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.

Departments

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

Social Sciences (218)

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

Natural Sciences (217)

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

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)

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

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
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.