Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science is top-ranked. The nation’s third oldest engineering school with a history of invention and innovation, located in one of the world’s most intricately designed cities. A broad-minded, cross-disciplinary, intensely practical curriculum, with an emphasis on public service, hands-on training, and professional experience. Pioneering research, visionary faculty. Academic advising and career education services that adapt to the field. Training not simply for engineers but for leaders.

Columbia Engineering sponsors the only first-year service learning requirement of any American engineering school.

Essential facts

• 1,400 undergraduates
• A student to faculty ratio of 7 to 1
• 17 Engineering areas of study and over 20 liberal arts minors
• A traditional technical education and a broad, rigorous exposure to the liberal arts
• Among the top 10 universities in America in federal research-and-development expenditures for science and engineering
• Dozens of research institutes, including 4 major interdisciplinary research centers funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy
• Undergraduates (even first-years) seriously engaged in research with faculty or University-sponsored labs
• Nearly all students living on campus all four years. A shared campus life with 4,400 Columbia College undergraduates
• Entrepreneurship is front and center with interdisciplinary minors, venture competitions and a 4-year experience for all interested students regardless of major
• Long list of patents held by Engineering faculty or research groups, generating more revenue than any other college or university in America
• New York is unparalleled in opportunity for engineering and technology home to the fastest rising centers for high-tech research and technology startups and the most impressive examples of the built environment including the world's most famous skyscrapers, long-span bridges, tunnels, subway and water supply systems.