Institute

An Institute is one of the university's many peculiar bureaucratic entities. It refers to a type of faculty group very similar to a Center, but with slightly more power. The main distinction is that an Institute has the power to hire tenured faculty, whereas a Center does not.

Notable Institutes

• Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
• Institute for Research on Women and Gender
• The Earth Institute
• Harriman Institute
• Weatherhead East Asian Institute
• Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
• Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

...and many more.

List of institutes

See Columbia's official list of research institutes and centers.