Editing Columbia, Maryland (section)

== Education ==
[[File:Science Engineering and Technology building Howard Community College 2023-04-02 09-02-03.jpg|thumb|Science Engineering and Technology building at [[Howard Community College]]]]
Columbia's public schools are operated by the [[Howard County Public School System]]. As of the 2007–2008 school year, the following high schools served some part of Columbia:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hcpss.org/boundarylines/map_high.pdf|title=Howard County High School Attendance Area Map|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207003537/http://www.hcpss.org/boundarylines/map_high.pdf|archive-date=February 7, 2009}}</ref>
*[[Atholton High School|Atholton]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ahs.hcpss.org/ |title=Atholton High School |website=ahs.hcpss.org |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126182820/https://ahs.hcpss.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Centennial High School (Howard County, Maryland)|Centennial]]
*[[Hammond High School (Columbia, Maryland)|Hammond]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hammondhs.org/|title=Hammond High School|access-date=July 10, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100924130541/http://www.hammondhs.org/|archive-date=September 24, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Howard High School (Ellicott City, Maryland)|Howard]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.howardhighschool.net/|title=Howard High School|access-date=July 10, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050826045935/http://howardhighschool.net/|archive-date=August 26, 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Long Reach High School|Long Reach]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.howard.k12.md.us/lrhs/home.html |title=LRHS Home |access-date=July 10, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050415234043/http://www.howard.k12.md.us/lrhs/home.html |archive-date=April 15, 2005 }}</ref>
*[[Oakland Mills High School|Oakland Mills]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.howard.k12.md.us/omhs/|title=Oakland Mills High School|access-date=July 10, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050912093602/http://www.howard.k12.md.us/OMHS/|archive-date=September 12, 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[River Hill High School|River Hill]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.howard.k12.md.us/rhhs/|title=River Hill High School|access-date=July 10, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050529031852/http://www.howard.k12.md.us/rhhs/|archive-date=May 29, 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Wilde Lake High School|Wilde Lake]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wildelake.com/ |title=Home |website=www.wildelake.com |access-date=July 10, 2005 |archive-date=June 9, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050609032847/http://www.wildelake.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Most of these schools also serve students from outside Columbia, as is also the case with some of the middle and elementary schools.

=== Colleges and universities ===
There are no conventional four-year colleges or universities in Columbia, but several college-level programs have facilities there. [[Howard Community College]] is located near the town center, while the [[University of Phoenix]], [[Lincoln College of Technology]], [[Loyola University Maryland]], [[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]], [[Maryland University of Integrative Health]], and [[Johns Hopkins University]] have facilities on the east side of town at Columbia Gateway Business Park. In addition to its original campus in Columbia, HCC also has satellite campuses in [[Mount Airy, Maryland|Mount Airy]], [[Laurel, Maryland|Laurel]], and East Columbia, in the Columbia Gateway Business Park.