创办时间：1853年
所在城市：美国密苏里州圣路易斯市
学校性质：私立综合类研究型大学
学生人数：16,300+
师生比：1:7
优势学科：医学、社会工作、设计与人机交互、商科、生命科学、生物医学工程、法学、电气工程、计算机科学、心理学、政治学与经济学
About WashU 关于华盛顿大学圣路易斯
The mission of Washington University in St. Louis is to act in service of truth through the formation of leaders, the discovery of knowledge, and the treatment of patients for the betterment of our region, our nation and our world.
华盛顿大学圣路易斯致力于通过培养领导者、探索知识及救治患者来服务真理，以此推动本地区、国家乃至全球的进步。
At WashU, we generate, disseminate, and apply knowledge. We foster freedom of inquiry and expression of ideas in our research, teaching and learning.
在华盛顿大学圣路易斯，我们创造、传播并应用知识。在研究与教学过程中，我们倡导自由探索与思想表达。
We aim to create an environment that encourages and supports wide-ranging exploration at the frontier of discovery by embracing diverse perspectives from individuals of all identities and backgrounds. We promote higher education and rigorous research as a fundamental component of an open, vibrant society. We strive to enhance the lives and livelihoods not only of our students, patients, and employees but also of the people of the greater St. Louis community and beyond. We do so by addressing scientific, social, economic, medical, and other challenges in the local, national, and international realms.
我们旨在营造鼓励和支持在探索前沿进行广泛研究的氛围，拥抱来自不同身份背景的多元视角。我们推崇高等教育与严谨研究作为开放、活力社会的基础要素。我们努力提升学生、患者和员工的生活与福祉，同时也惠及大圣路易斯地区及更广阔领域的人群——通过应对地方、国家与国际层面在科学、社会、经济、医疗等领域的挑战来实现这一目标。
Our goals are: 我们的目标是
to foster excellence and creativity in our teaching, research, scholarship, patient care and service
to welcome students, faculty and staff from all backgrounds to create an inclusive, equitable community that is nurturing and intellectually rigorous
to cultivate in students habits of lifelong learning and critical and ethical thinking, thereby enabling them to be productive members and leaders of a global society
to contribute positively to our home community of St. Louis, and to effect meaningful, constructive change in our world
• 在教学、研究、学术、患者护理和服务中追求卓越与创新
• 欢迎所有背景的师生员工，创建包容、公平、滋养心智且学术严谨的共同体
• 培养学生终身学习的习惯及批判性、伦理性的思维，使其成为全球社会中富有贡献的成员与领导者
• 为圣路易斯本地社区作出积极贡献，为世界带来有意义、建设性的改变
To this end we intend: 为此我们致力于
to hold ourselves to the highest standards of excellence
to educate aspiring leaders of great ability from diverse backgrounds
to encourage faculty and students to be innovative, bold, independent, critical thinkers
to build an inclusive, equitable, respectful, ethically-principled environment for living, teaching, learning and working for the present and future generations
to focus on meaningful and measurable outcomes for all of our endeavors
• 恪守最高标准的卓越品质
• 培养来自多元背景、具备卓越能力的未来领袖
• 鼓励师生成为创新、勇敢、独立、具有批判精神的思考者
• 为当代及后代构建包容、公平、尊重、恪守伦理原则的生活、教学、学习与工作环境
• 聚焦所有努力所产出的有意义、可衡量的成果
History and Traditions 历史与传统
In the early 1850s, 17 prominent St. Louis business, religious, and political leaders saw the need for a Midwestern institute for higher learning. However, though they all were successful in their fields, none of them had experience in the business of establishing and growing a university.
1850年代初，17位圣路易斯知名商业、宗教和政治领袖认识到中西部地区需要一所高等学府。尽管他们在各自领域卓有成就，却均无创办和发展大学的经验。
On February 22, 1853, one of these men — State Senator Wayman Crow — saw an opportunity to act on their vision and drafted a charter for an “Eliot Seminary” for the governor. The charter was signed into law the same day, effectively establishing the seminary. This action had not been discussed with the others and was a surprise to all, including William Greenleaf Eliot Jr., the St. Louis Unitarian minister after whom Crow had named the institute.
1853年2月22日，州参议员韦曼·克罗抓住机遇践行愿景，为州长起草了成立"艾略特神学院"的章程。该章程当日即签署生效，正式创立了这所神学院。此举未经与其他人士商议，令所有人——包括被克罗用作学院命名的圣路易斯一位论派牧师威廉·格林利夫·艾略特——都感到意外。
Nevertheless, under Eliot’s leadership, the men took their charge seriously and set about to build a university.
在艾略特的领导下，众人郑重承担起建设大学的责任。
One of Eliot’s first actions was to change the institution’s name to Washington University to free it from any implied sectarianism or personal self-interest. Eliot insisted that Washington University remain forever nonsectarian and politically nonpartisan.
艾略特的首批举措之一便是将机构更名为华盛顿大学，以摆脱任何教派倾向或个人私利的印象。他坚持要求大学永远保持非教派性与政治中立。
Without a prior endowment or backing by a religious or political group, or a single wealthy donor, Washington University’s growth was small at first. Evening classes for local St. Louisans offered the university’s first big successes.
由于没有初始捐赠基金，也缺乏宗教或政治团体乃至单一富豪的支持，华盛顿大学最初发展缓慢。为当地圣路易斯人开设的夜间课程成为大学最早的重大成功举措。
What began as a modest venture to address a need in the Midwest is now an internationally renowned university focused on teaching, learning, research, service, and patient care.
从中西部教育需求的朴素起点出发，如今已成为聚焦教学、研究、服务与患者护理的国际知名学府。
Today, while proud to continue offering evening classes for local St. Louisans, WashU’s nine schools serve 17,000 undergraduate and graduate/professional students who come from more than 100 countries and all 50 states.
今日，华盛顿大学圣路易斯九大学院在为本地居民继续提供夜间课程的同时，更接纳来自全球100多个国家及美国所有50州的17,000名本科与研究生/专业学生。
WashU is an R-1 private research institution whose faculty and staff brought in over $950 million in research funding in 2022. WashU’s School of Medicine represents 78 specialties at 60+ clinical sites through WashU Physicians, one of the largest academic clinical practices in the nation.
作为最高级别研究型私立机构（R-1），华盛顿大学圣路易斯教职工在2022年获得超过9.5亿美元研究经费。通过全美最大的学术临床实践体系之一——华盛顿大学圣路易斯医师联盟，医学院在60多个临床基地涵盖78个医疗专科。