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)

• • Art History and Archaeology
  • Classics
  • East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • English and Comparative Literature
  • French and Romance Philology
  • Germanic Languages
  • Italian
  • Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Slavic Languages
  • Spanish and Portuguese

Social Sciences (218)

• • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • History
  • International and Public Affairs (which is also a whole Faculty, Est. 1946)
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Natural Sciences (217)

• • Astronomy
  • Biological Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Psychology
  • 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.

Medical Center (2163)

Clinical Health Sciences (1667)

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