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Columbia University Columbia Blue great urban university. 212 Hamilton Hall, MC 2807 1130 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 For more information about Columbia University, please call our office or visit our website: 212-854-2522 undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu Columbia Blue D3 E3 A B C D E F G H Riverside Drive Columbia University New York City 116th Street 116th 114th Street 114th in the City of New York Street 115th 1 1 Columbia Alumni Casa Center Hispánica Bank Street Kraft School of Knox Center Education Union Theological New Jersey Seminary Barnard College Manhattan School of Music The Cloisters Columbia University Museum & Gardens Subway 2 Subway 2 Broadway Lincoln Center Grant’s Tomb for the Performing Arts Bookstore Northwest Furnald Lewisohn Mathematics Chandler Empire State Washington Heights Miller Corner Building Hudson River Chelsea Building Alfred Lerner Theatre Pulitzer Earl Havemeyer Clinton Carman Hall Cathedral of Morningside Heights Intercultural Dodge Statue of Liberty West Village Flatiron Theater St. John the Divine Resource Hall Dodge Fitness One World Trade Building Upper West Side Center Pupin District Center Center Greenwich Village Jewish Theological Central Park Harlem Tribeca 110th Street 110th 113th Street113th 112th Street112th 111th Street Seminary NYC Subway — No. 1 Train The Metropolitan Midtown Apollo Theater SoHo Museum of Art Sundial 3 Butler University Teachers 3 Low Library Uris Schapiro Washington Flatiron Library Hall College Financial Chinatown Square Arch District Upper East Side District East Harlem Noho Gramercy Park Chrysler College Staten Island New York Building Walk Stock Exchange Murray Lenox Hill Yorkville Hill East Village The Bronx Buell Avery Fairchild Lower East Side Mudd East River St. Paul’s John Jay Hamilton Kent Schermerhorn Engineering Hall Chapel Terrace Computer Wallach Hartley Philosophy Fayerweather Science 4 4 Amsterdam Avenue Casa Italiana School of Social Work Columbia Law Brooklyn Queens St. Luke’s School Hospital School of 122nd Street 120th Street 119th Street 119th 118th Street 118th International and Street121st Public Affairs Cathedral of St. John the Divine 5 5 Faculty President’s House House Morningside Drive Morningside Park A B C D E F G H Columbia Blue 1 Blue View: Part I 4 2 Exponential Education 10 3 Columbia Days 26 Common Core, 44 4 Uncommon Education 5 Giants Among Us 54 High-Impact and Hands-On: 64 6 Science and Engineering Research 7 Columbia College 72 Watching over Low Plaza is Alma Mater, Columbia Engineering 78 a bronze sculpture by 8 Daniel Chester French, famous for his statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial Community, Columbia Style 84 in Washington, DC. 9 Alma Mater is also the subject of many Columbia legends, True Blue Traditions 96 including that the 10 first student in every new class to find the hidden owl on the statue will be the class Blue View: Part II 110 valedictorian. 11 A1 Columbia at a Glance 116 Want to know where this is on campus? You can find all the places shown in photographs throughout this book on the campus map on the inside front cover. Just look for the location code on each photo. Call it blue sky thinking, a bolt of blue As a Columbian you are inspiration, or rhapsody in blue. Everything you part of an extraordinary community of students need to realize your personal, professional, — more eclectic than you can dream of yet, more at home together and doing-good-in-the-world ambitions is here. than you can imagine. Our students are united in their sense of adventure and desire to Learning from today’s iconic thinkers and welcome the unknown, the unexpected, the leaders not just in books but in person. Living overlooked, and seek out new ideas, new in a city driven by the smartest, newest ideas. information, and new possibilities. Adding your personality, friendship, and inspiration to one of the most diverse and interesting student bodies on any campus. Reveling in “Roar, Lion, Roar!” traditions and spirit both grand and quirky. Earning lifetime intellectual confidence through a legendary Core Curriculum. Thriving in an engineering curriculum that fosters an interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial approach to solving the world’s grand challenges. Joining dozens of clubs, finding that small handful of interests that will be true passions now and throughout your life. Having the freedom to reach for any goal on a campus, in a city, in a community where shaping society, culture, and the world happens every day. Dive into the Columbia Blue. 2 D2 3 1 Blue View: Part I E3 4 A gift from Columbia President Seth Low in honor of his father and patterned loosely on Rome’s Pantheon, Low Library has the largest all-granite dome in the United States. No longer a library, Low now houses the Visitors Center and the Office of the President; its impressive rotunda is used for campus events. 5 D2 6 Alfred Lerner Hall is Columbia’s student center. Lerner is home to the Center for Student Advising and Undergraduate Student Life offices including Multicultural Affairs, as well as student group advising and the Office of Financial Aid and Educational Financing. It also includes student lounges, two dining venues, a black box theater, 7,000 undergraduate mailboxes, two computer labs, offices for student organizations, and numerous event spaces, including a 1,100-seat auditorium and a 400-seat cinema. 7 Butler Library is the centerpiece of the Columbia University Libraries, one of the ten largest academic library systems in the nation. Housing close to one- third of the Libraries’ on-site collections, Butler Library includes nearly 1,000,000 rare books and 26 million manuscripts, and the world-famous Oral History Research Office and collection. Several books and screenplays have been written here, including Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and alumnus Dan Futterman’s Oscar-nominated script for the film Capote. C3 8 9 2 Exponential Education E3 10 11 Every aspect of the Columbia experience opens doors to an ever-deeper set of opportunities. Each of these beginnings is the tip of the iceberg, the first domino, the catalyst in an education with unending exponential power that builds throughout a Columbian’s life. Call it Columbia to the power of infinity. Take Literature Humanities Move into your residence Major in Computer Science with Take part in COÖP’s pre- first semester with 20 students hall room in John Jay with a minor in Visual Arts. orientation bike tour, where from all over the country and views of campus and midtown after a four-day trip through the the world. Manhattan. Pitch your idea for a brand-new Hudson Valley, you ride over company at Columbia the George Washington Bridge Engineering’s Fast Pitch with 49 new friends. competition. Cheer on friends running the NYC Marathon, visit the MoMA after class, study in Central Park, eat chicken Be part of a community where, and rice from a street vendor — Intern at Google in the YouTube as one student said, “Everyone call New York City home. Business Development is capable of saying something department. Delve into virtue, justice, that will blow your mind with suffering, evil, friendship, family, insights.” Impact community clients loss, and power through some of locally and around the world the greatest works of literature with your senior design project. of all time. Open the door to a steady stream of opportunities: research with a Nobel Laureate, perform on Broadway, question Be befriended, challenged, and Warren Buffett and Bill Gates supported by fellow Columbians Use the internship experience Expand the way you see the at a campus lecture, tour for the next four years and you gain with a start-up created world in ways that will impact the Guggenheim, and eventually join a Columbia Alumni network by a Columbia alum to start your every other class you take find your dream job through of more than 300,000. own venture in your hometown. as well as your career and life. connections you make here. Described as one of fairs, and staged Going to Columbia the great urban spaces performances like gives you a kind of in America, Low Plaza the King’s Crown dual citizenship — you was built to resemble Shakespeare Troupe’s are a Columbian and a Greek amphitheater. annual productions. a New Yorker. Each in Fittingly, it’s ideal itself is a life changer. for outdoor concerts, The combination? Unequaled. 12 13 Columbia In 1754 Columbia University was founded as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. The Fu Foundation Columbia School of College Engineering and Applied Science Undergraduate Programs 6,000 More than 82 undergraduates; one of the Columbia students can 80% Nobel Prize winners are most diverse student bodies choose from more than of undergraduate Columbia alumni, faculty, or in the country. 150 study abroad programs. classes have fewer than former faculty. More Nobel 20 students. Laureates have graduated from or taught at Columbia About than any other university 12+ in the Ivy League. 100 conservatory-caliber arts 6 to 1 Programs of Study, from majors and programs. ratio of students Earth and Environmental to faculty. Engineering to Creative 146 Writing to Urban Studies. Almost faculty in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 400 3 to 1 which studies and sets the nation’s direction of research research opportunities ratio of students in science and technology 60+ reserved for Columbia to faculty in the physical policy, global security, social majors in the humanities Engineering undergraduates sciences.