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The university also annually administers the Pulitzer Prize. Columbia is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and was the first school in the United States to grant the MD degree. The university's research efforts include the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and accelerator laboratories with Big Tech firms such as Amazon and IBM. Columbia is organized into twenty schools, including four undergraduate schools and 16 graduate schools. In 1896, the campus was moved to its current location in Morningside Heights and renamed Columbia University.Ĭolumbia scientists and scholars have played a pivotal role in scientific breakthroughs including brain-computer interface the laser and maser nuclear magnetic resonance the first nuclear pile the first nuclear fission reaction in the Americas the first evidence for plate tectonics and continental drift and much of the initial research and planning for the Manhattan Project during World War II. It was renamed Columbia College in 1784 following the American Revolution, and in 1787 was placed under a private board of trustees headed by former students Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. Ĭolumbia was established by royal charter under George II of Great Britain. Columbia is ranked among the top universities in the world by major education publications. It is one of nine colonial colleges founded prior to the Declaration of Independence, seven of which belong to the Ivy League.

Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.