Departments

Columbia's faculty is arranged into 79 Departments of Instruction. 78 of these are affiliated with various faculties. One, the Department of Physical Education, stands unaffiliated with any faculty.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (844, Est. 1880)

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is organized into 30 departments of instruction, typically split into 5 categories Numbers refer to the number of full-time faculty reported by OPIR.

Humanities (327)

1. Art History and Archaeology Department
2. Classics Department
3. East Asian Languages and Cultures Department
4. English and Comparative Literature Department
5. French and Romance Philology Department
6. Germanic Languages Department
7. Italian Department
8. Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Department
9. Music Department
10. Philosophy Department
11. Religion Department
12. Slavic Languages Department
13. Spanish and Portuguese Department

Social Sciences (218)

1. Anthropology Department
2. Economics Department
3. History Department
4. International and Public Affairs (which is also a whole Faculty, Est. 1946)
5. Political Science Department
6. Sociology Department

Natural Sciences (217)

1. Astronomy Department
2. Biological Sciences Department
3. Chemistry Department
4. Earth and Environmental Sciences Department
5. Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
6. Mathematics Department
7. Physics Department
8. Psychology Department
9. Statistics Department

Continuing Education (19, Est. 2002)

Continuing Education is a faculty, a department of instruction, and school all in one.

Arts (63, Est. 1948)

Arts is a faculty, department of instruction, and school all in one as well. Within itself, SoA has 4 'divisions' but these are internal designations, and not part of the university-wide designations.

Morningside Professional (468)

(note that 5 of the schools are also departments; Only Engineering, the largest of the Schools, is subdivided into 9 departments)

Engineering (152, Est. 1864)

"Number of faculty teaching in: applied physics/applied math (29), biomedical (19), chemical (10), civil (13), computer science (35), computer engineering (10), electrical (20), environmental (15), industrial/operations research (16), materials (9), mechanical (11), others (1)"

1. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
2. Biomedical Engineering
3. Chemical Engineering
4. Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
5. Computer Science
6. Earth and Environmental Engineering (formerly "Mining, Metallurgical, and Mineral Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines))
7. Electrical Engineering
8. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
9. Mechanical Engineering

Business (131, Est. 1916)

Business does not have "departments", it has "divisions". Almost half of the faculty are in the Finance and Economics division.

1. accounting (12)
2. management (22)
3. finance and economics* (60)
4. marketing (16)
5. Decision, Risk and Operations (19)

• Note that there is also a department of economics

Medical Center (2163)

Clinical Health Sciences (1667)

Note that, for 2000-2006, Clinical Health Sciences accounted for, on average, %48 of total faculty.

1. Anesthesiology
2. Biomedical Informatics
3. Dermatology
4. Medicine, which claims "faculty of over 1300 physicians and scientists", further subdivided into
   1. Allen Pavilion
   2. Cardiology
   3. Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
   4. Digestive & Liver Diseases
   5. Endocrinology
   6. Behavioral Cardiovascular Health Hypertension Program
   7. General Medicine
   8. Geriatric Medicine
   9. Hospital Medicine
   10. Hematology & Oncology
   11. Infectious Diseases
   12. Molecular Medicine ``basically a research division"
   13. Nephrology
   14. Preventive Medicine and Nutrition ``basically a research division, with basically just one clinician"
   15. Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine
   16. Rheumatology
5. Neurological Surgery
6. Neurology
7. Obstetrics and Gynecology
8. Ophthalmology
9. Orthopedic Surgery
10. Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
11. Pediatrics
12. Psychiatry
13. Radiation Oncology
14. Radiology
15. Rehabilitation Medicine
16. Surgery
17. Urology

Basic Health Sciences (182)

1. Anatomy and Cell Biology
2. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
3. Genetics and Development
4. Microbiology
5. Pathology
6. Pharmacology
7. Physiology and Cellular Biophysics

School of Public Health (165, Est. 1921)

1. Biostatistics
2. Environmental Health Sciences
3. Epidemiology
4. Health Policy and Management
5. Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
6. Sociomedical Sciences

School of Dental and Oral Surgery (165)

the Faculty of Dental and Oral Surgery is simultaneously a department.

School of Nursing (78, Est. 1892)

the Faculty of Nursing is simultaneously a department.