Columbia University in the City of New York

(New York, NY)

Columbia University in the City of New York lies at the crossroads of the world. Our exhilarating intellectual reach comprises pioneering work in the sciences, creative visionaries in the arts, standard-setting work in the humanities, mindbending innovations in engineering.

Every Columbia undergraduate - 4,100 in Columbia College and 1,400 in Columbia Engineering - studies the world's major texts in our remarkable Core Curriculum. Our students choose from nearly 100 areas of study and take advantage of hundreds of extracurricular, research, internship and study abroad opportunities, every one enriched by the social and cultural vibrancy of New York.

Ivy League education on a human scale.

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      • VITAL is a web video-based essay tool that provides students with activities and tools that encourage analysis and critical thought, and foster independent study as well as collaboration.
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      • Pulitzer's New York World Reborn as Online News Site
      • New York World staff talk about using digital media to pursue long-term investigative projects. (4:09) ---- Last fall, a private bus company operating under a city contract permitted its passengers, primarily Orthodox Jews, to enforce a religious tradition?in order to prevent physical contact between the sexes, women were required to sit in the back of the bus. The New York Times, New York Post and CBS 2 ran the story, which was later picked up by the BBC and Belgian and Israeli news outlets. But it was an enterprising reporter from The New York World?a new Graduate School of Journalism endeavor?who first broke this story of segregation. More: news.columbia.edu
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      • Durst Gift Helps Launch New Center on Urban Real Estate
      • Without real estate, there could be no architecture, no planning, no preservation. Now the graduate school devoted to all those things has launched the University?s first Center for Urban Real Estate, a research group whose mission is to identify solutions for a rapidly urbanizing world. The center is led by Vishaan Chakrabarti, an architect, former city planner and real estate developer, who joined Columbia in 2009 as the Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development and director of the real estate development program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
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