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institution1754–present

Columbia University

Disciplines:
higher education
journalism
social science
higher education/research university

Summary

American Ivy League research university founded in 1754 as King's College, home of the Columbia Journalism School and a major center of social science, law, and medicine in the United States.

Core Contribution

Houses the Columbia Journalism School — the most prestigious journalism school in America — and has been the institutional home of major intellectual movements including the Frankfurt School's American exile and the Columbia School of sociology.

Historical Influences

British Crown

Intellectual Lineage

Colonial American Educational TraditionBritish University Model American Research University

Contemporaries & Peers

Harvard University Yale University New York University

Minds Influenced

American journalism professionSocial science research

Intellectual Posterity

Columbia Journalism SchoolPulitzer Prize administration

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