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Columbia College

Total
Students
Full-Time
Undergrads
Percent Accepted Percent Women Resident Tuition & Fees Non-Res. Tuition & Fees Room & Board
4,1844,1849%51%$35,164$35,164$9,648
Year last surveyed2007
Address116th Street and Broadway
New York NY 10027
Phone(212) 854-1754
Admissionsfax: (212) 854-1209
Carnegie ClassificationDoctoral/Research Universities – Extensive
Typefour-year college [awards bachelor's and possibly associate degrees, but no graduate degrees]
Student BodyCoeducational
Established1754
Institutional ControlPrivate – Nonprofit
Academic CalendarSemesters

Enrollment Details: Columbia College

Number of full-time, degree-seeking, first-time freshmen men.486
Number of full-time, degree-seeking, first-time freshmen women.536
Number of other first-year, degree-seeking, full-time men.2
Number of other first-year, degree-seeking, full-time women.5
Number of all other undergraduate degree-seeking full-time men.1,538
Number of all other undergraduate degree-seeking full-time women.1,617
Number of students in the initial cohort of full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students.966
Number of allowable exclusions from initial cohort of full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students, including death, permanent disability, service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or participation in official church missions.3
Number of students in the final cohort of full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students after adjusting for exclusions due to death, permanent disability, service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, participation in official church missions, or other allowable exclusions.963
Number of students in the initial cohort of full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who completed the bachelor's program in 4 years or less.825
Number of students in the initial cohort of full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who completed the bachelor's program in more than 4 years but in 5 years or less.57
Number of students in the initial cohort of full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who completed the bachelor's program in more than 5 years but in 6 years or less.19
Number of students in the initial cohort of full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who completed the bachelor's program within 6 years.901
Six-year graduation rate for final cohort of full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students (adjusting for allowable exclusions).94%
Percentage of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted high school GPA.87%
Number of degree-seeking transfer students enrolled.57
Total number of full-time undergraduate men.2,026
Total number of full-time undergraduate women.2,158
Total number of full-time undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional men.2,026
Total number of full-time undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional women.2,158
Total number of undergraduate students enrolled in the institution.4,184
Total number of undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional students enrolled at the institution.4,184
Number of degree-seeking undergraduate nonresident aliens. Nonresident aliens are excluded from counts for racial/ethnic categories.249
Number of degree-seeking undergraduate black, non-Hispanics.406
Number of degree-seeking undergraduate American Indians/Alaskan natives.28
Number of degree-seeking undergraduate Asians/Pacific Islanders.555
Number of degree-seeking undergraduate Hispanics.430
Number of degree-seeking undergraduate white, non-Hispanics.1,950
Number of degree-seeking undergraduates whose race/ethnicity is unknown.566
Total number of degree-seeking undergraduates across all racial/ethnic categories.4,184
Percentage of degree-seeking undergraduates who are from out-of-state (excluding international students/nonresident aliens).74%
Number of U.S. states and territories (including Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico; for Canadian Schools: provinces and territories) from which undergraduates come.54
Number of foreign countries from which undergraduates come.72
Percentage of total degree-seeking first-time, first-year (freshmen) students who submitted high school class rank data.42%
Percentage of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students in top half of high school graduating class.100%
Percentage of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students in top quarter of high school graduating class.97%
Percentage of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students in top tenth of high school graduating class.85.5%
Average high school GPA on 4.0 scale for degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students.3.8
Number of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who are National Merit Scholars.303
Percentage of full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered the institution as freshmen in the previous academic year and returned for the fall term of the current academic year.97%
Percentage of students completing a bachelor's program in the last academic year who went directly on to graduate/professional schools.80%
Number of Bachelor's degrees awarded during previous year.994
Academic year for which awards/outcomes data are reported (e.g., 2003 for academic year 2002-2003).1999
Year for which completion rates data are reported (e.g., 2003 for academic year 2002-2003).2006
Year for which retention data are reported (e.g., 2003 for academic year 2002-2003).2006

Data Source: Peterson's Undergraduate Dataset, © 2007. All rights reserved.

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