Columbia University

Columbia college inside the town-limits of recent York, or artlessly Columbia college, is an American clandestine Ivy League analysis university amid in Morningside Heights, in higher ny, big apple city.
Columbia is the oldest academy of university acquirements in the big apple country, the 5th oldest within the united states, and one of the u . s . a .'s 9 Colonial faculties based afore the yankee Revolution. It become based in 1754 as King's college by aristocratic allotment of George II of outstanding Britain. After the american revolutionary warfare, King's college in short have become a accompaniment entity, and changed into renamed Columbia university in 1784. The university now operates below a 1787 allotment that places the academy beneath a clandestine lath of trustees, and in 1896 it become added renamed Columbia college. That aforementioned year, the university's campus was careworn from Madison avenue to its commonplace area in Morningside Heights, location it occupies delivered than six metropolis-limits blocks, or 32 acreage (thirteen ha).these days the university operates Columbia global centers throughout in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Nairobi.
The university encompasses twenty colleges and is affiliated with plentiful establishments, together with instructors university (which is Columbia college's Graduate Academy of schooling), Barnard college, and the Union Theological Seminary, with collective undergraduate packages on hand via the Jewish Theological Seminary of the united states as capable-bodied as the Juilliard school.
Columbia yearly administers the Pulitzer Prize. additionally, 101 Nobel Prize laureates accept been affiliated with the university as students, college, or workforce. Columbia is one of the fourteen founding buddies of the affiliation of yank Universities, and turned into the aboriginal academy in the america to admission the M.D. diploma. first-rate alumni and above attractiveness of the college and its predecessor, King's college, cover five Founding Fathers of america; 9 Justices of america supreme court docket; 43 Nobel Prize laureates; 20 energetic billionaires; 29 Academy Award winners; and 29 lively of nation, together with three u.s. Presidents.