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A platform for success, Columbia College offers university transfer courses, associate degrees, university preparatory foundations, and ESL programs.
College Announces 2024 Trilling Book Award and Van Doren Teaching Award. The Academic Awards Committee of the Columbia College Student Council is honoring two professors in the Department of English and Comparative Literature this year. Read more.
Since 1851, Columbia College has been offering quality higher education with a wide variety of programs available to everyone. From traditional students to military service members, working adults, and beyond, our commitment to providing a diverse and inclusive learning environment is unwavering.
From its distinctive Core Curriculum, exceptional research facilities and extensive global programming, to its small class sizes and intimate learning environments, the educational experience of Columbia College is marked by countless opportunities for personal and intellectual growth.
One of the world’s premier liberal arts colleges, Columbia College is distinguished by a singular, intensive Core Curriculum and provides all the benefits of a small college and all the reach of a great research university. Students have close contact with prize-winning and path-breaking faculty, a comprehensive advising system and a ...
At this time, Columbia College was now not only the name of the original undergraduate college founded as King's College, but it also encompassed all of the other colleges and schools of the institution.
In 1893, the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, & White begin designing the Morningside Heights campus. In 1896, Columbia College in the City of New York was renamed Columbia University in the City of New York, with the undergraduate school retaining the name Columbia College.
Columbia College holds true to Dr. Johnson's promise and continues to promote a liberal education, but now with a curriculum which includes upwards of 73 majors, 51 concentrations, 10 special concentrations, and hundreds of electives as well as a Core Curriculum which has, in addition to Contemporary Civilization, Frontiers of Science ...
Columbia College is Columbia's traditional undergraduate liberal arts college; its founding in 1754 as King's College marks the birth of Columbia University. Columbia Engineering is the University's engineering school, offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
The Core Curriculum is the heart of the Columbia College education. Its central intellectual mission is to provide all students with wide-ranging perspectives, a deeper understanding of history, and critical and creative thinking skills through the study of literature , science , philosophy , music , and art .
