Highlights

Undergraduate education at Columbia is offered through Columbia College, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. Undergraduate programs are offered by two affiliated institutions, Barnard College and Jewish Theological Seminary. Columbia University provides post-graduate education through thirteen graduate and professional schools and a school of continuing education. Three affiliated schools also offer post-graduate programs.

University Attributes

A surprising mix of intellectual Ivy League atmosphere and a small college sense of community, nestled in and enriched by the diversity of New York City. Columbia is known for breaking down the walls that separate the 'ivory towers' of academia from the rest of the world. As a vital, multicultural center of life, learning and diversity of every kind - geographic, ethnic, religious and socioeconomic - Columbia stands alone. Our students come from more than thirty countries and all fifty states. Males and females are about equally represented in the student populations, and well over 30 percent of the students at the University are Asian, Black, Hispanic or Native American. Each year we welcome an enormously varied, extraordinarily interesting group of students. Difference has a place here, and we feel at home with it. For you that means that wherever you're from and wherever you hope to go, Columbia will encourage you to grow and mature as your own person.

Degrees Available

• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Arts
• Master of Science
• Master of Arts
• Doctorate

Subject Areas

Experience Required

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Columbia University's Mission Statement

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.