Rankings

• National Universities: #15
• Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs: #21
• Artificial Intelligence: #12
• Data Analytics/Science: #11
• Theory: #8
• Economics: #10
• Most Innovative Schools: #38
• Top Performers on Social Mobility: #87 Source

Mission And History

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Accreditations

• University: Columbia University
• Accrediting Organization: Middle States Commission on Higher Education
• Accreditation Granted Date: 1921-01-01
• Most Recent Reaffirmation Date: 2016-01-01
• Next Reaffirmation Due: 2024-01-01

Strategic Goals

• Prioritize the pursuit of hard questions affecting multiple disciplines and global issues to enable new breakthroughs and better understand the world’s complexity.
• Invest in students’ experience in educational programs to ensure Columbia’s tradition of excellence in liberal arts education is stronger than ever, meets the needs of today’s students, and prepares them for future careers.
• Build the foundations of human knowledge to form people who will learn and innovate for their entire lives, with a focus on the humanities, learning from the past, the unfamiliar, writing, and the arts.
• Drive understanding of society with new approaches for an increasingly complex world by leveraging historic strengths in social science research and education to deepen understanding of society.
• Accelerate reach and impact in frontier areas of science where Columbia can innovate and lead by pursuing new interdisciplinary projects, expanding collaborations in the New York City area, and building infrastructure to enable new scientific discovery.
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Updated on 01/01/2026