Columbia University - New York

Established in 1754, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university and has an academic community of over 40,000 students. It offers distinctive degrees for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields and ranks among the top 20 universities in the world according to QS Rankings. 

Columbia University is organized into twenty schools, including 16 graduate and four undergraduate schools. Some of the most popular majors at Columbia University are Engineering, Social Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences, Mathematics, English and Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and Foreign Languages. The university is home to a vibrant community of students and faculty coming together from all walks of life.  

Columbia University is also known for being one of the best research centers in the world. Located in New York, USA, it has two facilities outside Manhattan. Nevis Laboratories, established in 1947, is Columbia's primary center for studying high-energy experimental particles and nuclear physics. Located in Irvington, New York, it sits on a 60-acre estate originally owned by the son of Alexander Hamilton. The second facility–Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory–is located on a high, forested bluff in the Palisades overseeing the Hudson River.

Some notable alumni of Columbia University are Alexander Hamilton (Founding Father of the US), Theodore Roosevelt (26th US President), Franklin Roosevelt (32nd US President) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Actor). In addition to this, more than 80 faculty members and alumni of Columbia University have won the prestigious Nobel Prize.