University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public research university in Sydney, New South Wales, and the oldest university in Australia.悉尼大学（The University of Sydney）是一所位于澳大利亚新南威尔士州悉尼的公立研究型大学，也是澳大利亚历史最悠久的大学。

Established by act of the New South Wales legislature in 1850 and teaching since 1852, it is a member of the Group of Eight and one of the country's six sandstone universities, ranking 28th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校由新南威尔士立法机构于 1850 年立法设立，自 1852 年起授课，是八校联盟成员与澳大利亚六所砂岩学府之一，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第 28。

In 2024 it enrolled 70,298 students, of whom 40,388 were undergraduates, 29,910 postgraduates and 3,510 doctoral candidates, taught by 3,980 academic staff, with an endowment of 4.92 billion Australian dollars.2024 年学校有学生 70298 人，其中本科生 40388 人、研究生 29910 人、博士生 3510 人，学术人员 3980 人，捐赠基金为 49.2 亿澳元。

History

• In 1848 William Wentworth proposed in the colonial legislature that Sydney College, founded in 1830, be expanded into a university open to students regardless of religion or social class.1848 年，威廉·温特沃斯在殖民地立法会议上提议，把 1830 年创办的悉尼学院扩展为一所不因宗教或出身设限、面向所有学生开放的大学。

• Wentworth argued that a self-governing society needed a non-sectarian public university to give every child a chance to become a great and useful person whatever their faith.温特沃斯认为，一个走向自治的社会必须有一所不分教派的公立大学，让每个孩子不论信仰如何都有机会成为伟大而有用的人。

• The governor of New South Wales signed the University of Sydney Act on 1 October 1850, and teaching began on 11 October 1852 in the great hall of the old Sydney College building in College Street.新南威尔士总督于 1850 年 10 月 1 日签署《悉尼大学法》，学校于 1852 年 10 月 11 日在学院街旧悉尼学院的大讲堂开始授课。

• Queen Victoria granted the university a royal charter on 27 February 1858, giving its degrees the same standing as those of British universities.1858 年 2 月 27 日，维多利亚女王授予学校皇家特许状，使其学位与英国本土大学的学位具有同等地位。

• In 1859 the university moved to its present site at Camperdown, then on the outskirts of the town.1859 年，学校迁至如今的坎伯当校址，当时那里还处在城镇边缘。

• The colonial electoral act of 1858 gave the university a seat in the legislature once it had one hundred graduates, and a member was elected in 1876 though the seat was abolished in 1880.1858 年的殖民地选举法规定，学校培养出一百名毕业生后即可在立法机构中获得一个席位；1876 年选出首位议员，该席位于 1880 年撤销。

• A large bequest from the merchant John Henry Challis, received in 1889, funded seven new professorships and prompted the colonial government to raise its annual grant.富商约翰·亨利·查勒斯遗赠的大笔款项于 1889 年到位，为七个新教授席位提供经费，并促使殖民地政府提高年度拨款。

• From 1880 the university built a science faculty, while the law faculty founded in 1855 and the medical school founded in 1856 began teaching, and the Fisher Library was created from a further bequest.自 1880 年起学校建立理学院，1855 年创办的法学院与 1856 年创办的医学院也开始授课，另有一笔遗赠用于建立菲舍图书馆。

• Sydney admitted women on equal terms with men from 1881, at the same time as the University of Melbourne, making it one of the earliest universities in the world to do so.学校自 1881 年起与男性同等招收女性，与墨尔本大学同年，是世界上最早实现男女同校的大学之一。

• In the first half of the twentieth century the university added faculties of dentistry, architecture, agriculture, veterinary science and economics beyond the traditional four of arts, science, law and medicine.二十世纪上半叶，学校在文、理、法、医四大传统院系之外，增设了牙医、建筑、农业、兽医与经济学等院系。

• After the Second World War the student body quadrupled between 1944 and 1989 as population growth, immigration and support for returning servicemen expanded demand.第二次世界大战后，人口增长、移民与退伍军人入学政策推高了需求，1944 至 1989 年间学生人数增长了三倍。

• The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, founded by the state government in 1916 in converted stables designed by Francis Greenway, was merged into the university in 1990.由新南威尔士州政府于 1916 年在弗朗西斯·格林威设计的旧马厩中创办的悉尼音乐学院，于 1990 年并入悉尼大学。

• The Sydney College of the Arts moved into the Kirkbride complex at Rozelle, buildings designed by the colonial architect James Barnet between 1878 and 1884.悉尼艺术学院迁入位于洛泽尔的科克布莱德建筑群，这批建筑由殖民地建筑师詹姆士·巴奈特于 1878 至 1884 年间设计。

• From 2000 the university carried out a large building programme, introducing new law, information technology and administration buildings and the Charles Perkins Centre for research on obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.自 2000 年起学校展开大规模建设，新建法学院、信息技术与行政大楼，并设立研究肥胖、糖尿病与心血管疾病的查理·珀金斯中心。

• The INSPIRED campaign, launched in 2008 with a target of 600 million Australian dollars over ten years, was the largest fundraising effort in Australian higher education at the time.2008 年启动的 INSPIRED 筹款活动计划在十年内募集 6 亿澳元，是当时澳大利亚高等教育史上规模最大的筹款活动。

• The university abolished its three collegiate structures in the late 2000s and reorganised its teaching into faculties and schools.学校在 2000 年代末撤销了原有的三个大学院建制，把教学重组为学系与学院。

• Sydney is governed by a Senate whose powers are set out in the University of Sydney Act and which is accountable to the New South Wales Parliament.学校由校董会治理，其权力由《悉尼大学法》规定，并向新南威尔士州议会负责。

• The university Visitor is ex officio the Governor of New South Wales, though since the act was amended in 1990 the office has had only ceremonial duties.学校的校督由新南威尔士总督当然兼任，但自 1990 年法案修订后，该职位仅保留礼仪性职责。

• In 1855 the government granted the university the Grose Farm site about three kilometres from the town, and teaching moved there in 1859 to what became the Camperdown campus.1855 年政府把距城镇约三公里的格柔斯农场拨给学校，教学于 1859 年迁往该处，即后来的坎伯当校区。

Academics

• Sydney combines four-year combined degrees with graduate-entry professional courses, so that medicine and law are normally taken as second degrees.学校采用四年制双学位与研究生入学式专业课程相结合的模式，医学与法律通常作为第二学位修读。

• Its teaching is organised into sixteen faculties and schools, covering agriculture and the environment, architecture, arts and social sciences, business, dentistry, education, engineering, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, science, the arts and music.其教学分为十六个学系与独立学院，涵盖农业与环境、建筑、人文与社会科学、商学、牙医、教育、工程、法律、医学、护理、药学、理学、艺术与音乐。

• The Sydney Law School, founded in 1855, is the oldest in Australia, and its graduates include a president of the United Nations General Assembly, a president of the International Court of Justice, four Australian prime ministers and twenty-three justices of the High Court.1855 年创办的悉尼法学院是澳大利亚最早的法学院，其校友中包括一位联合国大会主席、一位国际法院院长、四位澳大利亚总理与二十三位澳大利亚高等法院法官。

• The Sydney Medical School, founded in 1856, is likewise the oldest in Australia, and its clinical schools teach in teaching hospitals across New South Wales.1856 年创办的悉尼医学院同样是澳大利亚最早的医学院，其临床学院在新南威尔士州各地的教学医院开展教学。

• The faculty of engineering, established in 1920, was the first in Australia, and its civil engineering programme ranks in the world's top twenty.1920 年成立的工程学系是澳大利亚第一个工学院，其土木工程项目位列世界前二十。

• The faculties of dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary science were also the first of their kind in the country, and the veterinary school is now the oldest in Australia.其牙医、药学与兽医三个院系也都是澳大利亚同类院系中的第一所，兽医学院如今是澳洲历史最长的。

• The conservatorium of music is one of the oldest and best known in Australia and has trained performers including the violinist Cho-Liang Lin and the conductor Simone Young.悉尼音乐学院是澳大利亚历史最悠久、最负盛名的音乐学院之一，培养出小提琴家林昭亮与指挥家西蒙娜·扬等演奏家。

• The university's library system is among the largest in the southern hemisphere, and the Fisher Library is its main research collection.其图书馆系统是南半球规模最大的图书馆系统之一，菲舍图书馆是其主研究馆藏。

• It runs museums, galleries, theatres, a concert hall and extensive sports facilities, and the main campus contains six residential colleges.学校设有博物馆、美术馆、剧场、音乐厅与完善的体育设施，主校区内有六所住宿书院。

• The university's studios and field stations include the One Tree Island research station on the Great Barrier Reef, the Molonglo Observatory near Canberra and a studio in central Paris.其研究与野外设施包括大堡礁上的独树岛研究站、堪培拉附近的莫伦谷天文台以及在巴黎市中心的艺术工作室。

• Sydney is a member of the Group of Eight, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, Universitas 21 and the Worldwide Universities Network.学校是八校联盟、环太平洋大学联盟、Universitas 21 与世界大学联盟的成员。

• Its business school holds triple accreditation from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, and its master of management is the only Australian programme in the Global Alliance in Management Education.其商学院获 AACSB、AMBA 与 EQUIS 三重认证，其管理学硕士是全澳唯一加入全球管理教育联盟的项目。

• Research is conducted across the faculties and in dozens of nationally funded centres attached to them.学校的研究在各学系以及附属于它们的数十个国家级研究中心中开展。

• In 2020 it had 60,968 enrolled students, of whom 48,118 were full time, and women outnumbered men by 35,160 to 25,676.2020 年学校注册学生 60968 人，其中全日制 48118 人，女生 35160 人、男生 25676 人。

• The largest faculties by enrolment are arts and social sciences, medicine and health, business, science and engineering, which together account for nearly ninety per cent of students.按注册人数计，规模最大的院系依次为文科及社会科学、医学与健康、商学、理学与工程，合计占全校学生的近九成。

• The university's coat of arms, granted by the College of Arms in 1857, combines an English lion, a cross of stars from the Southern Cross and an open book.学校盾章于 1857 年由英国纹章院授予，图案融合了英格兰狮、取自南十字星座的星形十字与一本打开的书。

• Among its academic units are the Sydney Business School, the Sydney Law School, the Sydney Medical School and the Sydney College of the Arts, with the Charles Perkins Centre conducting research on chronic disease.其学术单位包括悉尼商学院、悉尼法学院、悉尼医学院与悉尼艺术学院，查理·珀金斯中心则从事慢性病研究。

• The university hosts the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and the Sydney Nano Institute, both of which draw on several faculties.学校设有玛丽·巴希尔传染病与生物安全研究所以及悉尼纳米研究所，两者都依托多个学系开展研究。

Campus

• The main campus lies across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington, about 72 hectares in all including the colleges.主校区横跨内城区的坎伯当与达令顿，连同各书院合计约 72 公顷。

• Its Quadrangle was designed by Edmund Blacket in Gothic Revival style and built of local sandstone, with a central tower and two halls.方庭院由爱德门·布莱克特以哥特复兴风格设计，采用本地砂岩建造，中央为塔楼，并设两座礼堂。

• The Great Hall and MacLaurin Hall have stained glass, sculpture and hammerbeam roofs, and the tower houses a carillon of 54 bells played on Sundays and before ceremonies.大礼堂与麦克罗兰堂饰有花玻璃与雕塑，屋顶为托臂梁结构；塔内装有一组 54 口钟的排钟，在周日与重要仪式前演奏。

• The university has about ten specialist campuses and facilities, including nursing at Mallett Street, health sciences at Cumberland, dentistry at Surry Hills, law at St James and art at Rozelle.学校另有约十处专门校区与设施，包括麦勒街的护理、坎伯兰的卫生科学、萨里山的牙医、圣詹姆士的法律与洛泽尔的艺术。

• The Camden campus in the city's rural outskirts provides farms and pastures for the veterinary and agriculture faculties.位于城市远郊的卡姆登校区为兽医与农业院系提供农场与牧场。

• The conservatorium occupies a castle-like building in the Royal Botanic Garden, built in 1815 as the governor's stables and converted in 1915 and 1916.音乐学院坐落于皇家植物园内一座城堡式建筑中，该建筑 1815 年建成时为总督府马厩，1915 至 1916 年改建为音乐学校。

• The university's mace, made in 1854, is of silver and hardwood and is carried before the chancellor at graduations.学校 1854 年制作的权杖以白银与硬木制成，在毕业典礼上由执杖官持于校监之前。

• The main campus is about ten minutes on foot from Redfern station and twenty from Central station, and is served by several major bus corridors.主校区距雷德芬车站步行约十分钟、距中央车站约二十分钟，并有多条主要巴士走廊经过。

• The campus's Gothic sandstone buildings have placed it among the campuses most often described as the most beautiful in the world.校园的哥特式砂岩建筑，使其常被列入全球最美校园之列。

• The surrounding inner-city districts of Newtown and Glebe, known for their cafés and music venues, adjoin the campus and are popular with students.毗邻校园的纽镇与格利布等内城街区以咖啡馆与音乐场所著称，深受学生欢迎。

• The six residential colleges on the main campus include St John's College, St Andrew's College and St Paul's College, several of them with nineteenth-century buildings and their own chapels.主校区的六所住宿书院包括圣约翰书院、圣安德鲁书院与圣保罗书院，其中数所拥有十九世纪的建筑与各自的礼拜堂。

Reputation

• Sydney ranks 28th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 51st in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 31st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.悉尼大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第 28，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 51，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 31。^[1]

• It has educated eight Australian prime ministers, two governors-general and five chief justices, more than any other Australian university.学校培养了八位澳大利亚总理、两位总督与五位首席大法官，数量超过其他任何澳大利亚大学。

• Its alumni also include the president of the United Nations General Assembly H. V. Evatt, the president of the International Court of Justice Percy Spender and the president of the World Bank James Wolfensohn.其校友中还包括联合国大会主席 H. V. 伊瓦特、国际法院院长珀西·斯潘德与世界银行行长詹姆斯·沃芬森。

• Five Nobel laureates and two Crafoord Prize winners studied at Sydney, among them John Cornforth, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975, and Robert Robinson, who won it in 1947.有五位诺贝尔奖得主与两位克拉福德奖得主曾在悉尼大学求学，其中包括 1975 年获诺贝尔化学奖的约翰·康福思与 1947 年获奖的罗伯特·鲁宾逊。

• Technologies invented or developed by its alumni include Wi-Fi, the ultrasound scanner, the black box flight recorder, the pacemaker, the cochlear implant and the UNIX operating system.其校友发明或发展的技术包括无线网络、超声波诊断仪、飞行记录器、心脏起搏器、人工耳蜗与 UNIX 操作系统。

• In the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia assessment, every field of research at Sydney was rated at or above world standard.在 2018 年澳大利亚研究卓越评估中，悉尼大学所有研究领域均被评为达到或高于世界水平。

• It has the largest number of high-net-worth alumni of any Australian university, and in 2013 247 of its alumni had personal fortunes above thirty million dollars.学校培养的高净值校友数量为澳大利亚各大学之最，2013 年有 247 位校友个人财富超过三千万美元。

• In the 2020 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings the university placed second in the world, and in the 2022 QS graduate employability ranking it placed fourth.在 2020 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中，学校位列全球第二；在 2022 年 QS 毕业生就业力排名中位列第四。

• Its medicine, law, engineering, dentistry and business programmes are among the strongest in Australia and rank highly in international subject tables.其医学、法律、工程、牙医与商学项目在澳大利亚实力最强之列，在国际学科榜单中也名列前茅。

• The university's medical faculty teaches through eight clinical schools based in hospitals across New South Wales, and its dental faculty runs the Sydney Dental Hospital in the city centre.其医学院通过设在新南威尔士州各地医院的八所临床学院开展教学，牙医学院则经营位于市中心的悉尼牙科医院。

Student life

• The university motto, Sidere mens eadem mutato, is usually translated as the stars change but the mind remains the same.学校校训为拉丁文「繁星纵变，智慧永恒」，其原意是南北半球星象虽异，所享有的知识与智慧却相同。

• Undergraduates belong to residential colleges as well as to the university, and several colleges maintain their own traditions, dining halls and sporting teams.本科生既是大学成员，也隶属于各住宿书院，多所书院保有各自的传统、餐厅与运动队。

• The students' union and the students' representative council are both based on the main campus and run an orientation week each March.学生会与学生代表委员会都设在主校区，每年三月举办迎新周。

• The university has a very large number of clubs and societies covering sport, culture, debating, music, drama and community service.学校有大量社团，涵盖体育、文化、辩论、音乐、戏剧与社区服务。

• Sport is organised through university clubs and the university competes in Australian intercollegiate competitions, with strong traditions in rowing and rugby.体育事务由校内俱乐部组织，学校参加澳大利亚的高校校际赛事，在赛艇与橄榄球方面传统深厚。

• The Sydney University Regiment, a unit of the Australian Army, has its headquarters on the main campus.澳大利亚陆军的悉尼大学团，其团部设在主校区内。

• The university stages theatre, music and public lecture programmes through its museums, galleries and performance venues.学校通过其博物馆、美术馆与演出场所举办戏剧、音乐与公开讲座活动。

• Because the campus borders the inner city, students mix their studies with the cultural and recreational life of Sydney.由于校园紧邻内城区，学生可以把学业与悉尼的文化与休闲生活结合起来。

• Physical education and recreational sport are available through university facilities, and the campus has playing fields, courts and a swimming pool.学生可通过校内设施参加体育与休闲运动，校园内设有球场、运动场与游泳池。

Notable people

• William Wentworth proposed the university and Edmund Blacket designed its Quadrangle, giving the institution both its purpose and its most familiar building.威廉·温特沃斯提议创建学校，爱德门·布莱克特设计了方庭院，二人分别赋予了这所学校其宗旨与最熟悉的建筑。

• Edmund Barton, the first prime minister of Australia, was a graduate and later held the university's parliamentary seat.澳大利亚首任总理埃德蒙·巴顿是该校毕业生，后来还担任过该校在议会的席位代表。

• Among the Australian prime ministers educated at Sydney are John Howard, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Anthony Albanese.在悉尼大学受教育的澳大利亚总理包括约翰·霍华德、托尼·阿博特、马尔科姆·特恩布尔与安东尼·阿尔巴尼斯。

• John Cornforth, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on enzyme stereochemistry, studied at Sydney on a scholarship.因酶立体化学研究于 1975 年分享诺贝尔化学奖的约翰·康福思，曾以奖学金在悉尼大学就读。

• H. V. Evatt, a judge and politician who presided over the United Nations General Assembly, was one of its most prominent graduates.曾任联合国大会主席的法官与政治家 H. V. 伊瓦特，是该校最著名的毕业生之一。

• The cardiac surgeon Victor Chang, killed in 1991, graduated from the university and pioneered heart transplantation in Australia.1991 年遇害的心脏外科医生张任谦毕业于该校，是澳大利亚心脏移植的先驱。

• The film director Jane Campion, who won the Academy Award for best director in 2022, studied at the university, as did the writer Clive James.2022 年获奥斯卡最佳导演奖的电影导演简·坎皮恩曾在此求学，作家克莱夫·詹姆斯也是其校友。

• Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic explorer, and the singer Joan Sutherland were both graduates of the university.南极探险家道格拉斯·莫森与女高音歌唱家琼·萨瑟兰都是该校毕业生。

• The physicist and philosopher Robert May, who won the Crafoord Prize in 1996, and the astronomer Edwin Salpeter, who won it in 1997, studied at Sydney.1996 年获克拉福德奖的物理学家与哲学家罗伯特·梅，以及 1997 年获奖的天文学家埃德温·萨皮特，都曾在悉尼大学就读。

• The university has produced senior judges, central bank governors, state premiers and ministers in Australia and elsewhere.学校培养了澳大利亚及其他地方的资深法官、央行行长、州长与部长。