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COLUMBIA

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • Located in New York City

  • Columbia's motto is: In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen, which translates into "In Thy light shall we see light "

  • The number of students attending Columbia is approximately 33,776

  • The student-faculty ratio is 6:1

  • Columbia University is the oldest institution of higher education in New York, and the fifth-oldest in the United States.

  • Founded in 1754 as King's College, it reopened after the American Revolution 1784, where it was renamed Columbia College.  

  •  It became Columbia University in 1912.

  • Until 1983, Columbia was a liberal arts school for men

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND CONCENTRATIONS:

  • 57 Major Programs, including Computer Science - Mathematics, Mathematics - Statistics, Environmental Chemistry, Neuroscience and Behaviour,  and more…

 

  • 59 Concentration Programs, including Chemistry, Physics, Public Health, Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species and more…

Columbia New York Skyline

ALUMNI AND FACULTY AWARDS:

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

  • 102 Nobel Prize laureates (71 in Natural Sciences)

  • 5 Fields Medal winners

  • 11 Wolf prize winners

  • 3 ACM Turing Award winners

  • 6 Crafoord Prize winners

  • Barack Obama (Former US president)

  • Alexander Hamilton (Founding Father)

  • Alicia Keys (Singer, Songwriter)

  • Amelia Earhart (Aviation Pioneer)

CAMPUS INFO:

  • More than 90% of Columbia students live on campus

  • Columbia's main campus has 6 city blocks or 32 acres in Morningside Heights, where the university also owns about 7800 apartments.

  • The school has approximately 300 buildings and an extensive tunnel system more than a century old.

  • The whole campus is about 36 acres.

REQUIREMENTS:

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