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IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK Nowhere but here

01 This is a place unlike any other. A major research university on a historic campus in the City of New York. Where a renowned curriculum is fueled by an incredibly diverse community. It’s a place for the dreamers. For the changemakers. For the risk-takers. For those who seek to connect deeply and collaborate fully with others who are yearning to learn what’s next and what’s new.

02 03 Those who pioneer. Those who break through.

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Those who delight in discovery and the joy of asking, “Why?”

05 06 It’s where a groundbreaking Core Curriculum provides an unparalleled foundation for inquiry. Where a belief in Engineering for Humanity guides scientific advances that improve our collective vision. Where the Columbia College Journey connects individuals to society, scholarship to leadership and ideas to action. Forever questing. Forever questioning. Forever curious.

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09 This is a place for the curious, and one thing is for certain: wondering and wandering go hand in hand. From your Core seminar to the Senior Design Expo.Wher From volunteering at a e will youth literacy program to conducting research at Columbia University

Irving Medical Center to studying “Columbia Blue brought me to the intersection of artificial intelligence abroad in Berlin. From the George and human biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where I Washington Bridge to Washington work with biologists and computer scientists to integrate computer vision Heights to Washington, DC. A models into cancer research.”

Columbia education is a foundation JAMES w. Dublin, CA for learning, achieving and becoming that can take you to amazing places. How far will you go? Whose lives will Columbyou touch? We can’t wait to find out. ia

“Paris, France — I’m the first person in my family to travel outside of the United States. Being a Presidential Global Fellow gave me the freedom “At Columbia, I discovered my love to be able to explore an incredible and my passion for the theater. The cultural capital.” Varsity Show was probably the most formative experience that I had at Jenniffer Elise P. Columbia — the arts were a great way Camden, OH of bringing people together.”

Rita Pietropinto-Kitt (CC’93, SOA’96) Actor “Columbia taught me to think. To question. To care. It took me to Washington, DC, and a public-service career where I became the 82nd Attorney General of the United States.”

Eric H. Holder Jr. (CC’73, LAW ’76) 82nd Attorney General of the United States

take10 you? “In the space of two weeks, I was able to hear Angela Davis speak about prison reform and Mayor Wher eMichael Nutter discuss his years will of public service. I've been able to connect with so many incredible people because of Columbia.” “I had the unbelievable chance to meet MARTIN H. and conduct research with Nobel Hockessin, DE Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. Through his research mentorship, he taught me how to be a scientist. Through his outspokenness on inequity, he taught me how to stand up for what’s right.”

Elif M. Constanța, Romania

“I am working in London this summer as a securities analyst at Goldman Sachs. Columbia has taught me quantitative skills and equipped me with a global outlook and appreciation for traveling the world as a means to educate myself and enrich my soul.”

Sophie B. Columb ia BlueMontreal, Canada

“Engineering is foundational — but engineering thinking alone is not sufficient. Columbia helped me connect my analytic skills to a broader set of cultural, aesthetic and ethical “In Professor Eugene Wu’s Computer understandings. Effectively tying those Science Lab, I’m researching how together is one of the characteristics to automatically visualize changing that sets Columbia engineers apart.”

animated or interactive data. I’m SHAWn edwards (SEAS’9o) running user studies, submitting Chief Technology Officer, papers to conferences and doing Bloomberg work that will contribute to the academic community.”

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12 NYC BUCKET LIST LANGUAGES Yiddish Museum The Morgan Library Icahn Stadium and Granite Run in the NYC Afrikaans Yoruba In theof JewishCity of Heritage New Yorkand Museum Red Bull Arena Broadcasting Marathon Albanian Yucatec Maya Museum Theodore Roosevelt Madison Square HarperCollins of Modern Art Birthplace Garden Walk across the Amharic Zapotec HBO Brooklyn Bridge Arabic Museum of Ukrainian Museum MetLife Stadium Hearst Corporation MUSEUMS Television Attend NY Aramaic Whitney Museum Yankee Stadium HSBC Bank Fashion Week 9/11 Memorial and Radio of American Art Armenian Interpublic Group Picnic in Sheep Museum Museum of the City ZOOS AND GARDENS J. Crew Meadow Bantu Alice Austen House of New York BROADWAY THEATERS Battery Bosque Al Hirschfeld JPMorgan Chase Holiday Windows Bengali Museum Museum of the Bronx Zoo Theater on 5th Ave. Bukhari American Folk Art Moving Image Brooklyn Botanic Kohlberg Kravis Ambassador Roberts Smorgasburg Cajun (French Museum National Academy Garden Theatre in Brooklyn and English) American Museum Museum Central Park Zoo KPMG American Airlines The TODAY show Cantonese of Natural History National Design Gardens of Macy’s Museum Theatre Good Morning Chaldean American Museum Remembrance Major League August Wilson America Chamorro of the Moving Image National Museum Jamaica Bay Wildlife Baseball of the American Theatre Saturday Night Live Czech American Refuge Marvel Numismatic Society Indian Belasco Theatre Entertainment Enjoy Italian food Danish New York Aquarium Neue Galerie Bernard B. Jacobs on Arthur Ave. Americas Society New York Botanical MetLife Dravidian Museum Theatre Ice Skate in Anne Frank Center Garden Moody’s Dutch New Museum Booth Theatre Bryant Park for Mutual Respect Prospect Park Zoo Morgan Stanley English of Contemporary Broadhurst Theatre Walk the High Line Artists Space Queen Elizabeth MTV Networks Faroese Art Asia Society and Broadway Theatre II September 11th Climb the Vessel New York City NASDAQ French Museum Brooks Atkinson Garden (formerly in Hudson Yards Fire Museum National Basketball French Creole Brooklyn Historical Theatre the British Garden) Banana Pudding New York City Association Gaelic Society Circle in the Square Queens Botanical at Magnolia Bakery Police Museum National Football Garifuna Bronx Museum Theatre Garden Tony Award- New York Hall of League of the Arts Cort Theatre Queens County winning Broadway German Science National Hockey Show Carnegie Hall/Rose Ethel Barrymore Farm Museum Greek New York League Museum Theatre Queens Zoo US Open Gujarati Historical Society NBC Universal Caribbean Cultural Eugene O’Neill Staten Island Governors Island Hebrew New York Public New York Stock Center African Theatre Botanical Garden Live at the Apollo Hindi Library Exchange Diaspora Institute George Gershwin Staten Island Zoo Karaoke in New York Transit New York Times Hungarian Children’s Museum Theatre Koreatown Museum The New York Company Ibo of Manhattan Gerald Schoenfeld Chinese Scholar’s Hester Street Fair Nicholas Roerich News Corporation Icelandic Chinatown History Theatre Garden Staten Island Ferry Museum Omnicom Group Istro-Romanian Museum Hayes Theater Wave Hill Grand Central Noguchi Museum Parsons Italian Cooper Hewitt, Hudson Theatre Station does your classroomPaley Center for extendCORPORATE Brinckerhoff Smithsonian Design Japanese Imperial Theatre United Nations Museum Media HEADQUARTERS Pfizer Kashubian John Golden Coney Island Dia Center for the Poets House ABC Ralph Lauren Korean Theatre Wonder Wheel Arts Queens Historical Advance Random House Lithuanian Longacre Theatre The Strand Dyckman Society Publications Revlon up and down BroadwayLunt-Fontanne Malayalam Bookstore Farmhouse Queens Museum Alcoa Saks Fifth Avenue Mamuju of Art Theatre Rockaway Beach El Museo Del Barrio American Express Showtime Networks Mandaic Rose Center for Lyceum Theatre Boardwalk Empire State AIG Simon & Schuster Mandarin Building Lobby Earth and Space Lyric Theatre Stained Glass at St. Ann Taylor Sony Music Gallery Rubin Museum Marquis Theatre Patrick’s Cathedral Marathiand around the world.Associated Press Entertainment Fraunces Tavern of Art Minskoff Theatre Chinatown Mixtec Bank of America Sotheby’s Dumplings and Egg Goethe-Institut Schomburg Center Music Box Theatre Nahuatl Merrill Lynch Steve Madden Custard Tarts Seaman’s Church Norwegian Grey Art Gallery Neil Simon Theatre Barnes & Noble Institute TheStreet.com Nuyorican Poets International Center New Amsterdam Ormuri Bloomberg Thomson Reuters Café Reading of Photography Snug Harbor Theatre Patois Cultural Center Bloomingdale’s Thrillist Media Kayak the Intrepid Sea-Air- Palace Theatre Hudson River Pennsylvania Dutch Solomon R. Booz & Company Group Space Museum Samuel J. Friedman Persian Guggenheim Bristol-Myers TIAA-CREF Greenwich Village Japan Society Theatre Halloween Parade Polish Museum Squibb Tiffany & Co. Jewish Museum Schomburg Center South Street Brown Brothers Soho Sidewalk Café Portuguese for Research in Time Warner LaGuardia and Seaport Museum Harriman & Co. Free Jazz at Lincoln Punjabi Wagner Archives Black Culture Turner Construction Center Staten Island Calvin Klein Rhaeto-Romanic Lower East Side Shubert Theatre Universal Music Institute Cerberus Capital Crazy Shake at Romany Tenement Museum Socrates Sculpture Group Studio Museum in Management Black Tap Park Univision Romanian Madame Tussauds Harlem Rockefeller Center Citigroup Communications Russian New York St. James Theatre Christmas Tree Taipei Gallery Colgate-Palmolive Merchant’s House Stephen Sondheim Verizon Lighting Serbo-Croatian The Africa Center Museum Theatre Coach Viacom Sleep No More Slovak The Brooklyn Met Breuer Studio 54 Theatre Condé Nast Voya Financial Immersive Theatre Somali Children’s Museum Cushman & Experience MoMA PS1 Sugar Hill Children’s Weil, Gotshal & Spanish The Brooklyn Wakefield Mount Vernon Hotel Museum of Art and Manges Hamilton Ticket Spanish Creole Museum of Art Museum & Garden Storytelling Deloitte Ziff Davis Lottery The Children’s Swahili Vivian Beaumont Deutsche Bank Outdoor Movies Municipal Art Museum Swedish Theatre BIRD’S-EYE VIEW in Brooklyn Society of the Arts DKNY Edge Sky Deck Bridge Park Tagalog Museum at Walter Kerr Theatre Dow Jones & The Cloisters at Hudson Yards Comedy Cellar Tamil Eldridge Street Winter Garden Company The Drawing Center Empire State or Upright Telugu Museum at FIT Theatre E*TRADE The Frick Collection Building Citizens Brigade Turkish Museum of Ernst & Young The Hispanic SPORTS STADIUMS One World New York American Financial Twi Society of America Arthur Ashe Estée Lauder Observatory Restaurant Week History Companies Ukrainian The Metropolitan Stadium Statue of Liberty The Great Saunter Museum of Arts Urdu Museum of Art Belmont Park Etsy Crown Ticker Tape Parade and Design Vietnamese The Miriam and Ira Citi Field FAO Schwarz Top of the Rock/ in the Canyon Museum of Chinese D. 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“When you pull into the subway station at 116th and Broadway, the sign says Columbia, the walls are light blue, and you get off and think, ‘This stop is mine.’”

Liz V. Scarsdale, NY English and Art History

A HISTORIC RESIDENTIAL CAMPUS Your corner of the world’s greatest city.

Between Broadway and Amsterdam, from 114th to 120th Streets, Columbia students find a place in which to find themselves. Nestled in the neighborhood of Morningside Heights, bordered by three parks, they discover an intimate campus that they can truly call home — both during their time here and long after they leave.

From brownstones and traditional residence halls to special living 40+ communities for students who RESTAURANTS share common interests, Columbia AND CAFÉS IN undergraduates make the most MORNINGSIDE of the largest residential campus HEIGHTS in Manhattan. Guaranteed housing for all four years provides Full of green spaces, coffee shops, ample time and opportunity to eclectic restaurants and great pursue passions, forge friendships hangouts, Morningside Heights and coalesce into a community is a character-rich and culturally that immediately feels like family — diverse environment with a and to build a sense of belonging friendly face on every corner — in the streets just beyond our gates. where in no time at all, “I’m here” gives way to “I’m home.” It’s a place 3 where Columbia students become part of something larger, and PUBLIC PARKS where the rest of the world is only a short subway ride away.

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4 20+ YEARS OF RESIDENCE GUARANTEED HALLS HOUSING

“Living as a student in New York has given me a greater sense of independence. I’ve grown not only as a student and a critical thinker, but as an adult, as well.”

Nkima S. Conyers, GA Neuroscience and Behavior

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A RENOWNED RESEARCH UNIVERSITY A proud tradition of intellectual exploration.

Columbia has been a place of deep intellectual curiosity and wide-ranging academic inquiry since 1754. Across departments, schools, centers and institutes, Columbians at every level are driven by an abiding passion for discovery and work in the service of improving human understanding and the advancement of our global society.

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“Columbia students are highly engaged in the world around them, and the intensity of their opinions makes for great discussion — even in a casual atmosphere like our floor lounge.”

Mackenzie G. Great Falls, MT Sociology and Business Management From the law school of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the business school of Warren Buffett 17 to the School of Journalism where the Pulitzer Prize was born, GRADUATE AND Columbia’s graduate institutions PROFESSIONAL are home to a wide range SCHOOLS of academic opportunities — many of which are designated When students apply to specifically for Columbia either Columbia College or undergraduates. The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Whether through the Core (Columbia Engineering), they Curriculum that has informed join an intimate community our community’s discourse for of talented and motivated a century or in exciting endeavors learners and become integral like the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative components of the University for Civil and Political Rights, the 246 ecosystem that thrives around Columbia Startup Lab or the FACULTY IN THE them. Working closely with Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior NATIONAL ACADEMY Institute, Columbians are outstanding faculty who are OF ENGINEERING, called to grapple with timeless deeply invested in their learning, ACADEMY OF students of both schools gain questions. They form personal SCIENCE AND an unparalleled education and meaningful relationships AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS that serves as a foundation with ideas and ideals. Above all, AND SCIENCES for greatness. they strive to know — not only for the sake of knowing, but also in On College Walk, at the heart an attempt to cast a light on our of campus, students stand in the collective pathway forward. center of 17 world-renowned 6:1 graduate and professional schools, STUDENT-TO- “I couldn’t have received the and often find themselves amid FACULTY RATIO the same halls and classrooms Rhodes without the opportunities that have been home to many I had at Columbia to pursue a of the giants of our time. truly interdisciplinary education.”

Anish G. Rhodes Scholar Mumbai, India Comparative Literature and Society

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NEW YORK CULTURE and OPPORTUNITIES An entire universe inside 315 city blocks.

New York is a city that defies description. A place where languages, cultures and ideas combine to create something wholly unique. It’s Wall Street and Silicon Alley. It’s The Met and MoMA. The Brooklyn Bridge and Washington Square Park. SoHo, the Village, TriBeCa, Midtown, Harlem, Chinatown and Little Italy. It’s the 1, the 7, the A and the Q. By ferry. By taxi. By bike share. By cross- town bus. It’s high finance and high fashion. World-class hospitals, world-shaping technology and world-changing ideas. It’s literary, culinary, contemporary and classic. It’s big, bold Broadway stages and a cup of coffee sipped while tucked away in some quiet corner with a book and a friend.

As a Columbia student, you can make the most of New York City’s incredible resources. A city that was itself a technological marvel is now a technology megahub that’s redefining industries and reimagining the future — a living lab where your classroom learning becomes real-world 800 reality. Where you can find your LANGUAGES SPOKEN focus, or focus on giving back through a wide range of civic Most of all, it’s a city of discovery, engagement and service-learning where virtually every subway opportunities, in Morningside stop is alive with more museums, “Canvassing for a campaign in the Heights and throughout the five theaters, galleries, restaurants, Bronx, I learned about cultural boroughs. cafés, clubs and performance competency and understanding venues than you could ask for — the ways different cultures express and offers you the chance to themselves. This is a very important glimpse into a new world and gain skill — we need to recognize that a new perspective on yourself. our diversity is our strength.”

Mark T. Edinburg, TX Operations Research

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1,200+ MILES OF BIKE LANES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY

“Being surrounded by people both so similar to and so different from myself has only enriched 10,000 STREET FOOD VENDORS my understanding of myself AND MORE THAN 25,OOO and the role that I hope to play RESTAURANTS TO SUIT in the world.” EVERY APPETITE

Bunmi F. Powder Springs, GA Biomedical Engineering and Hispanic Studies

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GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT To learn with the world and from it.

In an increasingly interconnected world, cross-cultural understanding and global engagement are more critical than ever. With nearly a 130+ dozen global centers, Columbia’s reach is extended to every corner STUDY ABROAD of the world, bringing our undergraduates countless opportunities PROGRAMS IN MORE THAN 1OO to experience an exhilarating array of locations and unfamiliar DESTINATIONS ways of life.

From the Columbia Experience Overseas (CEO) internship program that spans industries and world locales to one of the most active 50+ Engineers Without Borders chapters in the nation — and more LANGUAGES than 130 study abroad programs spanning six continents and 40 TAUGHT countries — Columbia undergraduates travel pathways that lead from our campus to everywhere else. Along the way, they’ll join field- leading, trail-blazing faculty and the broader Columbia community in research and classwork that advances the principles of mutual respect, greater understanding and common humanity. 22

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A truly global campus.

With one of the largest international populations of any university in the world, Columbia is truly a global campus — and a reflection of the city it calls home. Columbia students explore diverse international works through a series of Global Core courses, and develop important cultural, historical and geographical perspectives by engaging in on-campus programs and events. 100+ COUNTRIES REPRESENTED Each fall, when prestigious ON CAMPUS leaders from around the world travel to New York City for United Nations Week, the renowned World Leaders Forum brings them to Columbia for lively leaders who have demonstrated debates, intellectual discourse a commitment to finding solutions and exploration of important to challenges in their communities, global challenges. Past speakers regions and countries. include Madeleine Albright, Kofi Annan and Shinzō Abe. Living and learning in one of the world’s premier international The Obama Foundation Scholars cities, and taking advantage Program, with support from of the many opportunities Columbia World Projects, brings provided through the Center together young and promising for Undergraduate Global Engagement, Columbia College and Columbia Engineering students become part of a rich tapestry of profoundly global experiences.

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SOME OF OUR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI From the Broadway stage to the political stage; biotech startups to the Baseball Hall of Fame; Nobel Prize ceremonies, big city newsrooms and the halls of academia — a Columbia education empowers graduates to pursue great things and have a world- changing impact. Where will Columbia Blue take you?

Ruth Bader Ursula Burns Michael J. Kate Kai-Fu Lee Ginsburg Former Xerox CEO and Massimino McKinnon Founder and CEO CEO of VEON of Innovation Works United States Professor of engineering Actor and comedian SEAS’82 and founding president Supreme Court and former NASA known for her work Mechanical Justice astronaut on Saturday Night Live of Google China Engineering LAW’59 SEAS’84 CC’o6 CC’83 Computer Science Law Industrial Theater Engineering

Judy Joo Barack Antonia Richard Jenji Kohan Celebrity chef Obama Pantoja Axel Award-winning SEAS’97 television writer 44th President of the Founder of ASPIRA and Nobel Prize–winning Industrial Engineering and producer United States Presidential Freedom molecular biologist and Operations CC’91 CC’83 Medal recipient CC’67 Research English Language Political Science SW’54 Literature and Literature and International Social Work Relations

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ARTS and LETTERS Robert A.M. Stern, John Kluge, Anita Lo, celebrity Pixley ka Isaka Seme, Eugene H. Trinh, Isaac Asimov, author architect entrepreneur chef and author founder of the African biochemist and first National Congress Chinese-Vietnamese Emanuel Ax, Grammy Twyla Tharp, Randy Lerner, Andrés Martinez, choreographer former Cleveland former editorial page Faye Wattleton, American astronaut Award–winning in space classical pianist Christine Wang, Browns owner; CEO editor of The Los former president architect of MBNA Bank Angeles Times of the Center for George Yancopoulos, Chris Baio, Rostam the Advancement of founder, president Batmanglij, Ezra Jon Oringer, Janice Min, former ACADEMICS founder and CEO of chief creative officer Women and chief scientific Koenig, Chris Tomson, and THEORISTS officer, Regeneron founding members Shutterstock and co-president of PRESIDENTS William Theodore Pharmaceuticals, Inc. of indie rock band Eric Poirier, CEO entertainment group, de Bary, East Asian Dwight D. Eisenhower Vampire Weekend of Addepar Guggenheim Media SPORTS literary scholar (The Hollywood Barack Obama Béla Bartók, Grammy Louis Rossetto, Lou Gehrig, National Jacques Barzun, Reporter-Billboard Franklin D. Roosevelt Award–winning founder of Wired Baseball Hall of Famer historian Media Group) composer Magazine Theodore Roosevelt Vitas Gerulaitis, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Pulitzer, Kathryn Bigelow, film Robert J. Stevens, tennis champion scholar of mythology publisher SCIENCE and director; first woman former chairman, TECHNOLOGY Sandy Koufax, National John Dewey, president and CEO of Claire Shipman, to win Best Director James F. Albaugh, Baseball Hall of Famer Academy Award philosopher; educator Lockheed Martin journalist, The New York Times best-selling former executive Katie Meili, Olympic Santiago Calatrava, Milton Friedman, S. Robson Walton, author and public vice president of the bronze-medal swimmer architect economist former chairman of Boeing Company speaker William Milligan Wal-Mart board and CEO of Boeing Wendy Carlos, Ellen V. Futter, George Sloane, founder of US of directors Commercial Airplanes Grammy Award– president of the Stephanopoulos, chief Olympic Committee winning classical American Museum Marco Zappacosta, Edwin Armstrong, anchor and chief Nzingha Prescod, composer of Natural History cofounder and CEO electrical engineer political correspondent Olympic fencer Brian Dennehy, Tony Jane Jacobs, of Thumbtack for ABC News and inventor of FM radio Erinn Smart, Award– and Emmy urban theorist Arthur Ashkin, scientist MEDIA and PUBLISHING Elizabeth Trotta, former Olympic fencer Award–winning actor Edward Kasner, NY Bureau chief and Nobel Laureate Daniel Alarcón, writer Cristina Teuscher, Peter Farrelly, mathematician of The Washington Jamey Barbas, Project Roone Arledge Jr., Olympic gold-medal filmmaker who coined the Times; contributor for Director for the sports broadcasting swimmer term “googol” Fox News Governor Mario M. Erik Feig, producer pioneer; former Donald Keene, Cuomo Bridge – New Marcellus Wiley, James Franco, president and chairman POLITICS and ADVOCACY renowned York State Thruway retired NFL player Golden Globe Award– of ABC News Japanese scholar Bella Abzug, Authority winning actor Jennifer Ashton, congresswoman and Peter DiMaggio, Jelena Kovačević, physician, chief health leader of the Women’s Dede Gardner, Oscar– lead engineer for dean of NYU Tandon and medical editor Movement and Emmy Award– construction on US School of Engineering and chief medical winning film producer Shirley Chisholm, Embassies in Moscow, Anthony W. Marx, correspondent for Allen Ginsberg, poet first African American Berlin and Baghdad president and CEO ABC News and Good woman elected to Maggie Gyllenhaal, Amelia Earhart, aviator of the New York Morning America Congress Golden Globe Award– Public Library; former Robert Bakish, Elmer Gaden, winning actor Eric Garcetti, mayor president of president and CEO of father of biochemical 100+ of Los Angeles Katori Hall, playwright Amherst College Viacom/CBS engineering who Neil Gorsuch, PULITZER PRIZE Oscar Hammerstein II, Robert C. Merton, pioneered the mass Dean Baquet, associate justice of lyricist Nobel Laureate production of penicillin WINNERS executive editor of the Supreme Court for Economics Stephen Jay Gould, Lorenz Hart, lyricist The New York Times of the United States Alvin Roth, 2012 Company paleontologist and Utada Hikaru, Nobel Laureate Alan Greenspan, former evolutionary biologist musician Marcus Brauchli, chairman of the Board for Economics cofounder and Herman Hollerith, Langston Hughes, of Governors of the William Schuman, managing partner, founder of Computer poet Federal Reserve System 5 former president of Tabulating Recording of North Base Media FOUNDING FATHERS Zora Neale Hurston, the Juilliard School of and former executive Judd Gregg, former Company, a precursor author Music; first president editor of The senator and governor of IBM OF THE UNITED of New Hampshire Jim Jarmusch, of Lincoln Center Washington Post Gregory H. Johnson, STATES filmmaker Howard Zinn, historian Rocco Commisso, Alexander Hamilton, retired Air Force Jack Kerouac, founder, chairman and Founding Father of colonel and NASA BUSINESS and Beat poet CEO of Mediacom the United States astronaut ENTREPRENEURISM Tony Kushner, Communications Eric Holder Jr., first Robert Millikan, Nobel Armen Avanessians, Pulitzer Prize–winning Corporation African American Laureate for Physics CIO of Goldman Sachs attorney general of playwright Jamal Dajani, Peabody James Scapa, founder, 34 Asset Management’s the United States Award–winning Chairman and CEO of Ursula K. Le Guin, Quantitative PRESIDENTS AND author journalist and producer Ben Jealous, former Altair Engineering, Inc. Investment Strategies President and CEO of PRIME MINISTERS Poppy Harlow, Harvey Seeley Mudd, Federico García team the NAACP journalist and anchor engineer; founder of Lorca, poet Warren Buffett, CEO with CNN Li Lu, leader of the Harvey Mudd College Terrence McNally, of Berkshire Hathaway Tiananmen Square Sara Just, executive William Barclay Parsons, Tony Award– William Campbell, protests of 1989 producer and senior chief engineer of the winning playwright former CEO of Intuit vice president of James Meredith, Civil first line of the NYC Nico Muhly, composer Philippe Dauman, PBS NewsHour Rights Movement figure 84 subway; Founder of Sharon Olds, poet former chairman of Jodi Kantor, Pulitzer Jerrold Nadler, Parsons Brinckerhoff COLUMBIA NOBEL Viacom civil engineering firm Richard Rodgers, Prize–winning New congressman and LAUREATES EGOT and Pulitzer James P. Gorman, York Times journalist chairman of the House Michael Pupin, Prize–winning chairman and CEO of and author Judiciary Committee physicist and inventor composer Morgan Stanley Christopher Kimball, David Paterson, of the Pupin coil; Ricardo Scofidio, Ben Horowitz, chef, editor, publisher former governor founding member of architect co-founder and and TV personality of New York NACA, which later general partner became NASA Upton Sinclair, writer Joseph Lelyveld, Paul Robeson, civil of Andreessen Hyman Rickover, US Jenny Slate, actor former executive rights and human Horowitz LLC editor of The New rights activist; writer Navy admiral and York Times inventor of the nuclear submarine 25 Columbia University

Veronica M.

MAJOR Computer Engineering

FAVORITE SPOT ON CAMPUS JJ’s — one of our dining halls. It’s where I go after a long day to relax with my friends.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT NYC There’s always something new to discover. I never get tired of the city.

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES Proud Colors; Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers

MEMORABLE FACULTY MOMENT My professor noticed I was frustrated in Calculus II. Rather than waiting for me to ask for help, he took the initiative to reach out first. I didn’t expect that from a busy faculty member — it made me feel incredibly supported.

REFLECTIONS There are so many ways to learn in New York. At The Met, I’ve seen art related to the indigenous peoples of Colombia, which gives me a chance to connect with my culture and something I’ve learned in class.

HOMETOWN Patterson, New Jersey

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Cayo G.

MAJOR Biology

FAVORITE SPOT ON CAMPUS I’d say NoCo (Northwest Corner Building). I work in a lab on the 12th floor, and from there you can see all of downtown Manhattan — the World Trade Center, the Chrysler Building, everything. It’s pretty amazing.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT NYC I think you get a feeling of solidarity in New York. I’m a medical interpreter at a free clinic hosted by the medical school in Harlem, on 125th Street. A lot of patients only speak Spanish, and I’m there with them to make sure that they get everything that they need.

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES NSOP Orientation leader; Undergraduate Rooming Committee; biology research

FAVORITE COLUMBIA TRADITION There’s always a good turnout for Homecoming games. One year, we won in overtime against Penn, and we rushed the field. Iconic moment.

REFLECTIONS Columbia feels very much like a home base, a very close-knit community. A lot of people I met my first year are the same people in my group now, so that speaks to the group environment and how close you get.

HOMETOWN San Jose, California

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28 A SAMPLING OF Arts of Japan Scope and Methods Violin Instruction American Urban Programming Intercollegiate In the City of New York COURSES TAKEN Computer Discussion University Writing: Politics Languages: Python Athletics: Soccer BY COLUMBIA Approaches Feminist Futures Readings in Law Intercollegiate Topics in Music Accelerated COLLEGE STUDENTS Blockbuster Ancient Greek and Justice Athletics: and Society Intermediate French Cheerleading James Joyce Gender and Wars History 800–146 BC Physical Education: Dante’s Divina University Writing: Wellness Political Transitions Commedia 2 Readings in Gender Money and Banking Directed Readings Third-Year Chinese in Southeast Asia and Sexuality Another Earth in Latin American N I Narrative and Intercollegiate Literature Theory of Interest Human Rights Fourth-Year Athletics: Men’s Golf University Writing: Austen and the Japanese II Readings in Film and Cognition: Feminism & Politics Intercollegiate A History of China Enlightenment Mind Performing Arts Memory and Stress of Anger Athletics: Women’s General Physics II in 27 Objects Jazz Ensemble- Field Hockey Laboratory University Writing: Introduction Life at the End Poetry (Hesiod) Hybrid Ensemble For International to Kanbun of Life University Writing: Intercollegiate Intercollegiate Henry James and Contemporary Athletics: Archery Students Elementary Fundamentals Athletics: Basketball Edith Wharton Essays Intensive General Stochastic Projects of Music Design Using C++ Masterpieces Topics in American University Writing: Chemistry Machine Learning Nineteenth- Introduction to of Western Art Studies: Journals, Readings in Introduction Century Art Composition Genes and Democracy and Organizing American Studies to Electrical the Digital Age Innovation Physical Education: Chamber Ensemble Development Frontiers of Science Engineering Strength Training Sōseki and World Physical Education: Gender Economics Probability Theory Intermediate Elementary Persian I Literature Foundations Senior Honors Bildungsroman in State Making Catalan II Intercollegiate Thesis Work the 19th Century South Asia Nonparametric Colloquium Athletics: Narratives and Leadership in Statistics on Major Texts Sexuality and Major Debates Men’s Squash Realities: Inside the Citizenship Study of Africa Organizations Seminar in Industrial Israeli-Palestinian Jazz Trumpet Biochemistry Comparative Politics Organization Conflict Venturing to String Theory Instruction Solid Earth Lattices and Change the World Readings: Humor Physical Education: Undergraduate Calculus II Dynamics Boolean Algebra Music Theory III in Jewish Literature Beginning Swimming Writing: Readings in First-Year The Second Calculus III Elementary Swahili I Physical Education: Ethics Medical Humanities Science Research World War Geochemistry for Functional Fitness Senior Thesis European Politics, Justice Literary Texts and Fourth-Year Intellectual History and Human Rights a Habitable Planet Introduction Black Urban Life Critical Methods Korean II Behavioral in Southeast Asia Physical Education: to African Gender and Wars: Hispanic Cultures I Comprehensive Neuroscience Squash American Studies Perspectives European Analysis and Intermediate Catastrophe, The Anthropology Voting and Intermediate Computer Networks Optimization Portuguese 1914–1945 of War American Politics Conversation Health and Healing Stalinist Civilization Environmental French Advanced History of Cinema II The Built in Africa Science Seminar Microeconomics 1930–1960 Environment American Fiction Colloquium on Major Physical Education: Sea Level Change Texts: East Asia Intercollegiate Natural Language Third-Year Intermediate Recreational Games Athletics: Baseball Processing Conversational Microeconomics Senior Project Life in the Universe World Cinema: Latin Seminar Visionary Medicine: Advanced Poetry French Spanish for Heritage Computing in America Racial Justice, Workshop Dante’s Divina Speakers Experimental Film Context does 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Columbia College

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A renowned liberal arts college within a world-class research university in the great city of New York, Columbia College is home to a vibrant community of undergraduates, an endless array of engaging ideas and a sweeping sense of possibility. It’s a place of big-picture questions, high hopes and ideals, and chances to imagine — and be part of — something greater.

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE Where a lifelong journey of inquiry and impact begins.

From its unparalleled 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. Guided by renowned faculty who are dedicated to the craft of teaching and mentorship, students explore new horizons of knowledge, understanding and impact.

12+ CONSERVATORY- CALIBER ARTS MAJORS AND PROGRAMS

260+ YEARS OF TRADITION, EXPLORATION AND EXCELLENCE

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“I came to Columbia because I fell in love with the way that a traditional liberal arts education mixed with the contemporary and STEM fields.”

Tristan D. Craig, AK Architecture and French

Our students select from more than 100 majors and concentrations — including a range of interdisciplinary options and joint programs, as well as hundreds of academic and research opportunities Learn more about Columbia through the University’s affiliated graduate schools, centers and the greater Columbia community, college.columbia.edu institutes. They acquire a broad establishing a sounding board base of knowledge, achieve of alumni counselors for advice mastery of their chosen discipline and networking. Through and complete a thesis or the Core Curriculum, they significant research project. encounter challenging ideas that encourage them to be not only Engaging closely with a critical thinkers who are ready community of peers and faculty to question and debate, but also mentors inside and outside the active citizens who are engaged classroom, students make the in their communities. most of integrated academic, pre-professional, career and Through it all, Columbia College residential advising. Through students discover what they’re the Odyssey Mentoring capable of achieving. Mindful, Program, they connect with inquisitive and driven to better themselves and the world around them, they embrace a mindset of reflection and continual growth. 49,000+ They pursue their passions with vigor, purpose and an eye toward COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI NETWORK a better future.

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columbia college areas of study African American and Creative Writing Diaspora Studies Dance American Studies Data Science Ancient Studies Drama and Theatre Arts Anthropology Earth Science Applied Mathematics East Asian Studies Archaeology Economics Architecture Economics — Mathematics Art History Economics — Philosophy Art History and Visual Arts Economics — Political Science Astronomy Economics — Statistics Astrophysics Education Studies Biochemistry English Biology Environmental Biology Biophysics Environmental Chemistry Business Management Environmental Science Chemical Physics Ethnicity and Race Studies Chemistry Evolutionary Biology Classical Studies of the Human Species Classics Film and Media Studies Comparative Literature Financial Economics and Society French Computer Science French and Computer Science — Francophone Studies Mathematics

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German Literature Physics and Cultural History Political Science Hellenic Studies Political Science–Statistics Hispanic Studies Portuguese Studies History Psychology History and Theory Regional Studies of Architecture Religion Human Rights Russian Language Information Science and Culture Italian Russian Literature Jazz Studies Russian Literature Jewish Studies and Culture Latin American and Slavic Literature Caribbean Studies and Culture Linguistics Slavic Studies Mathematics Sociology Mathematics–Statistics Statistics Medieval and Sustainable Development Renaissance Studies Urban Studies Middle East, South Asian Urban Teaching and African Studies Visual Arts Music Women’s and Neuroscience and Behavior Gender Studies Philosophy Yiddish

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THE CORE CURRICULUM For 100 years, the Core Curriculum has been the defining element of a Columbia education. It’s a communal learning experience that cultivates community-wide discourse and deliberate contemplation around classic works, contemporary issues and humanity’s most enduring questions.

“In the Prado Museum in Spain, I saw a painting we had discussed in Art Hum: Goya’s Third of May. I remembered the history of the painting from class, but was also reminded of how battles are represented in The Iliad from Lit Hum. The Core keeps you thinking.”

Sonya X. Dallas, TX and Shanghai, China Economics and East Asian Studies

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Columbia College Core Curriculum Contemporary Civilization

Literature Humanities

Academically expansive and personally transformative, University Writing

the Core transcends disciplines, introducing cornerstone Art Humanities

ideas and theories from across literature, philosophy, Music Humanities

history, science and the arts. In most Core classes, students Frontiers of Science engage with primary works that contain some of the most significant thoughts, images and sounds by thinkers and artists Core Electives from Homer to Toni Morrison, from Plato to Patricia Williams, Global Core from Puccini to Andy Warhol, from the authors of Gregorian Foreign Language Chants to Kaija Saariaho. By exploring together what these works Science mean to them as individuals, students grapple with what it Physical Education means to be human, in all of its joys and challenges.

Taught from a common syllabus in small, discussion-style seminars, the Core cultivates an intentional consciousness and willingness 22 to explore new ideas, values and Through these encounters, MAXIMUM NUMBER beliefs. It’s a learning environment students develop intellectual OF STUDENTS where students are challenged tools and habits of mind they’ll IN A CORE to engage meaningfully with use long after they leave college, SEMINAR friends and classmates who hold solving multidimensional problems different opinions. They and finding profound answers form an intimate intellectual to questions that may at times community that spans disciplines seem unanswerable. They’ll carry and interests and fosters deep, these lessons with them into enduring friendships. Together, the world, where they will join a they learn to adapt and respond greater conversation that binds to new information and revelations Columbia’s present students to that can — and often do — alter and its past and future generations. expand their worldview. It’s a timeless dialogue and an approach to thinking and living that seeks to elevate society for all, and is more vital now than ever before.

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My Columbia College Journey Reflecting is critical to learning.

At the heart of the Columbia experience is a conscious and considered process of becoming — not just scholars, intellectuals and professionals, but also individuals. We believe elements of personal character transcend disciplines and occupations. As an institution, we seek to cultivate in our students a holistic and multifaceted sense of self that will serve them well in all endeavors, both as members of their community and as citizens of the world.

My Columbia College Journey is a tool for inquiry and self- reflection. It consists of 13 competencies students can use to better understand their academic, social and intellectual experience in the context of their own growth as an individual. Neither requirements nor restrictions, these competencies serve as landmarks that can help you find your way on the path to becoming who you’re meant to be.

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The Core Competencies of My Columbia College Journey

Creativity and Wellness and Quantitative Innovation Resilience Literacy Identify interests that support Balance the spheres of your See the whole equation. Become your creativity and enhance your life. Acknowledge success, learn fluent in the interpretation and ability to think flexibly. Imagine from failure and form sustainable analysis of data. Find solutions original knowledge, solutions, strategies for preserving physical, through a multiplicity of pathways. creations and works. mental and emotional well-being.

Global Awareness Teamwork and Civic and Individual Construct a working view of the Collaboration Responsibility world. Immerse yourself in the Consider what is gained through Understand your values, and unfamiliar, and build connections collective commitment toward imagine the impact of your words across continents and cultures. a shared goal. Develop strategies and actions. Seek experiences for fostering engagement that reflect those values; act and taking initiative in pursuit in concert with your community. of discovery. Knowledge Strive for understanding. Build a broad foundation, advance Research the proficiency of your interests, Information and Pursue new knowledge. Engage and aspire to mastery Technological Literacy effectively and resourcefully of many disciplines. Evaluate your relationship with existing theory; indulge to technology and society’s vast in healthy criticism of your informational landscape. Know own approach; discover your tools, manage them carefully opportunities in the unknown. Written and deploy them masterfully. Communication Harness the written word. Explore forms, media and Community rhetoric. Find your voice, Oral Engagement and train it to tell your story. Communication and Inclusion Speak deliberately — with Practice stewardship within precision, passion and clarity. your community. Be inclusive. Trust your ability to articulate Recognize and celebrate Critical Thinking complex ideas and perspectives. differences in values and identity. Understand how you analyze Above all, express yourself. Broaden your perspectives information and ideas. and your horizons. Think critically about the world. Apply lenses across subjects and disciplines.

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Prem T.

MAJOR History

FAVORITE SPOT ON CAMPUS I like the tables on the ramps in Lerner Hall. It’s a really social place. I love the vibe there, and the light from all the windows.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT NYC I’m interested in law and journalism, so being in New York is absolutely perfect. There was a journalist from my hometown who worked for CNN. I reached out and he actually made time to meet up with me. Take your chances — more often than not, you'll get lucky.

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES Class president; Columbia Outdoor Orientation Program; Friends of Morningside Park

FAVORITE COLUMBIA TRADITION Last year was my first snowball fight on campus. I saw the dean himself throwing snowballs. I threw one at him, and then he threw one back that hit me in the face. It’s really fun because it's totally out of nowhere — all of a sudden, it’s hundreds of students throwing snowballs around.

REFLECTIONS Everyone here is special in some way. Just by virtue of that fact, it never felt like there was a wall between other students and me. People really identify with each other here. You don’t feel afraid to reach out, to say a few words to someone.

HOMETOWN Grand Forks, North Dakota

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Jessie E.

MAJOR Music (Concentration in Psychology)

FAVORITE SPOT ON CAMPUS The music library on the top floor of Dodge. You can see the entirety of campus, and it reminds me that I’m in this amazing place.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT NYC As a music student, it’s been extremely important. I auditioned for a couple of professional choirs in my first year, and have been doing that ever since.

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES New Opera Workshop; CU Swing

MEMORABLE FACULTY MOMENT I told my anthropology teacher that I was interested in doing some research. He took me on for his annual summer archaeology trip, and I had an amazing adventure excavating, learning and playing music in New Mexico!

REFLECTIONS I’ve loved swing dancing my whole life, but never really did it. When I came to Columbia, I was like, “Oh my gosh, there’s a group!” I took the lessons. We go down to this club near Penn Station, and you get to dance with these amazing — probably professional — swing dancers. That one club opened up a little world for me.

HOMETOWN Falmouth, Massachusetts

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SPOTLIGHTS Research and discoveries in the arts and sciences

Within the looking glass

Investigating structure dynamics in supercooled liquids, David Reichman, Centennial Professor of Chemistry, works to de-mystify “the deepest and most interesting unsolved problem in solid state theory” — the question of how and why glass forms into a solid.

Reach for the stars

Students and faculty in our Department of Astronomy bring an appreciation for the celestial to the masses through public lectures, guided stargazing nights, sci-fi film screenings and even a bit of sidewalk astronomy in the heart of the city.

Conservation’s cultural complexities

Anthropology professor Paige West’s work with indigenous peoples in Papua New Guinea examines how conservation efforts designed to protect natural ecosystems can negatively impact traditions and culture.

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Examining why financial markets melt down

One of Foreign Policy magazine’s leading global thinkers, professor Adam Tooze’s recent research and writing looks at the global financial crises of the last decade through the lenses of economics, business, history and politics.

Inter-media

A fellow at Columbia’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination, professor Debashree Mukherjee investigates the material relations between cinema’s bodies, machines, aesthetics and environments as they intersect with practices of modernity and freedom in late colonial India.

Playwright with a purpose

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, professor Lynn Nottage has earned critical acclaim as a playwright whose powerful, intimate work unapologetically confronts race, class, inequality and poverty.

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Nowhere but here

46 A sampling of Introduction to Analysis of Chemical Signal and Systems Energy Harvesting Solid Mechanics Essential Data In the City of New York courses taken Cryptography Engineering Computational System-on-Chip Computer-Aided Structures in C/C++ by Columbia Production and Introduction to Neuroscience: Platforms Structural Design Ethics of Sustainable Engineering Inventory Planning Quantum Mechanics Circuits in the Brain Dynamics and Artificial Development students Applied Machine Masterpieces of Energy, Minerals Vibrations Intelligence Introduction to Knot The Art of Learning Western Art and Materials Electronic Circuits Analysis of Theory Engineering Pharmaceutical Linear Algebra Systems Laboratory Algorithms I African Civilization Applied Data Industry for Ceramics and Classical Control Topics in Music and Contemporary Fourier Analysis Engineers Systems Science Composites Society Islamic Civilization Physics II: Introduction to Foundations of Arts of China, Biomedical Another Earth Seminar in Thermodynamics, Optimization Engineering Design Human Space Flight Japan and Korea Buddhism and Biopharmaceutical Electricity and Research to Visionary Medicine: Projects in University Writing: Neuroscience Development & Magnetism Racial Justice, Readings in Gender Regulation Revenue Computer Science Earth and University Writing: Health and and Sexuality Advanced Biomedical Environmental Physical Education: Readings in Law Speculative Fiction Microeconomics Engineering II Accelerated Engineering Lab I Indoor Rowing and Justice Projects in Physics II Experiments Physical Education: Republicanism: Magic and Monsters Introduction Mechanical in Physics Iyengar Yoga Intensive Organic Plato to Pettit in Yiddish Literature to Applied Engineering Chemistry II Mathematics Hispanic Cultures Colloquium on Beginning Fiction Physical Education: Embedded System (Lecture) I: Islamic Spain Major Texts Workshop Lap Swim Introduction Design Introductory to East Asian Through the Elementary Yiddish I The Evolution Topics in Global Intermediate Statistics for Thought: Global Civilizations: China Colonial Period Millennium: of Human Growth Spanish II Behavioral 20-Youth in an Chinese Religious Introduction to Apocalypse and Development University Writing: Scientists Interconnected Traditions Computing for and Utopia Physical Education: Readings in Medical- Masterpieces of World Ancient History Engineers and The Historical Jesus Vinyasa Yoga Humanities Western Music Public Economics of Egypt — Applied Scientists and the Origin Physical Education: Behavioral Biology Fundamentals Discussion Computer Science of Christianity Basketball Conducting Music of Living Primates of Global Health University Writing: Theory The Romans and First-Year Plato and Confucius: Programming Structural Analysis Readings in Intercollegiate Their Empire Vietnamese II Comparative Language (Python) The Science Ancient Philosophies American Studies Athletics: Earth’s Oceans General Physics II Solid Earth of Psychology Jazz Piano Men’s Lacrosse & Atmosphere Laboratory Introduction to Dynamics Introduction Personality Instruction Intermediate Physical Education Physical Education: Nonparametric to Databases The Art of Microeconomics Strength Training Scuba Introduction Statistics Deep Learning to Chemical Structural Design Multivariable Ancient Sciences- Third-Year Applied Oceanography Physical Education: Calculus for Medieval Elementary Italian II Chinese W II Engineers and Electromagnetism Circuit Analysis Outdoor Rec Games Islamic World Fiction, Film, & Physical Education: Applied Scientists Molecular Biology The Mongols Experimental Modern Vietnam Soccer Undergraduate General Chemistrydo Industrial pioneering thinkersResearch work in Applied in History Mechanics Colloquium on Major Undergraduate Laboratory Organization Mathematics Berlin/Istanbul: of Materials Texts: Middle East Thesis Mechanics Analysis and and South Asia Vietnam in the Migration, Theaters of the Real Oboe Instruction Optimization World Culture, Values Ordinary A History of China Observational Classical Latin Prose New and Old Forms Differential Topics in Music in 27 Objects Astronomy Late 20th C. Ethnic Equations andacross Society disciplinesStatistical inference unitedAmerican Literature of Political Protest Introduction to Management and Introduction to Colloquium on Major Digital Systems Vvedenie v russkuiu Statistics for Development Honors Tutorial Experimental Texts: East Asia Laboratory literaturu: Ecology and of Water Systems in Mechanical Physics Laboratory Organic Chemistry Scary Stories Evolutionary Biology Senior Thesis: Engineering State Politics Intermediate Latin II Laboratory II Biomedical Third-Year Performance Physical Education: Neurogenetics (Synthesis) byEngineering a vision of EngineeringStars, Galaxies and Pilates/Sculpt Korean I/II Planetary Dynamics Printmaking: Print Laboratory Cosmology Undergraduate Intermediate and Physics Time Series Analysis in Motion Research Project University Writing: Conversation of the Solar System Virology Elementary Palestinian and University Writing Contemporary French II Introductory Mechanical Cantonese II Israeli Politics and Essays Introduction to Global Language Biology II: Engineering Hindi for Heritage Society for Humanity.Laboratory II the Design and University Writing: Justice and the Cell Biology, Speakers II South Asia: Empire Readings in Data and Development Analysis of Efficient Digital Sphere: Computer Graphics Dev Tech and the Aftermath Society & Physiology Algorithms Theory and Practice Partial Differential (Using Linux) Mechanics: Intercollegiate The Romans and General Chemistry Intercollegiate Equations Independent Fundamentals and Athletics: Baseball Their Empire 754 I (Lecture) Athletics: Internet Technology, Studies in Civil Applications BCE–641 CE Narrative and Physical Education Women’s Basketball Economics and Engineering Ear Training I Activities: Intensive General Human Rights Acting Lab Policy for Seniors Music of East and Foundations Chemistry Masterpieces of Third-Year Fundamentals of Networking Southeast Asia Calculus II Laboratory Western Literature Japanese I & II Computer Systems Laboratory Elementary The Black Radical and Philosophy I University Writings: Elementary Korean Applied Statistical Computational German I Readings in Tradition in America Computer Graphics Elementary Hindi- Computing Aspects of Robotics Physical Education: Human Rights Thinking and and Design Urdu II Soil Mechanics Accounting Hiking (Beginner) Hydrosystems Decision Making Introduction to Air-Sea Interaction Linear Regression and Finance Make It Strange Engineering Latin American Modern Analysis I Models Europe’s Contemporary Civilization II East Asian Cinema Behavioral Introduction to Film Commercial Biology Laboratory Corporate Finance Beginning Poetry Neuroscience and Media Studies Earth’s Revolution Projects in Environmental Bayesian Statistics Workshop Principles and Repression & Physical Biomedical System: The Climate Game Theory Genes and Applications Representation: Education: Skiing/ Engineering System Development of Modern DNA Memory Art, Film Collegium Musicum Snowboarding and Literature in Projects in Electrical Natural Language US Foreign Sequencing Sociology The Social World Post-Dictatorial Engineering Processing of Education Relations, American Urban Physical Education: Latin America Literature and Crossroads 1890–1990 Politics Complex Variables Soccer (Advanced) Intercollegiate Cultures of Struggle in Bioethics Russian Linguistics, Introduction in South Africa Daily Life in Elementary Athletics: Advanced Habits and Activity to Machining Medieval Europe Spanish II Women’s Swimming Intermediate Optimization Structural Design Undergraduate Catalan I Foundations Operating Systems I Projects in Intercollegiate Money and Banking of Data Science Third-Year Athletics: Intermediate Design Using C++ Computer Science Introduction International Trade Conversation Men’s Rowing German II Electromagnetics French Data: Past, Present to Probability Symbolic Logic and Future Intercollegiate University Writings: and Statistics Data Structures Genetics Athletics: Wrestling Readings in Film and (Y)our Longer Life Undergraduate Introduction to in Java Intermediate Performance Arts Modern Japan: Research in Earth Computational Econometrics Rethinking Middle Portuguese I Project Management Images and Words and Environmental Genomics Eastern Politics Columbia University Engineering for Construction 47 Jazz Ensemble Columbia University

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Columbia Engineering

THE Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Since 1864, Columbia Engineering students and faculty have made remarkable contributions to technological and social progress as we have pushed the frontiers of knowledge and discovery to meet the needs of our global society. Today, Columbia engineers are a force for the future, working to create a more sustainable, healthy, connected, secure and creative humanity.

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COLUMBIA ENGINEERING Transcending disciplines, educating leaders, transforming lives.

Through an undergraduate course of study that features an engineering foundation with a liberal arts core and leverages the extensive resources of a major research university, Columbia Engineering students become leaders and innovators, prepared to confront complex issues with groundbreaking solutions to the grand challenges of our time.

50+ UNDERGRADS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

220 FACULTY IN NINE DEPARTMENTS

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“From leading a world-class solar fuels research project to performing with the Columbia University Orchestra at Lincoln Center, the wealth of possibilities available at Columbia Engineering played a pivotal role in setting my career vision.”

Amar B. Marshall Scholar Hong Kong Learn more about Columbia Chemical Engineering college.columbia.edu

Centered in the cultural and financial hub of a city that has emerged as a world-renowned center for high-tech research and development, we offer students a unique educational opportunity. Developing a Learn more about Columbia powerful engineering foundation from within 17 areas of study, Columbia engineers pursue a engineering.columbia.edu undergraduates form close deep liberal arts foundation working relationships with a side by side with their Columbia diverse faculty that represents College peers through the Core the brightest minds in engineering Curriculum. Their education and applied science from across is further enriched by over 20 the country and around the world. liberal arts minors as well as over 15 engineering minors. Our students and faculty push research frontiers, engage in Both in and out of the classroom, interdisciplinary collaborations, Columbia Engineering is a hands- and blaze new and distinctive on environment with an emphasis pathways toward tangible, real- on engaged learning, discovery world impact that will shape and innovation. It’s a rich creative the course of the 21st century. landscape where free thinkers flourish, bold ideas thrive and possibilities become realities. 350+ ENTREPRENEURS FOSTERED BY THE COLUMBIA STARTUP LAB IN FIVE YEARS

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columbia ENGINEERING areas of study Engineering Common Courses (Engineering Commons) Applied Mathematics The Art of Engineering Applied Physics Calculus Biomedical Engineering Chemistry Chemical Engineering Computer Science Civil Engineering Physics Computer Engineering Technical Electives Computer Science Non-Technical Electives Earth and Environmental Engineering FROM THE CORE CURRICULUM Electrical Engineering Literature Humanities, Engineering Contemporary Civilization Management Systems or Global Core Engineering Mechanics Art Humanities or Financial Engineering Music Humanities Industrial Engineering University Writing Materials Science Economics and Engineering Mechanical Engineering Operations Research

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ENGINEERING MINORS LIBERAL ARTS MINORS Applied Mathematics Anthropology Applied Physics Architecture Biomedical Engineering Art History Chemical Engineering Dance Civil Engineering East Asian Studies Computer Science Economics Earth and Environmental English and Engineering Comparative Literature Electrical Engineering French Engineering Mechanics French and Entrepreneurship Francophone Studies and Innovation German Industrial Engineering Greek Materials Science Hispanic Studies and Engineering History Mechanical Engineering Latin Operations Research Middle Eastern, South Asian Sustainable Engineering and African Studies Music Philosophy Political Science Psychology Religion Sociology Statistics

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ENGINEERING FOR HUMANITY From New York’s first subway and FM radio to DNA sequencing platforms, sophisticated climate modeling and advanced bioreactors, Columbia Engineering innovations have revolutionized industries and advanced society.

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“I came to Columbia so I could be an engineer who also was aware of social institutions and histories that shaped the world today. This enhances my knowledge of the world, and makes me a more ethical engineer who can…truly make the world a better place for all.”

Aryn D. Hurst, TX Computer Science, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Sociology Today, Columbia Engineering continues to bring our engineering impact to the service of humanity, and we are dedicated to the pursuit of engineering that fosters a more sustainable, healthy, secure, connected and creative world.

Sustainable Secure Creative Preserving our planet while From economies to power grids, Engineering is an essentially advancing the quality of life for complex systems underpin creative field, marked by an people around the globe is one our global society. To enhance emphasis on immersion and of the most urgent challenges production and function, and exploration. What’s more, the facing society. New and to manage the inherent risks, tools and techniques we discover interdisciplinary ways of thinking we must better understand, propel creativity and ingenuity are required to accelerate model, design, predict, control in other fields. As we develop essential breakthroughs, from and optimize the dynamics and makerspaces and promote mitigating and reversing climate behavior of such systems — both connections across backgrounds change to providing water and natural and human engineered. and disciplines, we create an energy for a rapidly expanding environment where innovation population. flourishes. Connected Healthy Technology is enabling an exponential increase in The global life expectancy of our connectivity, as well as an species has doubled since 1900. explosion of data into all spheres As health and wellness practices of life. Harnessing that potential become more personalized, to improve the human experience precise, interactive and holistic requires progress in many areas — for both individual patients and including new algorithms for data entire populations, technical security and verification and new advances will be critical to methods to ensure transparency, optimize care and ensure medical ethics and equity. resources for underserved communities.

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GAINING EXPERIENCE Where engineers learn to solve and to lead.

The Columbia Engineering experience combines the technical acumen students acquire through Columbia’s Engineering Commons with the broad humanist and liberal arts exposure of the renowned Columbia Core Curriculum.

The result is an active, roll-up-your-sleeves culture of imagining, creating and solving. It’s made possible by a diverse, energetic and intellectually curious student body focused on a better future — and enabled by ready access to world-class facilities, ample resources and field-leading faculty.

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Columbia Engineering students are more than Broad exposure. engineers — they’re visionaries with the power Diverse experience. to discover solutions, advance progress and find answers to the world’s greatest challenges.

The Art of The Columbia Columbia Design Senior Design Engineering MakerSpace Challenges Expo This foundational and Columbia’s 3,000 sq. ft. Columbia Design The annual Senior Design inspirational class guides MakerSpace offers a Challenges encourage Expo showcases the the transition from wide variety of tools — students from across collaborative projects high school student from 3D printers to laser the University to devise of seniors with their peers, to successful collegiate cutters and CNC tools for interdisciplinary solutions applying their knowledge engineer. Students digital fabrication — for to urgent societal needs. to solve an engineering gain practical research projects, hobbies, building From fighting Ebola challenge while researching, experience with the prototypes or tinkering and building sustainable designing and producing Common Project. with a new idea. workspaces in India an original prototype. Think creatively and to increasing access collaboratively at Friday to clean water in Rio de group lectures. Engage Janeiro and generating in half-semester research innovative technology in the department for New York City’s of their choosing. participation in the 2020 Census, our students work on real problems to help find real solutions.

The Columbia engineers who pioneered inventions like X-ray technology and the mass-production of antibiotics Research that matters. worked at the very cutting edge of technology in their lifetime. Today, we’re doing the same.

Nanotechnology Artificial Regenerative Electrochemical Initiative Intelligence Medicine Energy Center An interdisciplinary Working closely across Multidisciplinary Charting an urgent pathway community within disciplines with resources research brings together toward a clean energy Columbia University like Columbia's Data bioengineers, clinicians future with a world-class dedicated to supporting Science Institute, faculty and systems biology research team spanning and developing research are shepherding a new scientists to create multiple departments. efforts in nanoscience wave of AI technologies. innovative procedures Electro-chemical reactions and technology, as well These advances have the and therapies that can are the driving force behind as quantum science and potential to permeate and help the human body heal next-generation batteries, technology. transform every field—from itself, whether that means future fuel, carbon capture medicine and finance to recovering from heart and conversion, and materials discovery, social attacks, improving brain the decarbonization interactions and free speech. function or fighting cancer of manufacturing industries. with bacteria.

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Chang Min Y.

MAJOR Chemical Engineering (Minor in Economics)

FAVORITE SPOT ON CAMPUS The third-floor reference room, or Ref Ro, in Butler Library, has a special aura about it. It reminds me, at least, that there are big shoes to fill. It inspires you to go out and do some cool things.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT NYC There’s a wide range of people from all over the world, and everyone is here for an ambitious purpose — something they want to achieve.

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES Columbia Undergraduate Consulting Club; Sigma Phi Epsilon

MEMORABLE FACULTY MOMENT My biopharma professor did so much more than just teach. Every week, he introduced us to a new industry expert, and went above and beyond to help us explore the full spectrum of the biotech space.

REFLECTIONS People here have a mentality of thinking not only about what to do with their time here, but also beyond that. People think about what they want to do throughout their lives... it’s a powerful energy.

HOMETOWN Seoul, South Korea

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Rachel A.

MAJOR Biomedical Engineering

FAVORITE SPOT ON CAMPUS On the steps in front of Low — it’s a really cool place to just chill and be outside.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT NYC The proximity of everything. Great food around you at all times.

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES I’ve been on the varsity women’s soccer team, and I wouldn’t trade anything for that experience.

FAVORITE COLUMBIA TRADITION There’s this dance group called Raw Elementz at Columbia. It’s not an exaggeration to say some of my favorite memories are their performances on the steps of Lerner.

REFLECTIONS I love the vibe of the athletic community here. We’re super supportive of each other. You see them for hours on end every day, so even in the short time you’ve been together, you feel like you’ve known them forever. That’s definitely been a highlight.

HOMETOWN Silver Springs, Maryland

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SPOTLIGHTS Research and discoveries in engineering and applied science

Climate change and response

Associate professor of earth and environmental engineering Pierre Gentine is accelerating a more effective climate response with investigations into the global water cycle that increase our ability to make predictions about the future of droughts, flooding and extreme weather.

Labor of love

Applying her expert knowledge of structures to the human body, associate professor of mechanical engineering Kristin Myers is developing instruments that prevent pre- term birth — sparing families deep emotional and financial costs, and making this leading cause of infant mortality a thing of the past.

Pro-biotic

For years, science focused on killing bacteria. Now researchers like assistant professor of biomedical engineering Tal Danino are reframing this complex, invisible world and genetically programming bacteria to diagnose disease and even heal the human body.

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Computing at the speed of light

Professors Keren Bergman and Michal Lipson of Electrical Engineering together with Alex Gaeta of Applied Physics are working to replace electrons with photons from the nanoscale to the microscale for networks that will connect us faster without taxing energy resources.

Inside the intricacies of thought

A pioneer in algorithms, Christos Papadimitriou, professor of computer science, is turning his focus to the mystery of the human brain to understand the sources of cognition, intelligence, language and stories.

Building blocks for a better world

Enhancing materials like concrete to better protect the environment, associate professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics Shiho Kawashima’s innovations in the field of rheology create stronger, longer-lasting infrastructure — staving off disasters like gas leaks and oil spills.

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COLUMBIA STUDENT LIFE Finding community and lifelong friends.

Columbia College and Columbia Engineering form a community of bright, curious individuals living and learning together in a truly one-of-a-kind city. Our students come together from every background and every corner of the world to engage and explore, to seek new adventures and perspectives, to build connections and lifelong friendships, and to pursue a better world.

This community draws inspiration from a city and a neighborhood always in motion and a campus alive with opportunity. Students tap into energy and ideas inspired by more than 500 student clubs and organizations — everything from intramural athletics and philosophy journals to investment clubs and culinary societies. They find people who share their passions and beliefs, and discover in themselves a new sense of purpose and identity.

“I have found friendship and support from my fellow Native students within Native American Council. Regardless of your identity, there is a community for you on campus.” 60+ Abigail H. SOCIAL JUSTICE, Norman, OK SERVICE AND Anthropology STUDENT-LED INITIATIVES, CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

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50+ MUSIC- AND PERFORMANCE- BASED GROUPS “You can be whoever you want to be at Columbia, and there 500+ will always be social and CLUBS AND institutional resources to get ORGANIZATIONS you there!”

Sabrina Jade S. Fremont, CA Data Science

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“I can meet people from across the world in my classes, dorms, and clubs. I have learned a lot about different cultures and have become much more open-minded.”

Irene B. Zhoushan, China Computer Science and Economics

First-year residence halls are hubs of activity and community

Carman Hall

Furnald Hall

Hartley Hall

John Jay Hall

Wallach Hall

#1 COLLEGE FOR FOOD, AS RANKED BY THE DAILY MEAL

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55,000 HOURS VOLUNTEERED BY STUDENTS THROUGH COMMUNITY IMPACT PROGRAMS EACH YEAR

12+ on-campus dining halls and cafés

Blue Java Café

Café East

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John Jay Dining Hall

JJ’s Place “Every dorm has a floor lounge, Café Nana complete with a TV and Lenfest Café lounge chairs, open 24 hours. It’s the go-to spot for my friends, Joe Deli and we have floor bonding activities every week so it’s easy to meet people.”

Anthony A. San Diego, CA Computer Science 140+ ON-CAMPUS RESIDENT ADVISERS

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“It was only after I came to Columbia and met students from all over the world that I began to understand what it means to live in such a cosmopolitan community.”

ALAN B. Tijuana, Mexico English

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30+ STUDENT PUBLICATIONS AND BLOGS

“I love Columbia sporting events. I’m a part of the WKCR sports department, so we travel to games to broadcast…seeing the fans that show up in support of the Lions is always a ton of fun.”

Brian O. Norfolk, MA Mathematics–Statistics and Sociology

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“Fifty years from now, this is the kind of thing we’ll remember: sitting in the hallway with a bunch of friends, talking about books until two in the morning.”

Tom S. Benicia, CA History

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“In a place miles and miles away from home, it’s surprisingly easy to find your second home.”

Mikha D. Manila, Philippines Biomedical Engineering

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COLUMBIA TRADITIONS 1 Homecoming Tree 2 Lighting The Varsity 3 Show The Owl and 4 5 Alma Mater Holi 6 Glass House Rocks 7 Powwow First Snow 8 9 Night Market

1 Every October, and moving celebration the owl hidden on the only performance art 8 At the first snowfall thousands of Columbia of tradition, holiday statue of Alma Mater in festival in Columbia’s of each year, the alumni from every spirit and the Columbia Low Plaza will become steel-and-glass student students converge corner of the world community. the class valedictorian. center, Lerner Hall, on Low Plaza for return to Morningside where dance, music a friendly, free-for- Heights to celebrate 3 Columbia’s oldest 5 Every spring, and comedy groups all snowball fight Homecoming — performing arts Columbia’s Hindu showcase their talents under the watchful a weekend full of tradition, the Varsity Students Organization on the building’s eye of Alma Mater. fall festivities that Show has entertained hosts Holi, the Festival crisscrossing ramps. culminates in a football students and faculty of Colors, where 9 Sponsored by the game between the Lions alike since 1894, with students of all faiths 7 An annual event Chinese Students Club and an Ivy League rival. sold-out performances celebrate the end where Indigenous each fall, Night Market that satirize life of winter. Peoples and their friends features food, art and 2 In early December, at Columbia. unite to celebrate and performances that run students and alumni 6 Students come honor their identities the gamut from lion gather on College 4 Legend holds that together for an through dance, song dance to a cappella, Walk for this dazzling the first member of the extravagant one-night- and socialization. to sketch comedy. incoming class to find

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Residence Hall Leadership 10 Send Off Surf, Turf, 11 & Earth Bacchanal 12 President’s Annual 13 Fun Run King’s Crown 14 Shakespeare Troupe 15 Through the Gates

10 Held each fall Services pulls out all the headliners include 14 For 20+ years, of Columbia University on the South Lawn, stops for Surf, Turf & AlunaGeorge, Ty Dolla the King’s Crown at 116th Street the RHLO Send Off Earth, featuring lobster $ign and Columbia Shakespeare during the New brings together tails, steak and literally alums Vampire Troupe has given Student Orientation undergraduates boatloads of shrimp. Weekend. free, outdoor Program. from Columbia Students are advised performances all College, Columbia to come hungry! 13 Every fall, this 5K around Columbia’s Engineering and fun run draws hundreds Morningside Barnard College 12 In April, the of students, faculty Heights campus. for games, Bacchanal Spring and staff for a beautiful, refreshments and Concert is a chance early morning run 15 Every year, even some inflatables. to enjoy music through Riverside Park student leaders and festival vibes with along the Hudson River. administrators serenade 11 As the school year friends from across first-year students with winds down, Columbia’s the undergraduate the Columbia fight song top-ranked Dining community. Recent as they enter the gates

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COLUMBIA FINANCIAL AID Having a broad representation of perspectives — in our residence halls, our labs and classrooms, and across our campus — is critical to our culture. The more voices we hear, the more we learn and the better we understand. So, we seek out intellectually curious minds from all walks of life and socioeconomic backgrounds across the country and around the world, who will contribute to, and profit from, the Core Curriculum and the total Columbia experience.

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Learn more about financial aid undergrad.admissions. Providing access and affordability columbia.edu/affordable What matters most to us is your ability to thrive at Columbia, not your ability to pay for it. We are committed to making Columbia’s opportunities accessible for all our students. If cost is a concern for your family, we encourage you to apply for financial aid.

$174 Million in Aid $0 Parent Contribution Columbia typically awards over $174 If your family’s annual income million in scholarships and grants. is $60,000 a year or less, your In fact, we offer some of the most parents are not expected to generous financial aid of any college contribute to the cost of attendance. in the United States, and students are Almost 40 percent of financial aid often surprised by how much they recipients have a parent contribution receive. In many instances, Columbia under $5,000. is actually more affordable than public colleges and universities. No Loans Financial aid packages consist Need-Blind Admissions of work study, as well as grants, We are need-blind for US which are need-based scholarships citizens, eligible non-citizens and that do not have to be paid back. undocumented students, which There are no loans included in means you are considered for your financial aid package, and admission without regard for your you can graduate debt-free. ability to pay for your education. Foreign citizens applying for aid Gateway to Opportunity are reviewed in a more need-aware We have a range of programs process, but many of our foreign in place to help you enjoy your citizens receive significant financial aid. time at Columbia and make the most of the opportunities you’ll find here — 100% of Need Covered among them research funding, If you’re a first-year student or financial support for studying abroad a transfer student pursuing your first and the chance to win tickets for degree, Columbia covers 100 percent cultural events through our beloved of your demonstrated need for all Urban NY lottery. four years that you are here.

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