University of San Diego

The University of San Diego, or USD, is a private Catholic research university in San Diego, California, chartered in 1949 and formed by the 1972 merger of the San Diego College for Women with San Diego University, which comprised the College for Men and the School of Law, and it has operated for more than seventy years圣迭戈大学（University of San Diego，简称 USD）是位于美国加利福尼亚州圣迭戈的私立天主教研究型大学，1949 年获特许设立，1972 年由圣迭戈女子学院与包含男子学院和法学院的圣迭戈大学合并而成，办学历史已逾七十年。

It should not be confused with the public University of California, San Diego, since USD is an independent Catholic institution whose 180-acre campus, Alcalá Park, sits on a mesa in Linda Vista about two miles north of downtown and overlooks Mission Bay该校不应与公立的加州大学圣迭戈分校混淆，圣迭戈大学是一所独立的天主教大学，其 180 英亩的阿拉卡拉公园校区位于琳达维斯塔的山台上，距市中心约两英里，可俯瞰米申湾。

USD teaches about 9,000 students in seven schools and a college, is classified as an R2 doctoral university with high research activity, and its Toreros compete in NCAA Division I圣迭戈大学通过七个学院和一个学院部培养约 9000 名学生，被卡内基分类列为研究活动较强的 R2 博士型大学，校队「斗牛士」参加 NCAA 一级联赛。

History

• In 1949 the State of California granted charters to two separate institutions, the San Diego College for Women and San Diego University, the latter comprising a College for Men and a School of Law1949 年，加利福尼亚州分别为两所机构颁发特许状，即圣迭戈女子学院与圣迭戈大学，后者由男子学院和法学院组成。
• The charters were obtained by Charles F. Buddy, the first bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, and Mother Rosalie Clifton Hill, vicar superior of the Society of the Sacred Heart, who pooled resources from their organisations on land named Alcalá Park after Didacus of Alcalá特许状由圣迭戈教区首任主教查尔斯·F. 巴迪与圣心会副省会长罗莎莉·克利夫顿·希尔修女共同取得，二人汇集各自机构的资源，在名为阿拉卡拉公园的土地上办学，园名取自圣迭戈的主保圣人。
• The College for Women welcomed its first class in 1952, opening the institution's teaching history two years before its male counterpart女子学院于 1952 年迎来首批学生，比男子学院早两年开启这所学校的教学历史。
• In 1954 the College for Men and the School of Law opened in Bogue Hall, on the site of what was then University High School and later became the University of San Diego High School1954 年，男子学院和法学院在博格楼开课，那里原是大学高中的校址，后来成为圣迭戈大学附属高中。
• From 1954 Alcalá Park also housed the diocesan chancery and the bishop's offices, until the diocese moved to a former Benedictine convent converted into a pastoral centre从 1954 年起，阿拉卡拉公园还设有教区秘书处和主教办公室，直到教区迁往一座由本笃会修道院改建的牧灵中心。
• In 1957 the Immaculate Heart Major Seminary and St. Francis Minor Seminary moved into their newly completed building, now Maher Hall, and the Immaculata Chapel opened as part of the seminary complex1957 年，无玷圣心大修院与圣方济各小修院迁入新建成的梅厄楼，无玷圣母礼拜堂也作为修院建筑群的一部分启用。
• The two seminaries coexisted with the college for nearly two decades, until Immaculate Heart closed at the end of 1968 and its building was renamed De Sales Hall两所修院与学院共处近二十年，直到无玷圣心修院于 1968 年底关闭，其建筑更名为德萨莱斯楼。
• St. Francis Seminary remained until 1970, when it moved to another site, leaving the whole of Bishop Leo T. Maher Hall to the newly merged University of San Diego in 1972圣方济各修院一直存续到 1970 年迁往他处，从而在 1972 年把整座利奥·T. 梅厄主教楼交给新合并的圣迭戈大学。
• The 1972 merger created a single coeducational Catholic university from the women's college and the men's university, a structure that has defined USD ever since1972 年的合并把女子学院与男子大学整合为一所男女同校的天主教大学，这一结构从此确立了圣迭戈大学的形态。
• After the merger the university expanded in the mid-1980s and again in the late 1990s, when major private gifts began to fund new buildings rather than incremental growth合并之后，学校在 20 世纪 80 年代中期扩张，90 年代后期再度扩建，大额私人捐赠开始用于兴建新建筑而非渐进式扩容。
• In 1998 Joan B. Kroc, philanthropist and widow of McDonald's financier Ray Kroc, gave USD 25 million to build the Institute for Peace and Justice1998 年，慈善家、麦当劳投资人雷·克罗克的遗孀琼·B. 克罗克向圣迭戈大学捐赠 2500 万美元，用于建设和平与正义研究所。
• At her death Kroc left a further 50 million dollars to endow the School of Peace Studies, the gift that turned a research institute into a degree-granting school克罗克去世时又留下 5000 万美元用于设立和平研究学院的永续基金，这笔捐赠使一个研究所升格为可授予学位的学院。
• Gifts from the weight-loss entrepreneur Jenny Craig, the inventor Donald Shiley and the investment banker Bert Degheri produced the Jenny Craig Pavilion, the Donald P. Shiley Center for Science and Technology and the Degheri Alumni Center减肥企业家珍妮·克雷格、发明家唐纳德·希利和投资银行家伯特·德格里等人的捐赠，分别催生了珍妮·克雷格体育馆、唐纳德·P. 希利科学与技术中心以及德格里校友中心。
• The Jenny Craig Pavilion hosted the West Coast Conference basketball tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2008, and the campus has also staged international events such as the Kyoto Laureate Symposium珍妮·克雷格体育馆曾在 2002 年、2003 年和 2008 年承办西海岸联盟篮球锦标赛，校园还举办过京都奖得主研讨会等国际活动。
• In 2005 the university extended Colachis Plaza from the Immaculata along Marian Way, closing the eastern end of the campus to vehicular traffic and creating a pedestrian core2005 年，学校把科拉奇斯广场从无玷圣母堂沿玛丽安路延伸，使校园东端禁止机动车通行，形成了步行核心区。
• The student body approved a renovation of the Hahn University Center in 2005, work began at the end of 2007, and the new Student Life Pavilion opened in 2009 with dining halls and offices for student organisations2005 年学生投票通过哈恩大学中心改造方案，工程于 2007 年底动工，新的学生生活馆于 2009 年启用，内设餐厅和学生组织办公室。
• James T. Harris III became the fourth president of the University of San Diego in 2015, having previously led Widener University in Pennsylvania for thirteen years詹姆斯·T. 哈里斯三世于 2015 年出任圣迭戈大学第四任校长，此前在宾夕法尼亚州的威德纳大学担任校长十三年。
• In 2022 students began classes in the Knauss Center for Business Education, a 120,000-square-foot complex built as an innovation and collaboration ecosystem for business students2022 年，学生开始在诺斯商学院教育中心上课，这座 12 万平方英尺的建筑群被设计为商科学生的创新与协作生态空间。
• In spring 2022 USD enrolled 9,041 undergraduate, graduate, paralegal and law students drawn from 85 countries and 50 American states2022 年春季，圣迭戈大学共有 9041 名本科生、研究生、律师助理与法学学生注册，生源来自 85 个国家和美国 50 个州。
• In 2026 the Institute for Shipboard Education chose USD as the next academic partner for Semester at Sea, with the first university-sponsored voyage scheduled for autumn 20282026 年，国际船上教育研究所选择圣迭戈大学作为「海上学期」项目的下一个学术合作方，首个由该校主办的航次计划于 2028 年秋季启航。

Academics

• USD's academic programme is delivered through the College of Arts and Sciences, the Knauss School of Business, the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, the School of Law and the School of Leadership and Education Sciences圣迭戈大学的教学由文理学院、诺斯商学院、希利-马科斯工程学院、哈恩护理与健康科学学院、琼·B. 克罗克和平研究学院、法学院以及领导力与教育学院承担。
• The university offers 43 bachelor's degrees with many concentrations, 56 minors, 36 master's degrees, the Juris Doctor, five LLM degrees and four doctorates, more than 80 degrees in all学校开设 43 个学士学位（含众多专业方向）、56 个辅修方向、36 个硕士学位、法律博士、5 个法学硕士和 4 个博士学位，学位项目总数超过 80 个。
• The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Law are the oldest academic divisions, while the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies is the newest文理学院和法学院是历史最悠久的学术单位，琼·B. 克罗克和平研究学院则是其中最新的一所。
• An undergraduate honors programme enrols roughly 300 students a year and offers small seminars in place of large lecture courses本科荣誉项目每年招收约 300 名学生，以小班研讨课取代大班讲授。
• The university employs 1,007 faculty members and enrolled 5,702 undergraduates, 2,529 postgraduates and 810 other students, about 9,041 in total at the 2022 count学校聘有 1007 名教师，2022 年统计的在校生包括 5702 名本科生、2529 名研究生和 810 名其他类别学生，合计约 9041 人。
• Carnegie classifies USD as an R2 doctoral university, a category reserved for institutions awarding at least 20 research doctorates and spending at least 5 million dollars on research in a year卡内基分类把圣迭戈大学列为 R2 博士型大学，该类别要求学校一年内授予至少 20 个研究型博士学位，并投入至少 500 万美元科研经费。
• The Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science was ranked the leading Catholic graduate nursing school in the United States by U.S. News in 20212021 年，哈恩护理与健康科学学院被《美国新闻与世界报道》评为全美天主教院校中最好的护理研究生院。
• The Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering was ranked 13th nationally in 2021 among engineering schools that do not award doctorates, a standing built on its undergraduate laboratories and industry links2021 年，希利-马科斯工程学院在不授予博士学位的工程学院中位列全美第 13，这一排名依托其本科实验室与产业联系。
• The Knauss School of Business was ranked the second-best undergraduate business school in California by Poets and Quants in 2022, and took its name after Don Knauss pledged 50 million dollars to the university2022 年，诺斯商学院被「Poets and Quants」评为加州第二好的本科商学院，其冠名源自唐·诺斯向学校承诺的 5000 万美元捐赠。
• The School of Law awards the Juris Doctor and five LLM degrees and is one of the two oldest divisions of the university, alongside the College of Arts and Sciences法学院授予法律博士和五个法学硕士学位，与文理学院并列为学校历史最悠久的两个学术单位。
• The School of Leadership and Education Sciences, known as SOLES, prepares teachers, counsellors and school leaders and is one of the seven degree-granting units领导力与教育学院（SOLES）培养教师、辅导员和学校管理者，是七个可授予学位的单位之一。
• The Kroc School of Peace Studies grew out of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice and offers master's degrees in peace and justice and in social innovation克罗克和平研究学院由琼·B. 克罗克和平与正义研究所发展而来，开设和平与正义、社会创新等硕士项目。
• The Shiley Theatre programme, run with The Old Globe, offers a two-year Master of Fine Arts in classical acting that admits about seven students a year on a two per cent acceptance rate with full scholarships希利剧院项目与老环球剧院合作，开设两年制古典表演艺术硕士，每年仅录取约 7 人，录取率约 2%，并提供全额奖学金。
• USD's endowment stood at 767 million dollars in 2025, a figure that supports scholarships and faculty posts rather than the operating budget as a whole2025 年，圣迭戈大学的捐赠基金规模为 7.67 亿美元，主要用于奖学金和教席，而非整体运营预算。
• The university follows a 4-1-4 academic calendar, with a four-course semester, a short January term and a second four-course semester学校采用 4-1-4 学制，即每学期四门课程的秋季学期、短期一月学期和春季学期。
• For the 2025 admissions cycle U.S. News reported an acceptance rate of 47 per cent and tuition and fees of 59,486 dollars for the year《美国新闻与世界报道》公布的 2025 年招生数据显示，学校录取率为 47%，当年学费与杂费为 59486 美元。
• A Division of Professional and Continuing Education extends USD's certificate and professional programmes to working adults in San Diego专业与继续教育部门把学校的证书课程和专业培训延伸至圣迭戈的在职人士。
• USD is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission and belongs to the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration圣迭戈大学获得美国西部院校协会高等院校委员会的认证，并加入美国天主教高校协会、美国独立学院与大学协会以及北美高等教育合作联盟。

Campus

• The 180-acre campus occupies Alcalá Park on the north crest of Mission Valley in the Linda Vista community, roughly two miles north of downtown San Diego, with views of Mission Bay, San Diego Bay, the Pacific Ocean and the Coronado Islands180 英亩的校园坐落在琳达维斯塔社区米申谷北侧山脊上的阿拉卡拉公园，距圣迭戈市中心约两英里，可远眺米申湾、圣迭戈湾、太平洋和科罗纳多群岛。
• Alcalá Park takes its name from Alcalá de Henares, the Spanish birthplace of Didacus of Alcalá, the Franciscan lay brother from whom the city of San Diego itself is named阿拉卡拉公园之名取自西班牙阿尔卡拉-德埃纳雷斯，那里是方济各会修士圣迭戈的出生地，圣迭戈市本身也以这位圣徒命名。
• Its buildings are designed in the 16th-century Plateresque style of the Spanish Renaissance, a deliberate homage to the Universidad de Alcalá and to the city's Catholic heritage校园建筑采用 16 世纪西班牙文艺复兴时期的银匠式风格，刻意致敬西班牙阿尔卡拉大学以及这座城市的公教传统。
• The Immaculata Chapel, opened in 1957 as part of the seminary complex, remains one of the campus's most photographed landmarks although it is no longer affiliated with the university无玷圣母礼拜堂于 1957 年作为修院建筑群的一部分启用，如今虽已不再隶属于大学，仍是校园中最常被拍摄的地标之一。
• Bishop Leo T. Maher Hall, completed in 1957 for the two seminaries, and De Sales Hall, renamed after the Immaculate Heart Seminary closed in 1968, preserve the campus's earliest phase利奥·T. 梅厄主教楼于 1957 年为两所修院建成，德萨莱斯楼则在 1968 年无玷圣心修院关闭后更名，两座建筑保留了校园最早的形态。
• The Helen K. and James S. Copley Library anchors the academic core, while the Student Life Pavilion, opened in 2009, holds dining halls and student organisation offices海伦·K. 与詹姆斯·S. 科普利图书馆构成学术核心，2009 年启用的学生生活馆则容纳餐厅和学生组织办公室。
• Colachis Plaza, extended in 2005, connects the Immaculata to the eastern campus as a pedestrian spine, and the Hahn University Center houses administrative offices, event space and the La Gran Terazza restaurant2005 年扩建的科拉奇斯广场把无玷圣母堂与校园东部连成步行轴线，哈恩大学中心则设有行政办公室、活动场地和 La Gran Terazza 餐厅。
• Athletic facilities include the Jenny Craig Pavilion, Torero Stadium, Fowler Park and Cunningham Field, the Skip and Cindy Hogan Tennis Center and the USD Sports Center Pool体育设施包括珍妮·克雷格体育馆、斗牛士体育场、福勒公园与坎宁安球场、斯基普与辛迪·霍根网球中心以及圣迭戈大学体育中心泳池。
• The Knauss Center for Business Education, opened in 2022, adds 120,000 square feet of classrooms, collaboration spaces and offices to the campus2022 年启用的诺斯商学院教育中心为校园增加了 12 万平方英尺的教室、协作空间和办公面积。
• Travel and Leisure named the campus one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States in 2022, and Best Choice Schools ranked it the most beautiful urban campus in the country2022 年，《旅游与休闲》把该校校园列入全美最美大学校园，Best Choice Schools 则将其评为全美最美的城市校园。

Reputation

• QS World University Rankings 2027 places USD in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final interval used for institutions outside the individually ranked positions2027 年 QS 世界大学排名把圣迭戈大学列入 1401+ 并列区间，这是该榜单为未获单独名次的院校设置的开放式末段。
• Times Higher Education does not list USD in its 2027 world university ranking, so the university has no Times position for that year泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名未收录圣迭戈大学，因此该校在该年度没有泰晤士名次。
• U.S. News does not include USD in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities table, although it ranks the university separately among American national universities《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学榜单未收录圣迭戈大学，但该刊另在全美国家级大学榜单中为其排名。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities does not include USD in its main table, leaving QS as the only global ranking that places the university in 20272026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录圣迭戈大学，因此在 2027 年度的全球榜单中只有 QS 为其给出位次。
• U.S. News ranked USD 109th among American national universities in its 2025 edition, after placing it tied for 88th in 2021 and calling it the youngest independent institution in the top 100《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2025 年版全美国家级大学排名中把该校列为第 109 位，此前 2021 年版曾将其列为并列第 88 位，并称其为百强中最年轻的独立院校。
• The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse ranked USD 47th in their 2025 Best Colleges in the United States list, which surveys student experience and graduate outcomes across 500 institutions《华尔街日报》与 College Pulse 在 2025 年全美最佳大学榜单中把该校排在第 47 位，该榜单基于对学生体验和毕业生出路的调查，覆盖 500 所院校。
• The Princeton Review ranked USD sixth for most beautiful campus and eighth for quality of life in 2021, and fourteenth for most popular study abroad programmes2021 年，《普林斯顿评论》把该校评为全美最美校园第 6 名、生活质量第 8 名、最受欢迎的海外学习项目第 14 名。
• Professional rankings single out the Hahn nursing school as the top Catholic graduate nursing programme, the Shiley-Marcos engineering school as 13th among non-doctoral engineering schools in 2021, and the business school as second in California in 2022专业榜单对该校评价突出，哈恩护理学院被评为天主教院校中最好的护理研究生院，希利-马科斯工程学院 2021 年在不授博士学位的工程学院中列第 13，商学院 2022 年位列加州第二。
• Although Catholic, USD is governed by a lay board of trustees, with the Bishop of San Diego holding a permanent seat and retaining the power to withhold the university's Catholic designation尽管是天主教大学，圣迭戈大学由平信徒董事会治理，圣迭戈主教在董事会中拥有永久席位，并保留撤销学校天主教属性的权力。

Student life

• USD's motto is Emitte Spiritum Tuum, Latin for Send Forth Thy Spirit, a line drawn from the liturgy and reflected in the university's Catholic mission圣迭戈大学的校训是拉丁语 Emitte Spiritum Tuum，意为「发出你的圣神」，语出礼仪经文，也体现在学校的公教使命之中。
• About a quarter of undergraduates join fraternities or sororities, a Greek community that is smaller than at many American private universities of similar size约四分之一的本科生加入兄弟会或姐妹会，这一希腊社团群体的规模小于许多同体量的美国私立大学。
• The San Diego Toreros field teams in NCAA Division I and the Football Championship Subdivision, competing in the West Coast Conference for most sports and in the Pioneer Football League for football圣迭戈大学「斗牛士」队参加 NCAA 一级联赛和橄榄球锦标赛分区，多数项目隶属西海岸联盟，橄榄球则参加先锋橄榄球联盟。
• Diego Torero is the mascot, and the Jenny Craig Pavilion has hosted the West Coast Conference basketball championships as well as NCAA tournament matches in soccer and tennis学校吉祥物是「斗牛士迭戈」，珍妮·克雷格体育馆承办过西海岸联盟篮球锦标赛以及 NCAA 的足球和网球赛事。
• Torero Stadium hosted the 2012 Women's Soccer College Cup, one of several national collegiate finals staged on the campus斗牛士体育场曾承办 2012 年全美大学女子足球锦标赛决赛，是校园举办的多项全国大学决赛之一。
• Dining, student organisation offices and event space are concentrated in the Student Life Pavilion, while the Hahn University Center retains a restaurant and wine bar called La Gran Terazza餐饮、学生组织办公和活动空间集中在学生生活馆，哈恩大学中心则保留着名为 La Gran Terazza 的餐厅与酒吧。
• Study abroad is a visible part of student life, with the Princeton Review ranking USD 14th nationally for popular study abroad programmes in 2021 and Semester at Sea arriving as a partner in 2026海外学习是校园生活的显著组成部分，2021 年《普林斯顿评论》把该校的海外学习项目排在全美第 14 位，2026 年「海上学期」又将其选为合作伙伴。
• The campus sits two miles from downtown San Diego, giving students access to Balboa Park, the Gaslamp Quarter and the beaches of Mission Beach and Pacific Beach校园距圣迭戈市中心两英里，学生可以方便地前往巴尔博亚公园、煤气灯街区以及米申海滩和太平洋海滩。

Notable people

• Charles F. Buddy, the first bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, co-founded the institution in 1949, secured its charter from the state and assembled the Alcalá Park site圣迭戈教区首任主教查尔斯·F. 巴迪于 1949 年参与创办该校，为其取得州特许状并促成阿拉卡拉公园校址。
• Mother Rosalie Clifton Hill, vicar superior of the Society of the Sacred Heart, co-founded the San Diego College for Women in 1949 and led her order's sponsorship of the college圣心会副省会长罗莎莉·克利夫顿·希尔修女于 1949 年参与创办圣迭戈女子学院，并主导其修会对学院的赞助。
• Jim Parsons, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2001, won four Primetime Emmy Awards for his role as Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory2001 年获得艺术硕士学位的吉姆·帕森斯凭《生活大爆炸》中的谢尔顿·库珀一角四度获得黄金时段艾美奖。
• Mario Testino, a 1975 graduate, became one of the world's best-known fashion and portrait photographers, shooting campaigns for Gucci and Vanity Fair covers1975 届校友马里奥·特斯蒂诺成为全球知名的时尚与人像摄影师，曾为古驰拍摄广告并多次拍摄《名利场》封面。
• Theo Epstein, who took a law degree in 2000, became president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs and built the team that won the 2016 World Series after a 108-year drought2000 年获得法学学位的西奥·爱泼斯坦出任芝加哥小熊队棒球运营总裁，打造了终结 108 年冠军荒的 2016 年世界大赛冠军队。
• Juan Vargas, a 1983 graduate, represents California's 51st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives1983 届校友胡安·巴尔加斯在美国众议院代表加利福尼亚州第 51 选区。
• Todd Gloria, a 2000 graduate, served in the California State Assembly and became mayor of San Diego in 2020, the first openly gay and first Filipino-American mayor of the city2000 届校友托德·格洛里亚曾任加州州众议员，2020 年当选圣迭戈市长，是该市首位公开出柜的市长和首位菲律宾裔市长。
• Frances Townsend, a 1984 law graduate, served as Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2004 to 20081984 届法学毕业生弗朗西斯·汤森在 2004 年至 2008 年间担任乔治·W. 布什总统的国土安全顾问。
• Jonny Kim, a 2012 graduate, is a NASA astronaut, a former Navy SEAL and a physician, and was selected for the astronaut corps in 20172012 届校友乔尼·金是美国国家航空航天局宇航员、前海豹突击队员和医生，2017 年入选宇航员队伍。
• Robert Kardashian, a law graduate, was a member of the team that defended O. J. Simpson and later became a reality television figure through his family法学毕业生罗伯特·卡戴珊曾是 O. J. 辛普森辩护团队的成员，其家族后来成为真人秀节目的焦点。
• Ryan Zinke, who earned a master's degree in 2003, served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 2017 to 2019 and later returned to Congress2003 年获得硕士学位的瑞安·津克在 2017 年至 2019 年担任美国内政部长，此后重返国会。