一．基本情况●哥伦比亚大学（英语：Columbia University），全称纽约市哥伦比亚大学（英语：Columbia University in the City of New York），简称哥大，是一所位于美国纽约市的私立研究型大学，常春藤盟校之一●它于1754年根据英国国王乔治二世颁布的《国王宪章》而成立，命名为国王学院（Kings College），是美洲大陆最古老的学院之一。
美国独立战争后更名为哥伦比亚学院，1896年成为哥伦比亚大学。
哥伦比亚大学是最早接受中国留学生的美国大学之一。
●常春藤联盟（The Ivy League）●哥大的校训为“In the light shall we see light.”可汉译为“借汝之光，得见光明”或“在上帝的神灵中我们寻求知识”●校训具有浓烈的宗教气息，但它并不妨碍人们追求真理、寻找光明的决心和勇气●Columbia University in the City of New York, commonlyreferred to as Columbia University, is an American private Ivy League research university located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City.●It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the State of NewYork, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the AmericanRevolution. Today the university operates Columbia Global Centers overseas in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Nairobi.●The university was founded in 1754 as King's College by royalcharter of George II of Great Britain. After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University That same year, the university's campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights, where it occupies more than six city blocks, or 32 acres●The university encompasses twenty schools and is affiliated withnumerous institutions, including Teachers College (which is an academic department of the university, and serves as Columbia's Graduate School of Education), Barnard College, and the Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as well as the Juilliard School.二．名人⏹Three United States Presidents, twenty-six foreign Heads ofState, nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States(including three Chief Justices) and 43 Nobel Prize winnersare alumni of Columbia.●Former U.S. Presidents：Theodore Roosevelt and FranklinDelano Roosevelt attended the law school.●Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia includeU.S President Barack Obama●In science and technology, Columbia alumni include: founder ofIBM Herman Hollerith; founder of Google China Kai-Fu Lee;scientists Stephen Jay Gould,三.专业设置✧three undergraduate colleges: Columbia college(哥伦比亚学院),general education college(通识教育学院)，The College of engineering and Applied Science（工程与应用科学本科生院）✧fourteen graduate schools(研究生学院)：journalism school（新闻学院），school of international and public affairs（国际公共事务学院）, school of law（法学院），商学院commercial college, 社会工作学院School of Social Work, 建筑学院school ofarchitecture，计划与保持学院school of plan and maintain，College of Arts艺术学院, College of Arts and Sciences文理学院, School of engineering and Applied Sciences工程与应用科学学院, School of medicine医学院, School of nursing护理学院,School of Dentistry and oral surgery牙科与口腔外科学院,School of public health公共卫生学院, College of furthereducation进修学院four cluster colleges（附属学院）：（本科女生学院）巴纳德学院（Barnard College），哥伦比亚大学教育学院（或译作师范学院）（Teachers College），美洲犹太教神学院Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA)，纽约协和神学院nion theological seminary in the city of new york学校的教育学、医学、法学、商学和新闻学院都名列前茅。
