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Columbia University : Characteristics
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Columbia University
School Characteristic: One of the famous Ivy League schools
First-class education and research:
Top 13 graduate schools provide construction, commerce, news, arts, education, law, medicine and other major education.
Ranked 8th in the best universities evaluation in the United States.
The best graduate school
Law School 4th
Education School 4th
Business School 9th
College of Art 11th
There are more than 70 Nobel Prize winners, more than 40 National Academy of Sciences, more than 20 National Academy of Engineering, more than 20 and more than 140 members of the American Academy of Arts.
There are more than 200 research centers and 530 million Research Fund.
The birthplace of the first FM radio, the first American university establishing anthropology and political science, the founder of modern genetics, the birthplace of the Beat generation movement and the place where the first uranium atoms split in North America.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded here.
The world’s largest comprehensive graduate school specializing in aspects such as education, applied psychology and mental health.
Complete facilities and funding:
One of 10 U.S. academic libraries
One of five U.S. universities having the most international students.
One of the 10 institutions which accept the most federal Natural Sciences and Engineering R & D funds.
One of 10 American universities with maximum Alumni contributions (8 billion)
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Columbia University : Colleges
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Colleges in Columbia University:
- African-American Studies
- American Studies
- Ancient Studies
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Art History and Archaeology
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Asian-American Studies
- Astronomy
- Biological Sciences
- Chemistry
- Classics
- Colloquia & Interdepartmental Studies
- Comparative Ethnic Studies
- Comparative Literature & Society
- Computer Science
- Creative Writing
- Dance
- Drama & Theatre Arts
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- Economics
- Education
- English & Comparative Literature
- Film Studies
- French and Francophone Studies
- French and Romance Philology
- Germanic LanguagesHistory
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Human Rights
- Italian
- Jazz Studies
- Language Resource Center
- Latino Studies
- Linguistics
- Mathematics
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures
- Music
- Philosophy
- Physical Education
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Regional Studies
- Religion
- Science, Technology, and Society
- Slavic Languages
- Sociology
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Speech
- Statistics
- Sustainable Development
- Urban Studies
- Visual Arts
- Women’s and Gender Studies
Advantageous Subjects: Columbia has a world-famous architecture, business, education, international affairs, journalism, law, medicine, nursing and social work colleges, whose leading disciplines include architecture, MBA, finance, art history, astronomy, biological sciences , chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, geology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, religion, film, history, economics, English, French, Spanish Language and Literature Department of East and Central Asia, and so on.
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Columbia University : Introduction of Majors
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Columbia University
Columbia University is a private school belonging to Ivy League, consisting of 3 undergraduate colleges and 13 graduate and professional colleges. There are more than 4000 professors and more than 23,000 students with 25 million alumni in more than 150 countries around the world. Its budget per school year is about 20 billion U.S. dollars. The library has 8.7 million books. Columbia College is the first U.S. undergraduate college which applied undergraduate general education and has retained the most stringent core curriculum in the universities of the United States. Moreover, its graduate school is well known by academic excellence. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Columbia University, Harvard and the University of Chicago were recognized as the top three of American Higher Education. Among Columbia’s alumni and professors, there are a total of 73 people who have won the Nobel Prize. The Pulitzer Prize awarded by the School of Journalism is the highest honor for American literature and media.
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Columbia University : Entry Requirements
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Columbia University
Entry requirements:
Undergraduate: A complete admission application (including two documents, each requiring a personal presentation)
$ 70 application fee
Complete high school transcript
SAT 2090-2300 or ACT 31-35
TOEFL 600
Two teachers’ recommendations
Graduate: complete transcript of four years of undergraduate, degree certificate, TOEFL 600 or IELTS 7, GRE or GMAT scores are required.
Application Deadline: January 1
Tuition: $ 39,320 (undergraduate)
Accommodation: Columbia University provides campus housing for 99% of college freshmen.
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