Columbia University

Established in 1754, Columbia University is the most seasoned advanced education organization in the condition of New York. Despite the fact that Columbia had a modest starting, it extended quickly, and in 1767, turned into the first school in America to give MD degrees. Today, Columbia is a vast college that offers a mixed bag of projects. There are three undergrad schools â€" Columbia College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the School of General Studies â€" which give four year certifications to understudies, and in addition various zones of graduate study. U.S. News & World Report records Columbia as positioning number four for national colleges in the 2012 version of Best Colleges. Columbia is likewise accountable for managing the Pulitzer Prize and has created 79 Nobel Prize victors, a number that incorporates graduated class, personnel, and staff. 

Projects Offered 

Students selected at Columbia University can seek after degrees in aesthetic sciences, building, connected science, and general studies. Graduate understudies have a more extensive assortment of choices, and can gain either an expert's or doctorate degree in a mixed bag of territories, similar to wellbeing and nursing, law, instructing, open issues, and human expressions. Columbia likewise has a restorative school that allows MD degrees. As indicated by U.S. News and Report, the most famous majors for 2010 alumni from Columbia were sociologies, building, organic and biomedical sciences, history, and English. 

Accreditation 

Since Columbia was initially perceived in 1921, it has been reliably authorize by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. A significant number of Columbia's projects are separately licensed too. Case in point, Columbia's graduate school is authorize by the American Bar Association and its prescription projects are licensed by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. To see a full rundown of licensed projects, visit College Navigator. 

Confirmations 

As Columbia is viewed as an Ivy League college, there is savage rivalry for entrance into the school. Application due dates are reliant upon degree level, however first-time understudies are held to a January due date. To restricted down imminent understudies, Columbia has a strict rundown of criteria for confirmations. Particular division necessities change in view of the school of adapting; on the other hand, fundamental prerequisites are widespread. 

All college understudies must submit true to life data, an application charge, SAT or ACT scores, SAT subject test scores, and two instructor suggestions. Most majors have supplemental necessities, for the most part as extra expositions and/or short replies. A few projects oblige interviews after the introductory appraisal is finished. Columbia considers their confirmations procedure to be "all encompassing," taking these components of the application into thought preceding conceding or dismissing an understudy. All things considered, because of the opposition for acknowledgment, the higher you're secondary school GPA and test scores, the more probable you are to be conceded. 

Graduate understudies must have a four year college education or higher, and must present an application charge, a resume or educational module vitae, a composition test, a mission statement, three suggestion letters, and GRE exam scores. Most graduate understudies have a single man GPA of no less than 3.6. There is no base for GRE scores, however most selected understudies had scores in the upper percentiles. Graduate affirmations have considerably fiercer rivalry, as spots are to a great degree restr