Columbia University

Columbia University is a private research university in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. It was chartered in 1754 as King's College under George II, making it the oldest institution of higher education in New York. It took the name Columbia after the American Revolution and moved to its Morningside Heights campus in upper Manhattan in 1897. It has since added the Manhattanville campus, the Irving Medical Center in Washington Heights and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

Columbia has about 17 schools, including the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Law School. Others include the Business School, the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Mailman School of Public Health and the School of International and Public Affairs. The Graduate School of Journalism administers the Pulitzer Prizes. Research centers include the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, the Data Science Institute and the Columbia Climate School. Barnard College and Teachers College are affiliated institutions.

Columbia enrolls about 36,000 students, and roughly two-thirds are in graduate and professional programs. More than a third of its students are international. More than 100 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students or faculty. Its alumni include Barack Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Warren Buffett.

Graduate study includes PhDs through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which are usually funded for five years. It also includes the JD and LLM, the MBA, the MD and many professional master's degrees such as the MIA, MPA, MPH and MS in Journalism. Many schools offer dual degrees. The year runs on semesters. Graduate students have access to New York's institutions, the United Nations and the city's finance and media sectors.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Columbia University lists 355 graduate programs across 61 subjects: 224 master's programs and 117 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, public health and health & medical sciences. Columbia University holds rank 12 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.