Columbia University (formally Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private, Ivy League, research college in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was built up in 1754 as King's College by imperial sanction of George II of Great Britain and is the most seasoned school in New York State and additionally the fifth contracted establishment of higher learning in the nation, making Columbia one of nine pioneer universities established before the Declaration of Independence. After the progressive war, King's College quickly turned into a state element, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 contract set the organization under a private leading body of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the grounds was moved from Madison Avenue to its present area in Morningside Heights involving place that is known for 32 sections of land (13 ha). Columbia is one of the fourteen establishing individuals from the Association of American Universities, and was the principal school in the United States to allow the M.D. degree.
The college is sorted out into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The college likewise has worldwide exploration stations in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción and Nairobi. It has affiliations with a few different foundations close-by, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergrad programs accessible through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Sciences Po Paris, and the Juilliard School.
Columbia every year oversees the Pulitzer Prize. Eminent graduated class and previous understudies (counting those from King's College) incorporate five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court; 20 living billionaires;29 Academy Award champs; and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents. Moreover, to date, exactly 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been associated with Columbia as stud
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