University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, UWM) is a public university in Olsztyn, north-eastern Poland, created on 1 September 1999 by merging the Academy of Agriculture and Technology, the Higher Pedagogical School and the Warmia Institute of Theology.奥尔什丁瓦尔米亚-马祖里大学（Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie，UWM）是波兰东北部奥尔什丁市的公立大学，1999 年 9 月 1 日由农业与技术学院、高等师范学校和瓦尔米亚神学院合并组建。

It is the largest university in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, with 17 faculties, about 17,000 students, a 230-hectare lakeside campus at Kortowo and strengths in agriculture, veterinary medicine, food science, environmental science and medicine.该校是瓦尔米亚-马祖里省规模最大的大学，设有 17 个学院，约有 17000 名学生，在科尔托沃拥有 230 公顷的湖畔校园，优势领域为农业、兽医、食品科学、环境科学与医学。

QS placed it in the 1201-1400 band for 2027, Times Higher Education ranked it 1601-1800, U.S. News put it 1,798th in its 2026-27 global list, while the 2026 ARWU main table does not include it.QS 将其列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，泰晤士高等教育排名为 1601-1800，U.S. News 2026-2027 年度全球榜单列第 1798 位，2026 年软科主榜未收录该校。

History

• Olsztyn returned to Poland in 1945 after the Potsdam Conference, and the Polish authorities who took over the city found a German university tradition limited to a seminary and technical schools rather than a full university.1945 年波茨坦会议后奥尔什丁回归波兰，接管城市的波兰当局发现当地的德国高等教育传统仅限于一所神学院和若干技术学校，并无完整大学。

• Higher education in Warmia and Mazury began with agriculture, when a state higher school of agriculture was founded in Olsztyn in 1950 and installed in the Kortowo district, a wooded estate on Lake Kortowskie.瓦尔米亚-马祖里地区的高等教育始于农业，1950 年奥尔什丁成立国立高等农业学校，校址设在科尔托沃区，即科尔托夫斯基湖畔一片林木茂盛的庄园。

• Kortowo had previously housed the Provinzial-Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Kortau, a large German psychiatric hospital, and the new college reused its brick pavilions, park and lake shore as teaching buildings and dormitories.科尔托沃此前是德国大型精神病院科尔陶省立疗养院所在地，新学院把其砖砌馆舍、园林与湖岸改作教学建筑和学生宿舍。

• During the 1950s the school trained agronomists, zootechnicians and dairy specialists for the collectivised countryside of the People's Republic of Poland, and its first graduates went to state farms across the region.20 世纪 50 年代，学校为波兰人民共和国的集体化农村培养农学家、畜牧技术员与乳品专家，首批毕业生被分配到全区各个国营农场。

• In 1969 a separate Higher Pedagogical School opened in Olsztyn to train teachers for the rapidly expanding school system of Warmia and Mazury, and it became the second pillar of the future university.1969 年，独立的奥尔什丁高等师范学校成立，为瓦尔米亚-马祖里迅速扩张的学校体系培养教师，成为未来大学的第二根支柱。

• The agricultural school was renamed the Academy of Agriculture and Technology in 1972, a change that recognised its engineering faculties and gave it the right to award doctoral degrees in several technical and biological disciplines.1972 年农业学校更名为农业与技术学院，这一变化承认了其工程类院系的地位，并使其有权在若干技术与生物学科授予博士学位。

• The Warmia Institute of Theology, the third founding institution, trained Catholic priests and religious teachers and was linked to the Archdiocese of Warmia and to the theology faculties of Polish universities.第三所组建机构瓦尔米亚神学院培养天主教神父与宗教教师，与瓦尔米亚总教区及波兰各大学神学院保持联系。

• The three institutions shared a campus in Kortowo and increasingly cooperated in the 1980s and 1990s, running joint courses in environmental protection, food technology and rural development.三所机构共用科尔托沃校园，在 20 世纪 80 至 90 年代日益合作，联合开设环境保护、食品技术与农村发展课程。

• After the 1989 transition Poland reformed its higher education sector, and the idea of merging the Olsztyn colleges into a single comprehensive university gained support from regional authorities and parliamentary deputies.1989 年转型后波兰改革高等教育部门，把奥尔什丁各学院合并为一所综合性大学的设想获得地方当局与议员支持。

• The Sejm passed the law creating the University of Warmia and Mazury on 9 July 1999, and the statute was signed in August by President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Minister of Education Mirosław Handke.众议院于 1999 年 7 月 9 日通过创建瓦尔米亚-马祖里大学的法律，同年 8 月由总统亚历山大·克瓦希涅夫斯基与教育部长米罗斯瓦夫·汉德克签署。

• The university opened on 1 September 1999 with 12 faculties, 32 fields of study and about 24,500 students, and its first academic year began in October 1999 under rector Ryszard Górecki.大学于 1999 年 9 月 1 日成立，最初设 12 个学院、32 个专业方向、约 24500 名学生，1999 年 10 月在首任校长理夏德·古雷茨基主持下开学。

• The Faculty of Theology was created at the founding by an agreement between the Polish Episcopate and the government, signed in the presence of Cardinal Józef Glemp, and it remained a state faculty within a public university.神学院在建校时依据波兰主教团与政府的协议设立，签署仪式有枢机约瑟夫·格莱姆普在场，该院作为公立大学中的国立学院保留下来。

• At its foundation the university held doctoral rights in 13 disciplines and postdoctoral rights in six, a legacy of the Academy of Agriculture and Technology and the Pedagogical School.建校时大学拥有 13 个学科的博士授予权与 6 个学科的后博士后资格，这是农业与技术学院和师范学校积累的遗产。

• Between 2000 and 2010 the new university added faculties of law and administration, mathematics and computer science, social sciences, fine arts and health sciences, completing its transformation into a comprehensive institution.2000 至 2010 年间，新大学相继增设法律与行政、数学与计算机科学、社会科学、美术与健康科学等学院，完成了向综合性大学的转变。

• The Centre of Polish Culture and Language for Foreigners was established by the university senate on 28 January 2005 and placed in the new humanities building in Kortowo.面向外国人的波兰文化与语言中心由大学评议会于 2005 年 1 月 28 日设立，设于科尔托沃的新人文学院大楼。

• A medical faculty was organised in 2007 and opened clinical teaching in 2008, giving the university its own Collegium Medicum and access to the regional specialist hospital in Olsztyn.医学院于 2007 年组建，2008 年开始临床教学，使大学拥有自己的医学院并可使用奥尔什丁的地区专科医院。

• An English-language programme in medicine followed in 2010, attracting students from Germany, Scandinavia, Taiwan and Nigeria and turning Olsztyn into a small centre of English-medium medical education.2010 年又开设英语医学项目，吸引来自德国、斯堪的纳维亚、台湾与尼日利亚的学生，使奥尔什丁成为英语医学教育的小型中心。

• In 2015 students of the medical faculty recorded the best pass rate in Poland in the national medical final examination, a result the university has used in its recruitment literature ever since.2015 年，医学院学生在波兰全国医学毕业考试中取得全国最高通过率，此后大学一直把这一成绩写入招生宣传。

• The university marked its 20th anniversary in 2019 with 17 faculties, about 20,000 students and a research profile that had shifted from purely agricultural topics toward medicine, biotechnology and environmental engineering.2019 年，大学迎来建校二十周年，此时设有 17 个学院、约 2 万名学生，研究格局已从纯农业议题转向医学、生物技术与环境工程。

• Jerzy Przyborowski, a veterinary scientist, was elected rector in 2020 and re-elected in 2024, and his administration has concentrated on the Kortowo campus modernisation and on the university's entry into European research alliances.兽医学家耶日·普日博罗夫斯基 2020 年当选校长并于 2024 年连任，其任期重点为科尔托沃校园现代化以及大学加入欧洲研究联盟。

Academics

• The university is organised into 17 faculties, among them Agriculture and Forestry, Animal Bioengineering, Biology and Biotechnology, Food Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Geoengineering, Veterinary Medicine and the Collegium Medicum.大学设 17 个学院，包括农业与林业、动物生物工程、生物学与生物技术、食品科学、环境科学与地质工程、兽医学以及医学院。

• Its remaining faculties cover Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical Sciences, Economics, Law and Administration, Humanities, Social Sciences, Fine Arts, Theology and Health Sciences, giving it the broadest subject range in the region.其余学院涵盖数学与计算机科学、技术科学、经济学、法律与行政、人文、社会科学、美术、神学与健康科学，使其成为该地区学科门类最全的高校。

• Eleven faculties hold full academic rights, including the right to confer postdoctoral degrees in 13 disciplines, and 16 faculties award doctorates in 24 disciplines.11 个学院拥有完整学术权利，可在 13 个学科授予博士后资格，16 个学院可在 24 个学科授予博士学位。

• Agriculture and forestry remain the flagship, with research on plant breeding, dairy science, animal nutrition and sustainable farming conducted on experimental farms around Olsztyn.农业与林业仍是旗舰领域，围绕植物育种、乳品科学、动物营养与可持续耕作的研究在奥尔什丁周边的实验农场开展。

• Veterinary medicine is taught in a dedicated clinic complex with operating theatres, an equine unit and a diagnostic laboratory, and it is one of the few Polish veterinary faculties outside Warsaw and Lublin.兽医学在专用临床综合体中授课，设有手术室、马病诊疗单元与诊断实验室，是华沙与卢布林之外波兰少有的兽医学科之一。

• The Collegium Medicum combines the medical faculty, the teaching hospital and nursing and public-health units, and it runs a stem-cell laboratory and a clinical research centre on the Kortowo campus.医学院整合了医学系、教学医院以及护理与公共卫生单位，并在科尔托沃校园设有干细胞实验室与临床研究中心。

• Food science and fisheries are long-established strengths, supported by laboratories for dairy technology, meat processing and aquaculture and by cooperation with the Warmian-Masurian food industry.食品科学与渔业是历史悠久的优势，依托乳品技术、肉类加工与水产养殖实验室，并与瓦尔米亚-马祖里食品产业合作。

• The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science offers programmes in computer science, data analysis and mathematical modelling, and its graduates supply the IT sector of Olsztyn and Warsaw.数学与计算机科学学院开设计算机科学、数据分析与数学建模项目，毕业生供职于奥尔什丁与华沙的信息技术行业。

• The Faculty of Law and Administration, created after 1999, trains judges, prosecutors and local-government lawyers and runs a legal clinic for residents of the region.1999 年后设立的法律与行政学院培养法官、检察官与地方政府法律人才，并为地区居民开设法律诊所。

• The Faculty of Theology is unique among Polish public universities in being both a state faculty and a denominational one, funded by the state while teaching according to Catholic doctrine.神学院在波兰公立大学中颇为特殊，既是国立学院又具宗派属性，由国家资助并按天主教教义授课。

• The University Library occupies an intelligent building in Kortowo, with climate control, a building-management system and a collection that includes the historic library of the Warmia seminary.大学图书馆位于科尔托沃的智能建筑内，配有气候控制与楼宇管理系统，馆藏包括瓦尔米亚神学院的历史藏书。

• The university publishing house issues monographs and journals in agriculture, veterinary science, humanities and theology, and the Centre of Polish Culture and Language teaches Polish to foreign students and scholars.大学出版社出版农业、兽医、人文与神学领域的专著与期刊，波兰文化与语言中心则为外国学生与学者教授波兰语。

• Enrolment stands at about 17,000 students, down from the 24,500 of 1999, a decline shared by most Polish regional universities and driven by demographic change and emigration.目前注册学生约 17000 人，低于 1999 年的 24500 人，这一下降为波兰多数地方高校所共有，源于人口变化与人口外流。

• The university employs about 2,700 academic and administrative staff and runs doctoral schools in the agricultural, medical, technical and humanities disciplines.大学约有 2700 名学术与行政人员，并在农业、医学、技术与人文领域设有博士生院。

• OpenAlex records 33,942 works and 735,463 citations for the university, with the largest output in agricultural and biological sciences, food chemistry and veterinary medicine.OpenAlex 记录该校 33942 篇成果与 735463 次引用，产出最多的是农业与生物科学、食品化学与兽医学。

• International cooperation runs through Erasmus agreements with German, Lithuanian, Czech and Spanish universities and through CEEPUS networks with Central European partners.国际合作通过与德国、立陶宛、捷克和西班牙高校的伊拉斯谟协议，以及与中欧伙伴的 CEEPUS 网络展开。

• Doctoral candidates can spend research periods at the Jagiellonian University, Adam Mickiewicz University and Nicolaus Copernicus University under national mobility schemes, while staff collaborate with the Polish Academy of Sciences.博士生可通过国家流动计划在雅盖隆大学、亚当·密茨凯维奇大学与尼古拉·哥白尼大学开展研究，教师则与波兰科学院合作。

• Admission is based on the Polish matura results, with separate thresholds for medicine, veterinary medicine and law, and the university also offers English-taught programmes in medicine and economics.招生依据波兰高考成绩，医学、兽医与法律设有单独分数线，大学还开设英语授课的医学与经济学项目。

Campus

• The Kortowo campus covers about 230 hectares on the southern edge of Olsztyn, wrapped around Lake Kortowskie and bordered by the Kortowo forest, and it is regularly listed among the most attractive campuses in Poland.科尔托沃校园占地约 230 公顷，位于奥尔什丁南缘，环绕科尔托夫斯基湖并与科尔托沃森林相邻，常被列为波兰最具吸引力的校园之一。

• The campus is a distinct district of the city, with teaching buildings, dormitories, a stadium, a sports hall, a beach and a network of paths that connect the lakeshore to the academic core.校园是城市中一个独立的片区，拥有教学楼、宿舍、体育场、体育馆、湖滨浴场以及连接湖岸与教学核心区的步道网络。

• Twelve student dormitories house several thousand students, and the dormitory complex includes canteens, a club, a medical centre and a nursery for students with children.十二栋学生宿舍容纳数千名学生，宿舍区配有食堂、俱乐部、医疗中心以及供有子女学生使用的托儿所。

• The University Library is the architectural centrepiece of Kortowo, a glass-fronted building with reading rooms, a conference centre and an integrated management system for lighting, heating and security.大学图书馆是科尔托沃的建筑核心，玻璃幕墙内设阅览室、会议中心以及对照明、供暖与安防的集成管理系统。

• The Collegium Medicum teaching hospital and its stem-cell laboratory stand next to the medical faculty, and the campus also houses the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine's clinics and stables.医学院教学医院及其干细胞实验室紧邻医学系，校园内还有兽医学院的诊室与马厩。

• The campus preserves the park and brick pavilions of the former Kortau hospital, and several buildings are registered monuments that have been adapted for teaching and student housing.校园保留了原科尔陶医院的园林与砖砌馆舍，若干建筑为登录文物，已被改造为教学与学生宿舍使用。

• Kortowo is about four kilometres from the historic centre of Olsztyn, reachable by city buses and by a cycle path along the Łyna river, and the campus has its own beach and sailing base on the lake.科尔托沃距奥尔什丁历史中心约四公里，可乘城市公交或沿维纳河的自行车道抵达，校园在湖上拥有自己的浴场与帆船基地。

• Olsztyn itself is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a city of about 170,000 people surrounded by lakes and forest, with a Gothic cathedral, a castle of the Warmian chapter and a rebuilt old town.奥尔什丁是瓦尔米亚-马祖里省首府，约 17 万人口，四周湖泊与森林环绕，拥有哥特式大教堂、瓦尔米亚教士会城堡与重建的老城。

Reputation

• QS placed the University of Warmia and Mazury in the 1201-1400 band of its 2027 world ranking, reflecting a regional comprehensive university with strong agricultural and life-science research but limited global citation visibility.QS 将该校列入 2027 年世界排名 1201-1400 区间，反映其为一所农业与生命科学研究较强、但全球引用能见度有限的地方综合性大学。

• Times Higher Education ranked it 1601-1800 in 2027, while U.S. News placed it 1,798th in the 2026-27 global universities list, two results that bracket its position among Polish regional universities.泰晤士高等教育将其排在 2027 年 1601-1800 位，U.S. News 在 2026-2027 年度全球大学榜单列第 1798 位，两项结果大致界定了其在波兰地方高校中的位置。

• The 2026 ARWU main table does not include the university, a common outcome for Polish institutions whose output is concentrated in agriculture and regional applied research rather than in highly cited basic science.2026 年软科主榜未收录该校，这对产出集中于农业与地方应用研究、而非高被引基础科学的波兰院校而言并不罕见。

• Nationally the university is recognised as one of Poland's leading agricultural and veterinary centres, alongside the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and the Wrocław and Poznań life-science universities.在国内，该校与华沙生命科学大学、弗罗茨瓦夫与波兹南的生命科学大学并列，被视为波兰领先的农业与兽医中心之一。

• Its medical faculty's first national examination cohort in 2015 achieved the highest pass rate in Poland, a result that helped the Collegium Medicum attract fee-paying students from abroad.其医学院 2015 年首届全国考试通过率居波兰首位，这一成绩帮助医学院吸引来自国外的自费学生。

• Research output recorded by OpenAlex, 33,942 works and 735,463 citations, is concentrated in dairy science, animal reproduction, food chemistry, forestry and environmental engineering.OpenAlex 记录的 33942 篇成果与 735463 次引用集中于乳品科学、动物繁殖、食品化学、林业与环境工程。

• The university is a member of the European University Association and participates in Erasmus and CEEPUS mobility, though it is not part of a European Universities alliance.该校是欧洲大学协会成员，参与伊拉斯谟与 CEEPUS 流动项目，但尚未加入欧洲大学联盟。

• Employer recognition is strongest in north-eastern Poland, where UWM graduates dominate veterinary practice, agricultural administration, food processing and regional healthcare.该校的雇主认可度在波兰东北部最强，毕业生主导当地的兽医诊疗、农业行政、食品加工与地区医疗。

• In the 2024/25 academic year the university enrolled 16,899 students according to Times Higher Education data, making it a mid-sized Polish university rather than a mass-enrolment institution.按泰晤士高等教育数据，该校 2024 至 2025 学年注册学生为 16899 人，属于中等规模的波兰大学而非大规模招生机构。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto, and its ceremonial identity is built around the founding act of 1999, the rector's mace and the annual celebration of the university's establishment on 1 September.该校没有正式的拉丁文校训，其礼仪身份围绕 1999 年建校法案、校长权杖以及每年 9 月 1 日的建校纪念活动构建。

• Kortowiada, the university's student festival held every May, is one of the largest juwenalia events in Poland, with concerts, a parade of faculties and parties on the Kortowo lake shore.每年五月举行的科尔托维亚达是波兰规模最大的大学生节之一，包括音乐会、各学院游行以及科尔托沃湖岸的聚会。

• Student government is organised through the university student council and faculty councils, which allocate dormitory places, cultural grants and sports subsidies and send representatives to the senate.学生自治通过校学生委员会与各学院学生委员会运作，负责分配宿舍名额、文化经费与体育补贴，并派代表参加校评议会。

• The Academic Sports Association AZS UWM runs sections in basketball, volleyball, athletics, swimming, sailing and canoeing, and its teams compete in the Polish university championships.大学体育协会 AZS UWM 设有篮球、排球、田径、游泳、帆船与皮划艇等分部，其队伍参加波兰大学生锦标赛。

• Student media include the university radio Radio UWM FM and the campus newspaper, both produced by students with editorial support from the faculty of humanities.学生媒体包括大学广播电台 Radio UWM FM 与校园报纸，均由学生制作并获人文学院编辑支持。

• The lakeside setting shapes student life, with sailing, windsurfing, fishing and beach volleyball in summer and ice skating and cross-country skiing in winter.湖畔环境塑造了学生生活，夏季有帆船、风帆冲浪、钓鱼与沙滩排球，冬季则有滑冰与越野滑雪。

• Dormitory life is centred on the Kortowo club and canteen, where faculty parties, film screenings and language exchanges take place throughout the academic year.宿舍生活以科尔托沃俱乐部与食堂为中心，学年中在此举办学院聚会、电影放映与语言交流活动。

• The city of Olsztyn offers students a compact old town, a philharmonic hall, a theatre and low living costs compared with Warsaw or Kraków, and the campus is linked to the centre by frequent buses.奥尔什丁为学生提供紧凑的老城、爱乐厅、剧院以及相对华沙和克拉科夫更低的生活成本，校园与市中心之间有频繁公交连接。

Notable people

• Ryszard Górecki, a plant physiologist, was the university's first rector from 1999 and oversaw the merger of the three founding institutions and the creation of the first 12 faculties.植物生理学家理夏德·古雷茨基自 1999 年起担任首任校长，主持三所组建机构的合并与最初 12 个学院的创建。

• Jerzy Przyborowski, a professor of veterinary medicine, became rector in 2020 and has led the university through the Kortowo campus renewal and the expansion of English-taught medicine.兽医学教授耶日·普日博罗夫斯基 2020 年出任校长，领导大学推进科尔托沃校园更新与英语医学项目扩张。

• Robert Biedroń, born in 1976, studied at the university and became a member of the Sejm, mayor of Słupsk and a member of the European Parliament, known for his work on equality and local government.罗伯特·别德龙生于 1976 年，曾在该校就读，后任众议员、斯武普斯克市长与欧洲议会议员，以平等议题与地方政府工作著称。

• Kazimierz Plocke, born in 1958, is a Polish politician and former deputy minister of agriculture who graduated from the university's agricultural faculty and represented the region in parliament.卡齐米日·普沃茨克生于 1958 年，是波兰政治家、前农业部副部长，毕业于该校农业学院，并曾在议会代表本地区。

• Ryszard Bober, born in 1956, a local-government leader and senator, studied agriculture in Olsztyn and has been associated with the university's regional extension work.理夏德·博贝尔生于 1956 年，是地方政府领导人与参议员，在奥尔什丁学习农业，并长期参与该校的地区推广工作。

• Marian Jeliński, born in 1949, is a Polish author and regional activist whose writing documents the culture of Warmia and the Polish-German borderlands.马里安·耶林斯基生于 1949 年，是波兰作家与地区活动家，其作品记录瓦尔米亚文化与波德边境地区。

• Grażyna Cichosz, a dairy technologist who graduated in 1973 from the Academy of Agriculture and Technology, worked on cheese technology and represents the university's long dairy-science tradition.格拉日娜·齐霍什是乳品技术专家，1973 年毕业于农业与技术学院，从事奶酪工艺研究，代表该校悠久的乳品科学传统。

• Cardinal Józef Glemp, Primate of Poland from 1981 to 2009, attended the agreement that established the Faculty of Theology and supported its integration into the public university.约瑟夫·格莱姆普枢机于 1981 至 2009 年任波兰首席主教，出席设立神学院的协议签署并支持其并入公立大学。

• Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland from 1995 to 2005, signed the statute creating the university in August 1999, together with Minister of Education Mirosław Handke.亚历山大·克瓦希涅夫斯基在 1995 至 2005 年任波兰总统，1999 年 8 月与教育部长米罗斯瓦夫·汉德克共同签署创建该校的法案。

• Mirosław Handke, Minister of National Education from 1997 to 2000, co-signed the founding statute and promoted the consolidation of regional colleges into comprehensive universities.米罗斯瓦夫·汉德克在 1997 至 2000 年任国民教育部长，共同签署建校法案，并推动地方学院整合为综合性大学。

• Tadeusz Krzymowski, a physiologist of animal reproduction, built the research base of the agricultural faculty and trained a generation of veterinary and animal-science researchers at Olsztyn.动物繁殖生理学家塔德乌什·克日莫夫斯基奠定了农业学院的研究基础，并在奥尔什丁培养了一代兽医与动物科学研究人员。