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- EIN 13-5598093
- (212) 854-4684
- 615 West 131 Street 3rd Floor New York NY 10027-7922 USA
- www.columbia.edu
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Higher Education, Universities
Mission: Columbia university is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The university recognizes the importance of its location in new york city and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.
Programs: The trustees of columbia university in the city of new york is a private, nonsectarian, nonprofit institution of higher education whose activities are concentrated at two locations in new york city and extend across the globe. The university provides instruction through sixteen undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. It operates a variety of research institutes and a library system to support its teaching, learning, and research activities. The university enrolls approximately 31,317 full-time and part-time students and employs approximately 16,613 full-time employees, including 6,036 full-time faculty members and research staff.
the university, through the columbia university medical center and its medical faculty practice plan, provides direct patient care and other clinical and educational services to hospitals and other health care institutions through contractual agreements for services. The clinical faculty handled approximately 2. 2 million outpatient and emergency room visits and participated in instruction and supervision of 657 university medical students and 942 residents and fellows at new york presbyterian hospital.
the university performs research, training, and other services under grants and contracts with agencies of the federal government and other sponsoring organizations.