COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,NEW YORK

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HISTORY

Columbia University was established in 1754 as King's College by regal contract of King George II of England. It is the most seasoned establishment of higher adapting in the condition of New York and the fifth most established in the United States. 

Debate went before the establishing of the College, with different gatherings contending to focus its area and religious connection. Promoters of New York City met with accomplishment on the first point, when the Anglicans won on the recent. Then again, all bodies electorate consented to confer themselves to standards of religious freedom in making the approaches of the College. 

Columbia's first home: Trinity Church school building 

In July 1754, Samuel Johnson held the first classes in another school building bordering Trinity Church, spotted on what is currently lower Broadway in Manhattan. There were eight understudies in the study-room. One early appearance of the foundation's grand objectives was the foundation in 1767 of the first American restorative school to introduce  M.D. degree. 

The American Revolution brought the development of the school to a stop, constraining a suspension of direction in 1776 that went on for a long time. Then again, the foundation kept on applying a critical impact on American life through the individuals connected with it. 

The school revived in 1784 with another name—Columbia—that epitomized the devoted intensity that had motivated the country's mission for freedom. The revitalized establishment was unmistakable as the relative of its pilgrim predecessor, on account of its slant toward Anglicanism and the needs of a urban populace, however there were essential contrasts: Columbia College mirrored the legacy of the Revolution in the more noteworthy monetary, denominational, and geographic assorted qualities of its new understudies and pioneers. Sheltered grounds life offered path to the more basic wonder of day understudies who inhabited home or stopped in the city. 

Organization 

Columbia is looked after by President C. Bollinger. The University's administration is looked after  by the 24-part Board of Trustees and by the University Senate. 

Arranging data that is utilized to deal with the University and settle on choices about its arrangements and objectives is given by the Office of Planning and Institutional Research. This information incorporates authentic and current data about Columbia, examinations crosswise over associate foundations and reviews of personnel, staff, understudies and graduated class. Notwithstanding assembling and sorting out significant raw numbers, the Office of Planning and Institutional Research utilizes this information to complete research and investigations with respect to issues of significance to the University. The workplace likewise keeps up the University's measurable unique, directions answering to legislative organizations and gives information to distributers of school aides. 

VISIT  AND FIRT TIME VISITORS 

Gatherings of less than ten individuals are allowed to visit the Morningside grounds all alone. Maps and different materials for guided toward oneself visits are accessible online and in the Visitors Center, placed in room 213 of Low Memorial Library. No enlistment is obliged to get a guided toward oneself visit; be that as it may, a current Columbia I.D. is obliged to enter all structures with the exception of Low Library. You are welcome to investigate any of the outside green space on grounds. A virtual visit and podcast are accessible on the web. 

Grounds Access Tours 

Guests with incapacities may ask for an available voyage through the Morningside Campus from the Visitor's Center, 213 Low Library. Visits are masterminded to meet the individual needs of guests; three weeks early notification notice is required. To organize a visit, guests ought to email visitorscenter@columbia.edu. Guests with portability impedances who land on the Morningside grounds without earlier recognize may have the capacity to orchestrate a voyage through Upper Campus through the Visitors Center, subject to visit guide accessibility. The Visitors Center does not give wheelchairs, golf trucks or different modes of transportation. Columbia University is focused on giving an available and inviting environment for staff, staff, understudies, visitors, guests and individuals from people in general. For more data, contact the Office of Disability Services. 

Housing 

The University has arranged manages a few neighborhood lodgings. Visit the Travel Portal for more data, and visit the Student Affairs site for other convenience thoughts.

 OVERVIEW FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 

This data has been readied to help forthcoming understudies from different nations make their instructive arrangements and choose whether they wish to make a formal application for admission to Columbia University. If you don't mind read this data painstakingly. The University embodies undergrad (first) degree school graduate Program, Columbia's globally perceived project for the investigation of English as a second dialect. Every Columbia school or system has a different confirmations office, affirmations application, and release. It is essential to focus the degree to be considered and the school in which the system is advertised. A few subjects (mostly liberal expressions and sciences) are offered in more than one school. The degree got or the accentuation of the significant center of studies varies relying upon the school in which the understudy is enlisted. The data that takes after quickly portrays Columbia's system offerings and degree structure. Definite data on the application process for universal understudies, including connections to the testing administrations offering obliged confirmation examinations, is accessible in Application Overview for International Students. Particular school application data and helpful references or announcements are connected to the school or project names. 

Review of Undergraduate Studies: 

A four year college education earned in the United States normally takes at least four years. Degrees are earned by taking a mix of obliged courses which meet liberal expressions appropriation prerequisites (humanities, sociologies, and characteristic sciences), an obliged number of courses in the real field of study (called a "major"in the United States), and the offset of courses as electives. Every course taken is appointed a quality called "focuses" (likewise called "credits" or "units"). To acquire a four year certification, one must procure at least 124 focuses (typically more) and, in the meantime, meet the appropriation and real prerequisites. Advisement on course choice is accessible in every school at the time of enrollment. 

Undergrad studies are offered in three divisions of the University. Every division offers a different project of studies. The divisions that offer the undergrad (B.A. alternately B.S.) degree are: 

1. Columbia College (CC) - Study of the liberal expressions and sciences prompting the B.A. degree customarily, however not solely, for understudies only out of optional school, ordinarily between the ages of 17 and 22. With an enlistment of roughly 4,000, Columbia College is the littlest school in the Ivy League. 

2. Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) - Offers the B.S. degree in building and connected science fields. 

3. School of General Studies (GS) - Offers the B.A. then again B.S. degree to understudies who have had a break of a year or all the more in their instruction since secondary school. 

Outline of Graduate Studies: 

All different divisions of the University are master's level college and, all things considered, offer degrees past the four year certification, normally expert's or doctoral degrees. 

Graduate degrees take from one to three years to acquire relying upon the course work and examination/composing necessities. 

Ph.D. prerequisites may fluctuate yet normally oblige one to two years obviously work past the graduate degree, far reaching examinations, a noteworthy unique commitment to research in the field of study, and oral resistance of one's exploration. The examination and composing necessity can take from two to five years past the course work. A Ph.D. hopeful ought to plan on at least four and a normal of six years of study to finish the degree necessities. It is not uncommon for an understudy to be at Columbia seven or eight years to finish a doctorate.

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