The university encompasses twenty schools and is affiliated with numerous institutions, including Teachers College (which is Columbia University's Graduate School of Education), Barnard College, and the Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Sciences Po Paris and the Juilliard School. The University also operates Columbia Global Centers overseas in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Nairobi.
Columbia is among the world's top universities in selectivity and prestige. In the Center for Measuring University Performance, administered by Arizona State University, Columbia has been ranked first (tied with MIT, Stanford University and Penn) in the United States. The ranking takes into account total research, federal research, endowment assets, annual giving, National Academy members, faculty awards, doctorates granted, postdoctoral appointees, and undergraduate SAT/ACT range. Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize. Additionally, 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with the university as students, faculty, or staff. Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree. Notable alumni and former students of the university and its predecessor, King's College, include five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court; 43 Nobel Prize laureates; 20 living billionaires; 29 Academy Award winners; and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 King's College (1754–1784)
1.2 Columbia College (1784–1896)
1.3 Columbia University (1896–present)
2 Campus
2.1 Morningside Heights
2.2 Other campuses
2.3 Sustainability
3 Academics
3.1 Undergraduate admissions and financial aid
3.2 Organization
3.3 Research and rankings
4 Student life
4.1 Students
4.1.1 Publications
4.1.2 Broadcasting
4.1.3 Debate and Model UN
4.2 Technology and entrepreneurship
4.3 Athletics
4.4 World Leaders Forum
4.5 Other
5 Student activism
5.1 Protests of 1968
5.2 Protests against racism and apartheid
5.3 Ahmadinejad speech controversy
5.4 ROTC controversy
6 Traditions
6.1 Orgo Night
6.2 Tree-Lighting and Yule Log ceremonies
6.3 The Varsity Show
7 Notable people
8 See also
9 References
10 Notes
11 Further reading
12 External links
History[edit]
Main article: History of Columbia University
King's College (1754–1784)[edit]
King's College Hall, 1770
Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, when Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college; however, not until the founding of Princeton University across the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City of New York seriously consider founding a college. In 1746 an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. In 1751, the assembly appointed a commission of ten New York residents, seven of whom were members of the Church of England, to direct the funds accrued by the state lottery towards the foundation of a college.
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