Columbia University

Columbia University is a clandestine, Ivy League, research university situated in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Initially, it was founded as King’s College in 1754 by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. Columbia is the oldest college resided in New York State. It is also the fifth licensed institute for higher education in the country that makes it one of nine royal colleges established before the Declaration of Independence.  In 1784, King’s college is renamed as Columbia College after the American Revolutionary War. However, the college was placed under a private board of trustees in 1787 after obtaining licence and again renamed as Columbia University.  Columbia is the one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities. It also was the first university to grant MD Degree in the United States of America.

The university is operating twenty institutions, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. It also has worldwide research settlements in Asunción

Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Nairobi, Santiago and Rio de Janeiro. It is associated with numerous other institutions near, including Barnard College, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary.

Columbia governs the Pulitzer Prize annually. Notable alumni and former students of Columbia University  includes five Founding Fathers of the United States, nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court,  20 living billionaires, 29 Academy Award winners and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents. Moreover, some 100 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia as students, faculty, or staff. Columbia lies second only to Harvard in the number of Pulitzer Prize winning alumni and former students, boasting over 100 recipients as of 2015.

Academics

Columbia University's reception rate for the class of 2020 in Columbia College and Engineering was 6.04 percent, which makes the university the third choosiest college in the United States of America by admittance rate behind Stanford and Harvard. The undergraduate program give in rate for the class of 2019 was 63.2 percent. According to college selectivity ranking by U.S. News & World Report of 2012, that features admission and give in rates among other standard, Columbia was equal with  Yale, Caltech and MIT as the most selective colleges in the nation. Columbia is an ethnically varied school, with around 52 percent of all students seeing themselves as persons of colour. Moreover, 50 percent of all undergraduates attaining the university  receive education aids from Columbia. The average aid size awarded to these students is $46,516. In 2015-2016, the annual undergraduate tuition fee at Columbia University was $50,526 with a total cost of attendance of $65,860 (including room and board).

Columbia University has announced a $400m to $600m aid on April 11, 2007 financed by media billionaire alumnus John Kluge to be used for undergraduate financial aid completely. The donation is the largest single donation to Columbia University. Its real value will varied on the ultimate value of Kluge's estate at the time of his death; though, the open-handed donation has brought ultimate change in financial aid policy at Columbia University .Columbia University has been extending generous financial donation package to talented students through the annual gifts, fund-raising, and an increase in spending from the university's donation. As of 2008, undergraduates attaining the university from families with as high as $60,000 incomes annually will have the projected cost of attending the university, including room, board, and academic fees, fully paid for by the university. Similarly, the admission committee also provides scholarships to undergraduate students. The scholars are named John W. Kluge Scholars, John Jay Scholars, C. Prescott Davis Scholars, Global Scholars, Egleston Scholars, and Science Research Fellows.