This year, usnews of Columbia University ranks fourth in the overall U-level undergraduate program in the United States, second only to Harper, and belongs to one of the eight Ivy League schools. Located in Manhattan, new york. There are 97 Nobel Prize winners among the graduates and faculty of Columbia University, ranking first among universities in the world. Together with Harvard University and the University of Chicago, it is recognized as the three giants of American higher education. Its courses in education, law, business school and journalism school rank the highest academically among all institutions. Among them, the College of Education is also one of the largest and most comprehensive colleges of education in the world.

Columbia University was founded in 1756, when the United States was still a British colony. King George II donated money to the people of new york and established "King's College" focusing on humanities, science and language. After the independence of the United States, it was renamed Columbia College to commemorate Columbus who discovered the new continent of America. Columbia University not only attracts elites from all over the world because it is one of the Ivy League schools, but also attracts more students because of new york's convenient geographical location. The high employment rate is also the attraction of Columbia University. According to statistics, almost one out of every four Columbia University graduates works in new york. Law school alumni are also favored by the legal profession in new york, and most of the journalism graduates are Teamin Between from the three major TV networks. Of the 20,000 students in Colombia, about two-thirds are graduate students, while the School of Journalism, Law and Education only accepts graduate students. Generally speaking, Columbia University is well-known in law, literature, history and philosophy, management, journalism and international relations. Although the Institute of Technology was established late, it is said that it is not bad, and there are many projects, so I don't know much about it.

These are official answers. For our applicants, there are some great gods second only to the magic cow every year, but the number of applicants is very small. My sister said that only five or six students were admitted to Chinese mainland last year. Moreover, Columbia University is not a separate school, which means that high sat and high gpa may not be recorded. Schools attach importance to all-round quality, so activities and papers are also very important. Then Columbia University became famous for its core courses. There is a list of books to read and a lot to read every semester. It is said that the workload is also very heavy.

In short, it's very ... difficult to get in. ...

By the way, since Wang Li mentioned Barnard, come and help the goddess clear her name.

Barnard belongs to Columbia University and is a girls' school. Although it is not as competitive as the undergraduate students recruited by Columbia University, the ones who can get in are basically Bai Fumei. Last year, there were six undergraduates in Chinese mainland, four of whom had overseas backgrounds. Diploma is also Columbia-Barnard College. Majors and professors are basically the same as Columbia University. Please don't comment on American universities if you just bite Barnard's liberal arts and rank Barnard Pheasant School in 32 said. Because in the United States, ranking is just ranking, and it can't be used to represent the severity of a school. For example, Jobs' alma mater, Reed College, ranks more than 70 in arts and sciences, but its enrollment scores or other requirements are very high. Barnard was originally an internal college of Columbia University, and later went out independently, but resource sharing and so on have not changed. Barnard graduates can be said to have graduated from Columbia University, because both schools have obtained diplomas, which is true. Milk tea is also exchanged here.

That's it ~ I don't know much about these two schools myself. If there is something wrong, please spray it gently.

Peter parker's answer (25 votes):

Just talk about the experience, and the rest please join the wiki.

First, the city has an indelible mark on the university.

The greatness of new york made the greatness of Columbia University. A university must be a high-rise spiritual building of a city. This behavior logic is very simple and rude: if you are a hedge fund manager or a famous director, you will choose the best university in your family to send your children to a similar major. So before 1990, most of the richest and most knowledgeable people in the United States gathered in new york and Northeast China, which brought a large number of students to schools in new york, Boston and Pennsylvania, and most of the Ivy League organizations gathered in this area. Some people say that new york only has finance, which is very wrong. New york is more than just a financial city. This is the economic orientation of Hong Kong. New york is the largest port for Europe and Asia to enter the United States. From the principle of economic formation, the economic elements of a mainland port must include basic industries such as trade, manufacturing, catering, etc., which will inevitably lead to strong retail and real estate, and the accumulation of a large amount of wealth will inevitably lead to the prosperity of finance, consulting, design and art. If you only come into contact with a circle in new york, it just means that you have not made good use of the second-degree connection in your life. Therefore, at the graduation ceremony of Columbia University, in the parents' square, you can find many famous entrepreneurs, directors and actors at the moment when the camera is swept. This is where they send their children to study.

Second, students' appearance and popular culture.

Gossip girl is seriously misleading. Although there are many rich children in Columbia University, most of them are very low-key. Many students have a good family background, such as a famous private equity fund or the Spanish royal family, but at most they can only see them dressed decently. Boys and girls in Columbia University pay great attention to preppie's clothes, and Ralph Lauren, J Crew and Brooks Brothers are all top-notch popular brands. The dress of preppie students is a very interesting cultural and commercial topic, and consumers under this behavior have a strong preference for several special brands. There are also many people wearing school jerseys. Columbia's basketball team ranks very well in American universities, and the football team is at the bottom all the year round. Don't wear a football suit or a hat when you go to Columbia University.

Third, various ideological conflicts.

The ideology of Columbia University is pluralistic and very free, mainly according to the division of colleges. Due to the strength of the financial industry, almost many engineering and social science students want to enter Wall Street. Needless to say, business schools are located on the central axis of Columbia University campus and occupy the best library. Columbia University Business School ranks very high with a pragmatic atmosphere. The so-called pragmatism means that everyone submits resumes and talks about work in the library, and academics are not the most respected here. On the contrary, humanities students held high the banner of humanistic care and formed a circle against Wall Street in the school square at the end of 20 12. Then there were business school students in suits and ties across the street, which formed a sharp contrast conflict.

Fourth, academics.

Although there are no schools like LSE or Chicago, the economics of Columbia University has always been very strong, perhaps too compatible to be unified into a faction. Joseph stiglitz, Ned Phelps and Jeff Sachs, the main pillars of the Nobel Prize in our school, are all studying in different fields. Stiglitz's research on macroeconomics has reached the level of academic leader, and he is still teaching at Columbia University. Ned Phelps has many microscopic theories; Jeff Sachs started innovative research from the perspective of sociology in an institution similar to the institute under SIPA. In addition, although the engineering department is not particularly popular, in recent years, with the strong creation of former mayor Michael Bloomberg and the strong guarantee of new york media industry, it has made rapid progress in the segmentation of new media, with the goal of catching up with Silicon Valley.

Zhihu user's answer (18 votes):

As a Colombian IEOR under the operational research project, I object to the first anonymous answer.

"Have the ability to pay tuition into the department. . . Both the Master of Statistics and the Master of Financial Engineering recruit 200-400 people a year. "

In fact, the statistics are about 180 people, and there are about forty or fifty people in our 12 financial engineering class.

According to the popular saying. . Form a chain of contempt. . . Is it about Fe (financial engineering) >: or> statistics? ....

FE I have seen all the big cows (most of them are from Tsinghua Peking University, and a few are from Fudan Jiaotong University), or there are a large number of them. Statistics can be described as a mixture of good and evil people, but there are also great people. . . According to my observation, both the quantity and quality of beautiful women are Fe.

But! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I see that some statistics students are better than OR, while others are better than FE.

Ok, I admit that I was a little colored glasses about statistical children's shoes at first, but later I found that I was powerless in front of some statistical children's shoes-I know I can't judge a hero by his birth. )

In addition, if you really know how to be a miner, it's not that difficult to find a job, and it's not just investment banks that are the good way out. . . A senior hedge fund worked for two years and bought a house directly. . .

I mean: the answer that ranks first at present is that it is really meaningless to compare two girls only in school majors. First of all, you can't talk about heroes by birth (besides, some data and conclusions of the respondents are not completely correct). Secondly, people like Leehom YUNDI have proper limit. Don't you know what you know? . . Just like when Ailin married CITIC VP, some people said that the little star did not understand the market and married an ordinary investment bank. . . What you don't know is that they are all red generation. . . .

It seems to be beside the point. Give the title: Columbia is a good place ~

Work hard and have more fun!

Update: Almost all the children's shoes around me have found jobs (after comments, I may be biased by samples. . . I was just talking about me. . . I didn't say anything. . . ╮ (╯▽╰) ╭), we graduated!

Update: There are still many directions for finding a job, but the real quant on Wall Street is basically a doctor of mathematics and physics. . . People usually don't look for that direction. . . At present, children's shoes go to banks, hedge funds, consulting, insurance and Bloomberg (this becomes programmer XD).

This is new york, and we have many dreams.

Lucayu's answer (9 votes):

It's definitely Daniu School. The core currency of Columbia College is definitely the biggest feature. In the past four years, freshmen and sophomores have all received western classical liberal arts education regardless of their majors, which has greatly exercised people's overall thinking and eloquence.

Because it is located in new york, the fortress of the Atlantic waterway, it is very convenient for European refugees to flee during World War II. In addition, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Chicago have ruthlessly recruited a large number of European academic giants, making it a Nobel Prize factory. In contrast, Stanford is still in the hinterland of the west. In order to cope with the financial crisis, Stanford allocated its biggest assets and land one by one, and Silicon Valley was born.

In modern and contemporary China, Columbia University is definitely a godlike school. Because Columbia likes to recruit third world students, it has always been famous in the local area. For example, during the Republic of China, many scholars and bureaucrats were basically from Columbia University, such as the great educator Hu Shi/Wang, the famous handsome diplomat of the Republic of China, the physics queen in the second half of the 20th century, and the former president of american physical society.

Because it is located in new york, Columbia University is a success, and Xiaohe is a failure. Because of new york, Columbia University hitched a ride with American academic development before World War II. However, in the 1960s and 1970s after World War II, American big cities were generally depressed because of the development of suburbs, and new york was the first to bear the brunt. Columbia University experienced the impact of the 68-year student movement, and in the mid-1970s, the New York City Government experienced a financial crisis of bankruptcy. Columbia University was located in a residential area, which was then a slum. At that time, the security was very poor. In the end, the student movement in 1968 was suppressed by the new york police, which destroyed the tradition that universities are private property, free and autonomous, and secular administration should not interfere. Professors have left their jobs, and Columbia University has lost a large number of intellectual elites. After 70 years of public security crisis, many excellent students don't want to go to Columbia University. In the 1970s and 1980s, Columbia University went from bad to worse, and its ranking seemed to fall below 20. It was not until the 1990s that new york's economy took off again, and Columbia University slowly recovered its vitality. In the past two or three years, its ranking has gradually stabilized in the fourth place in China.

Without the impact of student movement, new york's urban crisis, the so-called HYPSM, may have to be rearranged today, and it is probably unknown who will die between Columbia University and Stanford Deer.

Needless to say, Colombia is slowly recovering.

Barnard, a girls' school, is an independent college, but its relationship with Columbia University is definitely unusual. At that time, Ivy League schools were all Buddhist temples. In order to meet the needs of women attending Ivy League schools, they are afraid to break the tradition of boys' schools and set up a girls' school. Barnard of Seven Sisters Middle School is a girls' school of Columbia University, Radcliffe is a girls' school of Harvard University, and it seems that Brown and the University of Pennsylvania also have girls' schools. They attend classes together, eat together, socialize together, graduate together and get diplomas together. Later, the history of coeducation was unstoppable, and girls' schools merged with boys' schools one after another. Columbia University, located in new york and standing in the trend, took the last bus this time, and it was not until the late 1970s that it began to solve the problem of holding up half the sky. At that time, Columbia College, the undergraduate college of Columbia University, and Barnard discussed the merger, but Barnard refused for unknown reasons. CC started recruiting girls by herself. This also leads to a small gap between CC system and Columbia Barnard system. This is like saying that I wanted to marry you, but you didn't. Today you want to take my name. On the other hand, you and I are brother and sister. Of course, we can use the title of this family. In addition, according to "University Secret", the bad blood mainly comes from the girls in CC College. They want to compete with Barnard's girls for boys, but Columbia University has a fine historical tradition of so-called Barnard girls marrying Columbia boys (Columbia University has a tradition of finding owls, and whoever is the first freshman to find a hidden owl will marry Barnard's girls), and Barnard is also an aristocratic girls' school. There are many rich and beautiful women in New England and the Upper East Side of Manhattan. They are beautiful, gentle and decent, with good family background and good academic performance. They are simply the ideal wife types of Wall Street elites and should have an advantage in the competition for boys. Can you avoid the jealousy of girls in CC department who are selected from all over the United States and rely on their own cleverness and hard work, but have ordinary families? Just like silver teeth bite!

Another reason for Barnard's low ranking is that only girls are recruited (and not all excellent girls want to go to girls' schools, mainly because they are afraid of the traditional reputation of lesbians). Statistically, her pool is small, and the admission rate is naturally much higher than that of comprehensive schools, which seems less strict.

The ranking of Columbia University has risen in recent years, not only because of its good conditions, but also because it has changed the method of counting the admission rate (in previous years, GS Adult College, which has the least strict admission conditions, only counted the average admission rates of CC and SEAS in these two years), thus reducing the admission rate, which was about 10% in previous years, and has been reduced to about 6% in these two years, before 65438+.

Li Jun's answer (0 votes):

Who says there are more than 800 people in the statistics department? This is too exaggerated. It's too dark.

Water is not water, it depends entirely on your own ability. Everyone says that statistics department, no matter how hard it is, there are still people who have a good way out every year, whether it is work or subsequent academic development.

Also, those who said "I won't go because I'm too busy" on the Internet actually applied for it themselves, hmm.