Columbia University

                                   

  
Columbia University was established in 1754 as King's College by the imperial contract of King George II of England. It is the most seasoned foundation of higher learning in the condition of New York and the fifth most seasoned in the United States. 
The debate went before the establishing of the College, with different gatherings contending to decide its area and religious association. Backers of New York City met with accomplishment on the main point, while the Anglicans won on the last mentioned. In any case, all voting demographics consented to submit themselves to standards of religious freedom in setting up the approaches of the College.
The college is composed of twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies, and additionally Columbia Law School, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Columbia Business School. It has affiliations with a few different organizations close-by, including Teachers College (the college's Department of Education), Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergrad programs accessible through the Jewish. 

                     Campus

Morningside Heights

The larger part of Columbia's graduate and undergrad studies are led in Morningside Heights on Seth Low's late-nineteenth century vision of a college grounds where all orders could be instructed in one area. The grounds was composed along Beaux-Arts standards by engineers McKim, Mead, and White. Columbia's principle grounds involves more than six city pieces, or 32 sections of land (13 ha), in Morningside Heights, New York City, an area that contains various scholarly foundations. The college possesses more than 7,800 flats in Morningside Heights, lodging workforce, graduate understudies, and staff. Just about two dozen undergrad quarters (reason fabricated or changed over) are situated on grounds or in Morningside Heights. Columbia University has a broad underground passage framework over exceptionally old, with the most established parts originating before the present grounds. Some of these stay open to people in general, while others have been cordoned off.

In April 2007, the college bought more than 66% of 17 sections of land (6.9 ha) site for another grounds in Manhattanville, a modern neighborhood toward the north of the Morningside Heights grounds. Extending from 125th Street to 133rd Street, the new grounds will house structures for Columbia's Business School, School of International and Public Affairs, and the Jerome L. Greene Center for Mind, Brain, and Behavior, where research will happen in neurodegenerative sicknesses, for example, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. The $7 billion development arrange incorporates destroying all structures, aside from three that are truly huge, wiping out the current light industry and capacity stockrooms, and moving occupants in 132 lofts. Supplanting these structures will be 6,800,000 square feet (630,000 m2) of space for the college. Group dissident gatherings in West Harlem battled the extension for reasons going from property security and reasonable trade for land to inhabitants' rights. Resulting open hearings drew neighborhood restriction. Most as of late, as of December 2008, the State of New York's Empire State Development Corporation affirmed the utilization of prominent area, which, through the announcement of Manhattanville's "cursed" status, gives administrative bodies the privilege to fitting private property for open utilize. On May 20, 2009, the New York State Public Authorities Control Board affirmed the Manhattanville extension arrange and the principal structures are under development.

                                 Departments

• Accounting Division 
• Anatomy and Cell Biology Department 
• Anesthesiology Department
• Art History and Archaeology Department
• Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department 
• Biomedical Engineering Department
• Classics Department
• Computer Science Department 
• Dermatology Department 
• Earth and Environmental Engineering Department
• East Asian Languages and Cultures Department 
• Economics Department
• Environmental Health Sciences Department
• Finance and Economics Division

Undergraduate admissions and financial aid

Columbia University got 36,292 applications for its college course of 2020 (entering 2016). In the early choice, 620 out of 3,520 candidates were conceded, for an acknowledgment rate of 17.61%. In the normal choice, 1,573 out of 32,772 candidates were conceded, for an acknowledgment rate of 4.79%. Altogether, 2,193 out of 36,292 candidates were conceded for a general acknowledgment rate of 6.04%, making Columbia the third most particular school in the United States by affirmation rate behind Stanford and Harvard. The undergrad yield rate for the class of 2019 was 63.2%. As indicated by the 2012 school selectivity positioning by U.S. News and World Report, which variables affirmation and yield rates among other criteria, Columbia was tied with Yale, Caltech, and MIT as the most particular universities in the nation. Columbia is a racially different school, with roughly 52% of all understudies recognizing themselves as people of shading. Furthermore, half of all students got stipends from Columbia. The normally allow measure granted to these understudies is $46,516.In 2015-2016, yearly undergrad educational cost at Columbia was $50,526 with an aggregate cost of participation of $65,860 (counting food and lodging).