Columbia University Cy N Y (commonly known Columbia University, simply Columbia) private university United States member Iy League. Columbia oldest institution higher learning state N York, 5 oldest United States making country's Colonial Colleges founded before American Revolution. Columbia's campus Morningside Heights neighborhood borough Manhattan N Y Cy. I founded 1754 King's College y royal charter George II Great Britain, y United States universities founded under authority. After American Revolutionary W, Columbia briefly chartered state entity 1784–1787. T university operates under 1787 charter places institution under private board trustees.

Columbia annually awards Pulitzer Prizes founding members Association American Universities. M Nobel Prize winners (alumni faculty combined) affiliated Columbia y other institution world. Columbia's endowment annual research expenditures among largest y American university. T university currently global centers Amman, Jordan; Beijing, China; Paris, France; Mumbai, India.

Notable alumni affiliates include 5 Founding Fathers United States, 4 United States Presidents, 9 Justices Supreme Court United States, 93 Nobel Prize winners (including faculty), 97 Pulitzer Prize winners, 28 Academy Award winners, 30 alumni 10 affiliate recipients National Medal Science, numerous recipients MacArthur Genius Award. Columbia currently 9 Nobel Laureates, 30 recipients MacArthur Genius Award, 4 recipients National Medal Science, 143 members American Academy A Sciences, 38 members Institute Medicine National Academies, 20 members National Academy Engineering, 43 members National Academy Sciences.

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Three United States Presidents, Justices Supreme Court United States 40 Nobel Prize winners studied Columbia. Alumni received 21 National B Awards 97 Pulitzer Prizes. (S L Columbia University people--National B Awards, Pulitzer prizes.) F United States P Laureates received their degrees Columbia. Today, United States Senators 16 current Chief Executives Fortune 500 companies Columbia degrees, three 25 richest Americans 16 billionaires. Alumni University served ( 70 positions) members U.S. Presidential Cabinets U.S. Presidential advisers. M 40 U.S. senators, 90 U.S. congresspersons, 35 U.S. governors received their education Columbia. Alumni founded president fifty- universities colleges nation world.

Attendees King's College, Columbia's predecessor, included Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, J Jy, Robert R. Livingston, Egbert Benson, Gouverneur Morris.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices Harlan Fiske Stone, Charles Evans Hges Associate Justices Benjamin Cardozo, William O. Douglas, R Bader Ginsburg graduated Columbia school. Chief Justice J Jy Associate Justice Samuel Blatchford studied graduated King's College Columbia College, respectively, before establishment school. Associate Justices Stanley Foreman R Joseph McKenna attended Columbia L graduate. Former U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt attended school without graduating common young enter after completing y y legal education.

Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower served President University. Other significant figures American history attend university J L. O'Sullivan, journalist coined phrase "manifest destiny", Alfred Thayer Mahan, geostrategist wrote significance power, Jewish philanthropist Sampson Simson progressive intellectual Randolph Bourne. Former Secretary State Alexander Hg studied Columbia Business School between 1954 1955. Wellington K, Chinese diplomat argued passionately against Japanese Western imperialism A Paris Peace Conference, graduate, having honed debating skills Columbia's Philolexian Society, D. Bhimrao Ambedkar, founding fathers India chief architect constitution. Local politicians represented Columbia, including S L, served President University Mayor Cy N York, N Y governors Thomas Dewey, unsuccessful presidential candidate, DeWitt Clinton, presided construction E Canal, Hamilton Fish, later become U.S. Secretary State, Daniel D. Tompkins, V President United States.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President Estonia, received BA psychology Columbia 1976. Abdul Zahir (Afghan Prime Minister) received M.D. Columbia University. Philip Gunawardena joined Columbia 1925 p-graduate studies. General, historian, author J Watts Peyster attended Columbia College later received M.A. degree Columbia.

M recent political figures educated Columbia include U.S. President Barack Obama, former U.S. Senator M Gravel Alaska, current U.S. Senators J Gregg N Hampshire Frank Lautenberg N Jersey, Governor N Y David Paterson Chief Staff Charles J. O'Byrne, U.S. Attorney General E Holder, former U.S. Secretary State Madeleine Albright, UN weapons inspector H Blix, former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, conservative commentators Patrick J. Buchanan, J McLaughlin Norman Podhoretz, U.S. Supreme Court Justice R Bader Ginsburg, former chairman U.S. Federal Reserve B A Greenspan, George Stephanopoulos, Senior Advisor former U.S. President B Clinton, George Pataki, former governor N Y State, Mikhail Saakashvili, current President country Georgia. I engineering technology, Columbia alumni include founder IBM Herman Hollerith, inventor FM radio Edwin Armstrong, inventor nuclear submarine Hyman Rickover, architect Santiago Calatrava, inventor industrial robot Joseph Engelberger, professor engineer Raymond D. Mindlin, astronaut Michael Massimino, educator founder Harvey M College Harvey Seeley Mudd, current Executive V-President Boeing James Albaugh, computer scientist Lotfi Asker Zadeh, architect Manhattan Bridge L Moisseiff, chief-engineer N Y Cy subway William Barclay Parsons. Scientists Stephen Jy Gould, Robert Millikan Michael Pupin, cultural historian Jacques Barzun, literary critic Lionel Tling, sociologists Immanuel Wallerstein Seymour Martin Lipset, behavioral psychologist Charles Ferster, p-professor M V Doren, philosophers Irwin Edman Robert Nozick, economists Milton Friedman, former Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani, N Mohammed Taraki (Prime Minister President Afghanistan, 1978–1979), Daniel C. Kurtzer, communications economist Harvey J. Levin obtained degrees Columbia. Amelia Earhart enrolled Columbia p- student 1919.

Educators include Karen Boroff, D Stillman School Business, Seton H University.

I culture arts, Rodgers Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, screenwriters Sidney Buchman I.A.L. Diamond, critic biographer T Page, musician A Garfunkel, children's songwriter Bobby Susser, among Columbia's alumni. T poets Langston Hughes, Federico García Lorca, Joyce Kilmer J Berryman; writers Eudora Welty, Isaac Asimov, J. D. Salinger, Upton Sinclair, J Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Phyllis Haislip, Roger Zelazny, Herman Wouk, Her S. Thompson, Aravind Adiga, Apostolos Doxiadis, P Auster; playwrights Ty Kushner Eulalie Spence; photographer Manuel Rivera-Ortiz; architects Robert A. M. Stern, Ricardo Scofidio, Peter Eisenman Christine Wg; composers Bé Bartók Robert Kurka; director screenwriter Cetywa Powell attended university. Academy Award-winning director producer Kathryn Bigelow graduated M.F.A. K Millett turned P.D. thesis Sexual Politics. Trappist monk, author, humanist Thomas Merton alumnus undergraduate graduate student. J Dunnigan, considered "T D Modern Wargaming", founder Simulations Publications, I. prolific board wargame designer history, graduated 1970. Silent F actress Miriam Cooper attended writing courses school during later years. Urban theorist cultural critic J Jacobs spent School General Studies, educator Elisabeth Irwin received M.A. there 1923. Vampire Weekend members E Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson, Chris B graduated College 2006 2007. Grammy Award-winning R&B singers Lauryn H Alicia Ky attended Columbia y. Singer songwriter S Lennon Japanese-American pp- Hikaru Utada Korean-American pp- L P briefly attended College .

Celebrities graduated Columbia include actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Casey Affleck, Julia Stiles, Rachel Nichols, Ada Peet, Matthew Fx, Famke Janssen, Brian Dennehy, Jesse Bradford, B Stein, George Segal, Rider Strong, James Franco, Jonathan Taylor Tas, Mario V Peebles. Academy Award-winning actors James Cagney A Paquin, Academy Award-nominated actors E Harris J Gyllenhaal attended Columbia . Radio personality T Griswold nationally syndicated morning radio T B T S graduated Columbia, television Sally Jesse Raphael. A least 28 Academy Awards y alumni former students, rivaling exceeding N Y University University Southern California Oscar-winning student affiliates.

Founding members nostalgia S N N, George Leonard Robert Leonard, graduates Columbia.