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COLUMBIA
BASIC INFORMATION:
BRIEF HISTORY:
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Located in New York City
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Columbia's motto is: In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen, which translates into "In Thy light shall we see light "
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The number of students attending Columbia is approximately 33,776
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The student-faculty ratio is 6:1
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Columbia University is the oldest institution of higher education in New York, and the fifth-oldest in the United States.
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Founded in 1754 as King's College, it reopened after the American Revolution 1784, where it was renamed Columbia College.
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It became Columbia University in 1912.
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Until 1983, Columbia was a liberal arts school for men
UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND CONCENTRATIONS:
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57 Major Programs, including Computer Science - Mathematics, Mathematics - Statistics, Environmental Chemistry, Neuroscience and Behaviour, and more…
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59 Concentration Programs, including Chemistry, Physics, Public Health, Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species and more…
ALUMNI AND FACULTY AWARDS:
SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:
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102 Nobel Prize laureates (71 in Natural Sciences)
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5 Fields Medal winners
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11 Wolf prize winners
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3 ACM Turing Award winners
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6 Crafoord Prize winners
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Barack Obama (Former US president)
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Alexander Hamilton (Founding Father)
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Alicia Keys (Singer, Songwriter)
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Amelia Earhart (Aviation Pioneer)
CAMPUS INFO:
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More than 90% of Columbia students live on campus
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Columbia's main campus has 6 city blocks or 32 acres in Morningside Heights, where the university also owns about 7800 apartments.
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The school has approximately 300 buildings and an extensive tunnel system more than a century old.
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The whole campus is about 36 acres.
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