Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York, or fundamentally Columbia University, is an American private Ivy group research college found in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is the most seasoned foundation of higher adapting in the State of New York, the fifth mainly established in the United States, also one of the nation's nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution. Nowadays the college works Columbia Global Centers overseas in Amman, Istanbul, Beijing, Mumbai, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi and Santiago.

Columbia University was established in 1754 as King's College by imperial sanction of King George II of England. It is the most established institution of higher adapting in the condition of New York and the fifth most established in the United States.

Discussion went before the establishing of the College, with different gathering competing to focus its area and religious association. Supporters of New York City met with accomplishment on the first point, though the Anglicans predominated on the last. Nonetheless, all voting public consented to confer themselves to standards of religious freedom in securing the arrangements of the College.

In July 1754, Samuel Johnson held the first classes in another school building bordering Trinity Church, marked on what is currently lower Broadway in Manhattan. There were eight understudies in the group. In King's College, the future pioneers of provincial society could get a training intended to "widen the Mind, get better the Understanding, clean the whole Man, and succeed them to help the brightest Characters in all the lifted stations in life." One early sign of the foundation's elevated objectives was the foundation in 1767 of the first American medicinal school to authorize the M.D. degree.

The American Revolution brought the development of the school to an end, driving a suspension of direction in 1776 that went on for a long time. In any case, the establishment kept on applying a noteworthy impact on American life through the individuals linked with it. Among the soonest understudies and trustees of King's College were John Jay, the first chief equity of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, the primary secretary of the treasury; Gouverneur Morris, the originator of the final draft of the U.S. Constitution; and Robert R. Livingston, an individual from the five-man board that drafted the Declaration of Independence.

The school revived in 1784 with another name—Columbia—that typified the enthusiastic intensity that had roused the country's mission for freedom. The revitalized organization was conspicuous as the relative of its pilgrim precursor, because of its slant to Anglicanism and the needs of a urban population, however there were necessary contrasts: Columbia mirrored the legacy of the Revolution in the more noteworthy financial, denominational, and geographic assorted qualities of its new understudies and pioneers. Sheltered grounds life offered path to the more regular marvel of day understudies who inhabited home or stopped in the city.

Arranging data that is utilized to deal with the University and settle on choices about its strategies and objectives is given by the Office of Planning and Institutional Research. This information incorporates recorded and current data about Columbia, correlations crosswise over associate foundations and studies of personnel, staff, understudies and graduated class. Notwithstanding assembling and arranging significant statistical data points, the Office of Planning and Institutional Research utilizes this information to do examination and investigations with respect to issues of significance to the University. The workplace additionally keeps up the University's measurable theoretical, directions answering to legislative orgs and gives information to distributers of college guides.