Columbia University, New York, NY

In carrying out Columbia University’s great educational mission, today’s faculty must answer many of the same questions that have always confronted outstanding teachers and scholars.

“What would we have our students know? What bodies of knowledge, what sets of methodologies, what world views should our graduates take away with their degrees?” The Royal Charter formally establishing King’s College in 1754 defined the institution’s goal as “the Instruction and Education of Youth in the Learned Languages and Liberal Arts and Sciences.” This mandate has not essentially changed, even with the transformation of King’s College into Columbia University, one of the world’s foremost research universities.

Columbia University’s undergraduate curriculum combines the breadth of learning provided by general education courses with the solid mastery of a discipline achieved through a major. And, because Columbia University is a great research university as well as a small liberal arts college, students with the will and ability to pursue their majors to the highest levels of scholarly sophistication are free to do so.

Through its broad range of innovative multidisciplinary programs, and through the earnest exploration of difficult questions, Columbia University provides students from the United States and around the world with the depth of understanding and intellectual flexibility they need to respond to the challenges we all will face in the years to come.

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