Editing Columbia University (section)

==Academics==
=== Undergraduate admissions and financial aid ===
[[File:Vanamquad.JPEG|left|thumb|[[John Howard Van Amringe (sculpture)|Van Amringe Quadrangle and Memorial]]]]
{{Infobox U.S. college admissions|year=2021|ref=<ref>{{cite web
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 |title=Class of 2025 Profile
 |publisher=Columbia University
 |access-date=March 18, 2022
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{{cite web
|url=http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/classprofile/2020
 |title=Common Data Set 2015–2016
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604152232/http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/classprofile/2020
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</ref>|admit rate=3.9%|admit rate change=-2.1|yield rate=66.5%|yield rate change=+1.4|SAT Total=1510–1560|SAT Total change=-10|float=right}}
Columbia University received 60,551 applications for the class of 2025 (entering 2021) and a total of around 2,218 were admitted to the two schools for an overall acceptance rate of 3.66%.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Columbia acceptance rate drops to record low 3.7 percent after 51 percent spike in applications|url=http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/04/07/columbia-acceptance-rate-drops-to-record-low-37-percent-after-51-percent-spike-in-applications/|access-date=May 15, 2021|website=Columbia Daily Spectator|archive-date=May 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514030131/https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/04/07/columbia-acceptance-rate-drops-to-record-low-37-percent-after-51-percent-spike-in-applications/|url-status=live}}</ref> Columbia is a racially diverse school, with approximately 52% of all students identifying themselves as persons of color. Additionally, 50% of all undergraduates received grants from Columbia. The average grant size awarded to these students is $46,516.<ref name="stat2">{{cite web|title=Financial Aid Statistics|url=http://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/eligibility/facts|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=May 10, 2016|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115065212/https://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/eligibility/facts|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015–2016, annual undergraduate tuition at Columbia was $50,526 with a total cost of attendance of $65,860 (including room and board).<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia University Tuition And Costs|url=http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=399|access-date=November 22, 2016|website=Collegedata.com|archive-date=September 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911143110/https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=399|url-status=dead}}</ref> The college is [[need-blind]] for domestic applicants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/how/aid/works|title=How Aid Works – Columbia Financial Aid and Educational Financing|publisher=|access-date=November 18, 2015|archive-date=November 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118173614/http://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/how/aid/works|url-status=live}}</ref>

On April 11, 2007, Columbia University announced a $400 million donation from media billionaire alumnus [[John Kluge]] to be used exclusively for undergraduate financial aid. The donation is among the largest single gifts to higher education.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lewin|first=Tamar|date=April 11, 2007|title=Columbia to Receive $400 Million for Student Aid|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/nyregion/11columbia.html|access-date=May 15, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=May 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515050000/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/nyregion/11columbia.html|url-status=live}}</ref> However, this does not apply to international students, transfer students, visiting students, or students in the School of General Studies.<ref>{{Cite news|date=March 11, 2008|title=Columbia University to Offer Financial Aid to More Students|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/education/11columbia.html|access-date=March 28, 2010|archive-date=April 10, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410212905/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/education/11columbia.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In the fall of 2010, admission to Columbia's undergraduate colleges [[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]] and the [[Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science|Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] (also known as SEAS or Columbia Engineering) began accepting the [[Common Application]]. The policy change made Columbia one of the last major academic institutions and the last [[Ivy League]] university to switch to the Common Application.<ref>{{cite news|last=Steinberg|first=Jacques|date=March 23, 2010|title=Columbia, Michigan and Connecticut Among 25 Colleges to Add Common Application|newspaper=The New York Times|url=http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/common-2/|access-date=April 11, 2011|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106065427/https://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/common-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Scholarships are also given to undergraduate students by the admissions committee. Designations include John W. Kluge Scholars, John Jay Scholars, C. Prescott Davis Scholars, Global Scholars, Egleston Scholars, and Science Research Fellows. Named scholars are selected by the admission committee from first-year applicants. According to Columbia, the first four designated scholars "distinguish themselves for their remarkable academic and personal achievements, dynamism, intellectual curiosity, the originality and independence of their thinking, and the diversity that stems from their different cultures and their varied educational experiences".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Named Scholars|url=http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/scholars/named|access-date=August 3, 2015|website=Studentaffairs.columbia.edu|archive-date=February 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215165545/http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/scholars/named|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1919, Columbia established a student application process characterized by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "the first modern college application". The application required a photograph of the applicant, the maiden name of the applicant's mother, and the applicant's religious background.<ref>{{cite news|author=Gross, Jessica|date=November 10, 2013|title=Who Made That College Application?|newspaper=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/who-made-that-college-application.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/who-made-that-college-application.html |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |url-access=limited|access-date=August 31, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== Organization ===
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! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |Columbia Graduate/Professional Schools<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Structure {{!}} Faculty Handbook|url=https://facultyhandbook.columbia.edu/content/structure|access-date=April 25, 2024|website=Columbia University|archive-date=April 25, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240425200127/https://facultyhandbook.columbia.edu/content/structure|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|'''College/school'''
|'''Year founded'''
|-
|[[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons|Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons]]
|1767
|-
|[[Columbia University College of Dental Medicine|College of Dental Medicine]]
|1916
|-
|[[Columbia Law School]]
|1858
|-
|[[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]]
|1864
|-
|[[Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]]
|1880
|-
|[[Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation|Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation]]
|1881
|-
|[[Teachers College, Columbia University]] {{small|(affiliate)}}
|1887
|-
|[[Columbia University School of Nursing]]
|1892
|-
|[[Columbia University School of Social Work]]
|1898
|-
|[[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Graduate School of Journalism]]
|1912
|-
|[[Columbia Business School]]
|1916
|-
|[[Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health|Mailman School of Public Health]]
|1922
|-
|[[Union Theological Seminary]] {{small|(affiliate)}}
|1836, affiliate since 1928
|-
|[[School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University|School of International and Public Affairs]]
|1946
|-
|[[Columbia University School of the Arts|School of the Arts]]
|1965
|-
|[[Columbia University School of Professional Studies|School of Professional Studies]]
|1995
|-
|[[Columbia Climate School]]
|2020
|}
{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin-left:1em; font-size:90%; line-height:1.4em; width:300px"
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |Columbia Undergraduate Schools<ref name=":3" />
|-
|'''College/school'''
|'''Year founded'''
|-
|[[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]]
|1754
|-
|[[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]]
|1864
|-
|[[Barnard College]] {{small|(affiliate)}}
|1889
|-
|[[Columbia University School of General Studies]]
|1947
|}

Columbia University is an independent, privately supported, nonsectarian and [[not-for-profit]] institution of higher education.<ref>[https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/135598093 "Columbia University In The City Of New York"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228202119/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/135598093 |date=February 28, 2024 }} ''ProPublica''. Retrieved February 28, 2024.</ref> Its official corporate name is [[Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York]]. 

In 1754, the university's first charter was granted by [[George II of Great Britain|King George II]]; however, its modern charter was first enacted in 1787 and last amended in 1810 by the New York State Legislature.
Columbia has four official undergraduate colleges: [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]], the liberal arts college offering the Bachelor of Arts degree; the [[Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science|Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] (also known as SEAS or Columbia Engineering), the engineering and applied science school offering the Bachelor of Science degree; the [[Columbia University School of General Studies|School of General Studies]], the liberal arts college offering the Bachelor of Arts degree to non-traditional students undertaking full- or part-time study; and [[Barnard College]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=List of Schools {{!}} Columbia University in the City of New York|url=https://www.columbia.edu/content/academics/schools|access-date=October 25, 2021|website=www.columbia.edu|archive-date=October 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017065128/https://www.columbia.edu/content/academics/schools|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Schools of Columbia University|url=http://www.columbia.edu/content/academics.html|access-date=April 17, 2011|publisher=Columbia University|archive-date=April 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412041309/http://www.columbia.edu/content/academics.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Barnard College]] is a women's liberal arts college and an academic affiliate in which students receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University. Their degrees are signed by the presidents of Columbia University and Barnard College.<ref>{{cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions – Barnard College|url=https://barnard.edu/frequently-asked-questions-8|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225231547/https://barnard.edu/frequently-asked-questions-8|archive-date=February 25, 2019|access-date=March 23, 2019|website=Barnard.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CHARTERS AND STATUTES : Columbia University in the City of New York|url=https://provost.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Faculty%20Affairs/Charters%20and%20Statutes%20September%202016.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621075108/https://provost.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Faculty%20Affairs/Charters%20and%20Statutes%20September%202016.pdf |archive-date=June 21, 2018 |url-status=live|access-date=March 23, 2019|website=Provost.columbia.edu}}</ref> Barnard students are also eligible to cross-register classes that are available through the Barnard Catalogue and alumnae can join the Columbia Alumni Association.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cross-Registration: Columbia and Barnard College – Office of the University Registrar|url=https://registrar.columbia.edu/cross-registration-columbia-and-barnard-college|access-date=March 23, 2019|website=Registrar.columbia.edu|archive-date=December 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222041541/https://registrar.columbia.edu/cross-registration-columbia-and-barnard-college|url-status=live}}</ref>

Joint degree programs are available through [[Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York|Union Theological Seminary]], the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]],<ref>{{cite web|title=JTS Joint Program|url=https://gs.columbia.edu/jts-joint-program|access-date=January 19, 2018|website=Gs.columbia.edu|language=en|archive-date=December 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223065810/https://gs.columbia.edu/jts-joint-program|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Juilliard School]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia-Juilliard Program {{!}} Columbia Undergraduate Admissions|url=https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/first-year/juilliard-program|access-date=January 19, 2018|website=Undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu|language=en|archive-date=January 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114204843/http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/first-year/juilliard-program|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Patti|first2=Jill|last2=Pasternak|first1=Joe|title=Crossing Boundaries from Past to Future: Pianist Conrad Tao on Crossover|language=en|url=http://wrti.org/post/crossing-boundaries-past-future-pianist-conrad-tao-crossover|access-date=January 19, 2018|archive-date=January 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119235632/http://wrti.org/post/crossing-boundaries-past-future-pianist-conrad-tao-crossover|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Teachers College]] and [[Barnard College]] are official faculties of the university; both colleges' presidents are deans under the university governance structure.<ref name="columbia.edu2">{{cite web|title=Charters and Statutes|url=http://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/University%20Charters%20and%20Statutes_June2017.pdf|website=Office of the Secretary - Columbia University|access-date=March 22, 2018|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929001737/https://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/University%20Charters%20and%20Statutes_June2017.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Columbia University Senate includes faculty and student representatives from Teachers College and Barnard College who serve two-year terms; all senators are accorded full voting privileges regarding matters impacting the entire university. Teachers College is an affiliated, financially independent graduate school with their own board of trustees.<ref name="senate.columbia.edu2">{{cite web |date=2017 |title=Election packet |url=http://senate.columbia.edu/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150809223936/http://senate.columbia.edu/ |archive-date=August 9, 2015 |access-date=August 5, 2015 |format=PDF}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB2">{{cite web |title=Elections |url=http://senate.columbia.edu/topbar_pages/elections.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227162639/http://senate.columbia.edu/topbar_pages/elections.html |archive-date=February 27, 2018 |access-date=September 7, 2017 |website=Senate.columbia.edu}}</ref> Pursuant to an affiliation agreement, Columbia is given the authority to confer "degrees and diplomas" to the graduates of Teachers College. The degrees are signed by presidents of Teachers College and Columbia University in a manner analogous to the university's other graduate schools.<ref name="secretary.columbia.edu2">{{cite web|date=2017|title=Charters and Statutes|url=http://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/University%20Charters%20and%20Statutes_June2017.pdf|page=97|access-date=March 22, 2018|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929001737/https://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/University%20Charters%20and%20Statutes_June2017.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fact Sheet – Barnard College|url=https://barnard.edu/pressroom/fact-sheet|website=Barnard.edu|access-date=September 17, 2018|archive-date=September 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917215323/https://barnard.edu/pressroom/fact-sheet|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="columbia.edu2" /> Columbia's General Studies school also has joint undergraduate programs available through [[University College London]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Joint LLB/Juris Doctor (JD) with Columbia University, New York|url=http://www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/llb-degrees/joint-llb-jd/|access-date=July 29, 2016|publisher=University College London|archive-date=July 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160719105700/http://www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/llb-degrees/joint-llb-jd/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Sciences Po]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Dual BA Program Between Columbia University and Sciences Po|url=https://gs.columbia.edu/sciences-po/|access-date=August 3, 2015|website=Gs.columbia.edu|archive-date=June 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621190820/https://gs.columbia.edu/sciences-po/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[City University of Hong Kong]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Joint Bachelor's Degree Program between City University of Hong Kong and Columbia University|url=https://gs.columbia.edu/cityu-hk|access-date=August 12, 2016|website=Gs.columbia.edu|archive-date=August 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814025003/http://gs.columbia.edu/cityu-hk/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Trinity College Dublin]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Dual BA Program {{!}} Trinity College Dublin|url=https://gs.columbia.edu/tcd/dual-ba-program|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211183902/http://gs.columbia.edu/tcd/dual-ba-program|archive-date=December 11, 2017|access-date=January 6, 2018|website=Gs.columbia.edu|language=en}}</ref> and the [[Juilliard School]].<ref name="college.columbia2">{{cite web|title=Columbia-Juilliard Exchange|url=https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/first-year/juilliard-exchange|website=Undergrad.asmissions.columbia.edu|access-date=August 5, 2015|archive-date=August 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810220516/http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/first-year/juilliard-exchange|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The university also has several [[Columbia Global Centers]], in [[Amman]], [[Beijing]], [[Istanbul]], [[Mumbai]], [[Nairobi]], [[Paris]], [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Santiago]], and [[Tunis]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia University Global Centers|url=http://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/columbia-global-centers|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028002315/http://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/columbia-global-centers|archive-date=October 28, 2011|access-date=May 4, 2011|publisher=Columbia University}}</ref>

=== International partnerships ===
Columbia students can study abroad for a semester or a year at partner institutions such as [[Sciences Po]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Redden|first=Elizabeth|date=April 4, 2018|title=Columbia, Trinity College Dublin start new dual B.A. program|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/04/columbia-trinity-college-dublin-start-new-dual-ba-program|access-date=September 21, 2020|website=Inside Higher Ed|language=en|archive-date=April 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428234257/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/04/columbia-trinity-college-dublin-start-new-dual-ba-program|url-status=live}}</ref> {{Lang|fr|[[École des hautes études en sciences sociales]]|italic=no}} (EHESS), {{Lang|fr|[[École normale supérieure]]|italic=no}} (ENS), [[University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne|Panthéon-Sorbonne University]], [[King's College London]], [[London School of Economics]], [[University College London]] and the [[University of Warwick]]. Select students can study at either the [[University of Oxford]] or the [[University of Cambridge]] for a year if approved by both Columbia and either Oxford or Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://global.undergrad.columbia.edu/program/oxfordcambridge-scholars-program-academic-year|title=Oxford/Cambridge Scholars Program: Academic Year &#124; Undergraduate Global Engagement|access-date=October 28, 2020|archive-date=October 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031134310/https://global.undergrad.columbia.edu/program/oxfordcambridge-scholars-program-academic-year|url-status=live}}</ref> Columbia also has a dual MA program with the [[Aga Khan University]] in London.

===Rankings===
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{{Infobox US university ranking
<!-- U.S. rankings -->| Forbes = 6
| USNWR_NU = 13 <small>(tie)</small>
| Wamo_NU = 6
| THE_WSJ = 14
| QS_W = 34 <small>(tie)</small>
| THES_W = 17
| USNWR_W = 9
| ARWU_W = 8 <small>(tie)</small>
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|+ style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Columbia Lions|color=black}}" |National Program Rankings<ref name="USNWR Grad School Rankings">{{cite magazine|title=Columbia University – U.S. News Best Grad School Rankings|magazine=[[U.S. News & World Report]]|access-date=April 28, 2025|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/columbia-university-190150/overall-rankings|archive-date=September 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907204033/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/columbia-university-190150/overall-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="col" | Ranking
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! scope="row" | Biological Sciences
| 11
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! scope="row" | Biostatistics
| 7
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! scope="row" | Business
| 9
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! scope="row" | Chemistry
| 11
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! scope="row" | Computer Science
| 13
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! scope="row" | Earth Sciences
| 4
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! scope="row" | Economics
| 9
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! scope="row" | Engineering
| 18
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! scope="row" | English
| 8
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! scope="row" | Fine Arts
| 10
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! scope="row" | Health Care Management
| 14
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! scope="row" | History
| 6
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! scope="row" | Law
| 10
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! scope="row" | Mathematics
| 11
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| 41
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! scope="row" | Nursing–Midwifery
| 15
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| 9
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| 22
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| 9
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| 8
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| 14
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| 21
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| 6
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| 4
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| 11
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! scope="row" | Statistics
| 5
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{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="float:right; text-align:center"
|+ style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Columbia Lions|color=black}}" |Global Program Rankings<ref name="USNWR Global Univ Rankings">{{cite magazine|title=Columbia University – U.S. News Best Global University Rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=April 28, 2025|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/columbia-university-190150/overall-rankings|archive-date=October 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009072505/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/columbia-university-190150/overall-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| 17
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| 112
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| 18
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| 67
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| 5
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| 13
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| 58
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! scope="row" | Clinical Medicine
| 12
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| 68
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| 78
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| 6
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! scope="row" | Education & Educational Research
| 45
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! scope="row" | Electrical & Electronic Engineering
| 189
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! scope="row" | Engineering
| 168
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! scope="row" | Endocrinology & Metabolism
| 41
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! scope="row" | Energy & Fuels
| 258
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! scope="row" | Environment/Ecology
| 47
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| 243
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| 31
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! scope="row" | Geosciences
| 6
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! scope="row" | Immunology
| 34
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! scope="row" | Infectious Diseases
| 67
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! scope="row" | Materials Science
| 86
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! scope="row" | Mathematics
| 13
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! scope="row" | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
| 1
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! scope="row" | Microbiology
| 41
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! scope="row" | Molecular Biology & Genetics
| 14
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Columbia University is ranked 12th in the United States and seventh globally for 2023–2024 by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''. QS University Rankings listed Columbia as fifth in the United States. Ranked 15th among U.S. colleges for 2020 by ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[Times Higher Education]]'', in recent years it has been ranked as high as second. Individual colleges and schools were also nationally ranked by ''U.S. News & World Report'' for its 2021 edition. [[Columbia Law School]] was ranked fourth, the [[Mailman School of Public Health]] fourth, the [[Columbia University School of Social Work|School of Social Work]] tied for third, [[Columbia Business School]] eighth, the [[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons|College of Physicians and Surgeons]] tied for sixth for research (and tied for 31st for primary care), the [[Columbia University School of Nursing|School of Nursing]] tied for 11th in the master's program and tied for first in the doctorate nursing program, and the [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] (graduate) was ranked tied for 14th.

In 2021, Columbia was ranked seventh in the world (sixth in the United States) by ''[[Academic Ranking of World Universities]]'', sixth in the world by ''U.S. News & World Report'', 19th in the world by ''[[QS World University Rankings]]'', and 11th globally by ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings''. It was ranked in the first tier of American research universities, along with Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, in the 2019 report from the [[Center for Measuring University Performance]]. Columbia's [[Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation|Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation]] was ranked the second most admired graduate program by [[Architectural Record]] in 2020.

In 2011, the [[Mines ParisTech : Professional Ranking World Universities|Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities]] ranked Columbia third best university for forming [[CEOs]] in the US and 12th worldwide.

In 2025, Columbia was ranked 250 out of 257 top colleges in "Free Speech Rankings" by the [[Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression]] and "College Pulse", after ranking 214 of 248 in 2024 and at the bottom of 203 in 2022/2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Free Speech Rankings |url=https://rankings.thefire.org/rank/school/columbia-university-in-the-city-of-new-york |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=rankings.thefire.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 College Free Speech Rankings {{!}} The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression |url=https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/2024-college-free-speech-rankings |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=www.thefire.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2022-2023 College Free Speech Rankings {{!}} The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression |url=https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/2022-2023-college-free-speech-rankings |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=www.thefire.org |language=en}}</ref>
In 2024 and 2025, Columbia received a D on the "Campus Antisemitism Report Card" of the [[Anti-Defamation League]], which the advocacy organization first launched in spring 2024, in the lead-up to and in the context of campus conflict over the [[2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia University |url=https://www.adl.org/campus-antisemitism-report-card/columbia-university |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=www.adl.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Watson |first=Michelle |date=2025-03-04 |title=Columbia University: Federal government threatens to pull more than $50 million in contracts over 'harassment of Jewish students' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/us/columbia-university-federal-contracts-threatened/index.html |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Towfighi |first=John |date=2025-03-03 |title=US colleges are making substantial progress on campus antisemitism, but work remains, ADL says {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/business/antisemitism-grades-colleges/index.html |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lapin |first=Andrew |date=2024-04-12 |title=The ADL's new 'report card' for campus antisemitism gets an F from Hillel and some Jewish students |url=https://www.jta.org/2024/04/12/united-states/the-adls-new-report-card-for-campus-antisemitism-gets-an-f-from-hillel-and-some-jewish-students |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Noah |title=Live updates: Shafik testifies before Congress on Columbia's handling of antisemitism on campus |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/17/live-updates-shafik-testifies-before-congress-on-columbias-handling-of-antisemitism-on-campus/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref>

===Research===
[[File:HavemeyerFront.jpg|thumb|[[Havemeyer Hall]], a [[National Historic Chemical Landmarks|National Historic Chemical Landmark]], where [[deuterium]] was discovered in 1931. Research conducted in Havemeyer has been recognized with seven [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prizes in Chemistry]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 9, 1998|title=Havemeyer Hall|url=https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/havemeyerhall/havemeyer-hall-at-columbia-university-commemorative-booklet.pdf|website=American Chemical Society|access-date=July 6, 2021|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305072634/https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/havemeyerhall/havemeyer-hall-at-columbia-university-commemorative-booklet.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
Columbia is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia University in the City of New York |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=190150|access-date=July 18, 2020|website=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education|archive-date=July 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718061353/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=190150|url-status=dead}}</ref> Columbia was the first North American site where the [[uranium]] atom was split. The College of Physicians and Surgeons played a central role in developing the modern understanding of neuroscience with the publication of ''[[Principles of Neural Science]]'', described by historian of science Katja Huenther as the "neuroscience 'bible' ".<ref>{{cite book|last=Guenther|first=Katja|title=Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tkpCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA155 |publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0-226-28820-8|location=Chicago|page=155}}</ref> The book was written by a team of Columbia researchers that included Nobel Prize winner [[Eric Kandel]], [[James H. Schwartz (neurobiologist)|James H. Schwartz]], and [[Thomas Jessell]]. Columbia was the birthplace of [[FM radio]] and the [[laser]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Columbia To Go|url=http://studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/pdf/Columbia_To_Go.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605140310/http://studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/pdf/Columbia_To_Go.pdf|archive-date=June 5, 2007|access-date=April 29, 2007|publisher=Columbia University}}</ref> The first [[Brain–computer interface|brain-computer interface]] capable of translating brain signals into speech was developed by [[Neural engineering|neuroengineers]] at Columbia.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Paez|first=Danny|title=Incredible New Brain-Computer Interface Can Translate Thoughts Into Speech|url=https://www.inverse.com/article/52812-brain-computer-interface-translates-thoughts-to-speech|access-date=January 30, 2019|website=Inverse|date=January 29, 2019|language=en|archive-date=January 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131145247/https://www.inverse.com/article/52812-brain-computer-interface-translates-thoughts-to-speech|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=January 29, 2019|title=Artificial intelligence translates thoughts directly into speech in scientific first|language=en|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/brain-computer-interface-ai-translates-thoughts-speech-artificial-intelligence-columbia-university-a8753031.html|access-date=January 30, 2019|archive-date=January 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131101958/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/brain-computer-interface-ai-translates-thoughts-speech-artificial-intelligence-columbia-university-a8753031.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Columbia Researchers Developed Technology That Can Translate Brain Activity Into Words|url=http://fortune.com/2019/01/30/columbia-ai-speech-synthesizer-translate-thoughts/|access-date=January 30, 2019|website=Fortune.com|language=en|archive-date=January 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131012003/http://fortune.com/2019/01/30/columbia-ai-speech-synthesizer-translate-thoughts/|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[MPEG-2]] algorithm of transmitting high quality audio and video over limited bandwidth was developed by [[Dimitris Anastassiou]], a Columbia professor of electrical engineering. Biologist [[Martin Chalfie]] was the first to introduce the use of [[Green Fluorescent Protein]] (GFP) in labeling cells in intact organisms.<ref>{{cite news|last=Herper|first=Matthew|date=July 26, 2001|title=Biotech's Glowing Breakthrough|work=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/2001/07/26/0726gfp_print.html|access-date=February 27, 2008|archive-date=February 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225131356/http://www.forbes.com/2001/07/26/0726gfp_print.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Other inventions and products related to Columbia include Sequential Lateral Solidification (SLS) technology for making LCDs, System Management Arts (SMARTS), [[Session Initiation Protocol]] (SIP) (which is used for audio, video, chat, instant messaging and whiteboarding), [[pharmacopeia]], Macromodel (software for computational chemistry), a new and better recipe for glass concrete, Blue [[LED]]s, and Beamprop (used in photonics).<ref name="inventions_nind2">{{cite web|title=New Inventions / New Discoveries|url=http://stv.columbia.edu/assets/STV's%20Success%20Stories.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613170734/http://stv.columbia.edu/assets/STV%27s%20Success%20Stories.pdf|archive-date=June 13, 2007|access-date=April 29, 2007|publisher=Columbia University Science and Technology Ventures}}</ref>

Columbia scientists have been credited with about 175 new inventions in the health sciences each year.<ref name="inventions_nind2" /> More than 30 pharmaceutical products based on discoveries and inventions made at Columbia reached the market. These include [[Remicade]] (for arthritis), [[Reopro]] (for blood clot complications), [[Xalatan]] (for glaucoma), [[Benefix]], [[Latanoprost]] (a glaucoma treatment), shoulder prosthesis, [[homocysteine]] (testing for cardiovascular disease), and [[Zolinza]] (for cancer therapy).<ref name="inventions_stvss2">{{cite web|title=Science and Technology Ventures – Success Stories|url=http://stv.columbia.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=15&Itemid=34#2|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080221061844/http://stv.columbia.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=15&Itemid=34|archive-date=February 21, 2008|access-date=February 27, 2008|publisher=Columbia University Science and Technology Ventures}}</ref> Columbia Technology Ventures (formerly Science and Technology Ventures), {{as of|2008|lc=yes}}, manages some 600 patents and more than 250 active license agreements.<ref name="inventions_stvss2" /> Patent-related deals earned Columbia more than $230&nbsp;million in the 2006 fiscal year, according to the university, more than any university in the world.<ref name="inventions_pbitctc2">{{cite news|last=Reedy|first=Katie|date=November 28, 2006|title=Patents Bring in the Cash to Columbia|newspaper=Columbia Spectator|url=http://columbiaspectator.com/2006/11/28/patents-bring-cash-columbia|access-date=July 11, 2016|archive-date=September 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917203427/http://columbiaspectator.com/2006/11/28/patents-bring-cash-columbia|url-status=live}}</ref> Columbia owns many unique research facilities, such as the [[Columbia Institute for Tele-Information]] dedicated to [[telecommunications]] and the [[Goddard Institute for Space Studies]], which is an [[Astronomy|astronomical]] [[observatory]] affiliated with [[NASA]].

===Military and veteran enrollment===
Columbia is a long-standing participant of the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]] Yellow Ribbon Program, allowing eligible veterans to pursue a Columbia undergraduate degree regardless of socioeconomic status for over 70 years.<ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. Military Veterans|url=https://gs.columbia.edu/military-veterans|access-date=March 23, 2019|website=Gs.columbia.edu|archive-date=December 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222204052/https://gs.columbia.edu/military-veterans|url-status=live}}</ref> As a part of the Eisenhower Leader Development Program (ELDP) in partnership with the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York|West Point]], Columbia is the only school in the Ivy League to offer a graduate degree program in organizational psychology to aid military officers in tactical decision making and strategic management.<ref>{{cite web|title=About – Teachers College, Columbia University|url=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/resiliencecenter/about/|access-date=March 23, 2019|website=Tc.columbia.edu|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327064445/https://www.tc.columbia.edu/resiliencecenter/about/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Awards ===
[[File:Lee C. Bollinger awarding the 2003 Pulitzer Prize to Jeffrey Eugenides.jpg|thumb|[[President of Columbia University|President]] [[Lee Bollinger]] presents the 2003 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] to [[Jeffrey Eugenides]]]]
Several prestigious awards are administered by Columbia University, most notably the Pulitzer Prize and the [[Bancroft Prize]] in history.<ref name="history">{{cite web|last=Topping|first=Seymour|author-link=Seymour Topping|year=2008|title=History of The Pulitzer Prizes|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/historyofprizes|access-date=September 13, 2011|work=The Pulitzer Prizes|publisher=Columbia University|archive-date=July 23, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723153951/https://www.pulitzer.org/historyofprizes|url-status=live}} Updated 2013 by Sig Gissler.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Bancroft Prizes |url=https://library.columbia.edu/about/awards/bancroft.html|access-date=May 9, 2021|website=Columbia University Libraries |archive-date=May 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509152809/https://library.columbia.edu/about/awards/bancroft.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Other prizes, which are awarded by the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Graduate School of Journalism]], include the [[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award]], the [[National Magazine Awards]], the [[Maria Moors Cabot Prizes]], the [[John Chancellor Award]], and the Lukas Prizes, which include the [[J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize]] and [[Mark Lynton History Prize]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prizes|url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/prizes|website=Columbia Journalism School|access-date=May 9, 2021|archive-date=October 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029051113/https://journalism.columbia.edu/prizes|url-status=live}}</ref> The university also administers the [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]], which is considered an important precursor to the Nobel Prize, 55 of its 117 recipients having gone on to win either a [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] or [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] as of October 2024;<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 14, 2018|title=The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize|url=https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/research/louisa-gross-horwitz-prize|access-date=May 9, 2021|website=Columbia University Irving Medical Center|language=en|archive-date=October 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016205105/http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/horwitz/|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[W. Alden Spencer Award]];<ref>{{Cite web|date=August 1, 2018|title=40th Annual W. Alden Spencer Lecture and Award|url=https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/40th-annual-w-alden-spencer-lecture-and-award|access-date=June 11, 2021|website=zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu|archive-date=August 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816143057/https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/40th-annual-w-alden-spencer-lecture-and-award|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Vetlesen Prize]], which is known as the Nobel Prize of geology;<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Vetlesen Prize |work= Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory|url=https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/the-vetlesen-prize |access-date=April 24, 2024 |archive-date=April 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409044857/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/the-vetlesen-prize |url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature]], the oldest such award;<ref>{{Cite web|title=Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture|url=http://www.keenecenter.org/translation_JPUS%20prize.html|access-date=April 24, 2024|website=Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
|archive-date=May 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509070238/http://www.keenecenter.org/translation_prize.html|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Edwin Howard Armstrong award]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Edwin Howard Armstrong Memorial Award. Columbia University Electrical Engineering Department. {{!}} Scholars@Duke|url=https://scholars.duke.edu/display/awdrec38466|access-date=May 9, 2021|website=scholars.duke.edu|archive-date=May 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509070238/https://scholars.duke.edu/display/awdrec38466|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Calderone Prize]] in public health;<ref>{{Cite web|title=ASPPH {{!}} Columbia Calling for Nominees: The Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health — Deadline June 30|url=https://www.aspph.org/columbia-calling-for-nominees-the-frank-a-calderone-prize-in-public-health-deadline-june-30th/|access-date=June 11, 2021|website=www.aspph.org|archive-date=June 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611074400/https://www.aspph.org/columbia-calling-for-nominees-the-frank-a-calderone-prize-in-public-health-deadline-june-30th/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Ditson Conductor's Award]].<ref>{{cite news|date=May 16, 1940|title=Columbia Receives Trust to Aid Music|page=31|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/05/16/archives/columbia-receives-trust-to-aid-music-mrs-charles-h-ditson-widow-of.html|url-access=limited|access-date=February 20, 2021|archive-date=May 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509070455/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/05/16/archives/columbia-receives-trust-to-aid-music-mrs-charles-h-ditson-widow-of.html|url-status=live}}</ref>