For more than 250 years, Columbia has been a leader in higher education in the nation and around the world. At the core of our wide range of academic inquiry is the commitment to attract and engage the best minds in pursuit of greater human understanding, pioneering new discoveries and service to society.

Columbia is committed to creating and supporting a community diverse in every way: race, ethnicity, geography, religion, academic and extracurricular interest, family circumstance, sexual orientation, socio-economic background and more. With one of the most generous financial aid programs in the nation, we ensure that our education is accessible to all. We offer a curriculum as pluralistic and polyphonic as New York itself and a community of scholars who embody this commitment to diversity and who encourage discussion and debate.

Diversity is one of the things that make Columbia vibrant, dynamic and exciting. Students at Columbia find a setting that allows them to explore diversity in a variety of ways and a university that prides itself on seriousintellectual inquiry, the exploration of diverse ideas, the strength of interdisciplinary investigation, a culture of dialogue and debate and a student body committed to service and civic engagement. In this setting students seek to understand each other and understand themselves. This is the transformative power of diversity in education-its ability to enrich the individual as it enriches the community and society as a whole.

Columbia and New York. At the Crossroads of the World. An immensely rich educational experience that prepares students to become engaged global citizens