Departments

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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)

Social Sciences (218)

Natural Sciences (217)

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)

  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)

J-school (30, Est. 1912)

Law (89, Est. 1858)

Social Work (43, Est. 1898)

Athletics (70)

Medical Center (2163)

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

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

School of Nursing (78, Est. 1892)

School of Public Health (165, Est. 1921)

School of Dental and Oral Surgery (165)

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