University of Reading

The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England, founded in 1892 as an extension college of Christ Church, Oxford, and raised to university status by royal charter in 1926.雷丁大学是位于英格兰伯克郡雷丁的公立研究型大学，1892 年作为牛津大学基督堂学院的进修学院创办，1926 年获皇家特许状升格为大学。

It enrols 21,370 students as of 2024/25 across 16 academic schools grouped in three faculties plus Henley Business School, keeps campuses in Reading, on the banks of the River Thames and in Iskandar Puteri in Malaysia, and places equal 196th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校 2024/25 学年在校学生 21,370 人，设 16 个专业学院、分属三个学部及亨利商学院，在雷丁、泰晤士河畔与马来西亚依斯干达布特里设有校区，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 196。

History

• The university owes its first origins to the Schools of Art and Science established in Reading in 1860 and 1870, which the Reading Town Council transferred to the new college in 1892.学校的前身可追溯至 1860 年与 1870 年在雷丁创办的艺术与科学学院，1892 年由雷丁镇议会并入新学院。
• In 1892 the College at Reading was founded as an extension college by Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford, opening that September as The University Extension College in Conjunction with the Schools of Science and Art, Reading, a name soon shortened the following spring.1892 年，牛津大学基督堂学院在雷丁创办进修学院，同年 9 月以「与雷丁科学和艺术学院合办的大学进修学院」之名开学，次年春即改用简称。
• The geographer Sir Halford John Mackinder was appointed the first president, and the first home of the college was the old hospitium building behind Reading Town Hall.地理学家 Halford John Mackinder 爵士获任首任院长，学院最初设在雷丁镇政厅后方的旧驿馆建筑内。
• The new college was incorporated in 1896 and was approved in 1901 to participate in the Parliamentary grant to university colleges, changing its name to University College, Reading in 1902.学院 1896 年完成注册，1901 年获准参与议会面向大学学院的拨款，1902 年改名雷丁大学学院。
• In 1905 the Palmer family, connected with the biscuit firm Huntley & Palmers, gave the college the site that became the London Road Campus.1905 年，与饼干企业 Huntley & Palmers 关系密切的 Palmer 家族将伦敦路校区地块赠予学院。
• The same family supported the opening of Wantage Hall in 1908 and of the Research Institute in Dairying in 1912.同一家族还资助学院于 1908 年建成 Wantage Hall，并于 1912 年设立制酪业研究所。
• The college first applied for a royal charter in 1920 without success, and a second petition in 1925 succeeded, the charter being officially granted on 17 March 1926.学院 1920 年首次申请皇家特许状未果，1925 年第二次请愿成功，特许状于 1926 年 3 月 17 日正式颁授。
• With the charter the college became the University of Reading, the only new university created in the United Kingdom between the two world wars.凭此特许状，学院升格为雷丁大学，成为两次世界大战之间英国唯一新设立的大学。
• In 1928 the university was added to the Combined English Universities constituency in time for the 1929 general election.1928 年，学校被并入英格兰联合大学选区，赶上 1929 年大选。
• In 1947 the university purchased Whiteknights Park, which was to become its principal campus.1947 年，学校购入 Whiteknights 公园，此后将其定为主校区。
• A merger with Bulmershe College of Higher Education started in 1984 and was completed in 1989.1984 年，学校启动与 Bulmershe 高等教育学院的合并，1989 年完成。
• In October 2006 the Senior Management Board proposed closing the Physics Department, a decision that prompted a debate in Parliament and was confirmed by the council on 20 November 2006.2006 年 10 月，学校高层管理委员会提议关闭物理学系，该决定引发议会辩论，理事会于同年 11 月 20 日确认。
• Other departments closed in the same period included Music, Sociology, Geology and Mechanical Engineering, and in March 2009 the council decided to close the School of Health and Social Care.同期关闭的学系还包括音乐学、社会学、地质学与机械工程学系；2009 年 3 月，理事会又决定关闭健康与社会关怀学院。
• In January 2008 the university announced its merger with the Henley Management College to create Henley Business School, which took formal effect on 1 August 2008 and was split between the Whiteknights and Greenlands campuses.2008 年 1 月，学校宣布与亨利管理学院合并组建亨利商学院，合并于同年 8 月 1 日正式生效，学院分设 Whiteknights 与 Greenlands 两校区。
• A restructuring announced in September 2009 brought all academic schools into three faculties, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and Henley Business School.2009 年 9 月宣布的重组将全校学院并入三个学部：理学部、人文艺术与社会科学学部以及亨利商学院。
• A renovation of the London Road Campus costing 30 million pounds was announced in late 2009, and the Institute of Education moved to its new home there in January 2012.2009 年末宣布投入 3,000 万英镑翻新伦敦路校区，教育学院于 2012 年 1 月迁入新址。
• The university became the lead sponsor of UTC Reading, a university technical college which opened in September 2013.学校成为 UTC Reading 的主要赞助方，这所大学技术学院于 2013 年 9 月开办。
• First announced in October 2012, the campus in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia, was formally opened in February 2016 as the university's first overseas campus, offering foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including the Henley MBA.学校首个海外校区依斯干达布特里校区于 2012 年 10 月宣布、2016 年 2 月正式开办，开设预科、本科与研究生课程，含亨利商学院 MBA 项目。
• A move to reorganise the structure of the university in 2016 provoked student protests, and on 21 March 2016 staff voted by 88 per cent for a motion of no confidence in the vice-chancellor Sir David Bell.2016 年的学校架构重组引发学生抗议；同年 3 月 21 日，教职工以 88% 的票数通过对校长 David Bell 爵士的不信任动议。
• In 2019 The Guardian reported that the university was in a financial and governance crisis after reporting itself to regulators over a 121 million pound loan from the National Institute for Research in Dairying trust, with debts of 300 million pounds and an operating deficit above 40 million pounds.2019 年，《卫报》报道学校陷入财政与治理危机：学校因向国家制酪业研究所信托借款 1.21 亿英镑而主动向监管机构报告，负债达 3 亿英镑，运营赤字连续两年超过 4,000 万英镑。
• In 2021 the university declared in reply to the students' union that it would not refund tuition fees.2021 年，学校在答复学生会时声明不会退还学费。
• In 2026 the university marked the centenary of its royal charter, reviving the historic RAG Parade through the town on 17 May 2026 with about 3,000 participants.2026 年，学校庆祝获颁皇家特许状一百周年，并于 5 月 17 日在全城复活历史悠久的 RAG 游行，约 3,000 人参加。

Academics

• Since 2016 the university has been arranged into 16 academic schools grouped in three faculties, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Science, alongside Henley Business School.2016 年起，学校设 16 个专业学院，分属艺术人文与社会科学学部、生命科学学部与理学部三个学部，另设亨利商学院。
• The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science covers art, film, theatre and television, typography and graphic communication, the Institute of Education, classics, history, law, English, languages and cultures, economics, philosophy, and politics and international relations.艺术人文与社会科学学部涵盖艺术、电影戏剧与电视、字体设计与图像传播、教育学院、古典学、历史、法律、英语、语言与文化、经济、哲学以及政治与国际关系等学科。
• The Faculty of Life Sciences brings together agriculture, policy and development, biological sciences, chemistry, food and pharmacy, including the Reading School of Pharmacy, and psychology and clinical language science.生命科学学部汇聚农业政策与发展、生物科学、化学食品与药学（含雷丁药学院）以及心理学与临床语言科学等学科。
• The Faculty of Science includes construction management and engineering, archaeology, geography and environmental science, and the School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences with departments of mathematics and statistics, meteorology and computer science.理学部下设建筑管理与工程、考古地理与环境科学等学院，以及数学物理与计算科学学院，辖数学与统计、气象学与计算机科学等系。
• Henley Business School is among only 58 institutions worldwide holding the triple accreditation of EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB, and its ICMA Centre is a leading centre for teaching and research on capital markets.亨利商学院是全球仅 58 所同时获 EQUIS、AMBA 与 AACSB 三重认证的院校之一，其 ICMA 中心是资本市场教学与研究的重镇。
• The Doctoral and Researcher College was created in 2011 as the Graduate School to support doctoral researchers and early career research staff across the university.博士生与研究员学院于 2011 年作为研究生院创立，为全校博士研究人员与早期职业科研人员提供支持。
• In the 2024/25 academic year the student body numbered 21,370, comprising 14,125 undergraduates and 7,240 postgraduates with an FTE of 17,425, while the university's own annual report counts more than 27,000 students in the United Kingdom and abroad.2024/25 学年，全校学生 21,370 人，其中本科生 14,125 人、研究生 7,240 人，折合全日制 17,425 人；学校年报统计其英国与海外学生合计超过 27,000 人。
• Academic staff numbered 1,575 and administrative staff 2,355 in 2024/25.2024/25 学年，专任教师 1,575 人，行政人员 2,355 人。
• Total income for 2024/25 was 347.8 million pounds, including 33.9 million pounds from research grants and contracts, against expenditure of 366.1 million pounds, and endowments stood at 141.3 million pounds, the twelfth largest of any university in the United Kingdom.2024/25 财年总收入 3.478 亿英镑，其中科研经费收入 3,390 万英镑，支出 3.661 亿英镑；年末捐赠基金 1.413 亿英镑，居英国大学第 12 位。
• Applications for 2025 entry reached 28,160 with 5,430 offers accepted, an overall offer rate of 87.1 per cent, and the university is designated a medium-tariff institution by the Department for Education.2025 年入学申请共 28,160 份，录取 5,430 人，总录取率 87.1%；学校被英国教育部列为中门槛院校。
• The School of Agriculture, Policy and Development was ranked top in the United Kingdom and 11th in the world in the QS classification of universities by subject.在 QS 学科排名中，农业政策与发展学院居英国第一、世界第 11。
• The Department of Meteorology was ranked 5th in the world for atmospheric science in the 2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, 15th in the world by US News in 2024 and 13th among global universities in atmospheric science in the 2024 SCImago Institutions Rankings.气象学系在 2024 年全球学科排名中居大气科学世界第五，在 2024 年《美国新闻与世界报道》榜列第 15，在 2024 年 SCImago 机构排名中列第 13。
• The Department of Typography and Graphic Communication was ranked first in the United Kingdom in the art and design category of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework and won a Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2011.字体设计与图像传播学系在 2014 年英国科研卓越框架的艺术与设计范畴居全英第一，并于 2011 年获女王周年奖。
• Departments of the university have been awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize five times, in 1998 for work on Shakespeare, in 2005 and 2021 for environment and climate research, and again in 2008 and 2011.该校学部五度获女王周年奖：1998 年表彰莎士比亚研究，2005 年与 2021 年表彰环境与气候研究，2008 年与 2011 年再度获奖。
• Governance rests with a Council as the supreme governing body and a Senate of about 100 members as the main academic body, while day-to-day management is led by a senior board headed by the vice-chancellor under a titular chancellor.学校治理以理事会为最高机构、约 100 名成员组成的评议会为主要学术机构，日常管理由校长领衔的高层委员会负责，校监为名义首长。
• Since 2009 the university has partnered with the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, and the NUIST Reading Academy formed in 2015 now runs six degree programmes enrolling nearly 400 students a year.自 2009 年起，学校与南京信息工程大学开展合作，2015 年组建的 NUIST Reading Academy 开设六个学位项目，每年招生近 400 人。

Campus

• The university maintains over 1.6 square kilometres of grounds in four distinct campuses, Whiteknights and London Road in Reading itself, Greenlands on the banks of the River Thames, and Iskandar Puteri in Malaysia.学校拥有四个校区、总占地超过 1.6 平方公里：雷丁市内的 Whiteknights 校区与伦敦路校区、泰晤士河畔的 Greenlands 校区以及马来西亚依斯干达布特里校区。
• Whiteknights Campus, at 1.3 square kilometres, is the largest, taking its name from the thirteenth-century knight John De Erleigh IV, the White Knight, and was landscaped in the eighteenth century by the Marquis of Blandford, with most of the site lying in Wokingham District.Whiteknights 校区占地 1.3 平方公里，是最大的校区，其名源于 13 世纪骑士 John De Erleigh IV「白骑士」的绰号，18 世纪由 Blandford 侯爵主持园林营造，大部分地块属 Wokingham 区。
• The URS building on Whiteknights, designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis in concrete brutalist style in the 1970s, is Grade II listed.Whiteknights 校区内的 URS 大楼由 Howell、Killick、Partridge & Amis 于 20 世纪 70 年代以混凝土粗野主义风格设计，为英国二级登录建筑。
• The London Road Campus is the original site, closer to the town centre and sited across from the Royal Berkshire Hospital, home to the Institute of Education, and its Great Hall hosts graduation ceremonies twice a year.伦敦路校区是学校最初的校址，距市中心更近，与皇家伯克郡医院隔街相望，现为教育学院所在地，其大礼堂每年举行两届毕业典礼。
• The War Memorial clock tower on the London Road Campus was designed by Herbert Maryon.伦敦路校区内的战争纪念钟塔由 Herbert Maryon 设计。
• The Greenlands Campus was once the home of William Henry Smith, son of the founder of WH Smith, and latterly of the Henley Management College, becoming part of the university on 1 August 2008.Greenlands 校区曾是 WH Smith 创始人之子 William Henry Smith 的宅邸，后为亨利管理学院所在地，2008 年 8 月 1 日随合并并入学校。
• Reading maintains four museums, the Museum of English Rural Life near the town centre in the former St Andrews Hall, closed in 2000, and the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, the Cole Museum of Zoology, the University Herbarium and the Harris Garden on Whiteknights.学校设有四座博物馆：位于镇中心附近、由 2000 年关闭的 St Andrews Hall 改建的英格兰乡村生活博物馆，以及 Whiteknights 校区内的 Ure 希腊考古博物馆、Cole 动物学博物馆、大学植物标本馆与 Harris 花园。
• The University Library on Whiteknights holds over 1 million physical resources across 14,000 square metres and seven floors, and reopened in autumn 2019 after a 40 million pound refurbishment begun in 2016.Whiteknights 校区的大学图书馆面积 14,000 平方米、共七层，馆藏实体资料逾 100 万件，2016 年起耗资 4,000 万英镑翻修后于 2019 年秋重新开放。
• The university also owns 8.5 square kilometres of farmland in Arborfield, Sonning and Shinfield, supporting a mixed farming system and hosting research centres of which the flagship is the Centre for Dairy Research.学校还在 Arborfield、Sonning 与 Shinfield 三村拥有 8.5 平方公里农田，支撑农牧混合经营，并设有以制酪研究中心为代表的多家研究机构。

Reputation

• The University of Reading places equal 196th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, equal 219th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 501-600 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.雷丁大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 196，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 219，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 501 至 600 区间。
• Domestic league tables place it 43rd in the Complete University Guide, 35th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide and 55th in the Guardian, and the institution holds a Silver rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework.英国国内榜单方面，学校在完全大学指南列第 43，在《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》优秀大学指南列第 35，在《卫报》列第 55，并在教学卓越框架评估中获银级评级。
• OpenAlex records 85,930 works by the university that have drawn 5,398,399 citations.OpenAlex 收录学校成果 85,930 项，被引 5,398,399 次。
• Sir Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the University of Reading from 1935 to 1937, shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize with Charles Gates Dawes for his role in bringing about the Locarno Treaties, and no other Nobel laureate appears in the university's records.1935 至 1937 年任本校校监的 Austen Chamberlain 爵士因促成《洛迦诺条约》与 Charles Gates Dawes 分享 1925 年诺贝尔和平奖，该校记录中暂无其他诺贝尔奖得主。
• In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework the university was ranked 35th in the United Kingdom for the quality of its research and 28th for research power, with 98 per cent of its research internationally recognised, 78 per cent internationally excellent and 27 per cent world leading.在 2014 年英国科研卓越框架中，学校科研质量居英国第 35、科研实力居第 28，98% 的研究获评国际认可，78% 获评国际优秀，27% 获评世界领先。
• It was ranked 2nd in the world in meteorology and atmospheric sciences by the Center for World University Rankings in 2017, the most recent year subject rankings were published.在世界大学排名中心 2017 年学科排名中，学校气象学与大气科学居世界第二，此为该榜最后一次发布学科排名。
• The Whiteknights campus was voted one of the best green spaces in the United Kingdom for the seventh year running in the 2017 Green Flag People's Choice awards, and won its fifteenth consecutive Green Flag Award in 2025.Whiteknights 校区在 2017 年 Green Flag 人民选择奖中连续第七年入选英国最佳绿地，2025 年更连续第十五年获得 Green Flag 奖。
• The university was named Sustainable University of the Year 2025 and holds a First Class rating in the 2024/25 People & Planet University League, ranking 4th of 154 institutions assessed.学校获评 2025 年度可持续发展大学，并在 2024/25 年 People & Planet 大学排行榜中获最高评级，在 154 所受评院校中列第 4。
• The university is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association and Universities UK.学校是英联邦大学协会、欧洲大学协会与英国大学联盟的成员。

Student life

• The University of Reading has no official motto, and no motto is recorded in its heraldic and ceremonial usage.雷丁大学没有正式校训，其纹章与各类仪式中亦无校训记载。
• Reading Students' Union is the affiliated student organisation representing students' interests, providing a free advice service and facilitating over 160 different activities.雷丁学生会是代表学生利益的附属学生组织，提供免费咨询服务，并组织超过 160 种学生活动。
• The Students' Union building on Whiteknights Campus contains the 2,500 capacity venue called 「3sixty」, renovated in 2024, with six bars and retail outlets including an Asian supermarket, a coffee shop and a hairdresser.位于 Whiteknights 校区的学生会大楼设有可容纳 2,500 人的「3sixty」场馆，2024 年完成翻新，配六间酒吧及亚洲超市、咖啡店与理发店等零售设施。
• Penny Mordaunt, later Secretary of State for Defence, served as president of the Students' Union in 1994 and 1995.后任英国国防大臣的 Penny Mordaunt 曾于 1994 至 1995 年担任学生会主席。
• The Spark, the student newspaper founded in 1934 as The Shell, is produced monthly during term time, distributed across halls of residence and academic buildings, with a circulation of about 2,000.学生报 The Spark 创刊于 1934 年，初名 The Shell，学期中每月出版，在宿舍与教学办公楼发行，发行量约 2,000 份。
• The RAG Parade, the Raising and Giving tradition that dates back to 1926, was for over fifty years the highlight of the students' charity calendar, followed a route last seen in 1984 and was revived through the town centre on 17 May 2026 for the university's centenary.RAG 游行是「筹款与捐赠」传统，始于 1926 年，五十余年来一直是学生慈善日历上的重头戏，其巡游路线 1984 年后绝迹，2026 年 5 月 17 日建校百年之际在市中心复活。
• Student accommodation is provided in halls of residence offering partially catered and self-catering options, with most halls lying close to the northern campus periphery, and the university is proceeding with an integrated Halls and Catering Strategy.学生住宿由多座宿舍楼提供，含包伙与自炊两种选择，多集中在校园北缘，学校正推行一体化的宿舍与餐饮策略。
• Wantage Hall, opened in 1908 and built in the style of an Oxbridge college, is one of the oldest purpose-built halls of residence still in use in England outside Oxford and Cambridge.1908 年启用的 Wantage Hall 采牛桥式学院风格，是英格兰牛津与剑桥之外仍在使用的最古老专门建造宿舍之一。

Notable people

• Sir Halford John Mackinder, the geographer and first president of the College at Reading, led the institution from 1892 to 1903.地理学家 Halford John Mackinder 爵士是雷丁学院首任院长，1892 至 1903 年主持校政。
• William Macbride Childs served as principal from 1903 to 1926 and became the first vice-chancellor of the university, holding that office until 1929.William Macbride Childs 于 1903 至 1926 年任院长，1926 年学校升格后出任首任校长，任职至 1929 年。
• Edith Morley, professor of English, was in 1908 the first woman appointed to a chair at a British university-level institution, a pioneering milestone rather than a prize.英语教授 Edith Morley 于 1908 年成为英国大学层级机构首位获聘正教授的女性，属开创性纪录而非奖项。
• Clifford Charles Butler, professor of physics at Imperial College London, co-discovered the meson and the hyperon in 1947, a landmark of particle physics although the Nobel Prize went to others.帝国理工学院物理学教授 Clifford Charles Butler 于 1947 年共同发现介子与超子，是粒子物理学的里程碑，但诺贝尔奖归于他人。
• John Harry Dunning, the economist who formulated the eclectic paradigm of international production, was the leading figure of the Reading School of economics.经济学家 John Harry Dunning 提出国际生产折中理论，是雷丁学派的代表人物。
• Ted Shepherd, Grantham Professor of Climate Science at Reading since 2012, received the Patterson Medal of the Meteorological Service of Canada in 2005 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016.Ted Shepherd 自 2012 年起任雷丁大学格兰瑟姆气候科学教授，2005 年获加拿大气象局 Patterson 奖章，2016 年当选皇家学会会士。
• Penny Mordaunt, a former Secretary of State for Defence, and Jan Kavan, the Czech diplomat who presided over the 57th session of the United Nations General Assembly, both studied at Reading.英国前国防大臣 Penny Mordaunt 与主持第 57 届联合国大会的捷克外交家 Jan Kavan 均毕业于此。
• Business alumni include Robert Noel, chief executive of Land Securities, Nick Candy, co-founder of the developer behind One Hyde Park, and Linda Bennett, founder of the fashion brand L. K. Bennett.商界校友包括土地证券（Land Securities）首席执行官 Robert Noel、海德公园一号开发公司联合创始人 Nick Candy，以及时装品牌 L. K. Bennett 创始人 Linda Bennett。
• Li Shirong, professor of real estate at Chongqing University and a former global chairman of the Chartered Institute of Building, is among the university's Chinese-linked alumni.华人相关校友包括重庆大学房地产教授、前特许建造学会全球主席李世蓉（Li Shirong）。
• The actress Tang Wei and the designer Keith Tam, former head of communication design at the Hong Kong Design Institute, are also listed among its alumni.演员汤唯与曾任香港知专设计学院传意设计学系主任的设计师谭智恒（Keith Tam）亦在校友名录之列。
• Olympic rowing champions James Cracknell, winner in 2000 and 2004, and Anna Watkins and Alex Gregory, winners at London 2012, all studied at Reading.赛艇奥运冠军 James Cracknell（2000 年与 2004 年夺冠）以及 2012 年伦敦奥运会冠军 Anna Watkins 与 Alex Gregory 均曾就读于此。