Columbia University facts for kids
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Motto |
In lumine tuo videbimus lumen
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Type | Private |
Established | 1754 |
Endowment | $10 billion |
President | Lee Bollinger |
Students | 24,820 |
Undergraduates | 6,923 |
Postgraduates | 15,731 |
Location | , , |
Campus | Urban |
Athletics | NCAA Division I FCS |
Nickname | Lions |
Mascot | Roaree the Lion AAU, Ivy League, MAISA |
Website | www.columbia.edu |
Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a research university in the United States. It is an Ivy League university and often considered one of the best in the world. It is the fifth oldest college in the United States.
It was ranked 2nd best college in the United States by Times Higher Education in 2017. It was ranked 8th best university in the world by U.S. News & World Report.
The university was founded as King's College by royal charter from King George II of Great Britain. It was the first college in New York, and the fifth college in the Thirteen Colonies. A lot of the money that paid for the school came from slavery. After the American Revolution it was renamed "Columbia College" in 1784 and renamed once again to "Columbia University" in 1896 when it moved to its current location in Morningside Heights.
Ninety-Six Nobel Prize winners have been produced by Columbia, the second most in the United States after Harvard University. Five Founding Fathers attended Columbia: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, Gouverneur Morris and Egbert Benson. Three U.S. Presidents have attended Columbia: Barack Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. Ten Supreme Court Justices have attended Columbia including the most recent Associate Justice, Neil Gorsuch, and the first Chief Justice, John Jay. Other famous alumni include: Warren Buffett, Madeline Albright, and Lou Gehrig.
Columbia is home to the Pulitzer Prize for good work in journalism, literature and music. Columbia is where FM radio was created. The school is where the foundation of modern genetics was discovered. Its Morningside Heights campus was the first North American site where the uranium atom was split.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and College of Dental Medicine are located in Washington Heights in Northern Manhattan.
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The 1797 Taylor Map of New York City, showing "The College" at its Park Place (then Robinson Street) location. Note earlier location, Trinity Church, lower left.
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Low Memorial Library, c. 1900
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Lamont Campus entrance in Palisades, New York
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The entrance to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Washington Heights
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The Barnard College Class of 1913 processes down the steps of Low Library.
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Havemeyer Hall, a National Historic Chemical Landmark, where deuterium was discovered in 1931. Research conducted in Havemeyer has led to at least seven Nobel Prizes.
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President Lee Bollinger presents the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to Jeffrey Eugenides.
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The Art Deco cover of the November 1931 edition of the Jester, celebrating the opening of the George Washington Bridge
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Pupin Hall, the physics building, showing the rooftop Rutherfurd Observatory
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Triple Crown winner and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Lou Gehrig
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World Leaders Forum at Low Memorial Library
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Earl Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role in serving as a venue for meetings and dances of the Columbia Queer Alliance.
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Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father of the United States; author of The Federalist Papers; first United States Secretary of the Treasury — King's College
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John Jay: Founding Father of the United States; author of The Federalist Papers; first Chief Justice of the United States; second Governor of New York — King's College
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Robert R. Livingston: Founding Father of the United States; drafter of the Declaration of Independence; first United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs — King's College
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Gouverneur Morris: Founding Father of the United States; author of the United States Constitution; United States Senator from New York — King's College
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DeWitt Clinton: United States Senator from New York; sixth Governor of New York; responsible for construction of Erie Canal — Columbia College
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Barack Obama: 44th President of the United States; United States Senator from Illinois; Nobel laureate — Columbia College
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: 32nd President of the United States; 44th Governor of New York — Columbia Law School
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Theodore Roosevelt: 26th President of the United States; 25th Vice President of the United States; 33rd Governor of New York; Nobel laureate – Columbia Law School
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Wellington Koo: acting President of the Republic of China; judge of the International Court of Justice — Columbia College, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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B. R. Ambedkar: Founding Father of India; architect of the Constitution of India; First Minister of Law and Justice — Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States — Columbia Law School
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Neil Gorsuch: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States — Columbia College
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Charles Evans Hughes: 11th Chief Justice of the United States; 44th United States Secretary of State; 35th Governor of New York — Columbia Law School
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Harlan Fiske Stone: 12th Chief Justice of the United States; 52nd United States Attorney General — Columbia Law School
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William Barr: 77th and 85th United States Attorney General – Columbia College, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Hamilton Fish: 26th United States Secretary of State; United States Senator from New York; 16th Governor of New York — Columbia College
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Madeleine Albright: 64th United States Secretary of State; first female Secretary of State — School of International and Public Affairs
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Frances Perkins: fourth United States Secretary of Labor; first female member of any U.S. Cabinet — Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Robert A. Millikan: Nobel laureate; measured the elementary electric charge — Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Isidor Isaac Rabi: Nobel Laureate; discovered nuclear magnetic resonance — Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Julian S. Schwinger: Nobel laureate; pioneer of quantum field theory — Columbia College, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Milton Friedman: Nobel laureate, leading member of the Chicago school of economics — Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Simon Kuznets: Nobel laureate; invented concept of GDP; Milton Friedman's doctoral advisor — School of General Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Alan Greenspan: 13th Chair of the Federal Reserve — Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Warren Buffett: CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; one of the world's wealthiest people — Columbia Business School
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Herman Hollerith: inventor; co-founder of IBM – School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Robert Kraft: billionaire; owner of the New England Patriots; chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group — Columbia College
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Richard Rodgers: legendary Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award-winning composer; Pulitzer Prize winner — Columbia College
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Langston Hughes: Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist, and playwright — School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Zora Neale Hurston: Harlem Renaissance author, anthropologist, and filmmaker — Barnard College, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Allen Ginsberg: poet; founder of the Beat Generation — Columbia College
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Jack Kerouac: poet; founder of the Beat Generation — Columbia College
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Isaac Asimov: science fiction writer; biochemist — School of General Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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J. D. Salinger: novelist, The Catcher in the Rye — School of General Studies
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Amelia Earhart: first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean — School of General Studies
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Jake Gyllenhaal: actor and film producer — Columbia College
See also
In Spanish: Universidad de Columbia para niños