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.
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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.
Morningside Professional (468)
(note that 5 of the schools are also departments; Only Engineering, the largest of the Schools, is subdivided into 9 departments)
Architecture (GSAPP) (23, Est. 1896)
Business (131, Est. 1916)
Engineering (152, Est. 1864)
- Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mining, Metallurgical, and Mineral Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines)
J-school (30, Est. 1912)
Law (89, Est. 1858)
Social Work (43, Est. 1898)
Athletics (70)
Medical Center (2163)
Basic Health Sciences (182)
Clinical Health Sciences (1667)
Note that, for 2000-2006, Clinical Health Sciences accounted for, on average, %48 of total faculty.
