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Columbia has 79 '''Departments of Instruction''' into which [[faculty]] are organised. Of the 79 departments, 78 are affiliated with various faculties and one, the [[Department of Physical Education]], stands unaffiliated with any faculty.
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Columbia has many '''Departments of Instruction''' into which [[faculty]] are organised.  
  
==Morningside non-professional faculties==
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==List of departments==
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According to some sources, there are 79 departments. To date we have identified 76 departments as follows:
  
===[[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] (844, Est. 1880)===
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*30 [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] departments (844, Est. 1880), comprising:
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 [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/full_time_faculty.htm OPIR].
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:*13 [[:Category:Humanities departments|humanities departments]] (327)
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:*6 [[:Category:Social sciences departments|social sciences departments]] (218), including the [[School of International and Public Affairs]]
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:*9 [[:Category:Natural sciences departments|natural sciences departments]] (217)
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:*[[School of Continuing Education]] (19)
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:*[[School of the Arts]] (63)
  
Humanities departments (327):
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*14 Morningside professional departments (468), comprising:
<ol start="1">
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:*9 [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] [[:Category:SEAS departments|departments]] (152)
<li>[[Art History and Archaeology Department]]</li>
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:*[[Columbia Business School]] (131)
<li>[[Classics Department]]</li>
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:*[[Columbia Law School]] (89, Est. 1858)
<li>[[East Asian Languages and Cultures Department]]</li>
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:*[[School of Social Work]] (43, Est. 1898)
<li>[[English and Comparative Literature Department]]</li>
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:*[[Graduate School of Journalism]] (30, Est. 1912)
<li>[[French and Romance Philology Department]]</li>
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:*[[Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation]] (23, Est. 1896)
<li>[[Germanic Languages Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Italian Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Music Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Philosophy Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Religion Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Slavic Languages Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Spanish and Portuguese Department]]</li>
 
</ol>
 
  
Social sciences departments (218):
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*32 [[Columbia University Medical Center]] departments (2163), comprising:
<ol start="14">
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:*17 [[College of Physicians and Surgeons]] [[:Category:Clinical health sciences departments|clinical health sciences departments]] (1667)
<li>[[Anthropology Department]]</li>
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:*7 [[College of Physicians and Surgeons]] [[:Category:Basic health sciences departments|basic health sciences departments]] (182)
<li>[[Economics Department]]</li>
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:*6 [[School of Public Health]] [[:Category:Public health departments|departments]] (165)
<li>[[History Department]]</li>
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:*[[School of Dental and Oral Surgery]] (165)
<li>[[School of International and Public Affairs]] - also a faculty itself (see below)</li>
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:*[[School of Nursing]] (78)
<li>[[Political Science Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Sociology Department]]</li>
 
</ol>
 
  
Natural sciences departments (217):
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*[[Department of Physical Education]] (aka [[Columbia Athletics]]) (70) - unaffiliated with any faculty
<ol start="20">
 
<li>[[Astronomy Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Biological Sciences Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Chemistry Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Earth and Environmental Sciences Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Mathematics Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Physics Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Psychology Department]]</li>
 
<li>[[Statistics Department]]</li>
 
</ol>
 
 
 
Education department:
 
<ol start="29">
 
<li>[[School of Continuing Education]] (19) - also a faculty itself (see below)</li>
 
</ol>
 
 
 
Arts department:
 
<ol start="30">
 
<li>[[School of the Arts]] (63) - also a faculty itself (see below)</li>
 
</ol>
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of International and Public Affairs]] at the [[School of International and Public Affairs]]===
 
* single department - also a department of the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] (already counted above)
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Education]] at the [[School of Continuing Education]] (19, Est. 2002)===
 
* single department - also a department of the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] (already counted above)
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Arts]] at the [[School of the Arts]] (63, Est. 1948)===
 
The School of the Arts has four internal "divisions", but these are not part of the university-wide designations.
 
* single department - also a department of the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] (already counted above)
 
 
 
==Morningside professional faculties (468)==
 
(note that 5 of the schools are also departments; Only Engineering, the largest of the Schools, is subdivided into 9 departments)
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Engineering]] at the [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]] (152, Est. 1864) ===
 
# [[Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics]] (29)
 
# [[Biomedical Engineering]] (19)
 
# [[Chemical Engineering]] (10)
 
# [[Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics]] (13)
 
# [[Computer Science]] (35)
 
# [[Earth and Environmental Engineering]] (15) (formerly "Mining, Metallurgical, and Mineral Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines))
 
# [[Electrical Engineering]] (20)
 
# [[Industrial Engineering and Operations Research]] (16)
 
# [[Mechanical Engineering]] (11)
 
Additional faculty unaccounted for in above departments:
 
* [[computer engineering]] (10)
 
* [[materials engineering]] (9)
 
* other (1)
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Business]]] at [[Columbia Business School]] (131, Est. 1916) ===
 
Business does not have "departments", it has "divisions". Almost half of the faculty are in the Finance and Economics division.
 
# [[Accounting Division]] (12)
 
# [[Management Division]] (22)
 
# [[Finance and Economics Division]]* (60)
 
# [[Marketing Division]] (16)
 
# [[Decision, Risk and Operations Division]] (19)
 
* Note that there is also a department of economics
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Law]] at [[Columbia Law School]] (89, Est. 1858)===
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Social Work]] at the [[School of Social Work]] (43, Est. 1898)===
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Journalism]] at the [[Graduate School of Journalism]] (30, Est. 1912)===
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Architecture]] at the [[Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation]] ([[GSAPP]]) (23, Est. 1896)===
 
 
 
==[[Columbia University Medical Center]] ([[CUMC]]) (2163) ==
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Clinical Health Sciences]] (1667)===
 
Note that, for 2000-2006, Clinical Health Sciences accounted for, on average, %48 of total faculty.
 
# [[Anesthesiology]]
 
# [[Biomedical Informatics]]
 
# [[Dermatology]]
 
# [[Medicine]], which claims [http://www.columbiamedicine.org/about/index.shtml "faculty of over 1300 physicians and scientists"], further subdivided into:
 
## [[Allen Pavilion]]
 
## [[Cardiology]]
 
## [[Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics]]
 
## [[Digestive & Liver Diseases]]
 
## [[Endocrinology]]
 
## [[Behavioral Cardiovascular Health Hypertension Program]]
 
## [[General Medicine]]
 
## [[Geriatric Medicine]]
 
## [[Hospital Medicine]]
 
## [[Hematology & Oncology]]
 
## [[Infectious Diseases]]
 
## [[Molecular Medicine]] "basically a research division"
 
## [[Nephrology]]
 
## [[Preventive Medicine and Nutrition]] "basically a research division, with basically just one clinician"
 
## [[Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine]]
 
## [[Rheumatology]]
 
# [[Neurological Surgery]]
 
# [[Neurology]]
 
# [[Obstetrics and Gynecology]]
 
# [[Ophthalmology]]
 
# [[Orthopedic Surgery]]
 
# [[Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery]]
 
# [[Pediatrics]]
 
# [[Psychiatry]]
 
# [[Radiation Oncology]]
 
# [[Radiology]]
 
# [[Rehabilitation Medicine]]
 
# [[Surgery]]
 
# [[Urology]]
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Basic Health Sciences]] (182)===
 
# [[Anatomy and Cell Biology]]
 
# [[Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics]]
 
# [[Genetics and Development]]
 
# [[Microbiology]]
 
# [[Pathology]]
 
# [[Pharmacology]]
 
# [[Physiology and Cellular Biophysics]]
 
 
 
===Faculty of the [[School of Public Health]] (165, Est. 1921)===
 
# [[Biostatistics]]
 
# [[Environmental Health Sciences]]
 
# [[Epidemiology]]
 
# [[Health Policy and Management]]
 
# [[Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health]]
 
# [[Sociomedical Sciences]]
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Dental and Oral Surgery]] at the [[School of Dental and Oral Surgery (165)]]===
 
 
 
===[[Faculty of Nursing]] at the [[School of Nursing]] (78, Est. 1892)]]===
 
 
 
==[[Faculty of Athletics]] at [[Columbia Athletics]] (70) ==
 
  
 
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Revision as of 06:40, 17 December 2013

Columbia has many Departments of Instruction into which faculty are organised.

List of departments

According to some sources, there are 79 departments. To date we have identified 76 departments as follows:

  • 14 Morningside professional departments (468), comprising: