Columbia University (authoritatively Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research college in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Set up in 1754 as King's College by imperial contract of George II of Great Britain, it is the most established organization of higher learning in New York State, and one of the nation's nine pilgrim universities. After the progressive war, King's College quickly turned into a state element, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 sanction 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 first 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 additionally has worldwide exploration stations in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción and Nairobi.[10] It has affiliations with a few different establishments adjacent, 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 manages the Pulitzer Prize.[13] Notable 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 extremely rich people; 29 Academy Award winners;and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents. Furthermore, to date, somewhere in the range of 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been associated with Columbia as understudies, workforce, or staff, second on the planet in Nobel members to Harvard University