Columbia University comprises three undergraduate colleges and one close affiliate. Columbia College and The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science are both served by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The School of General Studies, is Columbia’s college for returning and nontraditional students. It maintains a separate admissions and application process. Barnard College, the closely affiliated but independent women’s college across the street, also has an entirely separate admissions and application process.
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Over 70% of Columbia classes have fewer than 20 students. |
| Approximately 1,300 students from both Columbia College and Engineering graduate each spring. |
Columbia College
One of America’s premier liberal arts colleges set within a leading research university. Columbia College offers the chance to work across disciplines, embrace complexity, and become a fluid, fearless, forward-looking global citizen and scholar.
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science
Hands-on training for visionary thinkers and enlightened leaders. Columbia Engineering has a reputation for innovative, multidisciplinary, socially conscious research and teaching.