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| Columbia University
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| Motto
| In lumine tuo videbimus lumen
(In thy light we shall see light)
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| Established
| 1754
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| School type
| Private
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| President
| Lee C. Bollinger
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| Location
| New York City, New York, USA
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| Campus
| Urban, 32.6 acres (132,000 mē) Morningside
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| Enrollment
| 7,114 undergraduate,
14,692 graduate, professional, and medical
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| Faculty
| 3,224
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| Mascot
| Royal Lion
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| Athletics
| 29 sports teams
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| Homepage
| http://www.columbia.edu/' class='external' title="http://www.columbia.edu/">www.columbia.edu
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Columbia University, officially known as Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private institution of higher education. It is one of the world's foremost research universities and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1754 under a royal charter granted by England's King George II, Columbia has grown over time to comprise 20 schools and affiliated institutions.
Columbia's main campus occupies six blocks, 32 acres (132,000 mē), in the Morningside HeightsMorningside Heights is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City and is bound by the Upper West Side, Morningside Park, Harlem, and Riverside Park. Streets marking its edges are 110th and 123rd Streets, Riverside Drive, and Morningside D neighborhood of ManhattanFor other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation . Manhattan is the name of an island alongside the lower Hudson River and also of one of the five boroughs that form the City of New York. The borough is coterminous with New York County and includes the Islan, and its largest satellite campus, Health Sciences, is situated some fifty blocks uptown in the island's Washington HeightsWashington Heights affectionately known as "The Heights", is a New York City neighborhood. Located in northern Manhattan, it is named for Fort Washington, a fortification held by American troops during the American Revolution and which was captured by the. This makes Columbia not only New York City's only Ivy League school but also, by some accounts, the city's third largest landowner after the Catholic Church and the City itself, with holdings that include the fifty-story former General ElectricGeneral Electric Company or GE is a multinational technology and services company, one of the world's largest corporations. While it still uses its full name for legal purposes, it prefers to use the abbreviation GE in the names of its component businesse building at 570 Lexington Avenue (Not to be confused with the current GE Building in Rockefeller Center).
Due to its connections with various state agencies and many affiliated institutions along with Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, it is by some estimates, the largest employer in New York City. Taken by itself, sans affiliated institutions, it is at maximum the 3rd largest employer (the University's own estimate), and at minimum the 12th largest employer. Its status as a large landowner and employer has been established since the late 1950s. Due to the large numbers of employees, along with its pervasive status as a land owner the University has been viewed by some in the community that surrounds it as a corparate entity. This in turn has caused a divide between the University and those in the surrounding area, leading to a continuted resistance to University expansion.
