University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews is a public research university in the town of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, after Oxford and Cambridge, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world.圣安德鲁斯大学是位于苏格兰法夫郡圣安德鲁斯镇的公立研究型大学，是苏格兰四所古老大学中最早一所，在英语世界中仅次于牛津与剑桥，位列第三古老。

It was founded in 1413 when the antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small group of Augustinian clergy, carries the Latin name Universitas Sancti Andreae apud Scotos and the Greek motto rendered in English as Ever to Excel, and ranked 115th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 64.9.学校始建于 1413 年，当时对立教宗本笃十三世向一群奥古斯丁会教士颁发教令，拉丁语校名（Universitas Sancti Andreae apud Scotos），希腊语校训英译为「Ever to Excel」，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中以 64.9 分位列第 115。

History

• In 1410 a group of Augustinian clergy, driven from Paris by the Avignon schism and from Oxford and Cambridge by the Anglo-Scottish wars, formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews teaching divinity, logic, philosophy and law.1410 年，一群奥古斯丁会教士因阿维尼翁教派分裂被逐出巴黎、又因英苏战争离开牛津与剑桥，在圣安德鲁斯组建了讲授神学、逻辑、哲学与法学的高等学社。

• Bishop Henry Wardlaw bestowed a charter of privilege on the society of masters and scholars on 28 February in 1411 and 1412, and then petitioned Benedict XIII, who granted university status by papal bulls issued on 28 August 1413.圣安德鲁斯主教亨利·沃德洛于 1411 至 1412 年 2 月 28 日向教师与学者团体颁布特许状，随后向本笃十三世申请，后者于 1413 年 8 月 28 日以教令授予其大学地位。

• King James I of Scotland confirmed the university charter in 1432, and King James V confirmed its privileges in 1532, so the crown ratified papal foundation within two generations.苏格兰国王詹姆士一世于 1432 年确认大学特许状，詹姆士五世于 1532 年确认其特权， 王室在两代人之内完成了对教廷创校的承认。

• St John's College was founded in 1418 by Robert of Montrose and Lawrence of Lindores, St Salvator's College was established in 1450 by Bishop James Kennedy, and St Leonard's College was founded in 1511 by Archbishop Alexander Stewart.圣约翰学院由罗伯特·德·蒙特罗斯与劳伦斯·德·林多雷斯于 1418 年创建，圣萨尔瓦托学院由主教詹姆斯·肯尼迪于 1450 年设立，圣伦纳德学院则由大主教亚历山大·斯图尔特于 1511 年创建。

• Cardinal James Beaton refounded St John's College in 1538 as St Mary's College for the study of divinity and law, intending it to defend Catholic teaching against the Reformation, but after Scotland broke with Rome in 1560 it became a college for Protestant clergy.詹姆士·比顿枢机于 1538 年将圣约翰学院改组为圣玛丽学院，教授神学与法学，本意是抵御宗教改革、守护天主教教义，但 1560 年苏格兰与教廷决裂后，它转为培养新教牧师的学院。

• A new foundation confirmed by Parliament in 1579 set St Mary's College apart for theology alone, and it has remained a divinity college ever since, one of the three colleges that still structure the university.1579 年议会确认的新章程把圣玛丽学院专门用于神学教育，该校自此一直是神学院，并成为至今仍构架学校的三个学院之一。

• Buildings from the sixteenth century are still in daily use, including the chapel of St Salvator's, the chapel of St Leonard's College and the quadrangle of St Mary's College, so the university's physical campus is genuinely medieval.仍有若干十六世纪建筑在日常使用之列，包括圣萨尔瓦托礼拜堂、圣伦纳德学院礼拜堂与圣玛丽学院方庭，这所大学的实体校园确属中世纪遗存。

• In a particularly severe financial crisis in 1747 St Leonard's College was dissolved and its properties and staff merged into St Salvator's College to form the United College of St Salvator and St Leonard.1747 年的一场严重财政危机导致圣伦纳德学院被解散，其财产与人员并入圣萨尔瓦托学院，组成圣萨尔瓦托与圣伦纳德联合学院。

• When Samuel Johnson visited in 1773 the university had fewer than a hundred students and he described it as pining in decay and struggling for life, the low point of the eighteenth-century fortunes that also stripped Scottish institutions of patronage.1773 年塞缪尔·约翰逊到访时，学校学生不足百人，他形容其「在衰败中苟延、在困顿中挣扎」，这正是十八世纪苏格兰各机构失去庇护的低谷期。

• In 1876 the university senate decided to let women study at St Andrews at a level roughly equal to the Master of Arts degree then taken by men, through an external examination called the LLA, the Lady Literate in Arts.1876 年大学评议会决定允许女性在圣安德鲁斯接受与当时男性硕士大致相当的教育，途径是一项名为 LLA（女性文学学士）的校外考试。

• The Universities Scotland Act of 1889 made it possible to admit women formally, and on 29 March 1895 Agnes Forbes Blackadder became the first woman to graduate from St Andrews on the same terms as men.1889 年《苏格兰大学法》使学校得以正式招收女生，1895 年 3 月 29 日，阿格尼斯·福布斯·布莱克德成为圣安德鲁斯首位与男性同标准毕业的女性。

• Alice Marion Umpherston became the first female lecturer at the university in 1896, teaching physiology to women students, and Dame Louisa Lumsden, principal of St Leonards School, founded University Hall that year as the first women's residence.1896 年，艾丽丝·玛丽昂·安费斯顿成为该校首位女性讲师，为女学生讲授生理学；同年，圣莱昂纳德学校校长路易莎·拉姆斯登女士创立了女性宿舍「大学堂」。

• The university established a university college in Dundee by 1883 to add practical science and professional subjects, and that college formally merged with St Andrews in 1897, after which the university's financial and academic difficulties largely receded.为增加实用科学与职业科目，学校于 1883 年前后在邓迪设立大学学院，该学院于 1897 年正式并入圣安德鲁斯，此后学校的财政与学术困境大体缓解。

• In 1967 the union with Queen's College Dundee ended and the college became the independent University of Dundee, so St Andrews lost medicine, dentistry, law, accountancy and engineering and later restored medicine through an arrangement with the University of Manchester.1967 年与登地女王学院的联合终止，该学院成为独立的邓迪大学，圣安德鲁斯因而失去医学、牙医、法学、会计与工程等学位授予权，其后经与曼彻斯特大学的合作重新获得医学培养通道。

• The College of St Leonard was reconstituted as a postgraduate institute in 1974 and now looks after all postgraduate students, leaving three colleges in a university whose academic work is organised into four faculties and eighteen schools.圣伦纳德学院于 1974 年改组为研究生院，如今负责全体研究生事务，这所按四个学院、十八个学系组织教学的学校由此保留了三个学院建制。

• Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie was elected Rector in 1901, the American philanthropist Edward Harkness paid for the building of St Salvator's Hall in 1930, and in 1958 Bobby Jones was made a Freeman of the City of St Andrews, the second American so honoured after Benjamin Franklin in 1759.苏格兰实业家安德鲁·卡内基于 1901 年当选校监，美国慈善家爱德华·哈克尼斯于 1930 年资助建成圣萨尔瓦托楼，1958 年博比·琼斯成为圣安德鲁斯荣誉市民，是继 1759 年本杰明·富兰克林之后的第二位美国人。

• In 2009 Louise Richardson was recruited from Harvard to become the first female Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the university, and she later moved on to become vice-chancellor of Oxford.2009 年，路易丝·理查德森自哈佛受聘出任圣安德鲁斯首位女性校长兼教务长，其后转任牛津大学教务长。

• Active recruitment of students from North America began in 1984, and since at least 2014 St Andrews has had the largest share of United States students of any university in Britain, with Americans roughly a fifth of the body in 2024.学校自 1984 年开始积极招收北美学生，自 2014 年起至少在英国各大学中一直拥有最高的美国学生比例，2024 年美国学生约占学生总数的五分之一。

• In 2022 the university announced its intention to create New College, a fourth college for international relations and the new business school, to be built on the former site of Madras College in the town centre at an expected cost of one hundred million pounds.2022 年学校宣布筹建新学院（New College），作为负责国际关系与新设商学院的第四个学院，选址定于市中心原马德拉斯学院地块，预计耗资一亿英镑。

Academics

• Academic work is organised into four faculties, arts, divinity, medicine and science, which together contain eighteen schools, and students apply to a faculty rather than to the school in which their teaching sits.学术工作按四个学院组织，即文理学院、神学院、医学院与理学院，下设十八个学系，本科生按学院而非按学系报考。

• The Faculty of Arts covers art history, classics, economics, English, film studies, history, international relations, management, modern languages, philosophy and social anthropology, which is eleven subjects in one faculty.文理学院涵盖艺术史、古典学、经济学、英语、电影研究、历史、国际关系、管理学、现代语言、哲学与社会人类学，十一个学科集中于同一学院。

• The Faculty of Science covers biology, chemistry, computer science, geography and sustainable development, earth and environmental sciences, mathematics, physics and astronomy, and psychology and neuroscience, while divinity and medicine form the two remaining single-subject faculties.理学院涵盖生物学、化学、计算机科学、地理与可持续发展、地球与环境科学、数学、物理与天文学以及心理学与神经科学，神学与医学则各为独立建制的单科学院。

• Six subjects, economics, geography, management, mathematics, psychology and sustainable development, are taught through both the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science, and the content is identical whichever faculty a student belongs to.经济、地理、管理、数学、心理学与可持续发展六个学科同时由文理学院与理学院开设，学生无论归属哪个学院，课程内容完全相同。

• The academic year is divided into two terms, Martinmas running from early September to mid-December and Candlemas from January to examinations in April and May, and most undergraduate graduations are celebrated in mid-June.学年分为两个学期，马丁斯学期自九月初至十二月中旬，烛节学期自一月开始至四五月考试，本科毕业典礼多在六月中旬举行。

• The student body is exceptionally international, with over 145 nationalities represented, about forty-five percent of intake from outside the United Kingdom, a tenth from Europe and twenty percent from North America alone.学生群体国际化程度极高，国籍超过 145 种，约百分之四十五的生源来自英国以外，其中欧洲占十分之一，仅北美就占百分之二十。

• In 2024 United States students were roughly a fifth of the student body and numbered more than one thousand, and the university maintains alumni groups across all fifty states with over eight thousand alumni in the United States alone.2024 年美国学生约占学生总数的五分之一、人数逾千，学校在美国五十个州均设校友会，仅在美国的校友即超过八千人。

• On the 2025 UCAS cycle the university recorded 19,050 applications against 2,050 offers, a ratio of 9.3 applicants per place, and it has been among only three British universities never to leave the top ten of the three main domestic league tables since 2008.2025 年 UCAS 周期内，学校收到 19,050 份申请、发出 2,050 个录取，师生比达每位录取名额对应 9.3 份申请；自 2008 年以来，该校是仅有的三所从未跌出三大本土榜单前十的英国大学之一。

• According to entry standards data for 2022 and 2023 the average entrant achieved 215 tariff points, the highest of any university in the United Kingdom, and the 2022 offer rate of 24.7 percent was the third lowest among all higher education institutions.依据 2022 至 2023 学年的入学标准数据，平均入学者的课程加权分为 215 分，为全英国最高，而 2022 年百分之二十四点七的录取发放率在所有高等教育机构中位列倒数第三。

• Economics and management are the best-known subjects, with economics, finance and management among the most competitive courses for home applicants, and the faculty built a new business school out of the departments of economics, finance and management.经济与管理是最知名的学科，经济学、金融与管理是本国申请人中竞争最激烈的专业之一，学校还以经济、金融与管理三个系为基础组建了新的商学院。

• Physics and astronomy, chemistry, computer science and psychology and neuroscience form a research-active core in the Faculty of Science, and the subjects they carry are concentrated in the modern laboratory buildings on the North Haugh beside the Gatty Marine Laboratory.物理与天文学、化学、计算机科学以及心理学与神经科学构成理学院的研究主干，这些学科集中在诺霍的现代实验楼群内，与盖蒂海洋实验室相邻。

• The Gatty Marine Laboratory on the North Haugh is the best-known research platform, where Richard Morris developed the Morris water navigation task that is now a standard instrument in laboratory animal behaviour.位于诺霍的盖蒂海洋实验室是最知名的科研平台，行为学家理查德·莫里斯在此提出莫里斯水迷宫导航任务，如今已成为实验室动物行为学的标准工具。

• The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, inside the School of International Relations, operates the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence and publishes an open access international relations journal.国际关系学系内的恐怖主义与政治暴力研究中心设有半田中心（Handa Centre），并出版一份开放获取的国际关系学期刊。

• In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework the university ranked sixteenth in the United Kingdom and second in Scotland among multi-faculty institutions for research quality, and it receives a substantial share of its funding from research grants and contracts, which brought 40.3 million pounds in the year to 31 July 2024.在 2021 年研究卓越框架评审中，学校在多科性大学中位列全英第 16、苏格兰第 2，其研究质量得到确认；学校相当一部分经费来自科研项目与合同，仅截至 2024 年 7 月 31 日的年度即有 4,030 万英镑。

• Financially the university reported total income of 310.8 million pounds in the financial year ending 31 July 2024 and endowments of 139.9 million pounds in 2025, with tuition fees and education contracts providing 158.7 million pounds of the income.财务上，学校在截至 2024 年 7 月 31 日的财年报告总收入 3.108 亿英镑，2025 年捐赠基金规模为 1.399 亿英镑，其中学费与教育合同收入 1.587 亿英镑。

• OpenAlex records 78,678 works and 4,895,024 citations for the institution, a citation load that a university of this size achieves through long-running laboratory work in physics, chemistry and marine biology.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 78,678 篇、被引 4,895,024 次，正是这样一所规模的大学凭借物理、化学与海洋生物领域的长期实验室工作取得这一被引量。

Campus

• The university occupies a network of historic and modern buildings scattered through a small town in rural Fife, concentrated on North Street, South Street, The Scores and the North Haugh, so almost every teaching site is within a short walk of the halls.学校的历史与现代建筑散布在法夫郡的一个小镇内，主要集中于北街、南街、Scores 街区与诺霍，学生宿舍到各教学场所几乎都可短途步行抵达。

• United College, on North Street and also known as the Quad, is both a teaching space and a student event venue built around St Salvator's quadrangle, and it takes the arts, science and medicine students.位于北街、又被称为「方庭」的联合学院既是教学空间也是学生活动场所，围绕圣萨尔瓦托方庭而建，承担文理、科学与医学学生的培养。

• St Mary's College on South Street houses the School of Divinity, the School of Psychology and Neuroscience and the historic King James Library, so the theology faculty has a site of its own.南街的圣玛丽学院容纳神学院、心理学与神经科学学系以及古老的詹姆斯国王图书馆，神学院因此拥有独立的院区。

• On The Scores stand the departments of classics, English, history, philosophy, economics and finance and international relations, together with the museum of the university and the principal's residence.Scores 街区内设有古典学、英语、历史、哲学、经济与金融、国际关系等院系，以及学校博物馆与校长官邸。

• The North Haugh is the science side of the town, with chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, computer science, medicine and the department of management clustered around the modern laboratory buildings.诺霍是镇内的理科区，化学、物理、生物、数学、计算机科学、医学与管理系聚集在现代实验楼群周围。

• The chapel of St Salvator's was founded in 1450 by Bishop James Kennedy and carries a full peal of six bells, which makes it the only university chapel in Scotland suitable for change ringing.圣萨尔瓦托礼拜堂由主教詹姆斯·肯尼迪于 1450 年创建，现存六口成组的钟，是苏格兰唯一适合变换钟法的大学礼拜堂。

• The chapel of St Leonard's, in the grounds of the neighbouring school, is the university's oldest building with some parts dating from 1144, and it is the older of the two collegiate chapels.圣伦纳德礼拜堂位于邻近学校的校区内，是该校最古老的建筑，部分构件可追溯至 1144 年，也是两座学院礼拜堂中更早的一座。

• The university library on North Street holds more than one million volumes and over two hundred thousand rare and antique books, and its historic King James Library was built in 1643 with a foundation of three hundred and fifty royal works donated in 1612.北街的大学图书馆藏书超过一百万册，珍稀与古籍超过二十万册，其历史性的詹姆斯国王图书馆建于 1643 年，其馆藏基础是 1612 年捐赠的三百五十部王室藏书。

• Student halls are unusually dominant in a Scottish university, with 52 percent of students in university accommodation in 2012 and a guaranteed place for every first-year student, ranging in age from Deans Court of the twelfth century to Whitehorn Hall of 2018.在苏格兰大学中，该校住宿比例异常之高，2012 年百分之五十二的学生住校，且保证每位一年级新生都有床位，宿舍从十二世纪的院长庭院到 2018 年的怀特本楼，年代跨度极大。

Reputation

• The 2027 QS World University Rankings place the university 115th in the world with a score of 64.9, which for an institution with this small a town around it is an exceptional position.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将圣安德鲁斯列为全球第 115 位，综合得分 64.9，对一座人口约四万的大学城小镇而言是极为突出的位置。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it 185th, and in the 2026 Times Higher Education table the arts and humanities faculty ranked thirty-fifth in the world and forty-sixth on the QS equivalent.《泰晤士高等教育》2027 年世界大学排名将其列为第 185 位，而在 2026 年版中该校的文理学院位列全球第 35，QS 同类榜单为第 46。

• The Best Global Universities ranking of US News for 2026 and 2027 places the university 49th, by far the strongest position any Scottish institution holds on an American table.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 至 2027 年最佳全球大学排名将圣安德鲁斯列于第 49 位，是苏格兰院校在这份美国榜单上遥遥领先的名次。

• In the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide of 2022 St Andrews became the first university ever to top Cambridge and Oxford on a British ranking, it did the same in the 2023 Guardian University Guide, and it was ranked first in the United Kingdom again in the 2027 edition.2022 年《泰晤士星期日大学指南》中，圣安德鲁斯成为首所在英国排名中超越剑桥与牛津登顶的大学，2023 年《卫报》大学指南再度登顶，2027 年版中又重回英国第一。

• The 2021 Research Excellence Framework ranked it sixteenth in the United Kingdom and second in Scotland among multi-faculty institutions, and in the 2019 Times Higher Education teaching rankings it was fifth in Europe.2021 年研究卓越框架将其列为全英第 16、苏格兰多科性大学第 2，而在《泰晤士高等教育》2019 年教学排名中位列欧洲第 5。

• In 2017 it had the joint second highest graduate employment rate of any British university, with 97.7 percent of graduates in work or further study three and a half years after leaving, and an institute study found it produced more directors of FTSE 100 companies in proportion to its size than any other British institution.2017 年，该校毕业生在离校三年半后处于工作或继续深造状态的比例为百分之九十七点七，与华威大学并列全英第二；就业研究所的研究还发现，按规模比例计算，该校培养的富时百大公司董事多于英国任何其他机构。

• The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide of 2026 put eight of its subjects first in the United Kingdom, including English, history, physics and astronomy and international relations, and the Complete University Guide of 2026 placed twenty-five of its twenty-six subjects in the national top five.2026 年《泰晤士星期日大学指南》将该校英语、历史、物理与天文学、国际关系等八个学科列为全英第一，2026 年《完全大学指南》则把二十六个学科中的二十五个列入全国前五。

• OpenAlex records 78,678 works and 4,895,024 citations, which for a small university means roughly sixty-two citations per paper, a ratio that reflects long publication lists in the sciences and social sciences.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 78,678 篇、被引 4,895,024 次，对这样一所小型大学而言相当于每篇约获引 62 次，这一比率反映出自然科学与社会科学领域长期而密集的发表记录。

• Five Nobel laureates are counted among the university's alumni and former staff, and the most prominent of them are the physiologist James W. Black, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988, and Maurice Wilkins, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962.该校校友与往届教职人员中共有五位诺贝尔奖得主，其中最著名的是生理学家詹姆斯·布莱克，他于 1988 年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖；以及分享 1962 年诺贝尔物理学奖的莫里斯·威尔金斯。

Student life

• The motto is a Greek phrase rendered in English as Ever to Excel, which asks every member of the university to keep improving rather than to defend a position already won.校训是一句希腊语，英译为「Ever to Excel」，要求每位成员持续精进，而非守住已经取得的地位。

• Matriculation requires the Sponsio Academica, a promise made in Latin to obey the Senatus Academicus, now agreed online, and the Latin wording explicitly reserves the right of the senate to expel a student who behaves badly or works insufficiently.注册入学须宣誓「学术誓约」，以拉丁文承诺服从学术评议会，如今改为线上完成，其拉丁文措辞明确保留评议会对品行不端或学业不勤者予以开除的权力。

• Raisin Weekend takes place over the last weekend of October, when first-year students called Bejants give raisins or their modern equivalent to their academic parents and receive a Raisin Receipt written in Latin, which they must carry until midday on Raisin Monday.葡萄干周末在十月的最后一个周末举行，一年级学生把葡萄干或其现代替代品送给「学术父母」，并收到一张用拉丁文写成的「葡萄干收据」，须随身携带至葡萄干周一的正午。

• The May Dip is held at dawn on May Day, when students run into the North Sea to the sound of madrigals sung by the university madrigal group, to cleanse themselves of academic sins before the May examinations, and since 2011 it has been staged at East Sands for safety.五月晨泳在劳动节黎明举行，学生伴随学校合唱团的牧歌冲向北海，以洗去学业过失再迎接五月考试，2011 年起因安全考虑改在东沙滩举行。

• The Kate Kennedy Club, founded in 1926 and made up of around thirty matriculated students, organises the Kate Kennedy Procession in which students dress as eminent figures from the university's history, and it began admitting women in 2012.凯特·肯尼迪俱乐部成立于 1926 年，由约三十名注册学生组成，负责组织凯特·肯尼迪游行，学生在游行中装扮成校史上的杰出人物，该俱乐部于 2012 年开始接纳女性。

• The University of St Andrews Celtic Society has run continuously since 1796, and the Union Debating Society traces its roots to a literary society founded in 1794, which claims to be the oldest continuously running student debating society in the world.圣安德鲁斯凯尔特学生社团自 1796 年起持续运作，学生会辩论社的渊源可追溯到 1794 年创立的文学社，该社自称是世界上持续运作最古老的学生辩论社团。

• Student media include The Saint, a fortnightly newspaper, The Stand, an online title founded in 2011, the St Andrews Law Review launched in 2020, and STAR, the university radio station broadcasting around the clock in term time.学生媒体包括双周刊《The Saint》、2011 年创办的网络刊物 The Stand、2020 年创刊的《圣安德鲁斯法学评论》，以及在学期内全天候播音的校广播台 STAR。

• The athletic union, established in 1901, runs around sixty sports clubs, and the Scottish Varsity, played against Edinburgh University and known as the world's oldest varsity match, is the fixture the whole university plans its season around.成立于 1901 年的体育总会统筹约六十个体育俱乐部，而与爱丁堡大学对决、被称作「世界上最古老大学对抗赛」的苏格兰对抗赛，是全校整个赛季的中心赛事。

• Three colleges look after the students, United College for arts, science and medicine, St Mary's College for divinity and St Leonard's College for all postgraduates, and the colleges are now largely ceremonial because students live in separate halls rather than in college buildings.三个学院分别管理学生，联合学院负责文理、科学与医学，圣玛丽学院负责神学，圣伦纳德学院负责全体研究生；由于学生住在独立宿舍而非学院楼内，学院建制如今主要具有礼仪意义。

Notable people

• Bishop Henry Wardlaw gave the society its charter of privilege in 1411 and 1412 and then obtained the papal bulls of 1413 that made St Andrews a university, so he is the founding figure of the institution.亨利·沃德洛主教于 1411 至 1412 年授予该学社特许状，并进而取得 1413 年授予大学地位的教令，是这所机构的奠基人物。

• Bishop James Kennedy founded St Salvator's College and its chapel in 1450, and in 1531 he preached a sermon in which the university was compared to a cuckoo that builds its nest in other men's trees, an image that still shapes how the institution describes itself.詹姆斯·肯尼迪主教于 1450 年创建圣萨尔瓦托学院及其礼拜堂，1531 年他讲道时把大学比作借他人树木筑巢的布谷鸟，这一意象至今仍影响学校对自身的描述。

• James W. Black, who took his medical degree at St Andrews in 1946, invented beta-blockers and H2 receptor antagonists and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988, is the most famous Nobel alumnus.詹姆斯·布莱克于 1946 年在圣安德鲁斯取得医学学位，他发明了 β 受体阻滞剂与 H2 受体拮抗剂，1988 年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，是该校最著名的诺贝尔奖校友。

• Maurice Wilkins lectured in physics at St Andrews from 1945 to 1946 before moving into genetics, and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for the X-ray diffraction work that identified the structure of DNA.莫里斯·威尔金斯于 1945 至 1946 年在圣安德鲁斯讲授物理学，随后转入遗传学领域，并因用 X 射线衍射鉴定 DNA 结构而分享 1962 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• John Burnside, a poet who taught in the School of English at St Andrews, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 and is one of several literary figures on the university's staff.约翰·伯恩赛德是圣安德鲁斯英语学界的诗人，2011 年获 T. S. 艾略特奖，是该校教职作家中的代表之一。

• Alex Salmond, an alumnus, served as First Minister of Scotland and led the Scottish National Party through the 2014 independence referendum, and the university's politics graduates supply a disproportionate number of Scottish public figures.校友亚历克斯·萨蒙德曾任苏格兰首席大臣，并在 2014 年独立公投中领导苏格兰民族党，该校的政治学毕业生在苏格兰政界中占比颇高。

• Dame Anne Pringle is Chancellor of the university and was the British ambassador to China from 2008 to 2011, a China connection that goes back to the Carnegie Rectorship of 1901 and the St Andrews links with North American universities.安妮·普林格尔女士现任学校校监，并于 2008 至 2011 年任英国驻华大使，这层中国联系可追溯至 1901 年的卡内基校监任期以及学校与北美高校的往来。

• Dame Barbara Woodward is the United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and served as British ambassador to China from 2015 to 2020, one of several St Andrews graduates to hold senior diplomatic posts in Beijing.芭芭拉·伍德沃德女士是英国常驻联合国代表，并于 2015 至 2020 年任英国驻华大使，是数位在北京担任高级外交职务的圣安德鲁斯毕业生之一。

• Andrew Carnegie, elected Rector in 1901, gave his name to the Carnegie Scholarship and endowed the university's scientific reputation in the United States, and more than eight thousand American alumni now live across all fifty states.安德鲁·卡内基于 1901 年当选校监，以其名设立卡内基奖学金，并在美国为学校赢得了科研声誉，如今美国校友逾八千人，散居五十个州。

• Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of BHP, is an alumnus, and Nigel Eccles co-founded the online betting firm FanDuel with fellow graduate Lesley Eccles, showing how the university recycles a small student body into a global business network.必和必拓首席执行官安德鲁·麦肯齐是该校校友，奈杰尔·埃克莱斯则与同为校友的莱斯莉·埃克莱斯共同创办线上博彩公司 FanDuel，显示这所小型大学如何把有限的学生群体输送到全球商业网络。

• John Napier, who matriculated in 1563, published the logarithms, Henry Duncan, who graduated in 1823, founded the world's first commercial savings bank, and James Wilson, admitted in 1761, signed the American Declaration of Independence.1563 年入学的约翰·纳皮尔发表了对数，1823 年毕业的亨利·邓肯创办了世界上第一家商业银行，1761 年入学的詹姆斯·威尔逊则是美国《独立宣言》签署人。