Columbia University

Columbia University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1754. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 6,084, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 36 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Columbia University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 4. Its charge and fees are $51,008 (2014-15).

Columbia University, amid in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights adjacency in New York City, offers a advanced ambit of apprentice activities. The Columbia Lions acreage added than 25 NCAA Division I teams in the Ivy League. Added than 90 percent of acceptance reside in on-campus housing, alignment from acceptable abode halls to university-owned brownstones. Many of the brownstones are busy by the added than 25 Greek fraternity and abode capacity on campus, whose associates includes about 10 percent of the apprentice body. Organizations such as Burghal New York, which gives out chargeless tickets to city-limits events, advance apprentice alternation with activity in the Big Apple.

Columbia is comprised of three undergraduate schools—Columbia College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the School of General Studies—as able-bodied as a amount of alum and able schools. Columbia’s alum programs cover the awful ranked Business School, Teachers College, SEAS, Law School, College of Physicians and Surgeons, School of International and Public Affairs, School of the Arts and Mailman School of Public Health. The university aswell has a well-regarded College of Dental Medicine and Alum School of Journalism. Columbia is affiliated with Barnard College for women, the Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Distinguished alumni cover John Jay, founding ancestor and aboriginal Supreme Court Justice; President Barack Obama; songwriting aggregation Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; and extra Maggie Gyllenhaal. Columbia aswell administers the Pulitzer Prizes.