COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Columbia University formally Columbia University in the City of New York is a private Ivy League research school in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was produced in 1754 as King's College by glorious endorsement of George II of Great Britain and is the most arranged school in New York State and the fifth contracted foundation of higher learning in the nation, making Columbia one of nine explorer universities set up before the Declaration of Independence.After the dynamic war, King's College quickly changed into a state segment, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 contract put the foundation under a private driving gathering of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the grounds was moved from Madison Avenue to its present zone in Morningside Heights having place where there is 32 regions of zone .Columbia is one of the fourteen working up individuals from the Association of American Universities, and was the principle school in the United States to allow the M.D. degree. 

The school is sorted out into twenty schools, including Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. The school likewise has general examination stations in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción and Nairobi. It has affiliations with a few different establishments close-by, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint understudy programs accessible through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Sciences Po Paris, and the Juilliard School. 

Columbia yearly manages the Pulitzer Prize. Paramount graduated class and past understudies including those from King's College merge five Founding Fathers of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court 20 living magnates 29 Academy Award victors; and 29 heads of state, including three United States Presidents.Additionally, to date, around 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been grouped together with Columbia as understudies, workforce, or staff. Classes were at first held in July 1754 and were managed by the school's first president, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson was the guideline instructor of the school's top notch, which included an immaterial eight understudies. Tenet was held in another school building abutting Trinity Church, orchestrated on what is at this moment cut down Broadway in Manhattan. The school was really settled on October 31, 1754, as King's College by recognized contract of King George II, making it the most settled foundation of higher learning in the condition of New York and the fifth most arranged in the United States