Columbia University in the City of New York (New York City, New York)

116th Street & Broadway
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-1754
www.columbia.edu/
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Columbia is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League.

It was established in 1754 as King's College and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. During these early years, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Robert Livingston studied at Columbia.

In 1784, following the American Revolution, the original name King's College was changed to Columbia College in the spirit of the patriotic fervor of the time. In 1896, the name of the institution was changed to Columbia University in the City of New York in order to distinguish between the original undergraduate institution Columbia College from the university as a , which by this time was comprised of an undergraduate engineering school and graduate faculties in engineering, science, medicine, law, teaching, political science, philosophy in addition to the original undergraduate Columbia College.

Today, the university still legally known as Columbia University in the City of New York, and is incorporated as The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Its undergraduate schools Columbia College (CC), the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), and the School of General Studies (GS).

The university is affiliated with Barnard College (an liberal arts college for women and one of the Seven Sisters), Teachers College, Jewish Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. Through affiliation agreements, it is the university which awards degrees to graduates of Barnard College and Teachers College.

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