Car Hire New York and Columbia University

Columbia University in the city of New York (or Columbia University) is a private university in New York and a member of the Ivy League. When you visit with your car hire New York, you will find the main campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in Manhattan. It was originally established as King's College by the Church of England in 1754. Columbia is also home to the Pulitzer Prize and other journalism awards.

Explore a campus of a thousand possibilities

The Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan is a good place to start with your car hire New York. This is where most of the graduate and undergraduate studies are held. The main campus occupies more than six city blocks between the Upper West Side and Harlem with more than two dozen undergraduate dorms on campus. The library system includes over 9.5 million volumes. The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is the largest library of architecture in the United States and among the largest in the world. Health-related schools are located at the medical center in the Washington heights neighborhood. There is also Baker Field, which includes facilities for field sports, outdoor track, and tennis at the northern tip of Manhattan.

A long and varied path

Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in New York. It was founded in 1754 as King's College, which makes it the sixth-oldest institution in the United States. After the Revolutionary war, the name was changed to Columbia College, then changed again in 1896 to Columbia University. Columbia was established when the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was being established. Academics in New York feared that they would develop a cultural and intellectual inferiority with a college established just across the Hudson River. With the American Revolution, the college had to suspend instruction from 1776 for eight years. The library was looted during the war and the building was used as a military hospital by both American and British troops. Many of the college's early alumni, who were Loyalists, fled to Canada or Great Britain after the war. There were also many leaders of the Revolution that came from Columbia - John Jay and Alexander Hamilton to name two. When you visit with your car hire New York, you may learn that it wasn't until the fall of 1983 that the first women were admitted to the university.

Putting all together

In 2008, Columbia admitted 8.7% of all applicants for the Class of 2012, which is one of the lowest rates in the country. Columbia is a diverse school, with 49% of all students identifying themselves as a person of color and over 50% of all undergraduates receive financial aid. Columbia is ranked 8th among national universities by U.S. News and world Report for its undergraduate program.

When you visit Columbia with your car hire New York, you will find one of the oldest universities in the United States to explore. Many of the nation's heroes have attended this institution.

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