Columbia University

Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City-limits of New York) is a clandestine Ivy League analysis university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Originally accustomed in 1754 as King's Academy by aristocratic allotment of George II of Great Britain, it is the oldest academy of academy acquirements in New York State, as able-bodied as one of the country's nine colonial colleges. After the advocate war, King's Academy briefly became a accompaniment entity, and was renamed Columbia Academy in 1784. A 1787 allotment placed the academy beneath a clandestine lath of advisers afore it was added renamed Columbia University in 1896 if the campus was confused from Madison Avenue to its accepted area in Morningside Heights application acreage of 32 acreage (13 ha). Columbia is one of the fourteen founding associates of the Association of American Universities, and was the aboriginal academy in the United States to admission the M.D. degree.

History

Discussions apropos the founding of a academy in the Province of New York began as aboriginal as 1704, if Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Association for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the association that New York City-limits was an ideal association in which to authorize a college; however, not until the founding of Princeton University beyond the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City-limits of New York actively accede founding a college. In 1746 an act was anesthetized by the accepted accumulation of New York to accession funds for the foundation of a new college. In 1751, the accumulation appointed a agency of ten New York residents, seven of whom were associates of the Church of England, to absolute the funds accrued by the accompaniment action appear the foundation of a college.

Campus

The majority of Columbia's alum and undergraduate studies are conducted in Morningside Heights on Seth Low's late-19th aeon eyes of a university campus area all disciplines could be accomplished in one location. The campus was advised forth Beaux-Arts attempt by architects McKim, Mead, and White. Columbia's capital campus occupies added than six city-limits blocks, or 32 acreage (13 ha), in Morningside Heights, New York City, a adjacency that contains a amount of bookish institutions. The university owns over 7,800 apartments in Morningside Heights, apartment faculty, alum students, and staff. Almost two dozen undergraduate dormitories (purpose-built or converted) are amid on campus or in Morningside Heights. Columbia University has an all-encompassing underground adit arrangement added than a aeon old, with the oldest portions predating the present campus. Some of these abide attainable to the public, while others accept been cordoned off.