Utrecht University

Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht) is a public research university in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was founded on 26 March 1636 and is the fourth oldest university in the country after Leiden, Groningen and Amsterdam.乌得勒支大学（Universiteit Utrecht，简称乌大）是荷兰乌得勒支市的公立研究型大学，1636 年 3 月 26 日创建，在荷兰建国早于它的仅有莱顿、格罗宁根与阿姆斯特丹三所。

The university taught 38,493 students in 2025 with 8,846 staff, and ran a budget of three billion euro in which the university itself accounted for 1.272 billion and the University Medical Center Utrecht for 1.759 billion. It ranks 113th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 65.9.2025 年学校共有在校生 38,493 人、教职工 8,846 人，全年预算约 30 亿欧元，其中学校本部 12.72 亿欧元、乌得勒支大学医学中心 17.59 亿欧元。2027 年 QS 世界大学排名以 65.9 分列全球第 113。

History

• The university grew out of the Illustrious School of Utrecht, founded in 1634, which was elevated to the status of a university on 26 March 1636. The city had been without higher education for centuries, and the move was made under the pressure of a lively civic culture and a population that had already grown to handle a university.学校的前身是 1634 年创办的「乌得勒支显赫学校」，1636 年 3 月 26 日升格为大学。乌得勒支数百年来没有高等教育，此番建校既出于市民社会活跃、人口增长带来的压力，也依托当地已经成熟的城市文化。

• Gisbertus Voetius, the influential professor of theology, delivered the inaugural address, and Bernardus Schotanus, professor of law and mathematics, became the first rector magnificus. Anna Maria van Schurman, the first female student of the university, was invited to write a Latin poem for the inauguration.神学教授基斯贝尔图斯·沃提乌斯致开幕辞，法学与数学教授贝尔纳德斯·肖塔努斯出任首任学术校长。学校最早的女学生安娜·玛丽亚·范·舒尔曼受邀为开幕撰写拉丁诗。

• In the first years after the opening of 1636 only a few dozen students attended and seven professors worked in four faculties, with philosophy offering a common introductory education to all students and theology, medicine and law forming the three higher faculties above it.1636 年开办后的最初几年，听课学生只有数十人，七位教授分属四个学院，哲学院为全体学生提供共同的入门教育，其上则是神学、医学与法学三个高等学院。

• The university flourished in the decades after 1636. René Descartes lived in Utrecht for several years, and Johannes Voet, a famous Dutch jurist and alumnus, taught Roman-Dutch law there, so that the city became one of the places where the new philosophy of the seventeenth century was argued out.1636 年之后的数十年间学校颇为兴盛。笛卡尔曾在乌得勒支居住数年，荷兰著名法学家兼校友约翰内斯·沃特在此讲授罗马—荷兰法，这座城市也因此成为 17 世纪新哲学论争的重要现场。

• Students came from abroad, particularly from Germany, England and Scotland, and they witnessed the intellectual dispute between the followers of the new philosophy and the strict Reformed theologian Voetius. Utrecht also rivalled Leiden, and that rivalry between the two oldest Dutch universities has never entirely died out.学校招收大量外国学生，尤以德国、英格兰与苏格兰为主，他们在此目睹新哲学派与加尔文派神学家沃提乌斯之间的思想论战。乌得勒支与莱顿之间的竞争也由此开始，并延续至今。

• Teaching in the seventeenth century was not confined to lecture rooms. A botanical garden was laid out on the grounds of the present Sonnenborgh Observatory for the teaching of natural history, and the Smeetoren astronomical observatory was added three years later, so that the university built the instruments of its own sciences before the century was out.17 世纪的教学并不限于讲堂。学校在今 Sonnenborgh 天文台址上开辟植物园以支撑博物学教学，三年后又增建 Smeetoren 天文观测台，在该世纪结束之前就已为自身的科学搭建起观测与实验的设施。

• When the French occupied the Netherlands the university was downgraded in 1806 to an ecole secondaire, a secondary school. It recovered its status in 1813 as one of the five hoge scholen of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and after Belgium separated in 1830 it was left as one of only three Dutch universities.法国占领期间，学校于 1806 年被降格为一所中学。1813 年荷兰联合王国成立时，它以五所高等学校之一的身份恢复地位，1830 年比利时脱离王国后，荷兰只剩下三所大学，乌得勒支大学即为其一。

• King Louis Napoleon ordered a palace to be built in the centre of Utrecht during the French occupation, and that building eventually became the University Library at the City Centre. The new university campus at the edge of the city grew out of the same decision to move teaching out of the crowded historic centre.法国占领期间，路易·拿破仑下令在乌得勒支市中心修建宫殿，该建筑后来成为市中心校区大学图书馆的所在。把教学搬出拥挤老城、在城缘建设新校区的决定，也正始于同一时期。

• Around 1850 the Utrechtian School of science formed, with Pieter Harting, Gerardus J. Mulder, Christophorus H. D. Buys Ballot and Franciscus Donders among its leading figures. They introduced the onderwijslaboratorium, the teaching laboratory, as a practical place of learning for their students, a model still used in science education today.约 1850 年前后，乌得勒支学派成型，皮特·哈尔廷、赫拉德·穆尔德、布伊斯·巴洛特与弗朗西斯库斯·唐德斯等人为代表人物。他们创用「教学实验室」这一形式，让学生在真实实验中学习，这一模式至今仍是科学教育的基础。

• The National Veterinary School became the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University in 1918, and it remains the only institution in the Netherlands that trains professional veterinarians, with its own farm and one of the largest academic veterinary hospitals in Europe.1918 年荷兰国立兽医学院并入乌得勒支大学，成为其兽医学院，并一直保留至今。它是荷兰唯一培养执业兽医师的机构，拥有自有农场与欧洲最大的学术兽医院之一。

• An honorary doctorate in law was conferred on Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948, and the university was by then firmly established in international law, public policy and the sciences, the three fields in which it built its modern reputation.1948 年，学校在法学领域授予埃莉诺·罗斯福荣誉博士学位。彼时的乌得勒支大学已在国际法、公共政策与自然科学三个方向站稳脚跟，这正是它现代声誉的基础。

• From the 1960s a large part of the university moved to the Utrecht Science Park on the eastern edge of the city, south of De Bilt, because the historic centre could no longer hold the growing institution. The university nevertheless kept its premises in the old city, so it still has no single campus.自 20 世纪 60 年代起，学校大批院系迁往城市东缘、位于德比尔特以南的乌得勒支科学园，原因是老城已无法容纳不断扩张的机构。即便如此，学校在市中心仍保留校产，因此始终没有形成单一校园。

• The university added three interfaculty units alongside the seven faculties, University College Utrecht, University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, and the Centre for Education and Learning, which combine teaching across faculty boundaries rather than belonging to a single faculty.学校在七个学院之外另设三个跨院系单位，即乌得勒支大学学院、米德尔堡的罗斯福大学学院以及教育与学习中心，它们跨学院开展教学而不隶属于单一学院。

• The Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance was put together in 2011 when the separate law, economics and governance schools were merged into one faculty, a consolidation that responded to the growing demand for interdisciplinary training in public administration and policy.2011 年，原有的法学、经济学与治理三所学院合并组建法律、经济与治理学院，这一整合回应了公共管理与政策研究对跨学科培养的需求。

• Research at the university is commercialised through the Technology Transfer Office and the incubator UtrechtInc, which handle patent licensing, spin-offs and industrial partnerships. Between 2000 and 2020 the university was granted 413 patents under this arrangement.学校的技术转移办公室与创业孵化器 UtrechtInc 负责专利许可、衍生公司孵化与产业合作。2000 至 2020 年间，学校在这一机制下共获得 413 项专利。

• At the end of 2024 the portfolio of research projects at the university was worth 1.73 billion euro, 107 million more than a year earlier, with the NWO research council and the European Union together supplying about one billion euro, so external funders carry most of the cost of the research programme.2024 年底，学校在研项目组合价值 17.3 亿欧元，比上一年增加 1.07 亿欧元，其中荷兰研究理事会与欧盟合计提供约 10 亿欧元，可见学校科研经费以竞争性外部资助为主。

• The figures for 2025 record 38,493 enrolled students, 8,846 staff including 4,474 academic and 4,372 administrative staff, an endowment of 731 million euro and more than 600 doctorates awarded, while 9,071 scientific articles were published under the university address.2025 年的数据为在校生 38,493 人，教职工 8,846 人，其中学术人员 4,474 人、行政人员 4,372 人，捐赠基金 7.31 亿欧元，当年授予博士学位 600 余项，并以学校名义发表科学论文 9,071 篇。

• In the 2025 Clarivate ranking of European universities Utrecht was placed 43rd in the world and 8th in Europe, with 28 of its researchers in the top one per cent by citation in their fields, and in the BlueSky ranking of 2025-2026 it was 58th in the world, 19th in Europe and 2nd in the Netherlands.在 2025 年科睿唯安的欧洲大学排名中，乌得勒支大学列全球第 43、欧洲第 8，并有 28 位研究者进入本领域被引量前 1%。在 2025 至 2026 年版的 BlueSky 综合排名中，学校列全球第 58、欧洲第 19、荷兰第 2。

Academics

• The university is organised into seven faculties, the Faculty of Geosciences with earth sciences, physical geography, sustainable development and human geography, the Faculty of Science with biology, chemistry, information and computing science, mathematics, pharmaceutical science and physics, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, the Faculty of Medical Sciences and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.学校下设七个学院：地球科学学院（含地球科学、自然地理、可持续发展与人文地理），理学院（含生物、化学、信息与计算机科学、数学、药学与物理），人文学院，法律、经济与治理学院，社会与行为科学学院，医学科学学院与兽医学院。

• Inside the Faculty of Humanities the departments are history and art history, languages, literature and communication, media and culture studies, and philosophy and religious studies, while the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences contains education and pedagogy, social sciences and psychology, so the humanities are organised by subject and not by faculty boundary.人文学院下设历史与艺术史、语言文学与传播、媒体与文化研究、哲学与宗教研究四个系，社会与行为科学学院下设教育与教学法、社会科学与心理学三个系，人文学科按学科而非按学院边界组织。

• Research is carried out in 772 units, and sixteen artificial intelligence laboratories are distributed across the university, alongside more than fifty research and graduate institutes. The scale of the portfolio means that the university can staff almost every academic field available in Dutch higher education.全校共有 772 个研究单位，另设 16 个人工智能实验室与五十余个研究和研究生机构。研究组合的规模使学校能够覆盖荷兰高等教育中的几乎全部学术领域。

• The university offers 58 undergraduate degree programmes and more than 148 graduate programmes, which is the widest range in the Dutch system apart from the technical universities, and the medical faculty trains within the University Medical Center Utrecht on the same site.学校开设 58 个本科专业课程与 148 个以上的研究生课程，除理工类大学外，其专业覆盖范围在荷兰高校中最为完整；医学院则在同址的乌得勒支大学医学中心内完成教学。

• Veterinary science is the university's flagship subject, placed ninth in the world in the 2026 QS subject table, and the faculty is the only one of its kind in the country. Its academic veterinary hospital treats a caseload that has no Dutch counterpart, and the physical geography department publishes regularly in Nature and Nature Climate Change on global water availability.兽医学是学校的旗舰学科，2026 年 QS 学科排名列全球第 9，且为全国唯一。院属学术兽医院接诊规模在国内无出其右，自然地理系则常在《自然》与《自然·气候变化》发表全球水资源可利用性的研究。

• The Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development belongs to the Faculty of Geosciences and runs four multidisciplinary teams on energy and resources, environmental governance, environmental science and innovation. It contributes to the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and cooperates with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, IIASA, the CML institute of Leiden University, the Fraunhofer Society and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics.可持续发展哥白尼研究所隶属地球科学学院，下设能源与资源、环境治理、环境科学与创新四个多学科团队，多次参与政府间气候变化专门委员会评估，并与劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室、国际应用系统分析研究所、莱顿大学环境科学研究所、弗劳恩霍夫协会及国际工业环境经济研究所保持合作。

• The Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, named after the physicist Peter Debye, sits in the physics and astronomy department and groups six teams in condensed matter, physical and colloid chemistry, inorganic and organic catalysis, nanophotonics, and soft condensed matter and molecular biophysics.纳米材料科学德拜研究所隶属物理与天文学系，以物理学家彼得·德拜命名，下设凝聚态物质、物理与胶体化学、无机与有机催化、纳米光子学、软凝聚态物质与分子生物物理六个研究团队。

• The Freudenthal Institute, named after the mathematician and mathematics educator Hans Freudenthal, works on the teaching of mathematics and science, using physical and virtual experiment rooms to develop curricula, classroom experiments and assessments, and is a European leader in blended learning for schools and universities.弗洛伊登塔尔研究所以数学家与数学教育家汉斯·弗洛伊登塔尔命名，研究数学与科学教学，利用物理与虚拟实验教室开发课程、课堂实验与评价方案，是中小学与高校混合式学习领域的欧洲先行者。

• Public administration is a field of national strength, ranked second in the world in the 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities and sixteenth in the 2026 QS subject table, and it is served by the Utrecht School of Governance alongside the Utrecht School of Law and the Utrecht School of Economics.公共行政是学校的国家级优势学科，在 2025 年软科排名中列全球第 2、在 2026 年 QS 学科排名中列第 16，由乌得勒支治理学院与法学院、经济学院共同支撑。

• Earth sciences and water management are another pillar, with earth sciences eighth in the 2025 Academic Ranking, water resources eleventh, oceanography seventeenth and geography thirty-first, an unusually wide spread across the geosciences for a single university.地球科学与水资源管理是另一支柱，软科 2025 年排名中地球科学列第 8、水资源第 11、海洋学第 17、地理学第 31，一所大学在地球科学各分支上同时进入前十与前三十并不常见。

• Medical research and clinical training are concentrated in the University Medical Center Utrecht, whose share of the institutional budget was 1.759 billion euro in 2025, larger than the budget of the university itself, so clinical work is the single largest financial commitment of the institution.医学研究与临床教学集中在乌得勒支大学医学中心，2025 年该中心占学校预算 17.59 亿欧元，比学校本部还多，可见临床工作是该校最大的单项财务承诺。

• The university is a member of the Coimbra Group, the League of European Research Universities, the Utrecht Network, the European University Association, the International Association of Universities and the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and it keeps strategic partnerships with KU Leuven, University College London, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Toronto and the University of Sydney.学校是科英布拉集团、欧洲研究型大学联盟、乌得勒支网络、欧洲大学协会、国际大学协会与麦克唐纳国际学者学院的成员，并与鲁汶大学、伦敦大学学院、香港中文大学、多伦多大学与悉尼大学保持战略伙伴关系。

• Teaching at the university is conducted in Dutch and English, with the sciences and social sciences moving most of their English-medium programmes into the science park as it developed, while the city centre faculties keep a stronger Dutch-language profile in the humanities and law.学校以荷兰语与英语授课，随着科学园的形成，理学与社会科学的大部分英语授课项目迁往园区，而市中心的学院在人文学科与法学上保留了更强的荷兰语取向。

• Two of the seven faculties, the humanities and law, economics and governance, are taught in the city centre, while five faculties and most administrative services work from the science park, so the university functions as one institution across two very different urban settings.七个学院中，人文与法律经济治理两个学院在市中心授课，另外五个学院与大部分行政部门在科学园办公，学校实际以两种截然不同的城市环境运行。

Campus

• The University Hall, or Academiegebouw, was built in 1894 in the historic centre of Utrecht and houses the ceremonial rooms of the university, while the older university buildings around it give the city centre its academic quarter.大学本部学术楼建于 1894 年，位于乌得勒支历史市中心，是学校礼仪性房间的所在，其周边更古老的大学建筑构成了市中心的学术街区。

• Most of the science and medical teaching moved to Utrecht Science Park on the eastern edge of the city, south of De Bilt, a campus that grew in stages from the 1960s and now holds the faculties of science, geosciences, medicine, veterinary medicine and the social and behavioural sciences.理学与医学教学的主体迁往城市东缘、德比尔特以南的乌得勒支科学园。该校区自 20 世纪 60 年代起分期建设，如今容纳理学院、地球科学学院、医学院、兽医学院与社会行为科学学院。

• University College Utrecht teaches liberal arts and sciences students in the former Kromhout Kazerne, a nineteenth-century military base in the city, so the college building is a converted barracks rather than a new purpose-built campus.乌得勒支大学学院在城内的前 Kromhout 兵营授课，那是 19 世纪的军事建筑，因此学院所在并非新建专门校园，而是由旧营房改建而成。

• University College Roosevelt is on a second site far from Utrecht, in the city of Middelburg in the south-west of the country, which gives the university a liberal arts college in a different province and a different urban context.罗斯福大学学院远离乌得勒支主城，位于荷兰西南部的中德尔堡市，使这所文理学院处于另一个省份与另一种城市环境之中。

• The University Museum Utrecht, the Parnassos Cultural Centre and the Centre for Science and Culture form the public face of the university, and the centre organises the Studium Generale, the public lecture series through which the university addresses the city on questions of science and culture.乌得勒支大学博物馆、Parnassos 文化中心与科学与文化中心共同构成学校面向公众的门面，其中后者组织的 Studium Generale 公开讲座系列，是大学就科学与文化议题向城市发声的方式。

• Around the university are buildings of scientific and scholarly weight, including the law library, the Juridische Bibliotheek, the Minnaert building for physics and astronomy, the David de Wied building for the life sciences and the old botanical garden with its historic plant collections.学校周边分布着多座具学术分量的建筑，包括法学图书馆 Juridische Bibliotheek、理学院物理与天文学的米纳尔特大楼、生命科学的戴维·德·维德大楼，以及拥有历史植物藏品的旧植物园。

• The city itself is a student city of about 330,000 inhabitants, of whom close to thirty per cent are between fifteen and thirty years old. Its canals, the Dom Tower of the cathedral of Saint Martin on the Neude square, and the museums are part of the setting in which students live and study.学校所在城市人口约 33 万，其中 15 至 30 岁者接近三成，是典型的学生城。运河、纽德广场上的圣马丁主教座堂钟楼与各博物馆，构成学生学习生活的日常环境。

• Utrecht University does not operate a conventional network of on-campus residence halls, and students live mainly in rented accommodation in the city, where the University College buildings are the main exception because that college is residential by design.乌得勒支大学没有传统意义上的集中式校内宿舍，学生主要在校内市区租住，唯一例外是以住宿为设计前提的大学学院楼群。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Utrecht University is placed 113th in the world with an overall score of 65.9, and it is the third university of the Netherlands in the national table.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，乌得勒支大学以 65.9 分列全球第 113 位，在荷兰国内位列第 3。

• The 2027 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings does not list the university, although earlier editions did, with 66th in 2023, 67th in the 2025 reputation table and 100th in the 2026 employability table.2027 年版泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名未收录该校，但此前各版均有记录：2023 年列第 66 位，2025 年声誉榜列第 67 位，2026 年就业力榜列第 100 位。

• The 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking places Utrecht 197th in the world, while the 2024 edition had put it 46th and second in the Netherlands, a difference that reflects the reweighting of that ranking rather than a sudden change in the university.US News 2026 至 2027 年最佳全球大学排名将乌得勒支大学列全球第 197 位，而 2024 年版曾列第 46 位、荷兰第 2，这一落差主要反映该榜单评价权重的调整，而非学校本身的变化。

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed Utrecht 56th in 2025, the best national result, though down from 40th in 2003, and 60th in the 2026 edition. The CWUR ranking of 2026 places it 80th and the Leiden-based CWTS ranking of 2025 66th.软科世界大学学术排名 2025 年将乌得勒支大学列第 56 位，为荷兰高校最好成绩，但低于 2003 年的第 40 位，2026 年版列第 60 位。CWUR 2026 年排名列第 80 位，莱顿大学发布的 CWTS 2025 年排名列第 66 位。

• OpenAlex records 245,899 works and 24,037,515 citations for the institution under the identifier I193662353, one of the largest publication records of any Dutch university, and it exceeds the works count of Leiden University in the same database.OpenAlex 以 I193662353 为机构标识，收录乌得勒支大学成果 245,899 项、被引 24,037,515 次，是荷兰各高校中规模最大的产出记录之一，同一数据库中高于莱顿大学的成果数。

• Twelve Nobel Prize winners are counted among the alumni and faculty, starting with Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1901 and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in 1901, followed by Willem Einthoven in 1924, Christiaan Eijkman in 1929 and Lavoslav Ružicka in 1929, Peter Debye in 1936, Nicolaas Bloembergen in 1981 and Gerard 't Hooft in 1999, and Ben Feringa received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 for work carried out at the university.学校校友与教职员中共有 12 位诺贝尔奖得主，自 1901 年威廉·康拉德·伦琴与雅克布斯·亨利克·范特霍夫首开纪录，其后有 1924 年的威廉·埃因托芬、1929 年的克里斯蒂安·艾克曼与拉沃斯拉夫·鲁日奇卡、1936 年的彼得·德拜、1981 年的尼古拉斯·布洛姆伯根与 1999 年的杰拉德·特·胡夫特，另有名为 Ben Feringa 的教授在此完成的工作为他赢得 2016 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Besides the Nobel prizes the university counts one Pulitzer Prize, two Wolf Prizes, two United States National Medals of Science, 22 Spinoza Prizes and four Stevin Prizes, the Spinoza being the highest scientific award of the Netherlands.除诺贝尔奖之外，学校还拥有 1 位普利策奖、2 位沃尔夫奖、2 位美国国家科学奖章、22 位斯宾诺莎奖与 4 位斯特芬奖得主，其中斯宾诺莎奖是荷兰最高的科学荣誉。

• The 2026 QS subject tables place the university ninth in veterinary science, thirteenth in geophysics, fourteenth in geology, sixteenth in earth and marine sciences and public administration, seventeenth in geography, twenty-second in environmental sciences and twenty-eighth in psychology, a profile built on the earth and life sciences rather than on general breadth.2026 年 QS 学科排名把学校列为兽医学第 9、地球物理第 13、地质学第 14、地球与海洋科学及公共行政并列第 16、地理学第 17、环境科学第 22、心理学第 28，其学科版图建立在地球与生命科学之上，而非单纯的规模。

• Alumni of the university include four members of the Dutch royal house, six prime ministers of the Netherlands, six foreign heads of state or government and thirty-five cabinet ministers, and they have won thirteen Olympic gold medals, so the institution has always been closely tied to the state it educated.学校校友中有 4 位荷兰王室成员、6 位荷兰首相、6 位外国元首或政府首脑与 35 位内阁部长，并曾产出 13 枚奥运金牌，这所机构自创立起便与它所培养的国家栋梁紧密相连。

Student life

• The university motto is Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos, the sun of righteousness enlightens us, a phrase from the Psalms that frames the university's self-image as an institution of learning before it is an institution of research.学校校训为拉丁语「Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos」（正义之阳，光照我心），出自《诗篇》，把学校定位为一所以学问为本、而不仅以研究为业的机构。

• Students live in a city of about 330,000 people in which nearly thirty per cent of the population is between fifteen and thirty, so the student presence shapes the streets, the squares and the markets of the old centre as much as the lecture halls.学生生活在人口约 33 万的城市里，15 至 30 岁者接近三成，学生群体的存在对老城的街道、广场与市集影响不亚于对讲堂的影响。

• The university has no college system in the British sense. Instead it runs University College Utrecht and University College Roosevelt as liberal arts and science colleges that cut across the seven faculties and, in the case of the Utrecht college, provide residential accommodation for students from abroad.学校不设英式学院制，而是以乌得勒支大学学院与罗斯福大学学院两所文理学院跨越七个学院组织教学，其中乌得勒支大学学院还为海外学生提供住宿。

• Housing is not supplied by the university. Students find rented rooms and flats through the private housing market, which in Utrecht is unusually well organised for a mid-sized city, and the first-year students are usually advised to book early because of the pressure on the market.学校不自供住房，学生通过私人租赁市场寻找房间与公寓。乌得勒支虽为中等规模城市，租赁市场却组织得相当成熟，新生通常被建议尽早签约，因为房源紧张。

• The cultural life of the university runs through the University Museum Utrecht, the Parnassos Cultural Centre and the Studium Generale lecture series, so that the arts and the sciences are part of what the students encounter outside their own departments.学校的文化生活以乌得勒支大学博物馆、Parnassos 文化中心与 Studium Generale 讲座系列为载体，艺术与科学因此成为学生在本院系之外同样会遇到的日常内容。

• Utrecht runs what is described as the largest summer school in Europe, and more than one hundred exchange agreements, so that several thousand students pass through the city each year as exchange or degree students, about one thousand five hundred of them arriving to study for one or two terms.学校拥有欧洲规模最大的暑期课程，并签有一百余项交换协议，每年有数千名交换生与学位生经此进出，其中约 1500 人是来就读一到两个学期的学生。

• Utrecht is a bicycle city and the two campus zones are linked by cycle routes, so the daily rhythm of study is shaped by the bike rather than by the tram, and students from the surrounding villages such as Zeist cycle forty to fifty minutes into the centre.乌得勒支是自行车之城，两处校区之间有自行车道相连，学习日常的节奏由自行车而非电车塑造，来自宰斯特等周边小镇的学生骑车进城约需四十分钟到五十分钟。

Notable people

• Bernardus Schotanus was the first rector magnificus of the university, holding the chair of law and mathematics in 1636, and he and Gisbertus Voetius between them set the tone of an institution that intended to combine legal, medical and theological learning with a broad common education in philosophy.贝尔纳德斯·肖塔努斯是乌得勒支大学首任学术校长，1636 年主持法学与数学讲席。他与基斯贝尔图斯·沃提乌斯共同奠定了一所把法学、医学与神学训练，同以哲学为共同基础的博雅教育相结合机构的基调。

• Anna Maria van Schurman, invited to write a Latin verse for the inauguration in 1636, became the first female student of the university, and her defence of women's education made her a recurring figure in the debate over the admission of women to the universities of the Netherlands.1636 年受邀为校庆开幕撰写拉丁诗的安娜·玛丽亚·范·舒尔曼，成为乌得勒支大学第一位女学生，她对女子教育的辩护此后长期出现在荷兰关于大学招收女性的辩论中。

• Johannes Voet, an alumnus and professor of law at Utrecht, wrote commentaries that remain authoritative in modern Roman-Dutch law, and his textbooks spread through the universities of the Dutch Republic and beyond, making the Utrecht school of jurisprudence internationally influential.校友兼乌得勒支法学教授约翰内斯·沃特所著的注释在现代罗马—荷兰法中仍具权威性，其教科书经荷兰共和国各大学传播，使乌得勒支法学派在国际上产生影响。

• Peter Debye, whose research on dipole moments, X-rays and the scattering of light by gases earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936, held the chair of physics at Utrecht, and the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science carries his name.彼得·德拜以偶极矩、X 射线与气体中光散射的研究获 1936 年诺贝尔化学奖，他曾在乌得勒支主持物理学讲席，纳米材料科学德拜研究所即以他命名。

• Franciscus Donders, professor of physiology and ophthalmology in Utrecht, invented the ophthalmoscope and the tonometer and created the teaching laboratory in which students learned by doing, an approach that shaped laboratory teaching across medicine.乌得勒支生理学与眼科学教授弗朗西斯库斯·唐德斯发明了检眼镜与眼压计，并创立让学生在做中学的教学实验室，这一做法影响了整个医学领域的实验教学。

• The scientific line of the Utrechtian School included Pieter Harting, who studied the geological structure of the Netherlands, Gerardus J. Mulder, who introduced the term protein, and Christophorus H. D. Buys Ballot, who set up the meteorological service of the Netherlands and devised the still standard wind and weather rules for shipping.乌得勒支学派的科学谱系还包括研究荷兰地质构造的皮特·哈尔廷、提出蛋白质一词的赫拉德·穆尔德，以及建立荷兰气象业务并为航海制定沿用至今的风浪气象规则的布伊斯·巴洛特。

• Gerard 't Hooft, professor of theoretical physics at Utrecht, shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics for the quantum structure of electroweak interactions, work he began with his teacher Martinus Veltman, who had also held a chair at the university.乌得勒支理论物理学教授杰拉德·特·胡夫特因阐明电弱相互作用的量子结构，与他人分享 1999 年诺贝尔物理学奖，该研究由其导师马蒂努斯·韦尔特曼开启，后者也曾在该校任教。

• Ben Feringa, professor of molecular science at the university, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design of synthetic molecular machines, the first controlled motion at the molecular scale, which turned a long-running Dutch line of photochemistry and motor research into an international result.乌得勒支分子科学教授 Ben Feringa 因设计出合成分子机器、首次在分子尺度实现可控运动而获诺贝尔化学奖，这项成果把荷兰长期积累的光化学与马达研究推向了国际前台。

• Anton Pijpres is president of the university and Wilco Hazeleger is rector magnificus, and the university board also includes an interim vice-president and a student assessor, so that students take part in the highest executive body of the institution.安东尼斯·皮普斯任校长、维尔科·哈泽勒格尔任学术校长，大学董事会中还包括代理副校长与学生评议人，学生由此得以参与学校最高行政机构。

• Henk van Os, the art historian, was rector of the university from 2003 to 2010, and Max van der Stoel, the Dutch minister of agriculture and later Secretary General of NATO from 1994 to 1997, is counted among the university's law alumni.艺术史学者扬·范·奥斯曾于 2003 至 2010 年担任乌得勒支大学校长；荷兰前农业部长、1994 至 1997 年任北约秘书长的马克斯·范德斯特尔则被列为该校法学校友。

• In public life the university has trained administrators and diplomats rather than only scholars, with ministers, judges and ambassadors forming a steady stream, while its graduates in the arts include painters of the Dutch Golden Age tradition and, much later, the writer and the historian who kept its institutional memory alive.在公共生活领域，学校培养的行政官员与外交官而非仅学者源源不断地进入政界与司法界，其艺术校友既有荷兰黄金时代绘画传统的继承者，也有后来延续校史记忆的作家与史家。