系内部建立跨年级学习社区，把导师教师与本科生配对在同一栋住学楼。

• Campus traditions include the Big Red Rally before the first football game and the class-ring ceremony introduced in the 2000s, at which graduating students receive the ring bearing the university seal.校园传统包括首场橄榄球赛前的「大红集会」与 2000 年代引入的班级戒指授予礼——毕业生届时领取镌有校徽的戒指。

• Student media, societies and the Campus Activities Council orchestrate concerts, film series and the annual University Sing.学生媒体、社团与校园活动委员会组织音乐会、影展与年度合唱展演。

• Norman's proximity to Oklahoma City gives students professional sports, museums and internships within a half-hour drive.诺曼邻近俄克拉何马城，学生半小时车程内可达职业赛事、博物馆与实习单位。

• Sooner football has claimed seven consensus national championships, in 1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985 and 2000, the foundation of the program's national standing.「抢先者」橄榄球七夺全美共识全国冠军（1950、1955、1956、1974、1975、1985 与 2000），奠定该项目的全国地位。

• Coach Bud Wilkinson built a 47-game winning streak from 1953 to 1957, still an NCAA record, during his tenure from 1947 to 1963.1947 至 1963 年在任的教练巴德·威尔金森在 1953 至 1957 年间创下 47 连胜，至今仍是 NCAA 纪录。

• Quarterbacks Jason White, Sam Bradford, Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray won Heisman Trophies between 2003 and 2018, an unmatched quarterback lineage.2003 至 2018 年间，四分卫贾森·怀特、萨姆·布拉德福德、贝克·梅菲尔德与凯勒·默里相继赢得海斯曼奖，构成无可匹敌的四分卫谱系。

• The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art holds French Impressionist works by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir alongside its Native American collections.弗雷德·琼斯小艺术博物馆的法国印象派收藏涵盖莫奈、梵高与雷诺阿，同印第安艺术收藏并置。

• The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History preserves millions of specimens, including Oklahoma dinosaur fossils, in its galleries on the Norman campus.萨姆·诺贝尔自然史博物馆在诺曼校区的展厅中保存数百万件标本，包括俄克拉何马的恐龙化石。

• The university endowment surpassed 2 billion dollars in the 2020s, funding scholarships, faculty chairs and campus construction across the three campuses.2020 年代该校捐赠基金超过 20 亿美元，支撑三校区的奖学金、讲席教授与校园建设。

• Named colleges on campus include the Gallogly College of Engineering, the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education and the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, each recognising major donor families.校内以捐赠家族命名的学院包括加洛格利工程学院、珍妮特·雷恩博尔特教育学院与韦岑霍费尔家族艺术学院。

Notable people

• David Ross Boyd, first president from 1892, planted the prairie campus's first trees and built the university's foundations.大卫·罗斯·博伊德，1892 年起的首任校长，在草原校园种下第一批树，奠定学校根基。

• George Lynn Cross, president from 1943 to 1968, drove postwar research growth and famously wished to build a university of which the football team could be proud.乔治·林恩·克罗斯，1943 至 1968 年任校长，推动战后研究扩张，并留下「建一所让橄榄球队自豪的大学」的名言。

• David Boren, alumnus, governor and United States senator, served as president from 1994 to 2018 and led record fundraising.戴维·博伦，校友、前州长与联邦参议员，1994 至 2018 年任校长，创下募款纪录。

• Joseph Harroz Jr., alumnus and former dean of the College of Law, became president in 2020.小约瑟夫·哈罗兹，校友、前法学院院长，2020 年出任校长。

• Thomas Stafford, OU engineering graduate of 1952, commanded the Apollo 10 lunar mission and the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz docking.托马斯·斯塔福德，1952 年该校工程毕业生，指挥了阿波罗 10 号登月任务与 1975 年阿波罗-联盟号对接。

• James Garner, who studied at OU on an athletic scholarship, became a celebrated film and television actor.詹姆斯·加纳，曾持体育奖学金就读该校，后成为著名影视演员。

• Olivia Munn, who studied journalism at the university, built a career in American film and television.奥利维亚·穆恩，曾在该校修读新闻学，后在美国影视界发展。

• Wayman Tisdale, OU basketball star of the 1980s, played in the NBA and became a jazz bass recording artist.韦曼·蒂斯代尔，1980 年代该校篮球明星，后征战 NBA，又成为爵士贝斯演奏家。

• Sam Bradford, Sooner quarterback, won the Heisman Trophy in 2008 and became the first pick of the 2010 NFL Draft.萨姆·布拉德福德，「抢先者」四分卫，2008 年获海斯曼奖，并在 2010 年 NFL 选秀中成为状元。

• Faculty of the School of Meteorology lead national storm-chasing research, with Oklahoma's Tornado Alley location providing the field laboratory.气象学院教师主导全国风暴追逐研究，俄克拉何马「龙卷风走廊」的区位就是天然实验室。