创办时间：1754年
所在城市：美国纽约州纽约市
学校性质：私立综合类研究型大学
学生总数：35,000+（本科生9700+，研究生21,000+，医学生4500+）
师生比：1:6
优势学科：法学、会计与金融学、新闻学、统计学、经济学、心理学、政治学、教育学
University Mission Statement 大学使命宣言
Columbia University is one of the world’s most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty, staff, and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the University to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.
哥伦比亚大学是全球最重要的研究中心之一，同时也是众多学术与专业领域内为本科生和研究生提供独特卓越学习环境的高等学府。大学高度重视其位于纽约市的地理优势，致力于将科研教学与这座大都市的丰富资源相融合。我们力求吸引多元化和国际化的教职员工及学生群体，支持全球性议题的研究与教学，并与众多国家和地区建立学术联系。哥伦比亚大学期望所有学术领域都能推动最高水平的知识与学术发展，并将成果传播至全世界。
Looking Out on a City and a World 眺望城市与世界
Columbia University is the oldest institution of higher education in New York, and the fifth-oldest in the United States. Today, it is one of the world’s leading research institutions and has a world-renowned medical center. Columbia provides a distinctive and rigorous learning environment for undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of scholarly and professional fields.
哥伦比亚大学是纽约最古老的高等教育机构，也是美国第五古老的高等学府。如今，它不仅是世界领先的研究机构，还拥有享誉全球的医学中心。哥伦比亚大学为不同学术与专业领域的本科生和研究生提供独特而严谨的学习环境。
Columbia University embodies “a spirit that does not look inward at itself, but outward on a city and a world.”
Frederick J.E. Woodbridge, philosopher
哥伦比亚大学秉承着“一种不审视内在、而眺望城市与世界的精神”。
——弗雷德里克·J·E·伍德布里奇，哲学家
With its 17 schools and four affiliate schools spread over four campuses located in and around New York City, the University understands its regional and global impact. Indeed, as the philosopher Frederick J.E. Woodbridge, who spent more than three decades at Columbia in the early 20th century, notably said, the University is “inextricably mixed up with what is going on in the world. It is a spirit that does not look inward at itself, but outward on a city and a world.”
大学在纽约市及周边地区设有四个校区，分布着17所学院和4所附属学院，深刻理解自身对地区与全球的影响力。正如二十世纪初在哥大任教三十余年的哲学家弗雷德里克·J·E·伍德布里奇所言，大学“与世界的脉动密不可分。这种精神不审视内在，而眺望城市与世界”。
Woodbridge’s characterization of Columbia has been echoed through the generations by numerous presidents of the university, emphasizing its global reach and important role in engaging with the great problems facing society. Indeed, Columbia thrives as a center for ideas within a diverse community where everyone has something to contribute.
伍德布里奇对哥伦比亚大学的定位得到历代校长的共鸣，强调其全球影响力以及参与解决社会重大难题的重要角色。事实上，哥大作为一个多元思想交汇中心而蓬勃发展，每个人都能在此贡献独特价值。
That vital role of civic engagement has infused Columbia since its earliest days in 1754 in a schoolhouse at the lower tip of Manhattan to its current incarnation as a leading Ivy League University in New York City, with 11 global centers around the world.
这种公民参与的重要精神自1754年在曼哈顿南端一间校舍建校之初便融入哥大基因，直至如今成为纽约市领先的常春藤联盟高校，并在全球设立11个研究中心。