unitid 190150 · New York, NY · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
Columbia University in the City of New York
Private university in New York City, New York, US
- founded
- 1754
- enrollment 2023
- 37,954
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- columbia.edu
- motto
- “In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen”
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter under George II of Great Britain on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States. wikipedia rev 1364274834 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
4%
1st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
8,973
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
23%
undergrads on Pell grants
25th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
96%
finish within 150% time
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$89,472
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$21,590
after aid, aided students
45th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$102,491
after entry, Title IV students
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$21,500
28th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $4,570 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k34%
- 30-48k15%
- 48-75k12%
- 75-110k11%
- 110k+28%
- Median family income
- $31,311
- First-generation students
- 25%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $71,845
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.8× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 1,746 | $122,110 | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 717 | $143,645 | — |
| Computer Science. | 595 | $256,430 | — |
| Social Work. | 594 | $76,461 | — |
| Statistics. | 493 | $165,479 | — |
| Public Health. | 429 | $101,910 | — |
| Law. | 427 | $332,787 | — |
| Public Administration. | 409 | $112,361 | — |
| Computer Science. | 391 | $204,511 | $20,397 |
| Operations Research. | 380 | $255,643 | — |
| Economics. | 360 | $134,398 | $25,000 |
| Public Health. | 345 | $95,295 | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 15,170 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,270) · university teacher (2,223) · writer (1,618) · journalist (895) · politician (832) · historian (781) · lawyer (546) · basketball player (477)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Theodore Roosevelt Peace 1906
- Elihu Root Peace 1912
- Robert Andrews Millikan Physics 1923
- Nicholas Murray Butler Peace 1931
- Thomas Hunt Morgan Medicine 1933
- Harold Urey Chemistry 1934
- Isidor Isaac Rabi Physics 1944
- Hermann Joseph Muller Medicine 1946
- John Howard Northrop Chemistry 1946
- Edward Calvin Kendall Medicine 1950
- Philip Showalter Hench Medicine 1950
- André Frédéric Cournand Medicine 1956
- Dickinson W. Richards Medicine 1956
- Joshua Lederberg Medicine 1958
- Konrad Emil Bloch Medicine 1964
- Julian Seymour Schwinger Physics 1965
- George Wald Medicine 1967
- Salvador Luria Medicine 1969
- Simon Kuznets Economics 1971
- Kenneth Arrow Economics 1972
- Leon Cooper Physics 1972
- William Howard Stein Chemistry 1972
- Konrad Lorenz Medicine 1973
- Aage Bohr Physics 1975
- James Rainwater Physics 1975
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg Medicine 1976
- Samuel C. C. Ting Physics 1976
- Milton Friedman Economics 1976
- Arno Allan Penzias Physics 1978
- Steven Weinberg Physics 1979
- Val Logsdon Fitch Physics 1980
- Baruj Benacerraf Medicine 1980
- Roald Hoffmann Chemistry 1981
- Carlo Rubbia Physics 1984
- Herbert A. Hauptman Chemistry 1985
- Melvin Schwartz Physics 1988
- Leon M. Lederman Physics 1988
- Sidney Altman Chemistry 1989
- Harold E. Varmus Medicine 1989
- Norman Foster Ramsey Physics 1989
- Robert Fogel Economics 1993
- Martin Lewis Perl Physics 1995
- William Vickrey Economics 1996
- José Ramos-Horta Peace 1996
- Eric Kandel Medicine 2000
- William Standish Knowles Chemistry 2001
- Linda B. Buck Medicine 2004
- Richard Axel Medicine 2004
- Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry 2005
- Martin Chalfie Chemistry 2008
- Q76 Peace 2009
- Robert Lefkowitz Chemistry 2012
- Arthur Ashkin Physics 2018
- Louise Glück Literature 2020
- John Clauser Physics 2022
- Louis E. Brus Chemistry 2023
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Barack Obama
340 wikis · Public domain
Theodore Roosevelt
192 wikis · Public domain
Isaac Asimov
162 wikis · Public domain
B. R. Ambedkar
148 wikis · Public domain
Milton Friedman
134 wikis · Public domain
Leonard Cohen
130 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Amelia Earhart
125 wikis · Public domain
Mikheil Saakashvili
121 wikis · CC BY 4.0
J. D. Salinger
116 wikis · Public domain
Madeleine Albright
109 wikis · Public domain
Ursula K. Le Guin
109 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Robert Andrews Millikan
105 wikis · Public domain
Alexander Hamilton
104 wikis · Public domain
Louise Glück
102 wikis · Public domain
Jack Kerouac
99 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364274834), CC BY-SA 4.0.