 Columbia University
Columbia College, one of the four undergraduate colleges of Columbia University, was founded in 1754 as King’s College for men. Columbia College is the smallest college of the Ivy League, a group of the eight oldest universities in the United States that includes Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.
Columbia University is known for its award-winning faculty and research centers. Columbia’s scientists discovered Deuterium, were pioneers in genetics and developed laser and radar. Today, scientific exploration continues with development of anti-cancer compounds, predictions of global climate change and creation of the superstring theory. More than 60 people who have taught or studied at Columbia have won Nobel Prizes including Theodore Roosevelt, economist Milton Friedman and physicist Robert Millikan, and 26 current faculty members were inducted into the National Academy of Science.
Housing
SAF students live in university high-rise residence halls and turn-of-the-century buildings such as the Alfred Lerner Hall, the new student center with an auditorium and cinema. Located in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in an area called Morning Side Heights, the university’s campus has bookstores, coffee shops and restaurants around the corner, yet SoHo and Greenwich Village are just a subway ride away.
Courses
Political science, economics, English, history and sciences are some of the strongest majors at Columbia and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science offers more than a dozen engineering programs including biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, geological, industrial, mechanical and metallurgical.
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