Wayne State University

Wayne State University is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, founded in 1868 and organised today into thirteen schools and colleges that offer approximately 375 programmes.韦恩州立大学是美国密歇根州底特律市的一所公立研究型大学，创办于 1868 年，现设 13 所学院，开设约 375 个专业项目。

It is Michigan's third-largest university, with 23,964 students enrolled in fall 2024 on a 203-acre main campus that links more than 100 education and research buildings.该校是密歇根州第三大高校，2024 年秋季在校生 23,964 人，主校区占地 203 英亩，串联起 100 余座教学与科研建筑。

The university sits in the 801-850 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校列入第 801-850 位，并按卡内基分类标准归入研究活动极强的 R1 级博士型大学。

History

• The university was established in 1868 as the Detroit Medical College by five returning Civil War veterans, making medicine the oldest strand of its teaching.学校的前身是 1868 年由五名内战归乡老兵创办的底特律医学院，医学由此成为该校最古老的办学脉络。

• The 1868 college charter was signed by its founder Theodore Andrews McGraw, M.D., a University of Michigan graduate who earned his bachelor's degree in 1859.1868 年的学院特许状由创办人西奥多·安德鲁斯·麦格劳（Theodore Andrews McGraw）医学博士签署，他毕业于密歇根大学，1859 年取得学士学位。

• In 1885 the Detroit College of Medicine merged with its competitor, the Michigan College of Medicine, and the consolidated institution kept McGraw as its first president and dean.1885 年，底特律医学院与竞争对手密歇根医学院合并，合并后的学院由麦格劳出任首任校长兼院长。

• In 1881 the Detroit Board of Education established the Detroit Normal Training School for Teachers, which moved to larger quarters several times before becoming the Detroit Teachers College in 1920.1881 年，底特律教育委员会创办底特律师范训练学校，该校多次迁入更大校舍，并于 1920 年改称底特律师范学院。

• The Board of Education voted in 1924 to fold that teachers college into the new College of the City of Detroit, the body from which the university's College of Education descends.1924 年，教育委员会表决将该师范学院并入新成立的底特律市立学院，这所市立学院正是今日教育学院的源流。

• In 1917 the Board of Education founded the Detroit Junior College, housed in the Old Main Hall of Detroit Central High School, giving the city its first public junior college.1917 年，教育委员会创办底特律初级学院，校址设在底特律中央中学的老主楼，为城市带来第一所公立初级学院。

• Two more units, the Detroit College of Pharmacy and the Detroit Teachers College, joined that campus in 1924 and were organised into the College of the City of Detroit.1924 年，底特律药学院与底特律师范学院先后并入这一校园，并被编入底特律市立学院。

• The original junior college turned into the College of Liberal Arts of the College of the City of Detroit, and the first bachelor's degrees were awarded there in 1925.原初级学院则改组为底特律市立学院文理学院，学院于 1925 年颁授了首批学士学位。

• A group of Detroit lawyers led by founding dean Allan Campbell set up the Detroit City Law School in 1927, initially as a part-time evening programme of the College of the City of Detroit.1927 年，底特律一批律师在创院院长艾伦·坎贝尔（Allan Campbell）带领下创办底特律市立法学院，最初是市立学院的夜间兼读项目。

• That law school graduated its first class with the bachelor of laws degree in 1928 and achieved full American Bar Association accreditation in 1939.该法学院首届学生于 1928 年毕业并获授法学士学位，学院又于 1939 年取得美国律师协会的完全认证。

• In 1933 the Detroit Board of Education voted to unify its colleges into a single university, and in January 1934 the institution was officially named Wayne University.1933 年，底特律教育委员会表决将旗下各学院合并为一所大学，并于 1934 年 1 月正式定名韦恩大学。

• The name came from Wayne County, in which both the university and the city of Detroit lie, itself named after Anthony Wayne, a major general of the Continental Army.校名取自韦恩县，大学与底特律市均位于县境之内，县名则源于大陆军少将安东尼·韦恩（Anthony Wayne）。

• Wayne University added a School of Social Work in 1935 and a School of Business Administration in 1946, widening its professional training beyond medicine and law.韦恩大学分别于 1935 年和 1946 年增设社会工作学院与工商管理学院，把职业训练从医学、法学向外拓展。

• The institution was renamed Wayne State University in 1956 and was mandated by an amendment to the Michigan Constitution in 1959, anchoring it in state law.1956 年学校改称韦恩州立大学，1959 年再经密歇根州宪法修正案确认其法定地位。

• The Board of Governors created the Institute of Gerontology in 1965 in response to a State of Michigan mandate, with research, education and service in ageing as its mission.1965 年，校董会依密歇根州政令设立老年学研究所，以老龄领域的科研、教学与社会服务为使命。

• The College of Lifelong Learning opened in 1973, and in 1985 the School of Fine and Performing Arts and the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs further expanded the university.终身学习学院于 1973 年开办；1985 年，表演与美术学院以及城市、劳工与大都市事务学院又相继设立，学校规模进一步扩大。

• In the early twenty-first century Wayne State built the Integrative Biosciences Center, a 207,000-square-foot facility opened in 2016 that accommodates more than 500 researchers, staff and principal investigators.21 世纪初，学校建成整合生物科学中心（IBio），这座 20.7 万平方英尺的设施于 2016 年启用，可容纳 500 余名研究人员、职员与课题负责人。

• M. Roy Wilson became the twelfth president in 2013, and the Mike Ilitch School of Business moved into its new facility in The District Detroit in 2018.M. Roy Wilson 于 2013 年出任第 12 任校长；迈克·伊里奇商学院则于 2018 年迁入底特律新区（The District Detroit）的新大楼。

• Richard Bierschbach served as interim president from 2025 and was voted in as the fourteenth president of Wayne State University in 2026.理查德·比尔施巴赫（Richard Bierschbach）自 2025 年起担任代理校长，2026 年被推举为韦恩州立大学第 14 任校长。

• The university is governed by a Board of Governors of eight members elected by Michigan voters for eight-year terms, who serve without compensation and elect the president.学校由八人校董会治理，成员经密歇根州选民选举产生，任期 8 年，不领薪酬，并由校董会选举校长。

• The student body government is headed by a Student Senate, some colleges have their own student senates, and the Law School maintains a separate Student Board of Governors.学生自治以学生评议会为首，部分学院另设本院的评议会，法学院则保有独立的学生校董会。

Academics

• Teaching is divided among thirteen schools and colleges, among them the Mike Ilitch School of Business, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts.教学分设于 13 所学院之中，其中包括迈克·伊里奇商学院、教育学院、工程学院与表演与传播艺术学院。

• The remaining units are the Graduate School, the Law School, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Information Sciences, the School of Medicine and the College of Nursing.其余单位为研究生院、法学院、文理学院、信息科学学院、医学院与护理学院。

• The list is completed by the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the Irvin D. Reid Honors College and the School of Social Work, which bring the total of academic units to thirteen.名单还包括尤金·阿普尔鲍姆药学与健康科学学院、欧文·D·里德荣誉学院与社会工作学院，共构成 13 个教学单位。

• Fall 2024 enrollment was 23,964 students, with about 4,700 freshmen, including nearly 3,100 first-time students, a 2 percent increase over fall 2023.2024 年秋季全校注册 23,964 人，其中新生约 4,700 人，包含近 3,100 名首次入学的学生，比 2023 年秋季增长 2%。

• The most popular undergraduate majors by 2024 graduates were psychology, business administration, social work, medicine, public health, computer science, marketing, management, finance and global supply chain management.2024 届毕业生人数最多的本科专业依次为心理学、工商管理、社会工作、医学、公共卫生、计算机科学、市场营销、管理学、金融与全球供应链管理。

• The Mike Ilitch School of Business awards the M.B.A., the M.S. and the Ph.D. and holds accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.迈克·伊里奇商学院开设工商管理硕士、理学硕士与博士项目，并获国际商学院协会的认证。

• Established in 1986, the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts serves over 1,500 students across 14 undergraduate and 12 graduate programmes, many of them nationally accredited.表演与传播艺术学院创办于 1986 年，在读学生逾 1,500 人，设 14 个本科专业与 12 个研究生专业，其中许多获全国性认证。

• The American Library Association first accredited the master of library and information science in 1967, and the school joined the iSchool Consortium in September 2017 while adding a master of science in information management.该校的图书馆与信息科学硕士自 1967 年起获美国图书馆协会认证；信息科学学院又于 2017 年 9 月加入 iSchool 联盟，并增设信息管理理学硕士。

• Founded in 1868, the School of Medicine enrols more than 1,500 students in medical, doctoral, M.D./Ph.D. and master's programmes, with research emphasis on neurosciences, cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.医学院创立于 1868 年，在读医学、博士、医学博士与博士双学位及硕士项目学生超过 1,500 人，科研重心包括神经科学、癌症、心血管疾病与糖尿病。

• The school's Richard J. Mazurek, M.D., Medical Education Commons houses classrooms, student services, a medical library and the Kado Family Clinical Skills Center, a patient simulation facility.学院下设的理查德·J·马祖雷克医学教育中心设有教室、学生服务处、医学图书馆以及作为病人模拟设施的卡多家族临床技能中心。

• For the Class of 2028 the university received 15,229 applications and accepted 12,401, or 82 percent, of whom 2,988 enrolled, a yield rate of 24 percent.面向 2028 届，学校收到 15,229 份申请，录取 12,401 人、录取率 82%，其中 2,988 人入学，入学率 24%。

• Wayne State reports a second-term retention rate of 92.1 percent and a six-year graduation rate of 58.4 percent, and 44 percent of the incoming freshman class submitted SAT scores.校方公布次学期留存率为 92.1%、六年毕业率为 58.4%；当届新生中有 44% 提交了 SAT 成绩。

• The middle 50 percent of submitted SAT composite scores ranged from 1000 to 1199, and the 4 percent of 2021 freshmen with ACT scores fell between 18 and 29.提交的 SAT 综合分中间 50% 区间为 1000 至 1199 分；2021 年 4% 提交 ACT 成绩的新生，综合分介于 18 至 29 分。

• For fall 2024 the Law School received 1,179 applications and accepted 344, of whom 125 enrolled, with a first-year LSAT middle band of 157 to 164.2024 年秋季，法学院收到 1,179 份申请、录取 344 人，实际入学 125 人，一年级新生 LSAT 的中间区间为 157 至 164 分。

• Wayne State is one of seven college sponsors of the National Merit Scholarship Program in Michigan and sponsored eight Merit Scholarship awards in 2024.韦恩州立大学是密歇根州七所全国优秀学者奖学金计划高校赞助方之一，2024 年赞助了 8 个奖学金名额。

• The Wayne State University Library System houses nearly four million volumes, the seventy-fifth largest collection in the United States according to the American Library Association.韦恩州立大学图书馆系统藏书近 400 万册，据美国图书馆协会统计，其馆藏规模居全美第 75 位。

• The Arthur Neef Law Library holds over 620,000 volumes, the second largest law collection in Michigan, and subscribes to more than 1,500 journals and 1,000 loose-leaf services.阿瑟·尼夫法律图书馆藏书逾 62 万册，是密歇根州第二大法学馆藏，另订购 1,500 余种期刊与 1,000 种活页资料。

• The Walter P. Reuther Library holds the largest labor archives in North America, serves as the official repository for twelve major unions, and was established in 1960.沃尔特·P·罗伊特图书馆拥有北美规模最大的劳工档案，是 12 家大型工会的官方档案库，其建制可追溯至 1960 年。

• Wayne State received 352.6 million dollars in research awards in 2023, supporting centres such as the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute.2023 年该校获得 3.526 亿美元科研资助，支撑分子医学与遗传学中心、梅里尔·帕尔默·斯基尔曼研究所等机构。

Campus

• The main campus occupies 203 acres of landscaped walkways and gathering spots in Midtown Detroit, linking more than 100 education and research buildings.主校区位于底特律中城，占地 203 英亩，由景观步道与公共空间串联 100 余座教学与科研建筑。

• Architecturally significant structures include the University Auditorium, formerly the Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium, the Maccabees Building, Old Main, the McGregor Memorial Conference Center and the Gretchen Valade Jazz Center.校内涵盖多座建筑名作：大学礼堂（原海伦·L·德罗伊礼堂）、马卡比大楼、老主楼、麦格雷戈纪念会议中心与格蕾琴·瓦拉德爵士乐中心。

• Several campus buildings were designed by notable architects such as Albert Kahn and Minoru Yamasaki, giving the Midtown site an unusually rich architectural record.多座校园建筑出自著名建筑师之手，如阿尔伯特·卡恩与山崎实（Minoru Yamasaki），使中城校区留下格外丰富的建筑遗产。

• The campus lies in Midtown Detroit near the Cass Corridor, and many city events have taken place on or near the grounds because of that central location.校园地处底特律中城、紧邻卡斯走廊，凭借这一中心区位，许多城市活动都在校园内外举行。

• Tom Adams Field is a 6,000-seat football stadium named in 2003 after Thomas B. Adams, a 1944 graduate and former football and track athlete who later served on the board.汤姆·亚当斯球场是一座拥有 6,000 个座位的橄榄球场，2003 年以 1944 届毕业生、昔日橄榄球与田径运动员、后任校董的托马斯·B·亚当斯命名。

• A 35-foot video board was installed in August 2015, and the eight-lane Lowell Blanchard Track, first installed in 2006, gained Mondo surfacing in 2011.球场于 2015 年 8 月装设 35 英尺高的大型视频屏；场内八道的洛厄尔·布兰查德跑道于 2006 年铺设，2011 年加铺蒙多面层。

• The Wayne State Fieldhouse, a 70,000-square-foot arena with seating for 3,000 fans, opened in October 2021 as home to the basketball teams and a Detroit Pistons' G League affiliate.韦恩州立体育馆建筑面积 7 万平方英尺、可容纳 3,000 名观众，2021 年 10 月启用，是校篮球队与底特律活塞发展联盟球队的主场。

• In 2000 Wayne State joined Henry Ford Health and General Motors to launch TechTown, a business incubator that works with technology startups and entrepreneurs across Detroit.2000 年，韦恩州立大学与亨利·福特医疗系统、通用汽车共同创办科技镇（TechTown），这一企业孵化器服务于底特律的科技初创公司与创业者。

• Three satellite campuses serve the wider metro area, including the Macomb University Center at Macomb Community College in Clinton Township and the Advanced Technology Education Center in Warren.学校在都会区另设三处卫星校区，其中包括克林顿镇麦库姆社区学院内的麦库姆大学中心与沃伦的先进技术教育中心。

• The third is the Schoolcraft Center, housed at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, which extends the university's reach into western Wayne County.第三处为利沃尼亚的斯库尔克拉夫特中心，设于斯库尔克拉夫特学院内，把学校的影响延伸至韦恩县西部。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Wayne State University in the 801-850 band, the position for which this entry is compiled.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将韦恩州立大学列入第 801-850 位，本条目即按该档位编写。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 601-650 band, and the 2026-27 US News Best Global Universities table ranks it 466th.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 601-650 位；2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名则将其列在第 466 位。

• The 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, known as ARWU, places Wayne State in the 701-800 group of its main table of leading research universities.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名（ARWU）主榜将该校列入第 701-800 位区间。

• In its 2025 rankings U.S. News and World Report placed the undergraduate programme 179th among 436 national universities and 97th among public national universities.在 2025 年版榜单中，US News 将其本科项目列为全美 436 所国家级大学中的并列第 179 位、公立国家级大学第 97 位。

• Research funding reached 352.6 million dollars in awards in 2023, the clearest quantitative measure of the university's research output available for this entry.2023 年科研资助总额达 3.526 亿美元，这是本条目可核验的最明确的量化科研产出指标。

• Wayne State belongs to Michigan's University Research Corridor alongside Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University and the University of Michigan, a state-level research alliance.韦恩州立大学与密歇根州立大学、密歇根理工大学、密歇根大学同属密歇根大学研究走廊，这一州级科研联盟由四校组成。

• The university is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity, and its library system holds nearly four million volumes in its collections.该校按卡内基分类属研究活动极强的 R1 级博士型大学，图书馆系统藏书近 400 万册。

• No ranking of individual academic subjects for Wayne State appears in the material available for this entry, so no subject-level position is quoted here.在编写本条目所依据的材料中未见该校的学科排名数据，故此行不列学科名次。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded in the sources consulted, so the university's honours are institutional, from R1 classification to a library of nearly four million volumes.在可查来源中未见该校与诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物的关联，其荣誉属机构层面，如 R1 分类与近 400 万册的馆藏。

Student life

• Wayne State enrolled 23,964 students in fall 2024, and the university provides optional housing in apartments and residence halls equipped with wireless internet, laundry rooms, activity rooms and a 24-hour help desk.2024 年秋季在校生 23,964 人；校方向全体学生提供公寓与宿舍楼形式的可选住宿，楼内配备无线网络、洗衣房、活动室与 24 小时服务台。

• University-owned apartment buildings consist of University Towers and the Anthony Wayne Drive Apartments, both within walking distance of the main campus.校属公寓楼包括大学塔楼与安东尼·韦恩大道公寓，均位于主校区步行范围之内。

• In 2002 the university opened Yousif B. Ghafari Hall and Leon H. Atchison Hall, its first dormitory-style residence halls since the Newberry Joy Dorms closed in 1987.2002 年，学校启用优素福·B·加法里楼与利昂·H·阿奇森楼，这是 1987 年纽伯里·乔伊宿舍关闭以来首批宿舍式住宿楼。

• The Towers Residential Suites opened in 2005, and its Towers Café is the campus' largest dining facility, while Gold 'n' Greens in Ghafari Hall serves vegan, vegetarian and halal food.塔楼住宿套房于 2005 年启用，其中塔楼咖啡厅是校内最大的餐饮设施；加法里楼的 Gold 'n' Greens 则供应纯素、素食与清真餐食。

• In 2016 the university refurbished the historic Thompson Home and reopened it as The Thompson, a residence hall primarily for students in fine, performing and communication arts.2016 年，学校翻修历史建筑汤普森之家，并以「汤普森」之名重新启用，主要供表演与传播艺术类学生居住。

• Chatsworth Suites, which debuted in 1928, was renovated as a residence hall in 2020, adding a further residential option on the main campus.1928 年落成的查茨沃斯套房于 2020 年改造成宿舍楼，为主校区再添一处住宿选择。

• The university hosts chapters of more than two dozen fraternities and sororities, and Kappa Alpha Psi was suspended in 2010 after a hazing incident that seriously injured student Eric Walker.校内设有 20 余个兄弟会与姐妹会分会；卡帕·阿尔法·普西分会因 2010 年一起致学生埃里克·沃克重伤的入会欺凌事件被停办。

• The official student newspaper is The South End, the university hosts the public radio station WDET and the student online station WAYN, and the alumni association publishes Wayne State magazine.官方学生报纸为《南端》（The South End）；校方运营公共广播电台 WDET 与学生网络电台 WAYN，校友会则出版《韦恩州立》杂志。

• The intercollegiate athletics programme was established in 1917 by director of athletics David L. Holmes, whose track teams were nationally known into the 1950s.校际体育项目由首任体育主任戴维·L·霍姆斯于 1917 年创立，他带出的田径队直到 1950 年代仍享誉全国。

• A student poll chose the name Tartars for the teams in 1927, and the university changed it to the Warriors in 1999, competing today in NCAA Division II's Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.1927 年学生投票为校队选定「鞑靼人」之名，1999 年学校将其改为「勇士」，现参加 NCAA 二级联赛的五大湖校际体育联盟。

Notable people

• Theodore Andrews McGraw, M.D., signed the 1868 charter of the Detroit Medical College and served as the first president and dean after the 1885 merger that created the medical school line.西奥多·安德鲁斯·麦格劳医学博士签署了底特律医学院 1868 年的特许状，并在 1885 年合并后出任首任校长兼院长，开启该校的医学脉络。

• Allan Campbell, founding dean of the Detroit City Law School in 1927, stands at the head of the institution that became the Wayne State University Law School.艾伦·坎贝尔是 1927 年创立的底特律市立法学院首任院长，该学院即后来韦恩州立大学法学院的前身。

• Anthony Wayne, the Continental Army major general for whom Wayne County is named, supplies the personal link behind the university's title, adopted with the name Wayne University in 1934.大陆军少将安东尼·韦恩是韦恩县名的来源，也是校名背后的人物线索，1934 年学校取「韦恩大学」之名即出于此。

• M. Roy Wilson became the twelfth president of Wayne State in 2013, and the renamed M. Roy Wilson State Hall on the main campus commemorates his tenure.M. Roy Wilson 于 2013 年成为该校第 12 任校长，主校区以其姓名命名的 M. Roy Wilson 州立大楼记录了这段任期。

• Richard Bierschbach served as interim president from 2025 and was voted in as the fourteenth president in 2026, continuing the leadership line that began with the 1868 medical college.理查德·比尔施巴赫自 2025 年起担任代理校长，2026 年被推举为第 14 任校长，延续了 1868 年医学院以来历任校长的谱系。

• Albert Kahn and Minoru Yamasaki are among the notable architects whose buildings stand on the Detroit campus, a record of twentieth-century design.阿尔伯特·卡恩与山崎实等著名建筑师的作品矗立在底特律校区，构成一份 20 世纪建筑设计的实体名录。

• Thomas B. Adams, a 1944 graduate and former football and track athlete who later served on the board, gave his name to the football field in 2003.托马斯·B·亚当斯是 1944 届毕业生、昔日橄榄球与田径运动员、后任校董，橄榄球场于 2003 年以他命名。

• David L. Holmes, the first director of athletics in 1917, coached every sport himself and produced two Olympians from the school's Victorian-era gym within his first ten years.戴维·L·霍姆斯 1917 年出任首任体育主任，亲自执教各项运动，头十年便在学校维多利亚时代的老体育馆里培养出两名奥运选手。

• Names of donors and leaders run through the campus, from the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences to the Irvin D. Reid Honors College, marking the institution's private support.捐赠者与领导者的名字遍布校园，如尤金·阿普尔鲍姆药学与健康科学学院、欧文·D·里德荣誉学院等，标示着学校的私人捐资传统。