Columbia University in the City of New York (commonly known as Columbia University), is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The institution was established as King's College by the Church of England, receiving a Royal Charter in 1754 from George II of Great Britain.

One of only two universities in the United States to have been founded by royal charter, it was the fifth college established in the Thirteen Colonies and the only college established in the Province of New York. After the American Revolutionary War, it was briefly chartered as a New York State entity from 1784-1787. The university now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees.

Columbia annually grants the Pulitzer Prizes, and more Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with Columbia than with any other institution in the world. In addition, Columbia ranks 3rd in the number of Nobel Laureates it has graduated compared to other institutions in the world, behind only the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. Most of Columbia's graduate and undergraduate studies are conducted in Morningside Heights on Seth Low's late-19th century vision of a university campus where all disciplines could be taught in one location.

The campus was designed along Beaux-Arts principles by acclaimed architects McKim, Mead, and White.

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