Columbia University

Columbia University was established in 1754 as King's College by regal sanction of King George II of England. It is the most established organization of higher learning 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 decide its area and religious association. Supporters of New York City met with accomplishment on the principal point, while the Anglicans won on the last mentioned. Be that as it may, all voting public consented to confer themselves to standards of religious freedom in building up the strategies of the College.

Columbia's initially home: Trinity Church school building

Columbia's initially home: Trinity Church school building

In July 1754, Samuel Johnson held the principal classes in another school building abutting Trinity Church, situated on what is presently lower Broadway in Manhattan. There were eight understudies in the class. At King's College, the future pioneers of provincial society could get a training intended to "broaden the Mind, enhance the Understanding, clean the entire Man, and qualify them to bolster the brightest Characters in all the hoisted stations in life." One early sign of the organization's grand objectives was the foundation in 1767 of the primary American therapeutic school to give the M.D. degree.

The American Revolution conveyed the development of the school to an end, compelling a suspension of direction in 1776 that gone on for a long time. Be that as it may, the organization kept on applying a critical impact on American life through the general population related with it. Among the most punctual understudies and trustees of King's College were John Jay, the main boss equity of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, the principal secretary of the treasury; Gouverneur Morris, the creator of the last draft of the U.S. Constitution; and Robert R. Livingston, an individual from the five-man board of trustees that drafted the Declaration of Independence.

The school revived in 1784 with another name—Columbia—that epitomized the enthusiastic enthusiasm that had propelled the country's journey for freedom. The rejuvenated establishment was conspicuous as the relative of its pioneer precursor, on account of its slant toward Anglicanism and the necessities of a urban populace, yet there were critical contrasts: Columbia College mirrored the heritage of the Revolution in the more noteworthy financial, denominational, and geographic assorted qualities of its new understudies and pioneers. Isolated grounds life offered route to the more typical marvel of day understudies who inhabited home or held up in the city.



Columbia University is a private establishment that was established in 1754. It has an aggregate undergrad enlistment of 6,102, its setting is urban, and the grounds size is 36 sections of land. It uses a semester-based scholarly logbook. Columbia University's positioning in the 2017 version of Best Colleges is National Universities, 5. Its educational cost and charges are $55,056 (2016-17).

Columbia University, situated in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood in New York City, offers an extensive variety of understudy exercises. The Columbia Lions field more than 25 NCAA Division I groups in the Ivy League. More than 90 percent of understudies live in on-grounds lodging, going from conventional living arrangement corridors to college claimed brownstones. A hefty portion of the brownstones are populated by the more than 25 Greek crew and sorority sections on grounds, whose enrollment incorporates around 10 percent of the understudy body. Associations, for example, Urban New York, which gives out free tickets to city occasions, encourage understudy communication with life in the Big Apple.


Columbia is included three undergrad schools—Columbia College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the School of General Studies—and in addition various graduate and expert schools. Columbia's graduate projects incorporate the very positioned Business School, Teachers College, SEAS, Law School, College of Physicians and Surgeons, School of International and Public Affairs, School of the Arts and Mailman School of Public Health. The college likewise has a very much respected College of Dental Medicine and Graduate School of Journalism. Columbia is subsidiary with Barnard College for ladies, the Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Recognized graduated class incorporate John Jay, establishing father and first Supreme Court Justice; President Barack Obama; songwriting group Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; and on-screen character Maggie Gyllenhaal. Columbia additionally manages the Pulitzer Prizes.