Columbia University, formally known as new york University in new york City, is located in the Dawn Heights of Upper Manhattan, new york, USA. It is a world-class private research university, one of the 14 founding institutions in association of american universities and one of the eight members of the Ivy League.
Columbia University is the oldest higher education institution in New York State, formerly known as King's College. It is one of the five oldest universities in the United States and one of the universities that have produced the most Nobel Prize winners. By May, 2022, 96 Nobel Prize winners had been produced by alumni, professors and researchers of Columbia University. Famous alumni in the history of Columbia University include five American Founding Fathers, 10 US Supreme Court justices, 20 billionaires, 20 Oscar winners, 29 American governors and 34 heads of state.
Columbia University has world-class law schools, business schools, medical schools, journalism schools, international relations schools, engineering schools and education schools. The Pulitzer Prize awarded by Columbia University School of Journalism is the highest honor of American journalism. 1767, Columbia University awarded the first medical doctor's degree, which is also the first professional doctor's degree in American history. Columbia university is one of the important research institutions in the United States, which invented the brain-computer interface? , laser, maser? , nuclear magnetic resonance? . Completing the fruit fly experiment has become the origin of modern genetics. Prove the theory of plate tectonics of the earth. During World War II, the Manhattan Project to make atomic bombs was born at Columbia University.