Graduate school of Columbia University
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Type Private Established 1880 Dean Carlos J. Alonso Students ~3,500 students Location ,,U.S.
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TheColumbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (also known asGSAS ) is thegraduate school ofColumbia University . Founded in 1880, GSAS is responsible for most of Columbia's graduate degree programs in thehumanities ,social sciences , andnatural sciences . The school offersMA andPhD degrees in approximately 78 disciplines.
GSAS began to take shape in the late 19th century, when Columbia, until then a primarily undergraduate institution with a few professional attachments, began to establish graduate faculties in several fields: Political Science (1880), Philosophy (1890), and Pure Science (1892). The graduate faculties, notably, were open to women at a time when many other Columbia schools were not;Columbia College did not become a coeducational institution until 1983.
In addition, before 1880, the Master of Arts degree was awarded in thestyle of Cambridge and Oxford , that is three years after graduation and without further examination. This changed after June 1880, when the trustees implemented an examination for the award of the Master of Arts degree.[ 1]
The Ph.D was first proposed as a degree in 1873 to be awarded under the auspices of the School of Mines.[ 2] [ 3]
The increasing professionalization of the university brought with it an emphasis on the graduate schools, as presidents such asSeth Low andNicholas Murray Butler sought to emulate the success of German universities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Indeed, in the effort to produce as many graduate degree-holders as possible, attempts were made to streamline undergraduate life and center academic life in the graduate-focused departments. Graduate research has flourished at Columbia as a result, and the university has been among the top producers of PhDs in the United States from the inception of the graduate disciplines. In the early 1990s, GSAS and Columbia College faculty were all absorbed into a consolidated Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with familiar complaints among undergraduates and their advocates.
List of academic departments [ edit ] African-American Studies African Studies Certificate American Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.) Anatomy and Cell Biology Anthropology (Ph.D in Anthropology & Education - joint degree withTeachers College [ 4] Applied Mathematics Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Architecture (History and Theory) Art History and Archaeology Astronomy Atmospheric and Planetary Science Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Biological Sciences Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Informatics Biostatistics Biotechnology Buddhist Studies Business Cell Biology and Pathobiology Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies Chemical Biology Chemical Engineering Chemical Physics Chemistry Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Classical Studies Classics Climate and Society (Former program that is now part of theColumbia Climate School ) Communications Comparative Literature and Society Computer Science Conservation Biology Dental Sciences Earth and Environmental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines) Earth and Environmental Science Journalism Earth and Environmental Sciences East Asia: Regional Studies East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.) Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Economics Education (Teachers College ) Electrical Engineering English and Comparative Literature Environmental Health Sciences Epidemiology French and Romance Philology French Cultural Studies in a Global Context Genetics and Development Germanic Languages Global Thought History Human Rights Human Rights Studies Industrial Engineering & Operations Research International and World History, Dual Degree M.A./M.Sc. Islamic Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.) Italian Studies J.D./Ph.D. Program Japanese Pedagogy Jewish Studies Jewish Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.) Journalism Latin America and Caribbean; Regional Studies Linguistics M.D./Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering/Solid State Science and Engineering Mathematical Structures for Environmental & Social Sciences Mathematics Mathematics of Finance Mechanical Engineering Medieval and Renaissance Studies Medieval Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.) Microbiology Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies[ 5] Middle East Studies, Certificate Modern Art, Critical, and Curatorial Studies Modern European Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.) Museum Anthropology Music Neurobiology and Behavior Nutrition Operations Research Oral History Pathology and Cell Biology Pharmacology Philosophical Foundations of Physics Philosophy Physics Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Political Science Psychology Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, dual degree MA/MPA Religion Religion-Journalism Dual MA/MS Russia, Eurasia and East Europe: Regional Studies M.A. Program Russian Translation Slavic Cultures Slavic Languages Social Work Sociology Sociomedical Sciences South Asian Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.) Spanish and Portuguese Statistics Sustainable Development Theatre and Performance Urban Planning Yiddish Studies Jacob M. Appel – writer and bioethicist, M.A., 2000John Ashbery – poet, 1951Isaac Asimov – science fiction writer, M.A. 1941Paul Auster – writer, M.A., 1970Randolph Bourne – antiwar essayist, M.A. 1913Rachel Blau DuPlessis – literary critic, M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1970Joseph Campbell – literary scholar and philosopher, M.A., 1927Teju Cole - novelist and critic, M.Phil. art history, 2003John Eisenhower - military historian and son ofDwight D. Eisenhower , M.A., 1950Jason Epstein – writer, M.A., 1950John Erskine – literary scholar, Ph.D. 1903James Goldman – writer, 1952William Goldman – screenwriter, 1956Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal – screenwriterDavid G. Hartwell - critic and editor, Ph.D. 1973Carolyn Heilbrun – writer, M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1959Joseph Heller – writer, 1949Zora Neale Hurston – writer, 1935Alfred Kazin – literary critic, 1958Kenneth Koch – poet, M.A. 1953, Ph.D. 1959Joseph Wood Krutch – writer, M.A. 1916, Ph.D. 1929David Lehman – poet, Ph.D. 1978Peter Straub – writer, 1966Lionel Trilling – literary critic, M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1938Anne Tyler – novelist, 1962Mark Van Doren – writer, Ph.D. 1920Stark Young – critic and writer, 1902Ruth Benedict – anthropologist, Ph.D. 1923Theos Casimir Bernard – explorer and religionist, M.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1943Kenneth B. Clark – educational psychologist, Ph.D. 1940Mamie Phipps Clark – educational psychologist, Ph.D. 1943Gilberto Freyre — Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and historian, M.A. 1922Robert A. Leonard — linguist, M.A. and M. Phil. 1973, Ph.D 1982Margaret Mead — anthropologist, Ph.D. 1929Lorine Livingston Pruette — psychologist, Ph.D. 1924B. R. Ambedkar – a founding father of India, M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1928Nicholas Murray Butler – diplomat and President of Columbia University, Ph.D. 1884Benjamin Cardozo – jurist, M.A. 1890Wellington Koo – Chinese diplomat, Ph.D. 1912Robert Moses urban planner, Ph.D. 1914Frances Perkins – US Secretary of Labor, M.A. 1910Brent Scowcroft – US National Security Advisor, M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations, 1967Mark Wyland – California State Senator, M.A. in political science, 1969Madeleine Albright - Secretary of State, Ph.D. in public law and governance, 1976Peter Buck – co-founder ofSubway restaurant chain, Ph.D.Wm. Theodore de Bary – AmericanSinologist and scholar of East Asian philosophy, Ph.D. 1953Herman Hollerith – inventor, Ph.D. 1890Pankaj Jain - Professor ofPhilosophy ,Religious Studies ,Film Studies , andSustainability Jose Franklin Jurado-Rodriguez – Moneylaunderer for theCali Cartel kingpinJose Santacruz Londono [ 7] Sam Levenson – comedian, 1938Ge Li – Chinese American billionaire, co-founder ofWuXi AppTec , Ph.D. 1994John McCaffery – newscasterRichard P. Mills – former Commissioner of Education for both Vermont and New York States, M.A. 1967Madeleine B. Stern – rare book expert, M.A. 1934Judith Rodin – 7th president of theUniversity of Pennsylvania and president of theRockefeller Foundation , Ph.D. 1970Sol M. Stroock – lawyer, M.A. 1892Leonard Tow – Chairman and CEO ofCitizens Communications , Ph.D. 1960James T. Lee - lawyer, banker, real estate developer, and grandfather ofJacqueline Kennedy Onassis andLee Radziwill , A.M. 1902Peter Hildebrand Meienberg – Swiss Benedictine missionary based in East Africa^ Columbia College (New York, N. Y. ) (1879).Resolutions passed by the trustees of Columbia College from 1874 to 1879 {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link )^ "Resolutions passed by the trustees of Columbia College from 1868 to 1874" .HathiTrust .hdl :2027/uiug.30112111489271 . Retrieved2024-01-23 .^ Columbia University (1882).Catalogue of the governors, trustees, and officers, and of the alumni and other graduates, Columbia College (originally King's College) in the city of New York, from 1754 to 1882 ^ "Requirements and Contacts | Department of Anthropology" .anthropology.columbia.edu . Archived fromthe original on 2015-09-05.^ Otterman, Sharon (2025-06-16)."Negotiation or Capitulation? How Columbia Got Off Trump's Hot Seat" .The New York Times .ISSN 0362-4331 . 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