University of Valencia

The University of Valencia, formally the Universitat de València and commonly shortened to UV, is a public research university in the city of Valencia, Spain, founded in 1499 and therefore one of the oldest universities in Spain and the oldest in the Valencian Community.瓦伦西亚大学（正式名为 Universitat de València，简称 UV）是西班牙瓦伦西亚市的一所公立研究型大学，创办于 1499 年，是西班牙历史最悠久的大学之一，也是瓦伦西亚自治区最早建立的大学。

Its teaching is distributed across three urban campuses, namely Blasco Ibáñez, Burjassot-Paterna and Tarongers, and it enrols more than 45,800 bachelor's students together with 8,600 postgraduate students taught by over 3,300 academic staff and supported by more than 1,700 administrative and service personnel.其教学分布在三个城区校区，即布拉斯科·伊巴涅斯、布尔哈索特-帕特纳与塔隆赫斯，现有本科学生逾 45,800 人、研究生 8,600 人，由 3,300 余名教研人员授课，并有 1,700 余名行政与后勤人员支持。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the Universitat de València is placed 449th, it falls in the 501-550 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and it is 270th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, while OpenAlex records 137,339 research works and 12,183,377 citations for the institution.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，瓦伦西亚大学位列第 449，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 501 至 550 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 270；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 137,339 项、累计被引 12,183,377 次。

History

• In 1245 King James I of Aragon obtained from Pope Innocent IV the establishment of a Studium Generale in Valencia, which provided the earliest foundation for higher studies in the city.1245 年，阿拉贡国王海梅一世从教宗诺森四世处获得在瓦伦西亚设立 Studium Generale（总学馆）的许可，成为该城高等教育的早期渊源。

• After that thirteenth-century grant, higher learning in Valencia was taught under a range of local arrangements until the city authorities moved to consolidate it at the close of the fifteenth century.在十三世纪的这次许可之后，瓦伦西亚的高等教育长期依托若干地方性安排开展，直到十五世纪末市政当局着手将其整合统一。

• On 30 October 1499 the jurats of Valencia drew up the Constitucions of the new Universitat de València, an act that is officially regarded as the founding of the institution.1499 年 10 月 30 日，瓦伦西亚的城市执政官制定新瓦伦西亚大学的章程，这一行为被官方视为该校的创校之举。

• The new university was formally authorised by the papal bull signed on 23 January 1501 by Pope Alexander VI, a pope of Valencian origin.新大学由 1501 年 1 月 23 日教宗亚历山大六世签署的教宗诏书正式批准，这位教宗出身于瓦伦西亚。

• Royal backing followed with the privilege granted on 16 February 1502 by Ferdinand II the Catholic, so that the founding unfolded in stages from the constitutions of 30 October 1499, through the papal bull of 23 January 1501, to that royal privilege of 1502.随后，天主教徒斐迪南二世于 1502 年 2 月 16 日授予王室特权；因此创校是分阶段完成的，从 1499 年 10 月 30 日的章程，到 1501 年 1 月 23 日的教宗诏书，再到 1502 年的王室特权。

• From its foundation, the courses taught at the university covered Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, philosophy, mathematics, physics, theology, canon law and medicine.自创校起，该校开设的课程涵盖拉丁语、希腊语、希伯来语、阿拉伯语、哲学、数学、物理学、神学、教会法与医学。

• The city's jurats had brought together the studies dependent on the city and on the church to create the university, whose constitutions of 1499 governed the institution in the centuries that followed.瓦伦西亚的城市执政官将依附于市政与教会的各类学馆合并，创建了这所大学，其 1499 年制定的章程在随后数百年间一直规范着该校。

• The papal bull of 1501 gave the new university the authority to grant degrees, a privilege later confirmed by the Crown and one that underpinned its teaching of medicine, theology, humanities and law.1501 年的教宗诏书赋予新大学授予学位的权力，这一特权后来得到王室确认，支撑起该校在医学、神学、人文与法律方面的教学。

• The creation of the university owed much to the zeal of Vincent Ferrer, later canonised as a saint, and to the donation of a building by Mosen Pedro Vilaragut.该校的创建在很大程度上得益于后来被封圣的文森特·费雷尔的热情推动，以及莫森·佩德罗·维拉拉古特捐出的一座建筑。

• In 1561 St Thomas of Villanova founded the first of the colleges for poor students around the university, followed by those established by Doña Angela Alonsar and Mosen Pedro Martín.1561 年，圣托马斯·德·维拉努埃瓦在大学周边创办了第一所为贫寒学生设立的学院，随后多娜·安赫拉·阿隆萨尔与莫森·佩德罗·马丁也相继创办此类学院。

• The best known of these, the Corpus Christi College, was founded by Blessed Juan de Ribera, while Philip II founded the San Jorge College and Melchor de Villena founded the last one in 1643.其中最著名的是由真福胡安·德·里贝拉创办的圣体学院，腓力二世创办了圣乔治学院，最后一所则由梅尔乔·德·比列纳于 1643 年创办。

• The close of the seventeenth century and the whole of the eighteenth proved the most prosperous period of the university, when Greek, Latin, mathematics and medicine were specially cultivated.十七世纪末至整个十八世纪是该校最为繁荣的时期，希腊语、拉丁语、数学与医学得到特别重视。

• In that era it was considered the leading Spanish university in mathematics, the humanities, philosophy and medicine, and it was the first university in Spain to create a course for the study of herbs.在那个时代，该校被认为是西班牙数学、人文学科、哲学与医学方面最出色的大学，也是西班牙第一所开设草本植物研究课程的大学。

• The eighteenth century also brought noted scholars, among them the professor Francisco Pérez Bayer, a man of wide culture who was influential during the reign of Charles III.十八世纪还涌现出多位知名学者，其中包括学识广博、在卡洛斯三世统治时期颇具影响力的教授弗朗西斯科·佩雷斯·拜尔。

• During the seventeenth century the university divided into two factions, the Thomists and the anti-Thomists, whose disputes aroused partisan feeling across the whole Kingdom of Valencia.十七世纪，该校分裂为托马斯派与反托马斯派两大阵营，双方的争论在整个瓦伦西亚王国激起强烈的党派情绪。

• A library of 27,000 volumes belonging to the university was destroyed by soldiers under General Suchet during the Napoleonic occupation of Valencia in 1812.1812 年拿破仑军队占领瓦伦西亚期间，该校一座藏有 27,000 册书籍的图书馆被絮歇将军麾下的士兵损毁。

• In 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, a fire badly damaged the university library.1938 年西班牙内战期间，一场大火使该校图书馆严重受损。

• After the general library was moved to a new building on the Tarongers campus, the older collection was converted into the Historical Library, which keeps publications up to the end of the nineteenth century.在总图书馆迁入塔隆赫斯校区的新大楼后，原有藏书被改建为历史图书馆，收藏直至十九世纪末的出版物。

• Among the Historical Library's most valued holdings is its collection of codices and manuscripts, largely from the Royal Library of Naples, which reached Valencia through the monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes.历史图书馆最珍贵的藏品之一是其抄本与手稿收藏，这些藏品大多来自那不勒斯王室图书馆，经由圣米格尔·德·洛斯·雷耶斯修道院运抵瓦伦西亚。

• Over the past two decades the university has undergone an accelerated process of transformation and growth, a change with no equivalent in earlier periods that has turned it into a modern global institution.过去二十年间，该校经历了前所未有的加速转型与扩张，使其成为一所现代化的全球性学府。

• In 1999 the university marked the 500th anniversary of its foundation, and in 2024 it marked the 525th anniversary of its founding, a year that its own management report also associated with the defence of human rights.1999 年，该校庆祝建校 500 周年；2024 年又迎来建校 525 周年，其年度管理报告也将这一年与捍卫人权联系在一起。

• In April 2026 Juan Luis Gandía took office as rector, succeeding M. Vicenta Mestre, who had led the university during the preceding term.2026 年 4 月，胡安·路易斯·甘迪亚就任校长，接替此前任期内领导该校的 M. 维森塔·梅斯特雷。

• The university has kept a continuous presence in Valencia for more than five centuries, its development running in parallel with the growth of the city.该校在瓦伦西亚已延续五百余年，其发展始终与这座城市的成长同步。

Academics

• The Universitat de València is organised into seventeen faculties together with the Higher Technical School, giving eighteen teaching centres distributed across its three main campuses.瓦伦西亚大学设有十七个学院与一所高等技术学院，共十八个教学中心，分布于三个主要校区。

• Its teaching and research cover all the main branches of knowledge, including experimental sciences, engineering, health sciences, humanities, social sciences, and economic, legal and education sciences.其教学与研究覆盖各主要知识领域，包括实验科学、工程、健康科学、人文、社会科学，以及经济、法律与教育科学。

• The Burjassot campus houses the faculties of Biology, Pharmacy, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as well as the School of Engineering.布尔哈索特校区设有生物学院、药学院、物理学院、化学学院、数学学院以及工程学院。

• On the Blasco Ibáñez campus are based the faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Psychology, Geography and History, Philology and Translation and Communication, Physical Education and Physiotherapy, and Nursing.布拉斯科·伊巴涅斯校区设有医学与牙科学院、哲学与教育科学学院、心理学学院、地理与历史学院、语言学与翻译及传播学院、体育与理疗学院以及护理学院。

• The Tarongers campus hosts the faculties of Law, Economics and Business and Social Sciences, along with the School of Elementary Teacher Training, which moved there from its earlier site.塔隆赫斯校区设有法学院、经济与商业学院和社会科学学院，以及从原址迁来的小学教师培训学院。

• Research is carried out not only within academic departments but also through the university's research institutes, conceived as multidisciplinary structures that respond to the demands of the economic and social context.研究工作不仅在学术系所内进行，也通过该校众多研究机构开展，这些机构被定位为回应经济与社会需求的多学科平台。

• The university also promotes research through its Science Park and through a network of specialised institutes, among them the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, the Corpuscular Physics Institute, the Materials Science Institute and the Molecular Science Institute.该校还通过其科学园以及一个专门研究所网络推动科研，其中包括卡瓦尼列斯生物多样性与进化生物学研究所、粒子物理研究所、材料科学研究所与分子科学研究所。

• Among these singular centres are the Palau de Cerveró, home to the López Piñero Institute for the History of Medicine and Science, and the historic Botanical Garden on the Carrer de Quart.这些特色中心包括塞尔韦罗宫（洛佩斯·皮涅罗医学与科学史研究所所在地）以及位于夸尔特街的历史悠久的植物园。

• The university offers bachelor's degrees, official master's degrees and doctoral programmes, and each faculty allocates academics from different departments to its courses.该校开设本科学位、官方硕士学位与博士项目，各学院为课程配备来自不同系所的教师。

• Student mobility is a long-standing feature of the institution, which is the second European university in the reception of Erasmus students.学生流动性是该校长期以来的特色，它是接收伊拉斯谟项目学生规模第二大的欧洲大学。

• Exchange agreements with foreign universities, together with programmes of international cooperation and development aid, allow students to study in institutions in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.与国外大学的交换协议，连同国际合作与发展援助项目，使学生得以前往欧洲、北美、拉美与亚洲的院校学习。

• The university has partnered with International Studies Abroad, a study-abroad provider based in Austin, Texas, to bring inbound students from the United States and Canada.该校与总部位于美国得克萨斯州奥斯汀的 International Studies Abroad 留学机构合作，接收来自美国与加拿大的留学生。

• Its academic community comprises more than 3,300 teaching and research staff and more than 1,700 people working in administration and services.其学术群体由 3,300 余名教研人员与 1,700 余名行政与服务人员组成。

• The university maintains an astronomical observatory equipped with advanced technology, continuing a centuries-old tradition of astronomical observation at the institution.该校拥有一座配备先进技术的天文观测站，延续其数百年来的天文观测传统。

• The doctoral and master's offer spans both research-oriented and professionally oriented tracks, and official master's programmes are taught across the faculties and the higher technical school.其博士与硕士培养兼顾学术研究型与职业应用型，官方硕士项目在各学院与高等技术学院开设。

• The university's management report for 2024 records its teaching and research activity across these faculties, research institutes and services, and the university describes itself as one of the five leading scientific centres in Spain.该校 2024 年度管理报告记录了各学院、研究机构与服务部门的教学科研活动，学校自称为西班牙领先的五大科学中心之一。

• Research areas developed within the institution range from experimental sciences and engineering to health sciences, the humanities and the social sciences, reflecting the breadth of its faculty structure.校内开展的研究领域从实验科学与工程延伸至健康科学、人文与社会科学，体现出其学院结构的广度。

Campus

• The university spreads across the city of Valencia and its metropolitan area on three campuses, namely the Blasco Ibáñez campus, the Tarongers campus and the Burjassot-Paterna campus.该校以三个校区分布于瓦伦西亚市及其都市区，即布拉斯科·伊巴涅斯校区、塔隆赫斯校区与布尔哈索特-帕特纳校区。

• The three campuses are physically connected through the city's metro and tram network, which links them with one another and with the surrounding metropolitan area.三个校区通过城市的地铁与电车网络相互连通，并与周边都市区相连。

• The Burjassot-Paterna campus lies in the metropolitan municipalities of Burjassot and Paterna, outside the city of Valencia proper.布尔哈索特-帕特纳校区位于都市区的布尔哈索特与帕特纳两市镇境内，不在瓦伦西亚市区之内。

• In the heart of the city stands La Nau, the historic seat of the university in a building dating from the fifteenth century, which houses the cloister, the Paraninfo and the Historical Library and now serves as a cultural centre.位于城市中心的拉瑙是该校的历史校址，其建筑可追溯至十五世纪，内设回廊、大礼堂与历史图书馆，如今作为文化中心使用。

• The Palau de Cerveró on the central Plaça de Cisneros is the seat of the López Piñero Institute for the History of Medicine and Science.坐落于市中心西斯内罗斯广场的塞尔韦罗宫是洛佩斯·皮涅罗医学与科学史研究所所在地。

• The Botanical Garden has occupied its site on the Carrer de Quart for more than two hundred years and forms part of the university's historic estate.植物园在夸尔特街的场址已逾两百年，是该校历史资产的一部分。

• The Colegio Mayor Rector Peset, on the edge of the Mercat and Carme quarters, was created from the rehabilitation of the Palacio de Martínez de Vallejo and adjoining houses, and serves as both student residence and cultural centre.位于中央市场区与卡门区交界的佩塞特校长大学学院，由马丁内斯·德·巴列霍宫及相邻宅邸修复改造而成，兼作学生宿舍与文化中心。

• Beyond the metropolitan area the university also teaches at the campus of the city of Ontinyent and runs a year-round programme at its seat in Gandia.在都市区之外，该校还在奥丁延特市校区授课，并在甘迪亚校址全年开展活动。

• The university's astronomical observatory extends its installations between the Burjassot-Paterna campus and the municipality of Aras de los Olmos, far from urban light pollution.该校天文观测站的设施分布于布尔哈索特-帕特纳校区与阿拉斯·德·洛斯·奥尔莫斯市镇之间，远离城市光污染。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the Universitat de València is placed 449th, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 501-550 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，瓦伦西亚大学位列第 449；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 501 至 550 区间。

• It is ranked 270th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and falls in the 301-400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中它位列第 270，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 301 至 400 区间。^[1]

• According to the university itself, it is the second European university in the reception of Erasmus students, the fourth Spanish university in research volume and the fourth Spanish university in the most prestigious international rankings.据该校自述，它是接收伊拉斯谟项目学生规模第二大的欧洲大学、科研体量西班牙第四的大学，在最负盛名的国际排名中位居西班牙第四。

• According to OpenAlex, the university has produced 137,339 research works attracting 12,183,377 citations, a measure of the research output of its faculties and institutes.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出研究成果 137,339 项、累计被引 12,183,377 次，反映其各学院与研究所的科研产出。

• The university presents itself as one of the five leading scientific centres in Spain and as a modern, global university that connects tradition with science and culture.该校自称为西班牙领先的五大科学中心之一，是一所将传统与科学、文化相结合的现代化全球性大学。

• Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906, an award decided by the Karolinska Institute, was a professor at the university.1906 年获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖（该奖由卡罗林斯卡学院评定）的圣地亚哥·拉蒙-卡哈尔曾任该校教授。

• Alumni include the toxicologist Mathieu Orfila, the founder of toxicology as a science, and the physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, known for his research on twisted graphene.其校友包括奠基毒理学的毒理学家马蒂厄·奥尔菲拉，以及因扭转石墨烯研究而知名的物理学家巴勃罗·哈里略-埃雷罗。

• In the era of the Enlightenment the university was regarded as Spain's leading centre for mathematics, the humanities, philosophy and medicine, a reputation built over the eighteenth century.在启蒙时代，该校被视为西班牙数学、人文学科、哲学与医学的领军学府，这一声誉在十八世纪逐步确立。

• The university's 2024 management report frames its activity around teaching, research, cultural creation and knowledge transfer to the public and private sectors.该校 2024 年度管理报告将其活动围绕教学、科研、文化创造以及向公共与私营部门的知识转化展开。

Student life

• The Universitat de València has not adopted a widely used formal motto, and its identity rests instead on the charter of 1499 and on its long association with the city of Valencia.瓦伦西亚大学并未采用广为使用的正式校训，其身份认同依托于 1499 年的建校章程以及它与瓦伦西亚市的悠久渊源。

• The Colegio Mayor Rector Peset, rebuilt from the Palacio de Martínez de Vallejo, is more than student accommodation, since it hosts music, exhibitions and intellectual discussion open to the wider city.由马丁内斯·德·巴列霍宫修复改建而成的佩塞特校长大学学院不仅是学生宿舍，还举办面向全市的音乐、展览与思想讨论活动。

• La Nau, the historic seat, is a cultural centre of reference that offers free exhibitions and cultural events throughout the year.历史校址拉瑙是当地重要的文化中心，全年提供免费展览与文化活动。

• The student mobility culture of the university is shaped by its role as the second European university in the reception of Erasmus students.该校的学生流动文化由其作为接收伊拉斯谟学生规模第二大的欧洲大学这一角色所塑造。

• The Botanical Garden and the Historical Library give students direct access to collections and spaces that have formed part of the institution for centuries.植物园与历史图书馆使学生能够直接接触数百年来一直属于该校的藏品与空间。

• The observatory at Aras de los Olmos continues the university's centuries-old tradition of astronomical observation and offers students practical experience away from city light pollution.阿拉斯·德·洛斯·奥尔莫斯的天文观测站延续该校数百年的天文观测传统，并为学生提供远离城市光污染的实践机会。

• Valencia, the third largest city in Spain, surrounds the urban campuses, and the metro and tram network connects academic life with the city centre and the coast.西班牙第三大城市瓦伦西亚环绕着这些城区校区，地铁与电车网络将校园生活与市中心及海滨相连。

• The 525th anniversary celebrated in 2024 was used by the university to reaffirm its commitment to equality and to building a more sustainable and advanced society.该校借 2024 年庆祝建校 525 周年之机，重申其致力于平等以及建设更可持续、更先进社会的承诺。

Notable people

• Vincent Ferrer, the Valencian Dominican later canonised as a saint, was among those whose zeal drove the creation of the university in the late fifteenth century.瓦伦西亚出身的道明会士文森特·费雷尔后来被封圣，他是推动该校在十五世纪末创立的热情人物之一。

• Pope Alexander VI, born in Valencia, signed the papal bull of 23 January 1501 that formally authorised the new university.出生于瓦伦西亚的教宗亚历山大六世签署了 1501 年 1 月 23 日的教宗诏书，正式批准了这所新大学。

• Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a professor at the university and winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is counted among its faculty.该校教授、1906 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主圣地亚哥·拉蒙-卡哈尔被列入其教师之列。

• Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540), the Renaissance humanist often described as a father of modern psychology, studied at the university.常被誉为现代心理学奠基者之一的文艺复兴人文主义者胡安·路易斯·比韦斯（1493 至 1540 年）曾在该校求学。

• Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853), the toxicologist who founded toxicology as a scientific discipline, was an alumnus of the university.奠定毒理学这一科学学科的毒理学家马蒂厄·奥尔菲拉（1787 至 1853 年）是该校校友。

• José Martínez Ruiz (1873-1967), the novelist and literary critic known as Azorín, was a graduate of the university.以笔名阿索林闻名的作家与文学评论家何塞·马丁内斯·鲁伊斯（1873 至 1967 年）毕业于该校。

• Isabel-Clara Simó (1943-2020), the journalist and novelist, was an alumna of the university.记者与小说家伊莎贝尔-克拉拉·西莫（1943 至 2020 年）是该校校友。

• Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the physicist who discovered the magic-angle behaviour of twisted graphene, graduated from the university.发现扭转石墨烯魔角行为的物理学家巴勃罗·哈里略-埃雷罗毕业于该校。

• Joan Lerma, who served as the first President of the Valencian Community from 1982 to 1995, was educated at the university.1982 年至 1995 年担任瓦伦西亚自治区首任主席的霍安·莱尔马曾在该校接受教育。

• The poet and philologist Dámaso Alonso (1898-1990) and the economist and politician Ernest Lluch (1937-2000) were both members of its faculty.诗人与语言学家达马索·阿隆索（1898 至 1990 年）以及经济学家与政治家埃内斯特·柳奇（1937 至 2000 年）都曾在该校任教。

• Enrique Monsonís, who served as President of the Valencian Community during the transition to autonomy, was also an alumnus of the institution.在瓦伦西亚向自治过渡期间担任自治区主席的恩里克·蒙索尼也是该校校友。