Panorama of Columbia University in New York City

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, New York
Panorama of Columbia University in New York City credit: Getty Hall
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Overview
Private not-for-profit
7,509 Undergraduates
7% Admissions Rate
City: Large
Private
Region: Northeast
Selective
Size: Small
Doctoral
Columbia University in the City of New York
West 116 St and Broadway
New York, New York
10027
(212) 854-1754
www.columbia.edu/

In 1754, King George II of England founded Columbia University in the City of New York as King’s College. It’s an Ivy League university and consistently ranked as one of the top 20 colleges in the world. Columbia is the oldest higher education institute in New York and the fifth oldest in the U.S. Most of the undergraduate and graduate activity takes place on the main campus in Morningside Heights, New York City, which occupies 32 acres, or more than six city blocks. Notable Columbia alumni include Former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, American statesman Alexander Hamilton, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, poet Allen Ginsberg, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, businessman Warren Buffett and singer Alicia Keys. Eighty-three Columbia grads have won Nobel Prizes, including Theodore Roosevelt for peace, Irving Langmuir for chemistry and Simon S. Kuznets for economics. The school is home to more than 40 intramural and club sports, as well as 31 NCAA Division I teams. In the last five years, it has won 17 Ivy League Championships. Its colors are Columbia blue and white, and its mascot is the lion.

Location

The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. More from Wikipedia...

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coffee score

96

restaurants score

Students
51%

Men

49%

Women

24

Average Age of Entering Students

98%

Live On Campus

618

New Transfer Students

Admissions
7%

Acceptance Rate

55%

Enrollment Yield

1460-1570

SAT Range

40,462

Applicants in 2020

Costs
$22,126

Typical Cost

$61,671

Average Tuition

58%

Recieve Financial Aid

77%

Have Loans

$18,500

Median Debt

Academics
6 to 1

Student to Faculty Ratio

Doctoral

Highest Degree Offered

"Computer Science"

Top Major

Campus Life

Dorm Food:

Standard

Clubs & Extracurriculars:

Important, more than 500 opportunities to choose from

Greek Life:

Important, 10 to 15 percent of students participate in Greek life

Party Scene:

Medium, mostly on the weekends + in local bars around NYC
Athletics
Basketball Conference:

Ivy Group

Track & Field Conference:

Ivy Group

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