Government & Community Affairs

Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

Robert A. Glick, M.D.,
Director

New York State Psychiatric Institute
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-927-5000
Fax: 212-543-5677

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: Established in 1945 as the first psychoanalytic institute within a university in the United States, the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research is a postgraduate institute that trains psychiatrists, senior psychiatric residents, and clinical psychologists in psychoanalysis. The Center’s five main objectives are all facets of an integrated whole, enriching and reinforcing one another: to educate students in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, to encourage and support psychoanalytic research, to apply psychoanalytic scholarship, and to provide high-quality, low-cost psychoanalytic treatment to the community. In addition to training in adult psychoanalysis, the Center offers training in child psychoanalysis and parent-infant psychotherapy. The Center also offers an Affiliate Scholar Program where scholars and researchers from other fields may have individually structured educational programs in psychoanalysis.

College of Physicians & Surgeons

Dr. Andrew G. Frantz,
Associate Dean for Admissions

College of Physicians and Surgeons
630 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-305-3595
Fax: 212-305-3601

Website: www.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The College of Physicians & Surgeons is guided by the principle that medical education is university education. The acquisition of knowledge and skills is important in professional education, but far more vital is a profound understanding of science, the art and the ethic within which both knowledge and skills are applied. As a part of Columbia University, the College builds its curriculum, selects its officers of instruction, and marshals its enormous resources of equipment and clinical experience to develop in the student this understanding of medicine. Within the curriculum for the M.D. degree is the fundamental knowledge from which the natural bent is discovered toward general or special practice, research, teaching, or administration. The postgraduate programs of the College provide training in the specialties, help the graduate physician to keep abreast of new knowledge and support the research from which the physician’s knowledge develops.

Columbia College

Eric J. Furda,
Executive Director of Undergraduate Admission

212 Hamilton Hall
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-2521
Fax: 212-854-1209

Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/college

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: A surprising mix of intellectual Ivy League atmosphere and a small college sense of community, nestled in and enriched by the diversity of New York City, Columbia is known for breaking down the walls that separate the "ivory towers" of academia from the rest of the world. Columbia College has had the best general education curriculum in the country for more than half a century. Columbia College's general education is conducted in small seminars. Although many excellent colleges offer one or two semesters of general education courses, such courses tend to be taught as large lectures in large halls filled with students taking notes. At Columbia College, students spend a substantial part of their first years in small classes, reading and discussing primary works of literature, philosophy, history, science, and social and political theory, and studying fine arts and music. Through discussion and debate, through writing, and through direct interaction between instructor and student, the core curriculum helps improve each student’s ability to engage in the kinds of analytic, discursive, and imaginative thinking that will prove indispensable in both subsequent education and later in life. As a small college in a large research institution, Columbia College also offers a large array of academic programs taught by faculty working at the frontiers of their disciplines. Students can choose from among more than fifty majors, over thirty concentrations, and hundreds of electives, which range widely over the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Beside these curricular resources, there are also extensive cultural, athletic, and recreational resources available to students at Columbia. Many opportunities also exist for students to participate in outreach programs that assist less fortunate members of our society.

Continuing Education and Special Programs

Frank Glass,
Associate Dean

203 Lewisohn Hall
116th Street and Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-2820
Fax: 212-854-7400

Website: www.ce.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Program of Study: Continuing Education students at Columbia University enroll in university undergraduate and graduate courses offered by over forty academic departments and programs in the Arts and Sciences. The courses are taught by Columbia’s renowned faculty and attended by matriculated university students. The rigorous curriculum affords Continuing Education students a unique opportunity to fulfill a wide variety of serious academic objectives. Whether the goal is preparation for graduate school or a change of career, the mastery of a new language, or the pursuit of an intellectual passion, Columbia Continuing Education gives qualified students flexibility and choice. Students may design their own programs of study from among hundreds of undergraduate and graduate courses through the Elective Programs option, focus their study on a given subject through the foreign language, creative writing, and Second-Majors Program options, or enroll in one of the structured postbaccalaureate programs in business, psychology, or classics.

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

Lois Schiller,
Dean of Admissions

400 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-3414
Fax: 212-854-0410

Website: www.arch.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation offers a series of distinctive programs. The educational objectives of these programs deal in different ways with one open-ended field: urban society and its future. The presence of several areas of study within a single school enables a critical understanding of the forces that affect the building of spaces and the making of cities, so as to encourage appropriate formulation of original concepts, designs, and policies. In each degree program offered, the School aims to develop students’ artistic and intellectual abilities and to provide them, as future professionals, with the information and strategies necessary to deal responsibly and inventively with the issues challenging urban society today. These issues are approached in a nondoctrinaire way so as to yield both significant theoretical proposals as well as pertinent solutions that can be effectively implemented in the contemporary city. Each program with its related studios is structured to permit faculty and students to explore a range of approaches in respective fields, while constantly aiming at social relevance and programmatic innovation. Beyond its specific educational aims, the objectives of the School include basic research in the fields of architecture, planning, and preservation, exchange with other disciplines in the University, and the intensity of experimentation that makes the School part of broader international debates. Historically linked to the University’s world renowned Avery Library, the School takes advantage of its unique location in New York City. It draws vitality from and contributes to the unsurpassed resources available through the city’s art and culture, its outstanding practitioners, scholars, and historians.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Robert Furno,
Assistant Dean of Admissions

107 Low Library
535 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-4737
Fax: 212-854-2863

Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The preeminence of doctoral studies at Columbia today is reflected in the size and diversity of the Graduate School – one of the largest private graduate schools in the country with a faculty of over 700 instructors and some 3,200 students. Doctoral programs are offered in 26 arts and sciences departments and in an additional 18 interdepartmental and interschool programs that link the Graduate School with the University’s major professional schools in architecture, the arts, business, engineering, law, medicine, public health, and social work. In addition to the resources available at a great university, Columbia’s doctoral programs draw on the unparalleled artistic, cultural, and scientific environment of the city of New York.

Graduate School of Business

Linda Meehan,
Director of Admissions

Uris Hall
3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-5553
Fax: 212-662-6754

Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/business

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: Columbia Business School is dedicated to enhancing the following three key strengths: a remarkably heterogeneous and gifted student body, a renowned faculty that teaches an extraordinarily varied curriculum and the New York City advantage - life in a vibrant, international metropolis. Individuality is the hallmark of Columbia Business School students - the ability to contribute their own perspective to the School and later to their companies. The faculty, consisting of 121 full-time and more than 81 adjunct faculty members, are among the finest scholars and teachers in the world. Today Columbia Business School ranks among the best in the United States and around the world and has become the No. 1 business school with an international focus.

Graduate School of Journalism

Tracey Stumpp,
Dean of Students

701B Journalism Building
2950 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-8608
Fax: 212-854-3939

Website: www.jrn.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: Since 1912, the Graduate School of Journalism has been the country’s foremost center for preparing working journalists. The program is a professional one that teaches the craft of journalism in a high-pressure deadline atmosphere. In one academic year students learn to handle the basic contemporary issues in newspaper, magazine, broadcast, and news media. Students are also exposed to journalistic ethics and principles. The same program is available to part-time students over a two year period, two days a week, year-round. The School’s graduates occupy leading positions in the field as chief editors or publishers of newspapers and other periodicals; as foreign correspondents; and in television and radio, in positions from senior news officers at the major networks to reporters at local stations; and many serve as deans or faculty members at other schools of journalism.

Institute of Human Nutrition

Richard Deckelbaum, M.D.,
Director

College of Physicians and Surgeons
630 West 168th Street, PH 15 East 1512
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-305-4805
Fax: 212-305-3079

Website: cpmcnet.Columbia.edu/dept/ihn

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The Institute of Human Nutrition trains individuals for scholarly activities and positions in universities and research centers that are at the forefront of the movement to advance nutrition as a health science. In addition, the Institute seeks to advance the training of physicians and other health specialists who are interested in emphasizing nutrition in their professions. The Institute has three primary research emphases: basic science approaches to nutritional problems, clinical nutrition, and public health nutrition. Each research area is reflected in its own academic program of instruction, and each program is highly integrated in order to achieve two basic goals: research in all areas of human nutrition and an integrated teaching program in areas of nutrition relevant to basic clinical and public health science.

Mailman School of Public Health

Ngina Lythcott,
Dean of Admissions

600 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-305-3927
Fax: 212-342-1830

Website: www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Program of Study: Throughout its history, the Mailman School of Public Health has been a national and international leader in public health research, education, and service. The School was the first institution to establish programs in sociomedical sciences and psychiatric epidemiology training, the first to offer a joint degree in business and public health, and the first to provide graduate education in hospital administration. Disease prevention and health promotion, two of the primary functions of public health, are natural outgrowths of the School’s mission. Today, the School is addressing some of the most intractable public health and public health policy problems ever encountered: 44 million people in the United States without healthcare insurance, the alarming spread of HIV/AIDS throughout the world, health problems caused by forced migration, the roles played by environmental degradation in the spread of disease, globalization of emerging infections, material mortality in underdeveloped countries, and the threats of bioterrorism. The School offers a broad range of professional and academic graduate training opportunities across the spectrum of public health. The School’s multidisciplinary approach is supported by more than 185 full-time faculty and a large network of distinguished, professional adjunct faculty. It ensures that 700 graduate students gain both a broad perspective in public health and focused, in-depth training in their fields of interest. The primary educational goal is to prepare students to assume careers in which they will be effective in meeting the complex challenges of this millennium.

Programs in Occupational Therapy

Janet Falk-Kessler,
Interim Director

Neurological Institute
710 West 168th Street
8th Floor
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-305-3781
Fax: 212-305-4569

Website: www.columbiaOT.org

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The Programs in Occupational Therapy prepare graduates to evaluate, treat, and provide consultation to persons whose ability to perform the tasks of every day living is impaired by developmental deficits, aging physical illness or injury, or psychological or social disabilities. Since 1941, the Programs in Occupational Therapy have educated many of the country’s foremost occupational therapists, including clinicians, educators, administrators, and researchers. The programs are distinguished by their close coordination of academic and clinical experiences and their low student-faculty ratio, which offers opportunities for collaborative research and publication. Students receive a strong foundation in major treatment areas and are prepared to work with all age groups in a variety of institutional, community, and private-practice settings. The Programs in Occupational Therapy also include both professional and postprofessional education as well as the nation’s first joint M.S./M.P.H. degree in occupational therapy and public health.

Program in Physical Therapy

Joan E. Edelstein,
Director

Neurological Institute
710 West 168th Street
8th Floor
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-305-3781
Fax: 212-305-4569

Website: cumc.columbia.edu/dept/pt

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The Program in Physical Therapy educates students to become physical therapists who examine, treat, and instruct individuals and who work to correct physical deformities, reduce pain, and improve independent movement. Treatment involves the use of physical measures, exercises, and devices. In the two-year intensive program, students collaborate with faculty and clinicians within and beyond the Medical Center to learn patient-centered health care. Graduates have strong clinical problem-solving skills achieved through lecture and laboratory courses relating to the art and science of physical therapy, 24 weeks of clinical internships at hospitals and other sites throughout the country and abroad, an innovative mentor preceptorship program, and design and completion of an independent faculty directed research thesis. The Program offers an exceptional foundation for physical therapists to become clinicians, administrators, educators, and researchers. Graduates serve at the forefront of health care, assisting children and adults in their quest toward wellness.

School of Dental & Oral Surgery

Dr. Martin J. Davis,
Dean of Admissions

School of Dental and Oral Surgery
630 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-305-6725
Fax: 212-305-2964

Website: www.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Program of Study: The objectives of the pre-doctoral curriculum of the School of Dental and Oral Surgery are derived from the School’s mission. The School is committed "to prepare students for careers that emphasize the biomedical sciences and that prepares graduates to practice general dentistry or to pursue advanced training in hospitals and dental schools." Accordingly, the curricular objectives for the first two years strongly emphasize the biomedical science education of the students.

School of General Studies

Curtis Rogers,
Director of Admissions

408 Lewisohn Hall
2970 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-2772
Fax: 212-854-6316

Website: www.gs.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The School of General Studies is Columbia University’s college for returning and nontraditional students. General Studies students have full access to the richness of a Columbia education. They take the same courses with the same faculty and major in the same departments as all other undergraduates on the Columbia campus. Students come from a variety of educational and career backgrounds. Some applicants only have a GED while others come with many years of work experience and a substantial amount of college work. Successful applicants, however, all share one thing in common and that is their ability to accept the challenges and, ultimately, the rewards of a rigorous academic program. General Studies is part of an Ivy League university located in the heart of the greatest city in the world, New York. Even though Columbia is an urban university, its campus rivals that of any other Ivy.

School of International and Public Affairs

Robin Lewis,
Associate Dean

1427 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-8690

Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: Founded in 1946, the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) offers two-year interdisciplinary graduate programs in international affairs and public administration. In the Master of International Affairs (M.I.A.) degree program, students may pursue either a regional or functional concentration. Regional concentrations cover the economics, politics, and history of various regions, and the nine functional concentrations offer career-oriented curricula spanning a variety of regions. Students in the Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) degree program complete rigorous core requirements to prepare them for management positions in the public sector. M.P.A. students then choose from a series of policy concentrations in areas such as the environment, health care, education, or technology policy to tailor their curricula to their professional objectives. SIPA has two mid-career programs: the Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) and the Program in Economic Policy Management. SIPA’s EMPA program, part of the School’s Picker Center for Executive Education, is designed for the experienced executive looking for a practical graduate program but unable to pursue full-time study. The Program in Economic Policy Management (PEMP) provides aspiring economic policymakers with the skills required for effective design and implementation of economic policy in market economies, with an emphasis on developing and formerly socialist economies.

School of Law

James Milligan,
Dean of Admissions

435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-2670
Fax: 212-854-1109

Website: www.law.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The development of the law, Columbia, and the nation have progressed together over the past two centuries. Columbia Law School, one of the first law schools in the United States and a charter member of the American Association of Law Schools, evolved from the teaching of law in King’s College, as Columbia was called during the colonial period.

School of Nursing

Judy Honig,
Assistant Dean of Student Services

School of Nursing
617 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032

Tel: 212-305-5756
Fax: 212-305-3680

Website: www.nursing.hs.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: Located on the Health Sciences Campus, Columbia University School of Nursing was founded in 1892 with Anna C. Maxwell as its first director. Since its inception, the mission of the School has been the preparation of clinically excellent nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and scholars. The School of Nursing was the first in the country to award a master’s degree in a clinical nursing specialty. The emphasis on clinical scholarship at Columbia University is particularly appropriate because of the interdisciplinary collaboration of the School of Nursing with the other professional schools in its environs. The School of Nursing shares the Health Sciences Campus with the School of Public Health, the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which includes programs in Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Nutrition. Each of these schools adds to the richness and diversity of the educational experience of students and the School of Nursing. School of Nursing faculty have substantial experience in curricula, instructional design, and research, and maintain expertise in their areas of teaching responsibility through participation in local, regional, and national conferences, involvement in scholarly presentations and publications, and faculty practice. Faculty involvement in scholarly and professional activities is substantial. A positive and supportive environment for these pursuits is maintained. The graduates of the School of Nursing are one of its major strengths. Graduates are recruited for leadership positions in practice, education, and management. Curricula are elevated on a continual basis to ensure that graduates meet the needs of a dynamic society and advance the profession while maintaining high academic standards.

School of Social Work

David Yam,
Senior Assistant Dean

622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025

Tel: 212-854-2856
Fax: 212-854-2975

Website: www.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.;
Saturday and Sunday:
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The School of Social Work’s curriculum is designed to develop analytic and critical thinking skills. Its strength lies in its diversity – in the number of choices available, in the range of approaches employed (short-term/long-term; cognitive/task-centered /psychodynamic), and in the different contexts. The curriculum emphasizes promoting social and economic justice, particularly for populations-at-risk; practicing with diverse populations; and evaluating practice outcomes. From very early days, the School has played a leadership role in social work practice and education, and identifying and confronting the changing national social issues. The faculty members of the School have always included nationally and internationally known scholars and educators who have made substantial contributions to the knowledge base of the profession through their lectures and their writings, including the basic texts used today in schools throughout the world. From this faculty have come many of the models for modern social work education and practice-psychiatric social work, bureaus of child guidance, research programs, required field work, and doctoral programs. Through its location in New York, the School provides students with a rich and stimulating learning experience in urban living and the problems associated with it.

School of the Arts

Jaime Sosnow,
Admissions Officer

305 Dodge Hall
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-2875
Fax: 212-854-1309

Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/arts

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Programs of Study: Centrally located within a great research University in the foremost artistic capital of the world, the School of the Arts is positioned to take full advantage of both. Graduate students at Columbia University’s School of the Arts are able to access a wide range of disciplines in a renowned academic institution. At the same time, they are able to gain early entry to contemporary professional and artistic communities within the city of New York. The advantageous location of the School offers an eminently dynamic context for the education of artists and provides the basis for an integrated program intended specifically for emerging contemporary artists. Artists teach other artists. This is the underlying tenet of the core pedagogy. The School’s commitment to fulfilling this task depends on a faculty of extraordinary talents and professional achievements who are as deeply involved in teaching as they are in the pursuit of their own artistic work. They nurture and encourage talent at every level. However, they also pass on their knowledge about ways of working, media skills, uses of materials and equipment, histories of disciplines and their critiques, and applicable theoretical methodologies. The School also strongly believes in the critical scrutiny of one’s own work and the work of others. Students and faculty form communities of artists devoted to this scrutiny at a level of sympathy and specificity unusual in the professional world. The experience of such concentrated attention by peers is the unique culture of the School and acutely shapes the approach of students to their work as professionals. The principal goal of the School of the Arts is to train artists who will define the cultural life of the next generation. Other associations for artistic development beyond the distinguished faculty and student peers include important visiting artists and critics, outstanding guest speakers, and unique internships. The inclusion of four Divisions \– Visual Arts, Theatre, Film, and Writing – within the same School opens students to cross-disciplinary influences and affinities. Quality education is the result of all these alliances and pedagogical forces.

The FU Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Eric J. Furda,
Executive Director for Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid

212 Hamilton Hall
Room 2807
New York, NY 10027

Tel: 212-854-2993
Fax: 212-864-0104

Website: www.seas.columbia.edu

Hours: Monday through Friday:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Program of Study: The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science maintains cooperative program relationships with institutions nationwide, and with other Columbia University undergraduate divisions. These programs allow students to complete the equivalent of the First Year-Sophomore Program and transfer directly to a specialization in the School, beginning their study at the School as junior-level students. Students who follow this program apply through their own school at Columbia College, Barnard College, or the School of General Studies for admission. Under this plan, the pre-engineering student studies in the appropriate college for three years, then attends The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science for two years and is awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree and the Bachelor of Science degree in engineering upon completion of the fifth year. This five-year program is optional at Columbia, but the School recommends it to all students who wish greater enrichment in the liberal arts and pure sciences.

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